2:30 P.M.
Byakuya Togami was relieved when Syo took a break and sat down to have some food. He didn't quite want to admit it, but he was exhausted. So, he sat down, too, legs trembling, and dug into his own bag with as much ferocity as he could without alerting her to his presence.
Then someone came stumbling out of the bushes and he was up faster than he'd thought he could move.
It was Chiaki Nanami, aluminum baseball bat in one hand, bag in the other. She tilted her head to the side, staring at him.
He jumped forward, pressing one hand over her mouth and the other on the back of her head so that she couldn't scream. She looked at him quizzically, then struggled.
"Huh?" Syo's voice carried up from where she sat, and Togami grimaced. He glanced back at his things, at his gun, at his bag, at his map. He backed up, taking Nanami with him, and kept one hand on her mouth, gripping her cheeks between his fingers and the palm of his hand. He bent, tossed his gun in his bag, and slung the bag over his shoulder. He got close to Nanami's ear to talk to her.
"Keep quiet," he hissed before dropping the hand from her mouth and running. He heard her follow him. He could kill her now, couldn't he? He hadn't been able to back there; Syo would have heard the gunshot, and then he would have been… well, he would have been in trouble.
They kept running until they hit the viewing platform at the top of a mountain. It wasn't too great of a spot in terms of being unseen, but at least he could see what was around him.
She stood a few feet away from him, hands on her knees, panting. "Togami-kun," she said. She rubbed at her face. "What was that?"
"What?" Togami asked, digging around in his back with one hand to try and find the gun. It was gone, he didn't know where it was… somewhere… he touched metal and pulled it out.
She, unfortunately, saw the glint of metal before he could shoot her, and promptly smacked him on the wrist with the bat. He leaped backward, back hitting one of the supports of the structure and gun lost again in the bag.
"Are you trying to shoot me?"
Togami didn't answer her. His wrist hurt. Throbbed, actually.
She held the baseball bat in a sort of mockery of professional baseball players, one elbow straight back, eyes narrowed like she was waiting for a fastball. Togami glanced around, wondering if maybe someone would come up and get rid of her for him.
He tried to reach for his bag again, and she hit out with the bat again, this time striking his collarbone. He jumped back again, and then he decided that he could come back for his bag later. He tossed it to the side and tackled her.
They rolled down the mountain, Togami trying to get her to stop hitting him with the bat so that he could kill her, Nanami striking whenever she could so that she wouldn't be killed. They eventually landed with Togami's back hitting a large rock and Nanami's knees pressing into his sides.
Togami gasped, vision fuzzy and blood clouding one eye. She'd hurt him. Him. Byakuya Togami. Byakuya Togami.
"Get off of me," Togami snapped. She shook her head.
"I don't want to die," she said. She rubbed at her face again. Bruises were forming on her cheeks. "I'm not going to let you kill me."
"What makes you think you deserve to survive more than me? I'm Byakuya Togami!"
"I'm Chiaki Nanami,"Nanami said, adjusting her position. That made him as angry as he really could be with how funny his head was feeling. She was sitting on him. Him. Byakuya Togami. "There's no reason why you should-"
"Don't go off about how all humans are equal, because it's ridiculous, how you people can think that," Togami said, head starting to clear. He sucked on the inside of his cheek and tasted blood. "I'm bleeding."
"In a few places," Nanami said. She opened her mouth to say something more.
Then the top half of her head was blown away and she slumped over sideways, baseball bat rolling from her hands. Togami stared at her, eyes wide, and sat up as best as he could. He was wedged between two large rocks, and pushed himself to sit, elbows pressed against the rocks.
A shoe that looked entirely inappropriate for this setting nudged what was left of Nanami's body off of Togami. He looked up, eyes going over a body that was not dressed in a uniform and eventually stopping on a face that was far too pale to be natural, with eyes too red to be normal.
"Hello, Togami-kun," Celestia Ludenberg said. She smiled. She held a machine pistol in her hands. "I would like to make a deal with you."
It took Togami a bit to find his tongue. He idly wondered back at Syo for a half of a second before replying. "What?"
"A deal," Celestia said. She held her gun in one hand and reached down her other. "You're not an idiot, are you?"
"Of course not," Togami snapped. "How would it benefit me?"
"There's the Byakuya Togami we all know and love," Celestia said, a sort of smile playing over her lips. "Your bags are not with you. However, I did see them at the top of the mountain, and I am having my servant-"
"I am not going to work with Yamada."
"Very well then," Celestia said. She straightened, and for a minute, Togami thought that she was going to shoot him. Then he dismissed it as stupid. Nobody would prefer Hifumi Yamada over Byakuya Togami. They waited a few moments, and before too long, Togami could hear the huffing and puffing that was usually present whenever Yamada had to cover long distances.
"Set them down there," Celestia said, gesturing toward Togami's feet. Yamada deposited the bags, a sheen of sweat covering his face. He took off his glasses and began cleaning them with his shirt. "Your bag too, pig."
Yamada jumped and put down his bag. "Ah, To-"
Within the next few seconds, he was dead, too. Togami stared, then looked up at Celestia. She smiled back, and then held her hand down again.
"Come on, Togami-kun. Take my hand, and let me explain just how beneficial this will be for the both of us."
Maybe it was because his head was still a little fuzzy from the tumble down the mountain, but Byakuya Togami took Celestia Ludenberg's hand.
23 STUDENTS REMAINING
jeez celes that was.
So I had a plan for Togami and this wasn't exactly it but it sort of happened anyway. But I can go back to the original plan after a while. Yamada was going to play a bigger role and kill someone else, but then I thought of a better way to kill that someone else. Also I'm a little bit infatuated with Celesgami. So that might be a thing that happens.
I wasn't going to kill anyone this week what happened.