Students From Whiteroom

A Traitor

The whole building under this ground was gray. Some moss sticks to the wall that never gets taken care of. There was also a pungent stench coming from the long-rotting corpse.

Whose body is that?

I was thinking of making this into my report. However, from the girly, it seemed like the girl would not want to agree to it.

This is a room that has a lot of dark and dark sides in our school. We enjoyed our youth on top of this pile of corpses without knowing anything. No student at the school knows the existence of this room. Nothing, except a girl who was standing without a word and looking at the walls of the hallway as if she was nostalgic.

Maya stood up and walked into a room. In the room he was still glued to the white wall that had also turned gray. He slowly looked at the walls and ceiling of the room as if he was nostalgic.

After hearing the story before, I thought it was in this room that she grew up. I feel sorry for him. While others enjoyed the abundant parental affection, he grew up in this quiet place alone.

There is only white color that became his loyal friend when he was a child. I felt that his plan to destroy the Life Foundation was due to revenge. Making Maya a guinea pig in their dangerous research is wrong.

He turned his face to me.

"Aria, can you explain to me what happened at school after I left."

Maybe what he meant was the Central rebellion. So I told him everything I knew, including my tactics in the face of Class Voting.

I hope, he will help because his name has been put in the list of names that will be voted by class 2B. Maya with her flat expression asked me.

"Do you think there's a traitor among your friends in your alliance?"

For a moment I thought. At first I wanted to reject the idea, but after remembering everything that happened. I finally came to the final conclusion.

I nodded slowly.

"Who do you think has become such a traitor?"

I tried to guess and analyze all the information I knew to find the answer.

At first I suspected that treason could exist and be committed by someone from the class we threatened to ally with. However, there are some strategies that I hide from them and are only known by a few people. And, the class leaders we threatened didn't know my true strategy.

Meanwhile, what caused my plan to fail was due to the leak of the secret plan and strategy. Suspects began to concoct to only those who knew of my plan. That means, there was someone among my friends who was a traitor.

I started to suspect someone.

"I thought, maybe Asuna was a traitor. There are also other possibilities like Virga and Amelia, but I can't think of their motives."

Maya smiled with the same smile as when she thought of her manipulative plan. And, here I raise my vigilance.

"You have suspected your own friends? Perhaps the bond between you is so weak. That's why I'm not interested."

It was cold, I thought. There was something stirring inside me after he said it. Perhaps, this is anger and resentment. I felt angry as he mocked the bond of friendship I had made.

But I tried to hold back. After all, what he said was not entirely wrong. I never trusted the crafty Brother Virga, let alone Asuna who always looked down on others. What I saw from Amelia also seemed to be something wrong.

I saw the girl as if she was hiding something. So, my real friends - there seems to be none of them I can call friends.

I'm pathetic well.

"So who do you think did it?"

I'm turning the question around. Honestly, I can't find this traitor. Moreover, the suspect is my own friends who supported me from the beginning. I might be suspicious of Asuna, but after I thought carefully.

There was no point in it for him to betray this alliance. Because our agreement can prevent him from being expelled. So with the alliance we formed, he greatly benefited.

Maya answered my question. One name he mentioned as a traitor in the alliance I formed. But I don't believe what I'm hearing. Though, his words still echoed in my head.

"Amelian. He's the traitor."

That's the word he said. I wanted to refute her, but there was no solid evidence that Amelia was not a betrayer. Some facts support his words. Like the fact that Amelia was not chosen by the 2B class as a target for voting. In fact, he is one of the foundations of our alliance that is in public, just like Brother Virga and Asuna.

As if the sky was falling apart, I felt very disappointed. Since when did Amelia betray me. Was it from the beginning? Has he planned everything? What motive?

"You must be wondering what motive he had for this betrayal. Actually, it's all because of me."

I'm trying to digest what he just said. Amelia's motive for betraying her was Maya? There might be an agreement between Amelia and the Noah Faction.

That was the reason why the 2B class would vote for Maya, whereas, outside of her mind, Maya was just an ordinary-looking girl. They even tend to be unpopular.

What is a girl like Maya targeted for?

However, after Amelia found out.... Ah right.

Maya cut my mind.

"He was a traitor knowing that there was someone far beyond him and endangering his standing as a rank 1. His over-reacting response to knowing that I am the chairman of OSIS is proof of that. He was in shock not because the fact was too shocking. But because of that fact says there's someone who can beat him easily."

He said it in a haughty tone, even though his face did not show any emotion. He also slightly puffed out his pitiful chest.

"You remember what happened in the OSIS room before. His over-indulgence only came when he learned that I was the chairman of OSIS. After learning that the school had intelligence and a rebellion against OSIS, it seemed that he was not very surprised and could control himself. In fact, this fact is quite surprising to some people."

His eyes looked the other way.

"Aren't you the one who knows more about her nature?"

Hearing the explanation from Maya made me remember an incident involving me and Amelia.

I'm nodding. "There was actually an incident of my book theft where Amelia was the culprit."

Right, for the first time I saw a little bit of the hidden nature that Amelia had.

"The reason is simple, because he suspects my potential to be number one after I uncover the culprit in the OSIS room."

Unable to be held back, Maya laughed a little.

"It seems like it's overkill."

If it goes against you, of course I will lose, I thought. However, against the others, it might be possible that I could reach the highest rank in the class. Well, if I study really hard, nothing is impossible right? As long as I don't fight Maya.

True, his words before the agreement we made were, hard work will not betray you, but can betray your hope. In the end, hard work will be lost to fate and luck.

Now I understand that. That's not nonsense, but a hard fact to accept. For some people, being at the top is a dream that must be achieved with hard work. However, for some others, they can reach the top without having to work hard.

This fact seemed as if fate was laughing at the hard work of humans all along.

"I thought she was a dangerous girl. He'll do anything to keep his position."

Maya's words broke the silence and awakened me from the monologue of the mind that kept speaking without me stopping.

Hearing those words from him gave me goosebumps. Now, Amelia's been scaring me. For now, I have to act like I don't know what's going on. That's my way of securing myself.

Maya chuckles at me who is trembling a little. "Are you cold? Maybe we should get out of here."

"After this what will you do?"

Maya thought for a moment. "I thought I'd destroy this institution, but since you'd be angry so maybe I'll just teach some people a lesson."

That's better. Wait, what kind of lesson will he give? Just imagine I was scared.

Maya smiled slightly, just like when she planned things.

Then he again put on a flat expression and pulled my arm to leave the place. After that we both managed to infiltrate and get out past the guards.

Before we parted, the two of us stood at the crossroads of the red light street in the city. Street lights illuminate the place. There are also dim lights that light up in skyscrapers around the city.

"Aria, meet me here tomorrow morning. Remember, this will be the key to whether you cooperate with me or not. If you don't come, I'll take it as a challenge for me."

After knowing the extent of the girl's genius, I can only nod in the face of her threat.

I think he'll do something big tomorrow. And, after some time had passed, what he had planned was far beyond my expectations. I can't imagine him doing that.