Perfect Facade[Asano Gakushuu x Reader]

f o u r t y : his realisation

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It has been 2 weeks since [Name] was last seen. Students could tell that there was a change in their Student President's manner after the quiet vanishment of their beloved Miss Perfect Student. He was normally a rather fair, gentlemanly student, who didn't go out of his way to do bad. He was just a top student, who's arrogance was as high as his ranking in academics.

Perhaps it was to distract himself from the fact that one of his closest (and possibly his crush) is gone. That's why he went out of his way to bother the E Class. Perhaps he believes thats 'crushing' them would be able to inflate his self-worth. Though, if [Name] was by his side, he wouldn't need his self-worth to keep himself from crashing and burning.

He set out to humilate the E Class in the pole topling game for their sports festival. Falling back to what the Chairman has taught him, 'There's always will be someone weaker than you, look down upon them to feel your pride for not being as shameful as them'. He needed his pride back.

"Hey...isn't this, unfair-?" Yayoi whispered to Kekoi as they watched the game from the sidelines. She had to force herself to close her jaw after seeing the size and muscles of the foreign exchange students when they had came to visit their class the day prior. Kekoi nodded in small, the two of them trying to avoid scrutiny from the rest the school.

"Yeah, what is Asano San thinking?" Kekoi complained, her eyebrows furrowed so low that it hide behind her thick glasses. "If [Name] Chan was here, she would have told him off."

"Yeah, but she still isn't here." Yayoi replied, biting her lip as she said so. It then dawned on her that perhaps maybe Gakushuu started this petty fight against the E Class to distract himself from the fact that [Name] is missing. She looked over at where her student council president was at. There he was, standing tall and stoic as ever

"I wonder what he's even thinking right now." Yayoi muttered as Teppei, the emcee, commenced the start of the game.

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To Gakushuu, the game itself went by in a blur. The entire time, he wasn't fully focused on the game. His determination to win didn't waver however, he executed his strategies flawlessly. Yet when the E Class pulled their sneaky audience seating manovuer, his instincts didn't kick back as fast as it usually does. To him, everything other than the game felt like white noise.

It was only when the pole he was on starting to fall was when that sickening static stop ringing in his head. He could finally hear the roars of the audience, the shouting of the emcee and gaze upon the faces of the E Class as they toppled him over.

As he hit the ground, his chest flat on the ground, everything in his head went silent. He was a failure, a loser, the defeated. Everything is over for him, he had been humilated by those he had seek to humiliate. The point of all of this was to regain his pride and gloat over their weakness, now he's the one being stepped on. All he had on that ground was the thoughts that came out from the void of his mind. As he stared at the red running track, a familiar voice that haunts him echoed out.

"You're still human."

It was the first few things that [Name] had said to him when they first met. The first person to ever bother to step in and check in on him. Human, huh? Gakushuu never felt human. Afterall, his dad is a superhuman, a master of all trades. He often felt like a dog, being taught tricks by its owner. Once the owner lost interests, they simply don't interact with them. Just like he was with his dad; the Chairman was always teaching him, but outside of it they never talk.