Kakegurui Fine Wine [KIRARI X SAYAKA] -- ONESHOTS

Chapter 182: Utter Darkness

Itsuki stumbles for a moment as her vision is cloudy and unclear, she tries hard to hold her breath, but her knees rattle, bend and shake. She falls to the floor crushed and defeated. Her fragile small ears can hear the inappropriate echoes of the front row students whispering amongst themselves in their timber seats as Itsuki's mind goes completely blank and numb. It seems she stands at a point of sheer embarassment and no return as all curious eyes come dashing towards her like hungry predators, as Kirari inspects the photographs up closer. She takes a moment for recollection with a deep breath, then she slowly raises her defeated gaze only to see Kaeda pushing up his thick framed black glasses with a pout, a disappointed demeanour decorates his pale face as he shrugs his head left to right, pursing his thin lips together with recollected disappointment. He was certain she would not leave any evidence behind, certain their romance could never be traced back or forward, but Itsuki was too reckless, or there had  been someone else meddling with the strings secretly much like the random girl in the back who was secretly giggling at Itsuki's downfall from a distance.

Kirari bids no time and casts the photos away on the ornate table faced down, then she slowly approaches the timid nail loving girl as she carefully bends down from above with her shadow clouding directly over her. She firmly cups her chin heavily with her blueberry tinted fingernails, then she quietly leans towards her aggressively, coming eye to eye with her as she whispers coldly with a clench of Itsuki's chin spread across her firm fingertips.

"You clearly do not wish to see the end now, do you?"

She questions morbidly with a dark smirk on her face, easily reminding the bottom girl about a possibility of being thrown out of the academy by disobeying all rules under the book of codex rules. Kirari twists the knife in deeper by becoming even more direct and straightforward, as she does not hesitate to tell Itsuki what awaits her if she does not comply with her demands.

(Kirari was used to getting what she desired, and such should have been no surprise to someone who was not an academy rookie)

"It should be enough that the front row knows, I assume you would be wise not to let these spread for the entire world to know too."

Kirari smiles, coldly, while Sayaka continues to feel the slap of her hand, unable to recover from the hit she had sustained earlier.

Itsuki tries hard to avert her ice cold gaze desperatly in an attempt to escape those oceanic blue eyes, but Kirari has her chin firmly locked in her hand with a twisting sensation, forcing the ginger haired girl to cower beneath her as she is unable to turn her face sideways nor escape her gaze. All she can do is meet her eyes and hope Kirari does not intend to devour her in one scoop.

"It would be quite a shame if Manyuda were to be disowned by his family, don't you agree?"

She reminds the girl of how family reputation meant the world to him, and how easily she could use this situation to her advantage by not only breaking up the duo couple through this, but also by permanently tarnishing and altering their repuation, dooming both for life and eternity to come forward after academy graduation.

Itsuki has no choice but to submit under her thumb. 

She looks at Kaeda once more, but the latter shakes his head. She tries to find Yumeko with her eyes, but the dark haired girl is nowhere to be seen. The rest of the council members avert their gaze from her. She is stranded completely alone and has nobody to defend her, not even her boyfriend takes to the stage. She is alone.

"How about you join me perhaps?, and I may be inclined to reconsider.. these unfortunate findings in your briefcase..."

"How about it, Tsumeragi, Itsuki?"

She grips her chin tighter showing off her power, making it more difficult for the girl to breathe as her vision turns more blurry and clouded.

Without a word Itsuki nods, her head raises, there is a look of emptiness in her now dark eyes as she admits defeat and succombs completely to Kirari's divine control. She stands up as Kirari withdraws from her, returning back to her seat carefully, as Tsumeragi gets to her knees, she dusts her herself and carefully arrives at the ornate poker table, preparing her tools for what would turn out to be an utter nightmare for Sunaka.

Kirari sits with a smirk on her face as her eyes collide with Sunaka's facial expression. By now the Arabic girl had been wishing she had never agreed to be seated in the same room with her former lover.

"My dear.. you weren't joking when you said you would resort to all means now, were you?"

Sunaka reaffirms with a cackle in her voice, as she clears her throat in discomfort, noticing Itsuki rummaging inside her suitcase as she prepares her tools for successful nail removal.

"By all means, why would have I?"

Kirari retorts back with a question.

"It should have all been crystal clear in the terms and conditions, unless you had not been attentive, perhaps?"

She leans forward, her arms crossed, her legs fixed under the table as Sayaka finds it impossible to resist the charms of the president who has managed to overturn the game completely in her favour.

Sunaka frowns, her eyes darted away from the poker arena towards a suspicious looking girl at the back of the hallways.

Suddenly, the lights are turned off as the room is left in complete darkness.

"YOU... this- this isn't one of YOUR--?!"

Sunaka heavily gasps in terror, terrified by the sudden change to eerie demeanour. She was scared of pain and darkness, and had a mild case of claustrophobia in the dark.

A loud scream commences.

"......................................................."