In Real Education, I Just Want to Drop Out Section 32

Before Bai Lan could speak, Kushida eagerly interjected, "Classmate Bai, what business do you have with me, your 'friend'?"

"Uh, I just wanted to ask, Classmate Kushida, when exactly do you plan to report me and get me expelled? Could you give me a heads-up in advance?

I need to manage my living expenses so I don't have leftover money when I'm expelled, or run out of money before I'm expelled."

He felt that if he didn't get this cleared up tonight, it would affect his sleep.

If he knew the date of his expulsion in advance, he could choose the highest price point he could control and sell it off before being kicked out, make a huge profit, convert the remaining points into cash, and then make a clean getaway.

Time is money!

Knowing key timing points is crucial for business!

After hearing Bai Lan's reply, Kushida was stunned for a few seconds, and then...

"Beep, beep, beep..."

Kushida hung up.

"They say to let the dead rest in peace! I'm about to be expelled and suffer social death for 'molesting a female classmate' (real), and she couldn't even go easy on me. Classmate Kushida is truly..."

Bai Lan shook his head, finally managing to utter a few words:

"So rude."

Above Bai Lan's head.

In a room on a higher floor designated for female residents.

Kushida, who had just ended her call with Bai Lan, muttered to herself, "As expected, he's already confirmed that my threat is useless against him, and that my evidence for reporting him for molestation is completely invalid?

He even dares to toy with me using this matter!

Everything is his calculation.

Heh~

Now that I've lost the leverage to threaten him into keeping my secret, what should I do...?"

As she said this, Kushida's eyes lost their focus, and her expression turned gloomy.

Yes, Kushida had recently discovered that she couldn't actually use the molestation charge against Bai Lan!

Because of Bai Lan's strange reaction to her threat.

Kushida grew suspicious.

She couldn't understand why Bai Lan wasn't afraid of her threat at all?

Was something wrong somewhere?

With that thought, Kushida, while heading back to the dormitory to change her clothes which served as evidence, began her "self-examination mode."

After changing her outer shirt, she noticed her inner shirt was soaked with sweat without her realizing it. Feeling a bit sticky, she decided to change that as well.

Clothes left with sweat for too long tend to get moldy.

So, Kushida immediately threw the newly changed inner shirt into the washing machine.

After changing, she returned to class, and during the lesson, Kushida continued her "self-examination."

After an unknown amount of time, Kushida suddenly realized something and couldn't help but turn her head towards the dormitory.

Her eyes seemed to pierce through the walls of the dormitory, fixing directly on the washing machine, where her inner shirt, which had likely finished washing by now, was!

She understood!

The key was that inner shirt!

It turned out that the inner shirt was the real evidence!

38. Kushida: Everything is Bai Lan's calculation!

Under normal circumstances, the inner shirt wouldn't have caught Kushida's attention.

But Bai Lan's strange reaction made Kushida overthink.

Kushida suddenly thought of a suspicious point: When Bai Lan grabbed her, did he grab her outer shirt or her inner shirt?

It's important to remember that the school's blazer-style uniform is open at the collar, revealing the tie or bow tie underneath and a portion of the white inner lining.

Kushida recalled the sensation of being grabbed by Bai Lan at the time.

She remembered feeling a slight tightness around her neck?

She quickly realized that although Bai Lan had touched her chest area, he had initially grabbed the collar near her neck!

This was indeed the case, as Bai Lan had initially intended to use a throw technique on the attacker.

Throw techniques generally involve grabbing the collar of clothing, not the chest area.

This is because there is less slack at the collar, and a slight grip can secure the collar and the person, making it easier to apply force.

The chest area of the clothing is usually looser, and due to the elasticity of the fabric, it's difficult to transfer force.

Therefore, Bai Lan's fingerprints were actually imprinted on the collar of Kushida's inner shirt.

Because the collar of the suit jacket was open, Bai Lan grabbed the inner lining's collar, not the jacket's!

However, Kushida still felt something was off.

Although the inner lining's collar wasn't covered by the jacket, the chest area was completely concealed by the jacket.

Later, when Bai Lan realized it was a misunderstanding and switched to "pushing" Kushida to cushion her momentum, his palm was too large, and the lower half of his hand pressed against Kushida's chest area.

At that moment, Kushida clearly felt her chest being pressed.

Since her chest was covered by the jacket, Kushida subconsciously thought that if her chest was pressed, then even if Bai Lan's fingerprints weren't left on the outer jacket, there would at least be some palm prints, right?

Palm prints could also serve as evidence.

While not as reliable as fingerprints, they were sufficient in molestation cases in Japan.

But, would there really be palm prints?

Subsequently, Kushida used playing with a friend as cover and enlisted a female friend to experiment.

She discovered that after grabbing the other girl's collar and then switching to pushing, her palm, upon reaching the area covered by the jacket, would push aside the outer jacket along the inner lining, ultimately making full contact with the inner lining itself!

However, because Kushida's hands weren't as large as Bai Lan's, and the girl she used for the experiment didn't have as large a chest as Kushida, Kushida didn't touch the other girl's chest during the experiment.

But that was enough!

Kushida instantly understood!

So, at that time, Bai Lan's palm wasn't pressing on the jacket, but on the inner lining!

Bai Lan's fingerprints, palm prints, his entire handprint was on the inner lining!

If not for Bai Lan's "reminder," Kushida felt she would have foolishly kept the jacket as evidence and then, when reporting it someday, would have discovered there was no evidence on it at all!

If things went wrong, she herself might be charged with false accusation!

It wouldn't be Bai Lan who suffered, but Kushida herself!

And by then, the inner lining, which actually had the handprint, had already been washed countless times!

However, even if she realized it now, even if she knew the handprint was on the inner lining and not the jacket, it was useless.

Because the inner lining had already been washed in the washing machine!

Under these circumstances, the handprint couldn't be preserved at all.

Why was she sweating so much?

It was when she was chasing Bai Lan!

Wait!

Not just that!

It was also when she was practicing her retorts!

When she practiced her retorts, she experienced an unprecedented sense of exhilaration mixed with the thrill of being afraid of being heard or seen.

These two intense emotions caused Kushida to become overly nervous and excited, her nerves overstimulated, adrenaline surging, blood circulation accelerating, and body temperature rising. To dissipate heat and expel toxic substances produced by hormonal reactions, her body needed to sweat rapidly.

Then, she also chased Bai Lan at full speed for a while.

When she realized she couldn't catch up and stopped running, relaxing, the heat accumulated in her body was instantly released, and the primary way this heat was released was through sweat!

The sweat that dripped out unintentionally while retorting.

The sweat that burst out like an explosion after running at high speed.

Sweating so much made her clothes sticky and smelly.

This made Kushida, who was very concerned about her image, unable to resist changing them quickly.

To prevent the clothes from getting moldy, she would wash them immediately...

And then, the evidence was gone!

Reporting with the jacket might be considered a false accusation.

Knowing that the jacket couldn't be used for reporting, and that the inner lining, the real evidence, had been washed away, she still couldn't report him.

Therefore, Kushida couldn't threaten Bai Lan at all.

On the contrary, the more she tried to harm Bai Lan, the more she tended to overlook the inner lining, ultimately harming herself!

Could it be... that everything was within Bai Lan's calculations?

After all, the incident where she sweated while practicing retorts happened before she declared her threat to Bai Lan!

Could it be that Bai Lan had already anticipated this move before then?

Had she been seen through long ago?

Such terrifying calculation!

Was this truly the kind of scheming a human could possess?

Kushida initially suspected she was overthinking things.

Perhaps it was all just a coincidence.