That girl was quite pretty. Of course, now wasn't the time to focus on that. What mattered was that she had been taking pictures.
In other words, she had captured the scene of them surrounding Kōenji, Kōenji falling to the ground, and Ichinose coming out to stop them.
And this was...
To make it look like he had been fighting—moreover, a particularly vicious group beating.
Fuck.
Ryuuen realized this was a trap.
And the person who had set it for him—
Ryuuen looked around, searching for that person.
"Then where's that guy Oreki—" Ryuuen said.
"Oreki? You mean Houtarou Oreki from Class A?" Ichinose said. "He reported that someone was fighting here, so he went to get the Student Council."
In other words, Ichinose had appeared here because... she had run into Houtarou Oreki.
Then Oreki had talked her into coming over.
But Oreki had gone to get the Student Council.
He went to get the Student Council?
When normal people saw a fight, they either avoided it or tried to break it up.
Yet Oreki had gone to get the Student Council. Was he unhappy that the matter wasn't big enough?
Wait.
[But fighting will cost you points, and there are cameras here too.]
[Ryuuen-kun, you don't want your class to lose any more points, do you?]
[Then, as the tyrant of Class C, Ryuuen, how many hundreds of thousands of points have you accumulated now?]
[Have you become so wary that you don't even dare tell me your points? I can show you the points on my Student ID Card.]
[Then let's call it one million. I'll take one million points.]
At that moment, Ryuuen recalled his conversation with Houtarou Oreki.
Fuck!
He got it.
The other guy had hinted at it. He had tricked him!
At that