Another Like Me - Part I (CoTE x OC) ✔

Chapter 53 - Submission

Four days until the Paper Shuffle Exam.

Today is the day I, Hiroya Tokito, finally enact out the last stage of the plan, after such painstaking preparations.

"Oi, Tokito. You got your shit ready?"

I inwardly felt my anger boil over when I heard his snappy voice.

Kakeru Ryuuen.

The sole dictator of Class C, and its de facto Leader.

And I was currently acting as a spy for Class C, by gaining Takeyama Keisuke's attention, and hoping he would fall for such a cheap trick.

Ryuuen's methods are dumb.

How can he even hope to assume that someone like Takeyama Keisuke will fall for such a lame trick? The initial plan is to gain Takeyama's interest by showing him false evidence that I was against Ryuuen, and then feeding him scripted information that was acted out by our classmates.

If Ryuuen really thinks Takeyama will fall for this without a second thought, he really ought to get his head checked.

"The questions are ready, right?" I said in an annoyed tone. "I'm going over to submit the questions now. I'll text Takeyama to meet me up."

"Do it fast," Ryuuen said lazily. "Clock's ticking, Tokito."

I pursed my lips, but did not say anything.

I just wanted to get this over with.

I slowly took out my phone, and drafted a text for Takeyama, which stated that I was ready to submit the questions to Sakagami-sensei, and that we can meet up in around 20 minutes.

I received a reply almost instantly, saying that he would be down by the school gates in around 5 minutes.

"I already got a reply," I said to Ryuuen, who was standing alongside Ibuki-san, Ishizaki and Albert. "He says he'll be there by the school gates in around 5 minutes."

"Good," Ryuuen replied. "Make sure you don't fuck up, Tokito. Or I won't leave you in one piece."

I nodded absentmindedly to his threat, and after checking the contents of the Question Paper in my hands one last time, I walked out of the classroom, and closed the door behind me.

I ran down the staircase, and all the way to the school gates. It was a Saturday, so it would be suspicious if Takeyama saw me walking out of the school building. I needed to act like I had been alone this entire time, and had just arrived from my dormitory.

I reached the school gates panting, and I looked around.

He hadn't arrived yet.

Good.

I calmed myself down, and took a few deep breaths.

After a few minutes, a person walked towards me dressed in casual clothes, and stood a few meters away from me.

Takeyama Keisuke. The man I had called to meet.

"Show me the papers," he asked nonchalantly, and he held out his hand.

I nodded, and passed him the Question Paper in my hand, covered inside a brown file. He swiftly opened the folder, and went through the questions inside.

After around a minute, he sighed, and placed the papers back inside the folder.

"Looks like it's all good," he said. "The questions are the same as the ones you sent me yesterday."

"I won't break out on the deal, Takeyama-kun," I lied. "I upheld my part of the deal. You guys are gonna breeze through this Exam now."

"How will you explain the results to your Class?" he asked me a genuine question. "Once the results are out, and Class D completely dominates Class C in terms of average marks, how will it be explained to Ryuuen? He will definitely know that someone from his Class submitted the Question Paper without his consent."