Classroom of the Elite (Ayanokoji Kiyone)

Volume 2 : The Abrupt Beginning

Sakura Airi POV

I'm not very good at interacting with other people.

I'm not very good at talking to other people while making eye contact.

I'm not very good with crowded areas.

I don't know when I started to be bad at those things.

However, the one thing I'm know is that a person can't live completely alone. No matter how much I love being alone, I cannot possibly survive by myself.

So, I came up with a solution.

Putting on a facade, I live by hiding my true self.

Only then am I no longer me, but rather become me.

In this dark lonely world, I can continue to survive.

The world is not a beautiful place. While it's common sense, everyone secretly wishes for a beautiful world. A bit of a contradiction.

Anyone... anyone's fine, so tell me this.

Is everyone putting on a facade like me?

Or does no one bother to create a distinction, and show their true selves instead?

Since I don't have any relationships with other people, there's no way for me to find out.

So, I'm all alone today too.

I'm alright by myself.

I'm alright with being alone.....No....that's lie, I....from the bottom of my heart, want a person that can reach me. And so the me today will continue to live quietly, with my eyes cast downwards.

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One day

While looking for places to take a selfie, I stumbled upon an incident. It was a tense state of affairs. The whole thing started a few seconds ago, when a trivial accusation provoked the other party and turned into a fist fight pretty quickly. Three male students were on the floor, covered in injuries. A red-haired boy was standing over them, looking down. It was a pretty one-sided fight.

I saw blood streaks on his right fist from the wounds of the other boys. It was my first time seeing a real fist fight. In elementary school, I saw boys pulling at each other's clothes and pinching each other but this was different. I could feel the weight of the tense situation.

Even though I was afraid, I unconsciously took pictures of the scene. The shutter went off silently. I thought to myself, 'What am I doing? but in my panic, I couldn't think very clearly.

I tried to leave the area as fast as I possibly could. But my brain wasn't functioning normally, and my legs wouldn't do what I told them to. Feeling paralyzed, I couldn't move at all.

??? : "Hehe, do you think this things will be over with this, Sudou?"

The boy who was barely able to move his upper body desperately tried to resist despite his fear.

Sudou : "Are you trying to make me laugh? You three are in a sad state. Do you want to go at me again? I won't hold back next time."

Grabbing the collar of the student who had lost his fighting spirit midway, Sudou-kun brought the other boy's face a few centimeters away from his own. Looking as if he'd devour them at any moment, the defeated boys looked away.

Sudou : "Are you shocked? Did you think you could win if you had more people?"

Laughing through his nose, Sudou-kun dropped him on the ground and picked up his bag.