Classroom of the Elite Final Year

Volume 1 Side Stories

Yokoyama Kana - A dangerous guy

Where the hell did he go?

I was searching for Iki.

Today we were supposed to wait for a girl named Karuizawa Kei. I didn't know why he was waiting for her. We had even spent some days tailing her.

If he wanted to just approach her like any other girl then I don't get why he was putting so much effort into researching about her. He was very serious with her, unlike other girls.

A question gnawed at me, does he actually love her?

An intense pain shot up my body the moment that question occurred to me.

I wonder why...

"No, no. I shouldn't be thinking about this!" I shook my head to dispel those thoughts from my head. 

Convincing myself with that, I started searching for him again. 

Even if he actually did love her, then what does it matter to me? But doesn't Karuizawa Kei have a boyfriend? He was a pretty good man with handsome features. But for some reason Iki hated him. Why was he after a girl who had a boyfriend? I didn't know.

After about ten minutes, I found him but in a bad situation. 

He was surrounded by many people. Both girls and boys. Other than Iki, there were about six people. The girl Karuizawa Kei and his boyfriend Ayanokoji Kiyotaka were also there. One of the boys was tightly gripping Iki's hand.

Iki was trying to free his hands but he couldn't. Because Iki is physically weak. That was why I had decided to protect him, being athletically gifted. 

And now the very person that I had sworn to protect was being intimidated by six people.

"How dare they...!"

How dare they hurt him?!

In a fury, I rushed towards them. They had their backs to me and they hadn't noticed me yet.

I was angry. 

I aimed a kick at the boy who was holding Iki's hand. Part-way through I realized that my kick was raised high aiming at his head. If I hit him then he would sustain major damage. But it was too late to stop my momentum.

Just when I thought my kick would hit his head, someone spoke, "Akito!"

Right after that, the boy who was behind the student who was holding Iki's hand pulled him and my kick missed. 

"Thank you, Kiyotaka." The boy named Akito said. 

What just...happened? How did he...?

I was speechless. 

Iki and a girl were arguing but what they were talking about didn't register in my mind. My mind, my eyes, were trained on one man. Ayanokoji Kiyotaka.

I am sure that he hadn't turned around and hadn't seen me aiming a kick as well. So how did he manage to dodge my kick that was traveling with such high speed from his blind spot?

Then my mind started screaming, flaring warning signals.

This guy was dangerous.

This was no fluke.

My instincts were screaming.

Before I realized it, I grabbed Iki's hand and took him away from there. He was saying something in objection but I had no time for that.

My brain was just creaming one thing at me...

...To get away from that man as fast as possible.