Sorry for the long wait. I finally got the time to finish this. Haha. Anyway, here it is. I hope you enjoy it~When A Yankee Uses A Gun | Majisuka Gakuen AU (3)Part 3: FREEDOM“Salt-san… Am I not getting stronger?”The President, who was leaning on the fence of the rooftop, gave out a disappointed sigh. She felt her right cheek and she is certain that Sakura’s fists became heavier. The girl landed quite a few more punches today as well.
“You became stronger, Sakura. I can assure you that.”
“Tss.” Sakura tried to get up but her whole body is in pain. “Is that your way of consoling me? Don’t try to make a child out of me.”
Salt rolled her eyes and crossed her arms. “Why so serious, Sakura? You were the one who asked the question. I answered and now you are telling me that I am lying?”
“Then how come that I still can’t defeat you? How do you keep on getting stronger!?”
Sakura’s frustration echoed at the rooftop. Salt just looked at her for a moment and then turned to the guy who is standing in front of the school gate. She suddenly felt worried about the wound on her lips. The guy might get turned off after seeing it.
Salt gave out another sigh. Why is she even worrying about it? It’s not like of her to be worried about how others would look at her. She stood upright and turned back to her Vice President.
“I have to get stronger, Sakura.” Salt declared. “I have to free someone from his current situation… For now, this is all my
seriousness…”
“WHAT THE F— Sakura! What the hell are you doing!?”
Hiroki held his chest as he was shocked when Sakura suddenly appeared on that corner of the street. He just went to drop Salt after fooling around in the arcade as always. He felt like all the shio ramen that he ate with his girl rose up from his stomach up to his throat after getting surprised.
“Why are you suddenly appearing like that!? You almost gave me a heart attack.” Hiroki fixed his stance and whispered, “How come I didn’t even feel your presence?”
“I want to ask you a question.” Sakura started, hiding her face with her hair because it is still swollen after the previous fight.
“You can just ask me through SNS. I gave you my LINE—“
“I want to ask you personally!”
Hiroki, feeling like nothing will happen if he kept on talking, blew his fringe. “What is it, little Maji-chan?”
Sakura balled her fists and met Hiroki’s wonderful eyes. “What does it cost to
free you?”
The guy’s eyebrows rose a bit. “Free me?” He then sneered as if he understood what the girl was talking about. He slowly shook his head and then brushed his hair backwards.
“My death.” ***
PAIN welcomed Sakura as she departs from sleep. The back of her head is aching and her vision is hazy. She rolled over to her back and looked at the ceiling, trying to recognize where she is. This is definitely not her room. This is not somewhere she had slept before.
“Where on earth am I?”
The girl tried to stand up, borrowing some balance from the bed. She looked around the room with her eyes on squint as her head stings with each move. In a drawer top she saw some framed pictures of what seem to be a happy family. Someone who looks like Antonio and another one who looks like Coby together with a boy who has that familiar set of eyes.
“H-Hiroki-san!”
As if all her energy came back to her body after recognizing who was in the picture, Sakura immediately went to find the door. She tried to open it up but it was locked from the outside. With a loud shout, Sakura kicked the door open, destroying even the lock that prevented her freedom.
The scene that welcomed her out horrified her the most. She couldn’t even close her eyes. Her stomach reacted first as it started to bring everything up back to her mouth. The foul smell coming from the dead bodies upset her stomach. Trembling in fear, she went back to the room and let it all out.
“T-This can’t be…” Sakura wiped her mouth. “Hiroki-san…”
Avoiding the stink by covering her nose with her sleeves, Sakura came out of the room to see if ever Hiroki is around. There were about eight bodies on the floor and she couldn’t exactly say if any of them is alive due to the amount of blood that was shed.
None of them was Hiroki and her heart almost jumped of its place after realizing the fact that the guy may still be alive. But then she saw blood trails that seemed like they were painted onto the floor. The blood started from the living room up to the courtyard where it stopped on a place where there are markings of wheels.
Hiroki may still be alive but he’s terribly injured and that is for sure. Knowing that the dispatch team of the Yakuza might come anytime soon to clean the bodies, Sakura hurriedly went back the room where she was locked.
She immediately opened up a drawer and her memory served her right. Hiroki took two guns from that drawer and her eyes widened at the sight of more pistols. Not knowing which one to pick, she grabbed an army bag lying around and took guns and ammo with her.
It is just four in the morning and teenagers like her are not allowed to be out at this hour so Sakura hurriedly went to school to find refuge. She almost dropped the bag when she found all the queens present in the room with more familiar faces.
“Why are you all here?” Sakura asked as she placed the bag aside. “At this time?”
“You are not the only one searching for the truth, Sakura.” Otabe answered, her eyes have noticeable dark arcs under them. “Salt is
our president.”
Sakura then turned to the two top of their rival school. “And the two of you?”
Coby was about to talk back after getting pissed with Sakura’s smug treatment but Antonio halted her with her uninjured arm. She had no choice but to stand behind her president.
“Salt saved me so I am deeply indebted to her. I also want to seek justice for her.”
Sakura smirked. “It’s because you were weak that you needed her help. If you didn’t get caught—“
“Really, you!!!” Coby was about to attack but again Antonio stopped her. “Hiroki-san was the one tasked to save Antonio that night and Salt only stepped in. Don’t insult our leader in front of me!”
“Calm down, Coby. Let me handle this.” Antonio turned back to Sakura, successfully maintaining her cool. “To tell you the truth, the gang that we encountered that night would never be able to lay their hand on Salt or to even to me… ever again.”
Sakura’s eyebrows crunched. “What do you mean?”
“They saw who was with us that night. They saw that Hiroki-san was there and was ready to kill them without mercy. People in this business are all aware of the killing machine from the Yamamoto Clan.”
That’s true. Sakura clearly remembers. If it wasn’t about Salt stopping Hiroki then all those guys who did Antonio wrong would be long buried in the ground or worse they would be thrown away to the river only to be discovered when their bodies are all swollen.
“Technically, Salt gave them another chance in life. They won’t be going after her even if their prides were crushed by her. Killing her would make them the lowest.” Antonio’s explanation went on, leaving Sakura startled.
“T-Then who would…” Sakura stammered. “Who would have the intent to kill her?”
“I’ve done an investigation and I didn’t know that I would find the answer without going that far.” Antonio felt warm on her free hand. She then turned to her side only to see Coby holding her hand. She gave the girl a nod as a sign of being thankful for being there for her.
“Salt’s death is of revenge but not to her but to Hiroki-san…”
Sakura’s eyes widened even more. “W-What the—“
She was silenced when Antonio suddenly turned to Salt’s abandoned throne then went back at her with a sharper stare.
“The one who killed her is an alumna of this school.”
AFTER FINDING out the truth of Salt’s murder, Rappapa and the two-top of Gekioko immediately went to move to somehow help Hiroki. They are all armed with the guns that Sakura obtained from the guy’s house. Now they are all rooting for the fact that Antonio is the daughter of the boss, hoping that the Oyabun would listen to her.
Everything was carefully plotted by Antonio’s father. He didn’t like the fact that Hiroki has been disobeying his orders to the point of lying to him that he killed all his targets when in reality is he just threatened them but let them go without any detached limbs at all. He hates that the one he raised to be the most ruthless dispatcher would wag his tail to a high school girl.
His anger couldn’t be contained after the one that he has set to be his heir, despite having lots of daughters of his own blood, decided to leave the path that he has prepared for him. The Oyabun has found the best way to punish Hiroki. He found the right person to brainwash and he knew exactly who to take away from Hiroki’s life.
“He’s a crazy geezer.” Sakura couldn’t help but to grit her teeth after hearing the whole story from Antonio. The girl was able to find the truth after one of her late sister’s loyal man confessed what the Oyabun has been up to.
“He is planning to dispose Hiroki. He has found a new toy and he will use the new toy to kill him. I know that Hiroki is your personal bodyguard but please don’t involve yourself with this. The Oyabun has lost it. He might get his hands to you as well.”That was what Antonio was told to but the girl is as stubborn as her sister. If there is something that she could do then she would be more than willing to do it for the sake of Hiroki. He might be the worst person in the planet through his own eyes but Antonio knows all the hardships that he faced due to his inevitable state. She knew all the nights that Hiroki would come back to report his successful dispatch with those soulless eyes.
Hiroki might have found a way to hide his struggles through smiling but Antonio is not insensitive to not notice how much he is suffering. Someone like him never deserved to be treated like a tool.
It is half past five when they went out of the school building. Their hearts are all ready to whatever the result of this rescue mission may be. They know that there would be no help coming from the police since they are technically under that big Yakuza clan. This would be all their seriousness and they are willing to use a gun to prove it to the adults.
Their hasty feet were then halted when Sakura suddenly stopped. They all looked to where the girl’s eyes are focused only to see another familiar person leaning on the wall of the school gate.
“Center-san…” Sakura breathed out the name of the person. She doesn’t seem surprised that she would see her at this time.
“Hello, Sakura!” Center greeted with her usual smile. “Hello, current Rappapa plus two extras.”
“Center-san…” Sakura took a deep breath, maintaining the distance between them and the former Majijo top. “Why didn’t you tell me? You knew all along—“
“There’s no need for me to tell you. All you guys need to do is to entrust this thing to adults since—“ But no one listened to Center’s words. The group started walking pass her, finally stepping out of the school grounds. “H-Hey, guys! Where are you all going?”
“We are going to save Hiroki-san.” Sakura answered without looking back.
“Sakura, wait!”
As the persistency of Center started to irk her, the officiating top of Majijo turned to her senpai only to be shocked that she is already pointing a gun to her.
“Don’t go.” Center commanded, now with a more serious face. She was trying to maintain her cool but the atmosphere clearly says that these kids won’t listen to any word that she’s going to say without threat. “I said leave it to us adults. Hiroki-nii told me not to let your
seriousness meddle with the situation.”
“Hiroki-san said that?” The other girl asked with a knot on her forehead. “Both of you already know who killed Salt-san and you didn’t really tell us?”
“Hiroki-nii confessed everything to me. He told me to take care of all of you in case you do anything that will endanger your lives. He also promised to solve everything and come—“
“Center.”
The two fell quiet when Otabe stepped forward and called not just Center’s attention but everyone’s right after saying the girl’s name.
“You are pointing a gun to us while talking about protecting us. I quite don’t get the point.”
The other girl was taken aback. Otabe was the one who received the Rappapa presidency from Maeda before so she is technically Center’s senior. This girl has her reason for purposely getting held back and Center knows that reason very well.
“Salt is the top that I established myself.” Otabe continued. “If you are telling me not to do anything after her getting murdered by a graduate of this school, I don’t think I will be able to stay silent. Salt was our top. The top has saved the school many times even though she was bored of being in the throne. We couldn’t save her when she was the one in need of help but atleast we could deliver her justice.”
“There’s no need to point the gun to us, Center-san.” Sakura stepped back in the conversation. “You know very well who the enemy here is. It’s either you come and fight with us or just wait here until we get the justice that Salt-san deserves.”
Center tightened her grip to the gun but the energy faded soon. Her arm limped as she bowed her head in surrender. With this, Sakura went near her and extender her hand towards the former top of their school. “Let’s go, Center-san.”
Still with lots of hesitations, Center reached out for Sakura’s hand.
HIROKI spit out blood for nobody knows how many times it was. He was given another powerful body blow, he is sure that he broke some of ribs after that knee to his stomach. The right side of his face is bathing with blood as a sharp knife traveled from his eyebrow down to his cheek.
“How long do those kids willing to make you wait?” The Oyabun sighed in boredom and disappointment. He called one of his men and told the guy to turn his back to him. The man did what was ordered to him only for his back to be turned into an ash tray. Shouting in pain, the Oyabun kicked him off back to his place.
“I thought they would be here as soon as they heard that you’re abducted. How long are they going to prolong your suffering?” The boss looked at his
heir but Hiroki’s state disgusted him. The
son that he always wanted turned out to be a rebel and is now filled with blood and couldn’t even free himself from those ropes tying his arms up.
“Look at you, Hiroki. If you only listened to me we won’t come into an end like this. I thought killing your parents would be enough trauma to you but there you go giving your heart to a girl…” The knot on his forehead couldn’t be flattened as he is thinking deeply. “You wanted
her to be killed, didn’t you—“
“NO!” Hiroki shouted with the remaining energy he has left. He tried to raise his head and looked at the cruel boss with his functioning eye.
“Tch.” The Oyabun rolled his eyes. “How dare you look at me like that? Do you want me to completely blind you down?” He pulled the butterfly knife that he used to Hiroki earlier and let him feel its tip on his neck.
He is already in the verge of being killed but Hiroki continued glaring to the boss. He knows too well that he is going to be disposed. His eagle eye was blinded already. The boss doesn’t need him anymore.
The boss then pulled the knife back and pocketed it. “Let’s just wait for those kids before I finish you up. They should witness how I take the likes of you who don’t listen to my words.”
“They won’t be coming!” The helpless guy shouted back once again. “I told Jurina not to let them come. You can just kill me. Don’t drag the kids into this mess!”
The Oyabun just laughed at him before spitting right on his face. “I didn’t drag them.
You dragged them here. You know how dangerous your existence is and you dared to befriend with those highschool girls. This is all
your fault!”
The old man ordered his men to give him more sake and as if frightened mice, they all went to give him a cup as soon as possible. The boss is going to kill his favourite pawn, they aren’t safe at all.
“And to add to your misery, I won’t be the one to end your life.” With a huge sneer on his face, he called out someone from upstairs that has been watching them since the beginning of the torture. Sounds of boots can be heard from the stairs, pulling everyone’s attention to that place.
Hiroki’s eye widened after recognizing who it was. Wearing the same black hoodie she was wearing the night she killed Salt,
Nezumi showed herself while chewing a gum. She looked down at Hiroki with a poker face.
“M-Mayu…” Hiroki stammered.
The Oyabun found his reaction hilarious that he couldn’t help but to laugh. “She’ll be the one who will take your life, Hiroki. The same person who killed your girlfriend, say your greetings to Nezumi.”
“M-Mayu! Don’t do this!” Hiroki shouted.
“Are you begging for your life already?” Nezumi asked while playing with the gun that she used to kill Salt. “I thought it would be hard to have you plead for your life. What a bore.”
“You’re wrong!” Hiroki tried to free himself but his exhausted body just won’t follow his will. “Don’t taint your hands even more! If you do you will end up just like me—“
“Shut up!” Nezumi kneeled to his level only to give him a slap on his bloody face. She then pulled him by the hair and made him look at her. “Do you remember the politician that you mercilessly killed long ago? He is my father!”
Hiroki’s head flew to the other side right after another slap. “He was already starting to change but you killed him! You took the chance for us to be a happy family!” She continued to hit him while spilling everything that’s in her chest. “No wonder you were so good to me! You treated me and Center so well but it was all pretension. If I didn’t find out about it you would keep a secret to your grave, right!? And you will keep making a fool out of me, right!?”
When Nezumi was finally over with her rage, Hiroki slowly looked up to her. With his sight slowly blurring because of blood loss, he tried his best to stay awake and talk.
“I guess whatever I say to you now won’t get to you since you were fed with wrong information…” Hiroki coughed blood and spat it out before taking a deep breath. “But I was put in a place where I had no other choice but to kill him or else that person out there would kill my parents… I-It was his will to kill your father since he backed out to their agreement. It was n-never my will to kill your father… n-never my will to kill anybody…”
“LIES!” Nezumi stood up and pointed the gun straight to Hiroki’s head.
“Believe me, Mayu… L-Like me… You are just being used here…”
“SHUT THE F*CK UP!”
A loud gunshot was heard after that shout from Nezumi. For a moment Hiroki thought that he would be already sent to the afterlife but what he saw after he opened his eye was another thing. It was a shocked picture of Nezumi whose mouth opened up to call a name. “C-Center…?”
In panic, Hiroki turned to where Nezumi is looking at. Everything that he is scared for just happened. Everyone fell for the trap. “What the hell are you girls doing here!? Jurina!!! What the actual f*ck!! I told you to use the gun to keep them at school!!”
His heart tightened even more when he saw that Antonio and Coby also came. He started struggling to free himself even though he knows it would be useless. “F*CK!!!”
The Oyabun started laughing manically again. He is even more pleased when he saw his daughter among the visitors. “So you also came as expected! You coming here is the only thing I expected from you so welcome to your grave, daughter!”
His men who have been guarding up the warehouse from the outside all came inside. Without further thought, the girls were then surrounded by the Yakuza.
“You are really going crazy! Don’t ever try them!” Hiroki growled but the boss just laughed at him.
“Are you really sure of that,
Father?” Antonio answered back with a question. “Have you thought of how we came here so easily? Your men have already turned their backs on you. They are on our si—“
Antonio was supposed to say that they are already on their side but the men, including the guy who told him about the whole happening, pulled out their guns and pointed it at them. Antonio’s eyes widened at the betrayal, looking at the guy whom she thought they could trust.
“I-I’m sorry, Sayaka-san… I’m sorry Hiroki-kun…” That was all he could say. He couldn’t even meet Antonio’s eyes.
The old man laughed so hard as if he is so entertained of the happenings. Everything is going according to his plan. He asked Nezumi to step aside for a moment before he pulled out his butterfly knife and slashed the rope that has been holding Hiroki for quite a long while now.
Hiroki fell face-first to the ground. He tried to stand up but he couldn’t even feel his legs at all.
“DAMN IT!” Hiroki shouted. “Don’t ever touch them! If you want to kill me then just finish me already! Leave the girls alone!!!”
“You won’t be able to do anything, son! I’ll give you the most painful death.” The old man sneered and then stood up. “Get them. Do whatever you want to them. Follow your pleasure. Make sure you all kill them after!”
Then the rumble started. As the order says, they have to keep the girls alive and make them suffer in front of Hiroki. The tortured guy couldn’t do anything but to struggle from his own weak body. He could already feel the warm fluid flowing from his eyes due to anxiety.
The boss sat back to his chair, laughing at the on-going fight happening before his very eyes. It feels like everything is on top of his hand and he likes it very much. He was amazed that the girls have been dominating his men in hand to hand combat but it soon bored him and made him so disappointed to his troop.
He pulled out his gun and chanted
eeny, meeny, mini, moe before he pulled the trigger. The next thing after the terrifying gunshot was the picture of Yoga’s body hitting the ground. Everybody froze on the spot.
“Y-Yoga!” Magic cried out and ran towards the said girl. Yoga was already lifeless when Magic lifted her up to her arms. The bullet went straight to her chest. “YOU, F*CKER!!!”
Magic was about to pull her gun but another shot was heard which made her lie lifeless beside Yoga. It was another shot straight to the heart.
“NO!!!” Hiroki wept bitterly after seeing two other girls being killed in front of him.
“STOP IT!”“Woo! I guess my skills haven’t diminished even if I got older. I can still get my target with ease!” The boss looked at the faces of the shocked girls one by one and he can’t help but to be amused at the fear that is slowly being painted at those young faces. “It’s getting pretty boring. I couldn’t believe that my men are this weak in terms of close combat. Now, who should I send to hell next?”
He then slowly pointed his gun to the next person he decided to kill. “How about you go next, daughter?” And without further ado, he pulled out the trigger as if he is not going to fire it at his own flesh and blood. Antonio was sure that it was the end of her but then she saw a figure covered her, shielding her from the sure death from that one bullet. It was
Coby.
Antonio fell with Coby falling down in her arms. It is as if her father calculated that Coby would shield her since it was another sure hit in the chest. Antonio froze in shock.
Otabe, knowing that she got the chance, pulled out the gun Sakura handed her and fired at the boss. She managed to hit him but only on the arm that was holding the gun. As the boss shrieked in pain, few of his men pointed their guns to the remaining Rappapa heavenly queen and shot her to her death.
Everything happened too fast. Before Sakura knew it, there were only the three of them left. She looked at her fallen comrades with mouth wide open, she couldn’t process the fact that they all died under her leadership.
“F*CKING B*TCH! That’s what you get for firing at me, fool.” The old man looked at his injured arm that is overflowing with blood. “I lost my dominant arm. Now, Nezumi…”
Nezumi flinched to where she is standing. She too was aghast of what just happened. She felt cold sweat ran down her spine as her name was called.
“It is your turn to use your gun again. Now kill the girl who has been staying under your
bestfriend’s wing.”
Nezumi and Sakura’s stares met after that order. Nezumi quickly cut the connection of their gaze and turned back to the old man. “B-But, you said that killing Salt would be enough! And you said that you would not really hurt them but just use them to torment Hiro—“
“Did you really believe in the words of a Yakuza leader?” The old man sneered at her and picked up his gun with his other hand. He then pointed the gun to Center.
“H-Hey! You said you would not hurt Center!” Nezumi stammered. “This is not what we talked about!”
“Go and kill her or I will kill your friend. You’ve been watching them for quite a while now, don’t you? Your bestfriend who has been so attached to you was just stolen by that girl. You’ve killed somebody else before so why not kill this one?” His devilish smile widened. “What’s hindering you?”
Center was about to pull her gun but more guns were pointed to her by the other Yakuza men. She couldn’t do anything but to stare at Nezumi.
“Kill her or lose your friend, you choose.”
“S-Sakura…” Everybody turned to Hiroki whose eyes already lost hope. “This is why I told you not to be serious at all things. T-There are things that you better not care about. T-This is r-reality. There are times t-that it is better not to face it and not be serious at all…”
“H-Hiroki-san… I-I—“
“It’s too late, Sakura... And you, Nezumi… you trusted the wrong person… I-I’m really sorry f-for killing your father… It was really never my intention t-to kill him. Now that you are in the same position as I was in that time, I believe you can understand the situation now.”
“Oh, shut the f*ck up, dumbass! Let’s finish this because I need treatment now. Nezumi, kill that girl then kill Hiroki or else I will shoot your friend to her death.”
“Nezumi…” Center called out to her lover with a faint smile on her face. “Don’t dirty your hands even more. It’s okay. I won’t regret dying like this. I’m sorry for not being able to take care of you properly.”
Nezumi’s face crumbled. She couldn’t understand how and when everything turned out like this. She only wanted revenge for her father. “Center! What the hell are you talking about—“
Another gunshot was heard which caused everyone’s heart to skipped a beat. It came from the boss, he gave a warning shot to Nezumi but it didn’t hit anyone but the ceiling. “I’m going to count. Kill the Sakura girl or I will send your friend ahead.
Five.”“W-Wait! This isn’t right!!!”
“Four.”Nezumi’s stare goes back and forth to Center and Sakura. She tightened the grip to her gun as the pressure continued to boil her up.
“Three.”The men cleared the way. They all stepped aside. Even the ones who are holding Sakura and Center got a good distance from the targets though they are not letting anyone go.
“Two.”
Nezumi closed her eyes. Who would’ve thought that revenge would bring her into this situation? She killed Salt with her whole body trembling and she is sure that Hiroki saw her horrified expression that time. She knew that he saw how much she was aghast of her own crime that’s why he didn’t pursue her even though he clearly saw her killed Salt. There’s nothing more but regret to consume her now.
“One!”
BANG!!! BANG!!!Nezumi pulled out the trigger only once but why were there two gunshots heard? She opened her eyes and everything looked blurry. She immediately turned to Center’s way and she couldn’t thank the heavens less after seeing that she is alive. But what is with that worried look on her face?
Parallel to her vision, she noticed another girl who was holding a gun. She turned to that direction and noticed that it was Antonio. While holding Coby’s body on her injured arm, she fired her gun with the other. The secret lessons she had with Hiroki somehow paid off.
Hiroki dispatches people with a headshot believing that it won’t be painful. It is to give his targets a quick death and that is what Antonio learned from him.
Nezumi, still nauseous, turned to where Antonio’s gun was pointing. It turned out that she killed the evil man with just one shot straight to the centre of his forehead. His body was thrown backwards because of the shot, his eyes rolled in white.
“HIROKI-SAN!!!”
“HIROKI-NII!!!”
With everything moving in slow motion, Nezumi turned to Sakura. The girl managed to survive the bullet she fired on her. She’s alive. She just fell down and managed to dodged—wait, what?
With blood spilling like crazy from the left side of his temple, Hiroki laid lifeless on Sakura. He was the one who pushed Sakura away and took the bullet that Nezumi fired. Nezumi saw how denial and grief painted over the face of the younger girl. Her clothes are tainted with blood but she didn’t care. She hugged Hiroki as reality started to sink deep into her.
He is dead. He is now…
free.“Hiroki-san!” Sakura called out the guy’s name as tears started to burst from her tear ducts. She’s crying like the time her father left their family to run away from his debts. Maybe she is crying even harder.
“Hiroki-nii!” Center knelt to Hiroki’s side and held his hand. He used his remaining strength to protect Sakura. He was already tortured and heavily wounded but still his will overcame the weakness of his body. He managed to make it right in time, receiving the bullet straight to his left temple with it being stuck right in the centre of his head.
Center started crying and the sight of her tears placed an awful amount of weight to Nezumi’s heart. Her whole body felt weak that she almost dropped her gun but she got her grip back and placed the gun by her temple.
“I-I…” she stammered. “I-I’m really sorry…”
Center and Sakura noticed her but—
“NEZUMI-SAN!!!”Maki woke up from her slumber, her face wet with tears. She immediately wiped her face, fearing that the others might see her and make fun of her crying in her sleep.
“What’s up with that weird dream? It felt so realistic!” she stated as she held her chest. She’s still on the paintball uniform. This made her remember that she was playing guns with her friends a while ago. “Was that the cause of that gun-filled dream?”
“Maki.”The girl shrieked when she heard the cold calling from non-other that the Prince of Winter that is sitting at the solo sofa in front of her.
“King! How long have you been there!?” She blushed furiously.
Fuyu just shrugged his shoulders. “I didn’t think that you are a big fan of Yuma. You were shouting his stage name even in your sleep.”
“W-Wait! That’s not it!!!”
Fuyu just shook his head and stood up. “Let’s go, lunch is ready. Everyone is waiting for you. Go and change. The dining table is surprisingly filled with people today.”
The smile on Fuyu’s face somehow lightened up the gloomy room. Maki immediately stood up and gave out a salute. “Aye, Sir!”
She then ran towards Fuyu, forgetting the horrible dream that she just saw. Forgetting the past that they once lived in.
-END-
It’s time to go back to WISH now.