The Crisis World XX

Chap. 55: Primadona School

Dizziness…

The pain I felt suddenly came from nowhere. My head seems to explode. Dark view. I'm trying to find something that can help me to see in this darkness.

Whatisit?

A light appeared in front of me. The spot of light became bigger and then over time I could see someone emerging from that light.

"Mother?"

My mother's figure emerged from the growing point of light earlier. I tried to get close to him, but I couldn't. My hand tried to grab it, but it didn't reach. My voice tried to call out to him, but it was not heard. I tried every way I could to reach my mother, but still couldn't.

"Don't go! Mama!"

I who was trying to reach my mother was silent when she started moving her mouth.

"You didn't help me then."

"Eh? It's not! I... I…!"

My voice trembled as my mother said such a thing. I'm sorry, but I didn't expect that to happen to Mom.

"I'm disappointed in you, Iraya."

The mother's figure then slowly disappeared. I tried to grab it, but still couldn't. Those words were ringing in my head. I'm sorry Mom! I will take your revenge! Therefore... Please don't go!

"Mother!"

I woke up on my bed. The sunlight had already penetrated my bedroom window. My alarm has sounded too.

"Adu—! My head …."

I held my head which felt very dizzy and hot. I don't know what's going on until my head hurts like this. I don't think I did anything dangerous to my head. Suddenly Cecilia shouted at me.

"Iraya?! The iraya! You okay?!"

Cecilia sounded so worried to me. Did he do anything dangerous while I was sleeping?

"Calm down, don't yell in my head this early."

"Last night you groaned in pain while holding your head. I'm afraid something's happened to you."

I tried to remember what Cecilia said, but I couldn't remember it at all. I thought my head hurt from that dream.

I unconsciously remembered the dream I had just had. I patted my cheeks gently to erase the dream from my memory now and then get out of bed.

"I'm fine, everything is under control here" I said, calming Cecilia down.

My words were actually half-true and half-false, anyway. I then went downstairs and below I saw Tetsu who was sweeping the floor. He's used to waking up earlier than me—although sometimes I get up first anyway.

"ah! Good morning, Iraya!"

"Good morning. Hn? Tetsu, the one you're wearing is …?"

"Oh this, I found it in the closet. Since from now on I will now clean the house, it seems like this is good as well. Fits, right?"

"Yes, it looks good on you."

Tetsu wears a yellow appron, that appron used to belong to my mother. Seeing him wear it made me instantly remember my mother and also the dream last night. Tch! Again the dream was in my head.

After that, I got ready to go to school. Until the break, nothing special happened at school.

**

As the break rang, as usual Herlin and Hasuki-san were already preparing to eat their food together. Herlin then took out two bento boxes that he would normally give me.

"Iraya, this is bento—"

"I'm sorry, I'm not hungry."

I stood up and walked out of class. Herlin and Hasuki who saw my strange behavior were just silent and confused. He then looked at one of the leftovers that were not eaten and then looked at the students.

"Well, does anyone want to?"

"ah! Me! Me! Me!"

"Give me!"

"Hey! He offered me that bento!"

Herlin offered that to anyone in the class. The men who do not want to miss the rare opportunity then scramble to get supplies from him. The class again became very noisy at that time.

While I walk towards the roof of the school to be alone. Since the explosion, no one dared to come here. It seems like they thought that being in this place would be exposed to bad luck. So this is a suitable place for people who want to be alone.

I fell silent while contemplating the dream last night. Because of that, I am not in appetite right now and choose to go here. Cecilia who saw me then asked me.

"Iraya, are you really okay? Is your head not dizzy or something?"

"Nn, I'm fine."

"…." - ".Cecilia answered nothing after that. He seems to know that I'm not okay.

"Hey, Cecilia. Can I ask you something?"

"What's that?"

"I don't know if you can help me or not, but ... can you tell me what I'm feeling right now?"

"What do you mean?"

"I don't have an appetite, I'm not in the mood to talk to other people. I even refused the provisions that Herlin brought earlier …."

I just realized that I did something bad to Herlin earlier. I looked down limp and was a little annoyed at being confused by what was happening to me right now.

"… Why the hell am I?"

"Before that I wanted to ask you something."

"What?"

"What happened to you last night? Did you dream of anything?"

When Cecilia talked about dreams, I immediately remembered the dream that night. Dream about my mother being disappointed in me for letting her die.

I then raised my head and looked towards the school field that was below. Look at the students eating with their friends.

"I dreamt of my mother."

"Your mother?"

"He was disappointed in me because I didn't manage to save him in time."

"But even so, it's not entirely your fault." Cecilia tried to cheer me up.

"…"

"You were out there and late for—"

"I know!"

I stopped Cecilia's words with a pretty loud bang.

"I know it wasn't my fault. But I can't just take it out of my mind. You won't understand that feeling!"

Cecilia simply fell silent and allowed me to continue speaking. Suddenly tears came out of my eyes without me noticing. The wind then blew gently as if sympathizing with my current grief.

"You won't understand that feeling. You're not even human. You're just a tool, a tool created for someone's benefit. How could a tool like you understand my feelings! My mother. But why should he be the victim?! Why?!"

"Nortuguese …." Cecilia tried to call me.

"Why... Why should my mother? Why not someone else? Why?"

Kriyet…

Suddenly the door to the lower stairs opened and someone went inside. And it turns out that the one who came was Kurobane-senpai.

"Senpai …?"

"Satou-kun?"

I quickly wiped away my tears and then Senpai walked over towards me. He then looked at the school field and long stared at it in silence.

"Senpai... What is Senpai doing here?"

"I'm used to being here. This place is quiet and I can calm myself down a little bit here."

"Aren't Senpai afraid of rumors that this place is cursed?"

Kurobane-senpai then looked at me. He pointed at me and asked me.

"Then I ask you, aren't you afraid of the rumors?"

"Of course not, it's just a rumor."

Any such rumor wouldn't scare me. I have something scarier than a curse or something. Kurobane-senpai returned to her starting position.

"I don't believe in that, either."

Silence occurred between us after Senpai's words just now. I looked at Kurobane-senpai in silence and then she started talking.

"Nee …."

"Yes?"

"Looks like you have a family problem too?"

"That's …." Words depend.

"Just calm! Everyone has problems in their life. Stay away from ourselves who are able to respond to it or not."

I did not respond to her motivational words and instead pondered over them. I then went back to talking.

"Senpai, I want to ask you something."

"What's wrong?"

"Has Senpai's father been attacked by monsters so that he hasn't recovered until now? Or maybe he's in a coma?"

"Hmm... You're so pretentious?"

"I'm sorry if I'm wrong."

"No, you're not wrong. There was an event that made him that way. But he wasn't attacked by a monster."

Kurobane-senpai recalled the incident one year ago. In his memory, he clearly remembered the moment the tragedy happened. Right, when he accidentally put his father in a coma because of his powers.

At night, he and his father had just returned to shopping. The two of them passed through an alleyway with a group of people who looked like delinquents.

Kurobane-senpai and her father sped up a little bit, but they were blocked by the gang.

"Oi oi oi. Why are you guys in such a hurry? How about sitting here for a while?"

"Sorry, but we have to hurry.. ehehe …." His father tried to calm down and respond to questions from the delinquent.

"I'm not talking to you, old man! I'm talking to this sweet girl."

The delinquent likened the position of his head to Kurobane-senpai who had a height shorter than him.

"How, sweet?"

"Aahaha! I'm sorry because this place is dirty, let's move to the place that—"

"I mean, I can't stand being close to shit like you guys."

Kurobane-senpai looked at the delinquent with a hateful look because she had insulted her father.

"What did you say?!"

"O-oi.. she's a girl …."

"Shut up!"

The delinquent that his friend warned him ignored his friend's words and kept lifting the collar from Kurobane-senpai. Kurobane-senpai did not budge and still looked at her with a look of hatred.

Swuush…

He then dropped the groceries he was holding and prepared to unleash his power. The surrounding wind started to blow hard and Kurobane-senpai's hair started to flutter a little.

"Don't touch my daughter!"

As Kurobane-senpai was preparing to attack, her father suddenly pushed the delinquent away and fell.

"Dad?"

"Basar old bangka! Oh! Get him first!"

The other delinquents then beat up Kurobane-senpai's father simultaneously. About four to five of them ganged up on him. Kurobane-senpai crashed because of people who were stronger and more powerful than her.

"He-Stop!"

"Aahaha! Feel it, old jackass!"

"Ti-No …."

Swuush…

With tears streaming out of his eyes and a thin gleam of his mouth, Kurobane-senpai breathed a very strong wind and threw the thugs away and bounced against the walls of the building.

"Dad!"

Kurobane-senpai approached her battered father and then helped him up. He then embraced his father while carrying his groceries.

But without them knowing it, a block on top of the building fell due to the wind ejected by Kurobane-senpai earlier and fell right on his father's head.

"Dad? Daddy's! Hang in!"

He could not forget the thing that put his father in a coma until now. Although the neighbors know what happened to his father as an accident. But in Kurobane-senpai's heart, there was a huge sense of guilt and only she understood that feeling.

"Senpai.. Senpai!"

"Eh?! What's up?"

"No. .. You've been daydreaming."

"Ah .. sorry, sorry."

I awakened Kurobane-senpai from her daydream. It seems he was daydreaming about his father.

"It seems you don't have to think too much about it" Kurobane-senpai said.

"Eh?"

"I used to be just like you when my father was in a coma. I curse myself, 'why don't I just get hit? Why should he?' You must have thought that way too, right? That's why I said it wasn't true.

We can't change the past, but we can still change the future. So it is not good if we constantly complain, there is still a future that we have to change in order to be better. And if at any one time you feel very tired, you are not alone. There are still people who will listen and will not stay away from you. Yeah, right?" she said with a sweet smile at the end of the sentence.

"Snapai …."

Kurobane-senpai spoke at length to remind me.

He's right, I'm not alone. There was Yuuki-san who wanted to be my back when I was sad at that time. There was also Kudou and Hira who still wanted to be friends with me even though I was ostracized by my other classmates. And also Herlin, that guy though sucks but he was always there and always supported me. I smiled after realizing all this.

His words really saved me. Geez, he actually met the criteria of a school prima donna. He also returned with his sweet smile.

"It's not wrong if Senpai is the school's prima donna?"

His face suddenly reddened and then shouted for no apparent reason to me.

"Ap— Did you insult me?!"

"Ahaha.where is possible! That's a compliment tau, a compliment."

"Based on Satou-kun is stupid, stupid! I'm sorry I encouraged you!"

His face turned red when I said that. It seems like there is nothing to worry about anymore now.

"Aahaha…"

Without the two of them noticing, Herlin was eavesdropping on their conversation from the very beginning of Kurobane-senpai's arrival. He actually came to encourage Iraya, but upon Senpai's arrival, he chose to eavesdrop and hide.

"It seems like there's nothing I can do here anymore" Herlin murmured.

Sluurpp…

Herlin eavesdropped while drinking the canned milk coffee he bought at the vending machine.

Gaaaooo~'s…

Suddenly, the notification of Herlin's smartphone, which was called Yuna-san from Kuma Kuma Kuma Bear anime, sounded. He then read it and his expression suddenly turned serious. After reading it, he rushed down from there.

While Iraya and Kurobane-senpai were still talking and joking while waiting for the break bell to ring. Suddenly simultaneously the notification of each of their phones reads.

Tiing…

We both checked it out and after reading it we looked at each other with serious expressions.

"Satou-kun, this …."

"Yes, that's right. We got a mission from Murasaki-san."

**

After the school bell rang, Kurobane-senpai and I headed straight to Haiiro Cafe. Murasaki-san had told us to gather there.

When we got there, the two of us went straight into Oita-san's room and there was Herlin and Murasaki-san.

"You're fast home too, huh, Herlin?"

"Yes that's how."

"So everything's been here. Then I'll start the mission discussion this time."

Murasaki-san then began her conversation. He looks very serious on this mission. Not like previous missions.

"What are we going to do now?"

"We will destroy the experimental materials of Ayakashi Corp."

"experimental material? Is there anything like that?" my many.

"There's."

"Eh?"

Suddenly someone came into this room. He looked like someone who was out of battle with many wounds and bandages all over his body. Even the palms of his left hand until his arm were all covered with bandages.

"Ohikawa-san?! Are you all right?!"

"Don't I tell you to rest at home, Ishikawa-san," Murasaki-san said.

"Well, I can't miss an important meeting like this. I am also part of this organization. Of course I'll come!"

Ishikawa-san though with such injuries she is still as excited as ever. His young soul was truly not dead.

"So what do we have to do to destroy it?" ask Herlin.

"From what Ishikawa-san has found, those experimental humans—"

"Ma-Human?!" Kurobane-senpai was shocked when Murasaki-san mentioned the words 'human'.

"True, they used humans to be the material of his experiments. So like I said, those humans were just ordinary humans in glass tubes before he was injected into them. So make sure to destroy them before they evolve."

"So..we're going to kill humans?" my spoken.

"Not to be surprised like that."

"Herlin?"

"These are the consequences you have to do when you're on this side of the world. Sooner or later you'll kill a human. And that's for sure."

"…"

Me and Kurobane-senpai just kept quiet after Herlin spoke like that. It is true that there are guilty human beings who deserve to be punished, but for those who do not even know about something like this…

I immediately imagined my mother's face as I thought of the innocent human victim.

"Nortuguese …." Cecilia called.

"Eh?"

"All will be well. Trust me."

Is correct. Everything's gonna be fine. I just have to finish it as soon as possible. I clenched my hands tightly and rounded the resolve in my heart.

Herlin who saw me breathing heavily and sweating a little then held my hand.

"Eh?"

"Eh?!"

"Ehhh?!! W-Wait a minute! What are you doing Herlin?!"

My face turned red as he suddenly held my hand. I tried to shake my hand firmly and finally he let go of it.

"W-What are you doing all of a sudden?!"

"Your hand was cold, so I wanted to warm it up" Herlin said flatly.

"That's not the problem! You're a fool, aren't you?"

"Pfft.. Ahahaha! Your expression is so funny, Satou-kun! I can't help it."

"Senpai?!"

"The meaning of youth~"

"Ishikawa-san too?!"

Kurobane-senpai and Ishikawa-san instead laughed mocking me who was confused. Uhh! This Herlin is really stupid. Murasaki-san without us all noticing then smiled faintly.

"Good work, Herlin-chan," he murmured.

After the meeting, in the evening we all regrouped at the Haiiro Cafe to carry out the mission.

Seriate