Chapter 019

I have been here for almost a month; still I don't everything about this school... It's quite strange, in a way. I mean, even if I think about all the possibilities about the outcome of the 'exam', we had to give, just a few days ago; this isn't what I imagine...

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KANEKI REN - 80 marks

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I mean how the hell I got, 80, when I just did the paper of 70... This is not what I expected... How do I even get extra 10 marks, is it because of my handwriting...? What the hell am I thinking...? There is no way... that can't be true... right? I am not sure though, because this school is very much different than normal school of this country. There is a possibility of the case, giving extra marks... But even though --

"Oh, Kaneki-kun. It looks like you were just acting fool all this time, huh."

When I was thinking about nonsensical things, as I got placed in top 5 of our class, 'she' approached me.

It's none other than Yukinoshita Yukino 'chan', who seems to get cocky whenever we are alone... She seems to be changed after her affection reached '30', yes, right after that day, when I called her 'Yukino-chan' in front of everyone in the class... Now, she shows her true behavior in front of me. I mean, her way of speaking doesn't change that much but the words she speaks are rather cruel than normal... Like whenever our eyes met, she just smirked at that time but when we get alone she started by saying some 'toxic' words about me or my 'unchanged' expression...

Good grief.

"No, I didn't acted like fool even once, Yukino-chan"

"I see but I would be glad if you don't talk to me directly looking at my face. Your eyes are scaring me a bit."

She said while trying to hide her chest by both of her hands. This is what I was talking about… She loves to talk about my expression, or about my eyes. I wanted to say something about that but let's not, as she is one of my heroine... I am already thinking a plan on how to deal with her.

"Yes yes"

I nodded my head in periodically while looking at the board, where the marks are printed on a sheet of paper and pasted in the middle of the board... Including me, there are few others also who seem to get almost 80 marks, and as they didn't, I get the position in top 5 in this exam... The other fours, who get the better score than me, are Yukinoshita-san, Horikita-san, Komi-san and Adagaki-san. Apparently, I have already met the three out of them and I am not that surprised by them getting this great result as I have already had some idea about those three having a good mind...

Now, onto the fourth one, Adagaki-san... I don't know if she is one of my heroines or not but I can tell this surely that she is also like the two ice princesses, the only difference between them is that Adagaki-san seems to have some friends, with whom she freely speaks to... Out of her friends group, there is a certain girl, who seems to be a best friend with her, as she is always present there beside her, almost every time in school... There is one more thing I get to know, that she doesn't eat her lunch with her so-called friends, not in cafeteria or in the classroom but somewhere else...

I just happen to know these things...

[USER...]

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After some time passed, our classmates started to appearing and entering the empty classroom, where only me, and Yukinoshita-san, is sitting quietly.

Most of them looked surprised as they saw me and Yukinoshita-san, are already in the classroom, sitting at our respective seats, while some got distracted with the results of the exam.

As to why, I am early in the school, is only because of Haruno-san as well as Yukinoshita-san...

In the morning, when I just set my right feet outside of my apartment, Haruno-san called out to me... Then we talked for quite some time, about the topics related to me, her younger sister and the school… She really is a good talker, huh, unlike someone like her sister... After some minutes, the apartment door opened and Yukinoshita-san stepped out of it... I greeted her, she did the same. Then I decided to leave them but they, not 'they' really, only Haruno-san kept on forcing me to join them... So I reluctantly agreed to it... Good Grief.

When most of the students successfully settled at their respective seat, I still can't seem to find my seatmates. Are they late? Or they are not coming to school today. These are the only reasons I can think of because if they were in any difficulty, the system would definitely have informed me. So, it must be the former cases, about being late or not coming to school... Well maybe, they will come here before the classes starts... Yes, let's just wait.

[OH, USER. ARE YOU BY ANY CHANCE WORRIED ABOUT THEM...?]

"Of course, I am. They are my precious friends and... And my --"

"Ara, who are you trying to talk with?"

"Hm!?"

When A.S. asked about me being worried or not, about them, it seems my thought leaked off, huh. And to make the things worse, one of my seatmate Yukinoshita-san heard about it... What should I tell her, huh?

"Well, who are you getting 'worried' for, huh?"

Hmmm... She heard everything I said, huh. There is one thing I noticed about her is that she just pretends to not be interested in anything but, she listened and know everything that has been happening around her... And she, sometimes during the class hours, takes a glance at me. I know this because I am also varying about my surroundings; well it's not about the surroundings it's more about, about the women/girls around me.

"Hmm, you heard it, huh. Are you really that interested about it or are you finally showing interested in me? Hm, if it's about latter, then I don't mind telling you about myself, Yukino-chan..."

I said and slightly smiled at the girl, whose eyes are slightly raised but her face is completely red.

[YUKINO YUKINOSHITA: +2 AFFECTION POINTS]

Haah, again I get some points from her even though there is nothing special in my words. I just want to tease her... The last words, I said to her, will just make her believe in me. As I don't want to tell anyone about my 'tragic' past, and even though if I tell them, they will either hate me or try to kill me... Well, there are some people who happen to know my past, but I have some trust on them...

I will never tell anyone about my past...

"Hello there, hey... hey..."

It looks like I got distracted there, huh... I have to remove that 'incident' in my mind....

"Oh, sorry, sorry"

"Well, its fine but it's just that you seem to make a sad face while you were lost in your thought..."

"Oh, is that so?"

"Yeah, but now you are back to your normal self..."

"Well, there is just something that comes in my mind... And about your previous question about me 'getting worried' is just that, I am worrying about my seatmates. Since they are my 'precious' friends also, so it's natural for me to getting worried, right?"

[MIYAKO SHIKIMORI: +3 AFFECTION POINTS]

[SHOUKO KOMI: +4 AFFECTION POINTS]

[SUZUNE HORIKITA: +5 AFFECTION POINTS]

What a great timing it is...

"Good Morning Shikimori-san, Komi-san and Horikita-san..."

"Good Morning..."

"g-good m-m-morning..."

"Good Morning..."

Oh, did Komi-san just greet me back... Well done, Komi-san. I wanted to pat her head for showing this great improvement in just one month...

"Ara~, did Komi-san just said something to you, Kaneki-kun..."

"Who knows...?"

Yukinoshita-san, heard the Komi-san muttering. So, she asked me...

Well, it's not only her who heard it; there is Shikimori-san and Horikita-san also, who looked quite surprised by this... It's natural because Komi-san, from the day one, she didn't say a single word to anyone in this class or in school, except me... She tries to do her best when she talk with me, after school, but no one in this school knows about it though, whether it's about she talks with me or the fact that she has some kind of communication disorder... Now, that I think about it, how does she behave in her own home…? Does she act like the same, or acts normal like any other high school girl? Hmm...

While I was thinking about Komi-san, teacher entered the class...

"Good Morning everyone..."

"Good Morning sensei..."

[SAE CHHABASHIRA [SADISTIC-TSUNDERE TEACHER]

AFFECTION: 8 (PROBLEM STUDENT!)]

Hmm? Her affection seemed to be increased, right? But if that's the case, I didn't get any notification, from the system about it though... No, wait. Last week, when I was just doing something, I can't remember it well, I certainly get a notification about something and it was about the affection… Is it related to her…?