WHO: Renju, Kou. WHAT: Talking, investigation, association. WHERE: Cram school, lesson break. WHEN: After Hikaru fled and during Reizo's disappearance. WHY: I don't know.
Kouchisei had welcomed the break with relief, and had chosen to read, and was thinking that he should not have brought a textbook quite so large because he would have to take it home.
He shrugged with indifference as he took a leaning position on the desk, normally more exhausted than what these lessons left him as. He saw complications wherever he looked for ways out, and greater challenges whenever he tried to rationalise the situation to himself. He liked everything to be clear and completely calm.
Two recent situations had changed that, and he did not like the feelings it rose.