[center][h1][color=39b54a][b]Hakuro Kuroda[/b][/color][/h1][/center]

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Good-News/Bad-News time.  The good news was that, after alot of searching, Hakuro was about to search out the information he was looking for.  This wasn't to say that the news he had [i]found[/i] was good.  It made for a grim read.  There were a host of flunked-out students whom Okamoto had treated like garbage, in which some of them were in a bad way and...some of them had succumbed to pressure in the worst way.  Let's just say that if Nagi really had plans to make that woman disappear, he wouldn't argue with the girl's methods.  And yes, some of the failures [i]had[/i] disappeared...  The bad news, though...was in the [i]successes[/i], the ones he'd been warned about.  Some of them were unfamiliar to him, just names listed among a series of achievements.  However, some of them...  The Student Treasurer, Room 3-A's Class Rep, [i]Rina's older brother[/i]...  Hakuro's eyes widened [i]especially[/i] at that last one.

[i][color=39b54a]No wonder you were trying to warn me.  You knew about the fanaticism from the start, and that put you onto the fallout of the fail-outs.[/color][/i]

There were others in the vicinity of him, but the main threat was that the most-successful were in the places where being aware and in control of things surrounding them worked hand-in-hand.  No wonder the Pricnipal liked the results.  These were achievers probably at any cost, and they had a severe case of Stockholm Syndrome.  Hakuro stepped back from the computer and headed out of the school library.  He needed time to think, to reflect on this.  Putting on some [url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FiMqZmNHU1I]music[/url], he started to head to the roof while composing a text to Rina.

[quote][color=39b54a]I see now why you warned me so quickly.
It must've been rough for you, at home.
I'm sorry if my investigation caused you grief.[/color][/quote]

Heading up the floors, he was getting close to the roof, looking to get some air, when...something interrupted.  He stopped his phone a second.  Was there...?  Yeah, someone up here was already here, playing music.  It was different from the track he'd been playing, which was from a show.  It was more up-beat, even.  Hakuro decided to open the door to the roof and have a listen, seeing two girls, both of whom he knew, but not personally.  That is, one was the Metal Chick, and the other was the very-much-into-pink girl, Akira.  The music played itself out, and then the Metal Chick - who was the one that drew that picture of him, most likely - asked a question that Hakuro was [i]all too happy[/i] to answer as he stepped out into the open.

[color=39b54a]"Unfortunately, there isn't really much in town that would be alright with that.  Closest things would be either the mall, and Komatsu Karaoke, and Shimazu-san doesn't like minors hanging around the bar.  Believe me, I tried."[/color]

For the record, Hakuro was not mispronouncing Shimizu Aoi's name.  He was equating them to the [i]Shimazu[/i] of history, a clan of war and profit.  So, these two had a Hatto-san on their hands now.  What do?