Classroom of the elite one shots

Phone Call Year 2, Vol. 4.5 Chapter TL: Pudding, Blade, Alisa

When I was surfing the internet while waiting to feel sleepy, I received a message.

"I want to give you a call now, okay?"

It was a message from Kei.

It had been some time since messaging was allowed, but we usually chat about once a day.

Today she didn't use any stamps or face emoji's, so I was guessing she had something important to talk about.

'I'm in my room right now, give me 3 minutes.'

It was still not close to curfew yet, so leaving the room wasn't all that difficult.

After sending my reply, I quickly got up from my bed.

"I'm going to get a drink."

Using these convenient words which can be used at one's own convenience, I exited to the hallway.

Since it was already around 9pm, the chances of running into another student were unlikely.

Then I exited the night deck and checked my surroundings just in case.

After making sure no one was around, I gave Kei a call.

"Hello?"

"Sorry for the urgent call, but I really wanted to call you today."

She said some cute words like a girlfriend would.

Maybe this was one of those: "I just really wanted to hear your voice" requests from your lover type things.

"Hey you know—"

Without so much as a few words, Kei started to talk.

"I've heard some terrible rumours regarding you? You are going to explain them to me right?"

"Terrible rumours?"

Hmm? Words that I wasn't expecting came flying out. In fact, it seems Kei was in a bad mood.

The silence continued with no reply.

"Terrible rumours?"

Not able to take it I asked a second time, but all I felt was frustration with no reply.

Rather, by repeating the same words again, it was probably even more suspicious.

"Does anything come to mind?"

"Nothing comes to mind."

Although I replied without hesitation, a few incidents did come to mind.

First and foremost had to be the situation with Ichinose.

Nagumo, who witnessed the exchange between myself and Ichinose, would have been able to surmise it wasn't an ordinary exchange.

Moreover, with the combination of him knowing about my relationship with Kei, that situation being passed around would not have been very strange. Other things that came to mind were my pairing up with Satou who had previously confessed to me and Matsuhita and I chatting.

"Is there really nothing that comes to mind?"

With a moment's delay, she seemed to want to confirm it once more in order to lower her suspicions.

"Nope."

Even so, I replied that I have no idea what she is talking about. If I knew with certainty the situation Kei was "thinking of," whether it was what happened with Ichinose or Satou, I would have confessed. But since I couldn't be sure what situation this was about, if I say anything carelessly the problem might become bigger. This was one of those situations where I had to lose the battle in order to win the war, I guess.