Bittersweet: Next Turn

Ever wonder what this is?

It's tough to face death. More victims than I've expected. Browsing through these files regarding the drugs we use as remedies. One file revealed the suicide of a girl named Tsukiyoru Yoake. It says here from the file "between fourteen to fifteen". Heck, she's only thirteen! I knew this girl before! She suffered from that abnormality syndrome. Reports included she assaulted four girls inside her classroom with the absence of the teacher. Our fellow comrade Mikagami Satoko-san have done the job of suspending her and confining her with us.

Aika has a lot of explaining to do. Hey, I wasn't gonna confront her. She's not the only culprit.

I browsed another file. I gave the Tsukiyoru Yoake file to Aika before the picture I ripped get noticed. I stared at the used syringe with the tiny golden droplets. Then my eyes went to the file I'm holding.

Hmm... kinda reminds me of what I did two weeks ago:

The last time I became brutal was that two weeks. Since Aika narrated her story of whacking an armrest on a brown-haired girl several times, I have to narrate mine. It's two times brutal than hers. [She told me she really meant to kill that person, but since she's inside a classroom, she can't.] And... this scene... she witnessed the the whole thing.

How is life when you're inside a Chemistry lab with your buddies fooling around while you just sit there and do nothing?
Me, that's how I behaved. Doing nothing and watching those bad-ass freaks make fun of the laboratory instruments.

I got myself distracted on the special suicide drug that I kept hidden on my pocket. A sealed syringe is placed on the table, my buddies mistaking me for converting it into a water gun. (What?)

Three beakers are placed on the table, labeled with roman numerals. The Chemistry professor advised us NOT to lay any finger on those. (Our Chemistry professor is actually the one assigning us for those suicide drugs, which we kept as a secret between us three, including Satoko.) They contained with the real suicide drugs that are needed to be tested. The students thought it was food coloring mixed with fruit dew.

"Ahahahaha! What do you call this again? Shot glass?"
"And hey, have you ever heard of this thing?" one buddy shows an eye dropper. "I thought I can use this to extract those white stuff from girls! AHAHAHAHA!"

Ugh! Green-minded assholes...

The small vial of the drug caught my attention. I ripped the seal open and tore the syringe's. When they say me, they were like "Whoaaa!" as if they thought I'm gonna do some experimenting.

"Ryuu-kun!" one of them cried. "If that is some kind of a barbiturate, why can't we try experimenting on this little hamster for dissection?"

"Shut up," I answered abruptly. "Or I'll put this on you instead."

The three of them awed and laughed. They knew me for this bitter personality.

My eyes went on the glass cage with lonomia, what they call "assassin caterpillars". They look like brown and white striped worms with green spikes that almost look like grass. The spikes are contaminated with venom. It is considered as nature's deadliest.

"Heeeyy, how about joining for us for a quick shot drinking?" another one suggested, giving me that toothy grin. "Nobody's around! Just the four of us! Three plus Ryuu-kun!"

"Hahaha! I bet this is his first time drinking!"

Stupid jackasses...

Then this stupidest thing happened to THEM. They snatched the syringe with the drug inside from me. They played with the object and squirted the content inside like a tiny fountain. Fortunately, none of them drank it. Otherwise, I would be dead.

One of them pulled out a metal bottle container containing... beer. What the hell are those guys thinking? They smuggled on a bottle of beer and now they're gonna share that thing and get themselves drunk inside the Chemistry lab!

Without realizing what's inside the beakers (the ones that are forbidden from the hands of people), they snatched those three and, ah hell, poured the beer on each. I stood up and slapped the bottle away, sending it clanking on the floor.

Aika arrived on the scene. Just when she stepped inside, the guys immediately got their eyes on her. One of them stormed towards her and grabbed her arm.

"C'mon, babe, join us!" he grinned. But Aika pulled away. She grimaced and stood beside me.

"Ryuu," she hissed. "What's going on?"

Before I could answer, the beakers are filled with beer mixed with the drug fluid. I bared my teeth in rage.

"HEY! Sensei told you twice not to touch them!" I yelled. "The real drug samples are in those!"

The one with the messy hair smirked. "Oh really? You mean the food coloring mixed with fruit dew? Hahaha! You've got to be kidding me!" He gulped on the drink, using the beaker as a glass. Aika's blue eyes widened in shock. Soon, the other two idiots are starting to gulp the contents down their throats. Aika swooped towards them.

"No!" she cried. "You brainless idiots! Why did you --"

The guy in front of her gave her an abrupt push. "Why do you care, ha?! Can't you see we're having a feast here?!"

I winced and slapped him. "Oh yeah? Do you even know what the drug does? I told you before, didn't I?"

He laughed, almost drunk. "Haha! It's only a barbiturate, dude. It doesn't mean any harm, right?"

I smirked. "Really?"

The guy tasted his drink and licked his lips. When he saw me smirking, his toothy grin is replaced by a surprised glance. The rest of them did, too. Aika just sighed.

"What does he mean?" they asked, exchanging glances.

After a couple of seconds, the guy suddenly grabbed his neck. He staggered around the area and heading towards the sink. But then his elbow knocked the glass cage, sending it falling down and crashing on the floor, releasing the assassin caterpillars now crawling. Because that idiot dropped the drink, he slipped on the floor and his arm... hit the caterpillar's venomous spikes. The venom rushed thoroughly in his veins, destroying his red blood cells one by one until they spread.

That is when I saw blood on the spot where he was hit. Tiny holes on his skin that are drenched in blood. He screamed in pain. His arm felt burning and immobilized. Then soon, while still screaming, I can see blood oozing from his nostrils... then he starts vomiting blood until his shirt is stained in blood.

The two other idiots dropped their drinks and started choking. Aika skipped a heartbeat. She's not liking what she was seeing.

"Ryuu, do something!"

"No," I stared at her from the corner of my eye. "Let them suffer. That's what they get from violating the rules." I picked up the syringe from the floor, I can see the remaining contents since they played with it. Now I'm staring at the guy with tears -- bloody tears -- streaming down his eyes. He was there, lying on the floor and lifeless. The assassin caterpillars continued to crawl on the floor until Aika and I wore the lab gloves and snatched tweezers to put them inside a new glass cage. Aika cleaned up the mess of the shattered glass, except the small pool of blood. The two other idiots gurgled blood from their mouths, now lying lifeless on the floor and the beakers shattered.

"Ryuu, what are we gonna tell sensei..?" Aika asked with concern. "We're so dead if he finds out..."

"Don't worry about them, Aika," I said. "We didn't do anything. We tried out best to stop them, but they prefer violating the rules."

~*~

What happened next was Sensei arriving in the lab. When he saw the three corpses, he wasn't shocked or surprised. He already knew what happened. I explained the other details as he nodded intently.

"I knew it," he said. "Those three boys did violated the rules. " He held the metal bottle on his hand. "This is a beer, right?" I nodded. "Ryuu, Aika. Keep those acids with you. They need to be experimented later after class. And we've got another victim on crisis."

(Note: The part of the assassin caterpillar is true. These are one of the deadliest species found in Brazil that is known to have killed more than one thousand victims with its venom)

Assassin Caterpillar (Lonomia Obliqua)

Still have doubts? Watch this sample video yourself. 

Stay tuned for the next murder case... with the same character pov