After a very exhausting day after classes and practice, Echizen Ryoma was accompanied by Momoshiro who was the one who volunteered himself to protect his bestfriend but as they were going outside the school's compound, there were several highschool students who went out with them at the same time but then, Echizen froze when he saw one of the highschool student's back.

He was confused why he would remember that emotion and intensity.

It was fear.

He's feeling the fear when he had close contact with his assassin long ago but he turned his worries at his back and told himself, "Maybe I was just thinking too hard even I know that there is a fake student in Seishun Gakuen."

"What did you say?" Momo asked.

"Nandemonai, Momo-senpai."

They arrived at his house after walking for a short time and thanked him quick and went inside his house.

"Tadaima!"

"Okayri nasai!" Rinko and Nanako said.

"How's your day, Ryoma? Do you have guts to play with me?" his father asked as he was holding his racket.

"I'm not in the mood today," he said as he was replacing his shoe with a slipper.

He took his bag down but after that, he felt the pain at his left shoulder again. He touched his shoulder automaticaly. He ran upstairs to hide what was going on with him but of course, a father is a father.

Nanjiroh quickly noticed that his son flinched and slipped for a bit, so, he followed his son. Just as when his father opened the door, Nanjiroh was surprised that Ryoma's left shoulder's covered in bandages.

He went inside and closed the door.

"Why are you here? Can you get out? I'm dressing up here!" Ryoma asked.

"I don't care about that! What happened to you? Why are you in bandages?" he asked.

"It's not like you to be worried at me, oyaji."

"Just tell me."

"It's not your business."

"Alright, I won't force you but... don't be reckless and slack off again," then, when Ryoma's finished putting on his polo, he closed the lights.

Echizen quickly went back to sleep, smiling that maybe, his father thought that his injury is caused by Tennis and none other things.

The night was getting deeper and once again, he dreamed about his first encounter with his attacker again but now, he can almost remember the attacker's face now.

That memory still haunts him and just like before, it makes him awake at night but the difference now is that, he can absolutely remember the features of the person who wanted to assassinate him. He decided to call Shinichi and tell him about his reoccuring dream.

"Shinichi-senpai, it seems I can already remember my attacker's face a bit but..."

"You're still afraid."

"Help me."

...

Kudo Shinichi reviewed the student files Motto Furuki, the basketball coach gave him back at school. He was looking at it again inside his room at the Kudo Residence. Those were the students that the coach called out to leave the classroom to look out for Irene Lee. He already included Meiju and Irene Lee's picture.

There are exactly seven student files he was holding and reviewing and he was surprised to see Akita Oshiro's face there. He really could not believe it but he has to be sure if there are any of them who was faking their profiles.

Haibara opened the door without knocking and saw the envelope of the files of the seven Seigaku highschool students.

"What are you planning now?" she asked.

"I'll show these pictures to Echizen tomorrow. Echizen somehow remembered something. He just called me and told me that his old memory is clearing. He asked me to help him remember his attacker's face. Most of all, I need to be sure in everything."

"Does he mean he saw his face?"

"Probably."

...

The next day at morning practice, Shinichi Kudo went at the Tennis Courts after clearing something that confused him.

Why would Akita Oshiro be called by a Basketball Coach those times? What was Motto Furuki and the others doing at times that they should have been in their academic classes and not in their clubs?

Why would a boxing regular be called out by a a Basketball Coach?

After talking to Motto Furuki, he learned that he wasn't just a basketball coach but a sports teacher. That is why he had also called Akita Oshiro to look out for Irene Lee and sat down at the nearest bench to wait for Ryoma Echizen to notice he was already there.

He was carrying the envelope of the seven students who were out of their rooms.

Echizen Ryoma was having a two on one match with Inui and Kikumaru when Coach Ryuzaki waved her hand to call out for their attention.

They stopped for a while and looked at Coach Ryuzaki. The regulars stopped and went outside the Tennis Court to talk to her.

"Nan desu ka, Ryuzaki-sensei?" Oishi asked. Shinichi was just near them.

Shinichi stood up when Inui was just starting to talk about another special training for all of them.

"Everyone will put this metal wrist bands as we are all practicing. Also, I put stones inside the cans. Our practice will be target shooting and we will all look at your strategic planning."

"Ryuzaki-sensei," Shinichi coughed. Everyone looked at him.

"What is it, Kudo-kun?"

"Can I borrow Echizen for a while?" he asked.

Even without Coach Ryuzaki telling him that he can go with him for a while, he quickly went beside him. Taka-san and Tezuka-san stared at the two of them. "Inui," Tezuka said, "I'll practice later. It's my job as the Captain to know everything."

Oishi followed Tezuka, too. He was just as worried for Echizen. Well, the whole team is worried for their youngest regular, anyway. Fuji opened his eyes and told everyone, "Why won't we just skip practice for a while? Let's do the training again on afternoon."

"Good idea, Fuji" Kikumaru jumped up and for a while, they took the metal wrist bands and waited for Echizen as they were listening to the two of them. Also, they noticed that there's someone staring at them from the roof of the highschool building as if listening to them. Fuji noticed that she has a beautiful, wavy and golden hair.

...

Shinichi showed him the pictures and told him to look at it. Echizen did look at them and mostly, he took them down without worries. "I don't know any of these people, Shinichi-sempai," he said. He was just looking at the three pictures Kudo haven't suspected yet as he was drinking a can of Ponta.

Then, he showed Akita Oshiro's picture. "No. I don't know him."

After that, Shinichi handed him Irene Lee's picture. Looking at it, he remembered his dream that keeps haunting him every night. He didn't show him what he was feeling. He really is still confused if the man who attacked him before was Irene Lee.

"Do you know any of them?" Shinichi asked.

"No," he swallowed. Echizen quickly gave back Irene Lee's picture. Shinichi just smiled and told him, "No matter how you hide your emotions, no one can beat my detective skills. I know your lying, Echizen-kun. You're sweating and most of all, your hand shivered after seeing one of the pictures I gave you. I already know the man whom you felt you are afraid of."

"I'm not afraid. I'm confused. My memory about my past when I and Sakuno were attacked is clear to me, now. The pictures you gave me does not fit anyone that I remember. Irene Lee only looks like her," he said.

"Her?" Shinichi asked.

"Yes, Shinichi-senpai. My assassin wasn't a man but a woman," he answered him after he stood up. Shinichi was completely surprised and thought of Vermouth but he put it back at his mind and told himself that it is impossible.

"A woman?" he asked.

"She looks like Irene Lee. It could be Irene Lee but Irene's a man, right?" he said.

"I'll think about it. Also, there's one more thing that I'm thinking about to solve this continous killing that surrounds you. It's impossible that the culprit could have killed you with just a tranquilizer," he said.

"We all know that...," he replied.

"It seemed that he was just helping the organization to murder you. The real attacker's somewhere out of Seigaku but in a near building."

"Doiuo Kotonano?" asked Tezuka.

"She or he was accompanied by a sniper," he said and after that, of course, everyone who was listening were surprised but he is only talking to Echizen. He dismissed that he heard Tezuka. "The bullet that struck your shouder isn't a normal bullet. I was called as a Silver Bullet by someone... well... when the doctors approached me, they gave me a silver bullet. I was of course, astonished and troubled for you. THEY really want to kill you for seeing THAT illegal transaction."

"Who're they and what's That???" asked Momo.

Echizen answered back, "It's better you don't know, Momo-senpai for your protection."

"For my protection?"

Echizen did not reply back.

Without everyone's knowledge, The girl at the roof smirked and told herself, "Good work, Kudo Shinichi. Now I know that he remembers me already." She took her phone at her pocket and called Gin's number. Gin answered her quickly, "Moshi Moshi?" he asked. "What's up, Champagne?"

"Echizen Ryoma's memories are already clear. Can I get my permission to finally finish everything? You know that my trainer's Vermouth. I can quickly get out of the scene. Most of all, Kudo's suspecting my twin who attacked Katsuko Sakura. He only did that because of he's scared at me. Also, I am really surprised that he was really helping me to torment the Seigaku Tennis Club."

"Do whatever you want."

...

After the morning practice, everyone in the team went to change their clothes and suddenly,  Akiyama Kiyoko surprised Fuji Shusuke after he went outside the locker room. "How are you?" she asked quickly. 

"I'm fine, Kiyoko. How about you?"

"SCARED... strange things have been happening suddenly at this school and I've learned that one regular in your team have been in dangerous situations recently!" she said mischievously.

"Uh.. yeah... so... are you here for me to comfort you?" he asked.

"Hai! Can you? One of classmates have been very bad at me! He keeps saying that if I meet the Seigaku Team, Meiju will haunt me!" she cried.

"That's impossible. Also, why would you come at me? You're a first year highschool student. You're a lot older than me!" he smiled.

She stood up disgusted and pinched his nose. "I want you to be my knight and armor! I don't care about anyone!"

Oishi and Kikumaru soon noticed that Fuji's gonna be late at class because of a highschooler in front of him. "Hey, Fuji! Let's go, now!"

Fuji quickly told her, "I should really go to class now. Let's talk later." He quickly went beside the two of them.

Kiyoko went forward to go to the highschool building when she suddenly smirked after seeing Echizen Ryoma who was drinking water at the water stands near the courts. He was alone with Kachiro, Katsuko and Horio those times who were cleaning themselves.

Kiyoko stopped for a bit to talk to Echizen. "Echizen-kun!" she called out. "How are you?"

She seemed different now. Well, she's actually serious in front of her. Echizen turned to look at her but he felt the fear that was ingrained at him since meeting her attacker. His eyes were filled with fear.

"Echizen?" Horio asked upon seeing Echizen's hands and eyes were shaking with fear. 

"Why are you afraid of me?"

"I can feel the the same emotions I was having at the night I and Sakuno were attacked. I don't know the reason why I'm feeling it to you!" he shouted.

Kiyoko smiled, "I'm not your attacker. I'm not One of them, now. I betrayed them like Miyano Shiho."

Shinichi appeared from their back with his hands at the pockets of his school uniform and asked, "I can see that Echizen has the same sensation like hers. You know Shiho, then?"

"So," she smiled. "You're that despicable child that follows and takes the prototype of the antidote for APTX 4869." 

Horio, Kachiro and Katsuko were getting out of place because they can't even understand what those highschoolers were talking about except for Echizen who stood there bravely in front of them. He knows a little bit of what they were talking about anyway.

"Who's Shiho? What does APTX 4869 do anyway? Why are they after me just because of it?" he asked, pain is obvious in his voice. 

"The information you need to know isn't allowed to be heard by the public who doesn't know anything and haven't seen any of their acts. If I speak about Shiho and APTX 4869 here, I'll put them in danger. You are unlucky Echizen. You entered a very dangerous position. Why would Shinichi protect you like this if he hadn't been a victim of their acts?" she told him.

"I know that I'm unlucky," he said. Then, Echizen turned to Shinichi asking him if all she said is true.

"She's telling the truth. I have been their victim once. After that, I concealed myself in disguise. I know that they will approach me and endanger the lives of the people I care about if they learn I am still alive but... we don't meet everytime until I learned that you became their target. It seems fate brought me to protect you as Kudo Shinichi."

After that, he turned to her, "How do I know that we can trust you and you really are an ally?" 

Kiyoko showed him her wound at the back of her neck, "Chianti shot me before with the man that I supposed to kill but I fell in-love with him. I did not follow their orders. I betrayed them after awakening inside the hospital, swearing that I will do my best to get my revenge. I inherited the man's treasures when I learned that he was gone. It was a miracle for me that Chianti failed to kill me or...."

"They allowed you to live and forget about them."

"Shinichi, I cannot forget about THEM. I came here in Seishun Gakuen because of the same goals we have on our mind. We both want them to fail this time around! It'll be better for me to die than her!"

"I'm grateful, then. It was my first time that everyone's so worried about me, eh?" he said and walked away to get inside the school's building. "I'm leaving now. I don't want to be late in class anyway."

"Echizen," she spoke up and smiled when Ryoma turned to look at her beautiful green eyes, "I and Shinichi-senpai will tell you everything after class. We'll answer all of your questions that you asked me, right Kudo-kun?"

Kudo just answered, "Ha-Hai!"

"Do your best in class, ok?"

Horio, Katsuko and Kachiro followed Ryoma. "Ryoma, what we're they talking about? It seems you know something. Can you tell us?" Horio and Kachiro asked as they were walking.

"Yada!" he answered back.

"Hey, tell us!" Horio insisted but Katsuko stopped him.

"You can't force Ryoma if he doesn't want to tell us. I beiieve what he knows is really dangerous that's why there are people who are after him."

......

A/N: Finished another chapter! Enjoy it (even I know for the fact that I'm creating this story for your pleasure and my pleasure!) Alright! I wished you liked it! Also, if you have noticed that I put up Avril's video there, I listened to it as I'm finishing this chapter! Try listening to it, too! It was great!