Desire - H. Umemiya

Chapter 23. The Bleeding Knife

Quite a long chapter :)

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Umemiya and the others searched all over Makochi but to their luck, no one was able to find her.

He paced back and forth in front of them, making the others feel dizzy from watching him getting thrown into a disarray.

'Where's my charismatic leader?' Nirei couldn't help but think. 

"Do you know where he lives?" Hiragi asked her classmates.

But they only shook their heads in disagreement.

"Then try to call him, you idiots." Kaji who was getting dizzy by Umemiya's frantic walks yelled, gaining everyone's attention, but Suo and Nirei only sighed, discouraged. 

'That's impossible.'

They know how much of a closed off person Shinomiya can be despite her friendly attitude. She wasn't particularly interested in telling anyone anything about her life... might it be just a number or address, she didn't spare them any details about it. 

It only made them frustrated.

Suo shake his head. "We don't have his contact in-" he started but was then cut off by a loud Sakura.

"Ah... I'll try calling him." Sakura voiced out when he remembered that he did have her number registered in his phone contacts.

Suo and Nirei who were terribly panicking, felt themselves go cold from his words... It's not fron disappointment on Yuki but with Sakura.

Nirei, already, wanted to pull his hair in desperation and panic and then the answer's just lying in Sakura's phone... and he didn't bother remembering it. Damn...

'Sakura-san, can I punch you just once?' he thought.

It also threw Hiragi, Kaji, and Umemiya off guard, seeing how the guy doesn't seem to realize the gravity of the situation.

They wanted to kick him in the shin, to make him aware of how much they have been panicking over her disappearance but decided against it when the guy fished for his phone in his pocket.

"Say, Sakura. Aren't you afraid he got caught into horrible stuffs or something?" Umemiya asked him, as he was the one who was mostly affected by the situation, really he was slightly annoyed at Sakura, for the first time.... slightly.

Sakura shifted his gaze at him and scoff. "Senpai, that kid has gorilla blood running in his veins. So, that wouldn't be happening anytime soon." He simply stated.

"Still... I'm worried." Umemiya whispered, fortunately, no one heard him say that.

Sakura tapped on his phone to call her but the thing is... he still doesn't know how to use his phone that much... so, they stood there for a few more minutes with him trying to figure out how it works.... unable to wait any longer, Umemiya grabbed it from his hands, tapping it on the screen and calling her.

The phone rung for a few times before it got answered.

"Yuki." Umemiya called out to the other side hoping to hear her voice.

The others are quite surprise hearing him call her in her first name.

"H-hajime, huh?" She asked trying to thicken her voice to not let him hear anything wrong.

"Where are you?" He asked in a serious voice. She furrowed her brows in confusion.

"Woah... What happened to you?" She tried to joke around. "Are you sick?" Before letting out a groan from the pain she was going through.