"Pres? Is there something wrong? We heard you shouting outside. And... and... your face looks irritated." Tsusaku asked.
"Oh, nothing... REALLY." He irritatedly sat on his chair.
It took him a few minutes before his irritation to Kanou gine. He took a deep breath and exhaled it.
"Asuhiko-kun? Are there any information about the gang?"
"No, pres. I'm sorry."
"It's okay. It's always like this."
All of them started to check the records. There are 102 records all in all in their hands so they divided them.
-7:15 pm-
"Pres?"
"Yes?" He looked up.
"Uhm... is it okay if we go home now? I mean, we have-?"
"Tsusaku-kun, of course it's okay. You're a big help today and I'm sure all of you are tired."
"Oh, thank you, pres. And here are all the left unchecked attendace, it's 28 all in all."
"Sure." He received and put them beside the unfinnished one. "Bye guys!" He waved to his staffs. "Bye Akiko-kun!"
"Goodbye, oniichan!" The child smiled to him sweetly. Somehow, his tiredness were washed away.
-10:53 pm-
Ayase stretched his arms. "At last... i'm done!"
He rested his body on the couch. He closed his eyes. And opened it. He was shocked when he saw it's already 11:36 pm. He fell asleep. He gats his bag immediately. Turned off the lights and locked the door.
"Geez, I've never thought that I would fell asleep just by resting my body a little."
He passed by the room 4—B again. He heard something and listened carefully.
"General, the Ravens told us that they wanted a rematch. Want a rebouns?"
"General, let's go!"
"...yeah... We want to see them bleed again, right guys?"
Many students responded to the one who is asking.
"Okay, then,..." a serious, calm voice answered. The general? "... we'll meetthem."
"General, they wanted to do it on the vacant lot, the battle arena."
Is this our school's gang? Well, then, I'll never know if I don't follow.
He heard the doorknob clicked, so he ran for his life. He's being careful not to make a sound. He hid behind the garbage bin, where the lights are off. He heard the footsteps of the students. After a few minutes, there's silence. It's so dusty in that part so Ayase sneezed. It sounded very little, as usual. But, he heard footsteps coming to his direction.
Did someone hear me sneezed and went back to check behind these bins?
He looked up carefully and saw a hand almost touched his face. Thanks someone interruoted.
"General, you want to throw something?"
"No." Then he continued to walk.
Ayase released a sigh of relief. I should follow them.
He followed them until they reached the vacant lot (the battle arena). They saw many students from ither schools. Some of them brought with them iron tubes and bats.
But our students have nothing with them. This is unfair. And these students are twice as many as ours.
Ayase is watching from a distance.
The fight started. Ayase could tell. He was worried about all the students.
After almost 2 hours of fighting, he saw many students on the ground. They're bleeding.
"Oh my God. How did they beat them? They're twice as many as they a re... and... and... they have nothing with them. But, how could it be?"
Then rain fell hard. The students parted their ways. H, too, went home, walking.
-the next morning-
Ayase used his key to the office to open it.
"Huh? Where are the attendance records? I'm sure I left them here."
He saw a paper o his table. It's a note. He read it and it says: Pres, since we did not finish our work last night, in return, I returned all the records. I'll come back after. –Tokigawa.
"So, he returned all of them." He sighed. "My head is really aching. Glad the class ended earlier."
He put the bag in his locker. When he went back to his chair, he saw a class record on the floor.
Maybe Tokigawa-kun dropped this.
He scanned it to know from which class it belongs to.
4-B?
He remembered all the events last night and it made his head ache more.
He went outside, feeling like his body is swaying, to return the class record to the teacher. When he reached there, he knocked 3x before he opened it.
He's expecting that the class woild be half number of its perfect attendance, but, he saw no vacant seats, no student is wearing a bandage or a band-aid on his face or arm. They were all silent.
"Good mornig, ma'am." H egreeted the teacher who's erasing the writings on the board.
Ayase sneezes. "Oops! Excuse me!"
"That's cute."
"Ma'am?"
"The way you sneez, it's cute."
Ayase smiled, "Ma'am, here's your class record."
"Did you already know something about the gang?"
Ayase faced the students... then to the teacher and smiled. "No, not yet ma'am. But I'll try my best to find them."
"Good luck!" the teacher patted his shoulder.
"Goodbye, ma'am.!" He walked to the door. But before he went out, he roamed his eyes to the students.
He went back to the office. There's already tsusaku.
"Hi, presie!"
"Hi, Tsu-kun." He tiredly answer. He went to his seat.
"Are you okay, pres?"
"Yes, I'm just sleeoy."
Ayase woke uo from the very cold.
"President, are you okay?" Tokigawa asked.
"A-ah... yes. I'm fine. Uhm... where are the others?"
"They already went home."
"Nani?" He leaped out. His head is still aching.
Tokigawa's phone rang.
"Hello?" He answered. "What time?... I see. We'll talk about it later, ja!"
"Uhm... pres, would you mind if i go home now?"
"N-no. Thanks for your hardwork."
"But we have not done so many things today."
"Bye!" He's trying to be cheerful.
Tokigawa disappeared as the door closed. Then silence is screaming.
"Awh... my head really aches." He leaned his head on the table. "It's so cold."
-10:40 pm-
Ayase decided to go home. He doesn't want to sleep there again. He wanted to wait for the gang to fight with other students. But he just can't. His body is aching.
As he was walking through the halls, he again bumped to someone. He fell on the floor.
"Why do we always bump to each other? Are you really making me irritate? Are you doing this on purpose? Answer me. And... will you stand up there? It's just a bump, it's impossible for you to just collapse. Hey!" He grabbed Ayase's wrist. He was shockd for it was very hot. He touched Ayase's forehead and it's very hot.
"Idiot, you have a serious fever."
Ayase is shivering already. Kanou held him on his arms.
He brought him to the nearest hospital.
Kanou is staring at him unntil he woke up.
"W-where am I?"
"Are you really blind? You're in the hospital."
"Wh-why are you here?" Instead of getting shock, he was irritated.
"Oh.., I was JUST the only ONE whio wasted my precious time because I brought you here. You stupid kid, don't you know that you have a fever?"
Fever? "Will you not call me stupid kid? I'm not a kid anymore. I'm a big boy."
"And big boys don't catch fever that easy."
"Grrr... you're always making me mad."
"And you're always on my way."
"Then you should have left me from where you found me. That's what you're always doing, you're just passing by me."
"Okay, I quit. But, why are you always going home late?"
"Shoudn't I the one who suppose to ask you thet? You are a normal student but you're going home late."
Then someone opened the door.
"General, here's your food."
Kanou locked his eyes on the newcomer. The student put the foods on the table and went out, bowing, realizing that it's amistake calling Kanou "General" in front of a boy.
Ayase picked up the burger and ate it.
"Why you you-"
"Don't tell me you're not going to share it to me? There a re 2 burgers, 2 french fries, and 2 large drinks. I'm not that idiot to think that it's all yours. So before you ask me to eat,I ate it first." He took a big bite on the burger.
"Ah... eh... if you want more, then..."
"Then I can have yours? Sure. Thanks. Just put it right there."
Kanou was amazed. He doesn't know that the kid, rather boy, big boy, can eat like this. He absent-mindedly smiled.
Ayase looked up to him
"Why are you smiling?"
"Wha-what? Me? Smiling? That's not in my vocabulary." He turned.
Kanou's phone rang.
"Yes. Maybe they got scared... Just leave them alone... wait for their note." Then he put down the phone.
When he turned to Ayase, he was shocked when the burgers were gone. Ayase is sipping the drink. Then he burped very loud.
"Full?" Kanou asked in amazement.
"Very."
"It's obvious."
"Are you the leader?" Ayase asked suddenly.
"What?"
"So that's why you're going home late. Don't deny to me. I heard you last night, they called you 'General', and just now, in front of me, a student called you 'General.'
"Hey, calm down!"
"I'm thankful that you brought me here but," He faced Kanou with glaring eyes. "Don't you know that I saw you yesterday? You were fighting against the other school's students. It rained after that. That's where I got my fever. It's because of you."
Ayase stood out of bed. He went out and saw 5 students.
"Are you the members of the gang?" He glared at them.
"They're just a few." Kanou interrupted.
"You know what, my head is aching thinking about the gang and its members. And now that I know, Ireally wish that I have never known. Because I'm scared. I don't know what to do. I'm scared that if I call the police right now, since all of you are minors, you'll get out of jail immediately and will come back... to kill me. Now, if you'll excuse me, you're blocking my way."
Kanou set himself aside. That made the mebers shock. Because just a simple order from a simple guy, their 'General,' set himself aside.
When Ayase is out of sight, Kanou asked them, "Is he really scared?"
"G-general?"
"Let's just go!"