Warmth Of A Genius | Classroom Of The Elite

Move 16 - Speranza

The luxury cruise ship, Speranza.

Housing rooms for over 2,000 guests, high class restaurants and even several theaters for live performances. It was truly one of those things you'd see on a traveling brochure that the average Japanese person would never be able to afford. Yet a measly several hundred people were currently on this cruise ship. The first years of ANHS alongside several dozen adults to keep us in check as well as the cruise ship's staff.

This incredible cruise was sprung onto us at the very last minute during summer vacation. You'd almost think that it was planned on the day of departure considering how little time the students had to prepare. At least... that's what I'd like to say. In reality the only one that was taken by surprise by this vacation was me.

What an interesting morning that was.

⊱ ────── {♔ ♕ ♖ ♗ ♘} ────── ⊰

The morning of departure

Waking up at 6am as usual, I was met by a strange occurrence. The group chat for class A was... very active. It was definitely more active during the weekend than it was during weekdays, but considering the sun had just risen I found it very odd.

At least half of the class was typing in it, making some messages impossible to read since they disappeared before you could even start reading them. When I scrolled up however, all they were talking about was something about a cruise? Was this something our seniors were taking part in?

Just in case, I navigated through my messaging app and decided to text someone I saw active in the chat this morning.

[Do you mind if I ask you a question?] (Ayanokouji)

[No way! Did you finally unmute me?] (Hashimoto)

[Not yet. But I'll give you an opportunity to earn it by answering my question.] (Ayanokouji)

[Shoot. As long as it's not school related I'll answer pretty much anything.] (Hashimoto)

What a weird way to phrase that...

[What's this cruise everyone's talking about in our class chat? Is it something our seniors are doing?] (Ayanokouji)

[...] (Hashimoto)

[Ayanokouji-kun, are you being serious?] (Hashimoto)

[Did I say something wrong?] (Ayanokouji)

[Are you in your dorm? Stay there.] (Hashimoto)

I have a bad feeling about this...

Sure enough after around 5 minutes of silence from Hashimoto's end, I heard my doorbell ring followed by frantic knocking. When I opened my door I wasn't only met by Hashimoto, but Sanada as well.

"A little more notice would've been nice." I told them outright.

It was true, I'd gotten dressed just in case Hashimoto came like I predicted since I frankly looked like a mess. I hadn't showered yet and I could feel the hair at the back of my head sticking into all kinds of different directions.

"You don't get that privilege in this situation. We're on the clock." Hashimoto said in a somewhat loud voice as he pushed me into my own dorm with Sanada following behind with a worried expression.

"Am I going to get an explanation?" I asked them both.

"No time. Go shower, mr. forgetful!" Hashimoto scanned my room before grabbing the suitcase I had in the corner of the room. It wasn't a big suitcase by any means, but it was something Matsuo gave me when he sent me off to this school.