Versatile: Alternate World

Chapter 358 - The Incident (I)

When we arrived at our school, most of the students are all wearing thick jackets. It looks like everyone has to experience an early winter weather experience. We immediately went to the bulletin board to check our respective classes.

"Riko, Janus, I will have to help Akira and Sora for a bit and escort them to their rooms since they are new to the school. They might get lost in the process.

"Okay, we will just wait for you in here after you found their rooms alright? We will be looking for our names and it might take a while with all the students around."

"Sure."

After that, we went to the other side of the bulletin board where the first years are gathering. Akira didn't have a problem with anything which is why he was enrolled in a normal class. However, since Sora is blind, Akira and Sora cannot be together since Sora is automatically placed in the Special Education class where students with disabilities are enrolled. There are plenty of blind students and some students who have some disabilities that would hinder their normal school life and would need extra care for them to learn like normal.

Thankfully, Sora is fine without her brother but as for her brother, of course, he is not fine. After all, he is very protective of his sister.

"Brother, I know that we will not be in the same class but you can't be faking any kind of disabilities just to be in the same class with me," Sora sighed.

"But Sis! This will be the first time you will be away from me! I don't know what to do if something happened to you!"

"Brother, I know you are worried about me but you don't need to be this worried. I may be blind but I can handle things on my own now. You don't have to keep worrying about my well-being and I can walk by myself without your guide now. I can handle things now on my own. Aren't you proud that I have come this far?"

"But...but..." Akira seems to be still not able to accept that her sister is now going to go independent from him now.

I can only stop them from doing that or they will be late. After a few seconds, I immediately found their names and I escorted them to their rooms. We escorted Sora first as Akira insisted that he wanted to see where Sora's room will be.

After making sure about the well-being of Sora, I escorted him to his room, of course, I didn't bother to send him directly. He can handle things on his own already and he insisted he will go alone.

With the two already in their rooms, I sighed a breath of relief seeing that the rooms are not part of the things that will be happening later on since those rooms will be the first to vacate once the incident will occur.

As for my room, it is not on the safe side as the room we will be in is going to be the center of the trouble. Although I am confident in handling the trouble myself, this trouble I am talking about is going to happen all around the school. It will be a really troublesome incident since it will also be mentioned in the news too.

I hurriedly returned to the other two before everything happens. I checked my time and it seems the incident will happen 2 hours from now. If things have changed and got influenced, making the incident not occur today would be the best outcome but I doubt it. If major things could be easily be avoided, I wouldn't have worked my *ss so hard just to prepare for changing major things. As they say, effective performance is preceded by painstaking preparations. I arrived and it seems they have already found our names and even though I knew what room we will be in, it is not up to me to tell them what classroom we will be in.

"Looks like everything is good with the siblings?" Riko asked.

"Yeah, everything is good. Akira had trouble separating from her sister though but it's a bit minor and I managed to convince him to let her sister be independent of him at school."

"Hahaha, typical Akira. Anyways, I already found our rooms, we are still classmates!" Janus grinned and give a peace sign.

"Yeah, I still can't believe I am stuck with this idiot for a bit. But that is well and good enough I guess since I will not feel isolated in the room."

"Who is our teacher by the way?" I asked, pretending not to know.

"Sensei Matsunaga. We are lucky our sensei is kind and we didn't land on someone like Mr. A!" Janus grinned.

"Idiot! If Mr. A hears you accidentally, we can't bail you out no matter how hard you try to beg for help!"

"F*CK...I almost forgot about that and his sharp hearing! Let's get out of here before he actually appears and reprimands me!"

The two started to briskly walk away from the area in the hopes that Mr. Akito or Mr. A don't catch them red-handed talking badly at him. Still, I can't believe I am getting nostalgic in this matter. It's been so long and to think I can relieve them again, This time, I have to change the course of history this time around. I can't afford to make the same mistakes again.

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An hour passed since then. We already managed to finish the first subject and nothing major happened. Then, as I expected, the intercom turns on and announces something.

"Announcement to all Teachers currently on duty, please proceed to the Faculty Room for an emergency meeting, The meeting will begin in 20 minutes. This is mandatory so if you are still holding your classes right now, please postpone it for now and proceed to the Faculty Room."

Looks like time is upon us. Things aren't looking so good too. But I still remained calm. Things should be happening in the background too but I can't afford to leave the room until I can already confirm everything is safe. When our current teacher went out to go to the meeting, Riko approached me to hang out while the teacher is not there.

"Hey, Manato... Are you alright? You seemed like you are on the edge of your seat. You don't look good," Riko noticed my anxiousness as usual. Typical for Riko who is really perceptive with everything happening. But now, I can't just keep things quiet. This involves them too and if they can help me with this, I am not the only one who will be struggling with things.

"Call Janus. I have to talk to you about something."

Despite the confusion on Riko's face, she decided to call Janus.

"What's up? Something wrong? This is the first time I have seen you this serious, Manato."

"Guys... gather around. Don't let anyone hear anything else."

"Something wrong?" Riko furrowed her eyebrows.

This will be a complete bluff but I have to make sure things will proceed smoothly. I don't want to risk failure in this matter.

"Earlier when I went with Akira and Sora to their rooms, I saw someone suspicious lurking around the corners. I am not too sure about him but I have a very bad feeling about it and it is not something I would just joke for."

When they heard this, they didn't laugh or do anything that would make me think what I just said is stupid. Instead, their faces turned serious.

"If this suspicious guy you said is someone you are cautious into, that only means he is indeed up to something. You never fail on your assumptions, Manato so tell us more on what you experienced and what made you think they are suspicious enough," Janus looked serious. He even looked outside the window to see if he has seen someone suspicious.

"Should we warn everyone about this?" Riko asked.

"No, don't do that just yet until we are sure. After all, I am still assuming about the guy and I am still not sure whether he is indeed someone suspicious or he just looked suspicious but he is harmless and has nothing to do with our assumptions."

"Alright. Since the teachers are out, we shouldn't be here and find a safe place for now," Riko planned out.

"No, we should stay here, that is a bad action, Riko. Except if we are in a zombie apocalypse situation, we have to stay in this classroom. Besides, if things gets bad, we can at least have Manato protect everyone else while we help keeping them calm," Janus calmly rejected Riko's suggestion and suggested a much more better action.

"I agree with Janus here. We have to keep calm and not panic.. And he is right, since there aren't anyone else who can fight back in the real world, my help would be really needed in defending everyone against the threat if ever it was a threat."