The Lost Exile: Hiriya's Lost Memorial

Chapter 1.5 Ghost from the past?

The echo of a swing could be heard.

‘Squeak squeak’

“Nee… Hiriya.” The girl on the swing said.

“Hm?” A young Hiriya replied.

The two were in a playground, the girl sat on a swing and Hiriya was standing beside her. The playground was like the one Hiriya and Rita had passed by in the morning. But the girl on the swing was nothing like Rita. She had jet black long hair and sea blue eyes.

“If I disappeared and came back unconscious, will you kiss me like in those books you read me?”

“… Of course, I’ll always save you _____.”

The girl smiled and continued to swing. Her smile was fade, but it showed joy and reassurance in it. As she kept swinging, Hiriya kept asking himself… Who was it? What was her name? These thoughts kept floating in Hiriya’s thoughts when suddenly…

‘Whack’

“Auuu~”

Hiriya looked up. A grayed expression can be seen on Midori-Sensei’s face, Hiriya’s homeroom teacher. Miyabi Midori-Sensei, Class 2-E’s homeroom teacher. With long straight brown hair and a dark blue business suit, she is also an Elimination Officer. He looked around, he had be sleeping in the classroom, with his desk near the back windows, he still managed to take a peek at Rita who was feeling guilty about not being able to warn him and Ice, who was seated a few seats in front of him. Ice however, remained silent.

“You sure have a lot of guts sleeping in my lesson, Harima-kun.”

After a scolding and punishment to carry the equipment used in Midori-Sensei’s class, Hiriya rushed to the roof of the Academy. It was lunchtime.

There, Rita and Ice were already waiting for him. The roof was a garden area, lush bushes and trees and even a small pond. After Hiriya sat down, Rita handed him a Bento she made for him in the morning and Ice took out his, afterwards, all three began to eat. This had been the three’s daily routine since they made friends with Ice, in fact, it was at this same location the two ‘befriended’ Ice.

“I’m still surprised Ice.” Rita said.

“About what?”

“How you are able to cook so much better than any of the foods I can cook.”

“Well, with enough time and lack of choices will do wonders.”

“But it’s kind of amazing how you attracted so much ‘girl’ attention towards yourself.”

Ice slightly cringed.

“All I did was help out some girl who tripped off the stairs. But after that, these girls kept stalking me…”

“…”

Both Hiriya and Rita had nothing to rebut Ice with. They had been there throughout the entire event. It was nearing the end of the first year and Ice had only recently become friendly with Hiriya and Rita when they bumped into a girl at the stair, as she lost her balance, Ice quickly tried to catch her at the base of the stairs however, he also tripped and instead, his body helped cushion the girl’s fall. At the same time, his glasses fell off. When they did, both Hiriya and Rita knew why they felt that Ice was a bit awkward when he wore them. It was to cover up the fact that without them, he would look completely different, as he was trying to get his glasses back, the surrounding girls could help but stare at Ice with affection for him. But when Hiriya and Rita tried to make Ice take off his glasses permanently…

“Touch them and I’ll kill you…” Ice would say coldly. Usually while having his EM armor virtualized with a light blade spell pointed at the person who attempted to take them off.