Chapter 6
“Class rep! Please collect the class’s math homework!”
“Okay!”
“Kumiko, we’ll need help in the decoration of the noticeboard!”
“Okay!”
“Kumiko! We need some of the class fund to hold the courage test!”
“Roger!”
“Kumiko, please do the class seating list…the teachers really need that.”
“Okay!”
“Class rep! Please attend the meeting after school today at 3pm!”
“Alright!”
What is she doing, Rei wondered as he watched Kumiko fly all around the place completing this and that and other various odd jobs assigned to her by both students and teachers. She had been busy all the time, not once refusing anything that was assigned to her.
ARGH, I can’t stand this much longer!!!! Rei folded his arms, creases forming on his forehead. What IS she doing? I’ll have to talk to her. He folded his arms and hunched over the table, a serious look coming over his face.
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“What are you doing? Do you intend to be someone you aren’t for the rest of your life?”
Rei raised his voice over the gentle wind blowing through the rooftop. Kumiko was standing opposite him, her back faced towards him so that he couldn’t see her face.
“Is that all you want to say? I have an extremely busy schedule and it wasn’t easy to make time to hear what you have to say.” Kumiko turned towards the door of the rooftop and started to move off.
“Answer my question! Do you really you can replace Yui? KNOW YOUR PLACE!”
Kumiko froze in her steps. Rei had raised the volume of his voice into a yell. She bowed her head and turned around to face him. Rei maintained his angered expression, his eyes filled with fury, his hands curled into fists.
“Fine. If you are that insistent, I shall tell you.”
She turned her body completely until she was facing Rei, and lifted her head. Her eyes were cold and glassy, as if a blizzard was in them. The aura around her was the same as the day when the girls had questioned about her ability. Rei took an instinctive step back. She…She’s completely changed…like a book with its contents changed…What did she turn into?
Kumiko opened her mouth and started talking, in a soft yet steady voice that overwhelmed Rei. “In the first place, ‘Kumiko’ had never existed.”
Rei was taken aback. “What do you mean by that?”
Kumiko gave a cold smile, one that made Rei’s tongue fall into the pits of his stomach. “I’m saying that ‘Kumiko’ had never existed. The present me, is not ‘Kumiko’ but a replacement for ‘Yui’.”
Rei’s eyebrows furrowed in, his fear all forgotten at the moment. “What are you saying? Hurry up and return back to the ‘Kumiko’ everyone knows before the old you is completely annihilated!”
Kumiko let loose a laughter that could be compared to a laughing maniac. Her eyes suddenly let loose an evil aura, mixed with insanity and cruelty.
“Do you think I can actually revert back to my formal self? I can’t return to who I was before anymore! No one cares about ‘Kumiko’! They only want ‘Yui’ and they don’t give a damn whether I am living or not! And thus…” Kumiko composed herself once more, her voice returning to the peaceful self she was before. “In order to live, I can only be ‘Yui’, or I’ll be living in a world of darkness and hatred.”
Rei broke into a cold sweat. Is she mentally unstable? He suddenly found himself shaking and shivering, but whether from fright or from another emotion, he did not know. But all he knew was, he did not do anything when Kumiko disappeared back down the staircase of the rooftop.
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