Chapter 8:

The skills and connections (2)

Highschool Of Crime (HOC)


Location: C.G.O department

June 2nd, 2015

Faked as classic Greek and old-world history, the department was home to one tall building of 8 floors resembling the structure of a standard business complex. The space inside was full of structures similar to offices, outside there were small parks, roads, and general meeting areas, from restaurants to cinema halls.

Kachi was onto his next connection, even though the task was to make 3 friends from any of the three departments, Kachi for some reason felt the need to have one friend from each program.

In one of the small parks, a trio was sitting on the beautifully maintained green grass, they were chatting about something when Kachi approached them.

‘’Sorry to bother you,’’ Kachi politely sought their attention, ‘’but would anyone of you be interested in the connection task?’’

Two females and one male moved their eyes towards the masked person standing behind them. They were wearing suits of different colors, completely feeling like owners of some company.

One of the females with blonde hair spoke, trying to lay off Kachi, ‘’sorry, all of us are already done with that.’’

Even though she wanted him to go away, the male didn’t see any issues with it, ‘’sure, I can sign.’’

‘’Oh! Thanks for that, but, I would prefer to have real friendship not randomly dropped paperwork.’’ (Kachi)

‘’Your way of thinking is interesting, I would say you are the first to go with that route,’’ the female with light blue hair spoke, intrigued by Kachi’s thinking, ‘’what’s your name.’’

‘’Kachi.’’

‘’Oh nice, I’m Stella Yu, if you want we can do the task the way you want,’’ Stella smiled.

The blonde-haired female couldn’t care less about what was going on, however, the boy’s eyes went wide for some reason, ‘’what did you say? What did you say your name was?’’

Kachi was confused by his reaction but answered him nonetheless, ‘’it’s Kachi.’’

Hearing Kachi’s answer, the guy stood up and went straight for his collar, ‘’it’s you, you piece of shit.’’

Even with him grabbing Kachi’s collar and glaring at him in anger, Kachi kept his calm, ‘’have we met before?’’

The girls stared at them, trying to understand the sudden change of environment.

‘’Damn right we have, I’m Bao, the guy whose life you ruined,’’ Bao yelled, shoving Kachi closer to him.

Kachi moved his head away, trying to avoid the spits coming from Bao’s mouth from landing on his mask and eyes.

‘’You must be mistaking me for someone else,’’ Kachi smiled yet again.

‘’Don’t play dumb with me Ivan, I know it’s you behind that mask,’’ Bao pushed him away, ‘’it’s best if you stay out of my sight or I will kill you before arresting you as a cop.’’

‘’Seriously, you have some issues, my friend,’’ Kachi repaired the collar.

‘’We aren’t friends and never will be, I have sworn to arrest you with my own hands, and that’s why I’m here, be on guard, or you will regret it,’’ saying that Bao stormed off.

He was followed by the blonde female, but Stella stayed put. After they left, she got up and inquired Kachi about what just happened.

‘’What was that about? Do you guys know each other?’’

‘’Honestly, I have no clue who that was.’’

Year 2012

First year of middle school

Kachi (Ivan), a happy kid in all words before, had now changed into someone else, a serious boy with a serious look on his face. He entered the school unlike others, where most of his fellow schoolmates were happy to embark on a new journey, his reaction to this path could only be explained by one word, ‘disgust.’

‘’Come to the front of the class and introduce yourselves, don’t be shy from sharing your life goals.’’

A class of 25, happy to do what the tired and bored teacher just asked of them, excited in all manner, most wanted to be the first in advertising their low or high standard goals. The teacher couldn’t care less as to who went first, evident by the expression he had. He appeared to be someone who wouldn’t bat an eye even if a murder took place right there and then.

‘’I’m Minoma Shree, and I want to be a scientist.’’

A female, having ponytails, spoke in happiness, giving a vibrant feeling to her viewers.

‘’Kain Hu, I will be a doctor.’’

The male, with short dark hair, and glasses, revealed his goal, the goal to save lives, wishing that was true, he will grow up to either be a part-timer at some restaurant or make rich people poor with his doctor skills.

Finally, the moment came, the moment for Kachi (Ivan) to enter the spotlight, and possibly take it all, he went to the front and looked down at everyone, making an irritated face to let the class know that no one was of any match to him, or his goals.

‘’Doctors, scientists, idols, actors, C.E.O’s, heroes, what a load of crap, all of you will struggle to make money, only for me to take it away,’’ Kachi (Ivan) slammed on the whiteboard, bringing the attention of those who weren’t listening towards him, ‘’for I, Ivan Shaw, A.K.A Kachi, will be the greatest robber this world has ever seen.’’

(Ivan Shaw - 12)

His open nature wasn’t received the way he had hoped, not a single person was amazed or clapped. A repeat of elementary school happened, although the execution was different.

Silence took over the room with eyes daggering his soul, trying to understand what was wrong with him.

Slowly the silence lifted as everyone burst into laughter, making Kachi (Ivan) feel embarrassed and full of regrets.

‘’Hahaha…. Hahaha.’’

‘’Go rob some brain cells first you fucking weirdo.’’

The reaction of the class was natural and thus Kachi (Ivan) became a laughing stock.

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..

‘’Pst… pst…’’

A male student, with long black hair and orange eyes, was trying to seek someone’s attention, another male, with green spiky hair, was sitting on the other line.

‘’What’s up, Bao.’’

The green-haired male answered his call while keeping his eyes on the teacher.

Bao, on the other hand, didn't care much about the presence of the teacher and leaned near the green-haired male.

‘’Hey, Joshua, wanna teach that cocky bastard a lesson?’’

Bao was intimidated by the way Kachi introduced himself. (Bao Lin - 13)

‘’Who? The robber guy?’’ (Joshua Green - 13)

‘’Yes! Who else.’’ (Bao)

‘’I don’t know man… if it involves beating him then I’m out.’’ (Joshua)

‘’It’s not, meet me after the class, I will explain my plan.’’ (Bao)

‘’Hey you two, stop talking and pay attention to the class.’’ The teacher spotted them during the chat mania and wasted no time before making them the center of attention of the whole class.

‘’Sorry, sir.’’

‘’Sorry.’’

Standing on the terrace, Bao was waiting for Joshua to arrive. His long hair was moving as a result of the wind present there, he felt like a mafia boss with his hands in his pockets and eyes gawking at nothingness.

‘’What’s the plan?’’

Joshua arrived there, without Bao noticing his arrival, which startled him for a moment.

‘’Wha…. Uhum,’’ he gathered himself together and continued his act of the mafia boss vibe, ‘’it’s simple,’’ Bao turned his head back towards Joshua and smiled, ‘’we will make him the robber he wants to be.’’

‘’How exactly?-’’ Joshua was intrigued.

‘’We will…’’ Bao turned his head towards the sky, staring into nothing while appearing cool, ‘’steal someone’s lunch and put it in his bag.’’

Hearing Bao’s word stole the light from Joshua’s eyes, making them go blank in disappointment, ‘’wait what?’’

Bao widened his eyes and nostrils, showing off his teeth in response to thinking how great his plan was, ‘’ain’t that the best plan you ever heard?’’

‘’Yeah sure…’’ Joshua didn’t dare to tell how ridiculous his plan was.

The next day, the whole class was in commotion after the teacher asked them to leave the class and stand outside 20 minutes before lunch break.

‘’Roma's lunch is missing, everyone leave everything here and stand outside, we need to search the whole class.’’

Everyone but Bao and Joshua did as the teacher told them to, exactly 10 minutes after the search was initiated Bao came out of the class, addressing the eager students in the hallway.

‘’We found who stole his lunch,’’ Bao smiled and revealed the culprit, ‘’it was none other than our future robber Ivan.’’

After hearing his words, Kachi (Ivan) was taken by surprise, ‘’but… I didn’t.’’

He pleaded his innocence however, his classmates weren’t ready to hear what he had to say, instead, he became the center of their attention with jokes and humiliation.

‘’Lunch thief… Lunch thief,’’ chatting these words and laughing at him, they were ready to make his life miserable.

It wasn’t the end of it, as the teacher made him stand in front of the class and apologize after giving Kachi (Ivan) a long lecture.

‘’Son of district’s top actor stealing lunch, you should be ashamed of yourself.’’

‘’Believe me, I didn’t do it, sir.’’

‘’Apologies right now, or I will call your parents.’’

‘’But…’’

The teacher wasn’t ready to hear his end of the story or didn’t care at all, he glared at Kachi (Ivan) until he admitted the crime he didn’t commit.

Kachi, with his head down in shame of a crime he didn’t commit, sat on the chair, eyes glowing in anger and want of revenge having but one thought in his mind.

‘Fucking kids could have come up with a better plan than this, whoever pulled this childish act will pay, once I found them their sorry asses will regret the day they took their first step within the boundaries of this school.’

He didn’t have to wait long to find the culprits, because they revealed themselves to him as soon as lunch break started. In the middle of the hallway, Bao and Joshua stopped Kachi by blocking his way.

‘’Did you like the lunch we sent to you?’’

Bao laughed trying to make Kachi cry.

‘’Was it better than your mother’s cooking, huh, future food thief?’’

Joshua added to the insult.

In response to that, Kachi smiled while hiding his anger, ‘’I sure did.’’

This was unexpected for both of them, evident by their reaction of disappointment.

‘’What a fucking weirdo, let’s go, Joshua.’’

‘’Yep.’’

As they left, Kachi looked at their backs, his lips stretched forming the creepiest smile, and his eyes glared with the highest anger possible.

‘’Dinners are found, and dinner will be served soon, you used stealing, I will do the same, let me show you what a real theft looks like.’’

A few weeks had passed, but the bullying Kachi was receiving as a result of the lunch incident didn’t calm down.

As the school was ending and 8th period was on its way, an out-of-breath teacher ran through the hallway, yelling at the students standing outside to move out of his way.

‘’Move, let me through!’’

He reached the principal’s office, huffing his lungs out, ‘’sir!’’

The 50-year-old principal looked at him seriously, ‘’what is it?’’

‘’We have a crisis on our hands, almost everyone in school is…’’ 

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