Don't own it; don't claim to own it; no profit being made. Don't sue me, m'kay?

3. Little Black Books

Ootori Kyoya is not omniscient. But he is close, very close. He sees and records everything of interest: every fact, every figure, every action and reaction. It is all there, in his current little black book.

Of course, a book does not have limitless pages. He goes through them at a rate of precisely four a year, and this is only possible because of his small, impeccably neat handwriting. Everything that happens in a given quarter is absorbed by the thin pages. Everything that he knows, thinks, predicts, calculates, and sees is in these books. But every now and then (the total count is three) he miscalculates.

Not the books. He has been keeping them since the beginning of his lower secondary education. Each time he finishes one, it is carefully put away into a private archive. He makes copies, of course, stored away on his laptop, but the books are the physical, tangible archive. They are the originals.

There are twenty of them now, and they whisper to each other, so very like their master in their calculations and careful observations. But they are not human; they never waver or err in their observing and calculating. They predicted everything that Kyoya could not: that Kyoya would fall for Haruhi, that Haruhi would fall for Tamaki, and that the twins' world would grow exponentially faster than expected.

No, Ootori Kyoya is not omniscient. But he could be, if he could just hear the things that his little black books whisper.