She would probably be left alone for a while.
So after coming to this school, although Kushida still cursed people in her heart or kicked railings, she had kept everyone else's secrets.
Except.
She had wronged Horikita Suzune alone.
Kushida had betrayed the class in order to target Horikita Suzune, hoping that Horikita Suzune, someone from the same middle school as her, would be expelled.
That way, she would be safe.
So the only person she had truly wronged was Horikita Suzune.
And if Horikita Suzune herself did not pursue the matter... then she really had not harmed anyone else.
As for that.
"Horikita." Oreki looked at the fox-eyed girl with long black hair.
Classmate Horikita had possessed a major weakness in the past. If that weakness had been resolved, she might have become different.
And that difference would have been growth.
But Oreki had taken that growth away from her.
So.
Could Classmate Horikita, who had yet to become the grown-up little sister Manabu Horikita had hoped for, still treat Kushida rationally?
"..."
Horikita Suzune seemed to purse her lips.
She did not respond immediately.
Oreki glanced at her phone, then said to Kushida,
"Then there's no problem."
"Even if you told Ichinose about your embarrassing past, she only sees you as a classmate with something wrong with your head. And throughout all this, you actually helped someone, so she won't want your past exposed, much less your current relationships ruined. She'll help you directly."
"After all."
Oreki paused. "A large part of the people connected to you overlap with the people connected to her."
In other words, Ichinose herself was a saint.
At the same time, the people affected by Kushida's past being exposed might also be friends of Ichinose.
Kushida could not deny that.
Although she was