Gakuen Alice 30

Narration: “Natsume. Alone, what are you thinking? Alone, what burden are you bearing? Even just a little, share with me the burden you bear on your shoulders. I will do anything I can……
Iincho has arrived at school. Everyone is happy to see him, or better to say everyone is excited to see what presents he brought. Iincho begins to give around the presents he was asked, of course by Hotaru he was asked expensive foods. Mikan is surprised to find out that Iincho is from Fukuoka (Kyushu Island) While giving away presents, Iincho is face to face with a penguin. !? What’s this? It’s a penguin robot Hotaru made by special order but was returned to her because the robot missed Hotaru too much. The Penguin would ccry every night so the client felt sorry and brought him back to Hotaru. Mikan quickly becomes friends with penguin, and with Kokoroyomi and Kitsuneme she plays around with Penguin. Looking at them, Hotaru says:”Idiots attract idiots.” Perm is upset because someone wrote allover and permed the hair of the doll Iincho gave her. Kokoroyomi-kun holding a pen and Kitsuneme-kun holding a curler are obviously the criminals. To punish them Perm orders Iincho to create a scary hallucination like he did during the alice fest. …… But……it’s not working. Iincho’s alice is not working, it disappeared. Everyone is shocked. Narumi explains to the class that Iincho was taken to the school lab, and still the cause of his loss of alice was unknown. It’s been 2 days since Iincho was taken away to the lab. Classmates are worried he will be thrown out of school. “What will happen to Iincho?” Mikan runs after Narumi: “Please let us see Iincho!” But Narumi keeps saying that he cannot. Hotaru nocks Narumi out and puts an antenna she created on his head. This makes it possible to control Narumi’s movements and so they go to the lab where Iincho is kept. Hotaru knows that Iincho must be scared and worried, all alone. When seeing Mikan and Hotaru, Iincho begins to cry. Iincho: What will happen to me…..will I not be able to see everyone ever again...? Even though I wanted to go home….I don’t want to go home in such a way” Back in class Mikan and others are folding origami cranes, eacj crane holding everyone’s hopes that Iincho gets better. “ classmates begin to say how stupid it is to make paper cranes, that it won’t help. Then they begin to laugh saying maybe Mikan who visited Iincho came back with germs if it’s a virus that causes the loss of the alice. Mikan gets angry at them for laughing at the situation but it’s Perm who nocks ‘em hard. “Laughing at a moment like this when our friends is in such a situation!”…she also gets angry at Mikan for partially being the cause that engraved everyone’s worries by going to see Iincho without permission. But, to everyone’s surprise Serina-sensei enters class with Iincho. Though Iincho’s alice has not come back, school found out that the cause was not a virus therefore he could go back to class. Everyone is happy to see Iincho back. Perm:”But doesn’t school have any idea of the cause…” Iincho explains that he believes school has some idea because the first few days he was taken to the lab, he was asked in detail what he did, things that happened around him when arriving at school from his trip home. Alices that have powers to see other people’s memories even looked at his memory and school officials seemed to have set their eye on the woman which was almost hit by the car Iincho was riding, which he held her hand when helping her stand p. Iincho says he heard them say they believed this woman had the “alice stealing alice”. Everyone is surprised, no one has ever heard of such an alice, and why would an alice want to do such a thing as steal other’s powers….Iincho says he heard the school officals say that woman was part of Z, and ati-alice gakuen group. Natsume, Mikan, Hotaru, RUka and Perm are shocked at hearing the name “Z”. (Remember earlier chapters with Reo kidnapping Natsume.) Iicnho’s not sure but he thinks that probably all the lost alice victims may be caused by that woman. Mikan remembers the time she and perm saved Natsume from Z/Reo. Natsume suddenly walks out of class, Mikan runs after him but she ignores him. Mikan:”DO you think what Iincho talked about, Z has anything to do with what happened that time? Natsume do you know anything.” But because natsume continues to ignore her and walk away, Mikan gets angry “Hey! Stop and listen when people are talking to you! What’s with you! Recently you’ve been ignoring me? What’s with this attitude all of a sudden?! Id there’s something about me that bothers you, just say it to my face!” Natsume was warned by Persona to keep distant from Mikan… Natsume:”all. All of it bothers me. I hate everything about you. Stay away.” Mikan: I hate you too!” is what Mikan says but actually she is hurt by Natsume’s words, her face is sad. Rka-pyon can see clearly she is sad. Ruka remembers Natsume, when his sister said she started to like strawberries, Natsume gave her his. Sister: Brother I thought you liked strawberries too” Natsume: “Now I hate them”. Ruka can see that Natsume is lying to Mikan, he doesn’t hate her. Suddenly the school emergency siren rings. “What’s going on?” It’s said that members of Z are suspected to have intered school perimeters.
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