"Hey, wait up!" the woman reached behind Shina as she walked out of the class, but did not follow. As the young woman left the classroom, she noticed that Kotaro has left, when her attention was on someone else.
Valerie chuckled at Ines' reaction. “You sure are enthusiastic. Well, I can't make any promises at this time – I still want to know what other clubs are available. Plus physical activity is not one of my strong points – if I spend too much walking around you might have to carry me, like a knight carrying a princess. Or is that what you want?” She joked and chuckled at the image of a blushing Ines carrying her. “On the other hand, if I join it might, in time, help me overcome my lack of endurance... Sure, I would like to take a look at your club when classes end – but again, no promises about joining just yet. Is that alright with you?” She asked, back to being serious.
Seeing that he had apparently left, she briefly wondered if Alma was going to be an issue later. She couldn't be with him day in, day out. She'd need to work out a proper solution, and it seemed that Alma was mostly fine, but if she still remembered what had happened, she'd now realize that Shina really would fight her if it came to it. The solution was simple. Go find Alma and "gently encourage" her to focus on on other things.
'Ah, okay,' Felix nodded to his uncle, figuring that could be why he saw him in school the other day, 'I'll let you go help your friend then. See you later!' He paused, remembering something, 'Oh, wait, I might swing by the grocery store on the way home, should I get something in particular for you?'
Seeing his teacher's "boyfriend" Kotaro paused for a bit. But remembering how he has a date today, it'll be weird if he was late. So he heads home. Since he has to hide all the cameras he couldn't use.
Ines smiled. "Sure, I will show you around, but there is not much to see - especially since we just use our room to study and keep the pictures of our trips." She paused and looked at Val suspiciously. "Wait, are you hitting on me?"
Shina spotted Alma and Veronica behind the gym building. The duo were talking to a big man - Shina remembered him being a skilled member of Karate club.
Gustav hummed as he thought for a moment. "How about eating out together, today?" He asked. "There are some good places we could eat at..."
Kotaro reaches home safely. As he walks through the door, his phone rings. As he looks at the screen - his mother was calling.
Seeing his mother's name on the caller ID, Kotaro raised an eyebrow. "Huh? That's weird." He mumbled to himself as he answers the phone, "Hello, mother. What seems to be the problem?" He asked, since that was the only reason he figured she'd have to call him.
She didn't remember the guy's name, but it did spell some trouble. Obviously, it occurred to Alma she couldn't deal with Shina on her own and now was trying to recruit someone for protection. Shina didn't like to admit it, but while she was probably the toughest among the girls, and stronger than most guys, fights with big and strong guys were obviously a bad idea. But the other note in her head, said enough. Good. While problematic, it meant Alma was afraid of her, and if caught by surprise she'd just run. All she needed to do was get to these people before she could. And she'd get along with these types way easier than Alma could, striding over, she gave a grin as if she was invited into their conversation, approaching the group, mainly focused on the guy, shooting Alma a quick look for a brief moment, but not much else. "Hey guys. I'm gonna get some hard training in while it's still warm out. Anyone in?" She assumed the guy even if she didn't know him properly, would probably share the same kind of interests, so it shouldn't be too hard to get friendly with him.
"Well, to begin with, Håkansson family was given rights to rule the city by king Eric XIV himself - the reason for that is not stated anywhere, but there is a single statement of the King noted, that the reason was 'For their furthering my studies.'." She paused. "Through their rule, the family was noted to be eccentric, snobbish, proud and sometimes, bloody. The peasants generally feared them, and there were two major revolts against their rule, but both of them were crushed." Meja paused. "There are more historic data, but I will not bore you with it. As for their fall..." She looked at the notes. "They seemed to be somewhat tied to Carolus Rex, and were in his favour. But after his death, in better of two years, over 23 members of the house died in various ways. Mostly accidents, but some of them were murdered, one committed suicide. The remnants of the house, abandoned family manour and moved to the city proper, but never recovered the numbers. What is interesting, from this point on, there is not a single case of member of Håkansson dying of natural causes." She said as she looked through the papers. "That's how it looks in a nutshell."
Alexandra blinks. "Wow, that's quite the history. Thanks a bunch for your help, Meja, I really appreciate it. If you ever want help convincing the school to fund one of your club field trips, just ask, and I'll convince them." She heads out to her car to go to Kotaro's address, though on the way to the parking lot she looks up the Haakonson manor on the internet, seeing if it's privately or publically owned, and if visitors can enter. If they abandoned it, maybe there's something left there that can explain it. @asddas193 She drives to Kotaro's house, knocking on the door.
The woman sights. "Do I have to have a reason to call?" She asked disappointed. "How are you?" Before Kotaro could answer, he heard a bell to his door. Meja smiled at that proclamation. "Sure thing, Mrs Håkansson. If you need anything more, let me know!" On the internet, the last article about manor she found, was from the sixties. Shootout in abandoned manor! Police kills the lake serial killer! She arrived at Kotaro's house and pushed the bell.
"You have nerve, bitch." Alma growls then smiles. "Sure thing! Olle here will be happy to be your sparring partner." The man smiled cruelly and started walking up to Shina.
“Haha, you sure you don’t want to be hitting the gym a little too?” Shina didn’t look too worried, though she was mostly counting on the idea that she could probably rile Alma up into doing something stupid.
"Now just isn't a good time, mother. I have someone coming over." He said, as he heard the door bell ring. "Oh, they're here already. I'll call you back when I'm able, mother. Hope you're well. Bye." Kotaro said in a rush, before hanging up the phone. He then opens the door, "H-hello, Ms. Håkansson. I... didn't think you'd actually come to visit." He greeted his teacher, inviting her inside. Where she'll see the interrior of his expensive apartment was like one of those pictures on the brochures. Letting her know that rhe fat teen had barely renovated his place.
"Of course I did. I've been waiting for this all day." Alexandra chuckles, stepping inside and closing the door. "This is a nice place... Did you just move in?"
"I... I see." Kotaro said in a bashful tone. "Erm, no, I've been here for almost a year now, I think. I just don't have any... uhm... sense for interrior design. So I just left it as it is. Heh." He added, "Uhm... would you like something to drink?"
