Read the Chinese raws here.
The chapter begins with Mugi reflecting on what has happened. It's the day of the school festival. Asaki drops by and at first, they act awkward around each other, but he offers to take her around the school festival. She objects at first, saying she's a teacher, but he tells her to enjoy herself since she's younger than him, and that she should just see it as accompanying him. She agrees and thanks him.
Cut to scene with Iori and Sei. Iori thinks of Kazuya and says, "...That's why I told you to act upon it earlier", then Sei appears. Iori tells him that if he's looking for Mugi, she's walking around with Asaki. Sei explains that that is why he is here, to waste time because if he does something now, she'll feel messed up and torn between them, and that is just too pitiful. Iori warns him that he might just be bidding his time himself. Then Iori treats him to some flavored tea and Sei wonders to himself why they [Mugi and Asaki] can't hurry and finish up already.
Meanwhile, there's an awkward silence between Mugi and Asaki as they walk around. Suddenly, a random girl faints due to a too (bright? good-looking? Something along those lines, anyway) guy. They turn around and find Kazuya being the host for an old lady in their host club-themed classroom. Mugi and Asaki exclaim, "Kazuya-kun?! / Midou?!" at the same time and thus, draw attention to themselves. Kazuya sees them and there's a tense atmosphere as Asaki tells Mugi they should go elsewhere.
However, a classmate of Asaki's appears at that time and drags him back to his own classroom as they need to prepare themselves. Kazuya excuses himself from his customer and asks Mugi if he can see her for a minute. (With Mugi saying, "Ah, does Midou-san have something to discuss with me?")
The two of them go elsewhere and start fighting. Kazuya scolds her for being too careless and going on a date in the middle of the school with a student, saying her cover will be blown. Mugi says they were just walking around and thinks to herself how it has happened before, but Kazuya is suddenly making such a big deal out of it. Then Kazuya goes ahead to badmouth Asaki about being so careless as well, and Mugi becomes mad, saying he did nothing wrong. She then retorts that Kazuya did the same with an old lady just now, and Kazuya says that that was just because they asked him to do that and he had no other option.
Then Mugi starts yelling about how he shouldn't say things like that when Asaki was just seeing things from her point of view and trying to make her feel better (or something like that), and Kazuya, angry (and jeaaalousss xD) retorts, "Of course I don't understand you! All you ever do is mess around!" [As in 'acting impulsively without thinking', not 'mess around with guys']
Then this dialogue happens (man, I love when Mugi is raging xD):
Mugi: --What's that supposed to mean... your point is, as long as I only do things you say, it'll all be fine?!
Kazuya: ...!! That's right, then things don't have to be so tiring for me!
Mugi: Why do you have to act so high and mighty?! I don't care about you anymore! Kazuya-kun is a big idiot!! (throws some random statue at his head)
Kazuya ducks and says something like, "Do you intend to kill me?!" (Lol, he reminded me of Kyouhei from Perfect Girl Evolution for a minute there)
Mugi runs away, crying, and berating Kazuya in her head for not understanding her and acting that way. She then goes ahead to glomp Shirotama (one of the doves) and starts whining about Kazuya. She suddenly overhears somebody saying, "That is just going too far! It's not like you say at all!!"
Two guys are fighting. One of them mentions he was just following orders, whereas the other one is upset since he said that his father wouldn't lend them money if he hurt their little sister and how his mother was already ill. The other guy retorts something about him being stupid.
Mugi suddenly realizes it was the guy from the fire accident who drugged her sister's acquaintance and how he was probably connected to her sister. She wonders what he's doing here when he isn't even a student of this school, and how this is bad since he probably plans to do something dangerous [as he's a dangerous person]. She tries to escape to tell somebody, but he stops her and says, "You really know how to interfere, sen...sei!"
He kicks her down when Sakuragi-sensei appears. She asks him what he plans to do about her. He retorts that he's following orders from somebody more higher-ranked than Sakuragi-san [referring to sensei's father, the director of the school board]. He says that this is a good chance of getting rid of Mugi and says (in a mocking manner), "Sorry to disturb you." Sakuragi-sensei looks troubled, cut to Asaki sitting in his classroom seeing the guy carrying away Mugi. One of his classmates remarks how it's weird that Mugi is not picking up her phone, and Asaki rushes out to where he saw Mugi being carried off. Then Sei looks out of a window and says, "Hanekura--? What's the matter?"
Kazuya is thinking about how Mugi yelled at him and keeps muttering responses to what she said to himself (I really lol'ed at this part xD) when Iori appears and calls him out. The others tell him that Mugi was kidnapped, and Asaki mentions that she was unconscious. Sei tells them the phone calls can't get through, and Kazuya mentions how she wouldn't turn off her phone, nor is there an area in school where you can't get a signal. The phone emits an automated message of how they can't connect to the user.
Meanwhile, we see a foot standing on Mugi's broken cell phone. Mugi is unconscious when the guy from before wakes her up. He introduces himself as the ex-boyfriend of the girl whom he drugged (I don't know his Japanese name, so I'll just call him Drug Guy). Drug Guy says that he originally wanted to resolve things in a calmer manner, but sensei [Mugi] just appeared at a really bad time.
Mugi demands to know his motives. Drug Guy simply answers teasingly that he has many. He hates the students of Shoukei High, but since their parents contribute to his superiors, he has to protect their safety. He also has to entertain (?) them as well. Mugi asks whether or not Kujou [the troublemaker guy] is his partner, and he replies, "Kujou? Of course that moron doesn't have anything to do with me!"
Drug Guy goes on saying, "He and Andou Masashi -- you know Andou Masashi, right? The one who used to lead that gang (?), due to him going missing, my superiors made Kujou his replacement."
Mugi wants to know who his superiors are. He says that it's people who have connections with his school. Before Mugi can ask anything more, he says he's tired of explaining anyway, since she's going to die. (WTF?) He's going to return later to see how he should go about it. After he leaves, Mugi freaks out about being murdered and how she hasn't found her sister or solved the mystery behind her parents' death yet. And how there's so much left she hasn't done yet, like given Asaki her reply to his confession. And how she said some really mean things to Kazuya...
She thinks how she's never going to see Kazuya again and starts crying, when she suddenly bursts out; "--Simply crying--isn't going to make anything better, is it?!" (I have to admit it, she's pretty kickass ^^)
Mugi tries to figure where she is and how to get out, as the only exit is locked. While throwing herself at the door, Mugi thinks about how she needs to apologize to Kazuya.
The guys are still searching for Mugi as the school intercom calls for her name. Then a girl appears and says she saw Mugi two hours ago, and how she looked like she cried. "It can't have been too long after she left me, then," Kazuya figures, and looks distressed as he mutters, "Dammit..."
Cue Mugi frenetically kicking at the door, to no avail. She's still thinking about apologizing, when she remembers Kazuya's words and becomes mad again. It strengthens her resolve to get out. Suddenly, there's a blackout. A dark-haired woman throws an eye-bind over her eyes and tells her to calm down, she's going to get out of there. (Most likely Sakuragi-sensei, I presume...)
Asaki and Kazuya start fighting as Asaki yells at him for not being worried. "Of course I'm worried about her," Kazuya retorts coolly, when Director Sakuragi shows up. The boys explain that they're looking for Mugi [as Suzuhara-sensei], and he says he just saw her at the back door and how she probably still is there.
Meanwhile, Mugi is led out by the dark-haired woman in complete silence. She asks her to take off the eye-bind, and the dark-haired woman agrees to doing so in return for her not looking behind for five seconds after taking it off, and for pretending that this never happened.
Mugi realizes she's on top of a roof, when Kazuya discovers her. She asks him to catch her, then jumps down. Drug Guy is standing nearby a church, talking to his superior over the phone who tells him that Mugi most likely have escaped and how he has disappointed them. Maddened, he says he's going to bring her back at once, but they tell him not to. Swearing, he punches the wall in frustration.
Just then a dove attacks him and a light-haired guy in a yukata appears from nowhere. Asaki and Sei confront him, and as the light-haired guy disappears again, they realize they didn't know who it was. Eijirou shows up to say that Mugi is fine and Midou found her just a while ago. Asaki reacts with a shocked face expression.
Cut to Mugi sitting on Kazuya's lap after jumping down.
Kazuya: You really... constantly fall down, huh.
Mugi: I thought you would be used to it by now.
Kazuya: You... (sweatdrop) But this whole messing around [acting impulsively] of yours, could also be seen as your good point.
You should stay the way you are.
Thank God nothing happened to you.
Mugi: (thinking: Kazuya-kun really came looking for me...)
Mugi starts crying.
Kazuya: Suzuhara?
Mugi: I'm sorry.. it seems as soon as I became relieved, I... (thinking to herself: Because I was so angry, I originally planned to scold him as soon as I saw him, but this relieved body of mine, started crying out of habit.
I really wanted Kazuya-kun to save me.)
As they embrace, she thinks: "I really hoped he would save me..."
- CHAPTER 22 END -
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