When We Exorcists Fell in Love at School, the World Went Crazy - Broken Days, Passing Hearts

The air in the classroom was completely different from yesterday. As Allen walked down the second-floor hallway, he could feel gazes stabbing into his back. Students passing by would glance at him, then hurriedly avert their eyes. Furtive whispers, not even trying to hide themselves, blocked his path like a wall. " Look, it's Allen Walker." " Even after Lady Road said all that to him, he was close with Lenalee too...?" " He's the worst." Normally, he wouldn't care. He'd trained himself not to care. But this atmosphere now was unmistakably hostile. A single night after Road's "destined person" declaration, the school had begun to see Allen as "the traitor who made Lenalee cry." In front of the Class 2-C classroom, Allen stopped walking. He took a breath. From beyond the door he was about to open, he heard a familiar voice. Lenalee's voice. Not her usual bright tone. A trembling voice, desperately holding something back. " ...So, I'm fine, really..." He opened the door. The moment Lenalee saw Allen, she quickly turned her face away. She hid her face behind the textbook in her hands. That textbook was trembling faintly. The tips of her twin tails swayed slightly. Every gaze in the classroom focused on Allen. Acting as if nothing was wrong, Allen headed for his seat. The seat next to Lenalee. " ...Morning, Lenalee." It was the gentlest voice he could manage. Lenalee's shoulders flinched. " ...Sorry, I just... need to go to the staff room..." With a trembling voice, Lenalee said that and, without looking at Allen's face, stood up as if fleeing. Her chair clattered loudly. She rushed out of the classroom at a half-run. Left behind was a heavy silence. " See? Allen must have done something." " Lenalee's been like that since yesterday. Poor thing." Curious and accusatory stares pierced Allen from all directions. That was when it happened. A tall shadow approached in silence. Kanda Yuu. His narrow, deep-indigo eyes glared down at Allen, filled with murderous intent. His hand rested on the Japanese sword at his hip. " You." That was all Kanda said before kicking Allen's desk over with the sole of his shoe. BAM!! The desk flipped, scattering textbooks and notebooks across the floor. " Stay away from Lenalee." Kanda's voice was cold as ice. " Next time, this'll be your face." Having said his piece, Kanda left the classroom to follow Lenalee. The classroom fell silent, as if water had been poured over it. No one said a word. Only the curious stares remained fixed on Allen. Allen picked up the overturned desk by himself. He silently gathered the scattered textbooks. (*I knew this would happen.*) Even so, the reality of being rejected by Lenalee and seen as an enemy by Kanda weighed heavily on Allen's chest. Lunch break. In the cafeteria, Allen was eating a curry bread alone. The school store's famous item, 180 yen each. Normally five wouldn't be enough, but today his hand stopped after the third. From the surrounding tables came the usual whispers. " That's what he gets for getting carried away." " Lenalee's eyes were still all red this morning." Pretending not to hear, he bit into the bread. It had no taste. " Whoa, eating all by your lonesome!" Suddenly, a heavy weight landed on his shoulder. Lavi threw an arm around him with his usual bright voice. His fiery red hair swayed at the edge of Allen's vision. " You got no friends or what!? I'll eat with ya, be grateful!" Lavi plopped down across from Allen. With the chopsticks he was holding, he tried to deftly cut the curry bread on Allen's tray. " How's this new style!? Chopsticks on bread, pretty revolutionary, right! A historic invention!" Splat. The bread tore awkwardly. " ...Huh?" Still smiling, Lavi popped the piece of bread he'd grabbed with his chopsticks into his mouth. Allen didn't laugh. " ...Lavi." " Mm?" " How was Lenalee?" Lavi's chopsticks stopped dead. His smile slowly faded. His emerald-green eyes, always sparkling with curiosity, turned serious. " ...So you saw her." " ...Yeah." Lavi stared intently at the crushed curry bread on the tray. " She came to the library. Stayed by the window seat the whole time." Lavi's voice dropped a little lower. " Didn't even read a book, just slumped over the desk. Even when I called out to her, all she'd say was 'I'm fine.' Just kept staring out the window with those swollen, tear-stained eyes." The bread nearly slipped from Allen's hand. " I tried to comfort her, y'know. But she wouldn't listen at all. And every time I mentioned your name, Allen, she looked like she was about to cry again, so... I just didn't know what to do." Lavi set down his chopsticks. The small *clack* echoed unnaturally loud. Lavi's heart was a mess. He had no right to be angry at Allen for making Lenalee cry. Because after comforting Lenalee, just for a tiny moment, a part of him had thought, "Maybe this means Lenalee will drift away from Allen." Rejoicing in a best friend's misfortune was the lowest of the low. " ...But, y'know." Lavi raised his head and looked straight at Allen. " I'm your best friend. That hasn't changed." Lavi gave Allen a firm slap on the back. " You fix this. That's something... only you can do." Those words felt like Lavi was personally delivering the death sentence to his own feelings. Having said that, Lavi stood up with a complicated expression. He tried to laugh in his usual way, but his mouth only twitched awkwardly. " ...See ya." With those parting words, Lavi left the cafeteria. Left before a stunned, slack-jawed Allen was only the half-eaten curry bread. After school. Allen waited at the school gate to talk to Lenalee. In his right hand, he clutched a letter. A single letter, scribbled in shaky handwriting, saying, "I want to tell you everything." (*I'll tell her everything. My memories, why things turned out this way.*) (*Then... maybe she'll smile again.*) His heart pounded like a frantic drum. Large beads of sweat trickled down his temples. Eventually, he saw the familiar twin tails approaching from beyond the gate. It was Lenalee. But she wasn't alone. Beside her, looking thoroughly displeased, Kanda stayed glued to her side. He stood half a step ahead, as if to protect her. Like a guard dog shielding her from a pest named Allen. " ...Lenalee!" Allen took a step forward. Lenalee's head snapped up. For just an instant, her deep-green eyes met Allen's. But immediately, those eyes wavered with sadness, and she looked down. " I told you to get lost, Moyashi." Kanda instantly stepped between Allen and Lenalee. The sound of him gripping the sheath of his Japanese sword grated in the air. His long, beautiful black hair seemed to sway with killing intent. Kanda's eyes looked down on Allen completely, and what lay within them wasn't a sense of justice to protect a dear friend, but sheer, violent jealousy. " Yuu, stop...!" Lenalee frantically tugged at Kanda's sleeve. " Don't draw your sword... please..." Kanda, grinding his teeth, continued to glare at Allen. Still looking down, as if hiding in Kanda's shadow, Lenalee murmured quietly. " ...I'm sorry, Allen-kun." It was a small, trembling voice. " Right now... I don't want to see you." The letter crumpled with a rustle in Allen's hand. Lenalee didn't look at Allen's face. She said nothing more. Kanda shot Allen a glance and clicked his tongue. " ...Let's go, Lenalee." Kanda took Lenalee's hand and ran off toward the station. Until their two backs melted into the sunset and vanished. Allen couldn't utter a single word. He just stood there, rooted to the spot. Lenalee's back as she ran away blurred through his tears. That night. Allen was alone in his apartment. A dark room with the curtains drawn tight. Without even turning on the lights, he slumped over his desk. The letter, crumpled into a tight ball, lay fallen on the floor. " ...It's all my fault." In a voice barely a voice, Allen spoke. " Because I'm so indecisive... I hurt Lenalee. Kanda, Lavi, it's all because of me..." Memories of his past life flashed back. Hands stained with the blood of comrades on the battlefield. Countless smiles he couldn't protect. That day he swore fiercely never to lose anyone again. " I don't want... to lose anyone anymore..." Allen buried his face on the desk and cried, stifling his voice. Tears soaked the doodle-filled notebook on the desk. Suddenly, the pentacle on his left eye burned with searing heat. "[in pain] Ngh...!" The heat was so intense he pressed his left hand over his eye and crouched over. —*Wake up.* A voice echoed directly inside his head. A sickly sweet, cruel, familiar voice. —*This is your tiny, adorable little miniature garden.* A sinister shadow floated before his eyes. It had Road's form and spoke with Road's voice, but its smile was filled with malice. " Because of you, the peace was shattered." The shadow whispered in Allen's ear. " Then smash it all. You didn't break it. It was fake from the very beginning." Allen collapsed unsteadily onto his bed. Plagued by nightmares, not knowing if he was asleep or awake, he greeted the morning. The next morning. Allen arrived at school as early as possible. In his left hand, he clutched a new letter. This time, written with a desperate resolve to hand it to Lenalee no matter what. (*I'll tell her everything. I have to tell Lenalee, at least, the truth.*) (*Then, surely, all this will end.*) He opened the classroom door. Lenalee's seat was still empty. Homeroom began just like that. Their homeroom teacher, Komui-sensei, stood at the podium in his usual lab coat. " Ahem, an announcement for everyone." Komui said, adjusting his glasses. " Lenalee Lee will be absent today due to poor health." The strength drained from Allen's fingers. *Scrunch.* The letter he'd been clutching crumpled with a sound. Pale-faced, Allen couldn't even stand. He froze in his seat like a stone. " ...This is your fault." From the seat directly behind him, he heard Kanda's faint murmur. It was no longer anger, but a curse directed at Allen. " Kanda, stop it." From the other side, he heard Lavi's voice restraining Kanda. But Allen couldn't say anything back. He stared out the window. The schoolyard was bathed in bright morning sunlight, as if nothing had happened at all. (*You must never stop loving people.*) That was Allen's one and only conviction. The one thing his comrades, who had fallen in his past life, had taught him at the very end. But if that love hurt the people precious to him... Allen bit his lip, unseen by anyone. The sunlight outside the window suddenly felt too bright, too painful, and he narrowed his eyes. His one and only support, his conviction, was beginning to shatter with an audible crack.

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Name: When We Exorcists Fell in Love at School, the World Went Crazy
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