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Chapter 77
Right after Minoru enters the room where he sees Lila, he proceeds to sit at the desk. Lila smiles in the meeting.
Lila: Hello, Minoru. I made my promise. I won’t even hurt you at all. However, I do need you. It’s not about joining with us.
Minoru: But why did you guys have to get Yuki in trouble.
Lila: Well, we tricked her, and the staffs here to have her suspended. We wanted to get rid of her because she’s our threat. She’s like the poison bug on the school.
Minoru: Not really.
He shakes a little because he’s a but afraid of her.
Lila: Don’t be afraid. What I want to talk to you about is something important.
Minoru: Umm…what?
Lila: It is gonna sound really surprising. Do you ever remember me?
Minoru: What? I only met you since the beginning of this school year.
Lila: No! It’s before. Way before.
Minoru: I’m confused. How would you know me?
Lila: First off, did you remember your second grade teacher, Sonazaki-sensei, and your forth grade teacher, Nanami-sensei?
Minoru remembers them.
Minoru: Yeah. How…do you know…that…
Lila: I was your classmate. Remember the girl who laughs at you, crying and making mistakes? Remember I was the top activist in both of your classes?
Minoru thinks back in time, to where he remembers seeing a girl that looks similar like her, having few trophies. He also sees that she laughs at him when he got a time out, and cries about it. He thinks back in second grade when she laughs when he fell to the mud outside. All without her making that happen.
Minoru thinks back and shakes more.
Minoru: Lila? You are the one who saw me fall to the mud and other things that happened to me?
Lila: Now you catch on fast, kid. I was that girl. I was annoyed from you whenever you cry for no reason. Yes, I was that same girl.
Minoru: Uhhhh……Lila Otani?
Lila: Hey. You even remember my full name.
Minoru starts to drop tears.
Lila: Minoru, it’s not that bad. You haven’t changed much.
Minoru is surprised that he couldn’t say much.
Lila: I told you that it would shock you. Honestly, when I first saw you here, I recognized you that quick, and that’s why I decided to ask you to join our group when it was a thing. I asked you by the outside of the locker room, remember?
Minoru:…Why have you become like this? Why are you with them?
Lila: Long story, but what I wanted is to do something awesome for my life. I wanted attention so that I could have the popularity as much as your girlfriend had, if not better. Sure, I got amount of attention in your grade school, but I want to have many others to be on my side. Being friends, having the same beliefs, and take over something.
She jumps up a few times.
Lila: I want to dominate! I found out that I want to dominate any place of where I get the best attention. Whether it’s school, a job, or even parties, I want to be well recognized, and get them to be almost my type!
Minoru: Why would you want that all the sudden?
Lila: Because I want many others to be on my side, and will agree with me so often. I wanted more. Not only that, but I also want to have best friends with me to take over the school to be well recognized! That way, we can have the fame, the events, the activities, the celebrities, and many more, all to ourselves!
Minoru: Are you sure you want to be that person? You are not gonna learn that much things if you don’t show care about others.
Lila: Minoru, don’t be naive. We as Team Phase, wanted something like this. We don’t really care about the minorities in the school. You know, the dorks who are never meant to earn fame. We want to steal their attention so we can have that type of audience to ourselves.
Minoru: Explain why Yuki is popular?
Lila: I don’t need to. I’m not doing it in her way. I don’t really care about helping anyone who isn’t worth the friend or a member.
Lila walks around, thinking.
Lila: I met the rest of Team Phase since Junior High and we had similar ideas since then. We wanted something to bring the goal faster. I mean, you and Yuki had a chance to be with us, but you both turned us down, especially your Rin and Retasu.
Minoru: That’s because I felt something strange with you guys.
Lila: I can tell. Anyway, if Yuki keeps going after us, whether she tries to stop us from doing something amazing or wanting to expose us, it will hit her hard! Once the five of us are really the top in the school, her fame will be over.
Lila sits down.
Lila: I must’ve said this more than enough.
Minoru: Yuki is the type who never gives up on anything.
Lila: Well, this time, she can’t come here unless if she wants to get expelled. We won’t have to deal with her for a week.
Minoru: Umm…
He thinks about how Yuki is gonna find out about their plans, but he decides to act like Yuki can’t do anything.
Minoru: It’s so sad that you guys took her out. She doesn’t deserve to get locked up in her bedroom.
Lila: News flash! She does! I know you are gonna tell her everything about this conversation, so I don’t mind. I never wanted to be a normal student to begin with. I just want to be seen as special.
Minoru: Lila. You don’t have to do something like this. You did something special in the beginning of school by competing with Yuki. They saw you competing in the track and saw how good you are. You were close to Yuki, and not many of us can match with her, and she’s been practicing for years.
Lila: That’s just something. Of course, I am in her level in sport activities, but I want to be the top with my buddies, not others! She may got her folks to watch me compete, but that doesn’t mean I give sympathy to her. You are really naive.
Minoru: No really. I was very unpopular person before I actually met her. She has been a popular person since she started here, and when we got together, her fans saw our relationship as very heart warming.
Lila: I’d admit that it’s something special. For me, I wanted to do cool things, in a higher level. As a team, we wanted to be the leaders and be the center of attention. Our team is still alive, and nothing can stop us from reaching our goals! Even if that means your friends are at risk!
Minoru: And that’s it?
Lila: There’s only one thing. Team Phase means a lot to me, so if your girl decides to ruin our goal, or interfere with us, she will get payback! That goes the same for all of you guys! Any of you will regret if that happens! I told you about everything, so understand that me and my best friends want to do this successfully! It will never fail!
Minoru: Umm…okay. May I go?
Lila: I just wanted you to know who I am, because we were in a same class before, and learn what not to do with us, so go ahead. You can leave.
Minoru: Sure.
He left, and Lila closes the door, and the only person in the room.
Lila: Well, at least I didn’t tell you the next plan. You just watch. Hahahaha!
She laughs evily.
Later at Minoru’s house, he talks to Yuki and tells her the story.
Yuki: It seems like they just want attention without working hard enough in a good way.
Minoru: Yeah. I couldn’t believe she was in my grade school.
Yuki: She never hurt you or anything back then?
Minoru: Only laughed at me. That’s it. What I do know is they want to steal attention from others. Not sure how, but it won’t be pretty.
Yuki: Yeah. They could target me for getting the popularity, but they also hate me for not joining with them, and stop their ridiculous plans. So, that could also be why they got rid of me at school.
Minoru: You said that the principle wasn’t really sided with them and that you saw the videos.
Yuki: Yes. I saw those clips, and somehow, team phase set up a trigger on the fire alarm. I was trying to do some research, but I got distracted by Ryo’s college campus.
Minoru: So how was it?
Yuki: Pretty nice! It seems more adult like. By that, I mean we have more freedom there and they have many cool things there. It has the game room, the snack area, and many other things!
Minoru: Sounds nice!
Yuki: I was looking around the campus and talking to others that I kinda have small time doing the research. All I got is nothing.
Minoru: At least I know about who Team Phase are like. I looked up and no news about the story about the fire alarm incident.
Yuki: That’s good so no one else knows about this.
They see Ayano coming to the yard to talk to Yuki.
Ayano: Hey Yuki! I need to tell you both something.
Yuki: What?
Ayano: I was at the hallway earlier in school, because I got sent to a teacher meeting for some test. When I finished, I was heading out, and it was few minutes before lunch break started. When I came out, Team Phase were by the door for the lower floor under the school. I was going back inside, and looked carefully. They all went inside. It was like if they have their hangout area over there.
Minoru: That means they have a new room for themselves. It’s just all of them to have a meeting. Their club is still alive. I wonder how they are allowed to go there.
Yuki: Yeah. A student can’t go there without a staff’s approval or if you got after school detention. I went there a few times for a detention as a freshmen.
Minoru: Were they holding anything?
Ayano: Just their lunch. One girl was missing. Lila.
Minoru: She was waiting for me to talk to.
Ayano: That story. Retasu told me about it.
Minoru: Yeah. You and me got clues so far. They want to take over the school for big fame and desperately wants attention. Also, they seem to have hidden base on the bottom of the school.
Yuki: Interesting. I hope we can come up with something to know where their room is. Of course, it’s too risky because of cameras, and we don’t want to put anyone in danger.
Minoru: I got it. I should tell you that secretly, even Takigawa-sensei isn’t happy that you got suspended unfairly. He knows that Lila tricked the whole school system to believe it was you.
Yuki: He’s a cool teacher. Maybe he may help out a bit. He’s the teacher after all.
Minoru: I gotta do this safe, so Kaname wouldn’t see that we’re planning something against them. I have to find the right time to ask him to find their room.
Yuki: You do that. We gotta expose those morons very soon.

Next Chapter: A Secret Mission
Minoru and his friends are doing the best they can to find out more about Team Phase. Yuki is doing more research on them, and her friends find some clues. Team Phase are known to be a secretive team who wants to get fame by doing all sorts of plans. What kind of new things we will know about them? Tune in next time!