Tatsuya POV
Its been 2 months since the new year 2020 started,
Days went as usual. Study, tools maintenence, student council work, blackmailing some seniors, playing at the casino, etc.
Its already february and literally nothing interesting except the midterms are happening. What a let down.
And class C, even though Ryuuen retired, their points are still stable.
I quickly remembered the class results after the midterms.
Class A-1320(Arisu)
Class B-1040(Honami)
Class C-770(Ryuuen)
Class D-720(Suzune)
Ryuuen's class is suprisingly behaving very well despite having Ryuuen out of power.
If the same thing happened to our class instead, I'm sure everyone would be in panic because they have no leader.
And also, the rate of rule breaking decreased quickly after my I blackmailed those stupid senpais.
Even Nagumo senpai now raised my bounty to 20 Million.
I'm suprised he even goes that far just to uncover my identity. I commend him for that.
And because of rule breaking rate decreased, my points stopped at around 30 million on my second account that I used for blackmailing. While on my main account I have 5 million.
Right now, expulsion is nothing to me.
And because I'm bored, I bought a canned coffee and sit on a bench that's facing towards the sea.
???: "oya? what is our mighty vice president doing right now?"
Tatsuya: "Kiryuin senpai. Your appereance is quite unexpected."
Fuka: "nonsense. You knew I would be here right?"
Tatsuya: "It seems simple lies won't work against you. Come, lets talk."
Fuka: "don't mind if I do."
Kiryuin senpai proceeds to sit beside me.
Tatsuya: "how is school doing for you?"
Fuka: "boring."
Tatsuya: "an expected answer I guess?"
Fuka: "the school is already boring enough normally. And this time we have no special exam at all? now that's even more boring than before."
Tatsuya: "no special exam huh? then this means the school is preaparing for a final special exam for the year right? and a chaotic one that is."
Fuka: "chaotic huh? now that's an exam worthy of my time."
Tatsuya: "you really are similar to him huh."
Fuka: "who?"
Tatsuya: "Koenji Rokusuke. He's totally like you."
Fuka: "don't compare me with him. That narcissist are nothing compared to me."
Aren't you both the same tho?
Tatsuya: "Sorry. I was rude."
Fuka: "its fine. So, how's your blackmailing going?"
Tatsuya: "the senpais are now behaving. I have to wait until the new year comes so I can blackmail more people."
Fuka: "you loved private points very much huh."
Tatsuya: "what else could I do to pass my time?"
Fuka: "hahaha! to think you horde private points just for passing time. You're totally interesting, Shiba. It was a wise choice to not turn you to that clown."
Tatsuya: "you consider that?"
Fuka: "of course. If I found you boring, I will sell you out to that blondie."
Tatsuya: "is that so?"
Fuka: "it was a joke. I have no intention of helping that arrogant blondie. He can just investigate like a fool."
Tatsuya: "I'm grateful."
Fuka: "its for my own entertainment to see him being clueless like that. Your survival just happened to allign with it."
Tatsuya: "what are you? a tsundere?"
Kiryuin senpai just stared at me and laughed
Fuka: "hahaha! you're a funny one."
Tatsuya: "I'm honoured that you find me funny, senpai."
Fuka: "anyways, I'm going back to my room."
Tatsuya: "I'm suprised you don't want to go anywhere."
Fuka: "I'm free to go wherever I want. Anyways, here."
Kiryuin senpai throws a box at me.
Tatsuya: "valentine's chocolate?"
Fuka: "of course. Ain't no way that's a bomb."
Tatsuya: "but valentine is still tomorrow."
Fuka: "I don't care. Be grateful that you're the only one that got a chocolate from me."
Tatsuya: "of course I'm grateful."
Fuka: "anyways, see ya."
With that, Kiryuin senpai left
Scene change, somewhere else.
Arisu POV
Arisu: "fufufufu, I see. I see. That's clearly interesting."
I said to the person infront of me as I take a sip of my tea.
Nagumo: "do entertain me, Sakayanagi."
Arisu: "fufufu, don't worry president. You will see peak entertaiment. I'm sure of it."
Now then, how will you do against my attacks, Ichinose san? fufufu.
Timeskip, school
Kiyotaka POV
School went as always. Nothing noteworthy happened except me getting some valentine chocolates from Haruka and Airi.
Oh, and also from Kei. I didn't expect her to give it to me.
Anyways...
The last lesson is finally completed. I can go home and enjoy my pillows.
I went up from my seat and begin to leave.
Tatsuya: "going home so early?"
Kiyo: "what else could I do? I'm not a student council member like you."
Tatsuya: "well, wanna go to the casino?"
Kiyo: "you sure love to go there despite everyone being afraid of facing you."
Tatsuya: "there is still some chess bots and other games there. I can bet against them after all."
Kiyo: "how about your student council work?"
Tatsuya: "I've finished them already for this month. So I can just go home for the rest of February. So, wanna go or no?"
Kiyo: "fine. Its not like I have anything better to do anyway. What about you, Akito?"
Akito: "club activities."
Kiyo: "Keisei?"
But as we looked at his seat, he's literally gone.
I opened the group chat to see if Keisei actually left a message or not.
Keisei: [I'm having a diareahha because of too much chilli. Can't go out.]
Tatsuya: "How should I say this. Its so unlike him?"
Kiyo: "Haruka, Airi, how about you guys?"
but they're also gone.
Akito: "well, enjoy your quality time." Said Akito who pats my shoulder and left the class.
Okay, last bet.
Kiyo: "hey, Horikita."
Suzune: "no."
Horikita just left.
Tatsuya: "c'mon. Lets go."
Kiyo: "hah...fine.."
we left the class and went to the casino.
TImeskip, Casino
The entire casino immediately looks at our direction as we arrived.
Their eyes are full of fear as soon as they saw Tatsuya.
But Tatsuya didn't care and went to the clerk instead
Tatsuya: "hello, Koji san."
Koji: "Ah, Shiba. What can I do for you?"
Tatsuya: "can we borrow a chess board?"
hm? I like where this is going.
Koji: "Ah, sure."
Koji proceed to open a drawer and lend him a chess board.
Tatsuya: "thanks, Koji san. Lets go, Kiyotaka."
I just followed him to a table.
He proceed to open the chess board and arrange the pieces.
Kiyo: "so, you want to play against me?"
Tatsuya: "yes. You see, I wanted to master my chess. I'm quite good at it but still by no means a grandmaster level."
Kiyo: "I see. And you want me to be your practice partner."
Tatsuya: "you got that right. Knowing you, you're the best candidate to help me grow."
Kiyo: "I'm honoured. Anyways, lets start.
One game later.
Tatsuya: "I lost. You're really good."
He's actually quite hard to beat. I'm impressed. He's clearly above the grandmasters I've fought at white room.
Kiyo: "how about one more game?"
Tatsuya: "Sure."
Another game later
Tatsuya: "its my lost again."
Kiyo: "but the resistance you offer is totally better than before. How about another one/ I'm sure this will push you to perfection."
Tatsuya: "sure. Why not? I won't stop until I managed to atleast score a draw."
Another game later
Kiyo: "a draw. Huh..."
Tatsuya: "how is it?"
Kiyo: "you're literally amazing. Just from losing 2 times you managed to score a draw with me. Your adaptability is scary."
Tatsuya: "then maybe with one more game I can beat you. Lets go."
But, it wasn't one game at all.
We played literally 8 games.
And all of them were a draw.
Tatsuya: "hah..I can't beat you at all.."
Kiyo: "but still. You're evolving this much after just 2 lost. Its really amazing."
More importantly, on the last 8 games, he forced me to make a draw 4 times vice versa.
Tatsuya is undoubtedly good at chess.
He's literally equal with me just after losing 2 times, I'm suprised.
Maybe, if I can defeat him again, he will surpass me as he gets better after each defeat.
But defeating him will be quite hard.
Tatsuya: "well, we already spent more than 5 hours here. Lets go back."
Kiyo: "sure."
But, as we were about to exit, a random person spoke.
Random: "woah! seriously? that Ichinose from class B was a criminal?!" he said while looking at his phone.
This cracked mine and Tatsuya's composure. Its an unexpected turns of events.
Kiyo: "you hear him?"
Tatsuya: "yeah."
Me and Tatsuya took out our phones and opened the school forum. Because from the looks of it, he was speaking as if he just saw a big rumour going on.
And it was true. What's written on the school forum was....
[Ichinose Honami is a criminal.]
It was sent by an anonymous account.
Tatsuya: "lets go." Tatsuya said as he ran from the casino. It seems he's worried about his secretary.
I too, ran after him. Good thing I can keep up with him.
Kiyo: "its unlike you to get suprised like this."
Tatsuya: "its a big scandal. Of course this is suprising. I need to find her."
Kiyo: "fine.."
We ran across the campus just to find a single girl. This attracted a lot of attention but Tatsuya simply doesn't care.
Kiyo: "what do you think about the rumours?"
Tatsuya: "I won't deny it 100%."
Kiyo: "so even you thought that rumour can be true."
Tatsuya: "everyone has a dark side within them. We learnt it the hard way with Kushida."
Kiyo: "well, you're right."
We just continue to run. Searching for this girl named Ichinose Honami.
But as we saw a large crowd, we stopped our tracks.
Tatsuya: "are you thinking what I'm thinking?"
Kiyo: "yeah. Lets get closer."
As we get closer, we saw who's at the spotlight. It was Ichinose herself.
Tatsuya: "jackpot."
Kiyo: "she looked like a crime suspect that's being interrogated."
Tatsuya: "you're right."
After glancing at her phone for a while, Ichinose spoke up.
Honami: "So, this is spread on the forums?"
Mako: "yeah. Terrible right? everyone can now see it."
One of Ichinose's friend, Amikura Mako approached her and hugged Ichinose.
Random Class B: "hey, we should bring this to the teachers."
Random Class B 2: "yeah! we can't accept something like this. If we bring this to the teachers, we will definetely find the culprit."
Random Class B 3: "Ryuuen! its you, right!"
All of the crowd including me and Tatsuya turned at Ryuuen who's just drinking a coke while walking.
Ryuuen: "what?"
Random Class B: "you're the one who spread rumours about Ichinose san right?!"
Ryuuen: "shut the fuck up, I'm just walking and you guys fucking suspected me for spreading some stupid rumours. Mind your own fucking business dipshits." Ryuuen retorted as he begin to walk again.
Random Class B: "wait! Ryuuen!"
Honami: "I'm okay. Something like this won't be enough to break through me."
Kiyo: "she's lying." I whispered to Tatsuya.
Tatsuya: "I know. She's not fine at all."
Mako: "b-but, Honami chan..."
Honami: "I'm fine. Please don't worry about me. Everything will be solved. Thanks guys."
Ichinose just smiled at the class B peoples and went inside her dorm room.
Kiyo: "hey is that?"
Our attention turned to a certain purple haired girl.
Tatsuya: "Kamuro Masumi, 1-A. Sakayanagi's henchman."
Kiyo: "she's been watching this commotion with a careful look. As if observing Ichinose's reaction."
Tatsuya: "then there's a possibility that Sakayanagi is involved in this matter."
Kiyo: "I couldn't agree more."
So this is what she meant by starting an attack. But I won't jump into conclusions yet.
Tatsuya: "Anyways, I'm going back to my room now. What about you?"
Kiyo: "I'll just stroll around a little bit more."
Tatsuya: "Very well."
Me and Tatsuya immediately went to our seperate ways
Tatsuya POV
I went back to my room. Change my clothes, make some coffee, and finally, turns on my computer.
It seems my time to pry on her life was inevitable after all.
I opened my hacking softwares, and immediately dived through the school classified database.
And I found it.
Ichinose Honami
I'm sorry.
Lets open this.
General Information
Name: Ichinose Honami
Age: 16
Birthdate: 20 July (Kyoto)
Relatives
Father: Ichinose Yuuto(deceased)
Mother: Ichinose Tsukasa
Younger Sister: Ichinose Nanami
No, I don't need some general informations like this.
Lets dive even further.
Achievements
Winner of Junior Highshcool Science competition in Kyoto
Winner of Kyoto vocals competition Junior High bracket
Seriously? it seems I need to dive even deeper than this.
I just kept scrolling and scrolling.
On the surface, this information was just some general facts that I don't even need.
But.
I finally found it.
Her complete backstory.
So it seems the rumours was true after all.
Ichinose Honami was caught stealing a bracelet for her sister.
After this incident, she was absent from school for a few months.
This incident makes her mental drops a lot.
Therefore, this caused her to be emotionally unstable.
I see, I see.
Someone got a hold of this secret and exposes it to the school.
But how can someone even got an information like this?
Unless...
Ichinose herself tells that person about this secret.
And based of my and Kiyotaka's suspicions, Sakayanagi is also involved on this matter.
But Ichinose would never tell Sakayanagi about this.
It seems this person who's entrusted by Ichinose for this information spilled the beans.
That's the only logical conclusion that came into mind.
But who's the person she told this secret to?
The suspects are too low.
Is it Nagumo?
It's possible. But I won't come into conclusion.
But wait..
Ryuuen: "and that ideal will be her downfall. I can already imagine Nagumo would try to make her his tool and exploit her naivety."
I Immediately remembered my conversation with Ryuuen, Kiyotaka, and Horikita senpai.
Ichinose joined the student council despite being rejected by Horikita senpai.
Class A will attack class B.
Nagumo would try to make her his tool.
Ichinose suddenly joins the council.
Could it be?
Ichinose shared this secret with Nagumo?
And now Nagumo started his move to make Ichinose her tool.
Its a logical conclusion. But that's just a mere speculation.
I have to confirm this sooner or later.
Or else, I will remain paranoid like this.
Scene change, Kiyo's room.
Kiyotaka POV
Kiyo: "In short, you're telling me this to make me stop Sakayanagi, correct?"
I spoke to Kamuro, who's infront of me.
Kamuro: "yes."
Kiyo: "what's in it for me?"
Kamuro: "challenge."
Kiyo: "what?"
Kamuro: "its a challenge from Sakayanagi. To make you save Ichinose. Wether you can do it or no depends on you."
Kiyo: "I see. And more importantly, how did Sakayanagi gets her hand on this information?"
Kamuro: "President Nagumo told her. Atleast that's what I heard."
Kiyo: "Nagumo? how can he even knows something like this."
Kamuro: "lets just say Ichinose is being stupid and just casually shared her dark secret to someone as suspicious as that blonde weirdo."
Kiyo: "I see."
So Ryuuen was right. Nagumo did try to do something to make Ichinose fall and then rebuild her again.
Kiyo: "thanks for the information. I'm grateful, Kamuro."
Kamuro: "whatever. I can finally go home."
With that, Kamuro left my room.
Time to see what will happen on the next days.
Timeskip, 18 February
Tatsuya POV
Wow, things get escalated even further than before.
Ichinose didn't even come to school anymore.
But I won't fail.
I will suceed at the end.
???: "Stop it! fighting is against the rules!"
hm?
I turned to the source of the voice. It was Shiina Hiyori.
It seems class C and class A was having some conflict.
And more importantly, what is Kiyotaka and his groups doing right there?
Snek: "chill out, Ishizaki."
Ishizaki: "you're being irritating, Hashimoto! Ichinose's situation aside, we're not going to let you do as you please!"
Snek: "Jeez, Ishizaki. We didn't spread any rumours."
Ah, that rumour.
If I remember correctly...
Ayanokoji Kiyotaka has a crush on Karuizawa Kei.
Sato Maya hates Onodera Kayano.
Shinohara Satsuki was a prosititute back on middle school.
And some other rumours that concerns other classes.
Ishizaki: "then it seems I have to ask Sakayanagi myself."
Snek: "you? as if She'll bother with the likes of you."
As soon as Hashimoto said that, Ishizaki swung his leg at Hashimoto. But good thing Hashimoto managed to dodge in time.
This escalates very quickly.
Snek: "hey, Kito. We might have to get a little bit serious."
Kito: "yes."
Kito and Hashimoto readied their stance, so are Ishizaki, Ibuki, and Albert.
Keisei: "Stop it!"
But Keisei's warning was clearly ignored.
Ishizaki was the first one to launch, along with Hashimoto.
Sigh, it can't be helped.
I immediately went there, stopping Ishizaki's fist.
And behind me was Kiyotaka who's stopping Hashimoto's fist.
Keisei: "Tatsuya?"
Tatsuya: "yo."
Snek: "oh, if it isn't the gambler. Anyways, Ayanokoji. Can you release my hand?"
Kiyo: "I have no insurance that you will stop."
Ishizaki: "Let go of me, Shiba!"
Tatsuya: "no can do, Ishizaki. You're on a rampage and its my duty as vice president to stop your little skirmish."
Ishizaki: "VICE PRESIDENT MY ASS! YOU'RE JUST A FUGI-"
Before he finished his sentence, I knocked him out.
Kiyo: "jeez. What a troublesome guy. Good thing I'm dealing with Hashimoto."
Tatsuya: "Shiina. I'm sorry I have to knock Ishizaki out."
Hiyori: "no, its completetly fine, Shiba kun. You're just stopping this skirmish right?"
Tatsuya: "right."
Snek: "hahaha! this meeting turned out to be interesting after all. Lets scram, Kito."
Kiyo: "I'm suprised you didn't get angry for being accused, Hashimoto."
Snek: "I'm not one to hold a grudge. Anyways, I'm leaving. Cya!"
With that, Hashimoto and Kito left the area.
Hiyori: "we're also leaving. Albert kun, can you carry Ishizaki kun?"
Albert: "YES."
With that, class C bunch also left. Leaving the Ayanokoji group alone.
Tatsuya: "so, what happened?"
Haruka: "well, as you can see, Ishizaki kun accused class A for releasing the rumours that's released few days ago."
Tatsuya: "I see. This escalates quite a bit too much."
Keisei: "anyways, Kiyotaka. You're quite strong. To think you stopped Hashimoto like that."
Kiyo: "well, lets just say I'm quite confident at my physical ability. But I'm not that good on real fights."
Lies.
Keisei: "I see. Your speeds prove it tho."
Kiyo: "that's precisely it."
As silence envelops, Akito, who came out of nowhere started speaking.
Akito: "did I miss something?"
Timeskip, 23 February
Kiyotaka POV
School went back as usual. After that little conflict between class A and class C, things have escalated quite highly.
But more importantly....
I saw her, Ichinose Honami.
Its finally time....
To Be Continued
Hi BigFrog Here, I Hope you enjoy the chapter xD
A/N
A short chap.
Sorry if it's too fast paced. I don't want to drag this.
I skipped volume 8 cause that volume was boring as fug.
And I make Kiyo stopped the fight and make Akito not present because I got triggered reading the original volume 9. He sit and let a fight going on just so he doesn't stand out even tho he can do it with ease? that's too stupid. Akito is literally trying so hard to stop Albert and Kito who's a literal tank while Kiyo who can do it with ease just watched because of "I don't want to attract attention. I want peaceful life." I don't care if you Kiyotards will lash out at me. That's too stupid even for Kiyo.
Class points at February
Class A-1320(Arisu)
Class B-1040(Honami)
Class C-770(Ryuuen)
Class D-720(Suzune)
Yeah, the rumour has started.
I gave Ichinose family some made up name ehe
Next will be the last of volume 9 as that volume doesn't have that much shit going on. But still better than volume 8.
Sorry if it had an uncomfortable pace and boring
Feel free to critisize the chapter!
Published date: 24-10-2021