The summer night's breath touched my cheek.

The ocean was painted by the dark while our cruise was ready to head back to the land tomorrow.

I was sitting in the cafeteria. The crowd of people in this bar was more massive by the time gone. They came here to talk about the result of the test that would be announced in five minutes.

There were signs of worry on their face. It was understandable that there were the four groups ended the test as soon as the last discussion finished; My Hare group and the Mouse, Rooster, and Pig.

A half-hour later, the Other four groups' tests were finished gradually. Maybe someone was panicked and decided to identify the VIP without certainty.

The last two groups were the Dragon (that Kushida was the VIP) and the Horse (that Minami was the VIP).

At the other side of the cafeteria, I saw Kushida, Sakura, Mii-chan, and Inogashira were sitting there. It was interesting that Kushida was surrounded by the shy girl and the fact that three of her group had a hidden identity.

Inogashira felt my stare so she looked back. I bowed to her, the detective nodded. A second later, my phone rang. It was Inogashira's massage.

See me after this.

I returned my eyes to Kushida's group and found that Inogashira had already turned her interest to her group.

I wondered what she wanted to talk about. Maybe, it was about the test. Inogashira might know what happened.

"Can I sit with you?" Someone asked beside me.

When I nodded, Karuizawa Kei sat on the chair next to me and looked into the summer night's sky.

"Here's your phone. " She said and returned my phone to me, I also gave her phone back. "Do you know? I start to believe that you are the luckiest man in the world."

"Hm? What makes you think that?"

"Well. Ichinose-San called you at the exact same time as Matsushita-San. If Matsushita-San didn't call, they would figure out that this is your phone for sure. "

I nodded. "Yes. Luckily. Why Chiaki-Neesan---I mean Matsushita call me?"

Karuizawa giggled.

"This is the funniest part. Matsushita tried to call me because she wants to talk about my asking. But she called the wrong contact! Your contact was next to my name. So she missed it."

Understandable. In alphabetical order, I was the first name in my class, next was Asuma Sana and Karuizawa Kei. Asuma didn't close with Matsushita. So Karuizawa's name would be next to me on Matsushita's phone.

Wait.

Alphabetical order----

I took a paper out of my pocket and looked at it. Karuizawa looked at me with curiosity.

"It's true---" I mumbled.

"What's true?" Karuizawa asked.

"The VIPs aren't chosen randomly, it was allotment."

"What? How---"

"I will explain it after the result was revealed. " I told her. Karuizawa looked at me doubtfully but she didn't continue asking me.

I decided to change the topic. "Um. How are you and Hirata?"

Karuizawa sighed.

"I think I should apologize to him. And maybe I should continue pretending to date him for now."

"Why? I think your status is already stable."

"Not stable enough. As soon as I break up with Hirata-Kun, I will lose my power. I need to expand my influence. "

I looked at her face. She talked about it without any hesitation. This girl was really strong.

"I heard that the best part of high-school life is romance. " Of course, Kaxxxa told me, although he never went to school. "Will you sacrifice it?"

If she kept fakely dating Hirata, she would never have a real romantic relationship with anyone.

Karuizawa looked at her laps.

"Romantic life is a privilege for someone who doesn't need to use her whole power to survive. " She whispered. "The parasite like me knows an only thing, hanging with someone. Suck his blood for life. I don't think it's a good way in the relationship."

Then, Karuizawa glared at me before smiling bitterly.

"So, don't worry about me. Ayanokouji."

I became silent. I understood now why Kaxxxa didn't go to school.

It was a cruel world.

We didn't say anything to each other until the group of three walked toward us.

Hirata, Horikita who came with her stand, Sudo.

"What a strange group?" I said to Hirata.

"You too. " Horikita glared at Karuizawa who turned away immediately. Horikita turned to Sudo. "Chair."

"Yes. Ma'am."

Sudo sat down on the floor and let Horikita sit on his back.

I, Hirata, and Karuizawa looked at him with confusion.

"He volunteered himself. " Horikita said,

"Don't worry. Everything is the same. The human is the same as the chair. " Sudo said.

"Ah---What about we talk about the test?" Hirata tried to change the topic and ignore the glare from the students in the cafeteria.

"Y-Yes. Horikita. How are your group?"

Horikita nodded. "Good. We will win for sure." She repeated her words.

I fought with myself for a minute before deciding to tell her.

"Horikita."

"What?"

"Do you remember what we talked about the ending of Mouse, Rooster, and Pig group lately?"

"Um. What's wrong with it?"

"We thought that might be Ryuen's plan. But now, I'm 100 percent sure it was him."

Horikita raised her eyebrows.

"What made you think that?"

"Maybe Ryuen could find the form of VIP---"

"I had found it. Ayanokouji, Kuku."

The undesirable voice spoke out.

Ryuen Kakeru walked toward us.

Karuizawa never met him, but she suddenly moved away from him as soon as he came near her.

"Well. Well. Who is this little rabbit? Kuku. " Ryuen grinned and reached his hand to Karuizawa's arm.

Hirata and I grabbed his hand synchronously.

"Don't mess with her, Ryuen-Kun. " Hirata never sounded this angry before.

"Ok. Ok. Get it. Kuku. "

Ryuen raised his hand and gave up before turning his face to Horikita.

"So, Suzune. Do you ready to feel your failure--What the Kuku!?" He exclaimed after seeing human chair Sudo.

"I'm her personal chair. " Sudo said. Horikita whipped his back with the whip from nowhere.

"The chair can't talk. "

"Yes, my queen."

"Ok. Let's continue our talk---Why are you stepping back, Ryuen-Kun?"

Ryuen flinched. "Sorry. Suzune. I didn't familiar with this kind of stuff, Kuku. "

"Me too. " I mumbled and pretended to be deeply interested in the glass of strawberry milk.

"However, I don't care how do you think. Ryuen. The game is over. " Horikita said calmly. "The test is ended. All we can do is wait for the result. Then, we will know who is the winner or loser."

Ryuen grinned.

"Don't need to wait until the result was announced. Kuku. I can tell you are the loser, and also I can tell who is our group's VIP?"

"It's me. Everyone knows it. I also show you my mail too. " Horikia told me before that she used the phone swapping plan to the Dragon group, tricking them that she was the VIP.

"Kuku. So naive. Suzune. Do you think I will believe it, Kuku?"

"It's not my problem. Since there is no betrayal in the Dragon group. If you don't believe and send other names, I will get 500,000 points anyway."

Ryuen sat down on the chair and said. "Maybe you will be orgasm with joy when you know how merciful I am. I even give your class 200,000 points. Kuku."

Horikita ignored his rude word.

"So tell me who is the VIP."

"Kushida Kikyo. " His sudden word made Horikita and Hirata flinched.

This was the best evidence for Ryuen.

"Kuku. " He laughed. "This! This's what I want for all this time, Kuku. Your shocking face. It's worthy, Kuku!!"

"H--How do you know?"

"Well. Your suck acting skill told me. "

The color went out of Horikita's face. Her loss was bad enough, but Ryuen also reminded her that it was her fault.

"Horikita---" I mumbled and touched her arm. She didn't try to kill me so I was sure she was gone.

"Don't kid---"

"Kid? Come on, Suzune. Can't you admit just for once that you were the worst in your group, Kuku?"

If Horikita wasn't on his back, Sudo would have punched Ryuen. His Zen peace face was full of vengeance.

"But don't worry, Kuku. I say I will be mercy. I won't destroy you this time, because you were too weak. This time, my enemy is class A. Kuku."

"What did you do--"

As the answer, our phone rang. Everyone in the cafeteria took off their phone and looked at it at the same time.

Ryuen also did too. He smiled with satisfaction, but his smile disappeared as there was something out of his expectation.

Mouse group -- the betrayal can identify the VIP. (Result C)

Cow group -- the betrayal misidentify the VIP. (Result D)

Tiger group -- the betrayal can identify the VIP. (Result C)

Hare group -- the betrayal misidentify the VIP. (Result D)

Dragon group -- everyone can identify the VIP after the test ended. (Result A)

Snake group -- the betrayal can identify the VIP. (Result C)

Horse group -- everyone can identify the VIP after the test ended. (Result A)

Sheep group -- the betrayal can identify the VIP. (Result C)

Monkey group -- the betrayal can identify the VIP. (Result C)

Rooster group -- the betrayal can identify the VIP. (Result C)

Dog group -- the betrayal can identify the VIP. (Result C)

Pig group -- the betrayal can identify the VIP. (Result C)

Below, it was the result for each class.

Class A - Minus 200 CP Gain 3,500,000 PP Total CP = 940

Class B - Minus 50 CP Gain 4,000,000 PP Total CP = 827

Class C - Minus 50 CP Gain 5,000,000 PP Total CP = 685

Class D - Plus 300 CP Gain 7,500,000 PP Total CP = 759

"Fucking Yes!" There was a scream from Yamauchi before the rest of Class D started yelling with happiness. On other hand, in Other classes' students were shocked until they couldn't say anything.

All of them lose their class points, especially class A. But the only class that gain more points was the defect class. Class D!

Not only that, but we also won class C for the first time.

This was the first time that the class swapped the rank.

"T--This meant--We became class C!?" Karuizawa stuttered from behind.

"Y--Yes. Karuizawa-San. " Hirata also stuttered, they looked at each other and smile like they never argued before. What a lovebird.

The most shocked person was no one but Ryuen Kakeru who forgot the way to shut his mouth.

"H--How---"

"Just a bit of luck. Ryuen. Just a bit of luck. " I said and drank my strawberry milk.

...

On the night that Chabashira-Sensei was drunk, I asked her for the list of the students' names.

When I got it, I started my investigation ---I meant, my random.

I slept my eyes and stabbed the pen on the paper twelve times.

Then, I got the names of twelve VIPs. (Including me and Kushida.)

For making sure that my luck was working this time, I asked Inogashira to do a little investigation about the Dragon group. She wasn't in the group so she couldn't decide who was the VIP for sure. But Inogashira thought the most possible one was Kushida. Match with my list.

The next step was talking to Horikita. We decided to not attack too fast. We waited until the sixth discussion ended. After Ryuen moved, Horikita asked some of us from each group to send the answer.

So we won in Tiger, Snake, Cheep, and Dog group.

But we needed to thank Ryuen. It was our luck that he decided to attack only class A because if he could figure every VIPs' identity, he can beat us easily.

...

Ryuen retreated. Before he went, he left his vengeance words.

"It's your plan again, isn't it? Kuku. Ayanokouji, I swear I will beat you someday. "

Hirata and Karuizawa had already gone too, they found someplace to talk to each other. I hoped they could reconcile, but I also wanted them to break up so I can get Hirata---I meant Inogashira can get Hirata.

So it was me, Horikita, and---Sudo.

"Horikita, are you okay?" I asked her.

She blinked before sighing. "I'm okay, Ayanokouji-Kun. I just wonder how can this happen?"

"About your loss strategy?"

"No, how can Ryuen make this result happen?"

I looked at Horikita with surprise. If it was Before Version of her, Horikita would be angry and disappointed in herself for losing Ryuen.

She was changed.

"You're right. He probably didn't send the answer before the test ended because he want to tease you, but how can he convince the leader of class A and class B to believe him."

"He must have very strong evidence."

But what kind of evidence was strong than the mail?

Maybe Inogashira knew, I should ask her after this.

"However, tonight, it was very late. I will go to sleep. " Horikita said.

"Me too. " We stood up and walked to the stair. Horikita walked upstairs.

I looked at her back and could sense something.

"Horikita. " I called her.

"What?" She turned back to me.

"If you are tired or something, you can tell me. "

Horikita considered my words for a while, before showing me the sad smile that I had never seen before.

"Thank you, Ayanokouji-Kun. " She said. "But not this time. "

She left me the mysterious word before going upstairs.

Ah, I felt like we forgot someone or something.

Nah, it might not important.

I decided to walk to the rooftop, where I and Inogashira made an appointment.

I would find out the next day that Sudo had acted as the chair at that cafeteria until the cruise reached the land. Horikita needed to cancel her order, so Sudo could come back to the normal human.

...

Inogashira was walked toward me as soon as I reached the rooftop. There was no one around.

"Ayanokouji-Kun!"

"Woh. What is si hurry?"

Inogashira looked around. "Kikyo-Chan invite me to her pajamas party. She said she wants me to come, so she can show me her see-through lace pajamas!"

"Can I join?"

"What?"

"Nothing. But you hurry because you want to go to a pajama party?"

The great detective shook her head. "No! If I go late, Kikyo-Chan will suspect me. And she might know I come to see you."

"Is it a problem?"

"It is a problem! Because I want to talk about Kikyo-Chan!"

I was surprised by that.

"What do you want to say?"

"Beware Kikyo-Chan! She might be my friend but she is a dangerous person. She is too dangerous for the class."

I knew it a little bit, Kushida wanted to kill me and Horikita for some reason. But dangerous for the class was sound too exaggerated.

Maybe Inogashira knew my thought.

"You don't believe me?"

"I believe you, but she won't hurt her own class, will she?"

Inogashira shook her head again, "No, she will."

"What? It makes no sense. This school's system depends on the class. If the class was ruined, she will also sink."

"Because she has some goal that she can sacrifice even her class. It is Horikita Suzune-San!"

"Horikita? But---"

"Do you know why Ryuen-Kun knows that Kikyo-Chan is the VIP?"

I shook my head. Horikita might be bad at many things, finding a friend, being a decent human, or controlling herself with the waffle. But she wasn't the suck actor at all.

Ryuen knew because of other reasons.

Inogashira sighed and said with a serious face.

Volume 4 is ended.

Next, Volume 4.5 with some short stories!

The sun was raised over the Tokyo Metropolitan Advanced Nurturing High School.

The bus was running through the main gate, taking the students to their old life behind this big luxury cave.

On the rooftop of the building, a girl with short purple hair gave the glare to the forecourt, watching her schoolmate go out of the bus.

Her interest was captured by a dead-face guy who looked like he had never known any emotion before.

He was kinda handsome, but it wasn't the point.

It was his identity.

The girl felt like her heart was going to jump out of her chest. She used the hand which didn't hold the cane to touch her chest.

The first thing she realized was she has no breasts.

The second thing she realized was her heart beating so hard.

It felt like the maiden in love.

She grinned with her smug face.

"Finally, the times had come, Ayanokouji-Kun. I waited for this time for ten years. Now, it's the time that I will beat you! Fufu."

She giggled before walking to the door and trying to open it.

But it was locked.

"Oh. The janitor must lock it. Fufu." She could guess with her genius brain. She wasn't panicked. She had a plan.

The girl took off her phone and called someone.

"Kamuro-San, I want you to help me---"

"This is an answering machine. Kamuro Masumi is on her summer vacation. Don't leave a message too. She doesn't want to be bothered by anyone, especially if you are the short-smug loli bitch."

Sakayanagi Arisu blinked her eyes while hanging the phone.