Classroom Of The Elite: Soulmate Edition

Prologue

Ayanokouji Kiyotaka's POV

「Yes, I love you too.」

I couldn't believe that those words came out of my own mouth. I, Ayanokouji Kiyotaka, the sole survivor of the 4th generation of the white room, was in love or that was what I'd like to think. If you were to tell me that someday I would have fallen in love I would laugh, sadly I couldn't. Anyway the point of this was that it was utterly ridiculous.

Just the idea of me being able to love someone was a joke all thanks to my upbringing. I was someone who has never experienced any kind of love thus it was difficult to picture myself being in love.

Have you heard about love at first sight? I'm sure you do. However if you were to ask me about it I would have told you what I found at some point while reading books. According to some authors it's the feeling you get when you don't want a moment to end because you feel a connection with another person that you haven't felt before.

Although I believed it wasn't possible to feel something like that or at least that was what I thought before I felt it. When I was a kid I was really curious in comparison with my other peers thus I've spent a lot of my free time reading about different topics.

One of those that I had some interest in was human relationships. The 4th generation curriculum made it difficult to form any kind of relationship between students so I wasn't able to experience it. After reading tons of books related to human relationships I came to the conclusion that what is needed for a relationship to blossom is time.

All relationships whether they be romantic or friendly need time to grow so a bond can be formed otherwise it would be impossible to feel a connection between individuals thus why I didn't believe in love at first sight.

You'll probably wonder why I am thinking about this thing at this time. Well to get the answer to his question we have to go back in time to approximately half a year ago.

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I was sitting in the back seat of a car. I was sitting alone, there were no guards so I could look through the windows to my heart's content. This wasn't the first time I left the facility though unlike last time my destination wasn't a big city like New York.

This time I was going to a mansion somewhere in Tokyo where I was going to stay for a year or at least until I was called back. I wasn't going to stay there alone, there was someone who was assigned as my caretaker during my stay.

That person was sitting in the driver seat, he was a man that appears to be in his early 50s. If I were to summarize my impressions of him it would be a kind old man. When I met him for the first time a couple hours ago he introduced himself as Matsuo accompanied with a gentle smile, he worked as a butler in the mansion we were going to.

As the ride went I could see in the distance the top of some buildings. That means that we were reaching the city though that wasn't what had caught my attention. It was a stairway, it looked quite old. This type of structure in this kind of place, I had no doubts that it was a shrine.

I had seen pictures of shrines before, also I read about their role in Japan's history so I was a bit curious about visiting one. The number of times I left the facility can be counted with the fingers of my hand thus this could be my only chance to visit one in other words a once in a lifetime opportunity.

「Matsuo.」

「Yes, Kiyotaka-sama. Do you need anything?」

「Can we make a stop here? I'd like to visit the shrine that is ahead.」