What Kind of Special Witness?

(Heartfelt thanks to 'Kyoukai no Shizisha', 'Xi Shi Gou', '$$money$$', and 'Zi Wan ℃' for their tips!)

The next day, Noah left the apartment with Koneko and entered Kuoh Academy.

On the academy's bustling main road, Noah and Koneko walked side by side. Anyone with eyes could tell that they were going to school together.

At once, chatter continuously rose from all around them.

"Isn't that the incredibly popular new school nurse?"

"The one beside him seems to be first-year Toukajo Koneko."

"Why is Teacher Noah going to school with Koneko-chan?"

"Could it be that Koneko-chan has her eyes on Teacher Noah too?"

"Nonsense! Clearly Teacher Noah has his eyes on our Koneko!"

"That teacher must be a lolicon!"

"That's why I say boys are all idiots. How could Teacher Noah possibly be a lolicon?"

"Exactly!"

Amid the increasingly boisterous noise, Noah felt helpless once again.

Why did ordinary high school students love gossiping so much?

Koneko, on the other hand, seemed accustomed to it. With her schoolbag on her back, she headed expressionlessly toward the school building, making quite a few boys around her gasp heavily. The girls who saw those boys' disgusting behavior all avoided them with looks of disgust.

Before long, the entrance to the school building appeared before Noah and Koneko.

Once they entered the building, Noah and Koneko would probably silently go their separate ways, then meet up again after school and return to the apartment together.

However, before that, Noah happened to glimpse three boys gathered beside the school building's entrance, having a conversation he could not ignore.

"It's true, I'm telling you, Matsuda. Motohama!"

A boy wearing his uniform like a coat, with its buttons undone, was shouting at a crew-cut boy and a bespectacled boy in front of him.

"I really saw