Chapter 183: Ryuen Kakeru and Class D Make Their Move!
"Maybe. A delinquent who's learned how to exploit rules and contracts will probably be even harder to deal with. I just hope he behaves himself from now on and stops provoking me," Yuto muttered.
Of course, Yuto knew that was impossible.
There was no chance Ryuen would simply leave him alone.
The next message Manabe sent Kikyo quickly proved his suspicion correct.
Looking at her phone, Kikyo said, "Manabe says Ryuen gathered some students who obey him. Apparently, he plans to target Class A, Class B, and our Class C."
"What is Ryuen planning?"
"I'll ask Manabe."
While messaging Manabe, Kikyo drew her slender legs up and nestled against Yuto, sitting on his lap like a little baby, leaning into his embrace.
Whenever they were alone together in the student dormitory, Kikyo was even clingier than Kei. Like a koala, she practically never left Yuto's body.
Manabe soon replied, but unfortunately her response was disappointing.
She only knew that Ryuen had gathered students to target the other three classes. She had no idea what his actual plan was.
"Manabe doesn't know."
"That's fine. We just need to keep watching Ryuen and his people. We'll find out what they're planning soon enough."
"Mm. I'll help keep an eye on Class D, so you owe me a reward." Kikyo tossed her phone aside, and with a seductive smile, she reached out both hands and ran them over Yuto's abdomen.
The well-defined abdominal muscles were something Kikyo couldn't get enough of. Her breathing involuntarily grew heavier.
Yuto looked with a smile at the increasingly breathless Kikyo. "Kikyo, what do you want to do?"
"I want to!"
"That's not what I meant," Yuto said, caught between laughter and tears.
He meant "what do you want to do," not "do you want to do it"...
But since his little-devil girlfriend wanted it, Yuto naturally had to satisfy her, fulfilling both her body and mind.
...
By the next day, the Class D students who followed Ryuen began taking action.
That also allowed Yuto and Kikyo to finally understand how Ryuen intended to target the other classes.
How should it be described?
The plan wasn't particularly destructive.
It was simply extremely irritating.
In short, Class D deliberately provoked people, picked fights, and created trouble through all kinds of petty harassment.
For example—When students were quietly studying in the library, Class D students would deliberately make noise nearby and disrupt them.
When someone carried a tray of food through the student cafeteria, they would pretend to bump into them accidentally, knocking the tray down and spilling everything.
They would deliberately approach and bother female students who were alone.
...
Class D came up with one irritating method after another, thoroughly frustrating the students of Classes A, B, and C.
Yuto himself wasn't targeted.
Nobody in Class D dared provoke him.
Who didn't know that Shimizu Yuto was the one demon at this school you absolutely shouldn't mess with?
Just look at what had happened to Ryuen, Ishizaki, and the others after provoking him.
They had all ended up suspended.
Many students from the other classes, however, couldn't tolerate Class D's constant harassment and eventually responded with violence.
That created considerable chaos, and the student council received several requests for disciplinary hearings.
Ironically, every one of those requests had been submitted by students from Class D.
They accused students from the other classes of assaulting them.
Although Class D had deliberately caused most of the incidents, they weren't the ones who threw the first punch.
That allowed them to take the position of the "victim."
Whenever questioned about their provocations, they stubbornly insisted nothing had been intentional.
They had merely bumped into someone accidentally.
Or happened to make noise nearby.
Or coincidentally approached someone.
With no solid evidence proving intent, the student council couldn't formally punish them.
At most, they could give verbal warnings and tell Class D to behave.
...
Inside the student council office, Tachibana sighed helplessly.
"This makes seven, doesn't it? In only five days, there have already been seven disciplinary hearings involving incidents started by first-year Class D."
"Yeah. Those guys really are troublesome," Yuto replied with a smile.
Everyone in the office glanced at him.
He didn't look troubled at all.
If anything, he seemed secretly amused.
That was because Class C hadn't suffered very much.
Most of Class D's harassment had been aimed at Classes A and B.
And during nearly every disciplinary hearing, Class A or B lost class points because one of their students had physically attacked a Class D student.
So the people most frustrated and furious about Ryuen's disgusting strategy weren't Yuto's Class C.
They were Classes A and B.
Katsuragi was particularly troubled.
His friend Totsuka Yahiko had punched a Class D student, causing Class A to lose a considerable number of class points.
Members of the Sakayanagi faction had been continuously criticizing Totsuka ever since.
Even some members of the Katsuragi faction had started showing dissatisfaction.
Everyone had worked hard to protect their class points.
Yet because Totsuka threw one punch at a Class D student, the class lost a full fifty points.
Ichinose was equally helpless.
The kindhearted students in her class were growing increasingly irritated by Class D's harassment, and their studying had already been seriously affected.
It was June now.
The final exam would take place in mid-July.
Anyone who failed to reach the passing mark would be forcibly expelled by the school.
"Vice President, it's obvious that Class D is deliberately targeting us. Don't you have any intention of fighting back?" Katsuragi asked, clearly losing patience.
Ichinose also looked expectantly toward Yuto.
She wanted him to find some way to stop Class D's behavior.
"How do you want me to retaliate?" Yuto asked. "Should we copy them and start harassing Class D?"
"We can't do something that obnoxious," Ichinose immediately said, shaking her head.
"That really wouldn't be appropriate..." Katsuragi admitted reluctantly.
Katsuragi wanted revenge on Class D.
But if they used the same dirty tactics, wouldn't they simply become the same kind of obnoxious people?
Anyone with even a little dignity or shame would struggle to imitate what Class D was doing.
"Ryuen is the one leading Class D, right?" Suzune said. "If we deal with him, their harassment should stop too."
Manabu, who was working at the student council president's desk, glanced toward Suzune and gave a slight nod.
She was right.
The easiest way to stop Class D's behavior was to deal with its leader, Ryuen.
The problem was finding a way to restrain him.
Ryuen was a delinquent with absolutely no shame.
There was an old saying: a tree without bark would die, but a person without shame could become practically invincible.
"President, do you have any good ideas?" Ichinose asked Manabu, whom she regarded as a reliable third-year senpai.
Suzune also looked toward him.
Although Suzune had successfully joined the student council, she and Manabu had barely spoken during the past few days.
They behaved almost like strangers who didn't know each other.
If Suzune hadn't possessed Yuto's recording of Manabu's true feelings, his cold attitude would probably have hurt her deeply.
"This concerns the first-years. It wouldn't be appropriate for me to interfere in any way," Manabu replied calmly.
Katsuragi and Ichinose looked disappointed, but neither complained.
Manabu was right.
This was ultimately a first-year problem.
At that moment, Yuto's phone chimed.
He pulled it out and immediately frowned.
The Line message was from Kikyo.
She said Kei and some Class D girls had gotten into an argument after the two groups bumped into each other.
Nobody could determine who had collided with whom.
Kei's group and the Class D girls both insisted the other side had caused it.
Since Class D was currently following Ryuen's orders and deliberately provoking people, it seemed highly possible that the Class D girls had started this incident too.
[Kikyo, I'm still at the student council. Help Kei for me.]
[Isn't Karuizawa my romantic rival? Why would I have to help my rival? I was generous enough just to tell you what happened!]
Well...
That wasn't exactly wrong.
Kikyo and Kei were romantic rivals.
Kikyo would probably be happier seeing Kei encounter trouble than helping her.
In reality, however, Kikyo had already brought her own group of friends over and joined up with Kei's group.
Together, the two groups contained more than ten girls.
The moment the Class D girls saw how badly they were outnumbered, they quickly left without continuing to demand an explanation from Kei.
"Kushida, I didn't expect you to come support me. Thanks," Kei said sincerely.
"No need to thank me. We're all classmates, so naturally we should help one another," Kikyo replied with her usual sweet smile, phone still in hand.
Kei felt slightly guilty.
Because Kikyo was close to Yuto, Kei often treated her rather coldly.
She hadn't expected Kikyo to ignore all that and still come support her.
Of course, Kei had even less reason to feel guilty than she realized.
Because Kikyo had slept with her boyfriend...
The truth was that Kikyo hadn't originally intended to come help Kei at all.
Inogashira Kokoro, who happened to be with her, had spotted Kei's group arguing with Class D girls.
That left Kikyo with no choice but to intervene.
After all, Kikyo maintained the image of Class C's little angel.
How could the class's little angel simply stand there and watch her own classmates get bullied?
Wang Mei-Yu looked uneasy.
"I didn't expect Class D to start making their girls do this kind of thing too. Before this, weren't they only sending boys to cause trouble?"
"Exactly."
As the girls criticized Class D, Kei's eyes started drifting awkwardly.
Actually...
Class D hadn't deliberately sent those girls to provoke anyone this time.
Kei really had accidentally bumped into one of them.
So from the Class D girls' perspective, Kei's group was actually the one at fault.
Despite acting strong on the surface, Kei was timid underneath and hadn't intended to start an argument at all.
The person who had escalated everything was Shinohara Satsuki.
Shinohara had already been harassed by Class D students recently, so she was in a bad mood.
When she saw that their own group had more people, she immediately assumed Class D was causing trouble again and snapped at them.
The situation gradually escalated into a full argument and standoff.
Once everyone was already shouting, what could Kei, as one of the informal leaders among the girls, do?
She could only put on a forceful expression and stand her ground.
If Kikyo hadn't arrived with more girls and frightened Class D away, Kei honestly wouldn't have known how to end the situation.
While Kei was still feeling guilty toward Kikyo, the phone in her pocket rang.
She pulled it out and was surprised to see Yuto calling.
"Yuto, did you need something?"
Because she had just argued with the Class D girls—and because she knew she had actually caused the original collision—her voice sounded slightly guilty.
Yuto had already left the student council office.
"Kei, are you okay?"
"I'm fine. Why are you suddenly asking?"
"Didn't you get into a conflict with some Class D girls?"
"So you already know..." Kei looked even more guilty. "I'm fine now. Kushida brought people over to back me up, so the Class D girls left."
"Kikyo came to support you?"
"Mm-hmm."
Yuto raised an eyebrow.
Was his little-devil girlfriend secretly a tsundere?
She had already gone over to help Kei, yet her Line message had sounded as though she intended to stand aside and watch.
Kikyo glanced at Kei, who was still on the phone.
She didn't need to guess who was calling.
"By the way, Yuto, how did you know I was arguing with Class D girls?" Kei asked.
"I happened to have a friend nearby. She told me what happened. Anyway, I'm glad you're okay."
"Mm."
A sweet smile appeared on Kei's face.
Yuto's concern made her feel warm inside.
"Kei, was the conflict started by the Class D girls?"
Kei immediately looked guilty again.
She answered weakly, "No... I accidentally bumped into one of them."
Although Kei didn't really want to admit that she had caused the collision, she also didn't want to lie to Yuto.
"So the incident actually started with you," Yuto said with a strange tone.
"It wasn't entirely my fault!"
Afraid Yuto would misunderstand and think she was arrogant and aggressive, Kei hurriedly explained.
"You know I'm timid, Yuto. There's no way I'd deliberately pick a fight with someone!"
"After I accidentally bumped into that Class D girl, Shinohara assumed she was deliberately provoking us. So Shinohara immediately confronted her... and then everything turned into an argument."
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