Log On: KHR Reality

32 - Terms and Conditions Apply

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[Gunshot from the Downtown from DGS - Playboy Troubles]

"Well, this is awkward."

He heard a voice from behind him, only to see an awoken Utau staring at him with a one-eyed smile.

"Fufu, most people would wake up from such a loud yell, after all, Haruto~" Anastasia smiled, or at least Haruto believed that she was. It was difficult to infer due to how dim the lighting was. Moreover, rather than her smile, the main point he was full-out panicking about was that Anastasia had called him by his first name, with no honorifics attached! The ever polite, always respectful (?) classmate who ensured that she always attached an honorific to the back of anyone's name had omitted it!

Haruto liked to believe that as an informant and spy, he was a professional, and there had always been rumours of a demonic entity hovering around Anastasia, even as the other had been low profile in comparison to her older brother's flashy name. These rumours that warned the ignorant and the fools to stay away from her... Or meet their tragedy.

"Anyways, you wouldn't mind if we demand an explanation, would you?" Utau continued frostily, the smile looking both devilish yet plastic at the same time.

"Huh? Wait!" Haruto shrieked in terror, as he was drawn, or dragged, by his two schoolmates into the room against his will, "BOSS! Help m--!!"

The door slams shut with a final click. An uneasy silence follows.

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"So. Why on earth are you at the VARIA's apartment?" Utau started off, incessantly tapping her pen onto the clipboard she held. Meanwhile, Anastasia was holding a torchlight directly above Haruto (as she believed it was necessary for it to seem like a real interrogation). And was that Kasumi still sleeping peacefully in the corner?! How was that girl still asleep amongst all the chaos?

Haruto gulped. His hands were currently tied to the back of the chair and he had no plausible way of escaping.

"I could ask you the same. I didn't know that you three were going to be here." The white-haired boy fought to keep his voice steady, staring at the two monsters -- sorry, girls -- before him. Trying to exhale discreetly, Haruto thought quietly to himself, 'You got this Haruto. They can smell your fear. As long as you tamp that fear down, you will survive.' He chanted in his mind, attempting to brainwash himself to live up to the difficult task.

"'Put that fear down and you can survive this', eh? Not happening."

Haruto did a spit take upon seeing a lopsided grin on Utau's face. Did she just read his mind or something? Anastasia merely giggled.

"Your expression shows everything you're thinking, Haruto~"

"Now, spill before things get messy." The finalised tone drew a shiver down Haruto's spine. The white-haired boy gulped once more. He was in for a long night.

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Meanwhile...

"UWAH!!! Even if it's Dino-san who's saying this, you got to be kidding me! Trying to pass on some dangerous rings to me... I've had enough of this!" Tsuna was screaming as he ran his fingers through his gravity-defying hair in frustration, stomping onto the concrete ground below him as his friends tried to appease him.