Bai Lan continued trying to stop her.
Kushida once again told Bai Lan to shut up.
"Baka hentai, baka hentai, baka hentai, shut up, shut up, shut! up!"
28. Kushida Turns Hostile! Bai Lan: Are You Trying to Blackmail Me With Expulsion?
When Bai Lan tried to stop Kushida from continuing her abuse, he raised his voice slightly louder than hers as he called out to her.
To stop Bai Lan from stopping her from continuing her abuse, Kushida shouted "Shut up" even louder than Bai Lan.
To stop Kushida from stopping him from stopping her from continuing her abuse, Bai Lan raised his volume even higher...
One foot stepped on the other, and they spiraled into the sky.
Before long, the two of them were unconsciously getting louder and louder.
As mentioned before, although the place Bai Lan had chosen made it difficult for others to notice even slightly loud talking, its ability to conceal them still had its limits.
Before long, their voices had gone beyond merely being "slightly loud."
Kushida was already caught up in the moment and failed to notice.
But Bai Lan wasn't caught up in it. He noticed.
Imagine suddenly hearing a girl somewhere deserted on campus shouting and cursing, "Baka hentai, shut up!" Could you really resist going to take a look?
Even if it wasn't out of curiosity, you would still go see what had happened there, right?
What if there were a chance to play the hero and save a beauty?
Bai Lan naturally knew there was no chance of playing the hero and saving a beauty here.
However, if other people saw him and Kushida engaging in something resembling a secret rendezvous in this deserted corner, rumors about the two of them might spread in no time.
That would be troublesome.
Although Bai Lan planned to find a fake girlfriend as a shield,
his choice of a fake girlfriend came with certain conditions, and no matter how he looked at it, Kushida didn't meet his requirements.
Putting everything else aside, the mere fact that Kushida had shown interest in him was enough to eliminate her from consideration.
So...
"I absolutely can't let anyone misunderstand my relationship with Kushida!"
With that thought in mind, Bai Lan gave up on persuasion and acted directly. He attacked from both sides, covering Kushida's mouth with one hand and pressing down on the back of her head with the other, sealing her mouth tightly and making it impossible for her to make a sound.
Afterward, Bai Lan said, "Kushida, you don't want other people to misunderstand either... You don't want anyone else to know what you look like with your mouth full of 'baka hentai,' right?"
Bai Lan had originally intended to say, "You don't want others to misunderstand our relationship either, right?"
But considering that Kushida seemed to have feelings for him, what if she responded with, "Wouldn't that be perfect?"
So Bai Lan hurriedly changed his wording and threatened her with her image instead.
She definitely wouldn't want anyone seeing her with "baka hentai" filling her mouth and ruining her little angel image, right?
Sure enough, after Bai Lan said that, Kushida instantly calmed down.
Seeing that she had quieted down, Bai Lan removed his hand from her mouth and said, "That's enough for today. We've been practicing for a long time."
"Have we been practicing for a long time?" Kushida asked, puzzled.
Kushida felt as though she had only been practicing for a few minutes.
People always said that happy times flew by, but Kushida felt that it shouldn't have gone by quite this quickly, right?
With that thought, Kushida took out her phone and checked the time.
As it turned out, more time had indeed passed than she had felt, but it hadn't been an absurdly long time either...
"No, we've only been practicing for less than ten minutes, haven't we?!" Kushida questioned him again.
To be precise, it had only been seven minutes.
"It's still early. Let's practice some more, shall we? We'll quickly move on to the next stage. This time, I'll definitely pay close attention to my volume." Kushida looked at Bai Lan expectantly.
I haven't vented enough yet!
Bai Lan could sense the unsatisfied desire filling Kushida's eyes.
Bai Lan was deeply shaken. Is she really this eager to learn?
However, Bai Lan ultimately had no intention of continuing to teach her.
From beginning to end, Bai Lan's goal had merely been to "teach Kushida how to roast people," not to "teach Kushida to master roasting people."
Bai Lan had never intended to truly corrupt Kushida and turn the little angel into a sharp-tongued little devil.
He only wanted to leave her with a dark history of having been "tainted," not to "taint" her permanently.
Once Kushida came to her senses, realized that her intelligence had been insulted, and developed hatred toward Bai Lan, his goal would be achieved.
This degree of "tainting" could still be corrected quickly afterward.
In short, Bai Lan had accomplished his "tainting" objective for this trip. It was time for him to leave.
Since he couldn't use a rough approach, lest it increase her favorability,
Bai Lan could only spend a little effort fooling the eager-to-learn Kushida:
"As the saying goes, 'A master can lead you through the door, but cultivation is up to the individual.'
When it comes to roasting people, I can't actually help you much. I can only lead you through the door. Everything else is up to your own efforts."
"But at least give me a direction to work toward, right? And I don't think I'm good enough yet. I still need more guidance. Bai, please!" Kushida said pitifully.
"A direction to work toward?" Bai Lan pondered for a moment. Soon, he clapped his hands. "Ah! I have one! I've got some textbooks. I'll send them to you later. Once you read them, you'll have a direction."
After saying that, Bai Lan turned to leave.
Kushida: ???
There were textbooks for roasting people?
What use would textbooks be to her?
What she needed was a target to vent her feelings on!
"Wait!" Kushida called out.
"What is it now?"
"Bai, you haven't added my contact information yet. Weren't you going to send me the textbooks?" As she spoke, Kushida opened her phone to her digital contact card and turned the screen toward Bai Lan.
Bai Lan lowered his head, sighed, raised his head, looked back, and took out his phone to scan the code.
While Bai Lan was scanning and verifying the contact,
Kushida moved closer and whispered, "I still feel that I need Bai to give me more face-to-face guidance..."
Bai Lan prepared to refuse again.
However, before Bai Lan could say anything, Kushida continued, "Also, this jacket I wore today has Bai's unique mark on it.
"I think this is a very meaningful memento of our friendship, so I don't plan to wash it ever again.
"However, if this falls into the hands of the school, Bai might be expelled~
"I'll preserve it carefully and do my best not to let the school get hold of it.
"So I hope Bai can treat today's 'roasting practice' as our eternal secret and not tell anyone about it~
"Also, if you hear anything bad about me in the future... I hope you'll stand on my side and help me.
"Please!
"Just do it for the sake of this jacket that witnessed our friendship. How about it?"
How could Kushida possibly let Bai Lan, who had witnessed the "true self" she had impulsively exposed while caught up in the moment, off so easily?
She had to find a way to keep him under control.
Fortunately, the accident from not long ago happened to be useful.
"The jacket? My unique mark that I left on it?"
Bai Lan was initially somewhat surprised by Kushida's sudden change, but soon his surprise turned into the relief of just as I thought.
After understanding the situation, Bai Lan suppressed his excitement and asked,
"If you use the handprint on it as evidence to report me for molestation, I might very well be expelled because of it... Are you trying to blackmail me with expulsion?"
29. Bai Lan: It's a Deal! But Let Me Make This Clear First—I Will Not Give In!
"Are you planning to blackmail me with expulsion?"
Kushida put on an innocent expression. "How could I? We're friends! How could I do something like that to a friend?"
Bai Lan: "What if we weren't friends?"
"Not friends? Then..."
As she said this, Kushida's originally gentle and adorable expression instantly became gloomy and extremely dangerous.
"Then I'll do everything in my power to drive anyone who gets in the way of my making friends out of this school!"
Strictly speaking, the handprint on Kushida's jacket could only prove that Bai Lan had touched her clothes.
Kushida would also need to prove that she had been wearing the jacket when Bai Lan touched it.
Otherwise, a woman could simply take any garment she had worn, secretly rub a man's hand against a sensitive area of it, and easily frame him for molestation.
Even if it could be proven that the jacket had been touched while she was wearing it, that would only prove that Bai Lan had touched her.
But touching her did not necessarily constitute molestation. Other possibilities could still exist, such as the need to perform artificial respiration or some kind of misunderstanding.
In short, collecting evidence was difficult, and obtaining conclusive proof was not a simple matter.
Moreover, the later the report was made, the less evidence would remain.
Kushida even wanted to preserve the jacket for later use. If some time passed, the fingerprints might become blurred.
Of course, that was speaking "strictly speaking."
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