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Chapter 69
In the gym after school, Yuki practice her moves with a punching bag. with Minoru and Ayano watching her. She keeps punching it and jumps around it.
Yuki: Hyaa! Now get ready for a distant ride!
She kicks it from the bottom and it flew to the other side of the gym.
Yuki: Swoosh! It never gets old!
Ayano: Cool! So do you ever own one of those punching bags?
Yuki: No. I just use my bouncing balls, pillows, and cardboards as a kid.
Minoru: Well, you sure are ready to defend from Team Phase.
Yuki: Yeah.
Meanwhile in some warehouse, the main Team Phase members are inside and brought the flash drive from school.
Hiroshi: Hey ladies, I brought it.
Touko: The surveillance footage?
Hiroshi: Yes. The entire day from last Friday and yesterday’s morning.
Kaname: Cool. Looks like we are gonna spend hours to find who is involved with the theft.
Lila: Totally.
Hiroshi walks up to their main computer and plugs the flash drive.
Hiroshi: We have a 24 hour video of that Friday and 12 hour video for the first half of yesterday. We are gonna watch and fast forward some parts. Each video contains many camera views in one single video, so prepare your eyes out. We gotta look as sharp as a knife to find out who’s behind this.
He plays the play button and they watch it.
Later, they were watching a segment when they leave their club room.
Lila: That’s when we were leaving.
Hiroshi: Yep. … Hey! There’s a guy in the door a few doors away from us.
Kaname: He looks familiar.
Lila: That’s Leon. Yuki’s friend.
Hiroshi: We knew it. We knew Yuki is the main source, but we need to watch this guy.
He plays the video and sees Leon watching them leave, and he walks by their door when they left the floor, and then he looks at the window to make sure they leave school. Once they do, Leon runs.
Hiroshi: There! He’s our suspect. He must’ve hired that lady.
Lila: Can we fast forward to her when she breaks it?
Hiroshi: Sure.
He fast forwards until they see a fat lady (Retasu) in the hallway. She opens the door and went it. A while later, she left the room and locks it and walks away.
The next day at morning, Team Phase are at the conference room with Hiroshi having his laptop plugged to the projector. The screen is black for now.
Touko came in the room.
Touko: Okay. Leon’s coming.
Leon enters the room.
Hiroshi: Hey Leon. We want you to sit down.
Leon: But how did you guys get permission to the conference room?
Hiroshi: The school allowed us for this case. Just sit down.
Leon: Okay. (sits down to a seat) So what case are you gonna tell me?
Hiroshi: Do you know a fat lady who stole our files?
Leon: Hmm… Not really. One of you asked me that the other day.
Lila: Uh Huh.
Hiroshi: So, we caught you on tape from last Friday when you were watching us leave our room before our robbery happened.
Leon: Really?
Hiroshi: Yeah. We got access to the school’s surveillance system with their permission and we found you in that area.
He plays the clip where Leon watches them leave.
Leon: All right! Look! I don’t know about the fat lady! I did do that because Yuki didn’t want you guys interfering her soccer game. She didn’t want you guys to ruin it. She hired me to look after you guys! That’s all. There’s no theft from any of us!
Kaname: So you’re working with Yuki now?
Lila: He’s friends with them.
Leon: Yes, since I became friends with Minoru, but this has nothing to do with something happened to your theft at any way, and not even Yuki wanted to do that.
Hiroshi: Are you sure?
Leon: Absolutely.
Hiroshi: We’ll keep finding out about this robbery as long as we have to.
Lila: But don’t watch us leave again! That’s how you ended up here. Understand?
Leon: Sure.
Hiroshi: We’ll keep a watch over you since we’re not done yet. Don’t worry. We probably don’t need you most of the time, and if you find out about this yourself, tell us.
Leon: All right.
Mizuro: Now go out and hang with your buddies.
Leon: Sure.
As soon as he left, he runs to Yuki and Minoru and tell them the story.
Leon:…and that’s all. I had to made that up because they caught me on school’s camera, and they got permission for it.
Yuki: How did they earn permission for it?
Minoru: Maybe because they claim they help the school and that the staffs falls for that.
Leon: Yeah. We don’t want to have something like this again.
Yuki: All right. I won’t let you get involved in this.
Now going back to yesterday, Team Phase are looking at the screen, checking the afternoon from Friday.
Kaname: We checked that boy already. He hasn’t watched us in that timeline.
Touko: Go check on Yuki. She’s at the hallway.
Hiroshi: Yeah, I see her. The last break until the final class of the day. Let’s see where she’s heading.
They see Yuki going to the theatre club, and went inside.
Hiroshi: She only went there.
They see her coming out with a trash bag and walks downstairs.
Touko: Could it be that she has the disguise for that?
Hiroshi: Not sure, but the fat lady looks really real.
They see Yuki exiting the building from behind.
Lila: And that’s where she went to gym class.
Hitoshi: Did you see her bring the bag to the locker room?
Lila: No. I didn’t see her in because she left before I went in.
Hiroshi: I see. Very suspicious.
In the next day during lunch, they are at the conference room again, calling Takigawa-senshi from his room.
In his classroom, he talks to Yuki.
Takigawa: Yuki. You need to take a visit to the conference room.
Yuki: Sure.
Minoru sees her go.
Yuki walks to the conference room and went in.
Yuki: You guys?! How did you guys get to use the teacher’s conference?
Hiroshi: School’s permission. Just sit down.
Yuki sits at a seat.
Yuki: So is the theft still a blame on me?
Hiroshi: Well, we want to make sure you’re not lying to us before we show you some clips.
Yuki: You guys know I’m done with you guys.
Lila: But according to Leon, you send him to watch us leave that Friday after school because as he said, you want to make sure we all leave so we won’t be in your game.
Yuki: Well, I thought you guys were gonna ruin it, and I really want to stay away from you guys.
Hiroshi: And you got Leon worried when he came. So here is the clip of him watching us.
He plays the clip that he showed to Leon earlier.
Yuki: Yeah, but we have nothing to do with that theft.
Hiroshi: And we have another clip.
He plays the clip where Yuki went to a classroom and came out with a trash bag, and went outside from the back of the building.
Yuki: Well, I was doing a favor for a teacher. Why do you guys want to butt in everyone’s business?
Touko: We want to know if that involves with…
Yuki: Again, I have nothing to do with the robbery.
Lila: All right, but you are still on our watch.
Hiroshi: Yuki, We’ll let you go.
Yuki: Finally. This was not worth going through.
She left the room.
Kaname: Either she’s legit or she’s hard to break down.
Hiroshi: Right. We’ll see who’s our exact suspect.
Few hours after school has ended, they are at their warehouse and they are watching the friday’s survillance.
Hiroshi: So all we have now is that Yuki wants us to not be in her way, or that’s how they claim it.
Mizuro: I wrote something on the sticky note. Umm, go to about 15-20 minutes after school.
Hiroshi: Okay.
He fast forwards again to after school.
Mizuro: Remember we told our new members, Rin and Retasu, if they know about this?
Kaname: They only heard about the incident. Any conspiracy theories?
Mizuro: We know Rin hates Yuki. But, Retasu joined later on. She seems to simply join and put less words than Rin about why she joined. Go look at the main entrance.
Hiroshi: There, I see her. She is talking to Rin.
He plays it.
Mizuro: Now Rin is leaving, and Retasu just now went to another direction. We didn’t see her leave the front gate, but around the school.
Lila: If she is what you think she is, Retasu seems to still care about Yuki, so she most likely watched her game.
Hiroshi: Maybe.
Mizuro: That’s all I got. We see everyone leave, but we can’t determine each person by the back of their heads. There’s a lot of them.
Hiroshi: Yeah, and what if Retasu or Rin actually hired a fat lady to take our secret files?
Kaname: I know Rin wouldn’t. She loves our club and I don’t spend time with Retasu as much.
Hiroshi: If this is true, them could it be that Retasu is working undercover?
Touko: We got to get rid of her.
Hiroshi: Not just now. We will interview her and see if she is really 100% legit just like Rin, or the one behind this.
Lila: Good thinking.
In the next morning, Rin and Retasu are at the student room with Team Phase.
Hiroshi: We got a bit more info about the robbery since yesterday. Leon did spy on us to make sure we leave, just to tell Yuki that we won’t be in her game, as if we wanted to.
Rin: I guess she hired him so she can call the lady.
Lila: We guessed too, but we don’t have a clear evidence yet.
Kaname: She wanted us to not be there, and we asked her yesterday if she did this. She’s still denying.
Retasu: She got mad at both me and Rin and she said this several times that she doesn’t want to be involved in our club anymore.
Hiroshi: All right. Well, we got a bit of information about the footage we saw from the survillance system. Retasu, we saw you and Rin talking after school that friday. After that, you went the other way to go behind the school to where the track is. Did you went to see Yuki’s game?
Retasu: Umm, no, I was talking to Shirou. He’s friends with Rin. I talked to him about Rin and she knows about this.
Rin: Yeah, we talked. They both were talking, as both said.
Hiroshi: I see. Have you seen Yuki during those moments?
Retasu: No. I only hear her game and people cheering her team and stuff. I was minding my own business.
Mizuro: So nothing suspicious?
Retasu: Not that I saw. No.
Hiroshi: All right. If any of you two see Yuki doing something or her friends, tell us. She’s currently in our watch until case is closed.
Rin: We’ll do.
Retasu: Hopefully, nothing wrong happens.
Hiroshi: Don’t worry.
Later during lunch, Team Phase are at their room while being closed. They are still looking at their laptop, watching the survillance from Friday.
Hiroshi: Remember we saw the fat lady coming out from the back door of the building? The camera is indoors, so we can’t see what was outside.
Lila: And during that, it was few minutes after everyone left the school when the game was over.
Touko: We didn’t see her come in from the front gate, by how much and how long we watched that survillance a few times.
Hiroshi: Like we said, it could be a disguise. We should check on the theatre room. The disguise room is there.
They went there and opened the disguise room, and they tried looking for the disguise that the “Fat Lady” wore.
Kaname: We didn’t see the dress that she wore.
Touko: There’s plenty of wigs. It is harder to find.
Mizuro: Neither Yuki or Retasu had put them here.
Hiroshi: If a disguise is taken, it is hidden. Retasu is still on our watch too in a way.
Kaname: What if one of them change in the locker room?
Hiroshi: Well, most likely, Yuki would’ve. We should go and investigate.
They went to by the locker room building.
Kaname: I’ll go and ask anyone.
Hiroshi: All right.
Kaname went to the girls locker room and saw a coach. She ask her questions.
Kaname: Were you here after school on Friday?
Coach: I was here.
Kaname: During someone’s game?
Coach: Well, there was a game that day. Yes. I believe it is another Yuki’s game.
Kaname: Yes. Have you seen anyone coming here after that?
Coach: I was here the whole time, so I don’t know when it ended. Although, I left to grab some paperworks, and when I got out from the main building, I saw someone coming out from this locker room from outdoors. On the inside, no one else was there before or after that.
Kaname: Was it a big person?
Coach: Yes. The dress with bushy hair. It was during the game and I assumed she was doing a play somewhere outside.
Kaname: All right. We are investing that person for our club that is registered to school’s service. Thanks for your information.
She came out and they all went to their club room again and talked.
Hiroshi: So we confirmed it is a disguise. We are getting closer!
Lila: I knew it! We know it’s not Yuki. Could it be Retasu?
Kaname: Possibly. We know it’s a girl in this school.
Lila: But how would Retasu run fast like that? She’s not as fast as that person who ran Monday morning.
Hiroshi: Although, I checked the height differences when that person entered our room from Friday after school and Monday morning. We see a bit of a difference. That’s why we need more clues. We can’t confirmed who wore that yet, so we gotta find out more stuff.
Touko: Yeah. Too bad we only have one camera outside the building, and it’s only at the main entrance to see the front gate.
Mizuro: We gotta intimidate Retasu!
Lila: I mean if she is the suspect, then confronting her would be a good idea to see if she can keep secrets.
Hiroshi: Well, it’s a bit risky and we don’t want the club to make others uncomfortable. That is, if this is the way to find out, then we will be protected.
Mizuro: So no one will do this to us again, unless if it’s Yuki.
Hiroshi: We still believe Yuki has something to do with this, but how many times have we said that? The clues we got so far seems to be more speculated on Retasu with the disguise. The lady came out from a locker room and waited until no students are here, and Leon spied on us. Let’s intimidate Retasu after school!
Later when school is just over, Retasu went to Team Phase’s room, she sits down and no one else is there.
Kaname came in.
Retasu: So, where is Phase A and the rest of them?
Kaname: They’re coming from their classes. They are putting stuffs on their lockers too.
A while later, the rest of the team came.
Hiroshi: Retasu, thanks for waiting.
Retasu: Umm, yeah.
Lila closes the door.
Hiroshi: Retasu, we want to ask you some questions.
Retasu: Umm, sure.
Hiroshi: We look in depth about our case. Retasu, we were told that the Fat Lady who stole our files came out from the girls locker room. Only one of the coach saw her walk out.
Retasu: So, did the coach caught her?
Kaname: No.
Hiroshi: We want to know if you know about this.
Retasu: Umm, I wasn’t by the locker room building. I was with Shirou, remember?
Touko: Yeah, but has anyone said about it?
Retasu: Only when you guys started trying to find her.
Hiroshi: All right. We got some clues. Yuki hired Leon to watch us leave that Friday as we said, because she thought we would ruin her game.
Lila: But we still believe she has not given up on us yet!
Retasu: I don’t know about that.
Hiroshi: And how many times we saw Friday’s surveillance, we didn’t see the Fat Lady coming in from the front gate.
Mizuro: And no one else know about where the secret files was stored.
Retasu: Not sure how anyone else knows.
Hiroshi: Maybe Yuki knows. She’s been here a few times before this robbery happened. Also, the Fat Lady came in from the back of this building.
Touko: We also checked height differences between Friday after school and Monday morning of the Fat Lady in disguise.
Hiroshi: She seems taller at Monday and ran faster.
Kaname: And she wasn’t wearing high heels. The coach believed she was wearing the disguise.
Retasu: (sweating) Umm, not sure how that…
Hiroshi: Also, we want to know if whether or not you are involved in this.
Retasu: No! I a-am not involved w-with this!
Kaname: We know Yuki didn’t steal our files from Friday. We believe she wore that disguise at Monday morning, despite denying it too many times.
Hiroshi: But the height differences we saw, it seems like a different person.
Retasu: ..Umm…I…don’t know…who was in that disguise.
Lila: Was it you or Rin? Tell us!
Retasu: No! I did not! (shaking)
Kaname: You’re shaking.
Retasu daydreams to the junior high days where she is hanging out with Rin.
Retasu: As best friends, we don’t keep secrets to each other. We share it!
Rin: Yep! BFFs along with Yuki!
Retasu: I won’t let you down in my entire life.
It cuts back to the reality.
Touko: Is it Rin? Or is it your friend?
Retasu shakes a bit and sweats and starts talking.
Retasu: STOP! STOP!! All right! I was the one who wore that fat lady disguise! I took it because I am working undercover for Yuki and them! She returned it that Monday.
Lila: I KNEW IT!
Retasu: I joined because I didn’t want Rin to be mad at me! (cries) She’s my best friend and I felt wrong for lying to her. I had to be undercover! Please don’t take me to the principle! Don’t tell Rin I did this! I did not want to betray her!
Retasu puts her head to the desk.
Touko: Case closed!
Hiroshi: …shocking.
He starts walking around.
Hiroshi: We told you both to not betray us. I can see why you joined because you want your friendship to stay.
Retasu: She would be mad at me if I side with Yuki all along.
Kaname: Well, you messed her up so bad.
Hiroshi: Phase E! Don’t! Retasu, we cannot tolerate this betrayal to this club. The club was meant to help the school to be the better place, and that was our goal. You and Yuki read the secret files and you guys already know our goals.
Lila: You shouldn’t share those files with someone else!
Hiroshi: Also, while you are out of the club for good, we won’t be sending you to the principle.
Touko: What about Yuki?
Hiroshi: If we send her there, we would have to send Retasu there too since they’re both on this case. Don’t worry. No one else will know you betrayed us.
Retasu: …so…?
Hiroshi: We thought what you guys did was terrible and you should be ashamed of doing this! Ladies, time for action.
He grabs Retasu out from the desk and throws her to the floor.
Hiroshi: THIS IS FOR SHARING OUR SECRET FILES WITHOUT OUR PERMISSION!!
He bangs her.
The group beats her up.
Retasu: HEELLPPPPPPP!
Lila covers her mouth.
They push her to the floor and starts beating her up. They rip her ribbons from her uniform and messes her hair.
Mizuro: If you think we didn’t think it was you, then you are wrong!
She grabs her briefcase and opens it and throws her papers, homeworks, and books around the room.
Retasu: MY HOMEWORK!!
Kaname: I see today’s homeworks!
She starts ripping her homeworks.
Hiroshi and Lila picks her up and leans back from the wall and runs to the front to throw her to another run to give her the bump and she fell.
Retasu stays crying and looks beaten.
Hiroshi: THIS IS WHAT WE DO TO A TRAITOR!
Lila: If you tell anyone else who we are, and what we did to you, it will be worse for them!
Kaname: She’s probably gonna tell Yuki.
Hiroshi: She doesn’t matter. And if we know you tell Rin about this settlement, not only we are gonna tell her what you did, but she will get beaten up even worse!
Retasu: Don’t hurt her!
Touko rips her school skirt and tosses it away.
Touko: Now you only have school’s pants left. Looks like that uniform looks awful.
Mizuro: It doesn’t look like the school will allow you to come here with that! Looks like you won’t be coming here for a while!
Hiroshi: Come on girls. Let’s go some place else. We’ll leave her here.
Team Phase left and Retasu is left crying on the floor.
Retasu: Oww. (sniffs) Yuki!

Next Chapter: Rin’s Situation
Retasu went to Yuki’s house and Rin’s house. She tells them the story. Rin realizes that she is in a complicated situation between her friends, her attitude, and Team Phase. She does not want to get beat up, but does not want to stay in the club any longer. How will Rin try to escape from being a member of Team Phase? Tune in next time!