Chapter 24: The Calm Before the Storm

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A/N: I decided to make Mahito, Junpei and Uraume the evil trio because I can :P

I made Uraume female. Mahito and Uraume need a surname in this story, so I chose 'Kenzo' for Mahito and 'Suzuki' for Uraume.

This chapter ends in a nasty cliffhanger 😬


WARNING: Vague mentions of an attempted sexual crime!


Chapter summary: Wanting to take revenge on Megumi, Mahito sets his plan in motion.

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Mahito watched Megumi disappear into the distance with squinted and calculating eyes until he was out of sight.

"That fucking brat ..."

One corner of Mahito's mouth twitched into a crooked smirk.

"I'm gonna ruin him."

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It was Monday morning.

Megumi and Yuuji were sitting next to each other in their joint class, a few minutes before the lecture would start. Yuuji was effortlessly socializing with students around him, all of them exchanging plans for the weekends.

Something like a group activity among pharmacy students was mentioned, Megumi wasn't really listening, though; going over a text he needed to read for an assignment.

While Megumi was busy reading and highlighting the text, a small but long, cylinder-shaped item was rolling across the tables next to him until it hit his sleeve.

Oddly puzzled, Megumi looked at the thing before picking it up with bare hands. He inspected it for a few seconds.

The cylinder-shaped container was black and fit into his palm and had a cap on top that was decorated with a little, white dice that had the numbers painted in grey. Megumi furrowed his brows. That thing had a very distinctive appearance with how the cap was paired with that little dice, and Megumi figured out that one could put something inside. Not much fit inside, actually, but as Megumi was weighing it, he guessed that it must have been empty.

"Don't touch it."

Megumi heard the voice as suddenly as the item was taken from his hand. Megumi looked up.

Mahito was grinning widely at Megumi as he took the little, black container with gloved hands by touching the tip and the bottom of it with a thumb and forefinger. To Megumi, it looked so strange seeing that happen while Mahito was wearing black leather gloves.

The way Mahito was grinning at him, made it hard for Megumi to understand what was actually happening here.

"It's mine," Mahito added as a finishing sentence, raising the container with that dice cap higher.

Megumi didn't understand anything, not looking at the thing that Mahito was holding between them, silently giving him a confused look.

Mahito seemed to not have anything to add, so he slowly walked away while still carefully holding the little container between his fingers, the tips of those two fingers barely touching it.

Megumi was watching him leave, all the while a dozen of questions were swirling in his mind.

What was that just now?

"That was creepy," Yuuji commented coldly next to Megumi who must have witnessed parts of Megumi's encounter with Mahito just now.

"Why is he wearing gloves?" Megumi questioned seriously.

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