𝚂𝚎𝚌𝚛𝚎𝚝 𝚊𝚍𝚖𝚒𝚛𝚎𝚛𝚜 (dropped.)

Chapter 12: "𝑾𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒆 𝒂𝒓𝒆 𝒚𝒐𝒖...?"

Uki had wandered around the school for approximately an hour every day, desperate to search every single place he went to but there was no progress at all. He felt so helpless right now, blaming himself for ignoring the signal that he received that sleepover night. Why?

Because his friend Alban hasn't gone to school, for 5 days, the last thing he did some interact with his catboy friend was through Alban's last message. It was the morning after the sleepover, Uki had just woken up, clearly still tired from what happened last night. When he opened his phone, he felt he couldn't breathe properly anymore. It was Alban's text popped up through the screen. Alban just casually texted:

"𝑆𝑜𝑟𝑟𝑦 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑛𝑜𝑡 𝑝𝑖𝑐𝑘𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑢𝑝 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑝ℎ𝑜𝑛𝑒. 𝐼'𝑚 𝑑𝑒𝑎𝑙𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑠𝑜𝑚𝑒 𝑡𝑟𝑜𝑢𝑏𝑙𝑒 𝑟𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡 𝑛𝑜𝑤 𝑏𝑢𝑡 𝐼'𝑚 𝑓𝑖𝑛𝑒, 𝑑𝑜𝑛'𝑡 𝑤𝑜𝑟𝑟𝑦 𝑜𝑘𝑎𝑦? 𝐻𝑎ℎ𝑎, 𝐼 ℎ𝑎𝑣𝑒 𝑡𝑜 𝑔𝑜 𝑛𝑜𝑤, ℎ𝑎𝑣𝑒 𝑓𝑢𝑛 𝑎𝑡 𝑠𝑐ℎ𝑜𝑜𝑙! 𝐿𝑜𝑣𝑒 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑈𝑘𝑖 <3"

The text may sound full of energy, but for Uki, it didn't. They had been friends for such a long time, of course, Uki understood his friend well. Therefore, he knew, he knew how fake this text was, he knew something was off right away.

Apart from that, Fulgur and Yugo tried to calm Uki down before he could get panicked even more. A few days ago, the three of them just saw the psychic in hurry, running around everywhere despite hating running. It was odd for them, and that was why they followed him since Uki refused to tell the truth. And when Yugo saw Uki coming to Alban's favorite hiding spot, he knew right away. Yugo then tried to reassure Uki that he was fine, but deep inside, he was no better than Uki at all. Yugo turned around just to the other two's confused reaction, he told them, hoping he could gain more help. While Fulgur came and calmed Uki down, Sonny just stood there, looking dumbfounded. He didn't know what to do or what to say at this point, after all, he was the only one Alban had met before leaving everyone in such a horrible state. What made Alban leave right after all the times they were having fun together just days ago?

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"I swear...if I found out where Albany was, I would kill him right away!" Uki was so frustrated that everything around him started to float, including his friends as well. Uki fell into his own thoughts, hearing nothing from the surroundings, even his friends' voices. He was full of guilty about why he didn't pick up Alban's call when his friend needed him the most. Who knew what could possibly happen to the boy at that time, since it was rare for Alban to call Uki? Uki knew who Alban was, he was a really fragile boy who needed love and affection more than anyone else. Alban deserved all of what he really wanted, therefore, Uki always gave a soft spot for this boy no matter what he did, he would encourage him, even if it means killing people as well.

But then Uki felt something warm on his shoulder. It was Shu, who came along with Shoto, Vox and Mysta as well. "Uki, I need you to take a deep breath, then let's talk about this, okay?" Uki just silently followed Shu's track, guiding him on what to do. After all of that happened, Uki decided to sit down, not wanting to say anything. But apparently, that was something impossible when the 'Shupport' was here. Uki then gave up and told Shu the truth, he just couldn't bare hold it in for himself.

"Shu...what should I even do? Alban is just out there, missing for the whole f*cking 5 days without any response. I even text him like 100 TIMES EACH DAY. Oh, f*ck me. I should've known what was wrong when he started to call me that night." Shu just sighed, of course, he knew how frustrated Uki was since he was kinda feeling it as well. At this point, Shu could feel the guilt ate up inside him as well, as he knew how useless he was, especially in this kind of situation. Mostly his sorcery was used to curse someone, and if he even wanted to find out where Alban was, he had to put his shikigami attached to the boy from ages ago. While Shu still tried to figure out what was the best solution to this, Vox decided to step in.