Chapter 42

After returning home, Rokudo Mukuro intended to use his abilities to investigate the world more thoroughly, but soon after, someone came to disturb him.

Rokudo Mukuro opened the door and saw Kirihara Akaya, who should have gone home, standing in front of it.

Kirihara Akaya failed to defeat Sanada, one of the Big Three, again today. Dejected, he returned home and became increasingly angry. So he carried his tennis bag and trained at the tennis court near his home.

As evening approached and it was time to go home, he saw a weather report on his phone: heavy to torrential rain was expected that night.

If it were the old Akaya Kirihara, he would simply go home carefree, lie in bed, and comfortably play games.

But now, the first thing that came to his mind was the flowers and plants on the rooftop of the teaching building, which Yukimura Seiichi had specifically asked him to take care of before he was hospitalized.

Kirihara Akaya didn't want to disappoint his idol, Captain Yukimura, so after packing his tennis bag, he planned to run to school.

After walking a few steps, he remembered how often he got lost and was late. Normally, he wouldn't care about that; he was confident that he could get to school smoothly on his own.

But he was a little worried today, worried that it would rain before he got to school, and worried that the downpour would damage Yukimura's plants.

So he obediently went to Rokudo Mukuro's house and knocked on the door of Rokudo-senpai's house.

"Senior Rokudo, could you please take me to school? I'll treat you to ramen when I get back, please."

Kirihara Akaya clasped his hands together, looking pitiful.

Knowing the whole story, Rokudo Mukuro agreed. His purpose was not to accompany Kirihara Akaya to the school to move flowers, but to see what the school was like at night compared to during the day.

"Why don't you leave your tennis bag at my house first? Isn't it heavy to carry it around?"

Kirihara Akaya shook his head and refused. His tennis bag contained not only his beloved tennis racket, but also his beloved game console and beloved comics. In short, his tennis bag was full of his treasures, and he couldn't bear to put it down.

"Senior Rokudo, let's hurry up and leave before it rains too early."

As Rokudo Mukuro and Kirihara Akaya were walking, he suddenly asked Kirihara Akaya a question, "Are you feeling unwell today?"

Kirihara Akaya was taken aback. "I don't feel unwell anywhere. I'm just tired from training too much."

And I lost today, so I couldn't quite control my emotions.

Rokudo Mukuro raised an eyebrow; Kirihara Akaya was once again tainted by that strange aura. He had previously burned away that aura with his Dying Will Flame and succeeded, but now he was tainted again. And it wasn't just him; everyone in the tennis club had some of it on them to varying degrees.

It seems that as long as the source isn't nipped in the bud, the people at that school will continue to be affected.

Back at school, Kirihara Akaya wanted to enter openly, but was stopped by the gatekeeper. "After school, students are not allowed to enter the school unless there are special circumstances."

The gatekeeper was very conscientious and refused to let anyone in, no matter how much Kirihara Akaya pleaded with him.

Kirihara Akaya walked dejectedly to Rokudo Mukuro's side. "Rokudo-senpai, the gatekeeper won't let us in. It seems we only have two options left."

A sense of foreboding rose in Rokudo Mukuro's heart. He followed Kirihara Akaya a few steps to the side, and Kirihara Akaya whispered to him, "Rokudo-senpai, we can climb over the wall now. This is the lowest wall in the school, and I can jump over it in one go. But the problem is that there are surveillance cameras."

His voice trailed off, “There’s another place, there’s a hole there, just big enough for us to crawl into.”

"Senior Liudao, look..."

Rokudo Mukuro remained indifferent. "What am I looking at? What the hell am I looking at?"

Both methods were utterly awful, so he wouldn't choose either. What was Rikkai University's campus compared to the heavily guarded Vongola headquarters? You know, even Byakuran's Millefiore, he was confident he could come and go as he pleased.

He has to enter Rikkai University openly and honestly today.

His fingers twitched slightly, and a barely perceptible indigo light emanated from them.

"The gatekeeper seems to have left on business. Let's hurry inside."

Kirihara Akaya turned his head and looked, "Hey, it really is! We're so lucky!"

"……hehe."

Taking advantage of this opportunity, the two walked into the school openly. Kirihara Akaya quickened his pace as he watched the sky grow darker, but was eventually stopped in front of an iron gate.

He grinned foolishly at Rokudo Mukuro, "I forgot, the school rooftop is locked every day after school, and I don't have the key."

Rokudo Mukuro smiled.

Where is the key?

Kirihara Akaya thought for a moment, "I remember that Yagyu-senpai has some."

Rokudo Mukuro: "Then give him a call."

Reminded by Rokudo Mukuro, Kirihara Akaya frantically pulled out his phone, "...My phone's dead."

Rokudo Mukuro was completely speechless. This unlucky kid was even harder to manage than Sawada Tsunayoshi in middle school. It must have been tough on his seniors in the tennis club to raise him safely.

Kirihara Akaya also clearly realized his own unreliability. He carefully observed Rokudo Mukuro's expression and found that he was not as angry as he had imagined, so he couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.

Senior Rokudo is truly a great person.

"What should we do now?" Kirihara Akaya was somewhat at a loss.

Rokudo Mukuro had already calmed himself down, and his gaze subtly swept towards the stairs, where something seemed to be present.

"Ugh, what bad luck! Maybe we should go find..."

Before Kirihara Akaya could finish speaking, the two of them heard footsteps going upstairs. The sound echoed in the empty school building and was very clear.

"Oh no, could it be the security guard who discovered we sneaked in and is coming to arrest us now? If it really is him, we'll ask him if he has the key to the rooftop. We'll take the scolding, but Yukimura-sama's flowers are the most important..."

"Akaya, Rokudo-kun, what are you doing here?" As Kirihara Akaya muttered to himself, the person who appeared before them was Yagyu Hiroshi, whom he had mentioned before.

"Yagyu-senpai!" Upon seeing the familiar face, Kirihara Akaya immediately rushed over, his eyes sparkling as he looked at him. "I asked Rokudo-senpai to bring me to this school. It's going to rain tonight, and the club president's flowers are still on the rooftop. Yagyu-senpai, what are you doing here?"

Looking at the soft and cuddly Kirihara Akaya, Yagyu Hiroshi's heart softened. Although this junior usually seemed carefree and silly, making people want to teach him a lesson, sometimes he could really touch people's hearts, just like now.

"Rokudo-kun, thank you for your trouble." Yagyu Hiroshi nodded politely to Rokudo Mukuro.

"It's nothing, just a small matter."

"Senior Yagyu, did you bring the rooftop key?" Kirihara Akaya looked at Yagyu Hiroshi expectantly.

"I brought it." He had come back to school specifically because he saw the weather forecast and thought of the flowers on the rooftop, so he naturally brought his keys with him.

"Very good."

As soon as the door opened, Kirihara Akaya put his tennis bag against the wall and, together with Yagyu Hiroshi, began to move the blooming flowers and thriving potted plants, one after another, to a place where they could shelter from the wind and rain.

"By the way, Yagyu-senpai, how did you get in? The gatekeeper wouldn't let us in at all," Kirihara Akaya asked while working.

“Of course I have a legitimate reason to go to school,” Yagyu Hiroshi said, his hands moving with equal precision.

Seeing this scene, Rokudo Mukuro roughly understood the status of the name "Yukimura Seiichi" in the hearts of the tennis club members.

Within just a few minutes, raindrops began to fall in a steady drizzle.

Rokudo Mukuro also joined in the help, and the few potted plants were quickly moved.

Kirihara Akaya stood with his hands on his hips, a satisfied smile on his face, his mind still imagining the scene of Yukimura praising him.

The rain gradually intensified, and the sky completely darkened, shrouding the entire Rikkai University campus in darkness. Rokudo Mukuro also sensed that the eerie aura was growing stronger, but he remained expressionless as he walked downstairs with Kirihara Akaya and Yagyu Hiroshi.

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Author's Note: Thank you to all the little angels who voted for me or watered my plants with nutrient solution between 12:33:11 on December 26, 2022 and 23:57:39 on December 28, 2022!

Thank you to the little angel who watered the nutrient solution: Six Paths of Reincarnation (2 bottles);

Thank you so much for your support! I will continue to work hard!