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part 18

"I'm being targeted?" Horikita surmised.

"Whose class are we up against?" Shibata asked curiously.

"Not Ryuuen-kun's class, I hope." Kanzaki said.

"It's no use. She's being targeted," I said.

"Targeted? So, it's not accidental that she keeps facing all these incredible students?"

"It's the only reason I can think of. You know how athletic she is, too, right?" I replied.

There was just one person who might order such a thing: Ryuuen Kakeru. Only he would prioritize humiliating Horikita over leading Class C to victory.

"We're up against them? Yikes." Ike whispered to Yamauchi and Sudo.

Sudo frowned at him, "What are you so worried about? We can take them." He said confidently.

"Oh yeah! We have Horikita and Ayanokoji on our side." Yamauchi flicked his fingers.

Sudo visibly deflated, "I mean... We have me..."

"There, there." Ike patted his back.

"So we're against Class A?" Ichinose thought.

"He's definitely harassing her," I said.

Someone is harassing Horikita? But why?" asked Karuizawa.

"It's not just Horikita. They seem to know all our strategies for the competitions, and the composition of all our teams. We're being played like a fiddle."

"So, information about our class got leaked? Someone sent out our participation table?"

"Huh?" Hirata looked confused.

Kushida froze, she have the highest possibility of being the traitor who sent their participation table.

"Traitor?" Horikita bit her lips glancing at Kushida's frozen form for a second.

"Who was it, I wonder." Ryuuen grinned at Class D.

"Yes. They handed all that information over to Ryuuen," I replied.

"That's... Well, actually, Horikita was always up against Yajima-san and Kinoshita-san. Does this have anything to do with the traitor you were talking about?" asked Karuizawa.

"Amazing how you already knew." Hiyori commented.

"Did you find out during the festival or before though?" Katsuragi asked.

"We can always watch quietly to know." Ayanokoji said.

I gave her a small nod.

"But, wait, how did you find out? L Honestly, it wouldn't surprise me if you just came out and said you were the traitor or something... I mean, that's
not what you're saying, right?"

"Why would Ayanokoji-kun turned traitor?" Ishizaki asked confused.

"That makes zero sense." Amikura agreed.

"Since when did the guy have sense?" Ibuki muttered to herself. She doesn't know why, but her blood boils at the mere thought, sound, anything relating about the guy.

"Unfortunately, no," I replied.

"What's with the unfortunately?" Karuizawa glared at him.

"Unfortunately, I do not know."

Putting aside the question of "who" for now, the crucial bit was that the traitor had leaked our class's information. Ryuuen knew everything, and he'd done two things in response.