Classroom Of The Elite: I Am No Genius. (Year 1)

Vol 5 Ch 9: A Group Hangout.

And the fact that the lighting in the maze was decent at best wasn't helping my situation. Over all, losing your way in this maze was easy.

"Aki!"

I looked a little distance infront of me and saw Itsuki waving at me.

I immediately ran towards her... a very bad decision.

Upon reaching close to her, I slammed into the glass face first and then fell to the ground on my butt.

"Ow!"

"Aki! Are you okay?"

I turned around again to find Itsuki with a worried look.

So she was behind me instead of infront of me? I hate mirrors.

"I am fine... Anyway, where are the others?"

"I don't know... we all got separated!" She looked at me with a face that was about to cry.

"Sigh. Come on. Follow me."

I got up on my feet and started walking  while touching the mirrors, so as to not walk into one again. Itsuki followed me from behind.

All of us were given gloves so we don't leave any hand prints while touching the mirrors.

"Damn. Where is the exit?" I was getting more and more irritated as time went by.

"Hey Aki?"

"Hm? What?"

"You knew that Ryueen was going to poison our class right?"

My footsteps came to a halt. I turned around with a surprised expression.

"W-What do you mean?"

"Don't lie! Someone as introverted as you! Wouldn't have asked to hang out with us unless we dragged you out!"

Ouch. That kinda hurt. But what she said was true.

"I just wanted to take you guys out to have some fun is all." I tried to stick to my excuse.

"I can tell when you are lying, Aki."

"Umm..."

She looked at me with a disappointed expression.
"I can't believe you let Ryueen do something like that! A lot of my classmates suffered you know!"

"Well, it's not like I could do anything!"

"Your their class leader!"

"I WAS their class leader! Sigh. Let's not talk about this. Okay?"

I asked her but she just looked at me with an annoyed expression.

"Hmph! Fine! But you better apologize to my class got it!"

"Yeah yeah..."

We spent the next half and hour walking through the maze till we found the exit.

I saw that everyone else had already arrived before us.

"Hey dude! What took you so long?"

"Grrr.... I hate these mirror mazes!"

"Come on! I know you had fun!"

Atsushi tried to cheer me up. But he was right. Looking back at it, the frustration of not knowing where I was going was fun. Except the pain I received from bumping into the mirror walls of the maze.

"Now come on! There is a sale on clothes today!" Aika called out.

"We are going shopping?"

"Yup! The second year is coming so we gotta prepare ourselves!"

How does buying clothes prepare oneself for the upcoming struggles?

Without much of a choice I reluctantly went to the clothes shop with them.

The girls and boys wears were on different floors so we were separated.

As for us boys, we split up to do some of our own shopping.

I picked a black T-shirt with the words "World Domination" on it.

"That looks good on you." I heard a voice from behind me.

Turning around I saw a black haired boy.

"Hey..  Teruo..."

Although we all had decided to call eachother by our given names, it was still awkward as Teruo and I weren't close at all.

Infact, this might just be our first conversation if we don't include our previous Hi's and Hello's.

"Thanks. I knew black colour would suit me well."

"Hmmm... no. It's not best for you but it's decent."

"I see. Got any suggestions for me?"

"Sure!" He enthusiastically showed me multiple shirts.

I found it odd how a bored faced guy like him would have such a bright expression.

"You... sure are a lot knowledgeable about this..."

"Oh! Yeah! My parents run a clothes shop and I often help out!"

"That's convenient."

Little by little we grew close as friends should.