In Real Education, I Just Want to Drop Out Section 26

"Will you be attending the afternoon briefing, Bai Lan?"

Bai Lan nodded without much thought.

He did indeed plan to join a club.

Mainly to get out of the school and have some fun.

Although the school rules stated that students couldn't leave campus or contact the outside world, he had researched the school online before enrolling and found that its clubs had won honors in various high school competitions across the country and even internationally.

If they really couldn't leave, how did students represent the school in competitions?

Were the teams made up of outside help?

That seemed impossible.

This meant it was actually possible to leave school, and one way to do so was through club activities!

If he could join a club that had a lot of outdoor activities, he could "escape" frequently even before successfully dropping out.

Even though Kushida had agreed to help him drop out, he didn't mind having a backup plan. Otherwise, wouldn't his preparations before enrolling have been in vain?

"Are you planning to go? Well, I figured you'd be quite eager. Let's go together after school then."

Bai Lan stared into Ayanokoji's eyes for a few seconds.

He was still as indifferent as ever.

It didn't seem like he was trying to provoke anyone, more like he was speaking offhandedly.

That made it even more infuriating!

"He's not just eager, he's overflowing with desire, it's a flood, it's become a pathology, he's critically ill and needs the source of the illness to be surgically removed to solve the problem. Am I right, scum?"

Before Bai Lan could respond to Ayanokoji, Horikita, seemingly seeing an opening from Bai Lan, couldn't resist adding another jab.

Hearing this, Bai Lan clamped his legs together and crossed his arms: "That's sexual harassment! You hooligan, I'm reporting you!"

"What?" Horikita's expression turned a little flustered. "Sexual harassment? I was talking about the frontal lobe. If you remove the frontal lobe, humans lose their desires and the ability to overthink. What does that have to do with sexual harassment?"

"Huh? Frontal lobe?" Bai Lan blinked in surprise but quickly recovered. "The frontal lobe is also sexual harassment! Think about it, if a person of the opposite sex you're not close to, despite your refusal, insists on touching your head, wouldn't you feel like they're sexually harassing you?"

Horikita tapped her lips with her fist, actually considering it seriously. "I would feel that way, but I was talking about the frontal lobe."

Bai Lan:

"Let me ask you: is me touching your face sexual harassment?"

"Yes."

"What about touching your ear?"

"Yes."

"Touching your nose?"

"Yes."

"Your hair?"

"Yes."

"Your tongue?"

"No."

"Then... huh?" Bai Lan was startled.

Horikita said indignantly, "Touching your tongue, that... you've gone inside, that's already indecency! That's so perverted!"

"Oh, so you're not sexually harassing me."

"I never was."

"So you were trying to commit indecency against me?"

"Huh?!"

"Didn't you say that touching ears, nose, and hair is considered indecency when it's 'outside,' but touching the tongue is harassment because it's 'inside'? Isn't the frontal lobe part of the head? Is it 'inside'? You actually want to touch my frontal lobe! Horikita, you actually want to..."

Horikita instantly realized what he was implying and felt an intense desire to stop Bai Lan from finishing his sentence.

Unable to win with words, Horikita momentarily forgot about being overpowered physically the previous day and launched a punch, intending to interrupt him by inducing a "dizzy" status.

Bai Lan easily dodged it but didn't continue his sentence.

"You two have such a good relationship," Ayanokoji said at this moment, having observed their interaction.

Bai Lan exclaimed in disbelief, "You call this 'a good relationship'?"

Horikita simply stared coldly at Ayanokoji.

Being stared at by both Bai Lan and Horikita, two imposing and influential figures, Ayanokoji worried about attracting unnecessary attention. He quickly explained, "I don't really understand it either. I just heard others say it. They said that when you two openly flirt like that, it shows you have a good relationship."

Upon hearing this, Bai Lan smiled, looking smug as if his plan had succeeded.

Although Horikita was unwilling to cooperate, since she had been misunderstood like this, it could at least serve as a shield and attract the hatred of simps, as a "fake couple" should.

Thinking of this, Bai Lan couldn't help but laugh when he learned from Ayanokoji that others misunderstood his relationship with Horikita.

Horikita said coldly, "Heh~ If you think throwing punches is a sign of affection, I can satisfy your need for 'friendly interaction' until you can't move!"

Ayanokoji just wanted to quickly put this dangerous topic aside. He thought for a moment and said, "Horikita, we're going to a club orientation fair this afternoon. Want to come?"

Horikita: "I don't want to... Wait, a club orientation fair? I do need to go, but I'm not going because of your invitation. It's just that you mentioned it, and I suddenly remembered I wanted to go..."

At this moment, Bai Lan interrupted her, "Stop talking, stop talking! Don't explain. While I won't misunderstand you, others hearing your words will think you're a tsundere. Your ice queen persona is very important to me, please don't break it casually!"

"Is this called 'tsundere'?" Ayanokoji silently made a "normal person observation record" from the side, then glanced at Bai Lan again, thinking to himself, 'Classmate Bai, you don't know, but because of Hirata, in the eyes of others in the class now, you're actually already a 'tsundere'. Although I also bear some responsibility, it's all Hirata's fault. Please forgive me, red bean paste, private message!'

Soon, lunch break ended, and the afternoon classes began.

There was a study hall period in the afternoon.

Hirata made a request to the homeroom teacher, Chazhu, hoping to use this period to have a self-introduction session for the whole class.

This was something that should have been completed yesterday but wasn't because of Bai Lan.

"Self-introduction? I feel like I can use this opportunity to lower my favorability score a bit," Bai Lan thought.

Firstly, he was about to be dropped out for "molesting a female classmate."

He needed to hurry up and make those in the class who had a good impression of him turn against him quickly, so that after the incident, they wouldn't try to help him investigate the truth, clear his name, or ask Kushida to mediate.

Secondly, it was also to help Kushida alleviate her concerns.

In Bai Lan's opinion, many girls in the class currently had a good impression of him, and they were unpredictably romance-brained.

Kushida's goal was to make friends with everyone, including those girls, of course.

If Kushida were to get Bai Lan dropped out, she might be resented by those romance-brained girls.

This would make it difficult for Kushida to make friends with them.

What if Kushida had concerns because of this and didn't want to give up the opportunity to make friends with those girls, deciding not to report Bai Lan, which would prevent Bai Lan from being dropped out? That would be bad.

Therefore, Bai Lan had to quickly get along with his classmates so they wouldn't get in the way, and get in Kushida's way.

Getting in Kushida's way was getting in Bai Lan's way.

According to the order, Bai Lan, sitting by the window in the last row, was last.

This time, he didn't plan to improvise.

After all, most people in this class had unusual behavioral and thought patterns. Improvising would lead to unpredictable consequences.

Therefore, Bai Lan planned to carefully observe the self-introduction speech patterns of his classmates and others' reactions to each self-introduction.

He would pick out the speeches with the worst feedback, even those that could evoke disgust from others, to "learn" from.

When it was Bai Lan's turn, he would combine all these most annoying speech patterns.

He would step on all the landmines he discovered that were acceptable and could provoke annoyance!

He couldn't possibly copy the answers wrong, could he?

Soon, led by Hirata, the whole class began their self-introductions one by one.

"I... I'm called..."

The girl at the front was very shy and couldn't speak fluently, but with the encouragement of her enthusiastic classmates, she adjusted her mindset and, after a while, successfully stated her name, "Inokashira," and her hobby, "sewing."

"My name is Yamauchi Haruki..."

Bai Lan felt that this Yamauchi fellow was full of lies.

He claimed he played table tennis in elementary school and reached the national competition.

In junior high, he played baseball and reached the high school league. Due to an injury, he didn't continue training, otherwise, he would have been the future of Japanese baseball.

Bai Lan wanted to retort:

Let's not even talk about playing table tennis as an elementary schooler.

You, a junior high schooler, participated in a high school league for high schoolers?

Did they even let you register?

Also, this person was one of the initiators of the Sese Group and is currently one of the most disliked people in the class by the girls.

The loopholes in his speech were too obvious, and many people in the class saw through it.

Those who were willing to save face pretended not to hear.

Those who didn't give face couldn't help but snicker.

Bai Lan: This is good, very stupid. I'll copy it.

Soon, Kushida stood up, introduced herself, and stated her ambition to be friends with everyone.

Sudo stared at Hirata, who was as eye-catching as a star on the stage just now, and felt very displeased.