A normal afternoon of spring, flowers were blooming more than usual this season, he knew the reason why. He started going to therapy last week, a suggestion Komoe did, she started to notice his stress, Index was taking antidepressants too. Yuuka started to show up less often and more time with Accelerator, something they started to enjoy. Maybe he was the only person in the city capable of standing her, both had no care for human life. Touma wondered if the Shrine maiden of paradise felt the same way, or she was just as cold to human life. Youkai were indeed odd.
He was doing some fried shrimp with garlic for dinner, and hoped the shrimp he bought weren't rancid. Index was reading books by skimming through them, many mythology books she asked Touma to retrieve from a library. The more she read the more stressed she started to look, though she would never tell Kamijou what she was starting to know. No wonder why her nickname was Sleeping terror, at first she seems polite and kind, later on you start to realize the monster that slumbers within her.
He was so distracted he tripped inside of the kitchen and threw the pan towards his face, though he did not hurt himself. Before the oil touched his skin, he fell and stared at the suspended drops on the air, everything was silent he moved away and saw Index in the living room. The pages of the books were floating while she read through them, everything was frozen. He looked outside to see people were standing still on the streets, cars did not move. Then he heard a clang on the ground, then a tantrum by the nun he lived with. The time started to move again, who would do such a thing?
It was just a matter of time for her to join, Remilia always loved to join exclusive teams, however it meant she would send her maid to do all of the dirty job. Retrieve information about Kazami Yuuka and find the new student everyone is talking about, it wasn't a mission, she only wanted to send her own influence to Academy City and see how it affects the outcome. Sakuya seemed to be eager to go there, she had her own reasons to visit too.
Gensokyo doesn't handle any kind of paperwork, but sneaking into the city was something Sakuya knew fully well how to do. When a student wearing a green band approached her she just teleported away, it was normal in the city to have people with special abilities, she could use her skill freely. She did not expect the girl to do the same too. She tried to teleport again but the girl kept following her, it was starting to annoy her.
–Stop please! Identify yourself.
Sakuya didn't speak, if she started a conversation it was going to derive in a debate. She just teleported away again, then the girl followed her too.
–Don't try to run! You are but a mere amateur compared to a judgement member!
Sakuya groaned and pulled out her pocketwatch, she didn't like to lose track of time even if it was stopped, a precaution she took in order to keep her daily routine in exact 32 hours (her perfect cycle). Now the girl stopped speaking, Sakuya had stopped the flow of time, her voice was too acute, even compared to Flandre's which made this pig tailed student very annoying. She walked a couple of blocks to free herself and set time in motion again.
Sakuya was indeed far but she could hear the girl yelling from her location, a flaw that allowed her to move even further from her. She walked to a map of the city printed on a bus stop and started reading, Yuuka was a snob as much as Remilia was. Which made her predictable to Sakuya, if she was enrolled in a school it had to be the best in Academy City. Size narrowed it down to three schools, exclusive schools always used big amounts of land, even if their population is small, they take a lot of space for facilities. She wrote the address of the three and started walking to the first one, the largest one.
She was dressed in casual clothing, a maid outfit was going to stand out too much. A pair of denim pants and a white blouse, a small blue tie as well, she looked rather plain but she never cared much about her appearance. It had been very long since she had visited the outside world, technology was way more advanced than she remembered. Kappa had some technology as well but theirs was more focused on other areas.
She saw the large stone building of the school she was facing, she noticed that a certain uniform started to become more common the more she got near it. Unfortunately it was the same uniform the girl from earlier wore, had Yuuka taken control of the school? Was this girl an agent she sent to stop her from seeing what she had done?
–S-stop already! I have you now! –the pig tailed again, good, she could ask away.
–Do you work for Kazami?
–… No way! –the expression of fear in her eyes confirmed that
–Then why are you following me?
–You are not registered. I can't allow you into the city
–Where could I fix this problem? Do I have to stay in custody? –Kuuroko didn't expect this girl to be so polite.
–Erhm… May I ask why you ran away from me a while ago?
–Wouldn't you run if someone sent by Yuuka was after you?
–… Alright I don't blame you. Well I need to take you to a detention center, there you could apply for access papers. That if you had a proper reason to enter without them.
–Perfect then. Should we go now?
–Y-yeah… What is your name anyway?
–Izayoi Sakuya, at your service. –This girl was nice and polite, her face had a shape that attracted her for some reason, other features utterly repelled her, even though she was very attractive for most standard some features were very repulsive to Kuroko. It reminded her of a face she feared, her cold attitude added some more reasons to feel repelled from the gray haired girl.