Ultimate Spy

“Bingo! You’re perfectly correct! I am Yuto Kamishiro, a student in Hope’s Peak Academy’s 77th class

“Um... When did you come in here?” I asked. I mean, I didn’t notice him entering at all!

“Well, it’s natural that you didn’t notice,’ Kamishiro-kun suppressed a giggle and sat down on top of the desk. “But,
that’s the wrong question to ask.”

“...Eh? What do you mean?”

Kamishiro-kun’s mouth twisted in a broad grin. “I didn’t come in. I’ve been here all along.”

“A...All along...?”

“Well, ever since Yasuke Matsuda tied you to the bed with that rope, at least. I heard every bit of that lover’s quarrel you
had after that, of course. Speaking of, that sure was one impressive knot he tied! I’ll have to ask him to teach it to me
some other time.”

“Um... In other words...” I tried using every bit of my brain to make sense of the situation. “You’ve been hiding
somewhere in the lab since the beginning, and peeped on what Matsuda-kun and I were doing?”

“How rude! I may be a pervert, but I’m not the kind of pervert who hides and peeks!” Kamishito-kun puffed his cheeks.

I wasn’t sure why he was upset.

“But, if you weren’t hiding, we would surely have noticed you... I mean, if not me, Matusda-kun would’ve...”

“You still don’t get it, do you? Very well, let me explain it directly.” Kamishiro-kun suddenly thrust out his chest. “You
didn’t notice me because of my talent,” he declared cheerfully. “I am a ‘Super High-school Level Secret Agent’, after all!”

He puffed his chest even more, and soon looked as if he was bending over backwards.

“Super High-school Level... Secret Agent?”

“You know, like in ‘007’ and ‘Mission Impossible’... You must have seen one of these movies at some point. I’m just
like that. A spy, if you will.”

“A spy...” Unfortunately, I had no memory of ever seeing either of the movies he mentioned, and couldn’t quite grasp
what he meant.

“As long as I can remember, people have been telling me how short and plain and insignificant I look.” While speaking,
he took out a large melon bread from somewhere — honestly, it’s a mystery where he could hide such a thing inside his
outfit — and continued, chewing loudly.

“When I was a child, I hated my lack of presence... but then I had a realization. This is not a disadvantage. Quite the
opposite - it’s an incredible talent! I mean, if you have no presence, no one’s going to notice you! I could flourish as a
spy or a ninja! Yep - it wasn’t a fault at all. It was a talent bestowed upon me from heaven. If I use it, I could become a super-spy that saves the world! The kind that gets a license to kill

The second he finished talking, Kamishiro-kun stuffed the rest of the melon bread he still held in his hand into his
mouth.

“In other words... you weren’t hiding at all... but we simply couldn’t notice you?”
Kamishiro-kun gulped down the bread in his mouth. “Yes, exactly!” he said, smiling widely. “At first, I came here in
order to fulfill the promise I made to you yesterday. You know, the message I was supposed to pass. But when I got
here I saw you and Matsuda-kun already found each other, so I thought the message wasn’t necessary anymore. But, it
was a waste to just go back home, so I thought I'd go and show off my talent.”

“Show off your power...” I frowned. “But... why?”

“So I could help you with that incident you’ve gotten yourself involved with, of course!” Kamishito-kun looked at me
with passion-filled eyes that didn’t match his boyish face at all. “Now that you’ve seen me do it, you get it, right? I can
easily gather any information you require. I can solve any problem. The more dangerous the incident is, the more excited
I get. That’s just the type of man I am! Even if this turns out to be about a terrorist plan to steal a nuclear warhead...
Ah! My body shivers just imagining that

Kamishiro-kun’s body indeed shivered a little in excitement at his own words. His entire body oozed some strange kind
of innocent madness.

“You're a strange one, aren’t you...”

“Fair enough. If I wasn’t, I wouldn’t be in this school!”

He was right, of course. This is Hope’s Peak Academy we’re talking about — ’m probably just as strange!