COTE: The eyes of a Lucifer

Chapter 3: School life

I am a failure, I can't even make friends so what am I hoping for. There was no point.

"This tastes nice though." I took a lick of my ice cream.

It was refreshing after the exhausting task of trying to make friends. I felt like I was too overbearing, nobody seemed to be able to keep up with me. My flow was slow and that didn't correlate with everyone else.

So now I am sat on a bench eating some ice cream that I brought from a convenience store.

It was a boring day, nothing too important happened but my suspicions grew deeper. Everything seemed to fit in place and the class hierarchy I had thought about was slowly becoming a reality.

Although, I did spend most of the time just staring out a window. I was no worse than the students in my class. The whole class was complacent and lazy, the lessons would go by quickly and the usual studious aura of a class was nowhere to be seen.

I had thought about talking to Kamuro so that she could tell me more about her class. There was already a major difference but I feel like more information would be nice.

This was a boring school life, there wasn't anything exciting going on for me. I had a disgruntled neighbour who wouldn't talk to me. I had two acquaintances but one was in another class, whilst the other would make me seem unappealing if I tried talking to her.

I had no boys that I could truly call a friend. Though Hirata was kind and approachable, the way the girls monopolised him made me feel hesitant in approaching him at all.

I was stuck in the loner pit for now.

"Hahh..." I sighed after finishing the ice cream.

It was now after school hours, I had a lot on my mind after this one week alone. It was peaceful, but I wanted some more of a cliche highschool experience. Similar to the ones I had read online.

I got up from the bench, the sun was shining over the campus in a clear blue sky. It was warm but not too hot that it would make me drowsy.

I headed over to the bin and put in the wrapper of the ice cream. I looked up at the sky once again and the suns beams scratched my eyes. I had a peaceful school life for now, it was a shame that it was something so different.
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I had come to this school to have fun, though the sentiment of fun was lost a long time ago. It was all competition and I wasn't given a chance to explore.

I was suppressed and that is why I hoped I could reinvigorate my spirit here. Sadly, I was alone again. I had received some kindness from others, but not much could be said to call any of the people who offered such kindness: friends. I wanted to release this pent up frustration here.

This school was shut off from the outside world and I liked it, although I will miss the outside for a while I guess I can imagine a peaceful life here.

I was sort of happy here, it was nice and not too much for me.

I am still alone however. I can't really change that, I wanted to make a friend or friends; but I am not good at doing so.

It was at that realisation that maybe I had no need for them, maybe subconsciously I wanted to remain alone. Friends can be troublesome and you have to appease them, I didn't like to please anyone. I want self satisfaction and not this idiotic excuse for pursuit. I didn't want to pursue friendship but I felt lonely without it.

It has only been three weeks and I have felt happier than I have ever felt before. This place was a blessing in disguise, I won't ever regret going here.
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That loli makes me work too much, it's only the first month and she hasn't given me any breaks. Finding possible pawns was an arduous task. I was lucky that I stumbled across Ayanokouji, he was usable and I find that more than enough to get that loli off my back.

Yet, I haven't told her about him. Ayanokouji seemed kind and harmless, so I thought that maybe he didn't need to be in the spotlight of that loli.

He should thank me for keeping him safe, he isn't in harms way all because I allowed it. Sadly, I can't say the same for myself; I was practically a slave to that loli and it was all my fault.

I never should have stolen that beer can, it landed me in this mess. My school life of luxury was halted for a bit, I had now succumbed to the power of a crippled loli.

"Hahh..." I sighed fatigued.

I was trailing behind Ayanokouji, more like I was watching him from above. He hadn't noticed me, I was sure of it because all he was doing was eating ice cream.

I want some ice cream as well, it's really warm and I can't stand the heat. Unfortunately, I chose to do this because I was curious about him. He saw me and Sakayanagi having a chat and he was also interested in my classes affairs.

He may be very smart, but I didn't really like to see people as pawns. I don't even understand the reasoning as to why that loli wants pawns in the first place.

My school life was halted for now, I had to search for these so called pawns in this heat. I didn't like it but it was unavoidable.

I brought out my phone. I was bored and with nothing really noteworthy going on I decided to check my points balance.

"60.866 points." I mumbled as I scanned the screen.

The points would be allocated in three weeks, I had brought a few items this week alone and if this spending continues then I might end up using most of my balance.

I decided that maybe I should put a cap on the spending until it reaches 40,000 points. Even thought we would get an allowance of 100,000 points anyways, I still needed to control my spending habits.

"Wait... where did he go?" I put my phone back in my pocket and stared at the empty bench.

He just vanished. Gone and I frowned at my incompetence to keep an eye on him.

The boy who peaked my interest had just disappeared right in front of my eyes.
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The month passed by in a flash, the classroom hierarchy had already been established in that period of time.

Now it was the first of May and a shroud descended on the batch of first years.

Only the people who knew anticipated this. Their suspicions were now confirmed and the realisation didn't shake them but they knew what it would do to the others.

As each person woke up, they checked their phones and different results awaited them.

Their school life from now on would change.
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A/N

Once again thanks to Crystalcursed for letting me rewrite his story. Anyways, hope you liked this short chapter and if you want longer chapters then tell me. Have a blessed day.

Thanks for reading

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