Chapter 12 (Sudden Change 2)

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When you're peeping into my abyss,

I am also peeping into yours....

-Megumin

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Third Pov:

The reactions were still ongoing, and the people seated on their chairs were fixated on the videos playing before them.

Each clip revealed different angles of the incident-Ayanokoji's swift movements, Sakura's terrified expression, the stalker's desperate struggle, Sudou being falsely accused, Shirou's involvement in the plan and many other details that had previously gone unnoticed.

But it was just the beginning of the storm that was about to sweep through the school.

But one thing remained certain for the students who had remained in the dark.

But one thing remained certain for the students who had remained in the dark.

They would soon know-
the hidden truths behind the peaceful facade of their school.

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Many students were still flabbergasted by the way Ayanokoji fought.
It was different from his previous fight with Yagami.

This time, Ayanokoji simply targeted the stalker's weak points with such precision-
calm, calculated, and almost clinical.
There was no wasted movement, no hesitation.

And the way he stayed so calm-even knowing that his friend, Sakura, had nearly been assaulted-

yet he remained unfazed, nonchalant, and disturbingly apathetic,

as if he had seen it all coming from the very beginning.

This wasn't the reaction of an ordinary student.

There was no rage, no panic, no hesitation-only a cold, mechanical precision, as if he were

simply solving a math problem rather than rescuing a friend from danger.

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One thought lingered in the minds of the sharper students:

Why was he so calm?

Even when faced with something so vile, something that would make any normal person furious or desperate...
Yet he remained calm-unaffected, apathetic-treating it all as if it were nothing more than an everyday occurrence.

'Normal.'

But what did normal even mean to someone like him?

The Ayanokoji once they knew before seemed very different.

Haruka, who had watched the video of Kiyotaka's calm and calculated actions, remained uneasy. Is he the same person we knew? she thought, her mind racing.

She felt a cold, unfamiliar sense of distance between them. Kiyotaka, the quiet, distant student she had always known, now seemed like someone else entirely-someone with an unsettling calm that bordered on detachment.

Her gaze lingered on him as the others around her continued their chatter. The person she once thought she understood now felt like a stranger.

No... Did I even know anything about him to say anything?

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