We see a woman walking in the streets very fast, she has a serious expression on her face. She is none other than Hiroki's school headmaster's assistant - Rena Sukigawa.
'I don't understand, why Hiroki's mom is in Bert's apartment with so much luggage. There's only one possibility that she came to take revenge on him for making Erica lower her son's grades, but then what's all of this luggage for and why is her face being beaten up like that?' Rena thought while walking on the streets until she reached a two-story apartment and opened the door. She didn't turn on the lights and go straight to the living room's couch, where a little evening sunlight is falling on the couch from the window, she sit on it and take out an cigarette, then lit it and puff some smoke.
"Should I report it to the headmaster?"
"I'm afraid you can't do it" Rena's stand up from her couch in a shock and look behind, where the sounds come. The whole room is surrounded in darkness, so she couldn't see clearly who is there. She grabbed her bag to use it to protect her from the unknown.
"Who is there!?" Rena shout.
"Don't be afraid, I'm not here to harm you." A person said while coming out from the darkness and it's none other than Hiroki.
"Hiroki! Why are you here and how did you come inside?" Rena shouts, panicking from the situation.
"How did I come inside is not important now, and why am I here ? Because I don't want you to tell the Headmaster, what you see today." Hiroki in a calm and an emotionless tone.
" You don't want me to tell anything to the headmaster? Why?"
"The only thing, I can tell you is that I am a victim here and all I am doing to save myself." Rena got confused and lower her guard.
" I don't understand, what did you mean by victim, why your mom is beaten up like that? Tell me, Hiroki. The headmaster and I will help you."
"If you want to help me, just stay silent about the incident you see today and stop investigating everything related to me and Bert."
"No, I can't do this, I will report it to the headmaster." Rena took out her phone from her handbag.
"You left me no option then, if you do it I will expose your relationship with Headmaster." Rena stops, her fingers freeze above the mobile screen.
"W-what are you... talking about?" Rena fumble a little.
"Rena Sukigawa, currently 26-years-old inspired by her high school teacher, she dreamed to become a teacher too and with hard work, she become one too in the age of 23 she started her career as a teacher but for a long time she took help of her seniors in her teaching, without their help she couldn't work properly. Even in her school, she is what people called an average student, she had average grades, average looks , not so popular nor talented, but even after all that she became an assistant of headmaster and vice headmaster of a high school. She got a position that needs 5 to 7 years or more for a teacher to reach . So, How could you become an assistant and a headmaster in such a short time??" Rena got a chill run down her spine hearing this a drop of sweat drop from her forehead.
'I thought of finding a weakness of the headmaster but instead I found the weakness of the person he trust most.'
"I... I just give the interview and got selected, that's all. I don't have any relationship with the headmaster."
'Even a child can lie better than that.' Hiroki thought.
"That's not all the information I had, The school teacher who inspired you to become a teacher is no other than Hiroshi Tanaka - our Headmaster" Rena's eyes got widened, she got shocked by the revealed information.
"How did you Know that?"
"That's not all, He left the school he teaches after a year, for a higher position, but you want to follow him and his footsteps that's why you become a teacher and the time you met him again is coincidentally a time when her wife got expired by an illness and because of his wife's death was depressed, so you determined to help him and help him to get over her wife's death, you even help him raised her little daughter and in those times you both got closer and got in a relationship but you didn't want to make it public because of your age gap and you didn't achieve anything worthy to be a assistant of headmaster, if words got out you will only lost your job but the headmaster will lose the reputation he earned."
"H-how did you know all this??"
"How I know this is not your concern?"
"If you shared anything that happen today to the headmaster, I will expose you two to the public."
"How can I trust you?"
"There's nothing there for you to believe me but if you tell the headmaster anything about today, nothing going to happen only he starts to investigate about me more but if I exposed you, you both will lose far more important things." A chill ran down Rena's spine.
"So, did you accept my offer?"
'If I just act like accepting his offer and later tell the headmaster about it, he will help me but if he knew I betrayed him, he will expose us, Fuck' Rena clench her fist.
"Fine, I accept you offer."
"Good, Now listen carefully what I'm saying and repeat it to the headmaster, so he didn't got suspicious."
In the meanwhile
In an unknown street, we seen a woman in hoodie covering her face meeting a person.
"Did you bring me the stuff?" The woman asked.
"Yeah, but the rate is higher than usual, the cops is on high alert this days so getting it here is difficult."
"tch" The woman clicked her tongue and took out a bundle of cash and hand it to the guy, he checked the cash and give her a packet of white powder.
" Nice deal, enjoy it to the fullest." The man said and the woman left without any response. After she got in secluded spot, she took out the packet of white powder and smiles seeing it.
"Finally" A blow of wind make the hoodie top falls behind that makes her face visible and the woman is none other than Haruka.