*EAST TOWER BUILDING - NIJIGASAKI HIGH SCHOOL - ODAIBA - TOKYO*
*P.O.V - YU*
It didn't take long for everyone to lose their minds.
Already there were protests forming, and calls for Akihiko to resign.
But some wanted to take a more...physical approach.
SHIRO: "Charlie?! Hey, man, where are you going?!"
CHARLIE: "Finishing what I started."
SHIRO: "What?! Hey, come on man, listen to me! Stop!"
CHARLIE: *PUSH*
SHIRO: "ARGH!!"
YU: "Shiro!"
SORA: "He won't listen to you, either! We can't hold him back this time!"
SHIRO: "We can try!"
YU: "What's he gonna do...?"
SHIRO: "You saw how angry he was on Kōzushima, Akihiko's given him a reason to justify that."
YU: "He has every reason to be angry, but physical violence isn't the answer!"
SHIRO: "Then let's stop him."
...
*STUDENT COUNCIL OFFICE - NIJIGASAKI HIGH SCHOOL - ODAIBA - TOKYO*
Turns out, Charlie wasn't the only one who wanted Akihiko's head on a silver platter.
The whole collective of Club Presidents breached the door to the Student Council.
Charlie with his size and strength had no problems pushing people aside, but it gave us a path to enter the room from.
Inside the office, Akihiko was sitting alone at the Presidential desk, with a blank stare at the angry mob.
The moment Charlie locked eyes with him, he began to charge.
CHARLIE: "SUZUKIIIIIII!!!"
Luckily, the other male Club Presidents were there to hold him back.
CHARLIE: "Let me go! I'm gonna mince this bastard!"
AKIHIKO: "..."
SHIRO: "No, I won't let you do that!"
TAMAKI: "Charlie, please snap out of it!"
SORA: "It's not worth throwing your Club away like this!"
ARATA: "Think about Mako, what will she think if you get the Animation Club abolished?!"
KAITO: "We're all angry right now. But don't do this!"
DAICHI: "I thought you were smarter than that!"
HIRO: "YOU SHALL NOT PASS!"
Akihiko looked on with his blank stare, he got up from his chair and vaulted over the desk.
AKIHIKO: "Let him go."
SHIRO: "Are you crazy?!"
AKIHIKO: "I don't care if you hurt me. I've taken too many beatings in my lifetime.
I can take whatever you've got."
SORA: "Charlie was a former Rugby player back in England, he'll hurt you!"
AKIHIKO: "Nobody will lay a finger on any School Idol Club member.
But I am not a member of the School Idol Club anymore...
If the School Idol Club are safe, then I don't care what happens to me."
CHARLIE: "What are you saying...?"
AKIHIKO: "If you're going to beat me up, then do it. I've already learned that it's something I have to live with.
Beatings from Kuroda, beatings from my father, and now beatings from you.
Go ahead. I won't punish you."
CHARLIE: "..."
AKIHIKO: "Are you backing out of it? Go ahead, hit me."
CHARLIE: "I don't think I want to."
AKIHIKO: "But you were so determined, and now you're giving up."
CHARLIE: "I won't hit a man who won't fight back."
AKIHIKO: "Don't you want to finally get your hands on me?
Beat me up. Either way, it changes nothing.
My policies stand.
It won't matter if any of you protest, either. Because no matter what I do as Student Council President, I cannot be replaced unless I RESIGN."
SHIRO: "Huh?"
AKIHIKO: "Listening to all the bullshit my dad says finally paid off.
So I pulled a little Suzuki family trick in my presidential contract.
It's called 'Diplomatic Immunity'."
EVERYONE: "?!"
TAMAKI: "D-Diplomatic immunity?!"
KAITO: "What does that mean?"
DAICHI: "He can do whatever he wants, without suffering any consequences.
He can do whatever he wants as Student Council President and not get punished for it."
HIRO: "You coward..."
AKIHIKO: "Coward? I thought I told you already, I don't care what happens to me.
This clause isn't to protect me, but rather to protect my policies.
If my announcement wasn't clear enough, then I'll repeat myself.
My only goal is to protect the School Idol Club from people who want to exploit them.
They're not your mascots anymore."
YU: "And what about how you're making them feel, huh?!"
AKIHIKO: "Yu?"
YU: "Right now the School Idol Club is falling apart, because of what you've done!"
AKIHIKO: "..."
YU: "Listen to me, Akihiko, you don't have to do this! You can go back to the School Idol Club and apologize before it's too late!"
AKIHIKO: "Do you really think I can go back, after I've already gone this far?!"
YU: "?!"
AKIHIKO: "Understand that there is no turning back now! Even if I went back to the School Idol Club I wouldn't be of any use to them there!
But here... Here I can be useful. Here I can protect them.
Even if they hate me for it, I will do everything I can to protect them because I love them.
Being an idol fan has always been a one-sided love, after all!"
YU: "Akihiko, please... What about Ayumu?!"
AKIHIKO: "..."
YU: "Your best friend, she knows how you raise this wall of ice around yourself whenever something terrible happens!"
AKIHIKO: "She can finally be free from me."
SHIRO: "What?"
AKIHIKO: "All that I've done is hold her back. Making her worry about me.
Now, she can finally be happy without her biggest burden.
Me."
YU: "That's not true!"
AKIHIKO: "Then how many times will she have to break me out of this?"
YU: "I...I don't know..."
AKIHIKO: "I don't want her to go through that anymore. I don't want her to care about me, I want her to hate me and leave me behind."
YU, SHIRO: "..."
AKIHIKO: "The School Idol Club must learn to live without me. Only then will they realize how useless I was.
Now if you could all leave my office, that would be nice. Thank you. You all have a great day."