BXBX NOVEL Chapter 6: Matsuo and Harumi
Chapter 6: Matsuo and Harumi
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After the train came and Frank entered on it, the girl followed him behind, which he assumed was because they were going to the same school. He wondered if she would go to the same class as him, but that would be way too much of a coincidence.
Through the trip, Frank glanced at his phone while reading the latest news on Twitter and other pages, finding nothing about the strange storm that attacked him in the middle of the night.
"Was it really all a dream? But the abilities and this phone clearly aren\'t…" he thought.
And as he glanced at his phone through the trip, Frank could not help but feel the eyes of the girl glaring at him directly… she was still glancing at him from the sides, she had sat down near him as well, and even when Frank had glared back at her, making her quickly avert her gaze, she would go back to glancing at him just a bit afterward.
"She\'s the weird type, huh?" he thought, thinking that her glare was a bit cute, nonetheless. Her eyes were very big and rather charming, such color in irises was very rare, making her seem like an exotic beauty.
"Could it be…? Is this another fortuitous encounter? Just like in those School Dramas! A-A Love interest?!" he thought, but quickly decided to move away from such fantasizing thoughts, as they made little sense and were a bit cringy even to himself.
However, he hoped to make friends with her if the opportunity was given.
When the train finally reached the station near the High School, Frank and the girl left the train and walked towards school through the same streets and the same route… the girl was walking a few meters away from him, but she kept glancing at him… Frank could not help but feel a bit of an eerie atmosphere slowly embracing him just by her look… Just who was this girl?
Just when Frank was nearing the school, the girl approached him again.
"Are you from the same school as me? The Tokyo Metropolitan Asuka High School?" asked the girl, her dark purple irises deeply glancing through her very soul…
"Err, yes. Couldn\'t you tell me the uniform I am wearing already? We even walked through the same route…" muttered Frank.
"Ah… Yes, that is right… What\'s your class?" she asked.
"Oi! This is going way too fast!" thought Frank, as a bit of steam, flew out of his ears… figuratively.
"Ah, Class C, why?" asked Frank.
"Class C… I am Class C too, we will be classmates," said the girl.
"Eh?! Really?" asked Frank.
"Yes… What is your name? I am Harumi" said the girl.
"Harumi… I am Frank, Frank James… I am not Japanese if you couldn\'t tell already…" said Frank.
"I can tell, your facial appearances and your eyes… are different. And you… You… You have something in you, don\'t you? I can feel it" said the girl with a mysterious tone on her voice…
"Me? Something in me? Haha! What are you talking about, Harumi-chan!" Said Frank, petting Harumi\'s shoulders and walking towards the school, quickly evading her questions.
"Let us go to classes, they\'re about to start. I hope that we can have a good relationship… as, err, classmates, that\'s it" said Frank.
"…Fine, I can ask you later, if that\'s what you want, Frank," said Harumi, walking to his side in silence.
Frank felt as if Harumi already knew what he was! But how!? Could she feel Ability Users?
Wait, what are Ability Users anyway?
This was a new concept on Frank\'s mind since he acquired the ability to enter his phone and travel through APP Worlds.
And now, he suspected that Harumi might be someone as well… Frank felt as if a whole new supernatural world had opened to him the moment, he acquired such ability last night through that mysterious storm that no one else saw or felt.
And just as he went out of school, he had already found someone mysterious in Harumi… did she had good or bad intentions? Frank could not tell, but he was not into revealing all of his secrets to a random girl that had appeared out of nowhere.
For now, he tried to be friendly and sociable, but to an extent, he even suspected that she might be up to something… and there was not any confirmation that she did not have eerie intentions with him if she were to know that he was an Ability User.
Through his perception abilities, Frank had already perceived some kind of rabbit hole, which Harumi was slowly leading him into… he did not want to get into any trouble if possible, so for now, he played it dumb and friendly, acting as if he was unaware of what she was trying to communicate to him.
Harumi also sensed that Frank was cleverer than he looked like or acted like… she knew that he was hiding something, and decided to stick to him to take that info out and figure if he was friend or foe… meeting Ability Users that she had never seen before was dangerous, she had even considered that he might have infiltrated into her school for some kind of eerie motive, commanded by an organization of the Underworld…
Frank, of course, did not know anything about what the Underworld was even, just a day ago, he was a simple kid living a simple life, he did not even believe that there were supernatural powers in this world… and that life was just as simple as it was always shown.
After a brief introduction to the new students made by the teachers at the school alongside the director, the students were finally sent towards their classrooms.
Reaching their class, both sat down near the other… Frank did not really mean to do this, but Harumi made sure to sit right behind him, to always be glancing at him…
Such odd conduct was quickly noticed by the other class students, who began to chit-chat about the two, and some even speculated that they might be a couple or something… This only made Frank a bit irritated.
He wanted to make a good impression but ended making everyone believe that he came to this new school with his girlfriend… the gloomy Harumi, who did not even put a glance at anyone else than Frank through the whole introduction and welcoming ceremony of the teachers and the director, and through the entirety of the morning up until lunch.
When he was about to eat his bento, Frank could not help but move back to Harumi, surprising her.
"Would you stop glancing at me like that, Harumi? It feels… quite eerie. I am trying to eat my bento…" muttered Frank.
"…No," said Harumi.
"Haah… You are not eating anything?" asked Frank.
"…No," said Harumi.
"Are you hungry?" asked Frank.
"…No," said Harumi, as her stomach roared for a bit.
"Your stomach is being clearly honest… Alright, everyone already believes that we are together into something, so I guess it doesn\'t matter if I share my bento-"
"I don\'t want your bento, what if it\'s poisoned? Do you believe I\'m a fool?" asked Harumi.
"…Poisoned? How would it be poisoned if I am eating it right here?!" asked Frank, eating a little meatball.
"Maybe it\'s a poison that you\'re immune to…" muttered Harumi.
"…Fine, you win, be silent, alone, and don\'t eat… Whatever. I am just trying to be friendly, you know? I want to make friends, to turn on a new leaf," said Frank.
"…Is that so? Why? Who sent you to do that?" asked Harumi.
"…Err, my parents?" said Frank.
"Who are your parents?" asked Harumi.
"Why do you want to know that?!" asked Frank in disbelief.
"…For nothing. I am just… curious. Yes, that is it," said Harumi.
"Sigh… Maybe I will tell you later when we become closer," said Frank.
"Closer… is this your plan?" asked Harumi.
"Why does everything have to be a plan!?" asked Frank, Harumi was very irritating, it was as if any action on his side was somehow a scheme.
"…For nothing," said Harumi, evading the question, while finally averting her gaze from Frank, standing up from the chair and walking outside of the classroom.
"Damn, man, why you gotta yell to your girlfriend? Were you never taught to respect girls?" asked a guy near him.
"Harumi is not my girlfriend, I just met her today… And who are you, anyway?" asked Frank.
"She\'s not your girlfriend?! Everyone here thinks that though… And I am Matsuo, nice to meet you… err, what\'s your name again?" asked Matsuo, he had chestnut hair, golden eyes, and a slim complexion, but had the mouth of a cheeky brat.
"My name is Frank, nice to meet you, Matsuo-san," said Frank.
"Hey, you\'re good at Japanese despite being foreign, a lot of the girls were eyeing you as well, you\'re like an exotic thing here, it\'s rare to see foreigners even in a school in Tokyo, they\'re always just tourists," said Matsuo.
"I see… well, that\'s how it is," said Frank.
"Well, if she\'s not your girlfriend, who is she for you?" asked Matsuo.
"Something like… well, she\'s my friend," said Frank.
"What a beauty. Man, I wouldn\'t be so rude to such a girl, you\'re missing a big game there," said Matsuo teasingly.
"You sound like someone very experienced in girls, are you not? Go ahead, I am not interested in her anymore…" said Frank.
"Oh? Is that so? Haha, don\'t worry, I am not stealing you anything, man," laughed Matsuo.
"She will probably slit your throat if you ever try anyways…" muttered Frank.
"WHAT?!" asked Matsuo.
"Nothing, nothing…" said Frank.
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