Chapter 45 – Quest. ( 2 )
After leaving the classroom, the two headed straight to the life guidance office.
A colleague was also added. Jerry Sinac. Originally, we were going to go alone, but it was a pity that we overheard the conversation about going to find out what happened to Diamond.
“Dia is also my friend. Can’t we go together… ?”
“Well, I can’t help it.”
Maybe Jerry can help. Cashew nuts were also accepted without much hesitation.
In the living guidance office located on the floor directly below the discipline room, there was no one wandering around to the extent that it was said to go away from the discipline room. It was in a remote place, but it was also a dangerous place to guide and manage students.
“Here, can we go in?”
“Of course not. I’ll just call the seniors.”
After speaking, Epri cautiously knocked on the door. A clanging sound echoed through the hallway, and after a while the door opened slightly and a female student poked her head out.
“Who are you?”
“I’m Efri Sugar from Class 1 E. I came to see the life guidance director because I have business.”
“Wait a minute.”
After receiving her business, the female student closed the door again and disappeared into the poor guidance room. Subsequently, the conversation between Ennie and her female students was heard from within.
“Boss, who are you looking for?”
“Someone?”
“They say my name is Efri Sugar. Shall we just send it?”
“Efri?”
Five seconds after Efri’s name came out of the girl’s mouth, the closed door opened with the sound of her chair being dragged.
“Efri? What are you doing here?”
Eni greeted Efri with a grin, as if she were meeting her best friend.
“Hello, senior. I came because I have a business.”
“Anything?”
“I need your help.”
“Help… Say?”
“Yeah, as for what happened… “
Efri’s explanation followed to help Eni’s understanding of her confusion.
In the air, the things that cashew nuts experienced were listed. From how she was forced to use her men’s bathroom, to how she was filmed, to the fact that she found out about cashew nuts, everything.
Hearing all of her stories, Ennie’s expression hardened seriously.
“Umm, I don’t think it’s going to be a simple story to end here.”
“Then, can we go to the campus cafe and talk for a while?”
“Okay. There’s still a lot of lunchtime left.”
Epri’s proposal was easily accepted, and the ‘Dia Tracking Committee’, which had become a large group of four people, set out on a journey to establish the original plan.
The first step in the process was Tongseongmyeong.
“First of all, this person next to me is a princess. Perhaps, there’s turquoise hair. May I know your name?”
“This is Jerry Sinac. At that time, he held Elicia’s hand and slapped the soles of her feet… “
“Ah, that… It’s a special censorship period, so I’m sorry.”
“Are you okay. I am used to being beaten.”
After that, it was the sharing of interests between each other to talk.
“Have you seen the weekend drama that was newly aired on STT last weekend?”
“Oh, I saw that!”
As soon as Jerry heard that, she raised her voice excitedly.
“I saw it too. Sit next to cashew nuts. Wasn’t it fun, cashews?”
“Yes… Was it fun?”
Seeing Epri’s consent, Cashew Nuts reacted tremulously.
After common interests were shared, intimacy with each other was easily established. Only two episodes were aired, but Eni, Jerry, and Epri talked countless times about the actors’ looks, acting, and stories.
And the cashew nuts were caught in between and suffering properly.
‘What the hell is that, you bastards!’
I was forced to watch it, so nothing remained in my head, but having a conversation about such a subject was itself an embarrassment. It was possible to roughly guess what the main keywords that came out of their mouths in the middle were, but that was all. Cashew nuts couldn’t infer anything.
Anyway, the more Cashew suffered, the more she suffered, the more the three of them became closer. When I arrived at the cafe, ordered a drink, and when Cashew brought it to my seat, it even said this.
“Miss Jerry? Umm… I’d like to say something. Is it possible?
“I like it. Director of life… I thought you were a scary person, but you weren’t?”
“I am a human too. They say they don’t like it very much.”
And then, when the mood to start the second game appeared, the cashew nut, which could no longer be left alone, put the brakes on the chatter.
“Everyone? We didn’t come here to chat.”
“Cashew, you only act boring when you’re like this all the time… That’s right, though. Let’s talk about it.”
Although they grumbled a little, Efri was the only one who properly prepared the cashew nuts, and the four picked up the drinks they wanted to drink and started an emergency meeting.
Efri got the right to speak first.
“Anyway, what I thought before the two of us came. The idea was to use the senior’s psychometry ability to find clues. However… Got stuck there First of all, I want to hear your opinion because it is a senior’s ability.”
“Hmm… “
After hearing this, Eni gave a rough outline.
“First of all, we need to find something that might have been in contact with Dia most recently, right? Like the desk or chair that Dia sat on, the pencil case or textbook she carried.”
“Oh, then it’s easier than I thought?”
“One more condition has to be satisfied, and very few people have come into contact with the object. The more people you come in contact with, the harder it is to find memories. But the desks and chairs are also used by non-residents.”
“Then, there really aren’t that many.”
Dia’s seat was a good place for a window seat, and thanks to that, quite a few students went through Dia’s seat. It was said that chairs and desks could no longer function as strong evidence.
Hearing that, the cashew nut, who had been silent, neatly arranged what had to be done.
“I think it would be a good idea to check the timetable for that day and check all the textbooks. Let’s check out the writing utensils that are inadvertently put under the desk. I thought of a few others, but they won’t be here right now. For now, this much.”
“Oh, also… “
In the cool-headed young lady’s head, the solution to the problem, which was expected to take quite a long time, was easily completed.
Cashew waited for a message of praise to arrive soon. Because it was usually received after solving this easily.
But today was different. From the sight of Efri as she smiled ominously and quietly pulled the chair next to the cashew nuts, I thought something bad was about to happen.
The prediction was correct.
“Cashew nuts, did you finish this quickly because you wanted to talk more about the drama?”
“No, not that… “
“I have nothing to do with the rest of my time anyway, so shall we go talk?”
“Yeah, so what?”
“I like it too!”
“Ah… “
No matter how masochistic she was, she didn’t want this type of mental attack, and eventually Cashew had to listen to the stories she didn’t want to hear until her ears bled.
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“Cashew, I’m sorry… Are you very angry?”
“Yes, I am very angry. I won’t do anything dirty in the future.”
“Ah, cashew nuts… “
The classroom of Class 1 E is empty after all the workday.
Cashewnut and Efri were sitting and chatting with each other about their lunch break. Leaving behind the sight of the sesame pouring, the other two were pulling out necessary items from Dia’s locker and desk.
Annie brought four textbooks, and Jerry brought two ballpoint pens and an almost empty eraser. After putting them all on the spot where the two of them were sitting, Eni started a playful conversation.
“Efri, everything you’re doing is against school rules… How many times have you wanted to go to the discipline room, do you do this in front of the life guidance director?”
“Tch, okay.”
Efri, as if aware of his notice, gently let go of the cashew nuts he was holding.
After sorting out the situation, Ennie took out a strange object that looked like a gripper from her bosom.
“It’s a magic tool that shoots the scene I’m watching into the air.”
Because it is more advantageous to solve the case to see memories together than to see them alone. He said that he usually left it alone, but brought it specially.
After getting ready to screen Dia’s memories, Eni closed her eyes and put her hand on the textbook. Pointing her magic tool at her in the air, she tugged at her handle.
Soon, the things Dia saw and felt began to emerge in the air.
‘First of all, to get Cashew to go to the bathroom, we need to give him a diuretic. If I buy a drink with a plastic cap and inject it into the cap, no one will notice.’
‘It’s a good thing I had one invisible amulet left in my bag. I can come up with a better plan.’
‘By freezing the cracks in the door with her ability… So you can pee in weird places. This should do.’
Her first attempt gave us a glimpse of Dia’s plan to punish the cashews.
‘Ah, that’s why you gave me something to drink.’
She was a little embarrassed that she had been completely duped, but since it had already happened, she couldn’t help it.
In the next textbook, Dia was full of hesitation about whether it was okay to do this to cashew nuts.
‘You will definitely be hated. Anymore i… I can’t be close to Mr. Cashew, right?’
‘If you just give up everything like this… We should be able to maintain our relationship until now.’
‘No. Then her mother… I can not help it. I have to harden her heart.’
Everyone was at a loss for words for a moment at the scene that made her heart thump just by looking at it. Even Efri, who hated Diamond, softened her expression a little.
And one fact that can be inferred from the conversation. The reason why Dia did something he should never have done.
Someone made a threat with Diamond’s only family.
The two simply looked like they understood Dia’s actions, but the other two, Cashew Nut and Jerry, knew exactly what Dia’s life story was like.
When I heard that, I was genuinely excited.
‘What kind of bastard… Why?’
I wanted to know right away who was the person who caused Dia to suffer that way. In some way, I wanted to relieve this anger that had suddenly risen on him.
With that thought in mind, Cashew looked at Jerry. From the look on her face, from her gestures, the intensity was weak, but it was clear that Jerry was feeling it too.
Still, there are two people who don’t know the circumstances. Cashew tried to calm her down by pretending to be calm.
Other textbooks that I explored later had the same situation. Reexamination of plans, regrets, conflicts. Dia’s pain was very well documented, but she was unable to provide a definitive answer to anything.
The same was true of two ballpoint pens and an eraser, which I walked with as my last hope. From the beginning, one ballpoint pen did not belong to Dia, and the other two stationery had nothing to do with the incident.
When this happened, the case fell into a labyrinth again.
At that time, each of us thought about whether we should come up with another plan without any income.
Jerry carefully opened his mouth.
“Actually… There is one more item related to diamonds. That would be on the day of the incident.”
At the sudden remark, the eyes of the three turned to Jerry. The attention must have been burdensome, but Jerry didn’t know what to do. She seemed to have made up her mind soon as she looked at Eni and continued her words.
“Instead, senior. I… Please do not take me to the discipline room. Because it seems like there is no answer… Because it is given.”
Saying that, Jerry opened the door of her own locker and brought out something white.
Everyone knew what it was like. I couldn’t know Right now, even the anime was wearing them.
What she brought was none other than stockings.
