Chapter 6: Karuizawa SS: dilemma and judgement
Fear felt my heart as I arrived in front of his door.
'Why am I scared? Calm down Kei, calm down...' I thought to myself.
*Knock* *Knock* *Knock*
After a couple seconds the door finally opened.
"Oh hey Karuizawa, what are you doing here at this time? You need something?" Kamado-kun asked me.
"Oh I wanted to talk to you."
"Come in then"
"Do you want to drink something?"
"No thanks." I answered in a polite manner.
"So what you wanted to talk about?"
I took a deep breath and finally spoke
"Do you have a girlfriend?"
"...What?"
"I mean do you have a girlfriend or are you single?"
"No actually I am single."
"Oh..." I was kind of surprise by his answer. He was a very good looking man and was extremely strong.
"But if it is you, I can make an exception." He said with a charming smile.
'Huh?'
"Wha..what did you just say?"
"I said I could make an exception if it was someone like you."
I felt my face heat up a little bit.
"You look cute when you blush you know." He said still having his charming smile.
"S..stop teasing me!!!" I said while stuttering a little bit.
"Alright calm down sweetheart, but why were you asking me this question?"
Sweetheart? But what do I give him as an answer?
"Uhm...you see...you remember when I told you that I will be going with my group of friends to the Karaoke and asked you if you will come by?"
"Yeah..."
"A lot of the girls were asking me if you had a girlfriend and since we are in the same team they expected me to know the answer. So that's why I was asking you this question."
"You could have just called me instead..you know...coming to my room at 8.30pm?"
"Uhm...I also wanted to talk about our team and my role in it."
"What do you mean by your role in the team?"
"What am I meant to do in it? You are our leader it's kind of your responsibility."
Ok, I don't even know what I am talking at this point. I'm just trying to get information from him.
"You are the healer of our team, so improve your healing ability..."
"Uhm yeah you are right?"
Why did I ask such a dumb question?
"Are you sure you are not the one you want to know whether I have a girlfriend?"
"Uh...no...no...NO!!!..it was the girls who asked this question!!"
"I feel hurt, I thought it was you who wanted to know, but the answer is no. Tell them I am not interested in a relationship or in any of them." He said while wagging his fingers.
This answer alone solved most of the question I had in my head right now. Since Hirata-kun already accepted becoming my 'boyfriend'. I only needed to know if he had a girlfriend as that person would be a direct competitor to my peaceful life.
I just hope Hirata-kun can protect me. I wanted to ask Kamado-kun first and felt happy to be placed in the same team as him. But when I finally got the chance to talk to him, I felt fear for a small period.
A fear worse than the one, I used to feel during my childhood and middle school days. But I hid it and acted normal. I thought I was the only one who felt it, but even Ichinose-san and Amikura-san felt it but hid it as well.
However our opinion on him quickly changed when we saw his narcissistic and play-boyish personality. He was carefree and confident. But I guess he can back up his words and that's why he acts like this.
I just hope choosing Hirata-kun to protect me was the right choice. Kamado-kun is strong...he is very strong but with that personality of his, he will probably ignore me and care only about flirting with other girls and will tell me to wait.
And Hirata-kun also knows my secret now, it will be better for less people to know about it. I just hope Kamado-kun didn't saw the scar near my chest when I was naked earlier.
*Clap* *Clap*
"Karuizawa, are you ok?"
"Uh...yeah why are you asking?"
"You have been thinking of something for like 2 minutes. Are you sure you are Ok?"
"What?...Uhm yeah I am fine. I was just thinking of something."
"And what was it?"
"Uh...why should I tell you?"
"You are in my room and blank out for 2 minutes. If something happened to you right now, it would be in my responsibility."
"..."
"Well if you don't wanna talk about it, it's fine by me." That's what I hate about him, I can't read his face to know what he is thinking right now. His face is like an art. Its beautiful yet a mystery.
"Anyways what about you, Karuizawa? Do you have a boyfriend?" He asked me.
"I am dating Hirata-kun."
"Ok"
"Ok? You don't have anything else to say."
"No"
"And why?"
"Your personal life."
I didn't have any answer.
"Well since you don't have anything else to add, I guess this is the end of the conversation right." He said with cool expression.
"Uh yeah..." I stood up and walked to the door.
"Well I guess I will see you tomorrow Karuizawa. But before you go I have something to ask you."
"..."
"Why did you choose me as the team leader and who was the one interested in knowing whether I had a girlfriend or not?"
"Oh I didn't trust them that much and for it was pretty much all the girls in my group who ask this question?"
"Goodnight and see you tomorrow" He said before closing the door.
I went back in my room. My mind a bit lighter than it was before. I laid myself on my bed and stared at the ceiling.
'What a dickhead!!! Imagine knowing that your teammate who you saw naked on your first day, got a boyfriend and you answer with 'OK' and then close the door on her face before she tells you goodbye.'
Can't he just be normal or show signs of caring about it? I know we don't have a relationship or even a friendship but atleast I am your teammate. Shouldn't you be worry about me being distracted and ignoring the team. You are the leader of our team. He should be happy that this relationship with Hirata-kun is a fake one.
He is so weird. I hate people like that.
*BUZZ* *BUZZ* *BUZZ*
I picked up my phone to see who sent me the message.
'A message from the school? Oh it was the result of today's exam'
We were ranked first in the exam with 3000 points on 3000 points. And student who contributed the most in the exam was Kamado-kun.
'2995 points huh' He could have down this exam alone if we are being honest. I wasn't shocked nor surprise for some reason.
Except the part of me getting naked and giving my clothes to him and healing Akimura-san slightly, I didn't even had to do anything else.
I got 2 points similar to Akimura-san while Ichinose only got one point. And yet we were placed in the top 4 students in the exam. I was genuinely surprise by this. All the other teams got 0 points.
'Let me check the ranking for all the first year'
I was completely shocked to see the list again. It was the same. Did no one else finish the exam?
Well whatever. That just good news for us. My dream of becoming a good medical mage may actually become true.
*BUZZ* *BUZZ* *BUZZ*
A new notification?
'Official ranking of mage in Class D'
I started scrolling through the list of girls and finally got to my name.
'Ranked E mage' I guess this is not bad since most of them are in F rank.
Let me check the boys list. I started scrolling searching for Hirata-kun name first.
'Ranked D- mage' Oh wow his rank is so high.
Let me check for Kamado-kun. I kept scrolling through the list and finally found his name.
A shock expression formed on my face when I saw his ranking
'S-' That is the first time I saw such a thing. I thought he would probably be a B rank or C rank not a low special grade sorcerer at this age.
I put my phone and tried to fall asleep but it was of no use.
I opened my drawer, took my sleeping pills and drank a pill.
This should help me now. I drink one every time I have a nightmare and it happens regularly.
After about 30 minutes, I felt my head weaken and my eyes closed.
I laid my head on my pillow and felt asleep.