Classroom Of The Elite:Forging Legacy [On Hold]

A World Of Chess

POV:Yukishira Hiro

It's unusually quite,I thought she would shower me with questions but...

I looked over to the girl who was Kikyo Kushida silently,my gaze pierced through her image while she bothered the life out of Suzune Horikita.Ryuen was reading a book on the other side of me while Kohei Katsuragi sat beside me,keeping his eyes closed seemingly thinking about something.

At this point,I had the impression that Kushida had forgotten about what Haruka had told me,I even thought that Haruki tricked me into thinking that but it didn't seem like something she would do.

"Come on Hiro-kun! Your hair is so beautiful and sort of long but you have no sense of style at all!"

The person who broke the ice was Kushida,if it weren't for her then I might have been forced to find a topic to talk about myself.

"Question Hiro-kun,why do you never use honorifics when talking to other people?"

"Probrably because I don't find the need to use them.Come to think of it,but why the silence Katsuragi,Ryuen?"

The two then placed their gaze onto me,before long both Horikita and Kushida stared at the two students with curious faces.

It was true that I wanted to know why they were silent if I didn't already know the reason.I found myself wondering if someone like Horikita would know why this situation appeared out of the blue.

"If you don't want to reason with me then I understand,I wasn't expecting any of you to talk anyway."

"No,you don't have to apologize.To break the silence let's play a game of chess shall we?"

Class-1A's Kohei Katsuragi placed a chess board onto the table,I assumed that he boldly assumed that we would all agree but yet again,at the time chess was something I actually enjoyed.For whatever reason,I could find some sort of inner peace while playing the game so it was only natural that I would want to agree but...

"Sorry but I'll decline for now,I don't want to push myself onto this game like this.The rest of you can play but leave me out of this."

"Yeah leave me out too."

Ryuen also declined the offer and followed me to the corner of the room,obviously the three found this suspicious but it seemed to me that they shrugged off the idea of us being in on something.

"So,why did you not want to play huh? You look the the type of person of would be good at this."

I stayed silent for a few minutes with Ryuen fixing his line of sight on me,I knew the longer I waited to answer,the more he wanted to hear it.Perhaps he was suspicious of me before? Or maybe he already knew who I was?

I dusted off the thought by rubbing the back of my neck with my palm as I stared at the game of chess the other three were having.However there was one person who looked like they were ditracted,Suzune Horikita occasionally placed her gaze on me.

"What if I am good at chess? Would that explain anything?"

"You didn't answer my question at all you know that? Answer me why you're not playing."

I would have asked the same thing but it was obvious that he never had any interests in playing at all from the moment Katsuragi asked.

"Let's just say that...I'm already playing a game of chess with someone right now."

"And who may that be?"

"If I told you,I don't think you would ever believe me.As a result that's something I know and something for you to find out."

He smirked and turned away from me,I assumed that he was satisfied with my answer but there was one person who wasn't.Suddenly,an email came through so I took out my phone to check who it was.

[Hey,tonight my room.Do not be late or else.]

Rude much,kind of forceful to be honest.

[Fine Horikita.]