Classroom of the Elite: The Reluctant Dropout
Chapter 37

I Only Want to Drop Out of Advanced Nurturing High School

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"The matter of the evidence being washed away has nothing to do with me. It's simply that you were too foolish and made a mistake; you just didn't keep the evidence safe."

Then, Bai Lan raised his hand and pointed towards the door. "In short, you're no longer a threat to me. Unless you can get another piece of evidence, don't bother me again. Goodbye."

"Unless you can get another piece of evidence"—Bai Lan didn't forget to "encourage" her.

Bai Lan's words made Kushida's expression darken.

Everything was a misunderstanding?

Bai Lan wasn't as terrifying as she imagined?

Bai Lan didn't show her the "grace of not killing" she expected?

Bai Lan didn't possess the skills she longed to learn?

Bai Lan wasn't a planner, powerful, tough on the outside but soft on the inside, someone who could be the hope to rescue her from her predicament?

No!

She didn't believe it!

She didn't dare to believe it!

And she didn't want to believe it.

She had been on the verge of being driven to despair by the darkness, and she had finally seen a glimmer of light. She just wanted to hold onto it tightly!

"That skill that allows me to not suppress myself and befriend everyone while showing my true self must exist!"

"Classmate Bai will definitely help me overcome this difficulty!"

"I refuse to let the 'Kushida Empire' face its doom again!"

Kushida began to search for evidence that Bai Lan was "deceiving" her, to prove that what she longed for actually existed.

Heaven rewards the persistent.

Soon, Kushida discovered something unnatural.

"When he learned that the evidence threatening him was gone, he didn't seem happy?

How strange!

That's it! He must have known all along!

He really does know everything!

So, his earlier statement that 'everything was a misunderstanding' was a lie!

He was lying to me!

Therefore, the skill that allows me to not suppress myself and befriend everyone while showing my true self must exist!

And Classmate Bai will definitely help me overcome this difficulty!"

With this thought, Kushida's gloomy expression turned fanatical once more.

"But how should I persuade him to help me solve my predicament and teach me that skill?"

Soon, Kushida smacked her forehead forcefully.

"I'm so foolish! Didn't I already figure it out before?

Since I've confirmed that Classmate Bai is a capable and good person, I just need to tell him about my predicament directly!

Thinking back carefully.

After learning that I had lost the evidence that threatened him, his request to me was 'don't bother me again'?

Logically, shouldn't he have retaliated against me instead, threatening me with the fact that I had coerced him into keeping quiet back then?

Even more so, Classmate Bai didn't need to explain the truth to me. He could have easily manipulated me by using the awe, the favor, and the desire to learn skills that I felt towards him because of this 'misunderstanding.' He could have held all my weaknesses and made me do all sorts of things for him.

However, Classmate Bai didn't do that. He even described me as 'bothering' him.

From his demeanor, it seemed he wasn't even planning to pursue 'compensation' from me!

It was as if he was saying: Our grudges and favors are settled.

So, his words actually meant he had already forgiven me.

I had intended to threaten him with dropping out, and he just let it go so easily?

His act of being a bad guy was completely unconvincing!

Classmate Bai is a good person.

As long as Classmate Bai knows about my situation, he will definitely help me!

Why am I only realizing this now?

That's right, I chickened out. I'm ultimately afraid of talking about my past with others.

However, to overcome this fear, I must face it today!

Besides, haven't Classmate Bai already witnessed my dark side?

What's more, I clearly handed him my best leverage just now, only for him to casually destroy it."

Therefore, even if he knows my dark past, he probably won't hurt me."

After a period of internal struggle, Kushida spoke, "Could you listen to my story?"

Bai Lan: ???

Didn't I just tell her to leave?

I even raised my hand.

Jiu Wu Ling Yi bullying Jiu Ling Liu

Shouldn't you have left here in anger?

Why did you suddenly start telling a story?

Bai Lan felt like complaining, but he couldn't think of what to say for a moment.

"The reason I coerced you is also related to this..."

Kushida took Bai Lan's momentary silence as consent and sat down, beginning to speak slowly.

Bai Lan: Why did you sit down?

Kushida began to tell Bai Lan her story:

She wanted to be friends with everyone and be liked by everyone.

Through her efforts to help others and manage relationships, spending a lot of time and energy, as well as her innate affability, she became good friends with many people.

In the process of making friends, it was inevitable that she would encounter many unpleasant things. To maintain friendships, Kushida chose to tolerate and endure them.

Furthermore, many friends, trusting Kushida, would confide their inner thoughts to her, and these thoughts were mostly negative and dark.

All of this made her feel extremely suppressed.

She also wanted to confide in people and vent her stress, but she couldn't find anyone. So, she went online to complain and vent to netizens.

Because it was online, she was careless and let her guard down.

She directly discussed everything on one account, which led to her revealing more and more information about herself, her school, and her friends in her communications. This made the image she presented online increasingly resemble reality.

Eventually, she was recognized online!

One day, she posted a diary entry complaining about a friend cheating.

A netizen initially just watched the drama unfold, but as they read further, they increasingly felt that the friend Kushida mentioned who was cheating was very similar to their own girlfriend...

Then, through Kushida's other diary entries, the netizen eventually confirmed Kushida's identity and their own identity as the "cuckolded" party.

Afterward, the boyfriend who was cheated on dragged the cheating girlfriend to Kushida's class to confront her, and at the same time, publicly exposed that Kushida had posted and complained about many private matters concerning others online.

Once the targets were narrowed down to a certain extent.

Kushida's "censorship" lost its meaning.

People could then easily identify themselves based on the "censored" content Kushida had posted.

As the saying goes: other people are hell.

On this day, dozens of hells were simultaneously unleashed in Kushida's class!

More than half of the class had their dark sides forcibly exposed, and those whose dark sides were not revealed were also drawn into the vortex of darkness.

Several couples, more than a dozen friend groups, dozens of complex relationship combinations...

Faces were torn apart on the spot, with shouting and cursing.

Some people were even sent to the hospital.

44. The method is – fight back!

A major leak caused by Kushida.

The ultimate result was that the entire class she belonged to collapsed.

And Kushida also faced the condemnation of all her classmates, teachers, and the school.

Even her parents blamed her.

Those who had liked her before all regarded her as an enemy overnight.

Her entire world collapsed.

She locked herself in her room.

She became reclusive.

She stayed in her room for a long time.

Until one day, she suddenly received an invitation to enroll in Advanced Nurturing High School...

She thought that by coming to study so far away, no one would know her past, and she could start anew.

To her surprise, she discovered a former classmate from the same junior high school here – Horikita Suzune!

Kushida felt that Horikita Suzune might know her past and reveal it.

To avoid experiencing a devastating outcome again, Kushida had to embark on a series of actions

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