The evidence being wiped has nothing to do with me. You were simply too stupid and made a mistake—you failed to keep the evidence safe."
Then Bai Lan raised his hand and pointed toward the door. "Anyway, you're no longer able to threaten me. Unless you can get another copy of the evidence, don't come bother me again. Goodbye."
"Unless you can get another copy of the evidence"—Bai Lan still took the time to "encourage" her.
Bai Lan's words left Kushida's expression dark and unsettled.
Was everything just a misunderstanding?
Was Bai Lan not as terrifying as she had imagined?
Had Bai Lan not spared her life?
Did Bai Lan not possess the skills she so desperately wanted to learn?
Was Bai Lan not a brilliant, powerful, sharp-tongued but soft-hearted person who could become the hope that rescued her from her predicament?
No!
She didn't believe it!
She didn't dare believe it!
Nor was she willing to believe it.
She had almost been driven mad by the darkness, barely able to get through each day. After finally seeing a ray of light, all she wanted was to hold on to it tightly!
"The skill that can let me stop suppressing myself and show my true face while befriending everyone must exist!"
"Bai-san must be able to help me escape this predicament!"
"I refuse to let the 'Kushida Empire' face doomsday again or anything like that!"
Kushida began trying to find evidence that Bai Lan was "deceiving" her, using it to prove that the thing she longed for truly existed.
Heaven favored the determined.
Before long, Kushida discovered something unnatural.
"When he found out that the evidence I had to threaten him with was gone, he didn't seem happy at all?
That's strange!
That's right! He must have known all along!
He really does know everything!
Which means what he just said about 'everything being a misunderstanding' was all a lie!
He was deceiving me!
Therefore, the skill that can let me stop suppressing myself and show my true face while befriending everyone must exist!
Bai-san must also be able to help me escape this predicament!"
At this thought, the gloom on Kushida's face once again transformed into fanaticism.
"But how should I persuade him to help me resolve my predicament and teach me that skill?"
Soon, Kushida slapped her forehead hard.
"I'm such an idiot! Hadn't I already figured this out before?
Since I've confirmed that Bai-san is a capable and good person, all I have to do is tell him about my predicament directly!
Let's think carefully.
After learning that I had lost the evidence I could use to threaten him, Bai-san's demand was actually, 'Don't come bother me again'?
Logically speaking, shouldn't he have retaliated and threatened me with the fact that I had once coerced him into keeping silent?
What's more, Bai-san didn't even need to explain the truth to me. He only had to use the awe, gratitude, and desire to learn skills that this 'misunderstanding' had created in me to easily control me, seize all kinds of leverage over me, and make me do various things for him.
Yet Bai-san didn't do that. He even described me as a 'bother.'
Judging from his appearance, he didn't even seem intent on pursuing compensation from me!
It was as if he were saying: Our grievances are settled.
So his words actually meant that he had already forgiven me.
I had clearly planned to threaten him with expulsion, yet he simply let it go?
He's completely incompetent at pretending to be a bad person!
Bai-san is a good person.
As long as Bai-san learns about my situation, he'll definitely help me!
Why did I only realize this now?
That's right. I backed down. In the end, I was afraid to tell anyone about my past.
But to overcome this fear, I have to face it today!
Besides, hasn't Bai-san already witnessed my dark side?
Not to mention that I had just handed the best leverage I had straight to him, only for him to casually destroy it.
Therefore, even if he learns about my dark history, he probably won't hurt me."
After a fierce struggle within herself, Kushida spoke. "Could you listen to my story?"
Bai Lan: ??
Hadn't I already ordered her to leave?
I'd even raised my hand.
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Shouldn't you have left in a fit of embarrassed rage?
Why did you suddenly start telling me a story?
Bai Lan felt like making a complaint, but he couldn't think of what to say for the moment.
"The reason I threatened you is related to that..."
Kushida took Bai Lan's momentary silence as tacit consent, then sat down and began to recount her story.
Bai Lan: Why are you sitting down too?
Kushida began telling Bai Lan her story:
She wanted to be friends with everyone and be liked by everyone.
By spending large amounts of time and energy helping others and maintaining her relationships, along with her innate affability, she became good friends with many people.
While making friends, it was impossible to avoid encountering many unpleasant matters. To preserve her friendships, Kushida chose to tolerate and endure them.
Furthermore, many of her friends trusted Kushida enough to confide their innermost thoughts in her. Most of those thoughts were negative and dark.
All of this left her feeling extremely oppressed.
She wanted to confide in someone and vent her pressure, but she couldn't find anyone. So she went online and complained to netizens, venting her frustrations.
Because it was online, she let her guard down and became careless.
She put everything on a single account, which led to her revealing more and more information about herself, her school, and her friends during those conversations. As a result, the image she presented online grew increasingly close to her real self.
In the end, someone recognized her online!
One day, she posted an entry complaining that one of her friends had cheated on her partner.
At first, one netizen merely watched the drama unfold. But the further he read, the more he felt that Kushida's cheating friend resembled his own girlfriend...
That netizen then used Kushida's other entries and eventually confirmed her identity, as well as his own identity as the "victim" who had been cheated on.
Afterward, the cheated-on boy dragged the cheating girl to Kushida's class and confronted Kushida. At the same time, in front of everyone, he exposed the fact that Kushida had posted and complained online about many private matters concerning other people.
Once the possible targets had been narrowed down to a certain range,
Kushida's "censoring" lost its meaning.
Everyone could easily match the people involved to the censored content Kushida had posted.
As the saying went: Other people are hell.
On that day, dozens of hells were unleashed simultaneously in Kushida's class!
More than half the class had their dark sides forcibly exposed. Even those whose darkness had not been revealed were swept into the whirlpool formed by it.
Several couples, more than a dozen groups of friends, and dozens of complicated combinations of relationships...
They fell out on the spot, hitting and cursing each other.
Some people were even sent to the hospital.
44. The solution is—roast her!
A major information leak caused by Kushida.
The eventual result was that the entire class she belonged to collapsed.
Kushida consequently faced condemnation from all her classmates, her teachers, and the school administration.
Even her parents blamed her.
Those who had once liked her all came to regard her as an enemy overnight.
Her entire world collapsed.
She locked herself in her room.
She shut herself off from the world.
She stayed in the house for a very long time.
Until one day, she suddenly received an invitation to enroll in Advanced Nurturing High School...
She had thought that by traveling so far away to attend school, no one would know about her past and she would be able to start over.
Instead, she discovered here that one of her classmates from the middle school she had once attended was none other than Horikita Suzune!
Kushida felt that Horikita Suzune might know about her past and expose it.
To avoid experiencing another devastating ending, Kushida had no choice but to begin a series of actions...
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