If Bai Lan found out about this, would he suspect my loyalty to him?
No, not that!
No, I had to make my position clear and show Bai Lan how utterly loyal I was to him.
Since that bastard Ike had already seized the initiative, I had to win it back from another angle!
Hadn't he proposed a "light punishment"? If I wanted to beat him, I had to go even lighter than "light punishment." A "barely-there punishment"? No! No punishment at all!
At worst, I could give up this chance to defend Bai Lan. There would be plenty more rounds of this process during the meeting anyway.
Making my position clear was the most important thing!
I could let this round go. It wouldn't be a big problem.
If Bai Lan began to doubt my loyalty, grew distant from me, and refused to keep teaching me or protecting me, that would be the worst possible outcome!"
With that in mind, Karuizawa hurriedly typed out her proposal for no punishment. The reasons were exactly what Ike had assumed: she had written them in a burst of emotion. They were her first thoughts, unpolished and completely genuine.
She truly felt that, regardless of what Bai Lan himself thought, the result was clear: Bai Lan had stood up for her when she was bullied and protected her as a classmate. There was nothing wrong with that!
Even if he had violated the school rules!
In fact, she felt that if she had met a classmate like Bai Lan earlier, she would never have suffered those tragic, terrifying experiences that had nearly cost her her life.
"Ah, right. Karuizawa seemed to be standing outside Bai Lan's room, and she even said something about 'righteousness' and sharing Bai Lan's fate.
Great! When the time