"I'm really not pleased that you're trying to avoid me." I said as I followed Ikki.
"You know that I'm doing- trying to do this for your own good." He countered.
"That's of little use when I'm following you, is it?"
"It is, so if you could stop that'd be great."
"Ikki, come on, you don't want this either do you?" I grabbed his arm to stop him, but he spoke before I had a chance to.
"Please just go and don't make this any harder than it already is. Oh and to show that I'm really serious about this, talk to Waka." With that, he walked off and a fast pace. I growled some swear words and turned around to head back to the café.
I walked into Waka's office and sat down in the chair in front of his desk.
"Ikki said to come talk to you." I said, obviously annoyed.
"He made a very wise and selfless decision, so don't judge him too harshly."
"He quit, didn't he?" Waka nodded.
"You do understand his reasoning, right?"
"I do, but I feel that this is the wrong way to handle the situation. It feels like giving in and that's weird." Waka laughed.
"How would you solve this situation then?" I shrugged.
"Just getting rid of whatever the problem is should work, right?" Waka nodded.
"But you can't just "Get rid of' an entire group of people." Then she had a great idea and she quickly shared it with Waka.
"That might work." He admitted. "But it has a lot of unstable variables."
"I agree, but I'm sure it'll work." He stood up and nodded.
"Then let's begin the preparations."
Waka had called Ikki and asked him to come to the café the next day after closing times, saying he had to discuss his final paycheck. I had tracked down the fancy fangirl and had asked her to meet me at the same place, to explain the current situation. The fancy girl and her two followers, who she brought along as uninvited extra"S, arrived exactly on time, just as expected. Waka had gone outside to make sure the other part of the plan would follow the script.
"Care to explain why you called us out here?" Fancy girl said.
"For the record, I only called you out here, not them. But that's alright, I guess." She rolled her eyes.
"Well get on with it then."
"Right, the reason is very simple. I would like to say that I'm nowhere near done with this. I admit, the cliff thing was a big screwup on my part, but I assure you it won't happen again. You can expect a worthy opponent now."
"You know, you really haven"T learned from your mistakes if you think we'd just leave now." One of her followers threw down the duffel bag she'd been carrying and got out three baseball bats, handing one to the other extra and one to the fancy girl. I feigned a surprised and anxious reaction and took a few steps back.
Waka, who had been listening closely, opened the door to let Ikki in. The girls were too busy attacking me to notice Ikki coming in, but Ikki certainly did notice what was happening and didn't hesitate to step in. He grabbed one of the bats in mid air and snatched it out of the girl's hand.
"What the hell do you all think you're doing?!" He yelled as he pushed me behind him. The two extra's hid behind the fancy one, who was stammering an explanation.
"I- She- We-"
"You know what? I've had it with you! You've always made sure that I never had any happiness and I've always put up with it, but no more. I will not be your puppet any longer. If I see any of you ever again, I'm making sure that you'll spend the rest of your lives in jail. Do you understand me?" That last sentence was so dead serious and cold that it made me shiver. The girls nodded, one of the extra"S broke down in tears and the other extra had to drag her along in their escape. Ikki dropped the bat and turned to me, worry in his eyes.
"Are you okay? How bad is it?" I smiled.
"Just a few bruises. They hadn't been at me for very long." I turned to Waka. "Thanks for the perfect timing, by the way." Ikki frowned, looking from me to Waka and back.
"You two set this up, didn't you?"
"We did and you performed exactly according to the script." Waka said, nodding.
"I figured they wouldn't listen to me, but they would to their lord and savior."
"How did you know I was going to react the way I did?" I shrugged.
"I trusted you." He let out a deep breath and hugged me. I shrank back slightly, as he managed to get to every bruised spot somehow, but bore with it anyway.