30 Looking for Members (2/2)
Help in the search of members.
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”...”
I read the notification on my phone and a heightened sense of annoyance flooded my mind.
Emilia...even though I was so concerned about her after all that that had happened last night she still does me dirty like this?
With a sigh, I placed my phone back into my pocket and rested my head on my desk. All I could do is wait so I did just that.
”How about we put the club activities on hold and just try to get people to join?” Loyd suggested. ”We can postpone on deciding what to do after the club is created.
”That is plausible,” Muria brought her right hand to her chin. ”We can create the club with Sis's support even without a clear club description.”
There we go. The abuse of power by those in position to do so.
I chuckled at the thought and turned my head over on my desk so that I can see their reactions.
”Then let us go around the school and see if anyone wanna join,” Loyd then proposed with a friendly look on his face.
Muria nodded and then glanced over at me from the corner of her eye, gesturing with the slight movement of her head for me to get up.
”Fine.”
I sighed and used both hands to push myself up from my desk. We then proceeded to the now empty hallways outside, leaving our school bags in the classroom as we know no one at our school or in Vilhelm in general would steal school bags.
The after school hallways of the Vilhelm Imperial High School was quite empty. The sunlight from outside shined in through the windows from the side opposite to the classroom doors. On the bulletin boards posted in the hallway, there exists advertisements for school and club events. During testing time, the student score rankings would be posted on such bulletins.
”Where're we going right now?” I asked as I trailed behind the two.
”I'm thinking let's head to the gym,” Loyd suggested without altering his stride. ”I know a first year student on the basketball team. We might be able to get him to join.”
”Would he have time though?” I asked. ”Basketball season is coming up.”
”He'll probably have time to occasionally drop by. Plus, all we need is for the club to be able to have enough members to start.” He looked over his shoulder at Muria and I and smiled. ”Right?”
”I guess,” I responded with an emotionless face, not influenced by his act of friendliness.
”It's worth a shot,” Muria agreed.
The three of us then continued down the hallway until we arrived at one of the many stairs leading down to the ground floor of the lecture building. The downstairs hallway was empty as well, meaning that we could walk in peace towards our destination. After making a turn, we exited the lecture building and stepped foot onto the field underneath the blue sky overhead. There existed a large field where the soccer team was currently practicing, as well as a track for the track team. Next to the soccer field was the baseball field, where the baseball team were conducting their after school practice sessions. Further out from the baseball field, by the fences that separated the school campus from the city streets outside were the tennis courts, which the tennis team used to practice. By the field was then the gym, which housed the practice grounds for the basketball team, volleyball team, and badminton team.
In the not too far distance was the long two-story building for the different sports teams and clubs. It served as the changing and resting areas for the different sports teams. On the left side of the sports building was the boys' shower and on the right was the girls' shower. Because of this, the girl's teams occupied the rooms on the right side of the sports building and the boys on the left. This separation was to prevent any perverts from trying to sneak a peek into any of the girl's changing facilities or showers since it would be obvious when a guy is on the girls' side of the building.
Since the person that Loyd suggested that we ask to join was on the basketball team, meaning that he or she was probably in the gym or the sports building. I didn't have a say on where we were going to check first nor did I care at all about it. All I wanted was to get this over with and head home.
Muria and I followed Loyd towards the gym, and once there, Loyd slid open the door to reveal the large gym that was about three basketball courts in width and a little more than one basketball court in length. There existed numerous basketball rims on the courts to maximize the efficiency for practice, although the basketball team only used two of the courts, leaving the last one on the far left of the gym for the volleyball team when practice schedules overlap. I
looked around the gym, feeling a negatively in regards to the energy that these student athletes put out as they practiced. The basketball players were scrimmaging, playing some team basketball. They ran up and down the court, with the players pushing the offense forward when their team had possession of the ball and sprinting back on defense when they lose possession. They played with enthusiasm, with dripping sweat drenching their jerseys and the hardwood floor around them. Practicing alongside the boys basketball team was the boys volleyball team, who were also having a small scrimmage on the court that they were given to work with. They had set up the net and all I could see were strikers jumping through the air, preparing to spike the ball when the setter tosses them the ball.
”So,” I said, feeling uneasy around these student athletes, ”who are we looking for?”
”Him,” Loyd pointed at the blonde haired boy that just scored via a dunk. ”Zaksus Andrei Leohardt.”
The unease I felt multiplied as I discovered that the person that we were looking for was the type that I feel the most uncomfortable with.