At the same time the Service Club was deploying its entire force and Kanzaki Saku was turning the tables on his captors, Gotoh Hitori, having successfully diverted the trouble, didn't hide trembling under her desk. Instead, she slipped out of the classroom.
If you thought Bocchi-chan could only mislead Yukino to buy time, you'd be wrong! She can also tattle to a teacher!
'I have to stop those wolf-like delinquent girls! I'm the only one who can save Kanzaki-kun's purity now!' With that thought, Gotoh Hitori stumbled towards the teachers' office.
Arriving at the office door, she bumped right into Hiratsuka Shizuka, who had just picked up her textbook and was about to head to class.
Gotoh Hitori didn't have time to apologize. She gasped for air and said, "M-Ms. Hiratsuka! This is bad! Kanzaki-kun has been targeted by the delinquent girls from the Service Club! I think they're going to do something indecent to him!"
"But I tricked them into going to the old school building. Please hurry over and check! You can't let those bad women have their way!"
Bocchi-chan's luck was really good. She had managed to fool Yukino with gossip she'd collected for her usual bragging, and now she had found Hiratsuka Shizuka, Yukino's older sister's best friend.
Any other teacher would probably have turned invisible and sprinted away, not daring to get involved with delinquents. And the soft-girl version of Hiratsuka Shizuka would have been even less likely to interfere.
But this was the Service Club, the club run by Yukino.
In the original timeline, the younger-sister-con Haruno would have asked Hiratsuka Shizuka to look after her younger sister, which led to the creation of the Service Club.
But in this reversed world, the relationship was flipped. It was the sis-con younger sister, Yukino, who founded the Service Club, and she had been entrusted by Haruno to look after the gentle, easily bullied teacher, Hiratsuka Shizuka.
In other words, the Service Club was, in a sense, 'one of their own'.
As Haruno's best friend, Hiratsuka Shizuka knew Yukino was a sis-con and would do almost anything Haruno asked.
An image of Yukino's cold but obedient-to-her-sister face flashed through Hiratsuka Shizuka's mind. If it were any other group of delinquent girls, she definitely wouldn't dare to get involved, but since it was the Service Club, the situation was completely different!
The Service Club itself was founded by Yukino. She could influence Yukino through Haruno, and then use Yukino to easily stop the delinquent girls of the Service Club.
A simple food chain of big fish eating small fish was thus formed.
To be honest, she, Hiratsuka Shizuka, had a dream hidden deep in her heart: to be a hot-blooded female teacher feared and respected by her students!
She wanted every student to be afraid of her, not to call her 'Cute Shizuka' with casual disrespect all day.
Right now, wasn't this the perfect opportunity?
By intervening in the Service Club's affairs and borrowing the might of her special relationship with Haruno and Yukino, she was highly confident she could resolve the incident.
This would not only rescue the student in trouble, Kanzaki, but more importantly, it would establish her own strong, reliable, and courageous image in front of the students—one who dares to confront delinquent forces!
She imagined herself scolding the Service Club members, who wouldn't dare act out in her presence, while Gotoh Hitori beside her looked on with admiration.
The glory of teachers would be restored, starting now!
Hiratsuka Shizuka felt a rush of blood to her head. This matter, she, Hiratsuka Shizuka, was definitely going to handle it!
"How outrageous!" Hiratsuka Shizuka straightened her usually slightly hunched back, trying to make her voice sound authoritative, though it was still soft and weak.
"In broad daylight! How dare students do such a filthy thing in school! And they're from the Service Club? This is rebellion!"
She patted Bocchi-chan on the head, as if to affirm her actions, and also to pump herself up.
"Gotoh-san, you did very well! Reporting to a teacher in time and protecting your classmate—that's the responsibility an excellent student should have!"
"I'm going to the old school building right now! I'd like to see who gave them the nerve to act so recklessly!"
At this moment, Hiratsuka Shizuka felt as if she were glowing! She could already see the curtain rising on her legendary career as a 'hot-blooded female teacher'!
And beside her, Bocchi-chan was stunned as she watched her teacher's aura suddenly surge, looking like she was about to go suppress some delinquents. At the same time, a huge wave of hope washed over her.
'M-Ms. Teacher... she was this amazing?! Her usual gentle appearance must have been a disguise! Yes, this must be the legendary 'acting weak while being strong'!'
'It's a sure thing now! Kanzaki-kun! Just hold on a little longer! The super-amazing Ms. Shizuka and I are coming to save you!'
She had no idea that her teacher's 'rise to power' was built entirely on a wonderful misunderstanding and a special back-channel relationship.
But regardless, her tattling seemed to have worked! The cavalry was about to move out!
...
At the Kato Legion's base, everyone was drinking heartily to celebrate their victory.
"Drink up! Everyone drink your fill today! Yesterday, we beat those wenches from the Service Club so bad they didn't know what hit 'em!"
A tall girl holding a soda can shouted heroically, as if she were holding a bottle of high-proof liquor.
"The Boss is mighty! The Kato Legion is invincible!" The underlings below raised their cans in response, their faces flushed with excitement.
Strictly speaking, yesterday's rout was because Yukinoshita Yukino herself ran off, leading to the Service Club's collapse. But in the version of the story passed around by the Kato Legion, it had naturally become 'we scared off the arrogant Yukinoshita with our immense power and aura'!
At the center of the activity room, surrounded by everyone, was the core figure of the incident—the invincible Megumi Kato.
She still wore her usual calm, expressionless look. Compared to the fervent atmosphere around her, she was so peaceful she looked like she'd walked into the wrong room.
One underling put her arm around a companion's shoulder and said drunkenly, "Heh heh, you didn't see it, but Yukinoshita looked so pathetic when she ran away! She must have heard of our Boss Kato's fame and gotten so scared she ran straight to a man for comfort! Hahaha!"
"Exactly! What Yukinoshita, what Service Club, in front of our Boss Kato, they're all just chickens and dogs waiting to be slaughtered!"
Megumi Kato listened to the increasingly absurd boasts, her expression unchanging.
She really wanted to say that she couldn't fight at all, wasn't a delinquent, and was certainly not invincible.
But seeing her underlings' high spirits, she decided to remain silent.
Anyway... she was used to it. In this short life, Megumi Kato had long since grown tired of refuting the assumption that she was responsible for everything.
"By the way, where are Strategist Kotegawa and Kikyou? Why didn't they come to celebrate?" someone finally noticed the absence of the core members.
"The strategist is elusive. She's probably off plotting some grand scheme!"
"Kikyou probably went to carry out a secret mission for the strategist!"
"With the strategist around, our Kato Legion is truly unstoppable!"
Everyone expressed their understanding of the two's absence and was filled with beautiful aspirations for the future.
They couldn't possibly imagine that the 'strategist' and 'capable general' they were talking about were, at this very moment, in a certain abandoned classroom in the next building, having the most worldview-shattering first experience of their lives.
"Come on, come on! To the glorious future of the Kato Legion!"
"To Boss Kato's swift ascent to the top of Shuchiin!"
"Cheers—!"
Amidst the laughter and clinking of cans, the Kato Legion was completely immersed in the joy of their great victory, completely unaware of the Service Club's army that was about to descend upon them.
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