While the pink and purple couple's reconciliation was taking place, the rest of the literature club members continued their search for answers.

"I asked my dad and he doesn't remember any high school student in particular", the twintailed girl said. "Seems like neither of us involved has noticed anyone suspicious. This is getting more and more difficult", the mint haired girl replied.

"So, any luck with the letters?", Erika asked. "None. They were printed in black and white, so the tracking is impossible without the microdots", Omiko replied with disappointment. "Shut, well seems we've got absolutely nothing", Erika said almost slamming her head against the table. "It's okay, Erika-senpai, we'll get something eventually, there has to be something they forgot or let loose", Omiko said trying to cheer up her upperclassman.

"Oh no... Why in heavens is raining in march?", Omiko said looking outside the window of the usual cafeteria she and Erika were using as a meeting place as of late. "Beats me... I'm calling an Uber, I can give you a ride but we live kinda apart, don't we?", Erika said scratching her chin. "It's okay, I'll just run, it's not that far from here", Omiko said.

"Why do- hey, isn't that?", Erika said pointing at the entrance of the cafeteria. "Airi...", Omiko said quietly as she glanced at the gorgeous black haired girl under a white umbrella carrying another one in her free hand, seemingly scanning the place with her golden eyes for someone. "Looks like you don't have to worry anymore", Erika said grinning, while the glasses girl smiled warmly.

"Did you have fun, Miko?", Airi asked smiling sweetly at the girl walking next to her using now the green umbrella she brought. "I-I think so...", Omiko said shyly. "That's good, that's good", Airi said. "Y-You didn't have to", Omiko said feeling a little guilty the beautiful girl had to come to her rescue. "And leave you out here for you to get wet and probably sick? No way! I care too much about you for that", Airi said smiling warmly, which caused Omiko's face to flush like hell.

Moments later, the black haired girl switched her umbrella to her other hand and slowly began getting her hand closer to Omiko's, but as soon as her fingers barely touch her skin, Omiko almost jumped and pulled away her hand startled. "Sorry...", Airi said with a smile mixed of awkwardness and sadness, making Omiko feel horrible again.

Seeing Airi's gloomy smile made the glasses girl struggle to find a way to wipe it out of her pretty face, finally gathering some courage. "D-Do you want to watch a movie when we get home?", Omiko asked shyly under the light rain. "I would love to!", Airi replied quickly retrieving the life in her golden eyes and smiling happy, that smile that always melted Omiko's heart.

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"Yay! We founds another village!", Sayori exclaimed happy. "But it's like a generic one, isn't it? This ain't jungle village even though it's near the jungle", Ryona sighed a little disappointed. "You're right... Well, at least there's a librarian here!", Sayori said as she leaned her back on Ryona's chest again. "You always find the good side to everything don't you?", Ryona giggled wrapping her arms around Sayori's waist tighter and nuzzling her nose against Sayori's strawberry blonde hair. "If you say so!", Sayori replied getting more comfortable on Ryona's torso. "I do say so, besides that's one of the many reasons why I love you", Ryona said kissing the top of Sayori's head. "I love you too!", Sayori said turning around, dropping the controller on the couch and wrapping her arms around Ryona's neck, planting quick pecks on her lips repeatedly.

"Sayori", Ryona said now that they had gone back to their cuddling and Minecraft session. "Hmm?", Sayori replied. "I know you don't wanna talk about it when we're together but, I think we really should", Ryona said in a more serious tone. "Why do you say that?", Sayori responded. "Because you said they were never like that with you, that they were all friends of yours, why did they start messing with you? It's something that concerns us, also when my suspension is over I won't just stand aside while they keep harassing you, and I guess we don't want me to get expelled for beating up another one of those guys, we have to stop it", Ryona explained. "...okay, let's talk", Sayori replied in a serious voice.

"So, you said you were friends with everyone in your class, right?", Ryona asked while she held Sayori's hand reassuringly. "Yeah", Sayori replied. "Not a single like, enemy or someone that didn't like you or you didn't like?", Ryona asked. "Nope, I've always got along with everyone, or at least I always believed so", Sayori replied. "Hmmm did you mess with anyone sometime? Even if you were just kidding or something?", Ryona asked concerned. "No, I don't like being mean even if it's just joking", Sayori responded looking down. "Hmmm it really seems they just started bullying you for no reason then...", Ryona said sighing. "I've been thinking about it too. That day, the boy you beat said something odd", Sayori said looking away. "Odd? How come?", Ryona asked curious. "He said something about liking boys dressed as girls, I remember I found it weird, and thinking about it it's because I remembered that's something he told me some time ago, he said it was a secret but since we were good friends,  he trusted me and one day he started talking to me about it basically, so what I found odd is him saying that out loud, like as far as I knew it was still a secret", Sayori said seemingly deep in thought. "A secret huh...", Ryona said reflecting.

"You know, I've always believed people think I'm horrible, but now that I actually know they do, it feels awful, it really hurts", Sayori said with her blue eyes starting to water. "Wha- you're not!", Ryona quickly said. "You don't think I'm horrible, do you?", Sayori asked with pleading eyes. "Of course not! And you're not horrible at all, in fact is the other way around, you're beautiful inside and outside!", Ryona said putting her hands on Sayori's shoulders. "Even if it turns out I actually am horrible?", Sayori asked again. "Listen, and listen very well", Ryona said looking Sayori right in the eye, placing her hands on Sayori's cheeks gently. "I will never, ever, think anything bad about you, you're the best person I've ever met, there's so many goods about you I'd take days to run them down to you. You may have doubts, you may not believe in yourself, or you may not be in peace with yourself, yet, but one thing is for certain, and that is that I love everything about you, who you are, what you can be, anything, and I will fight the world for you if I have to, and I'll prove to you how amazing you are, until you love yourself as much as I love you", Ryona finished with a sweet smile, rubbing Sayori's temples with her thumbs. The bubbly girl did not say a word, simply smiling back as her tears had now turned into ones of happiness.

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The girl of the white ribbon had just finished doing some rather unnecessary cleaning, now finding herself in front of her wardrobe.

"No, no, no, nobody wears a dress at home... A skirt maybe? A little too forced I think... Hmmm I guess I'll go with jeans and this cute green tank top...", Monika speak to herself as she tried to decided the outfit she would be dressing that day since she'd have a visit later.

I know what you may be thinking, so don't get the wrong idea! I just like to look good when I have visits okay? Haha anyway, let's keep going.

Around 5 pm, the door bell rang and Monika after doing one last quick inspection on her looks, hurried to the door.

"Hi, Mayu!", Monika said with a smile. "Hey Monika, this is my friend Ryuji from my club, he's the one I told you about that could help us with that", Magikick said pointing her thumb to the guy with dreadlocks behind her. "Yo!", Ryuji said with a toothy smile. "Ah, yes, hello Ryuji", Monika said sounding a little bit disappointed.

What? Who's disappointed? I'm not!

After her visits made themselves at home, with Monika bringing some coffee and juice for them, Ryuji took his laptop from his backpack and started setting everything for the process.

"Give him your phone", Magikick said to Monika. "E-Eh? Why?", The brunnete stuttered. "Relax, he won't do anything wrong with it, he just needs some data. If we want to track the person who sent you that text the day of the incident then let's let Ryuji do his job", the white haired girl said. "R-Right... Sorry about that haha", Monika said with a awkward smile, handing her phone to the dreadlocks guy. "It's okay", Magikick said smiling at Monika, making her blush lightly.

I did not!

"Ladies, this may take a while so you could, well watch me doing some complicate coding and informatics stuff for a good while or do something else", Ryuji explained now that he had everything ready to start. "We'll do something else, thanks", Mayu replied patting the boy in the back walking towards the kitchen like she was at her own home.

Magikick stopped for a moment when she Monika remained on the couch staring blankly at the nothingness. "I guess you wanna make sure he doesn't see anything on your phone you don't want it to be seen, can I grab some food?", the white haired girl said grinning at the brunnete. "What? Ah! No! I just spaced out sorry!", Monika said standing up with her cheeks pink as Natsuki's hair and following Mayu.

"Awe... Well I guess some apples will do", Magikick said sighing in disappointment. "Haha sorry, I guess you didn't know I'm vegan. I'll have something more appropriate for you next time", Monika said smiling awkwardly, handing two apples to the white haired girl. "Next time?", Magikick asked curious as she bit the apple, before chewing quietly. "A-Ah! I mean, if we need to keep meeting here to investigate this matter or-", Monika said nervously. "Yeah, it'd be cool to hangout again, besides you have your own place, cool isn't it?", Magikick said grinning cooly at the popular girl. "Yeah, well, it has its ups and downs like everything", Monika said now calmer and smiling happy.

"So wrestling club huh? And here I was about to try to lure you into my literature club, if things worked out of course", Monika said as their conversation continued. "Hahaha, well at least I don't have to turn you down now", Magikick laughed too cutely for Monika who had only seen her cool kind of attitude until now, feeling nice on the inside.

What?! I-I just find it funny okay?

"And things will work out, you'll be back in your nerdy club in no time", Mayu said jokingly. "Hey! Reading is culture!", Monika said smiling. "Okay, nerd", Magikick said grinning teasingly. "Oh my gosh...", Monika said facepalming her blushing face.

Their conversation continued as Mayu asked Monika some more questions about her, learning about her piano practice, her passion for coffee, and such.

"And that's about it for my reasons to be vegan, anyway enough about me, what about yo-", Monika said. "Ladies! Please come here for a second!", Ryuji suddenly called from the other room, cutting Monika off. "I guess you'll have to find out later", Mayu smiled sweetly at the brunnete and walked to the living room.

"So, the good news is that I was able to track down the source from where this text was sent", Ryuji said with crossed arms. "That's great!", Monika said excited. "But, the bad news is that the source doesn't lead to anyone in particular", Ryuji said sighing. "How come?", The white haired girl asked confused. "The source is our school. This text was sent using an emulator of the app for phones in a computer of our school, that's why it appeared as private, so basically anyone there could have done it", Ryuji explained. Monika and Magikick looked at each other. "I guess we're at zero again", Monika said. "This person really is annoying", Mayu said sighing.

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"Nothing", Erika said. "Well it didn't hurt to try", Ryona said sighing. "I guess that's the obvious outcome, after all rumours always come and go without paying much attention where they're coming from", Omiko added. "Yeah, I asked some of the guys of my class too about who started the rumours about Natsuki and Yuri but they also said they just heard it from others conversation of from friends of them who heard them from other people's conversation and so on, tracking down rumour sources ain't an easy thing it seems", Erika explained.

"So basically we got nothing on who's trying to ruin the literature club, dammit", Ryona said slamming her fist against the table. "Take it easy Ryona, we'll find out eventually", Erika said. "If there's something I really hate is seeing Sayori hurt, I try to make her days better in the little time we have for us, but most of the day is her going through that crap at school thanks to this dickhead trying to pull off something against us", Ryona said clenching her fists. "We understand, Sayori is a good friend of us too, same as Natsuki, Yuri and Monika, we all are dealing with this person", Omiko said putting a hand on Ryona's shoulder. "Yeah... You're right, but it's frustrating this coward is good at hiding their crap", Ryona sighed.

After some more discussion that lead to no clue on the identity of the one ruining the literature club, the 3 girls that once competed for Sayori's heart left the little family restaurant.

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Mayu and Monika once again wanted to discuss something else, and the white haired girl agreed on going to a nearby cafe to talk.

Monika decided to wait for Magikick near the school and once club time was over the girl of golden eyes hurried walking down the road Monika's house direction.

The brunnete saw her middle length snow like hair waving as she approached and smiled at her. "Hello Mayu", Monika said smiling. "Sup Monika", Magikick said. "Shall we go?", Monika said smiling warmly. "Yeah, let's go", Mayu said but before she began to walk, she saw on the other side of the road a girl with peach colored hair and big red bow walking next to a very average looking boy.

Magikick stared at them for a second, with only one thought in mind. "I... Have seen that boy before...".

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A/N: 6k readings! Yowie wowie brothers! Thank you very much!! I still get amazed this thing keeps getting more reads, you're all lovely my dudes 👌🏿🖤

Also I've been both busy and kinda facing a writer block so  yeah, sorry for slower updates, to make it up to you have this:

Basically how Airi looks like.

Mayu Tsurugi aka brother Magikick.

As always, pics made with Picrew because I can't draw crap 🖖🏿