I hurriedly led them to the library where our destination should be. Wearing the special lab coats and wielding our devices, I'm sure we'll get them.
Takashi slammed both doors open. The girls started shrieking and running around the tables. The librarian braced herself under her working desk while trembling. When they saw us, the girls froze. Their eyes hesitated on Ryuu and Aika. They were the ones feared by many. They thought both of them can tell the dreadful fates awaiting them, and how they'll waste a lot of effort to fight them when they can't at all.
"There they are," Ryuu's green eyes went on the two ninth-grader suspects.
The guy's using a baseball bat to smash the windows, shelves, chairs, tables, books, even the computers. The girl captured a poor female student and stabbed her from behind. The victim coughed out blood and fell on her stomach. Meanwhile, a girl with blonde hair and yellowish-green eyes stumbled on the floor as the insane female targets her next.
Aika swooped in and pushed her abruptly, sending her staggering backwards and dropping her knife. She stood in front of Miyako, the blonde-haired one.
"What's your name?" she demanded. The girl grimaced.
"Well, you're Momoko Aika-chan everyone's talking about," she smirked. She stood up without picking up the knife. Everyone froze on their tracks as they watched in fear. "Hahaha! You absolutely look too cute to be Takashi-sensei's apprentice!" then the girl started mocking her with taunts.
"I'm only asking for your name." Aika said sternly. "You've spent enough time playing with everyone."
The girl smirked and flicked her hair. "My name is Hanamatsu Kaori. Now, you happy?" She placed her hands on her hips when her glance went on Ryuu. "Heh. Bet Harugii-kun here's your boyfriend, right?"
"Hanamatsu-san!" I yelled, interrupting their conversation. "You don't really know Aika-san's family name!"
Aika sighed and her blue eyes stared at me. "Satoko... please, I can do this myself..." I swallowed and stepped backward. She faced Kaori once again, her eyes glaring at her behind the lenses of her glasses. Takashi helped the librarian and ordered a few girls to take her to the clinic. Ryuu immobilized the guy, whom we just discovered that his name is Hirozaki Itou, in a ...unique way. Itou-san, the guy with the baseball bat, tried to fight against Ryuu with a stun gun. But then Ryuu grabbed his arm and squeezed it tightly, making Itou drop the stun gun to the floor with a loud clank. He fished the syringe out that sort of from hammerspace and stabbed the needle abruptly on Itou's neck. He yelled from extreme pain as he let out gurgling sounds.
The girls inside the library trembled. Because they saw Ryuu-san's unmistakable face as bitter and cold. He let go of Itou and let him fall on the floor.
Aika closed her eyes and reopened them. Her blank and bitter facial expression is not unusual. "Kaori.... do you even know what my family name is?"
Kaori pretended to be surprised. "Me? Ahaha! Momoko Aika, right? Nyahahaha! Nameless! AHAHAHAHA!" She let out a maniacal laugh while Aika just stared at her bitterly. The crazy female's laughs grew louder, almost laughing like a madwoman. Her teal eyes started to form nasty and insane orbs that proved she'd gone mad. "I've killed a lot of people than that little brat! You know?? That Tsukiyoru freak? Ahahaha! She stabbed her head several times for no reason! AHAHAHAHA!!!"
The memory is Yoake-chan almost shattered Aika. But she just shook it off. "You think bullying and killing people is fun?"
"Fun!" Kaori grinned madly. "Yes! Of course it's fun! Ahahahaha!" Her head almost twisted like how a zombie does. Her eyes are wide and a wide mad smile spread across her lips. "It's like my favorite game everyday! It's like playing hide and seek! It's like playing tag! Get it?!" She laughed again and stared at Aika with stammered eyes. "How about we play a game, Aika-chan?! You hide while I seek!"
I can see a stun gun on her hand. Guess Itou's not the only one owning one. Aika is too aware, so was Ryuu.
Silence filled the air. Kaori got her stun gun ready, but Aika wasn't moving. She just... stood there.
"C'mon, Momoko! If you won't move, then I will move before you die!" Impatient, she kicked a stack of papers, sending them flying everywhere. Aika shielded herself with her arm before Kaori could lunge onto her and attack.
ZAP!
Aika was sent falling on her back. Her arms were spread wide, her eyes squeezed shut and her teeth bared. Her glasses fell from her face so did the syringe she kept from her pocket containing a drug (different from the suicide drug they usually use), something more poisonous than the other one.
I stood in front of the electrocuted Aika before Kaori. "YAMETE!" Takashi-sensei is suddenly nowhere to be found...
"Get out of the way, kid!" Kaori yelled. "I'm gonna beat her up and tear her into pieces!" She pushed me away. She picked up the syringe and bent to locate Aika's wrist. She slowly starts to lean the tip of the needle while Aika just laid there, motionless and trembling.
"KYAAAAAAAAHHH!!!!"
Everyone turned their heads at Kaori. They thought it was the end of Aika-san. But then, the syringe was on someone else's hands.
Kaori is screaming her head off. A baseball bat is pushed on her front neck horizontally, choking her. Her fingers started to crawl on the floor to search for her stun gun, but Ryuu pushed it away with his foot. His face didn't show any extreme force of choking this girl to save Aika.
"Hanamatsu-san," he said grimly. "Let me ask you one question."
Kaori struggled from the baseball bat's choke and grunted. "Ggghh..!!!"
"You got me wrong," he said in a mocking tone. "Aika asked you earlier. Do you know her last name?"
The mad girl managed to speak. "I-it..s...Mo...m..ok...o!" But then the male redhead just smirked.
"That's her very first name before Aika. You're probably wondering what her last name really is."
I saw the blonde-haired girl Miyako clutching her left arm. Her left sleeve is stained in blood. Kaori slit her skin earlier before she tried to kill her next, but then Aika swooped in and only ended up attacked by a stun gun. I approached and helped her get up. But she refused.
"You're bleeding," I persuaded. "You have to get in the clinic right now."
Miyako rapidly shook her head. "No! I-I want to help Aika!"
I stared towards the still half-motionless body of Aika-san. Her glasses were shattered into pieces. I can only see her fingers twitching but her whole body trembling from paralysis.
"Y-you can't!" I retorted. "She's in a bad condition!"
Miyako pushed me away. Wincing from the pain, she forced herself to help Aika sit up. She flashed a smile and whispered. "A...arigato..." she said. "Thanks for saving me from Kaori..."
But Aika didn't answer. She remained paralyzed. But still, Miyako didn't give up.
"Do you know what her family name is?" Ryuu repeated his question while choking Kaori with the baseball bat. His green eyes still haven't got the bitterness erased from them.
"ITOU-KUN!" she yelled. But he laughed mockingly.
"Too late, Kaori." he smirked. "The little guy's poisoned before you tried to attack everyone else. You don't want to end up like him, do you?"
"USODA!" she shrieked, but this didn't stop Ryuu. "You only used a barbiturate!"
"Really?" his face darkened as he prepared the syringe containing the venomous and the poisonous drug. "Tell me your answer and I'll spare you."
I gasped. "What?!" But he snapped a glare at me to shut up. It's the sign he's up to something. He dropped the baseball bat and his hand grasped on her hair to keep her head from twitching.
"Two seconds."
"Ggghhh...!"
It took a couple of seconds of silence before Kaori guessed.
"It's Haruhii, right?"
Ryuu's face formed a half smirk. Kaori sensed victory. He fell silent but his eyes still had the same mocking stare. But then, he jabbed the needle into her neck, making her scream on top of her lungs.
"You traitor!" she yelled. "I got it right!"
"Huh. I was suppose to grant your wish." he said, pushing the fluid inside her. "You pronounced it wrong. So I'm gonna take it back (the wish)." He let go of her as Kaori grabbed her neck, twitching and gurgling. The fluid rushed into her veins as she screamed, until they are replaced by faint gagging noises. Her hand fell faintly on the floor.
Takashi came out of nowhere and knelt beside Kaori's limp body. He flashed a smirk at Ryuu. "Good job, Ryuu."
One of the girls reacted. "Aika-san is Ryuu-kun's sister?"
Takashi-sensei nodded. "Bet you didn't know. They have the same blood, the same family name Harugii, and the same heredity from their parents."
Miyako's eyes blinked. When she locked gazes with Ryuu, her heart suddenly skipped a beat.
He handed her a roll of bandage to wrap them around her wound. Miyako's hand trembled as she accepted it.
"T-thanks..."
"Satoko," Takashi-sensei called me. "Tell Ash to get in here immediately with two stretchers. Put Kaori and Itou on them while Ryuu will carry Aika and come with me to the clinic." he ordered as I nodded.
"Hai,"
He turned to the girls. "Ladies, it's alright now. You can all go out of the library and we'll try to fix this problem." He then turned to Miyako. "Don't strain yourself, Ichinose-san. You might as well come along to the clinic if you want to."
"Uhmm... no thanks," she smiled. "R-Ryuu-san gave me this bandage..."
After that, I stormed out of the library. Everyone emptied the area and promised themselves they'll keep quiet about the incident, and spread the fact that Ryuu and Aika were purely born as siblings.
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