He was running, finding a place to hide from that thing. “What is happening here? I’m just a normal student! I didn’t ask for this!!!” His legs carried him faster than when he played soccer, he probably could have outrun the track team’s star guy, Carlos Greenwood, yeah, he could outrun that guy no sweat if they had been in a race, the one running right now would definitely win. His life was flashing in front of his eyes, his unsuccessful love life, his friends, his parents, the team, everything he had done for the past month flashed before him, as he was running, black and white, old movie style.
He was going to die; he knew that for a fact because everyone does eventually.
He wasn’t going to live to see the sun rise ever again.
The back streets of the Denji prefecture were going to be his grave, and no one would find him.


Kazuki Rose wasn’t exactly a bright student; he knew the rules of life and employed them in everyday tasks that bored him. He was a soccer player, not the best player in the world, but he was in a good college because of his ‘talent’ that his two previous coaches had pretty much beaten into him. Kazu had no actual talent for the game; he just practiced all of the time, if not physically, then mentally. Soccer was the only port that had really ever been played in Kiyoshi, his hometown, a community of low-class people who never had enough money to send their children away to good schools.

He had a knack for attracting people he didn’t really want to hang out with, like the only ‘girl’ who would ever try to get close to him. That girl’s name was Tobias, and she was a guy. Kazu had to admit that Tobias was pretty, his neck was slender and his legs were nice, the kind of things that Kazu liked in a girl, but it never seemed right for a guy to dress like that in Kazu’s eyes. There were others that didn’t strike his fancy, like the two girls, Salty Rays and Laura Reize; they acted like two idiots when they were together. There were others as well, Alex, Strike, Hitaru, Ru, Mitsuhana, Youn… the most attractive of all of the strange people was Tobias, the only feminine one there.
Kazu had average grades, he was always healthy, he never fought anyone, had healthy relationships and yet, something had been off about his life. Kazu never strived to be the best, he really didn’t want anything until after a cute girl at his old school had gone up to him and kissed him out of the blue, walking away afterwards, she had been wearing strange clothes, a college uniform, Denji University’s school uniform. He ran after the girl, but she had disappeared into thin air, or so it seemed.
It turned out that the cute girl for whom he had applied to DU for was Tobias. Kazu had a serious breakdown after he found out that Tobias was a male, cooped up in his dorm room and he refused to leave the room for three days. He smelled of roses and home-baked bread when he finally emerged with a plate full of macadamia nut cookies that he gave to all of his friends. They speculated he gained weight during his time as a shut-in. He finally talked to Tobias again after two weeks, apologizing for everything. Tobias didn’t understand why until Kazu explained everything to him.
“That was you?” Tobias held a finger to his lip, looking curiously at Kazu. “You seriously came all the way to Denji for me, Kazu?” Tobias kissed Kazu on the cheek and smiled. “I thought you were someone else back then, no wonder you looked familiar!” He laughed.
Kazuki hung his head low, “Like I said, I’m sorry. I thought you were a really cute girl.”
The rest of Kazuki’s friends had known right from the start about Tobias being a boy, and they all figured out that Kazu’s sole reason to attend DU was to try to get to know the guy who had kissed him. Rumors had started to float around that Tobias was dating someone, and when Kazu’s name got thrown into it, he got angry letters from other boys that he knew talking about how it was unfair that the cute princess was going after such a nobody. Kazu glared at these letters and put them in an oven for a science experiment to see at what temperature paper lights itself on fire.

During his third month at Denji University, Kazu quite literally ran into a strange man who seemed to be an albino, knocking him over. The man’s silver-gray hair had been brushed back so that his hair would get in the way. The man wore all black; a black shirt, a black trench coat, black pants and black shoes. Kazuki believed the man to also be wearing black socks as well.
Kazu’s gut told him to steer clear of that guy, but his brain wouldn’t let him. “Are you lost?” Kazuki held out his hand to help the man.
“Yes, I am lost. Can you tell me where Denji University might be?” His voice reminded Kazu of a lizard.
“Oh, I’m on my way there right now, why would you need the school?” Kazuki smiled.
The strange man smiled back. “I have some business to attend to.”
“Are you the new SA Director that they are hiring?”
“Yes.” The man bowed slightly. “Since we are meeting now, I will introduce myself, I am Aleksei Rostov, and it is a pleasure to meet you-“
“Th’name’s Kazuki. Kazuki Rose, nice to meetchya!” Kazuki bowed in return with a sense of respect.

Kazuki regretted the decision now, as he was running away from that very same person who he had assumed to be the student activities director for hire.