Student Council Vice President, Satou Tanaka, was a faithful guardian of order at Sobu High.
As soon as he stepped into the Service Club, his brows immediately furrowed faintly unconsciously. The air in this place was mixed with an aura of chaos that made him very uncomfortable. The damaged door panel, suspicious black burn marks in the corner of the room, and the three club members before him who had different auras but all gave the feeling of "abnormal."
His gaze paused briefly on Yukino's beautiful face, radiating a bit of regret. Such a good model student, why must she associate with people like this.
He cleared his throat, pulled out a neatly printed A4 paper from his folder, his movements stiff and formal.
"I am Student Council Vice President, Satou Tanaka." He got straight to the point with an irrefutable tone of authority. "By order of the Student Council President, I've come to deliver a notice of correction and temporary suspension of club activities."
He extended that paper toward Darius.
Yui stared at that paper tensely; the large bold letters reading "Notice" looked very painful to the eyes.
Yukino's face also completely clouded over. She had already guessed there would be problems, but didn't expect the problem to come this quickly and directly.
Darius didn't immediately accept it. He only stared at that paper, his nose twitching slightly a few times. Then, he took that paper. However, he didn't read its contents.
Instead, he brought that paper to his nose, closed his eyes, and inhaled deeply with an expression of full concentration like a high-class wine sommelier.
Tanaka stood frozen seeing that unreasonable movement. "What are you doing?"
"I'm smelling it." Darius answered with a serious expression after opening his eyes.
"Smelling?"
"Yes." Darius smelled that paper back and forth several times, then gave his conclusion. "The aroma of cheap ink, coarse fibers from recycled paper... and..." He paused, his gaze suddenly becoming sharp. "...the aroma of conspiracy."
Before his words could settle—
*RIIIIP!*
Under Tanaka's astonished gaze, that notice representing the Student Council's supreme authority was torn in two by Darius very casually, then into four, eight... until finally transforming into a pile of paper scraps that flew when he threw them into the air.
"You!" Tanaka's face instantly turned bright red. The finger he pointed at Darius trembled violently. "You're openly provoking the Student Council's authority!"
"No." Darius shook his head, staring at him with a gaze that seemed able to penetrate everything. "I'm declaring war on you all."
"Declaring... war?" Tanaka felt the CPU in his brain nearly burning. What exactly was this person talking about?
"A normal student organization wouldn't use such bureaucratic methods to handle problems." Darius began his logical deduction. "This notice is composed with stiff wording and standard format. It's precisely this 'standard' that exposes your non-human attributes."
He stepped forward approaching Tanaka, lowering his voice. "Humans are messy, full of feelings. Only cold machines, or... alien species disguised as humans, are so obsessed with procedures and rules."
His gaze swept Tanaka's glasses and the eyes behind the lenses widened with anger. "Tell me, Vice President Satou, has your Student Council... been infiltrated by 'Reptilians'?"
"Rep... Reptilians?"
Tanaka was truly bewildered. He felt he wasn't talking with a high school student, but conducting academic exchange with a mental hospital inpatient.
"Enough!" Yukino finally couldn't stand it anymore and stood up. She jerked Darius behind her body, blocking between that young man and the Vice President who was already nearly fainting from anger.
"My deepest apologies, Satou-senpai." She bowed slightly to Tanaka. "We will read... the essence of that notice. Regarding club correction issues, we will immediately submit the report."
She tried using normal socializing methods to save the situation. However, Tanaka didn't want to stay there one more second. He pointed at Darius, then pointed at Yukino, so angry he couldn't produce words, only snorted loudly then turned and slammed the door when leaving.
From outside the door his frantic raging was heard: "Just you wait! I'll definitely ask the President to completely disband this mental hospital!"
The atmosphere inside the room returned to calm. Yukino leaned against the door exhaustedly, feeling mentally and physically tired.
"Darius-kun, what exactly do you want? What benefit is there for us offending the Student Council like that?"
"Didn't he already say it?" Darius pointed toward the door. "The enemy wants to disband us. Sitting idle waiting for death isn't my style."
"Then what do you want to do? Go and fight with the Student Council President?" Yukino said sarcastically.
"Violence is the most inefficient method." Darius shook his head, his eyes flashing with the light of wisdom. "To face a system, we can't attack from outside, but must destroy it from within."
He walked beside Yukino, speaking in an inciting tone. "Since the existing order wants to annihilate us, then we will build a new order of our own."
"What does that mean?" Yui asked curiously.
The corner of Darius's mouth formed a crazy yet confident smile.
"We will install a puppet to become Student Council President. Then, we will control the entire Sobu High Student Council."
Yukino's pupils contracted from that crazy plan. She felt that she might truly have boarded a pirate ship that would never be able to dock.
Darius paid no attention to the girl's shock, he directly walked out of the room. He arrived in front of the bulletin board in the school building lobby. There, a promotional poster for the new term Student Council President election was already posted. Photos of several candidates and their vision-mission statements lined up side by side.
Darius's gaze swept one by one across those smiling faces full of "positive energy" and "spirit of dedication." Finally, his gaze stopped at one photo.
The girl in that photo had fashionable short brown hair, her smile sweet yet carrying a bit of perfectly mischievous impression. Her campaign slogan was: "Let's make everyone's school life more relaxed and fun~♡"
Below that photo, her name was written.
First year, Isshiki Iroha.
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