Esper Harem in the Apocalypse

Chapter 1039  Ignored By Alice

The lunch break eventually ended and the school hours started. Still, Rudy couldn't find a chance to talk to Alice, and whenever he tried to talk to her or hinted that he wanted to start a conversation, she would run away.

It was simple. Alice was purposely trying to ignore him.

"Okay, this is bad," he muttered. "This has never happened."

Since Alice seemed to be overly friendly and talkative with Janet, Rudy thought of interrogating her. But just like Alice, she was never alone. He was certain that even on their way back home from school, Janet and Alice would leave first without him. 'I have to solve this matter before school ends today. I have got something to do after school and I am not sure if I will be able to meet them today at all.'

During the second last lecture, Janet went to the washroom and Rudy thought of that as his golden opportunity.

He asked the teacher if he could go to the washroom, but the teacher denied the permission, saying, "One at a time."

"It's an emergency. And no boys have gone to the washroom," Rudy pleaded.

"No. That's one of my rules and I can't break it."

'Fuck you, Andrew. You son of a bitch. I have always hated you.'

The teacher was none other than Andrew, who was already hated among the students.

Rudy got up from his seat and walked to Andrew even after receiving multiple warnings from Andrew, asking him to go back to his seat and sit down.

He stood in front of Andrew, face to face, and looked into his eyes.

"What's that supposed to do?" Andrew asked with a furious look on his face. "Do you want to go to the principal's office?"

"I am going to the washroom," Rudy asserted in a commanding tone.

Andrew became silent and only uttered a single word, "Okay."

Rudy had hypnotized Andrew and he couldn't care less about the side effects.

He left the classroom and hurriedly walked to the washroom. But since he couldn't enter the girls' washroom, he had to wait outside. He waited for two minutes and became impatient.

"What's taking her so long? I have been waiting here for over two minutes. It took me about thirty seconds to get here and I wasted around three minutes in the classroom. So technically, it has been over five minutes.

There is only one way to go and return from the washroom, so if Janet had already left, I would have run into her on the way.

Rudy was growing impatient. He wasn't worried about the class in the slightest, but he didn't want to waste time since the lecture was about to end in a few minutes and the next, also the last lecture was of Rize and he couldn't miss a single second of it.

"I can use super vision and check what Janet is doing, but there could be other girls inside and… I would see them… well, shitting. I want to avoid it as much as I can."

Just as Rudy was about to give up and head back to the classroom, he heard the sound of the door being unlocked. 'The chances of that being Janet is…'

Rudy suddenly noticed a girl staring at him from the end of the hallway, peeking to be precise. It was then he realized that standing in front of the girl's washroom like that was suspicious.

He quickly moved away from the spot and waited by the stairs, which was also the perfect hiding spot to have a complete view of the hallway.

"Wait, I kept sensing electrical signals, and I thought it was because of the electricity of the school, but…" Rudy raised a brow and muttered, "There are cameras in the school."

"Hmm~" He hummed in wonder. "Well, that's weird. The school wasn't supposed to get them until we had reached the third year."

'Wait, that means that I was seen standing in front of the girl's washroom!' Rudy's eyes widened. He panicked for a second before getting his composure back. He shrugged his shoulders and muttered, "So what? Even if I get called, I can simply say that I was waiting for Janet. That's not a crime."

A minute later, he spotted Janet heading towards the classroom. He swiftly moved to the corner and pulled Janet's hand from the darkness. He had no other choice but to do that. Had he called out to her, there were chances that she would have run away.

"You were still here!" Janet exclaimed. "I thought you left already!"

"I knew it! You were intentionally not coming out of the washroom!" Rudy sharpened his gaze and asked, "But how did you know I was waiting for you?"

Janet averted her gaze and stuttered as she spoke, "What… are y-you talking ab-about?"

"This is a little too late to act dumb. Answer my question or there will be consequences."

After hearing that, Janet's nervousness vanished, and it was replaced with confidence.

"What will you do?" Janet asked in a demanding tone.

"Nothing."

"Come on, tell me. I won't get angry."

"No, seriously. I would do nothing."

With a confused look on her face, Janet asked, "Then what did you mean by the consequences?"

"I will hold you until Andrew's lecture ends." A smirk appeared on Rudy's face as he continued, "Once that happens, I will keep you here for ten minutes. You already know how furious Rize gets when anyone is absent from her class without a reason."

Janet's facial expression changed after hearing that, but she didn't give up.

"You will also be punished," she said quietly, seemingly trying to scare Rudy.

With a resolute expression on his face, Rudy responded, "There always needs a sacrifice to win the greatest battles."

"Why would you go so far?"

"I just want to know why I am being ignored by Alice."

"Oh? She is ignoring you? I had no idea, sorry."

Janet tried to leave, but Rudy caught her from behind and pulled her into the darkness under the stairs.

"Hey! What do you think you are doing?!" Janet whispered violently.

DING~ DONG!

Thus, the lecture ended, commencing the fierce battle between Janet and Rudy.