Chapter 7: School Grand Opening

In an instant, the crowd immediately start chattering with each other in which spontaneously amplified through the huge field that the school has, with some of them wondering about what activities that's in store for them in this school, and while some others are noticing about the different symbol between White and Black logo and starting to theorize about the student split, but mostly, the things I heard is about why does the school doesn't even prepare the hard test to some of them.

"𝘓𝘰𝘰𝘬𝘴 𝘭𝘪𝘬𝘦 𝘢 𝘭𝘰𝘵 𝘰𝘧 𝘱𝘦𝘰𝘱𝘭𝘦 𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺 𝘥𝘰 𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘻𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘢𝘮𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘢𝘴 𝘮𝘦 𝘢 𝘸𝘩𝘪𝘭𝘦 𝘣𝘢𝘤𝘬 𝘢𝘨𝘰", Me thinking to myself, recalling about the past two days that changed the course of my life.

"𝘞𝘢𝘪𝘵, 𝘥𝘰𝘦𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘰𝘯𝘭𝘺 𝘴𝘵𝘶𝘥𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘨𝘰𝘦𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘳𝘰𝘶𝘨𝘩 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘦𝘹𝘢𝘮 𝘪𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘞𝘩𝘪𝘵𝘦 𝘭𝘰𝘨𝘰𝘴 𝘴𝘵𝘶𝘥𝘦𝘯𝘵? 𝘛𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘥𝘰𝘦𝘴𝘯'𝘵 𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺 𝘮𝘢𝘬𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘮𝘶𝘤𝘩 𝘴𝘦𝘯-".

"Yoo, you're cool. Can I ask for your number?"

Before I can finish my daydreaming, without any sign, it got promptly halted by a girl with Blonde Twintails hairstyle and wearing the same uniform as me, and just because I already got used to people catching me off guard like this, I just lightly flinched before I, without even thinking, turn my head slightly to look at her and without knowing.

I stare her straightly to depths of her soul, without noticing anything wrong until she lightly jumped and said:

"I-I see, I'm sorry for disturbing you, e-excuse m-".

"Ahh, sorry for not noticing, I didn't mean to scare you."

I cut, trying to salvage the situation.

"Is that so? Then I guess, nice to meet yo-"

Just before that, her friend with long brown hair finds her and after noticing what happen, she hastily apologize to me saying:

"There you are, where did you even go Tomoya-chan?...Oh, I'm sorry if she maybe bother you at something."

Said this girl with a soft tone and humble voice, and before I can even speak a word, she pulled the girl with twin tails presumably name Tomoya away from me, with me still can still hear that the girl complains to her friend in an annoyed voice.

After that weird and awkward conversation with that seemingly friendly girl, I saw Kazuto-san again, just idling in the corner, looking a little bit bored, and with a while of consideration, I finally have the guts to approach him and greet him with a slightly casual tone:

"Good morning, Kazuto-san...T-Thanks for rescuing me at that time".

"Good morning too, Kiyoko-san, I expect you to see you again but never here, also your welcome", he replied with a kind and friendly tone.

"I see that you're also waiting for the Principal long delay", he continued in a playful style of voice.

"What do you mean that I 'also' waiting here?", I asked with a little bit of an upset and annoyed face which is a slight tone change from grateful, by that I mean alot.

"I thought you'll be sleeping at your house from the stres-".

"I hate you", I instantly replied to his 'presumed joke'.

"I'm kidding, I'm just kidding, can't we just have a little fun? What are you, a tsundere?", he asked with a lighthearted expression.

I sighed in annoyance, "Is this really how you're alive until now? I presumed that just because it looks like you already have experience dealing with the system".

"Of course, from the first class of middle school until now", he replied with such an offhand response that I can't even believe that he has survived from middle school until now.

But again, before I could even said anything to Kazuto-san, the principal cut my conversation with a mic, I don't understand why this keeps happening to me today but here we are.

"Thank you for everyone that comes her-"

Anddd my mind went blank, yeah, I don't know what the principal said to all the students, who cares about the Principal anyways, he's the one that brought everyone to this situation, with the time of the Principal talking, I talked to Kazuto-san, which from the looks of things, he's also feel bored sick from all the things that the Principal said.

"May I ask your name, Kazuto-san? Just because you already know mine", I asked.

"Ahh sorry, looks like I forgot to say it yesterday, my name is Kazuto Naoki, Naoki is my name thank you", He responded with his usual casual tone.

"I see".

With the indication that he's ready to talk to me, my mode of searching for more information kicked in and I started asking him.

"You said that all of the students that's fighting here are from the old middle school, correct?".

"I did not recount saying that, but that's true".

"So, when did you guys arrive here?", I asked.

"Since last Monday", With this, I quickly nod and he continues:

"And I presumed that you already have a gadget and ID on you".

"And If I said don't, will you say that I'll be dead today?", I asked, knowing the answer already from Analysia predictions.

"Common sense really", He said that while he shrugs it off like it's nothing.

"Your humour really is broken beyond repair".

"What do you expect from a boy that has been killing other students in the past three years of his life", As he says that with a soft grin on his face.

"Fair enough", As I scoff and notice that the Principal has already done talking and now bringing the White Logos students into the school.

"Hey, can I ask something?", I asked Kazuto-san out of nowhere.

"What is it?".

"Does everyone attending on the Black logos don't have parents anymore?", I asked with a cold tone that caught him off guard. After a bit of silence, he finally answers:

"I hope their hearts still loves us though".

...In my opinion, he answered that question beautifully, so beautiful that I got caught silent and don't dare to ask him a single more question or talked to him for three hours after that, with both of us just stay silence as both of us and the rest of the Black logos got into the school as well.

Even when both of us walked with each other, the thought of talking to each other seemingly didn't even pass in both of our minds, it's like both of our capabilities to speak got taken away from us.

***

After the White logos get permission to go home, finally we're permitted to enter the dorm district, with both of us still walking together on the main road, undisturbed until someone else, a familiar voice is heard when we're walking.

"Huh, Naoki-kun, Nice seeing you here".

Somehow, at that moment, both of us turn back to see the person that is the source of the voice, with a frown face, Kazuto-san said with a dark tone:

"Oh, hi Fuyuki-san, how's your day?".

"You didn't even want to call your former friend by their given name anymore? How cruel is that?", As he put his hand on Kazuto-san's shoulder. Even though he said that in a friendly tone, I can feel his sickening tense hate aura flaring from both of them.

"Good evening, Kazuto-san, nice seeing you here", said the light blue long hair, I presumed to be a girl named Sora to Kazuto-san.

"Good evening to you too, Yuki-kun, Akagi-san", he responded with a strangely melancholic tone, like those who reminisce about the past.

"You're not fun, Naoki-kun, why did you greet them so warmly? But anyway, hi Kiyoko-san", He unexpectedly changed the topic to me.

"Have you guys met each other before?", said Kazuto-san, who also changed tone to a more confused one.

"Y-Yeah, I-I met him before you", I responded nervously, before chuckling to soften the mood a bit, and I tell you, It doesn't help.

"Is that so?", Kazuto-san promptly stared at now Fuyuki-san with the eye of a brown bear, like it is saying: "𝘐𝘧 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘵𝘰𝘶𝘤𝘩𝘦𝘥 𝘩𝘦𝘳 𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳 𝘰𝘯𝘤𝘦, 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘬𝘯𝘰𝘸 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘺𝘰𝘶'𝘳𝘦 𝘥𝘦𝘢𝘥 𝘳𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵?".

With this, Fuyuki-san responded with a stare back to Kazuto-san and responded with his stare, like replying with: "𝘋𝘰 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘸𝘢𝘯𝘵 𝘵𝘰 𝘵𝘦𝘴𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘰𝘳𝘺, 𝘩𝘮𝘮?".

Knowing the situation, both Akagi that is Kei and Yuki that is Sora, separate both of them while driving Fuyuki-san away while faintly saying:

"Misao-kun, you know that you have a job from the principal, correct?".

As the situation finally calms down, both of us walked on the main street with a bunch of other Black logos student, seemingly lost on where to go except for following the lighting street, which the weather coincidentally overcasted, just because I swear that fifteen minutes ago, the sun shines the brightest with not even a cloud insight.

Even though, I notice this, I quickly took it of as just my feeling this past days getting a little bit anxious by every small things, until both of us met a black hair boy with green eyes, also noticing about the weird weather pattern, and looks like both of us caught him unprepared for our existence.

"Good afternoon, what's your name?", I asked him, concerned about his well being just because he just stared at the sky for a little bit too long of a time. Kazuto is also surprised by my bravery to even ask this strange boy about what he's doing.

"I-I didn't expect someone to approach me like that", replied the boy with a little frightened voice.

"I'm sorry, I didn't mean to scare you, I didn't think that you're this focused on watching the weather", I said with a little bit of guilt.

"Don't worry about it, I'm just surprised about you guys being here, anyways my name is Kasumi Ken, Ken is my name".

Later on, Kazuto-san invited Kasumi-san to go with us and now with three of us walking together, we finally reach from what I saw is an auditorium with the size of a movie cinema.

After searching for reserves spots, and all three of us finally sits down, as the students still pouring in, Kasumi-san asked both of us something that has to be expected at this point.

"Have you both been here since middle school?", he asked with a curious face.

"Yes".

"No".

***

Both of us answer at the same time, with this sign, Kasumi-san knows that he shouldn't ask more and he just sits down like a good puppy, while both of us bickered with whispering voices.

"Can't you just lie, Kiyoko-san? Like, you know that you can lie right?".

"Lying is not good, Kazuto-san!".

"How naive are you? How can you still survive until today??".

Offended, I quickly closed both my eyes and mouth while closing my ears with both of my hands, tired to hear all the survival jokes, as it was enough for me for today, and without a warning, the principal sounds echoed throughout the auditorium.

"My students, welcome to the Dorm district, or as the old students told me, the Survival District".

"Huh? What do you mean by 'survival district?", this sentence was almost said by every student here with almost infinite paths to the way to say it.

"In Every school, you're taught to work Together, don't cheat on test and study as hard as you can so you can get good grades, whilst that is what we teach on the White Logos, that's not what we want to teach you here", continued the Principal with a slight sinister voice.

"Why do I feel that something sinister will happen here", as someone said that, I know that that's the only thing that has the qualification that can encapsulate this whole situation.

"Remember the motto of this school, survival of the fittest and have fun? Everyone here thought that's only for your grades right?".

As the principal said this, I can feel the students getting a little bit restless, and even Kasumi-san nervous. After that, the principal continues:

"For your survival, I suggest you take that motto here as literal as you can get".

"What's the meaning of this", "Is this a joke" and "Is he just scaring us" are the questions that's thrown to the principal after the principal has said this one sentence, with all of them having the similarities of being said by an agitated and restless student.

"But Principal, looks like not everyone here want to trust you, I guess your explanation wasn't clear enough!", Said Fuyuki-san using his dark voice, standing amongst the crowd of complaining students, after he said that, all went silence and the principal continues:

"I see, thank you for the suggestion, student", immediately after that, the room switches into flashing lights of red and white, causing more anxiousness towards the students, and he said:

"In this school...is killed or be killed...Or you can take it as a joke, it's your choice students, you can only get out of this dorm once you reach eighteen." For that, he stopped for us to take all in before he added.

"And the rest of the rules, you can check it out after you go to the gadget store, other than that, good luck."

As the flashing lights stop and back out to normal light, the students in general are traumatized for life, except only a couple students that still thought this as a joke and the survivor of the middle school.

"Stop scaring the students, principal!", said one of the students, and was followed by a barrage of insults by the the other students, until the principal ordered the survivors:

"Survivors! Show them how red this world really is!".

With this, all the boys survivor students including Kazuto-san, switch their black tuxedo uniform to red and all the girls that have blue vests switch them to red as well.

𝐃𝐎𝐑𝐑𝐑𝐑

With this, a gunshot from Fuyuki-san was heard, signalling the grand opening of the school for the black logos.