Prologue

."I like you! please go out with me!"

-"What?..." surprised by a strange girl who called out my name and suddenly asked me out. How

did it come to this? You're kidding right?...I was supposed to be on my way home right now, so

what kind of situation is this?...

I, Yusuri Miyuki, a sophomore High School Student  at Manila MatSciTech high school. Since I entered this school my student life is just like what I'd imagine, and now I'm studying at this school  peacefully, or..... so i  used to be but... "Hey it's him."

..."Yeah, he's the one who assaulted a girl on the train station."

" let's stay away from him."

" we may become a victim if we stick with him."

Yeah, I was supposed to be having my peaceful student life, like Studying alone, eating alone, do a project alone, Head to the library alone, and yeah, I was always alone and no one is disturbing my peaceful days so why did i become an assaulter?

I'm on my way to school right now. Passing by, some of the students from my school are talking about me and giving me a disgusted looked. Apparently there is a rumored circling around in our school about me that I assaulted a girl,  but they got it all wrong.

Sigh, it's a misunderstanding, I am only trying to help that girl, that's right, it happened three days ago when i was about to go home like usual.

I was  at Ayala station on that day and plan to board the train in any seconds. The school had just finished and I'm about to go home. After all the passengers got in. I was behind the crowd in a few meters, browsing on my phone when a girl suddenly called out for help. 

"He...hel... help!" A loud voice came from behind , I turned my gaze towards it and saw a girl and a guy. The girl was wearing a shirt and skirt and some parts of it is already torn off. She's also wearing a jacket and glasses. Her silky long hair is swaying as she tried to move backwards.

The guy was wearing a black jacket and black pants, his face is covered with mask and his eyes are the only visible. In his right hand, he was holding a knife. The assaulter tried to grab the girl but she managed to avoid it.

I looked around and saw that no one is near. everyone has probably board on the train long ago. I was  the  only person in there  and the train is already gone. The guy made his move again, he approached the girl and pointed the knife at her neck.

As i was dazed in the situation in front of me, an image suddenly appeared in my head. It's an image of a Middle-aged  man stabbing a woman. It's quite vague that I can't recognize it. Huh?...What is this? Who are? I began to tremble, I don't know why, but just remembering it give me chills. What is thi..s?

My mind goes blank before I can even think. Without knowing the reason of it, anger is gushing in and out of my body and before I knew it, I am already in front of the assaulter. My Sight have become foggy and hazy that I can't see anything clear.

"Wha...t?..." The assaulter seems  shocked by my sudden appearance. Though I can't see him clearly, it seems like I am standing in front of him.

"Don't meddle into my business!"

He  swung his knife at me. I managed to saw it and tried to avoid it but it still brushed onto my shoulder. He brandished his knife at me again and again. Even though I can't see it clearly,  I still managed to evaded it all. After a few swing the assaulter Stop his movements. I still don't know why my sight had become blurry, but  my vision seems to be coming back to the extent where I can finally see him. He seems to be exhausted so I grabbed my bag and throw it at him, then I kicked the knife from his hand and it flew several meters away from him.

"Ahhhh!"The assaulter screamed in anguished. His hands is bleeding because the knife scraped on his hand. After that, I punched his stomach and kicked his  crotch.

"Ahhh! That hurts..You-you bastard.."

He lost his balance and fell on the ground.

"Heuehhh!" The girl from behind let out a shrieked voice, trembling in fear as she stepped back. I brushed off her actions and I pinned  down the assaulter on the ground. I'm about to tied his hand using my  necktie but then, my sight have become blurry again.

Wh-what the hell? M-my vision is fading again? what's wrong with me? I feel Nauseous.

I lost my balance and crouched on the ground.

I cough and cough, blood flows out of my mouth.

"Behind you! Avoid it! !"

The girl screamed loudly.

Can't get a hold of myself anymore, and I can't seem to move my body.

"You bastard! I'll fu*king kill you!"

A sharp knee kicked me directly in the face. Blood was streaming from my nose, and my face was in agony.

"Hehehe do you like that? Here's another one!"

Once again, a kick landed right in my face. My consciousnes grew hazy, and I felt like I could pass out at any moment, but if I did that, I had no idea what might happen to the girl. However, I was still helpless to change anything because this thing is happening again. Why now? Of all  times, why now? Shit!

"Hahahaha this is enjoyable!!"

He looked at me and made a demented smile.

"Hiyaahhh!"

It was quite vague, but it seems like the girl landed a strike on his head using her  bag.

The assaulter lost his balance and drop on the ground.

"Yusuri-kun, l-let's run before he get up!"

Huh who is she? Why does she know me?

"Sorry, but I'm not gonna let that happen! Hahahaha..."

"Ahhh! Let go! Let go of me! Yu-yusuri-kun, ru-run!"

Huh what's happening? My vision, I can't see anything any more. Y-you bastard! What are you doing!

Those were the thoughts I had when I heard the girl screamed.

"I'll deal with you later girl, this guy is a troublesome so I'll kill him first, Take this, you jerk! Ha!"

I was knocked out by a powerful blow to my jaw. By the time I woke up, The Assaulter is unconscious, my hands is grasping his neck and  the girl is in front of me Trembling in fear as she stares at me. What's happening? What did just happened? Why I am holding this guy? Hey, hey.. What now?

I've loosened my grip and release my hand on him, and he fell down on the ground like a  corpse. I looked at my hands and thought. what happened? The assaulter is already unconscious and the girl  seems to be afraid of me. Did I do this?  What's wrong with  my body? I feel lighter.

What The hell did just happened? Please explain it to me. Ah! Maybe she knows.

I tried to approach the girl, but she's still trembling and can't move.  "Hey!" A loud voice came from the right direction. I turned my gaze towards it and saw a guard.

A help? Thank goodness someone has finally notice us. I turned my gaze towards the assaulter but he's not there anymore. Are you fucking kidding with me, where is he?

"Hey! Don't you dare run!" The guard shouted at me and not on the assaulter who already reached the other side of the train station. I tried to run after him, but the train suddenly appeared when i'm about to crossed the railway. The guard misunderstood the situation? What will happen now?

More importantly, what did just happen? Didn't I passed out? Should I just explain it to him? Will be understands me? I'm still not on my right mind. I'm confused, my  head ache too. I turned my gaze towards the girl. She's still trembling in fear. I approach her  and tried to get close, her face is showing a scared face as if she was staring at monster or something.

"He-hey uhm.. Do you know what happened? Can you tell me? I can't seem to remem-"

"No! Are you really Yusuri-kun? Don't come near me!"

The girl screamed, showing her face with a terrified look.

Huh, what the hell?

"A-are you alright ? Did s-"

"No! Don't come Near me!"

What the hell? Why is she showing that face to me? Am I scary? I know that I'm not a good looking guy, but I don't think my face is rotten to the extent where she will be afraid, right?

"You bastard! I'll be there in a minute, don't worry, ma'am!"

The guard once again yelled at me and he's now close to our direction.

I clenches my fist and decided to not leave her. The train that suddenly appeared earlier open its door. I subconsciously entered it and that's what happened. Apparently some of the students saw me board the train and misunderstood the situation. The rumor have started there, probably.

Thankfully the police is not approaching me. "Sigh I'm really stupid. if only I'm on my right mind, i would've talk to the guard and clear up the most, but unfortunately, my mind is ambivalent back then and the girl is.. Why was she even afraid of me? if only I know her I'll ask her now to clear up this misunderstanding and more importantly, what did just happen back then? The only thing I remember is that I passed out but the rest that happened is, ugh!! Why I can't remember? How come I was gripping his neck? "Sigh." I don't even know what happened back there. Let's see.. The Assaulter kicked me, I passed out, and then I woke up holding his neck.. How did I do that , Let's try aga...

I tried to remember what was that, the memory i have on that day.  "Ahghh!" I let out a light scream, my head have started to ache again, I rubbed my head and started to walk again.

As I was loss in thought I finally reached my classroom. Hesitated a bit. I hit my face using my two hands and squeeze it like a sandwich. This is how I usually do whenever I feel lethargic.

"Hey, look at that guy, what is he doing?"

"Ehh.. creepy."

Some of the passer-by saw me and looked at me with disgust, then run afterwards.

I just brushed off their actions

and entered the classroom. I headed to my chair and sat.

Sigh, The atmosphere is dark as ever. "That guy, isn't he the one who assaulted a girl?"

"Yeah it's him"

"Then why is he still coming to our school?"

"Maybe because he's one of the students here who have high grades, they disregards his behavior."

"Isn't that bad?"

"It really is."

As soon as I entered the classroom, my classmates have started  whispering with each other.

Some of the girls are giving me a disgusted looked as if they're seeing a degenerate person, well in their perspective, I'm probably one. I ignored all of their gaze towards  me like always and just stay still on my chair. While waiting for the class to start, a girl walked in front me and sat next to my chair. "Hey, is Shirisawa san gonna be okay?"

" She's sitting next to him, he might try to do something to her."

" Don't worry we'll protect her! hehehe."

Sigh, my classmates have started it again. What's with them, can't they talk quietly? I can hear

you crystal clear you know. It's been like this for three days, I tried to defend my self on the first day, but expectedly, they didn't even listen to me, now everyone is treating me like this and started avoiding me.

"Uhmm.. an-o Go..Go-good morning" A stuttered voice shook my thoughts, it came from the chair next to me, I turned my gaze towards it and saw a beautiful cute gal yet respectable and responsible girl. It was Shirasawa Mitsuri, our class rep. She is a beautiful aloft girl and also one of the popular girl in this school. Apparently we sit next to each other. Is she talking to me? No, I don't think so. "Uhm..ano..Yusuri-kun Go-good morning" Shirasawa san looked at me and said. She's trembling and  hiding  her face a bit as if she was embarass or something. Why did she greeted me? We haven't talk to each other that much, she only talks to me when it's class related, did she need something from me? Maybe it's about the assignment we need to pass today. I looked at her face. She's beet red and shaking, so she's affraid of me too huh, I guess that's a given. She's still looking at me as if she was waiting for my response. "Ah. Good morning, Do you

need something from me?" I forced a smiled on my face and greeted her back. "Uhmm...An-o. You see.. I...I-"

BZZZZZZZZZZZZ!!

The bell rang when shirasawa san was about to say something. Our teacher had arrived and the class began.

After the bell rang the atmosphere have gotten back to normal because the one who was teaching us is Miyako sensei, she is a strict teacher, and her lesson in math is hard. In her class we're not allowed to talk with other students, though that  rules didn't really affect me that much because I have no one to talk to. Yep I neither have  friends nor someone to talk to. Why? Because I don't trust people.

The discussion went smoothly and it's finally  over. We're taking a quiz now right off the bat after finishing the lesson. Every time we finished a lesson there's always a quiz. That's how our teacher in math polish us to get a good grades. Thee quiz  was just fine, after finishing it, I putted my pen on the table and looked at the window. After a few minutes I got so bored, so i look at my classmates, it surprise me that no one is giving me a killer look. It seems like their full attention is on the test. I looked at the others and they're still not finish, it gives me wonder if my answers is right because they're having a hard time. When I was about to hold my paper and check my answer, an eraser fell on my shoes. The eraser that fell seems to be from the chair next to me, where shirasawa san is sitting, I looked at her and saw her flustered face, she was looking for something. "Here" i held out the eraser on her restless hands.

" Ehh... Tha-thanks" she said before hiding her embarrassed face.

***

"Okay times up! Hands out your papers!" said Sensei and picked up the papers of my classmates in the front row. After Miyako sensei class is over, the hostile atmosphere is back. Having to study in this circumstances, the time flew by so fast and it's already lunch time. "Ahh right, Yusuri-kun, come to the faculty before leaving the school!" Said Sakura sensei. Our homeroom teacher, She's our last teacher today, but what did I do to be called? Ah... I remembered that, I was the center of the school attention right now.

"Did you heard that? Sakura sensei called him, he might get expelled hahaha.."

"So even if you have good grades, you'll still get expelled if you mess up like him."

"Yeah, expelled, he deserves it hahaha."

Some of my classmates is now talking about me getting expelled and laughing at me right now. Sigh, I hope this turns out to be fine. Our teacher said that it will be half day today because there's a meeting in the school, so i headed to my locker to get my stuff. After getting my things, I headed to our homeroom teacher faculty. The Biology Department ."Sensei I'm here." I knocked at the door and said

"Get in!" A faint voice answered me. There's no mistaking it, it's Sakura sensei voice. I opened the door and saw sensei in the corner. I headed to her direction and she started to speak. "You already know why I called you here, right?" Sensei Looked at me in the eye seriously. "I'ts because of the rumors right?"

"I like how you catch up so quickly. Then, Is that really a rumor or did it really happenned?"

Sensei response to my answer with a doubtful look in her eyes. "It's just a rumors i didn't do anything like that, please believe me it's just a misunderstanding" I said. "Hmm.." Sakura

sensei looked at me and smiled cheerfully. Although I'm not expecting her to believe me I still

explained to her what happened and it took me thirty minutes to get through to her. After that, she let me leave but before leaving she said -Okay I'll try to believe you, Yusuri kun. I've been your teacher for a half yearz so I don't think you're that kind of person. I'll try to explain it to the principal to not question your existence here.-

Sigh, thank god I'll be spare from getting expelled, though it's still not certain. I am at the entrance gate of the school right now and I'm about to leave, but my shoe laces got stuck at something so I'm trying to fix it.

"Yusuri-kuuuuun! Yusuri

miyuki-kun! wait!!" A voice suddenly called out my name and stop me from walking, I turned around and saw a girl running towards me. *Pant *pant *pant "haa..haaa... Y...you..you are Yusuri Miyuki, right? ri-right?" The girl who called me earlier is now in front of me, breathing heavily and asking my name. I don't know who she is, she's wearing the same uniform, like the uniform of the girls in our school, that means we attend the same school.

"Do you need something from me?" We attend the same school so if she know me shouldn't she be scared of me? Maybe Sakura sensei asked her to call me back.

"So you are, Yusuri Miyuki?" She ignored my questions and asked me again. What a rude girl, let's just answer it and get it over

quickly, I need to go home as  soon as possible to finish my assignment, "Yeah, it's me, why? Do you need something from me?" Her eyes lighten up, Her face have become red and is showing a bright smile. What a cute smile it is. By the way, What does she need from me?

"Yu-yusuri-kun, i-it's really you? I-I uhm...I-I mi- like you! please go out with me!"

What? What did she said? I misheard it right?

***

I'm on my way home after leaving the school or so that should I be doing right now, but here i am stopping in front of the gate in our school. A girl suddenly called out my name and now she's asking me out? I misheard it right? She seems to be attending the same school as me, her appearance is quite remarkable, she has a good looks and she's also wearing a make up, her lips is color pink and her hair is dyed color brown, she also have a long hair. Who is she? I don't have a single clue about her. She's wearing a color red ribbon, that means she's a second year too. Haven't seen her before(Red ribbon indicate that a girl is a second year), who is she? "Uhm-ano--uhm... S-so what is your answer." My full of thoughts got interrupted by what she said.

She's now standing in front of me. She's too close so I stepped back a little. "Sorry, I didn't hear you clearly, what did you say?" I indifferently asked. "I said I-I li-like you, pl-please go out with me." She said as she walked towards me. Her face is flushed and she's holding her hands against her chest.

So I didn't misheard it, huh. She's asking me out? A loner like me is getting a confession from a girl? This is not my first time receiving a confession, and I dislike this kind of thing, why? Did you actually think I'm boasting or something. Well, you see... Everyone who confessed to me before was just messing around, that's why I can't tell if she's telling the truth. Nah, of course, this is just a prank, There's no way she's serious.

"Do you really think I'll believe that. Tell me what do you want?" I said and stepped back a little farther from her.

"You see.. uhm... Yusuri-kun, I-I like you and.. I know this is sudden b-but I can't help it, I finally able to see you again after such a long time, there's nothing I can do with this feeling." she said while twirling her hair. What? Is she embarrassed or something? I don't think someone would approach me now, let alone ask me out, and what did she mean by that, you can't help it? You finally see me after such a long time? Do we know each other?

"Uhm, I think y-you got the wrong person." I indifferently said.

I think she mistook me for someone, after all I didn't interact with others that much, especially with the girls, so there's no way we know each other.

"No, there's no way I'll mistook you for someone else, you still have that eyes of yours. I'm sure you're the Miyuki Yusuri I know." She shake her head and

started fidgeting.

Did we met before? I don't think so, if I talked to her before I would know her straight away. Wait.. Miyuki that you know? Is she referring to him? Ugh.. Don't overthink and forget it!

She seems fine talking to me unlike the others who always scram after seeing me. Does she know the rumors about me?

"Are you not afraid of me?Are you oblivious about the rumors about me? You know, I assaulted a girl, You should be more careful around me." I held her right hand and pulled her to scared her a little bit so she would stop and move away from me, but she didn't even flinch to what i said, instead she answered me with a smile in her face.

"Fufufu of course I already know that, but you didn't do it right? So you don't have to worry about it." She smiled at me and said. She sounds suspicious, the fact that she knows about the rumors and don't believe it is kinda making me feel happy, but why is she asking me out? It just doesn't make sense cause I don't even know her. She said she know me, but there's a possibility that she's just making up a story to mess around with me.

"I'm not gonna believe you, I don't know what do you want and why are you asking me out but I'll refuse your offer."

"Ehh!" She stammered.

"And more importantly I don't even know you and your name, Why would I go out with someone I don't know?" As soon as those words came out of my mouth, for some reason, her face have become gloomy. She's freezing and not being able to move and then, she slowly open her mouth. "Ehh?....Y-you don't know me? It's me, Akari, Akari Mitsuha.

She paused for a bit and continued.

"Don't you remember me?" she putted her hands on her cheeck and displayed a force smiled.

"Sorry, I don't really know you. I don't remember meeting someone like you before."

"I-is tha-that so, Ne-nevermind then."

Her answered is like an empty voice that filled my head with wonder. She started to squirm and her face have become dull and gloomy.

Sigh, why she seems so shocked that I didn't know her? I still can't recall anything about her, when did we meet? If she met me eight years ago, that's another story. should I ask her? No I don't think she would be happy if do that she said "nevermind" maybe she realized that she mistook me for someone else but what should I do? It become awkward.

" So is that all? Sorry I can't really remember if we met before, maybe you really got the wrong person. Then if you'll excuse me, I'll be going now." I apologetic said and turned around . "Wait! Please! Just wait...Pleaseeeee wat! please just hear me out. I have something to tell you." She grabbed my hand and i felt her pulse throbbing. I turned around and looked at her, she's flustered and fidgeting.

I don't know what to do after she pulled my sleeves but I guess I'll hear her out. It's not like it would hurt me to listen to her for a bit right?

"Okay, I'll hear you out. "

Akari explained the reason why she asked me out, but for some reason, she didn't talk about anything else and she didn't ask me if I just forgot her-or maybe she really just want to leave it as is because she was embarrassed that she mistook me for someone else.