"It's something!" Ike shouted.

"Something is real!" Yamauchi shouted.

"Something isn't nothing. " Sudo mumbled.

"Can we stop talking about something for a minute, please!? Look. They've knives!" Yahiko yelled.

The group of scary people pointed their weapons at us. When they came closer, I noticed something strange about them.

Everyone else seemed to not realize it.

Miyake took his arrow from nowhere and aimed it at the group of them.

"Don't step closer! I have arrows---" He stuttered. "A-And I don't hesitate to use it!"

"Are you ANHS's student?" I asked them.

The group of scary people bogged down. They looked at each other with confusion.

"What makes you think so?" Katsuragi asked.

"Look at their clothes."

Although it was dirty and covered with dust. I couldn't miss it. Their clothes were the same as ours. They were wearing ANHS's tracksuit.

"You're right!" Ike shouted, he stepped back and stared at them with caution.

"Who are you?" Katsuragi with his powerful sound. The mystery group flinched.

One of them turned his face to the one who seemed to be a leader.

"Boss, how should we do?" He spoke Japanese.

Boss looked at us with dangerous sight. He didn't answer our or his comrade's question but returned the question instead.

"Since this island is owned by ANHS, so I assume all of you are ANHS's students. Which class are you?"

"D, sir. " Doctor said and pointed at Yahiko and Katsuragi. "These two gentlemen are from class A, sir."

At first, we thought he will laugh at us like everyone in this school after he knew that we were from class D.

But he didn't.

He just looked at us with hate.

"I see. " He said. "So no one is from class E."

"What the hell are you talking about?" Yamauchi replied confusedly. "Our school has only four classes."

This time, Boss laughed hysterically.

"Four class! Haha. Comrade Kashiwagi, look at this clown!" He said with another. Wait, Kashiwagi.

"I don't know that they canceled class E or not though, Comrade Mitsubishi. " Kashiwagi said. "But when we were there, there absolutely wasn't just four class."

"Wait. " I said. "Are you Kashiwagi? Kashiwagi in that note!"

Kashiwagi looked at Mitsubishi.

"Oh, Comrade Mitsubishi. These clowns found your note---"

"Finally!" Mitsubishi raised his fist. "Someone saw my note! No one found it for 5 years!"

"What the hell!?" Ike shouted. "Are you our Senpai that writes the note!?"

Mitsubishi nodded.

"Yes, we're your Senpai. Although we hadn't been the student for 5 years. I'm Mitsubishi. And this is my comrade---"

He introduced his friends one by one. Kashiwagi, Toshiba, Suzuki, Honda, Bandai, Subaru, Izuzu, Toyota, and Yamaha.

"Okey, I'm not sure if we're meeting with the hair of Japanese biggest companies. " Katsuragi mumbled.

"But in the note, you said you were attacked by something----" Sudo said with confusion.

"Let me teach you, my stupid Kouhei. " Kashiwagi grinned. "Don't believe everything you read."

"We are something, gentleman," Mitsubishi said.

We opened our eyes widely after hearing the unexpected reveal.

"This is our plan in the first place. We let Honda and Bandai spook our class. Made their thing we were terrorized by something in the forest. I convinced Shirogane to move our camp by separating the groups. And during the immigration, we left them and hid in this cave that we met by chance!"

Kashiwagi supplemented his friend's explanation.

"And then we left the tents with the note to make people think that we were attacked by something. Ah, thanks for Comrade Bundai's blood to make it more realistic. " He giggled. Suddenly, his face turned depressed. "If you just found it, this means no one find it for 5 years?"

Mitsubishi groaned. "As I said, no one will know we were disappeared anyway."

"Impossible!" Miyake shouted. "10 students were gone! That's a quarter of the class! There is no way that the school didn't find you."

Mitsubishi laughed bitterly.

"There is the way. Kouhei-Kun. Because we're in class E!"

"You have been talking about class E for a while. What is it!?" I asked.

"E stands for Extra. We're an extra actor, the background characters. " Mitsubishi said.

"The background characters?"

"Yes. Not just a typical background character that the writer can use in the future. Kinugasa-Sensei didn't even give us a name. Do you remember the Senpai that Sudo messed with within the first volume? That's class E."

Kashiwagi said. "Our duty is filling the story. Make the story more lively. We have no role to play. The writer doesn't portray us, and we have no potential to get the spotlight at all. In the anime, we are the one who was cut off because the animator thinks that drawing us is waste of time. We are disposable!"

"The most indignant thing is---" Mitsubishi said. "We weren't in the class competition. We have no special exam. No matter how we behave, our class points will be forever 100. It won't be decreased or increase."

"That sounds good---" Ike mumbled.

"Not at all!" Kashiwagi replied immediately. "Because no matter how much our class points. We're still class E. We can't reach class A or even class D!"

Yamauchi scratched his head.

"Come on. I see there is no bad about that. You can enjoy your life in this school without stressing from the competition."

"Huh. You know nothing, Kouhei-Kun. " Kashiwagi grinned. "You don't know how to live under the shadow and get no spotlight. No one needs to fight with us. So we have no big role in the story. We have no background, no character development, no fan club, no haters. Even the memorable moment when we're expelled, we can't have it!"

"How will you understand us? All of you are unique because of your role and character design. " Mitsubishi said.

He pointed at me. "You're the protagonist, T-rex, spread your legs, harem. And the mystery background! Come on, your being doesn't exist in the real world!"

Then, Ike. "You're the pervert with the camping skill! You even got a girl. Seriously, in this story, there is only two real couple. The protagonist's one and yours!"

He looked at Yamauchi. "People always remember you! And you even have a nickname!"

And Sudo. "You too. You have an outstanding role again and again. And for the god sake, your hair made everyone remember you even before your spoke! And your character is easy-recognize too."

Kashiwagi pointed at Miyake. "At first, I think you're one of my people. But no. Even you got a little airtime, people still like you!" Doctor is the next one.

"And you! Come on, man. You don't have any big role. But you are full of unique personalities. Otaku, technology prodigy, glasses, talking like you live in Muromaji Era. And your nickname! Doctor. What a badass nickname. You're the side character! Only a bit better than the background character. But why do you have so much unnecessary detail!?"

He glared at Katsuragi and Yahiko. "There is no need to talk about you two. You're the bald high schooler, isn't it enough? And you're the bald high schooler's sidekick."

"See. You don't understand us, we need our own spotlight. That is why we decided to live on this island! Here, we don't have to be your background. We can be our protagonist in our story!" Mitsubishi said insanely.

We looked at their eyes. They were the eyes of hopelessness. Then we realized, we who live in the spotlight couldn't understand the shadow behind the stage at all.

I tried to compromise.

"Ok. I see. But why do you kidnap Shinohara and Mori?" I asked, trying to make my voice as soft as possible.

Kashiwagi smiled like he lost his mind.

"Our savior told us to do. " He whispered. "He said if we don't give him two virgin girls, he won't let us live here."

"Your savior? Whom the fuck you talking about?" Ike frowned.

"Him!"

Kashiwagi pointed to the strange sculpture on the cave wall.

That sculpture, I didn't know how was it here. Because it was too big for these ten people would build it in five years. This means this sculpture had been here before those people came.

"We won't let you do that. " Ike stepped out bravely.

"I don't think you will let us do that though. " Mitsubishi said. "That's why we will kill you first!"

Our Senpai raised their weapon and stepped out to confront us. Ike took his pocket knife out of his pocket. Miyake raised his bow. Yamauchi used the stick he found on the ground as his bat. Sudo, Katsuragi, and Yahiko didn't have any weapons but they were ready to use their fist. Even Doctor was ready to fight. Maybe he worried about Mori's life more than his.

I armed my weapon too.

My luck.

"Kill them! Comrade!" Kashiwagi yelled. His sidekick leaped to us. Toshiba tried to chop me with his machete. But I could dodge. Toshiba grinned and used his knee to smash me, but I could doge. He roared and flicked his knife at my face, but I could dodge.

Actually, I could dodge all of his attacks.

"Ayanokouji! Go to help the girls, I will delay them!" Sudo said while averting Kashiwagi's spear. He could counter-attack his enemy many times. Honda saw his leader being disadvantaged, so he stepped into the fight. But Sudo still fought with two people easily.

I nodded. But before I ran to the altar, I saw Suzuki was astride Doctor. Suzuki raised his knife, preparing to chop Doctor's face.

But before he could do that. The arrow was pinned on his hand.

"Arghh!" He screamed and let his knife fall. I used that moment to kick Suzuki. His figure bumped into the cave wall and collapse.

"Are you okay, Doctor?" Miyake asked, the arrow is his.

"Thank you, Miyake-Dono. Sorry for bothering your fight. " Doctor stood up and wiped the blood from his mouth.

"Doc. Come with me. " I decided to take Doctor to help the girls too. Because he wasn't good at fighting.

We ran crossed the corridor, no one interrupted us since they were busy with the fight. Ike used his pocket knife very well. Until they need three people to stop him. Katsuragi himself wasn't good at fighting, but cooperating with Yahiko. No one could defeat him.

When we reached the altar, I push Doctor up first. Then Doctor pulled me up. I went to untie the rope that tied Shinohara with the pole.

Shinohara opened her eyes hard.

"I--Ike?" She asked tiredly.

"Ayanokouji Desu. Ike is fighting for you now. " I mumbled while releasing Shinohara from the pole. She fell down on the floor, so I propped her up.

Shinohara's lips were so dry. Maybe she didn't drink or eat anything for a night. I took my bottle of water out of my pocket and feed her.

When she got the water, she started saying.

"I don't know why I am here. When I wake up---"

"Don't say anything now. Rest first. " I told her and turned my face to Doctor who holding Mori on his arm. "Doc, how is Mori?"

"Not well, sir. She is dehydrating!"

I threw the bottle to him. Doctor grabbed it and feed Mori.

"Urg!" I heard Yamauchi's scream.

When I looked at the fight. Yamauchi armed was slashed by the spear. There was a scar on his right arm. He dropped the bat on the floor.

The other's situation wasn't different, our party started being at a disadvantage. Sudo and Ike walked backward to the slope. Katsuragi and Yahiko tried to protect Yamauchi who got injured. Miyake's arrow was out. This wasn't unexpected. They had more people than us, and they had a weapon too.

"Doctor. Take care of Shinohara and Mori. " I told Doctor and jumped out of the altar, running to the fight.

When I reached there, I shouted.

"Yamauchi! Give me the stick!"

Yamauchi nodded and threw his stick to me. I grabbed it and closed my eyes.

Then I randomly hit it without looking.

"Yargh!!!!!!!!!!!"

I yelled. If you could call it yell. Because my voice was so flat until it sounded like I said some meaningless word.

I hit and hit. Let my luck guide me.

"Ayanokouji! Stop!!" I heard Katsuragi's sound so I opened my eyes.

I looked around.

Our Senpai from class E was laid on the floor. There was the wound from my hitting on their head.

"Ayanolucky---" I mumbled.

"God damn. Why are you so good!?" Yahiko asked unbelievably.

"It's just a coincidence. " I answered with my catchphrase.

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Then, we came to help Shinohara and Mori. When Shinohara woke up, she cried and hugged Ike. Doctor seemed to be waiting for Mori's hug. But she didn't do that. However, she didn't hug me either.

Ike gave Shinohara and Mori slices of bread. He said he always took it with him when he went to the forest. After the girls seemed to be fine. I and Katsuragi started talking about going out of this cave.

"Ike said this cave has an exit. " I said.

"Every cave has an exit. " Katsuragi nodded. "The problem is where it is."

"Maybe we should send Ike to find it. He looked professional."

"Oi, you idiot!"

Someone yelled from another side of the cave's corridor. We turned our face to him and saw Kashiwagi standing there. There was something look like a remote control in his hand.

"Wait! No one tied him or something?" Yahiko asked.

No, everyone was worried about Shinohara and Mori. No one cared about our Senpai.

"I won't go out of this island!" Kashiwagi announced. "Being a villain in your story is better than being extra in someone's story!"

"Calm down. Senpai. " Miyake tried to stop him but Kashiwagi yelled.

"If you come one step closer, I will push this button! And when I push it, this cave will explode. Bury us in this cave forever!"

Kashiwagi tilted his head.

"You know what? Why I just push it, bury us in this cave?"

"NO!!!!!!" Everyone screamed.

But before his thumb touched the button.

The stick hit on his head. Kashiwagi bulged and fell down.

We were shocked because the one who hit him was Subaru.

"I want to do this for 5 years. " He spits on Kashiwagi's body. "Alright, kid. Do you want to go out from this dark cave now?"

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That tunnel was dark and wet. I heard the sound of water splashing on the cave's floor when we tread it.

Our rescues team walked the line up in this tunnel. Subaru led us. I and Katsuragi came last. Ike and Doctor handled Mori and Shinohara. We tied class E and left them in the cave. Katsuragi said he would go to tell the teacher to take them.

"We use this way to go out, find some food and kidnap. " Subaru explained.

"Why do you help us?" Miyake spoke up. "Didn't you want to be in the spotlight?"

Subaru laughed.

"Haha. I don't want to be in the spotlight like them. If I became the main character, who will be an extra actor?" He said. "Kashiwagi forced me to join his plan. I can't resist him."

Yamauchi looked at him with surprise.

"Senpai. Are you really okay with being an extra actor?"

Subaru nodded.

"Everyone has their own duty. I can't be unique like you, no one will be interested in the story if I became the protagonist. And if you become the background character, you'll steal attention from the main character. It will ruin the story. Our exist is make the story better, isn't it?"

I appreciated his word. Sometimes, I want to become the side character. So I didn't need to carry the story on my shoulder, but like Subaru said.

If I wasn't a protagonist, who will be?

"Hey, you boy there. " Subaru called me. "You look thirsty, do you want some water?"

He took out the bottle of water.

I shook my head.

"No, thank you."

Before Subaru would reply, Ike grabbed the bottle from his hand and drank.

"Wazaa!! Very fresh, thank you, Subaru-Senpai." He said while returning the bottle to Subaru.

"Oi, that bottle is for Ayanokouji, isn't it?" Yahiko said.

"Come on, he said no. I'm thirsty to why I can't-----"

Ike opened his eyes widely and fell down. Everyone was shocked and ran to hold him.

Shinohara shook his body. "Ike! Ike! What happened!"

"My stomach! It's pain---" Ike gritted his teeth and handed on his belly. "Arg!!!!" He groaned.

I hold his body up.

"Ike. Do you hear me?" I called him, then Ike coughed.