My New Life

Chapter 23: To Submit

Alright, that should do it.

I sighed as I glanced down at all of my equipment.

As things currently stand, I have a lot, and by a lot, I mean a whole shit ton, of cameras. All exactly the same as the little ones I've had.

I now have two different setups for the same corner, one is for all of the back alley stuff, the other is for observation.

The observation of one person.

To my surprise, the school doesn't get locked after hours, the reason for this is likely because they have cameras with night vision mode.

But what does that matter to someone wearing a mask?

After setting up cameras everywhere I could possibly need to, I got to work.

I've already memorized her number by this point, so I walked out of my room, carefully avoiding anybody who could possibly be out in the halls, and took a deep breath as I stepped out into the cool night air.

I've been doing this a lot lately, haven't I?

Well, to be fair, this mask is different than the ones from before, so technically speaking I can't be linked to the other incidents if I mess up on one.

Theoretically, I can, but there's no evidence the man or woman under the other masks is me.

Not to mention, there's nobody who is suspicious of me in the first place.

Getting ahead of myself.

I walked for some time, and tilted my head as I found the cozy-looking bench I was searching for.

It was outside the mall, which didn't have very many people inside of it right now. In fact, it looked like it was about ready to close.

I sat down on the bench, and leaned back.

I took out the phone, and typed in the contact.

This was it.

Despite the amount of times I've already told myself this, as if to warn myself, this was actually the last time.

If I do this, if I type this, there is no coming back, this will be the final straw.

I looked down at myself, my leg was jumping.

Did I want to get caught by her? No, I didn't.

However, I've confirmed that she'll do anything to protect her identity, meaning that she'll do anything to try to unmask me.

In other words, I'm excited about the chase.

The thrill of having someone so clearly wanting to kill you, without even knowing who you are.

A challenge.

This will be my first challenge.

If I can't even defeat one member of my own class, how will I be able to defeat the other classes?

Thinking this, I typed in my first words.

"I know who you are."

It took a few minutes before a response came.

"Eh? Who is this?"

"Drop the act, you were a sly bitch, you had the whole school fooled, hell, you had me fooled too."

"Woah, you're scaring me, what are you talking about?"

"Kushida Kikyo, am I correct?"

It took a minute, but she did respond.