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Guilty Crown - Sins of an Emperor

Phase 03: Void-sampling

Previously on Guilty Crown,

Our class's door was opened as I lifted my head a bit to look at who was this new transfer student only to receive a shock as I saw…

"Everyone this is…-"

P.O.V: Shu

What's she doing here?

"-Yuzuriha Inori"

My classmates immediately began whispering saying things like:

"She's cute…"

"Damn… We got lucky this year, to think such a pretty girl would transfer in this late during the semester."

I sweatdropped a bit at how excited they were when I thought to myself…

To think what their reaction would be if they recognized Inori from her videos…

I thought too soon as someone nearby me muttered,

"Inori?" as if recognizing her, as if being a keyword, people began having wide eyed looks in disbelief as they questioned,

"Yuzuriha Inori… as in Inori from Egoist?" one of my classmates said from behind the class causing the class to begin to realize who exactly was the girl in front of them…

Their disbelieving looks and comments about this being impossible and that it was real was humorous but it wasn't like I could blame them… I wasn't better as I actually stared at her while she was singing dumbfounded before getting my senses back.

Inori had a confused expression on her face probably wondering why were the people In front of her saying that this wasn't real, she then tilted her head and said.

"This is real you know…"

I then recalled something our teacher informed us before Inori came in.

"I think you all know this already, but GHQ has declared a level 2 state of emergency concerning the incident in Roppongi yesterday…. Anyone who has information concerning the terrorist group calling themselves the Undertakers is to report it to the authorities ASAP."

I began wondering franticly.

Why would Gai send Inori here knowing the dangers of being out in the open…?

As the teacher began trying to calm down the ecstatic boys who were blushing from actually seeing their idol face to face, I began musing on the reason that Gai would risk sending Inori to this school.

As home room ended, I gave up thinking about what reasons Gai would have to send Inori here and decided to see what she was up to.

Looking around the class, I eventually saw her surrounded by a group of students asking her questions.

Glancing to my side, I noticed Yahiro was leaning on the wall in front of my desk also looking at our classmates asking Inori questions, one of the voices I could hear clearly was Kanon's voice introducing herself to Inori.

"My name's Kusama Kanon. I'm the class rep, so if there's anything you don't understand, please ask me ok?"

As Kanon was about to tell Inori about today's schedule, my ears perked up with I heard Souta's voice.

"Inori-san! Umm… what do you think of the Undertakers?"

My eyes widened along with the rest of the people surrounding Inori though what they were thinking and what I was thinking is definitely different.

'I'm surprised at Souta's bluntness… If I didn't know that he simply wanted her opinion I would've thought he knew that Inori was with the Undertakers…'

It seemed that the girls didn't take Souta asking that question kindly as one of them berated him,

"Why are you asking something like that so suddenly, Souta-kun?"

He nervously rubbed the back of his neck as he said, "But don't Egoist's songs sound Undertaker-like? So I thought maybe she'd like them…"

I sympathized with Souta when our class representative simply berated him for saying that, "There's no reason that'd be true!"

Oh Kanon if you only knew…

The people around Inori began shooting off questions rapidly not even giving her a chance to reply while some simply wanted her autograph. Standing up, I was about to make my way towards Inori to bail her out when Yahiro suddenly approached them and told them.

"That's enough guys; you're stressing Yuzuriha-san out." He placed his hand over Souta's shoulder and introduced Souta to Inori.

"Sorry about that, this guy's Tamadate Souta and he's a huge fan of yours, so please forgive him for being rude."

I smiled at Yahiro's thoughtfulness as he began to introduce himself while I began walking towards them.

"By the way, I'm Samukawa Yahiro."

As I stood beside Yahiro, Inori glanced at me before returning her attention to Souta, who said,

"Me, Yahiro and Shu who's the guy silently standing beside Yahiro over there made a modern film appreciation society."

I blinked and wondered if Souta was actually going to ask what I thought he was…

"So I was wondering if-"before he could finish his request, Yahiro pulled his collar and told him that there was no need to hurry.

I was still scowling at Souta calling me silent when Yahiro relayed the same words to the rest of the people there.

"That goes for the rest of you. Since we'll be in the same class from now on. Let's not rush into things, right?"

I smiled as they began to apologize to Inori and with that the bell rang and the boys went to an empty class room to change while the girls stayed and changed in our class.

As I finished changing and headed over to the Gym where Souta and a few more people were already there running, I joined them as I began to think once more about the reasons Gai would send Inori here considering I haven't joined them yet.

Maybe they were keeping track of me? I did accidentally obtain the power that Gai wanted…

Before I could continue my musing, a classmate of mine caught up to me and asked while they were all looking at one area where I too saw Inori and the rest of the girls performing stretches.

"Seriously, when you see Inori in real life, she's really like a doll, isn't she?"

I sweatdropped at that as I too felt the same but told him,

"True… but it's rude to say so as we haven't really gotten to know her yet"

The person next to the one who asked me the question gave his opinion saying,

"Or you could say that she looks even more like CG."

I was about to tell him that was rude as well but was beaten to it by Souta who proceeded to say,

"Inori's not CG or some crap like that! That was rude you know! You'd better not say anything like that to her for real! That goes for you too Shu! Calling her a doll is no better, you idiot! Her feelings are easily hurt you know"

… I really had nothing to say to Souta who randomly told me that, I mean true I did admit that Inori looked like a doll but was that any reason to call me an idiot? I did say that it was indeed rude to think so despite agreeing and yet Souta calls me an idiot and then proceeds to tell me that she is very fragile… Souta have you thought about the people you're berating and that their feelings might also be easily hurt?

Though I suppose he did nothing wrong and I did make a mistake… somewhat,

School eventually ended, I packed my books into my bag and headed over to the train station which I then took a train and rested by head on the chair.

As I got off the train and walked for a few minutes to reach my apartment I began thinking out loud,

"I wonder where Inori is staying… She never did tell them despite their questions…"

As I was musing I didn't notice a figure approaching from behind me and as I was about to place my hand in the scanner, another hand went ahead and pressed on to it and it beeped signaling that the door was unlocked.

Turning my head to the side, I was surprised to see Inori there and with wide eyes I started at her as she casually walked to the door and opened it, entering my house.

As the door opened and the sun's fading light shone into the dark apartment, I saw numerous boxes lying on the floor haphazardly with some opened and others still closed…

At that point, I had already came to the realization that Inori was going to be living here as well and quickly followed her and as I came to the living room where she had just entered I was about to ask her something when I caught her taking off her uniform's vest and quickly turned around not wanting to experience being slammed into the ground once more by Fyu-Neru in the case that it was here.

The moment I turned I was greeted by the one thing I didn't want to me and the worst part of it? Its arms were sparking with electricity and it leapt towards me causing me to grab it and fell to the floor.

As I was wrestling it, preventing it from shocking me, Inori apparently was done changing and kneeled down wondering with an expression showing that she was wondering what were the two of us doing.

I sweatdropped at her nonchalant expression as she watched me fending off a robot that was keen to shock me till I was unconscious when she suddenly said.

"Shu… I'm hungry."

Dumbfounded by the sudden statement, I let my head rest onto the floor a little quick and said.

"Ouch…"

I looked at Inori who was still staring at me and asked

"How'd you manage to get in?"

She replied,

"Fyu-Neru helped me."

Ah… that explains why it was here…

I pleaded with her, "Uhh Inori-san? Do you mind calling off Fyu-Neru?"

"Inori"

I blinked before realizing that she wanted me to call her name without any suffix

"I can't just call you by your name so suddenly… I barely even know you."

She didn't say anything to that as I remembered that she was hungry, seeing that Fyu-Neru was putting up any effort in trying to shock me anymore despite the electricity coming from its arms, I stood up and gave it to Inori as I asked,

"So… What do you want to eat?" expecting something like Chinese food or the like; I was surprised when she replied.

"Onigiri"

I gave her a nod and went over to the kitchen to prepare the rice balls while Inori sat at the couch and played with Fyu-Neru's arms.

As I waited for the rice to cook I thought to myself…

What else is going to happen?

Oh if I only knew…

Scene change: GHQ headquarters

Two people were standing in a dark room of which the only source of light was the screen in front of them.

One of the two was a young woman who had brown wavy hair, wearing a lab coat with a blue shirt carrying some kind of tablet and was standing behind an old man by appearance at least.

The man had white hair along with a very strict face while also wearing a lab coat.

Both of them were facing the blue screen that was showing another individual this time a male who was wearing a military uniform and looked pretty important.

The man on screen began talking.

"How are you going to take responsibility for the incident in Roppongi, Keido-kun?"

Keido calmly replied,

"Do not worry; from now on, I'm putting Major Segai in charge of all events related to the Undertakers."

Two more individuals that had not been seen earlier began questioning this decision as they have not heard of a person named Segai or of his achievements.

Keido stared at them as he explained his decision starting with a question.

"Do you know about Norma-Gene?"

The important looking military man intertwined his fingers in front of his face as he answered,

"It's a gene drug that's become popular recently, is that not correct, Doctor Ouma?"

The woman who was simply standing beside Keido, turned to face the screen as she was called and replied

"Correct, it's something we discovered by chance when developing the Apocalypse Virus vaccine."

As the three shown on the screen heard the explanation, Keido then informed them.

"I sent Major Segai to deal with its smuggling, and in one week he had exposed the entire operation."

One of the three then inquired, "So he's pretty sharp?"

Keido still wearing his stoic face answered, "Perhaps a little too sharp. If we were to give him an appropriate target, he'll hunt it with all of his power… and then hang it"

Scene change: an unknown room

The scene shows a jester like doll that turns out to be a phone strap of a jester-like person wearing a GHQ uniform. He had an amused smile on his face as he began pressing buttons on his found answering a message.

He snapped his phone shut as he addressed someone in front of him,

"My apologies, it was work mail."
He then placed his phone in his back pocket as he inquired, "So where were we? Ah that's right, the problem of whether or not you'll talk."

The view changes to see a man being hanged upside down with a cloth covering his mouth and his hands tied behind his back.

The man continued to struggle against his binds not saying anything or more like he couldn't say anything which the jester-like male informed the two guards at his side to "Roll him up"

Scene change: Shu's apartment

As Inori was eating the onigiri, I sat down at the sofa and relaxed, trying to make sense of the situation.

I began to get worried I thought… What if mum comes home, how am I suppose to explain this to her?

I must've thought out loud as Inori began listing down facts,

"Ouma Haruka, chief researcher for Sephira Genomics… She only comes home around once a week, it is unlikely she'll be back for a few more days."

My eyes widened slightly as I thought.

So that's where I knew the name Sephira Genomics… Mum works there.

Realization came to me as I said, "So you've already done a background check on me huh?"

Inori tilted her head and asked me, "A nuisance?"

Turning to look at her, she once more said, "Ouma Shu… am I a nuisance to you?"

I sweatdropped not expecting such a question all of a sudden, I began to say,

"No, you're not a nuisance; it's just that I'm still wondering, why exactly have you transferred to my school and moved into my house."

What she said… was a surprise to me.

"To protect you."

Huh so I needed protection? from what exactly…

Just as I was about to ask her what she was protecting me from, my doorbell rang and I stood up to answer the door.

"Coming!"

Will this day ever end without any more surprises? Yahiro came to visit apparently.

"Yo! Sorry to bother you so late"

I blinked as I asked, "What's up?"

He rummaged in his pockets as he brought out a disk saying, "I just remembered this, it's the movie I was talking about earlier."

He passed the disk to me as I realized that he was talking about the conversation we had before home room had started.

Yahiro then asked me, "Wanna watch it?"

I looked at the title and it showed a pale old man with bloodshot eyes and crying tears of blood. The title of the movie was 'The Jigsaw and Chainsaw...

I thanked him for the movie but thought that he could've just given this to me tomorrow at school so why did he come all the way just to give me this…

I voiced it out and he replied.

"You seemed off today… I just had a feeling about it."

Yahiro is pretty sharp, didn't think I acted any differently despite my surprise about Inori transferring.

I sweatdropped as he asked me, "Did something happen yesterday?"

I rubbed the back of my head as I answered, "Was there anything? I don't recall anything happening so I don't know."

Yahiro continued smiling as he said, "I see."

I heard footsteps behind me and prayed that Inori wasn't coming out but it seems that my prayers were unanswered as I turned around to see that she was indeed going out and Yahiro exclaimed,

"Huh? Why are you here?"

Inori who was carrying Fyu-Neru informed me in front of Yahiro, "A message came. Come with me, Shu."

Blinking at the sudden request, I put on my shoes and closed the door before turning to Yahiro,

"There are a lot of reasons for this… "I began to which he just smiled amused, "What kind of reasons?"

Wrecking my mind for an excuse, I saw that Inori had begun to go down the stairs and quickly ran to catch up to her while shouting, "For the time being just leave it be, I'll see you tomorrow!"

He had a frown on his face but shouted back to me, "If anything happens, tell me!"

As I went down the stairs, I shouted back, "Thanks! I will."

Inori was waiting for me at the base of the stairs as we exited the building. We began walking along the roads when she suddenly asked me.

"Is Samukawa Yahiro your friend?"

Hmm is he? Honestly… I'm not even sure of that myself…

Despite my uncertainty, I answered,

"I guess he is… Probably."

As we walked under street lamps and cars passed us, I began to talk… commenting on Yahiro as a topic to pass the time.

"That guy is thoughtful… he cares about others, and thinks of the people around him. But for some reason… I get the feeling of uneasiness when I'm around him sometimes."

Inori paused and turned around looking curious and asked me why I felt that way

I answered, "I don't know…Maybe it's just my imagination or something."

We walked in silence for a few moments before I asked, "Inori-san, don't you have any friends?" assuming that Gai was simply an acquaintance.

Inori answered with a question, "Are friends something you have to have?"

Whoa… talk about hard questions to answer.

I thought about it for awhile before answering, "Well I guess not, though you have to admit they do make life interesting."

And with that, we didn't talk for the rest of the walk.

As we reached the rendezvous area, I noticed Gai speaking on his phone as we approached him; A huge male named Oogumo introduced by Gai at Roppongi that day, and Tsugumi were behind Gai with Oogumo standing guard and Tsugumi probably securing the area to prevent eavesdroppers.

Gai finished talking with whoever that was about some company called OAU giving a condition… Oh well not that it has anything to do me… I guess.

As he placed his phone into his pocket, he turned towards us and said, "Sorry for the trouble."

Shrugging, I commented, "no problem… By the way, that's quite an outfit."

Gai was wearing a suit similar to those that butlers use while wearing grey slacks, all in all not something that a criminal would wear to which I voiced out.

Gai smiled and said, "The world won't change just by running around with guns."

How very true…

Gai turned to Tsugumi and asked, "Tsugumi. Anyone following them?"

She raised her hand and replied, "All clear!"

Deciding that it was time to get down to business as Gai wouldn't have called for me to come without any reason; I stepped up and asked him.

"So… what's the reason for inviting me here? Also why send Inori to my school and allowing her to move into my home? You do know that it is dangerous for Undertaker members to move about right?"

A frown was visible on Gai's face as he said, "A problem sprang up, in the middle of the operation yesterday. There was an eye witness who spotted us."

I was sure I had a wide eyed expression on my face as I thought of the complications this could cause… I can imagine it now, GHQ storming the school and capturing me and Inori for the fact that we might've been seen conversing with Undertaker members and not any member but their leader who had shown himself to the world on his introduction video feed.

I then realized something and voiced it out. "But weren't the people in that lot, the people that you're protecting? Wouldn't you be able to suppress any information going through to the GHQ?"

Gai had a grim expression on his face as he told me, "If it was a resident of the fort, I could deal with them, but it appears to be an outsider."

I wondered… could this get any worse. But it seemed that it indeed could as Gai told me,

"It's a student who goes to the same school as you."

Now I was more curious then concerned and asked Gai, "But why would a student from my school be there?"

Gai answered smoothly, "Norma-Gene. Ever heard of it?"

I paused for a moment recalling what I remembered about it and answered, "If I remember correctly, it's a drug that's been popular lately."

I realized that drug must've been the reason that the student was there… he was probably smuggling them when all that commotion began. Voicing this out, Gai confirmed it to be true.

"It seems like the person called themselves, 'Sugar' when the deal was going on. Of course, it's probably a given that it was simply an alias."

I sweatdropped at the simplicity of the name only to feel concerned when Gai voiced out one of the things that I hoped didn't happen.

"It's very likely that you and Inori were spotted. Search him out!"

Despite the order and that I honestly wanted to follow it, I shouted, "That's impossible, considering the number of students in my school… We'd never be able to find out whoever that was."

However Gai simply disagreed saying, "No, there is."

Seeing my questioning look he continued, "Take out their Voids."

With that, one of my suspicions was proven, "You can see the Voids inside of people can't you… Not only that, you probably also understand the meaning of the Voids."

Gai looked amused as he said, "Oh? And how did you come to that conclusion?"

I indulged him, "Back then at Roppongi, if you hadn't known what Daryl's Void was, you wouldn't have been able to carry out that operation."

Gai smirked and told me, "You saved me time by figuring it out so quickly, it's true that I can see Voids."

Despite him simply confirming what I thought, I was still taken aback wondering what he sees from his eyes.

He continued, "That time, I felt the presence of a witness and I saw his Void."

My worries lessened a bit since with Gai knowing what the Void of the witness was, we'd be able to find him pretty easily… Right now, there are two more things I'm worried about. What would happen to the witness as soon as we catch him…? Would he or she be killed? What would happen to us if were to be caught?

Gai seemed to have read my mind as he informed me of the answers for one of my questions.

"According to the Temporary Disaster Law in effect now, terrorist have no human rights. If the witness indentifies you, there's no way you'll come out unharmed. You understand now right?"

Oh yes… I do understand, basically if Inori and I don't find this witness and he rats out on us… We're practically screwed so yea… No pressure

Gai continued without waiting for my answer, "I've told Inori the shape of the Void."

Eh? So Gai isn't personally going to come and identify the witness... As soon as I thought that, I mentally gave myself a smack in the head. Wasn't I the one who said that it wasn't safe for Undertaker members to move around and yet I was thinking that the apparent 'LEADER' of the group would come and help me deal with a witness, yes that was a great assumption Shu.

Gai smirked once more and told me, "If your everyday lifestyle is important to you, protect it yourself."

With that they prepared to leave and before he went ahead, he faced me once more and told me his number but asked me not to save it into my phone and simply memorize it. Confident that I could do so, I gave him a nod and Inori and I went on home.

As I closed the door to my room after showing Inori the guest room, I headed for my bed without delay and proceeded to crash into it and fell asleep almost instantly.

Timeskip: The next day during lunch at school

Inori and I were kneeling at a corner of the hallways, she then said, "Shu?" as if unsure about something.

Knowing that she was worried about something, I tried to ease her worries by saying that I could do this.

What was I about to do? Well I'm going to go and attempt to take out a person's void and then ask Inori if it was the Void that Gai told her about.

Just in case she asked me once more, "Did you memorize the rules of Voids?"

Nodding my head I went through them once more by saying them.

"First, Voids can only be extracted from humans of 17 years or younger. The reason for this is unknown, either that or its being kept from me" Inori stayed silent during this and simply gave a nod.

"Second, a person who has their Void extracted will lose all memory of the event. Apparently this is due to the shock of the intron memory field being released… Right?"

Receiving a nod once more, I got ready for our experiment.

Seeing Hare coming meant that she was going to be the target for this experiment, I couldn't help but feel guilty at what I was about to do but I consoled myself by thinking.

Even if I were to fail and end up doing something stupid, Hare will probably forgive me… I still feel bad though.

I closed my eyes to concentrate for the timing and hoped that it would any well; this made me unable to see that Kanon was also walking with Hare and was moving ahead of her.

Hearing that the footsteps were near enough from my location, my eyes shot open as I rushed out of the corner. However as I turned, my eyes were closed for a moment and when I stretched out my hand, it touched something soft… and my eyes were wide open in shock whilst my body froze instinctively.

…Oh fuck, I accidentally groped Kanon! Please Kami-sama have mercy on this poor soul, I prayed for my very life.

Hare and Inori were staring at me and Kanon who were still frozen in place, suddenly voices from behind me were whisper and shouting saying things like,

"Amazing!", "he's got some guts."

Hearing a camera take a picture from behind me quickly snapped me out of my daze as I hastily retracted my hand and bowed to Kanon apologizing.

"I'm sorry! I didn't mean to do that!"

Hare was in a state of disbelief muttering, "Why, Shu? If you'd only told me, I would've let you any time…"

Hare! I already said that I didn't mean to do that and I was telling the truth!

Apparently Kanon finally had the event's implications sunk in as her face grew red and she screamed causing me to go wide eyed.

Knowing what was about to come, I bowed once last time in apology before dashing away.

Hey don't look at me like that, you would too if you were in my situation.

Behind me I noticed Inori following me in a slow pace while Kanon stopped screaming and shouted angrily, "Wait up, Ouma Shu!"

Hell no! I am not waiting and surely be rewarded with a slap, although I deserve it.

I then remembered that someone took a picture and took out my portable device and logged into the school's chat room and saw the person post the picture he took of me groping Kanon.

As guys began saying all kinds of things congratulating me, the girls began saying comments about what a pervert I was and so on.

I sighed as I continued running; I began to think to myself…

Well this sucks doesn't it, for three years I've made it without standing out and yet this happens… Well I have no one to blame except myself I guess, I can't believe I forgot the third rule just because I didn't recite it out. I wonder… what the chances of everyone forgetting what happened earlier are. Probably zero I guess…

I groaned as I entered my hide out and waited for Inori to come here as we've talked about coming here in the case that I failed.

As I sat down on my chair and Inori entered the room, I said, "Well that failed didn't it."

Inori questioned, "So you know what you did wrong?"

"Yeah… I asked and you told me that I needed eye contact to pull out a void and yet I forgot that rule as I tried it out just now due to nervousness I guess…"

Slapping myself, I stood up and turned to Inori saying, "Well let's try that again, this time hopefully I'll get it right."

We headed for the school when I saw Souta coming from the bridge; it seemed that he was listening to something on his music player as he was dancing to a tune.

I walked towards him normally and as I got nearer, I told him as I stared into his eyes. "Souta! Sorry about this!"

It seemed that the volume wasn't too loud as he heard me say that and he was shocked and looked at me scared wondering why I said sorry before a glow appeared around us and I plunged my hand into the glowing spot on his chest.

Hearing him scream was painful… hopefully no one else heard that as I continued to pull out the rock-like structure that was quite long and made me assume it'd be another sword again but as I finally pulled it out complete, the rock disappeared and revealed a camera?...

Despite my confusion about the item I held in my hand, I showed it to Inori asking whether this was it, receiving a "no" I turned back to Souta's kneel unconscious body and said "sorry" once more before pressing my hand on where the glowing spot was and the camera I had turned into particles and went back into Souta's body through my hand.

As the glow appeared once more, I noticed that the symbol I had last time appeared at the back of my palm, I concluded that this would appear only when I were to pull out a void.

As the camera completely went into Souta's still body, it suddenly gave shook and a heart beat was felt by my hand before he woke up and wondered what had happened.

Despite the failure, I was determined as I could finally pull out voids successfully now that I remembered the eye-contact rule.

After going around and pulling out various voids with some being even more weird like a vase, a fridge and even a pair of tweezers. Damn that fridge was heavy, luckily I didn't held it up like I used to with the rest of the Voids, I would've been crushed.

Eventually I took a break and bought an energy drink from the vending machine as I leaned on the wall.

As I placed the cool can onto my forehead to cool myself down a bit I mentally smacked myself as I finally thought of asking Inori.

"Inori, What Void exactly are we looking for?"

Inori who was standing in front of me, answered, "Scissors"

My eyebrow twitched and I asked, "Inori… why didn't you tell me that?"

Inori shrugged her shoulders and told me," You didn't ask plus it was a good experience for you to pull out Voids."

I sighed deciding to forget it and chalk it up to my insightfulness. I pulled away the can from my forehead as I asked Inori, "Just what are Voids anyways. Considering that there are various types, my previous assumption of them being weapons is wrong since even household items or even decorations are forms of Voids."

Inori answered me, "The shapes and features of Voids reflect people's fears and complexes, in other words, they're the shape of their hearts."

Receiving that answer, I began recalling the Voids I've pulled out before and thought about what they could mean, from the vase to the kaleidoscope I pulled out from Daryl and finally the-

I turned my head to face Inori as I asked, "then why does a blade come out of you?"

Before Inori could answer me, rapid footsteps were heard and a familiar voice shouted,

"Found you! Ouma Shu!"

Crap… It was Kanon! I slowly began to back away before a door sound was heard and I turned to see Yahiro by the door to the gymnasium telling me to come in.

So along with Inori, we went into the Gymnasium and closed the door.

We sat by the seats as I regained my breathing from the unexpected run all of a sudden.

I sighed saying, "Damn this is tough, I've been running all day."

Yahiro then said something unexpected, "If you entered the Undertakers, it'd be even worse."

My eyes widened as I repeated what Yahiro had said while he continued to say,

"The class rep should cool down after a bit, too. So let's go apologize then."

Signaling Inori with eyes to get ready in case any happens, I answered, "Sure, although I've already done that so I wonder if she'll forgive me… Maybe she'll cut me up with some scissors."

Yahiro looked at me as he asked, "What? Is this about that movie yesterday?"

I grunted but didn't answer, instead I began to talk.

"You know I've thinking this for awhile, Yahiro but your hobbies are a little weird."

He had an uneasy smile on his face as he said, "That's pretty sudden."

I gave a fake smile as I said, "I don't mean to criticize you, and I just want to say that you really can't judge a book by its cover… Sugar"

I for some reason prayed that I was wrong but as Yahiro stood from leaning on the railings, his whole demeanor changed from being kind and pleasant to almost cold and cruel. He said,

"So I was really spotted and you're looking down on me?"

"No, that's not what I meant by my words. I'm sure that there's a story behind this… a reason to cause you to do this."

I was shocked when he screamed, "Shut up!" I turned to face him as he shouted, "You're still pretending we're still friends? The moment you called me 'Sugar', everything ended! Don't pretend that you're concerned over me!"

He then slammed his fist on the steel railing as he continued to say, "It's because of people like you who decided that I'm harmless that I'm forced to act this way!"

He then grabbed me by my collar and continued to shout as my now stoic face looked back at him.

"I have to keep pretending to be something that I'm not! It's all your fault!"

Getting tired of him shouting and blaming me for everything, I plunged my hand into his chest and pulled out his void.

As I fully pulled out his Void and he slumped down to the ground, I observed the Void I held.

It looked like a huge pair of scissors or a pair of shears; it had a white and red color scheme and a circular handle to hold it.

Inori took out a gun and pointed it at the unconscious body of Yahiro while saying, "Well it's decided then"

I quickly stopped her and asked her to wait for a moment; I took out my phone after shifting the pair of scissors to my left hand and contacted Gai.

He picked up the phone and said, "Is it Shu? What do you want? Have you found the witness?"

"Yeah we've caught him; his name is Samukawa Yahiro, a classmate of mine."

"And So? Have you disposed of him or have you gotten cold feet already?"

Gritting my teeth I said, "Despite him being a witness, I don't want to think that all the times we had were all fake, I'm willing to give him a chance but first, in the unfortunate scenario that I get caught since Yahiro didn't get to see Inori performing any acts that could make her related to the Undertakers, would there be any way you could use that situation?"

Gai was silent for awhile and after a few minutes, he answered.

"Despite me favoring the option of simply killing him, I'll let you give it a shot. If you were to-"

We talked about what we were going to do and after agreeing on it, I asked Inori to go on home after requesting that she passed me a weapon just in case to which she handed me a small pocket knife.

As she left through the door, she told me "Shu… Be careful."

Giving her a nod, I headed to where Yahiro's body was and returned his Void and as he regained consciousness we talked.

Eventually we came to an agreement and promised each other: He wouldn't tell anyone about my involvement with the Undertakers and I wouldn't tell anyone about him selling the Norma-Gene.

Despite feeling like this is the first time I've seen Yahiro smile so sincerely, I couldn't help but feel that this wouldn't go well.

Time skip: The next day

Inori and I were in the train heading for school when Inori suddenly asked me, "Shu, can I be with you forever?"

For some reason her question caused me to have a slight headache and flashes began appearing in my vision as I began to remember things.

Flash

I saw the blonde girl from before along with a boy that had long blonde hair… I was playing with them

Flash

A bullet sound, along with the deathly flames surrounding me

Flash

A scream… the word… Monster

As the flashes stopped, I was disoriented for awhile and couldn't prevent myself from being pushed out of the open door. Refocusing my attention on the situation, I saw GHQ soldiers lined up in front of me and as I turned my shocked gaze back to the train, I saw people concerned over what was happening and Inori's fearful gaze as she saw the door close before she could react… Finally I saw Yahiro's stoic face as he said, "Sorry Shu"

Narrowing my eyes, I knew then that Yahiro had betrayed our promise and swore that I wouldn't forgive him.

Hearing footsteps approaching me, I saw a jester-like officer coming near me with holding a phone in his right hand to which he snapped shut as he smiled at me saying

"Ouma Shu-kun, I'm placing you… Under arrest."

…Well fuck…

That's it for chapter 3, a little late i think. Thanks for reading, regardless and also thanks for the reviews i've received.

anyways what do you guys think about the latest episode...(Spoiler ahead, don't read past the lines if you haven't watched Guilty Crown Episode 17: Exodus)

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I was honestly surprised by Arisa's actions... though I suppose her obsession with Gai had to turn up sooner or later. But i have to say that i pity Shu, he had to put up with being a tyrant who had to be cruel in order to survive yet he gets betrayed by them in the end and Gai the now white haired bastard, comes in and cuts off his hand and just takes his power in a blink of an eye? I mean really? what kind of power gets taken away that easily...

I can't wait for next week's episode, I wonder, what will Shu do now that he doesn't have his power of the kings and no comrades whatsoever as i assume Ayase along with Inori will be brought along with Gai against their will.