The next day.
Inside the meeting room.
Third year: Kiriyama Ikuto, Asahina Nazuna, leaders of Class C and Class D.
Second year: Katsuragi, Sumida Makoto, Ryuen Kakeru, Horikita Suzune, Ayanokouji Kiyotaka, Hirata Yousuke, Sudo.
First year: Ishigami Kyo, Yagami Takuya, Tsubaki Sakurako, Utomiya Riku, Hosen Kazuomi, Nanase Tsubasa.
Everyone sat on both sides of the room.
Although they didn't know what they were there for, anyway, there was no important matter, so they all came upon hearing the Student Council's invitation.
The only place where there was some question.
Was hearing that it was an invitation initiated by Hikigaya, Ayanokouji also expressed he wanted to follow and see, and Hirata Yousuke and others also followed along.
After all.
Ayanokouji also couldn't understand what Hikigaya wanted to do.
Although the White Room is indeed excellent, for his entire life he was cooped up in that small room without any social space.
Ayanokouji still has many inadequacies.
What kind of consequences purely rational methods would bring, he doesn't quite understand.
But his vigorous thirst for knowledge told him.
Learn!
He was truly looking forward to whether he could learn new knowledge from Hikigaya.
Originally, Kiryuin Fuka was also invited, but she clearly didn't give face.
Since she didn't come, forget it.
At this time.
Nagumo Miyabi sat at the end with a smile.
Sitting beside him were Kobayashi and other third-year students.
He didn't care at all.
First of all, he deliberately selected a place without surveillance.
Even if Hikigaya investigated it.
It was also irrelevant.
After all, Kobayashi and the others were all third-year Class C and Class D students.
Their strength was limited.
Nagumo Miyabi did not have excessively high expectations for them; it was possible they might accidentally leave a few flaws.
But so what?
Kobayashi also just casually threw a few punches, which was not a big deal.
It would be nothing more than ending in punishment, and paying some personal points.
Anyway.
Nagumo Miyabi didn't have much of anything else, but personal points were more than enough, at least much more than second-year Class B.
And this.
For Hikigaya, would be endless trouble.
"Sorry."
"For taking up everyone's private time to listen here."
Ichinose stood up and smiled: "The main reason is that a violent incident of a malicious nature occurred at the school the day before yesterday; next, Vice President Hikigaya will provide an explanation for everyone."
"Cough cough."
Hikigaya stepped forward holding a tablet, his expression indifferent:
"According to the appeal to the Student Council from second-year Class B student Sumida-kun, he was maliciously mobbed by unidentified persons at around six o'clock on Tuesday evening."
"Following an investigation by the Student Council, the perpetrators are indeed third-year Class D student Kobayashi-kun, as well as third-year Class C student Nishishi-kun and Takatomi-kun."
"What do you have to say?"
Hearing this.
Ryuen and others sitting on one side of the meeting room narrowed their eyes.
Two days had already passed, and they had heard some rumors about Sumida being injured.
Only.
Is the work efficiency of the Student Council so high?
Finding the perpetrators in two days?
Then why hasn't the person who ambushed Komiya been found for three months?
"How is this possible?"
Kobayashi slapped the table and stood up, somewhat angry:
"At six o'clock on Tuesday, we were still singing in a karaoke room; if you don't believe it, you can ask Nimiki from Class B!"
Nagumo Miyabi, on the side, had a playful smile.
Obviously.
It was colluded in advance.
No matter the result, he had already made sufficient preparations.
He was just creating trouble for Hikigaya, forcing him to engage with him.
"Confess and be treated with leniency, resist and be treated with severity."
Hikigaya's sharp gaze swept over the three: "Stubbornly refusing to admit it will increase the penalty by one level; have you considered it clearly?"
"What's there to consider or not, we were originally singing in the karaoke room that day."
Hearing this.
Hikigaya spoke no more, operating the tablet to lower the screen.
Everyone's gaze was immediately attracted to the screen.
In the image.
Nishishi and Takatomi put on hoods, while Kobayashi's three punches and two kicks fell on Sumida, before he immediately turned and ran.
The evidence is conclusive.
"Hmm?"
Ryuen couldn't help but narrow his eyes; as for the locations of the school's surveillance cameras, he knew them like the back of his hand.
"There shouldn't be surveillance in this place, what's going on?"
"This was a proposal by the Student Council to the school."
Hikigaya glanced indifferently at him and Hosen Kazuomi: "Newly added hidden cameras."
Why didn't he tell them.
No one would ask such a stupid question, right?
"Why didn't the school authorities release such an announcement?"
Sudo asked with some confusion.
"Did the school ever tell you the locations of the surveillance?"
Hikigaya was a bit speechless.
The school authorities have no such obligation.
Hearing his words, Ryuen Kakeru and Hosen Kazuomi's expressions immediately became somewhat gloomy; the more surveillance equipment there is, the more of a trouble it naturally is for them.
Furthermore.
They are hidden cameras.
Finding them is no easy task either.
"So..."
Hikigaya turned to look at Kobayashi and the others opposite him, saying in a deep voice:
"What else do you have to say?"
"Uh..."
Kobayashi and the others tentatively looked at Nagumo Miyabi, seeing him still maintaining a smile and shrugging indifferently.
What if they were discovered?
What if they were punished?
Anyway, the matter could not be linked to him; as long as Hikigaya did not agree to compete with him for one day, he would keep creating trouble for him.
Giving Hikigaya no peace!
Nagumo Miyabi had long been prepared to pay the fines for them, or it would just be simple suspension.
People die for wealth just as birds die for food.
Hikigaya clearly didn't understand this principle.
Seeing this.
Kobayashi and the others also breathed a sigh of relief, straightening their backs.
"I did it; who let Sumida not respect his seniors? He looked like he needed a beating."
Sumida Makoto's face on the side turned black.
Clearly they had never even met, so it was obviously a randomly made-up reason, yet they still had to pin the blame on his head.
It was just us who did it, what can you do about it.
Isn't it just a fine.
Then fine us.
"｀Is that so."
Hikigaya's expression was calm and not at all out of expectation, only turning his head to look at Ryuen and Hosen and the others, saying word by word:
"It's good that you admit it!"
"The evidence is conclusive; by judgment of the Student Council, third-year Class D student Kobayashi Yuta is punished with expulsion for malicious assault, and a fine of twenty million personal points."
"Nishishi and Takatomi, as accomplices without having physically acted, have a lighter circumstance and are suspended for one week, with a fine of five million personal points each."
"That is all!"
Hikigaya's gaze was sharp.
He didn't put Kobayashi and Nagumo Miyabi and the others in his eyes at all, staring intently at Ryuen.
Without any concealment.
I am deliberately targeting you!
In an environment full of calculation, insidiousness, and craftiness.
A good person like Ichinose cannot survive.
It's not that Ichinose is not excellent enough.
But the version is not suitable; since that's the case, then make the school into a version suitable for himself.
In this school.
It is possible to do it.
Although this might not be friendly to their future, and being too kind is not a good thing either.
But Hikigaya doesn't care about that much.
In short.
Go up to Class A first before talking about other things.
Joining the Student Council is for the sake of using power for personal gain.
It's not that Ryuen and the others are so excellent.
But that the school authorities are intentionally indulging such low-handed tactics, and Ichinose and the others are also too kind.
That's why Ryuen and the others are like fish in water.
If punishment is not severe, it is indulging crime!
Of course.
Campus violence cannot be completely stopped, and gray areas will always objectively exist.
Although hidden cameras.
Can make Ryuen and others hesitate.
But for example, toilets, karaoke boxes, various private spaces clearly cannot have surveillance installed.
Just like Nagumo Miyabi, even if he thinks campus violence is normal, he doesn't dare to verbally support violence.
Hikigaya also doesn't dare to risk universal condemnation by infringing on their privacy.
Otherwise.
Hikigaya would insist on filling the school with cameras.
But even so.
This can greatly compress the survival space of Ryuen and the others.
Starting now, the offensive and defensive positions have shifted!
However.
Such a degree of punishment will definitely provoke some resistance..