(Manga spoilers ahead!! and more parts added for Mary!! And some parts are remove for the sake of the plot!! Yay!)

3rd Person's POV:

"We finally found you. School mystery No.1-- The Clock Keeper." Hanako said.

Yashiro looked up "the chandilier... its stuck in midair...!? Wow... oh Kou-kun is stopped too..."

"So its safe to assume your power is to stop time." Hanako said

Akane was quiet, then took a stepped forward making the wooden floor creak "...I've heard of you." Akane finally said

Akane glarred at Hanako

"That old school uniform. The seal in your cheek. Two tsuesshiros..." Akane said as he place Aoi in a chair "You must be 'Honorable No.7'." Akane said. "Thats right! I've met the other Clock Keepers, but I dont believe I've met you before." Hanako greeted as he tilted his hat

"But what business does the leader of the school mysteries have with Aoi? I was interested in learning the answer..." Akane said as he tuck a blanket to Aoi "...But when you put her in danger..."

"...Even I lose my cool." Akane said as he walked towards to Hanako

"...So with that said..." Akane grabbed Hanako's colar

"...May i take a swing at you before we talk?" Akane said and threw Hanako at the floor, as Akane was about to punch him Yashiro stopped him

"STOOOOP!!" Cried Yashiro as she defended Hanako

"Yashiro-san!? what are you doing...?" Akane asked "I could ask the same thing...! Anyway, just calm down!" Yashiro said. The chandiler moved and its on its way of falling

The chandiler fell into the ground and shattered.

Akane checked on his watch "Darn it... Ran outta time." Akane tched "Huh!?" Kou exclaimed and fell down "GYA!!" Kou shouted and turned left and right to see whats going on

"What was that sound!?" A shout was heard outside the door "It came from over here!!" Akane gulped. Silence has been dancing in the room. "If they find us here, It'll cause trouble for Ao-chan... Fine. We'll take this somewhere else." Akane said

At the nurse's office. . .

"I still dont believe it..." Yashiro said "Your one of the Seve-Eight mysteries Akane-kun...?" Akane turned to Yashiro "Eight? Since when theres Eight mysteries?" Akane asked Yashiro

"You went too far!" Kou whispered to Hanako "I was going to save her! If I was wrong..." Hanako whispered back "when did you figured it out?" Kou asked "he knocked me out of Yashiro earlier, right? No normal human could've done that" Hanako explained "Oh, i see..."

"Yashiro-san, theres only Seven Mysteries" Akane told her "theres Eight of them! Believe me!" Yashiro said "Where are they then?" Akane asked, Yashiro pointed at Mary's floating body covered in vines with thorns

"What the.. what happened to her...?" Akane asked "she passed out... I'll try waking her up tho" Yashiro went towards Mary and pulled of the flowers in her eyes. Then pulled the flower that is sitting in her left eye "o-ow" Mary said "Mary-chan! Your awake!" Yashiro exclaimed in happiness

"Woah what happened to me??" Mary-chan said when she saw the vines "you passed out and cried the--" Yashiro's cheeks were then met by Mary's hands, which is not covered in vines

"Im so sorry Yashiro that I made you worried! My body must havr over react!" Mary said "over react?" Yashiro questioned

"The flower that is sitting in my left eye grew in there, so I guess my Hanahaki reached in my brain and started to grow around it" Mary said "wait! You suffer from Hanahaki!?" Yashiro exclaimed

"Umm, yes?" Mary replied "oh! Looks like you remembered some of parts of your past life Mary!" Hanako said "Hanako-kun, what do you mean?" Yashiro asked

"The other school mysteries said that she forgotten her past life and only remembered the name 'Mary'!" Hanako explained "Mary isnt a Japanesse name, that sounds like an American name" Akane joined in

"I only named myself after a character from a book.." Mary said "so 'Mary' isnt your real name!?" Yashiro said, Mary nodded in response

"But I had no idea. I thought Akane-kun was just a normal boy..."

"Are you really one to talk?" Akane said, Mary grabbed Hanako's knife and started cutting the vines "Yashiro-san... I cant believe you're a victim just like me..."

Mary finished cutting the vines and went to clean them in the clinic bathroom (my school clinic has a bathroom, so why not put in here too?) "Victim?" Yashiro asked

"He tricked you into forming a pact or something, right?" Akane said "me?"

Mary's POV:

As I was done cleaning the knife, I went to wipe the knife. I went to Hanako and gave him his knife back "Thanks" I whispered

"Do you want the power...?" Akanr said to himself, I guess he was story telling on how he got his power

"WHAT A LOAD OF CRAP!!!" (Guys, is Crap a bad word?) Akane yelled "I learned later... that the Clock Keeper set the whole thing up" Akane said

"WRITTEN BY, DIRECTED BY, AND STARRING THEMSELVES!!? AND I FELL FOR IT, HOOK, LINE AND SINKER, DAMMIT!!" Akane yelled as he punched and broke the clinic wall

Akane sighed and turned to us, I was only trembling because on who is going to pay for the broken wall!?

"Then I got this watch. That's the gist of it..." Akane chuckled "up to three times a day... as long Im in the school... I habe the power to stop time"

"But its only five minutes at a time. So its not like I can do much about it..."

"Hmm, so in exchange... you tied your fate with No.1 and became a supernatural?" Hanako asked "yes, my contract last six years. Basically until I grauduate. As a part of school mystery No.1... I get to be the Clock Keepers' slave."

"My appearance does change some, but other than that, Im just like Yashiro-san. Except for this watch, Im just a normal human being"

"Still, swallowing a mermaid scale on purpose? Thats incredible Yashiro-san! Are you a masochist?" Akane laughed. "Senpai...!" Kou flustered, then put a thumbs up "I think it rocks!" Kou exclaimed. I looked at Hanako and glared at him.
(A/N: she got fond of Yashiro, so she kind of turned into a motherly figure when its invovled with Yashiri) "hey! It wasnt my fault! She swallowed it before I can finish explaning!" Hanako said in defense. Mary looked away.

"So? I hear your the top mystery at this school, Honorable No.7. And also that your a slimy, perverted brat" I covered my mouth 'slimy?' I thought 'pfft' I managed to not burst out of laughter "So what does the slimy, perverted brat want with me?" Akane glared. "Dont you think its a little harsh?" Hanako asked. I giggled "Mary! Dont encourage him to call me 'slimy'!!" Hanako whined. I managed to calm myself down.

"As for what I want--" A shout has been heard from outside the clinic "HEY!COME QUICK!!" A student shouted "SOMEBODY!! SOMEBODY COME HELP!!" Shout another student

Kou and Yashiro ran outside to invesigate, I followed them and float above the crowd "Oi Mary! Whats happening there?" Hanako asked(A/N: since Mary's sense to taste, and hearing are 2x sensitive, like a blender it'll hurt her ears. But a good thing is that she can float higher than any ghost) "Many old people" I replied

Akane ran towards to Yamabuki and i saw a little child behind him "THERE YOU ARE!!" Akane shouted. Then the child zoom out of Yamabuki's back before Akane can reach them "I've had enough of this, dammit..."

The child's hood come off "MIRAI!!" Akane shouted "hee hee hee!" Mirai giggled "shes kind of cute though.." I said

"Woah! Shes fast..." Kou replied "she vanish." That Mirai girl sure does remind me of my younger self
Flashback:

"YOUNG MISSTRESS 🌸⚛😇🤢!!" The helpers of my parent's mansion shouted "Hehe! Try catching me!" I teased, even with my long dress, I managed to outrun them "Kuhuhu! Why bother to be working here when you cant catch me?"
Flashback end

"So your the ones... behind this series of disturbances. Clock keepers." Hanako said. Akane was silent "Yes, we are"

"Mirai got away..." Akane replied "Mirai?" Yashiro asked
"Got away?" Kou asked

"Yes, you know there are three of us, right?" Akane said "One of the clock keepers... controls the future. Apparently she dosent have a name, so I called her Mirai-- which means future" Akane explained

"I'm sure you saw her back there. Mirai can move time forward for anything she touches. We usually made her use gloves so she dosent touch anything... and the old man was suppose to keep her locked up in our boundary." Akane explained "old man?" Kou and I questioned "the Clock keeper that can control the past, Kako. The one that actually listens to me sometimes" Akane explained

"But he's still just another supernatural" Akane laughed "I've been ordered to catch her immeadiatly. As if I werent being busy enough... and hey, who let her escape in the first place...?" Akane muttered "and that means..." Hanako said

"...You and I want to catch this Mirai. So lets team up for this one. We'll catch her together!" Hanako grinned.

"......" Akane glared at him "May i ask you something? I've been wondering..."

"Akane-kun, do you hate supernaturals?" Yashiro asked 'he's going to say yes' I thought "...Hate supernaturals?" Akane questioned. 'Nevermind, he might say no-'

"Of course I hate them. I despise them!" Yashiro was silent "if you ask me Yashiro-san... I think its weird that your actually friends with one."

"You saw what he did back there. What he did to Ao-chan? That dosent bother you? I thought you and Ao-chan are best friends?" Akane said

"But Hanako-kun isnt bad, not even Mary-chan... he is a little slimy... but what he did to Aoi...he did it for a reason...and Im sure he wasnt going to hurt her..." Yashiro said "Yeah, He's defitenitly slimy. Yup" Kou note-take himself "hey, can we stop calling me slimy? It hurts."

"He's not bad? He did it for a reason? Oh really..."

"But..." Akane continued, he took a step forward to Hanako and grabbed his arm

"...you know he's a murderer, right?" Akane said

"Its the same with the other two clock keepers. These supernaturals dont know anything-- none of them. They dont know how precious it is...Just to be alive. They dont know... how valueble a human life is." Akane said "let me g-"
"Reformed villians make me sick. So what if there good now? Does that erase what they did in the past?...What a joke" Akane said

"Dont you see? It dosent matter how good you are now, or who you help. You can never take back on what you did. Never. Because when a person dies. Theres no bringing them back."

Akane then pushes Hanako away. I managed to catch Hanako by his elbows "but dont worry.  I just want to catch Mirai just as badly as you do. And if yout really willing to work for me, Im glad to have you on the team." I then let Hanako go

"Even if you are a murderer" Akane said

"Here to doing business together... Honorable No.7" Akane reaches out his hand

"Heh" Hanako chuckled "I like it. Humans like you..." Hanako went to Akane

Hanako extends his hand "...Are my favorite kind. Heres to do business together"

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