Chapter 14

AN: I just realized that in the Miki x Kiyo one-shot, I made a mistake. I wrote in there 'I shake my head as I said that, I SHOULD think perverted stuff about my girlfriend.' Luckily someone commented on that part, I forgot who that person was because I fixed that part and the comment was deleted by the system. Anyways, thank you to the person who commented on that part.

Also in the previous chapter, in the soccer it was supposed to be a 2 versus 2 match but I forgot that a goalkeeper exist so I will change that into 3 players from each class. The other teammate of Hashimoto and Ayanokouji is Yoshida Kenta.

Lastly, I will change the event Mental Arithmetic's to Math Test since I forgot how Mental Arithmetic's works. I hope you understand the sudden change.  

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A few minutes after Katsuragi and Morishige left the room Matoba Shinji who was the contestant for the Archery event came inside our classroom. He was greeted by comfort by our classmates to which he just says 'Sorry for not winning and thanks' . 

The television then showed Katsuragi and Morishige entering the room and them taking their seats. Soon after the contestants from Class C who were Mei-yu Wang and Matsushita Chiaki entered the room and sat at the remaining chairs.

For this match up, I would say the odds are somewhat even. Katsuragi and Mei-yu are smart in their class and as for Morishige and Matsushita they are somewhere in the top of the average. But if I remember correctly, Morishige was one of the people that joined my study sessions and he even asked me questions so that would give him an advantage.

In front of those four contestants was a teacher from the 2nd year. She started to explain the rules and mechanics for this event. The rules and mechanics were the same as the one in the Japanese History Test, the scores of the 2 students from each class will be added. The class with the highest score wins the exam.

The teacher hands the four of them 3 pieces of long bond paper that contained the questions and a pen for them to write their answer. The teacher also gave them blank papers in case they want to write down their solutions. Then teacher allows them to start answering.

The same as the Japanese History Test event, I got bored and I predicted that this will take more time than the time taken in the Japanese History Test since this was Math to begin with. 

I didn't bother taking a nap like I did on the Japanese History Test event as doing that will only give me a hard time sleeping on the evening. I was still bored so I decided to look around my classroom.

The setup in this classroom was pretty much exactly the same as the setup in Class C's classroom. 

Realizing that observing the objects in the classroom was making myself more bored, I shifted my focus from the things in the classroom to the faces of my classmates. There I noticed a mixed variety of emotions shown on the faces of my classmates. Some of them had a worried or anxious face, it's natural for them to have that kind of face since Class C is in the lead. The others weren't nervous or anything it's like they are being normal? I suppose the reason for that is they think we can win this event since Katsuragi was the one participating and Katsuragi is within the top 5 of the academically smartest people in this class. So that would explain their normal face. But I don't really care for reason of the state of their face as I was uninterested in it and it would be creepy and sort of disgusting if I were interested on their face.

I released a small sigh due to the boredom I got from the event going on. I decided to daydream while looking at the window to speed up time.

A lot of memories of mine went on my head, it appeared like a presentation to me. My years in the White Room and me being under Matsuo's care but what took my attention was an event that occurred in the White Room. At that time it was only me and another person, the rest of the students already retired from the program. They weren't capable enough for the program so they had to be retired and me and that person remained. We didn't really interact with each other when there were still other people as I was an introverted kid, I preferred to be alone and train my myself for the upcoming challenges that they were going to throw at us. When the two of us were the only ones remaining, we didn't immediately interacted with one another. It took some time and it was her that initiated the first contact. She introduced herself as Shizuku, she kept praising my me and my abilities as I was a well known person in the White Room. After that introduction we didn't immediately became friends but we still talked on our breaks as we were the only ones remaining in the facility. She and I were fundamentally different people, I of course was superior than her in terms of Physical and Intellectual abilities and of course she also boasted abilities that were above the average but she was better than me at one thing and that thing is being human. 

She was quite expressive for a White Room student. Children in the White Room were generally not expressive due to the mental stress we got from the activities that they gave us well it would be better to say that, the activities they gave to us was torture in the most inhumane way possible. A lot of children broke down and retired early because of that but weirdly enough she was still quite expressive acting like a normal child. I even overheard some staff in the White Room saying that Shizuku was an abnormal and insane child. She maintained her emotions quite well, she even served as a mother figure for the other children in the White Room. 

Months have passed since me and Shizuka were the only ones remaining in the program. We kept hanging out in the facility to satisfy her loneliness, strangely enough we became friends at her request and I decided to accept it as I there was nothing bad about it.

 Things took a turn on that day when she asked me question. 'Say Ayanokouji, do you want to die together with me?'  . I was confused at first but she kept going. 'I've been thinking about this and I want to be set free. Do you want to be set free too, Ayanokouji?' She asked me that question with eyes that were similar to mine. I didn't answer the question for whatever reason. Shizuku smiled when I didn't answer and continued talking. 'It's fine if you don't want to die but I really want to be free.'  At that moment I can only reply with 'Aren't there other ways to be free?'  to which she replied with 'There are but I don't feel like I can be free if I don't die. I think death is my salvation.'  ' I see...'  Was the words that can came out of my mouth at that time. Shizuku smiled again but this time she had a bigger smile. 'Ayanokouji, can you help me kill myself?' She asked that question with a smile that can be only seen on a child if he or she is happy but on that situation I don't know if she was happy. 

At first I didn't accept her request as I wasn't interested but I ultimately accepted her request as she said that 'Friends should help each other when one needs help. So you should help me Ayanokouji!'  Well, she also begged me a lot to the point of breaking my training schedule. That wasn't exactly the reason I accepted her request, there was something inside me that I can't fully explained that pushed me to help her.

We decided that we would steal one of the guards handgun and have Shizuku shoot herself with it.

On the day that Shizuku was going to kill herself, we managed to steal on of the guards handgun easily and in the process knocked him out. We decided to go to the female's restroom to have Shizuku kill herself as there were no cameras placed there.

Shizuku who was below a window asked me

"Ayanokouji, you know how to use a gun right?"

"Yeah, I've read in books."

"Hmm... I see."

I switched off the safety of the gun and primed it. Once I heard the gun make a sound from me priming it I hand the gun over to Shizuku.

Shizuku who was now in possession of the gun suddenly aimed it towards me. Of course I immediately avoided the trajectory of the muzzle to avoid getting shot if she does shoot me.

Shizuku saw me doing that immediately laughed and said.

"Do you think I was going to shoot you Ayanokouji? Jeez remember my request, I came here to kill myself."

I reluctantly stood up properly to face her.

Shizuku continued talking but her face was starting to tear up.

AN: This is just suggestion but while you read the rest of the Shizuku killing herself part. I recommend you to listen to Avid by HiroyukiSawano. The song sort of plays well in it, just my suggestion though so all of you are free to do whatever you want in regards to continue reading the chapter.

"You know Ayanokouji, I had fun during these last few months. It was quite hard you know to survive in this place. I had a lot of good memories and those were mostly my time with you but I'm afraid that it has to end here, I've read this quote in book it said 'All good things must come to an end.' I can I agree with that. I think, killing myself is my only way of being free."

As she spoke, I looked at her with usual face devoid of any emotions.

"Hmm...  Can't you show at least a sad face Ayanokouji? Your only friend is about to die here and you're not giving any sort of emotions. That makes me sad you know."

"I can't help it, I was born with it."

"I see...  Do you have anything to say Ayanokouji?

"Let's see, the same as you. Surprisingly, I enjoyed my time with you and I'm forever grateful towards you for that. Thank you for being my first friend."

As I spoke those words, Shizuku at that moment had a lot of tears on her face.

"You're making me not kill myself you know? You're quite cunning Ayanokouji."

Shizuku wiped off the tears on her face and released a sigh. She spoke once again but she had the gun aimed at the center of her chin and neck.

"This is Ayanokouji, I'm going to sleep now so don't wake me up okay? And I'm sorry for leaving first."

"I hope death will be your salvation."

Shizuku nodded for one last time and pulled trigger effectively killing herself.

Her body fell onto the ground with blood leaking from her neck and the gun that she used to kill herself with was still at her hands, holding it firmly.

I went near her dead body and I could still remember the smell of blood at that time. I crouched next to her body and placed my hand on top it. As seconds go by, her body temperature dropped proving that she was dead.

That was how I met my first friend and how she killed herself.

My day dream was interrupted by the Mashima-sensei's voice coming out of the speaker.

"As all of you have heard, we're going to check the test and it will take some time. Meanwhile, to all the participants of the next event which is Swimming Contest should go to the Indoor Pool as the event is going to be held there and so that you can prepare for it."

After Mashima-sensei spoke, a male classmate of mine named Shigeru Takemoto who appears to be the contestant of the Swimming Contest event stood up and left the room. 

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AN: Phew, that took a long time.

Anyways, that was it for the chapter. Sorry that I didn't have some of the events happen in this chapter.

I'm sure that there are mistakes in this chapter as I didn't proofread because it's already 12:15 AM and my back hurts from writing. If you see any mistakes feel free to comment so that I can fix it in this morning. Also I noticed that if you edit a part in a chapter that has comments, the comments will be gone so yeah that will happen...

Thanks for reading this, keep safe and wear your seatbelt.

Bye.

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