Chapter 30: This isn't Alabama

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"Did she just... walk out like that?" Ryota asked his friends in shock.

It's not only them but everybody except the Student Council Vice-President and Treasurer got shocked by Tamara's sudden exit from the auditorium stage. She just suddenly kneeled on her knees after getting splattered with Itsuki's blood on her face and then left the stage without saying a word.

"No one wants to get splashed with someone else's blood on their face, Ryota," Mary told him sarcastically. "Especially her. Remember the whole Student Council fiasco about a month ago just because she wants to buy another school coat?"

"I remember..."

"Too bad she can't buy another face!" Mary laughed. "Did you all see her face splattered with blood?! It's hilarious! I should've caught it on cam!"

"Who's the Bloody Mary now! Ha!"

"Should we check up on her?" Nanami asked the two. "I'm worried."

"Nah, she'll be fine. Let's just focus on the show," Mary said and they all watch the gamble in front of them.

Kaede is now arguing with the Student Council Vice-President for allowing Itsuki to bet her life.

"You're just the Vice-President! You can't permit things like that!" he argued.

"Or am I?" the Student Council Vice-President replied in a monotone.

She reaches for her mask to reveal her face in front of everyone. Once again, everyone is in a state of shock due to the revelation that their two naked eyes had witnessed.

"K-KAICHOU?!" Sayaka shrieked in her seat in a distance.

The dealer is none other than the Student Council President herself, Kirari Momobami.

"What the hell are you doing here?!" the Student Council Treasurer blurted out of surprise.

"It's to see the look on your face right now," the Student Council President whispered in his left ear as he starts to sweat profusely.

"Wow. I never saw that coming," Runa commented while licking her lollipop.

"So it means that... she's with us all this time?!" Yuriko asked.

"She's here during Y-Yumemi's gamble with... Oh my god!" Sayaka put her hands on her mouth as soon as the realization hits her.

"Sayaka?" the President called her from the stage. "Come here and braid my hair."

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"T?"

Tamara heard a familiar voice.

"No. You're not real... You're not real," she kept muttering to herself while blocking her ears with her hands.

"Tamara..."

"This isn't real... None of this is real—" she stopped when she found herself looking in the mirror.

As soon as she locked eyes with the reflection of herself in front of her, everything changed. From her appearance up to her current surroundings had changed. She's not in the bathroom and she's not her current self anymore. She has transported back to that burning building again. She is looking at her former self with a burning background on the window pane of the opposite building.

"Tamara!"

"Z-zamantha?"

Tamara then finds herself holding Zamatha's hand. Her left hand is the only thing that's preventing her adoptive sister to fall to her death.

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