Classroom of the Elite - Revenge [Cote X OC]

Vol. 4 Chapter 12: A Shocking Surprise

[19th December, Saturday, 10.21]

[Kurushima Pov]

"A human life..."

"I took one..."

"Everything still feels far too surreal..."

"And I still can't quite comprehend my actions yet..."

"I never wanted to do this, actually..."

"If he told me everything voluntarily, out of his own accord..."

"I would have thought about other methods where both of us are satisfied..."

"But..."

"He was very deeply involved in this illegal and inhumane project..."

"The first sponsor..."

"The one who helped Atsuomi Ayanokoji the most..."

"There's no way he would have told it, despite knowing my reasoning behind it..."

"However..."

"I really hoped this to be the case..."

"Redemption would have been still possible... and a future, one that I held open till now, could have awaited me, too..."

"In the end, I threw it away..."

I genuinely tried...

But in the end, it went like this...

Looking at my trembling hands as I leaned with the back of my body against the door, I could not help but look around my chaotic mess of a room.

As of now, it's been about 16 Hours and 37 Minutes since I arrived at my room.

After that, I broke everything nearby me on the ground.

Blood...

Broken Glasses and Plates...

Everything within my reach...

It's lying everywhere on the ground, completely shattered...

"But I could not let him stay alive..."

"If I did that... he'd have told it to that damn bastard...."

"However, in the end..."

"I'm sorry, Kaoru-kun..."

Those were his last words to me...

"Why did he say this..."

"Why did he apologize...?"

"And why..."

"Did I tell him the truth, anyways...?"

"I could have simply drank the remedy in front of him..."

"Let him see the hopelessness..."

"Let him know the despair..."

"But instead, I reassured him all along... There was no poison for her. I went in his office with a prepared bluff, because I didn't want to overstep that line..."

"Not now, nor ever in my lifetime..."

"A bluff..."

"That's really quite ironic."

"In the end, one of the reasons the poison against him was so effective is because of his increased heartbeat I made him have, through the entire conversation..."

"But I didn't deal the final blow..."

"In a way... he was able to redeem himself in my view, in the end..."