But Little Sister Horikita, who seemed to have spoken out what was in his heart and knew nothing about it, seemed to be in a good mood.
Then, as always, he is not good at getting along with others. He seems to think that he has helped me, and then hopes to return the favor.
But this is quite cute, so don't point it out.
So, after having dinner together and sending classmate Horikita back, classmate Oreki was going to Classmate Sakayanagi's room.
I just met Ichinose who was also going upstairs.
Today's Archangel is still quite beautiful and still wears calf socks.
It makes people feel healthy and fair, but... I still look forward to her wearing knee-high socks.
"Classmate Oreki... were you with classmate Horikita just now?" Ichinose said.
Hmm.
Ichinose is really keen. Oreki just gave his classmate Horikita a hug when he was sending him back.
It was probably at that time that I caught the scent of classmate Horikita.
As a result, Ichinose was quickly identified.
"Then do you have anything to ask?" Oreki said.
Classmate Oreki feels that this is not what Ichinose is focusing on.
Now both of them are in the elevator, and then there are only two of them in the elevator.
In other words, what Ichinose might want to ask.
And Oreki is going to the 6th floor where Arisu Sakayanagi is.
So soon, I arrived at my destination and stood by the elevator. Ichinose followed me.
Her dormitory has to go up to another floor, but it's very quick whether it's taking the elevator or taking the stairs.
But she had something curious to ask.
"This -"
Ichinose gently touched the ends of his smooth orange hair, "The rumors are almost over."
"Everyone on our side Class B will not talk about this matter again."
"Then I owe you a favor." said classmate Oreki.
This Horikita acting battle was actually thought up by Ichinose. Of course, she felt that it was too strange for her classmates to treat Horikita Suzune like this. Although she had not had much contact with Class D students, Class D's attitude was incredible.
Hence the Horikita acting incident.
It's probably similar to how you treat people, how you talk to others, and how you talk to others.
"Ah, it's okay, after all, I owe you a lot of favors -" After hearing the words of classmate Oreki, Ichinose waved his hands quickly.
How could she hope that he would owe her a favor? If she could reduce the number of favors he owed her to once or twice, it would be a big help.
But.
"Hey, classmate Oreki, what do you think about this matter?"
Ichinose's expression became much more serious, "I always feel that my handling method is too gentle, and you should not like it, but you agreed to implement it. I always feel weird."
Yes.
And classmate Oreki did tell her his solution.
Spreading rumors into the school must be taken seriously.
Then the rumor about classmate Horikita can be suppressed with the help of the school.
He is very vigorous and resolute, and then... he hurts other people at the same time.
But Ichinose's plan is much softer.
"Indeed." Oreki said, "Your method is too gentle. But your method also has merits. For example, you don't need to destroy the emotions between the classmates."
"Don't you want to destroy the emotions between the classmates? Or is it to avoid investigating the mastermind behind the scenes?" Ichinose looked at him gently.
Her eyes are very beautiful.
Some people say that the eyes are the windows to the soul.
And Ichinose is actually not stupid.
She also understood that using such a gentle approach to suppress rumors meant not discussing them, and naturally she would not investigate further.
In other words, I am forced to let this matter go away.
Then the mastermind behind the scenes and so on were ignored.
As for this mastermind, after thinking about it, she finally analyzed the profiteers after the rumor incident involving classmate Horikita.
I already have a guess in my mind.
So I wanted to check the answer.
"There is indeed no need to pursue it," Oreki said, "Because we already know who it is. Rather, if we pursue it, I don't know whose side I should side with."
"Eh?" Ichinose was puzzled.
She speculated that the man behind this time might actually be another central figure in the rumors - Manabu Horikita.
The result, isn't it?
Because.
Consider what classmate Oreki said. He said he was going to investigate the mastermind behind the scenes, so he doesn't know whose side he is on.
This statement obviously does not mean that Manabu Horikita is behind the scenes.
It's more like choosing Horikita Suzune or whoever.
So who can still be suspected?
Ichinose is thinking.
"What I said is right." And classmate Oreki suddenly took a step forward, and only then did Ichinose find a cute girl standing at the door of the girls' dormitory in front of classmate Oreki.
The other person was holding a black cane.
The stature is slender and small.
Silver hair, skin as white as porcelain.
It's Sakayanagi Arisu from Class A.
He is also one of the representatives of Class A.
I don't know how long the other party has been standing there, but this means that the other party heard what she just said to Oreki.
"Saka, Classmate Sakayanagi!"
Ichinose was surprised.
Because she suddenly thought that if Classmate Sakayanagi did not appear here by chance, then it would correspond to what Oreki just said, that is to say... the rumor this time is actually...
Is she the mastermind?
Probably because he felt that he had heard some extremely private news, Ichinose did not dare to stay any longer.
Instead, he showed a somewhat embarrassed expression and left first.
But classmate Oreki did not leave.
Rather, he really came to see Sakayanagi Arisu.
Turn on the light.
The cat immediately ran over after hearing the sound, stretched as usual, and then lay down actively waiting for someone to pet it.
Classmate Oreki entered Classmate Sakayanagi's dormitory with ease, and then played with his cat.
Cat Hayate became fatter after being raised by Arisu Sakayanagi.
Now it is standing on the edge of the window and retreating, meowing as it retreats, which makes people think it is like "Please stay back, reverse the car, please stay back and reverse the car."
It means that the tonnage has increased by one.
"So, is black tea okay?"
Sakayanagi Arisu said with a sweet expression.
The tea is warm, which means that Kamuro was probably there ten minutes ago, but now he is probably assigned to do something.
"So..."
Sakayanagi Arisu didn't mean to hide anything. "Oreki, is there anything you want to ask me? Because I didn't come here specifically to visit Hayate today."
"So, why do you do this?" Oreki said. "If it is against classmate Horikita, then you will not get any benefits."
"And if it's not aimed at classmate Horikita--" classmate Oreki paused.
This is about this rumor incident. The method is not very clever, and it is not like what Arisu Sakayanagi would do.
So this is what classmate Oreki thought about after discovering this.
So I asked Manabu Horikita through Hiyori.
When consulting Manabu Horikita, Manabu Horikita said that the reason why he would go to Hiyori to arrange the rumors was that someone found him and asked whether the relationship between him and Suzune as brother and sister was true.
According to his character, he would not deny his brother-sister relationship with his sister.
So this means that Suzune may be vulnerable to attack.
So he went to Hiyori to get rid of this problem.
So it became a situation like this... everyone won and only Class D lost.
As for the person who came to see Manabu Horikita, Oreki speculated that he was Classmate Sakayanagi.
So why did she do this?
If it is a class competition, then it is reasonable for her to target representatives of other classes.
It's just that Classmate Sakayanagi has never been interested in class confrontation, and then classmate Oreki wanted her to participate and passed the blame on her.
So the reason why she took the initiative this time is--
"Horikita has a huge number of points." Sakayanagi Arisu said. "And she still has a little more than Student Council President."
"The third grade is about to graduate in less than 4 months. This means that Student Council President will also leave this school."
"So, although the possibility is not very high, there will still be a situation where Student Council President directly completes the 20 million points of Horikita Suzune."
"In other words, Horikita Suzune may have come to Class A when he graduated from the third grade."
"However, this is a climb up from the lower class. And student Horikita was initially assigned to Class D according to the school's standards. So will being promoted to Class A become a laggard in our class?"
"In this case, if you only get resource points from your brother, then you may not be qualified to become a standard Class A student." Sakayanagi Arisu said.
"But if she can pass this test."
"Then it means she still has capital."
Hmm.
This consideration seems very mature and thoughtful.
Make this rumor incident Horikita Suzune's Trial.
At the same time.
We also take into account the risk that those who are promoted to upper-level classes may be held back.
This idea is quite interesting.
Everyone wants to be promoted to Class A, and promotion to Class A requires either relying on the strength of the class or flying solo. But is it really possible to fly solo?
In the past, no one in this school achieved it.
But now, this thing is going to be broken.
Oreki classmate himself has a lot of points, which can be taken care of... Bah, you can arrange for 1-2 students to fly over from other classes.
As for classmate Horikita, because of the fierce presence of Student Council President's older brother, he also had the opportunity to be promoted in vain.