Our Reality (Doki Doki Literature Club!)

Chaos' Preemptive Strike

"Are you serious?" sputtered Natsuki. "Why would you agree to keep an eye on the girl that's been terrorizing the school?"

"Because Fuyu asked me too?" Shujinkou answered as he scratched his right cheek. "Honestly, I couldn't really say no when she's in President Mode..."

"Still..." confusion and curiosity swelled up in Shujinkou as Natsuki glared at him. "Dummy, don't you realize what that means?"

"Yeah. I'm possibly a target now..." Shujinkou sighed.

"At least you have Mali's word that she'll stop pranking everyone," Sayori assured him.

"Like it would really be that easy," Natsuki replied, rolling her eyes.

Natsuki's words would remain in Shujinkou's head for the rest of the day and even the next morning.

While waiting for homeroom to begin, Shujinkou sat at his desk staring at the Student Council necklace Fuyu had given him last semester.

"How am I going to handle this?" he wondered aloud. "Mali said that she would stop pranking others and I want to believe her but... I can't get over the uncomfortable feeling I got from her yesterday. Plus, I've seen a lot of scenarios where a younger person would feign innocence to lower someone's guard."

Shujinkou sighed as he continued to ponder the dilemma he faced. "In the end, I don't really know anything about her so I can't really judge her."

In what felt like no time at all, the morning classes passed by and there has been no words of any pranks that have been pulled. When the time of lunch finally arrived, Shujinkou walked out of his classroom and journeyed to the first year hallway. Using the info Fuyu had supplied him, he effortlessly found Mali's classroom and peeked inside.

It was at that point where that uneasy feeling from yesterday started to creep its way into Shujinkou again. Mali had an entire section of the classroom to herself.

"Here goes nothing," he said as slowly approached Mali.

As he inched his way closer and closer, he noticed the first-year student was reading a book titled, "Advanced T-"

"Senpai?" before he could finish reading the book's title, his attention was immediately diverted to Mali's curious face. "What are you doing here?"

"I was just-"

"You're not here to check up on me are you?" she interrupted. "I've been good all morning."

"I know. I was just wondering if you wanted to have lunch together," Shujinkou proposed.

"Senpai wants to have lunch with me?" an innocent smile stretched across her face as she eagerly jumped on her feet. "How can I say no?"

Mali wrapped her arm around his, led Shujinkou outside and plopped down on the first bench she found.

"Hey, Senpai, what kind of club are you in?" Mali asked.

"Huh?" Shujinkou replied, surprised by the sudden question.

"You said that you had to get back somewhere yesterday. So what kind of club did you have to get back to?"

"Oh. I had to get back to the Literature Club."

"Literature Club? I didn't know the school had a Literature Club," Mali's eyes then scanned Shujinkou from head to toe. "Senpai doesn't seem like the literary type."

"Still?" Shujinkou weakly chuckled as he considered what he just heard. "I've learned a lot about literature since I joined and I still seem like I'm not even close to being the literary type?"