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CHAPTER 20

"Oi, Tokiya! About the fan meeting, you don't have to make fun of my height.."

Syo's complaints suddenly cut short when he saw Tokiya's face when the blue head sat alone on a bench.

Tokiya had a face like thunder. It was the scariest face expression that Tokiya ever put.

"Tokiya?" Syo touched his shoulder as he took a seat. The blue head was totally spaced out before..

"Oi, Tokiya!"

The idol flinched with Syo's slightly louder voice.

"Syo.."

"What's wrong with your face, though? Something's wrong?" Syo asked. Totally forgot that he was supposed to blabber on about Tokiya's joke.

Tokiya sighed heavily as he closed his eyes for a while. He reopened his eyes after his anger cooled down.

"About the suspect for the late Tokiya's murder.."

"Yes?"

"Don't you think there is a possibility that there is more than one suspect?"

"Such as?"

"Nakamura Yuna, Ashu Mizuki, Tanaka Naomi.. what happened to them after debut?"

"Well.. They debut as a group but disbanded due to some scandals."

"Did they still disturb Tokiya after debut?"

"Sometimes but you know yourself, right? You always know how to make yourself intimidating. Why?"

Tokiya could feel the anger crawled into his veins again. It was impossible for him to recall what happened in Hayato's waiting room without the need to punch somebody afterwards but for the sake of both of them to narrow down the suspects of the late Tokiya's murder, he had no choices.

"Oh my.. What a maniac! What the hell is wrong with them?" Syo reacted angrily as soon as Tokiya ended his story.

"You know what? I really wish those girls are boys instead so that I can punch them on the face without even feeling that I lose my gentleness."

"Just punch them, Tokiya! What's with the 'Nanami is a disgusting little bitch' thing? Look who's talking!"

"I know right!" for some reasons, Tokiya looked happy when Syo was obviously exasperated. Apparently, this is the advantage when you share your problem with someone hot-blooded like Syo. They will get as dramatic as you. "So, based on their obsession, don't you think that HE is not the only suspect for the murder?"

"The one who killed the future you is a guy, Tokiya."

"Maybe someone paid him to kill me?" Tokiya insisted.

Syo's pissed off face slowly turned into a bitter smile, much to Tokiya's bewilderment. "Tokiya.. perhaps, do you want to find the possibility that your friend is not the one who killed the future you?"

"Is that obvious?" Tokiya chuckled but Syo knew that Tokiya still thought that the fact that his own friend killed the late Tokiya was inconceivable.

Well, who didn't, though?

When it was the first time Syo told Tokiya, it took all for him to convince the blue head about the killer. Even he did not have solid evidence but after Syo justified why he thought that this particular friend of them might be the killer that they looked for all this time, Tokiya eventually gave in.

"It's not that.. oi!" Tokiya glared at Syo. "How come you talk so casually like this when the possible killer is your friend?"

"It's not that I enjoyed suspecting my friend to be the killer, Tokiya."

Tokiya's face turned miserable as he stared at the starry sky. "I might sound evil but there is a small part of me does hope that those girls... No, I mean anyone but my own friend is the killer. It's hard you know. Rather than fuming at him, I just don't want him to get hurt. A nice guy like him became a killer because of me. If only I did not marry Haruka.."

"Don't say that, Tokiya," it hurt Syo to see Tokiya blamed himself for something that clearly was not his fault. To tell you the truth, upon learning the identity of the killer, Tokiya did not want to confess his love to Haruka. He did not want to hurt his friend again but Syo was the one who convinced him to do vice versa because Tokiya deserved Haruka. "No matter how the rest of us reacted to your relationship with Haruka, you don't share any responsible for that. It's his choice if he did kill you."

"But he is a nice guy, Syo," Tokiya insisted, much to his teammate's dismay. "We both.. No, everyone does know how great that guy is. He is a friend that you can rely on him. He helped me a lot, Syo. And.. He even started over with someone that deserves him."

Syo bit his lips as he totally understood Tokiya's feeling. "Let's hope that our assumption turns out wrong, okay?"

"Yeah, you are right, Syo. After all, I have three problematic fans to deal with."

It was a short silence before Tokiya received a call from Shibuya.

"Moshi-moshi?"

"Ichinose-san!" it was rare for Tomochika to call him but..

It was even rare that she called him with her quivered voice.

"Shibuya-san, what happened?"

"Haruka.. Haruka's missing."

"What?"

"She still did not come back to dorm. It's already late, Ichinose-san."

Tokiya glanced at his watch. It was already 12.00 a.m.

No.. That can't be..

"She was supposed to study in library until nine. That's what she told me but now.." Tomochika looked like she was about to cry. "That's not like her to not tell me if something comes up.."

"Do you think some female students were actually the culprits of all this, Icchi?" Ren assumed as Tokiya was deep in thought, gaining himself a weak nod from the blue head.

"Do you mean that students in our class, Ren-kun? I noticed that they always glared at Haru-chan for no reasons," Natsuki stated, making Tokiya's blood started to boil.

"Ringo-sensei already asked the security guards to search for Nanami..." Masato could not finish his sentence as Tokiya abruptly left them.

"Oi, Tokiya!" Syo tried to stop the blue head by grabbing his arm. "Where the hell are you going?"

"Searching for her obviously. I cannot stand here doing nothing..." as Tokiya turned to their directions, they automatically flinched upon seeing his face expression.

Syo slowly loosened his grip, which made Tokiya left quicker.

A few seconds passed without anyone's voice to break the dark atmosphere until...

"As expected from Tokiya, right? He'll be downright scary when it comes to Haruka.." Cecil commented out of amazement.

"Does it ring a bell, you guys? The last time we saw him like that.." Syo's question was quickly answered by nods.

That was when the late Tokiya decided to sue every single lunatic who insulted Haruka for being his wife.

"Haruka! Haruka!"

A pair of golden eyes who were closed for a few hours seemed having a hard time to open. Her frame, from head to toe was in pain as she slightly moved.

What happened?

Nobody was around and it was so dark. Damn! She hates dark places so much. It made her head kept imagining weird things like a woman with a hideous face and long hair, typical Japanese ghost who hops around and...

She bit her lips as the memory of her encounter with the trio crossed her mind. After beating her for something that she has done but not in a wrong way, they just left her in here, the most isolated place in Saotome Academy that no students would dare to come. There were some rumours about how this store did not even have a CCTV and Saotome actually planned to demolish it.

Kami-sama, obachan, Tokiya-kun, Tomo-chan, minna-san, help me...

"Haruka! Are you there? Haruka!"

Wait! Come to think of it, she heard a voice, calling her name.

"Haruka!!" the voice sounded more desperate.

"Tokiya-kun!" her spinning head finally could recognize the voice. Thank God!

"Haruka?"

"Tokiya-kun, I am here!" she shouted louder as her body was still in pain to move to the door.

"Haruka?" she sighed in relief as he finally knocked on the door, indicating that he finally found her. "Are you there?"

"Y..yes.."

"Thank God! Wait for me.. This cupboard blocked the door."

"Okay."

Time passed with the sounds of screeching cupboard radiated through the whole corridor. When the door was finally open, she saw the tired face of Tokiya before the blue eyes could take a good look at her.

"Haruka, what happened..." as the blue eyes scanned her, she looked at herself. A pair of golden eyes got bigger as she realized that she only wore a white camisole for her top. She looked around before spotting those poor uniforms of her.

The prices were so expensive but they just tore them apart like a piece of paper. Luckily she still had her skirt and shoes on. She did not even realize that she was spacey for a while until she felt a warm fabric around her shoulder.

It was Tokiya's sweater.

"Haruka, how come you are here? What happened to you? What are those bruises?"

She met his eyes and his face expression made her totally regretted for making him worried. It was the same expression when they met the accident.

The accident which changed her entire life.

"Tokiya-kun..." she hugged him, seeking for a comfort. She felt like about to explode. She was scared with the isolated store. She felt indignant because of those skanks, the memory about Tokiya's death haunted her back..

"Haruka.."

"Thank God you found me.. How come you.. I thought that nobody would ever.." she felt too relieved to talk properly.

"For a second, I thought the same too. We looked for you everywhere but we could not find you," he also sounded relieved and maybe much more relieved than her.

He stroked her hair out of affection but it only sent him gasping out of shock upon seeing the scary bruises both on her ears. He scrutinized her body again before finding more bruises.

"What's with these bruises? Who did this to you?" his voice sounded scary and for Haruka herself, she could not help but shivering out of fear.

"Tokiya-kun.."

"Hm? Tell me, who did this to you?" his voice mixed with a shiver and anger.

"Those.. those girls.. from my class.."

No, Tokiya. This is not the right time for you make her more worried.

"It's okay. You can tell me the details later. Can you stand? I need to bring you to the health centre," Tokiya suddenly stood up while holding her hands.

"I.." she tried to follow him but her legs gave in. The sudden pain just attacked them.

"I guess not.." Tokiya concluded as he supported her from falling down. Without warning, he carried her, in a princess style, enough to make her blushed.

"Tokiya-kun, it's okay.. I can walk by myself.." she would lie if she said she did not enjoy the way he carried her but...

Luckily I don't have a heart attack!

"Yeah, sure you can.." he replied with a slight sarcasm, making her pouted.

For some reasons, Tokiya was awfully silent as they walked past the corridor.

He needed a help from Tomochika.

"I am sorry for giving you such a hard time."

"Eh?"

"I promise I will fight for you, Haruka. I will show to everyone that I am yours and you are mine. Whoever hurts you will regret that for the rest of their life."

It's the time already, Tokiya mentally commented as he just stared blankly at Saotome, Hyuga and Ringo who had this 'we are so disappointed with you, Mr.Ichinose/Ichinose/Tokiya-chan. We are sorry but by hook or by crook, you will be expelled for disobeying the rule' aura around them.

This was just bound to happen anyway. Tokiya totally could see this coming the moment he realized that he has fell in love with Haruka and decided to date her. Unlike Haruka, who was fidgeting next to him, Tokiya looked totally calm. Apparently, it just wasted his energy to worry about something that he already knew what would be the resolution was.

He knew Saotome. That geezer had a lack of sympathy syndrome when it comes to his 'love is forbidden' rule unless you were smart enough to change his mind.

"Mr. Ichinose, Miss Nanami, do you know why you guys are here?" Saotome 's stern voice and question made Haruka flinching.

Not to mention that the principal no longer talked with his typical tone. His normal but seldom tone just made the atmosphere turned more depressing.

"Yes," Haruka and Tokiya answered in unison but the latter sounded more collected.

"You clearly had disobeyed the most important rule in this academy which is 'love is forbidden'."

"We got many complaints from other students about your relationship and we are afraid we cannot let it slide," Hyuga also had this stern look but it was not surprising since the buff teacher always had this intimidating image in him. "We also had the evidences."

He slided a few pictures to the edge of Saotome's desk, for Tokiya and Haruka had a better look at it.

The first picture showed Haruka hugged Tokiya in the rain when the guy was so broken-hearted about his parents.

The second picture; it was the night when Tokiya confronted Haruka about how did she know so much about him.

The third picture; it was when Tokiya confessed to her.

The next picture; when Tokiya was in Hayato mode and blurted out cheesy lines with Haruka stroked his hair.

The other pictures showed every single moment of them together. It was like those pictures had been taken by a professional stalker because to be honest...

Most of their meeting places were somewhere hidden and it was late at night. How did this jerk even know?

"Care to explain, Tokiya-chan, Haru-chan? Your alibi," Ringo, the cross-dresser asked them with a look that suggested a toleration.

But Haruka was too afraid to even mutter a word. Not to mention she was worried about Tokiya. She took a glance at Tokiya but the blue head just put on a poker face.

God, what should I explain? Those evidences have said it all. I don't have any alibi to come up with. If we are meant to be expelled, then I will appeal to the principal to give Tokiya-kun a second chance. After all, it was all my fault. I was the one who...

"There is nothing to explain. Those pictures have said it all," Tokiya's nonchalant answer sent all souls in the principal's room gasped in shock including Haruka.

"Tokiya-kun.."

"This girl," he grabbed her hand before squeezing it since he knew that Haruka was going hot and cold about their current situation. "I love her. I want to protect her from anything that harmed her including those jerks who abused her in the store so I don't feel the need to hide our relationship."

"Ichinose, what are you on about?" Hyuga interrupted.

"Who brought all of those pictures to you?" Tokiya asked flatly but Haruka could notice that this guy was suppressing something boiling in him in order to remain polite to their teachers.

"It doesn't matter," Hyuga answered him yet it managed to make Tokiya getting apopletic.

"It. Doesn't. Matter? Are you sure?" now his impertinence showed its color and all Haruka could do was praying silently for their well-being after this. "Are you going to just ignore how creepy this jerk can be when it comes to invade our personal life? Are you going to just ignore how Haruka was beaten and left alone in the abandoned store because of those girls? Those were serious crimes for crying out loud."

"Ichinose, Nanami's case was still in investigation and we cannot just accuse any of your fans out there as the suspects.."

"That's not my point, Hyuga sensei. What I meant was... how can this academy forbid relationship among idols but at the same time, it doesn't say anything about those fans who are just lunatic and need to show some respect for their idol's private life?"

"Tokiya-chan, please mind your manners in front of the principal," Ringo's usually bubbly voice suddenly turned stern and more masculine. "That's not a nice way to put it."

"I am sorry Ringo sensei but since I am going to be expelled, I might as well be blunt about this matter because either you realize it or not, the real victims are us, the one who just want to have a serious relationship and be happy with it."

"Tokiya-kun, calm down.."

"I know why idols are forbidden to love. It's because they have fans so they are basically those fans' belonging. Idols are meant to be shared or meaning to say, those idols are like the puppets of showbiz so that those fans will keep buying their merchandise, their songs, all their works. In terms of economy, it's a good strategy but allowing us to do erotic or immoral shows like cross-dressing competition to see how many guys can we, the male idols seduce? I think it's not of sound mind," as Tokiya boldly repudiated Saotome Academy's rule, Haruka was panic-stricken to see how Hyuga looked like he was just being slapped by Tokiya (well, he was the one who allowed Ren to start the cross-dressing competition in the first place) and Ringo who naturally felt a smack on his head as the topic of cross-dressing was criticized.

"No, Ringo sensei. I don't mean you. At least, you don't have to seduce any guys until they end up being confused with their sexual preference," Tokiya gave him an apologetic look before continuing, "Just so you know, because of that stupid cross-dressing competition, I ended up receiving a pile of letters from the guys and most of them want to date me secretly. Don't you think it's disturbing? I just turned those innocent guys into a bunch of gays!"

Haruka bit her lips, struggling to not laugh when she knew she was not supposed to laugh. But, she could not help but chuckling upon seeing the three teachers were also like her. Struggling not to laugh at Tokiya's funny whine.

"Please don't laugh, you guys. I am the victim, you know," Tokiya obviously could not think that it was funny. "My point here is.. the competition only targetted the students in this academy but that alone shows us what are the effects if we keep provoking the fans to worship us. Do we have to make them besotted until they suffer a celebrity worship syndrome? Or erotomania perhaps? Either you realize it or not, we the idols just make all the fans want the idols to date or marry them when in reality, nobody can really tell that their loves to idols are fake or not. So, why should we the idols sacrifice our feeling to someone that genuinely care about us for those people? "

A creepy silence engulfed the wide room and Tokiya knew why.

It was because Saotome was very hot under the collar with him.

The principal of the academy finally made eye contact with Tokiya.

"I give you way more time to talk but all you did was being rude and ungrateful, Mr. Ichinose," his voice sounded scarily calm to the point of Haruka would not be surprised if the whole academy would break down due to the principal's rage. "I am afraid I need to remind you that it's not in our agreement. You are supposed to follow the conditions is you wish to debut again."

"Agreement? What agreement are you talking about?" Hyuga and Ringo were completely clueless but not Haruka. She absolutely knew what Saotome was trying to mean.

Is principal going to spill the beans? What about Tokiya-kun's second debut? What about Tokiya-kun's secret? He can't possibly..

"About me being tired to be Hayato and wanted a second debut? I don't think that matters anymore."

"Ehhhh????" Hyuga, Ringo and Haruka screamed in unison.

At last, Hayato himself gave the game away. Saotome did not even have to threat him about revealing his secret.

What is next?

"Then, Ichinose Tokiya, Nanami Haruka," Saotome took a deep breath before continuing, "Even you guys are the shoo-ins in your respective course... even you guys are the talents that I feel it such a waste to be threw away but I guess I have no choices. You guys are selfish and selfish people who don't care about their fans will never capture any heart and will never survive in showbiz. From now on, you guys are expelled!"

A few minutes passed since the love birds were walking together in a corridor. Nobody broke the awkward and silent moment.

Haruka was like a cat on hot bricks. She felt guilty for causing both of them to be expelled. Moreover, Tokiya did not look at her since they both excused themselves from the principal's room.

Is he angry with me? But he is holding my hand though, her golden eyes stared at their intertwined fingers.

She just followed his steps until finding themselves in front of A Class.

"Tokiya-kun, why are we here?"

"To settle an old score," he replied flatly before allowing themselves into the class where the students had fun doing their respective activities due to Ringo's urgent meeting.

"Tokiya?" Otoya who was playing with his guitar while talking with Masato and Cecil was quite surprised with his roommate's sudden entrance. In just split second, all eyes were on the love birds but the more important thing was why the heck did the S Class student, Ichinose Tokiya showed up with a cold look?

But they never realized that there were certain female students in the class who actually knew why that Ichinose Tokiya suddenly barged in.

"I am sorry to barge in but I need to see those girls," Tokiya pointed towards Yuna and her friends, sending the others stared at them with questioning looks.

"Y..yes? What's wrong?" Yuna nervously stood up from her seat, followed by Mizuki and Naomi who sat next to her. They tried to calm themselves down as Tokiya, who was still holding Haruka's hand approached them.

"Why do you guys looked unsettled? Something's wrong?" Tokiya asked sarcastically, ignoring other students who just formed a circle around them. "Or rather, did you guys DO something wrong?"

The simple trigger was enough to make those three girls turned ashen like a paper.

"Did you guys send our pictures to the principal?"

"Eh? What pictures?" the trio replied almost in unison and out of bewilderment but it was enough to make Tokiya pulled an unreadable expression.

So, it is really not them.

"Tokiya-kun, it's okay. It's not a big deal anymore.." Haruka tried to beseech him but he was too angry to listen to her. All he wanted was the justice for Haruka.

"Ichinose, Nanami, what happened? Why do you suddenly come to see Nakamura?" Masato asked, referring to Yuna.

"Hijirikawa-san, these girls were the one who beat Haruka on that day," his straightforward answer gained himself a shocked expression from other students while Masato's calm expression turned cold.

"Is that true, Nakamura? You both, is that true what Ichinose said?" even Masato still gave them the chance to deny the claim but it was obvious for everybody that Masato totally believed in Tokiya.

"No! That was a bullshit! We don't know anything about this so don't just jump to the conclusion!" Yuna shouted out of fear when she tried so hard to act innocent.

"Yes, Ichinose-san. We aren't really close with her and we.. we don't even give a damn about her life. We.. we are way much better than her. We will be idols but she's just a composer! There is no way we have anything against someone like her," in the midst of the nerve-wracking interrogation, Mizuki still kept her snobbish attitude to the fullest. Her insults to Haruka was totally the taboo words for Tokiya who treasured Haruka like his everything.

So, what happened next was totally a nightmare for the trio.

Tokiya smirked, suggesting that those chicks were just being nonsensical.

He looked around before his eyes found Tomochika. "Shibuya-san, do you bring them?"

"Yes," Tomochika headed to her seat before taking out a plastic bag from her bag. She went to Tokiya before giving him the said object.

"For someone who enrolled into an idol course, you guys sure are really bad at acting," he pulled out something from the bag, much to the others' puzzlement. "As if it's not obvious enough."

As soon as Tokiya took out a pair of blood-stained white earrings which is the gift from Hayato, the female trio was too afraid to face Tokiya.

"Shibuya-san found them in your room, Nakamura-san," his cobalt blue eyes especially stared at the blood stain. "You sure are desperate enough to steal them to the point of making her ears bleeding like this, huh? So despicable."

His eyes only focused on the trio who just wished for the God to save them even it was undeniable that they were the culprits.

"Apologize to her or I will make you regret for the rest of your life."

"Ichinose-san.." Yuna was already teary as she fought with her panic. "Please forgive us. We swear we'll never.."

"Apologize to her, not to me. You knocked hell out of her so logically speaking, you are supposed to apologize to her."

With difficulties, the trio faced Haruka. There was a strong dissatisfaction over their faces.

"We are sorry."

"That doesn't sound sincere to me," Tokiya's dour remark made the girls flinched. "Apologize to her again."

Yuna resisted herself from scowling either at Tokiya or Haruka. To be honest, she really despised Haruka. She was used to be rejected by Tokiya but Haruka... he even supported and protected her.

What's so special about this nerd anyway?

"We are sorry. We know we are wrong."

As Yuna thought that she had done a good job in apologizing to Haruka, Tokiya's hand swiftly grabbed the collar of Yuna's shirt, caused the others screamed in panic.

"Tokiya-kun, don't!" Haruka was too shocked with the sudden attack because nobody in this entire universe would expect that Tokiya had this violent side. She could see that Tokiya's hand shivered out of resentment. Otoya held Tokiya's shoulder, blocking the blue head from strangling Yuna who coughed due to short of breath.

The commotion was no joke. Everybody froze on their spot, too scared to interfere except his friends.

"Ichinose, don't be crazy! Let her go!" with Masato's full energy, aided by Otoya, they managed to break off Tokiya's strangle.

Tokiya who was still held by Otoya took a deep breath, trying to calm himself down after realizing that he almost killed a girl while Mizuki and Naomi comforted Yuna who was so relieved but traumatized at the same time.

"That's what you got from being half-arsed, you slut. All this time, when you guys annoyed her, I just let it slide because I believe you guys will stop and get tired of it but the moment when you lay your dirty hands on her, I will never forgive you. Whatever you want to achieve after this, I wish you can just go to hell! Come on, Haruka!" he grabbed her hand before leaving the classroom.

"Hey, Ittoki.." Masato,Otoya, Cecil, Natsuki and Tomochika still froze on their spot. "In the future, had Ichinose always been like a delinquent?"

"No, Masa. If my memory serves me right, no matter how angry he could get, he never hit anyone," Otoya answered the blue head, out of disbelief.

"Tokiya-kun is totally out of character, right?" Natsuki's comment gained him nods from his friends.

"Well, he's already out of character the moment he punched me because of a bento. Did you guys just forget that I am his first victim?" Cecil interrupted but all he got was..

"THAT'S BECAUSE YOU DESERVE IT, YOU KUPPURU!"

"You guys are so mean!"

"We are going to pack our necessary things now. For the time being, we will stay at my house," Tokiya stated his next plan as they walked quickly along the wide corridor. His hand stil held Haruka's hand like they were glued together to begin with.

"Tokiya-kun.."

"You know what? I hate the fact that just because the person is a supposed-to-be-a-fragile-human being with the word 'female' as her gender, no matter how bad she can get, we cannot just punch or kick her. It'll be a lot easier if those trio are guys but wait! If they are guys, it will sound more disturbing if they beat you because of me, right? No, that also can't do."

That's what he thinking right now? So random, she bit her lips to resist herself from chuckling.

Current situation is supposed to be a melodramatic scene, right? But why did she feel the need to laugh? Not to mention that Tokiya and her were expelled by Saotome.

"Tokiya-kun," she squeezed her arm, making him stopped walking. He turned to met her eyes, sending her shocked with his face expression.

The red and scary face expression that she saw just now was no longer to be seen. Instead, he looked too guilty.

"I am sorry, Haruka," the soft and sweet voice broke her heart even she did not have any idea what would he sorry for. "I cannot help it but the moment I saw that they were so rude to you and not even feel guilty, I totally lost my temper. I almost chocked her to death."

"It's okay, Tokiya-kun. Now, let's hope that the trio will learn the lesson, okay?"

"But they hurt you," his blue orbs looked at her as he stroked her hair down to her face lovingly. "I am so happy to meet you and when things just got better, they treated you like a junk just because of their stupid obssession. What happen if they step out of line? What happen if.." he paused for a while as he struggled to pull himself together. She could feel his shivered hand against her face. "What happen if I lose you just like I lost my father?"

That should be my line, Tokiya-kun. Don't you realize that the one who will leave first is you? You will leave me first.

"No, that's not going to happen, okay? Don't worry," just like a magic, her caress on his cheek managed to make him smiling brightly instead of frowning.

"This boyfriend of yours sure is such a pain to handle, right? He's lame, cheesy, hot-tempered.."

"Loving, protective, cute, gentle.." she cut in with her compliments. "But also stubborn, reckless and bold. Are you sure you are good about us got expelled? The reason you start over here because you want to sing again. You used to tell me that singing is your life goal, Tokiya-kun. What will happen to you after this?"

Instead of her concern, he just stared blankly at her before looking around, seemingly searching for something before his blue orbs widened a bit.

"Oh, there is a CCTV there. I was told by Saotome-san that it is connected straight to his office."

"Ehh?" Haruka was too speechless. Has Tokiya been scatterbrained due to the drama that happened nowadays? Why did he suddenly talk about CCTV?

"What a coincidence. Our position and angle are also perfect," he continued to ramble and as Haruka tried to read what the hell did Tokiya have in his mind, he suddenly cupped her face. "Haruka, if you want to slap me, at least do it after we get out from here, okay?"

"Eh? Why would I slap you?"

"Because of this."

What happened next was too swift for Haruka to react, let alone to slap Tokiya for hugging and kissing her, literally in front of Saotome.

That's it for chapter 20! Do you like it? Feel free to let me know what do you think about this chapter,okay? Sayonara!