Haruka wakes up feeling heavy.
He tells himself:
"It was just dimensional shock."
He goes to school.
Tries to act normal.
When he was about to enter the classroom, he was punched in the face by one of the bullies.
Suddenly, when he blinked, he found himself on the spot where he was still not near the classroom door.
He was sweating... He remembers the pain... what just happened?...
"If I... am not going insane then..." He says that to himself and quickly enters and kicks the front door. He saw the bully who used to bully him fall to the ground. The class went silent.
The bully growls in pain and says, "You son of a gun..."
They quickly went to their seat before Aurel, and others caused trouble. Haruka was surprised to see it all. He was stressed and disturbed... did he just loop or see what was going to happen?
Aurel: "Whoa, dude...that was sick as hell!"
Marcus: "Can't lie, that was cool."
Saito and others just sat back quietly and clapped.
Yume grins and wraps her hand around the back of Haruka's nape.
Yume: "Did my little boy grow up and fight back?"
Haruka blushed slightly, even though he was disturbed by the thought of everything. He got frustrated when he heard Yume addressing him as her little boy.
Haruka settles into his seat.
Yume: "Haruka, are y-"
Haruka: "No i am not ill."
Yume was taken aback by how Haruka guessed what she was about to say.
Yume: "Cheeky brat, stealing my words?"
Haruka was confused, he just heard Yume asking him if he was ill or not... He heard a whisper of Yume asking him if he had done the homework.
It felt so real that Haruka immediately answered, "Yes i did it last night!"
Yume, who was about to ask that question, was taken aback by Haruka answered before she asked.
Yume: "Alright, did you learn magic tricks or something? Like... you keep answering before I ask."
Haruka, who was now aware that something was wrong after he met Atience P. and travelled from 4d and 5d, answers nervously with a smile.
Haruka: "Guess I am too good at hunches now..."
Yume playfully grabs Haruka's ear, "Stop hunching over my words, you keep stealing my words, not fair, you know?"
With a chuckle, he continues, "I will hand you over to the police for stealing my words."
Yume releases the grip from his ear and sits back as the teacher comes.
Haruka was thinking, "Who... am I?... what am I?... why... I... don't want to live a hellish life. I just... wanted a normal life..."
Haruka now knows that he might have some huge responsibilities to perform, and he can't go back. Rideous P. and Atience P. made it clear.
It was quite windy today, and the classroom door slammed
He flinches before it happens.
A teacher drops chalk.
He's already looking at the floor.
Yume and his other friends started to notice that he reacts too early.
Now tension is social.
He sees that the teacher is writing, and another teacher is writing too, the same-looking one. But he was writing 10 seconds ahead.
Haruka was sweating. He saw that the teacher was writing things that the blue transparent version of that teacher had already. Not only the teacher, but the whole classroom was also like that.
The solid teacher copies what the transparent one already finished.
The same.
Stroke for stroke.
Letter for letter.
Haruka's eyes widen.
He reads the full sentence before it is physically completed.
He doesn't know how to turn this off. Suddenly, another teacher appears. Wait, it was the same teacher but... different clothes.
His sleeves were rolled up, and he was wearing glasses that the current teacher wasn't.
The solid and the blue transparent teacher was teaching English, but the red one was teaching math...
Suddenly, the red teacher, who was ofcourse transplant, asks him about the equation on the board.
Haruka was taken aback. He was looking around, "M-me?"
The solid students near him thought that Haruka was losing his sanity now.
The red transparent teacher nods and says, "Yes, you."
Haruka couldn't say anything. From the red transplant classroom, the students started to laugh, except Yume and his friends.
Suddenly, the red and blue transparent world vanishes.
Marcus leans toward him.
"Bro… you good?"
Before Marcus speaks—
Haruka hears it.
Soft.
A whisper version of Marcus's voice:
"Bro… you good?"
He answers immediately:
"Yeah."
Marcus frowns.
"I didn't even say anything yet."
Silence spreads around them.
Yume slowly turns her head.
Now she's not smiling.
She's studying him.
Everything was normal again. The teacher leaves and the students started to gossip about Haruka. Yume came and caught his forehead band and took it off, her hands soft against his forehead.
Yume: "You have a fever, idiot!..."
Marcus from Haruka's front seat, "Knew something was up with him."
Aurel: "You gotta rest dawg."
Saito who was worried more than any other, "Bro, I noticed you acting weird since morning."
Naoki and Fuyuki both nod and says Haruka to rest.
Yume: "We can take you to the nurse's office room if you want."
Haruka: "N-no need... I am just... fine... let me sleep... if the teacher comes just wake me up."
Just as planned. They woke Haruka when the teacher came; everything was normal afterwards.
After the teacher leaves, School ends for today.
The bell rings.
Everyone stands.
Noise fills the room.
Haruka stays seated.
Because he hears the bell ring again.
Two seconds later.
He looks at the clock.
It hasn't moved.
But in his head...
The second bell is louder.
Closer.
Like it's inside the classroom.
Yume grabs his sleeve.
"Haruka. The bell rang. Let's go."
He looks at the clock one last time.
3:42 PM.
He blinks.
3:41 PM.
Just for a second.
Then 3:42 again.
Yume grabs his sleeve.
"Haruka. The bell rang. Let's go."
He already felt it right now. This was the 2nd time.