Volume 1 part 16.

As if he knew about that, he explained games, & even played it for her for quite the time. Even after the bell rang, he still didn't go, & showed her how to play games a little too enthusiastically. At first, she wished to take back what she said desperately. Like this; please god, don't torture me anymore. Please, just freeze time, so I could escape from this boring torture.

But... but, as he moved on to adventure games, she found it was actually quite convenient;

'... the hero has to defeat the villain to reach happy ending, you see?'

'What? What did the villain do in the first place for the hero to hate him so desperately?'

'You ask strange questions... but anyway, because the villain is evil-'

'So, if the villain is not evil, he wouldn't be killed?' she asked; 'How would I know that?! Why do you ask such strange questions? Seriously, your view to some things are really weird,' he muttered, while playing the game.

'If... if the villain is a good person, he wouldn't be killed?'

'Ah, I dunno. The hero might have a grudge against the villain, like he killed his parents, or a friend, or hurt someone precious to him,' he muttered, his eyes focused on the game.

'So, how should the villain survive when he hurts someone precious to the hero?'

'Why are you talking as if you're the villain? Ah, I suppose you are the villainess though.'

-Rude bastard, she thought in her head, but continued asking him nonetheless; 'So? How?! If you don't tell me, I'm going to make you lose!' she shook his arm, & he pulled away with a cry.

'Gosh, I almost died. Hey, do you know how hard it is to win this round? Ask anything you want, after I win this!'

'You're never going to win this!' she sighed; 'Hey, shall I win this round for you? Then will you-'

'Hah! How funny! You don't know even a thing about games, how will you win?' he mocked, & pissed, she covered his eyes, resulting in his loss.

'My turn!' Kikyo took the gaming control, & started the game from the beginning. At first, she couldn't play it well, & kept losing; 'Ah, jump, jump!'

'Which button is it?'

'This one, the upper left,' he answered, staring at the screen intently; 'Aw~ you lost again.'

'Hey, hey, last time! This is the last, ok?'

'Give it back!' he tried to take the gaming remote, but she dodged, & kept playing. After learning all the buttons, it didn't take her long to win; 'Hey, you see?! I told you, ha!' she laughed, & stood up, spinning around him.

'You loser! It's my first time playing, but I won the round you couldn't. Did you say it was hard, well, it was pretty easy to me-'

'Hey, you liar. You lost at first.'

'So what? It doesn't change the fact that you're a looo~ser! And, now you-'

'What is she doing in here?' a cold voice cut her off, & surprised she looked back to see Nicholas, with some other boy; 'Oh... I'm sorry,' she apologized, glancing at the clock.

-It's already past 3 pm! I'm not supposed to stay for that long, how did time pass so fast?

'I'm really sorry-'

'If you're sorry, then stop bothering Akito,' the other boy cut her off, & stepped forward, glaring at her fearsome-ly; while Akito's blank stare would look much more terrifying than his, he was still scary, with that hot headed, pissed aura of his.

'...' she flinched, taking a step back automatically; 'You were also bothering Julian, weren't you? Even though usually Julian's the one more likely to piss people... you're kind of amazing. It must be your skill to make people hate you,' he growled, & she flinched again. Not because he was scary this time, but because... his words reminded her of what her step-brother said; you're amazing. How are you able to make people hate you so well? I despise you, I utterly hate you. In all the years, you've leeched off from my family, I never thought of you as anything, but what you really are.

-What? Why is he saying that? I'm not... I'm not hated...

But then she realized it was true, what he said, was true. Because she had been leeching off from them, because even if it's not completely, she was what caused them to go out in the first place.

'Like a leech...' the guilt overcame her senses.

'What?! Now you're insulting me? You...' he paused when she looked up at him tears almost visible in the corner off her eyes; 'You're right. I'm very sorry, I truly am. I'm very sorry for bothering Akito, & all of you until now,' she bowed down low, her long ponytail brushing the ground.

"If only you didn't exist, my parents-" *sob*

'I'm very sorry for being so hateful, I'm so sorry for existing, & I'm sorry because it was all my fault, but I was too afraid to admit it,' she sniffed, & bowed down again; 'I won't come here ever again. If you see me elsewhere, you can just ignore me completely. You can also hit me if you see me too often, please tell Akito this as well,' she passed the other boy with bright yellow hair who was as stiff as a statue, his mouth slightly open.

-Even then, even now, even if I'm not the same person, why is it my fault? Why is it always my fault? Why, was it wrong to exist? Is it my fault that I was born?

"Just die, just die because it's painful for me, & you."

'Ah, & I really should've just died,' muttering with low voice, she left the room in quite the state she had never been in before. Even when he said those hurtful words, she stood straight, & answered with pride, & malice, but why now?

- Why? Why now, am I struggling to swim, when I've already drowned?

Kikyo didn't notice the red haired boy who was standing just outside the club room as she was busy rubbing her eyes.

~

'Hey... did I... hit her before?' Tyler asked with a dumbfounded face; 'It's not like I've gone, & hit her on the head with all my strength, right?! Did she get into some kind of accident, is this the Personality Disorder symptom, I've heard about?'

None of them answered him, but he continued on; 'Did you see that? Whoa, those tears! It was almost spilling in a flood, why would she apologize for existing? It's not like I told her to die, I didn't right? I mean, I did say she was hateful, but why'd she have to apologize for that? She never apologized for anything, why is she apologizing now?' he said in an exaggerated tone, falling down to his knees.

'No need to be so dramatic,' Julian smiled as he patted his shoulder, & he immediately perked up; 'Hey, she was bothering you, right? It wasn't wrong for me to say that, right?'

'Well... it's hard to say that she was bothering me. I mean, it was annoying that she won that round even though it was her first time playing... '

'Then, you mean, I really am the bad guy?!' he cried looking up at the ceiling, & Julian chuckled; 'Her way of acting was weird... did she get in a shock after that spring ball? Is she mentally unstable?'

'For now...' Nicholas finally opened his mouth; 'It's better to watch her, very closely. We don't know what a mentally unstable person would do,' he decided. None of them, heated in their conversation, noticed Akito who was standing in the corner quietly.

After listening to their conversation for a while, Akito sat down on the couch thoughtfully; is she acting? Or did she really mean that?