He was implying that, besides offering a price high enough for him to "take an interest in," I also had to become a partner he could "take an interest in"?
This was Bai Lan's requirement of me, and it was also his test. Only if I could solve this problem would Bai Lan feel that I was qualified to work with him.
Thinking this, Ryuen stopped, saved the email he had been writing as a draft, then opened Bai Lan's previous email and found Bai Lan's description of "someone like Ryuen": "I simply look down on lowlifes like you who only know how to fight, bully the weak, and act like street thugs."
Ryuen thought, He's trying to tell me that my usual way of doing things doesn't work at this school, nor will it work for whatever he plans to do. If I keep relying on my old methods, it'll create certain hidden dangers. If I'm caught even once, it'll ruin his plans.
So, if I want to cooperate with him, I first need to change. I need to make people like me disappear as a source of unpredictable danger in Class C?
At that moment, Ryuen suddenly recalled how Bai Lan had manipulated him over the "robbery."
He also remembered that during the entrance guidance meeting, their homeroom teacher, Sakagami, seemed to have said, "This school places great importance on bullying."
Ryuen suddenly realized: Perhaps this school really was different from the ones outside. This school placed great importance on "rules," and its "emphasis on bullying" was one of those rules!
At this school, bullying might be fine as long as no one discovered it and no one reported it.
But once they were caught with evidence, things would become very troublesome.
If whoever possessed the evidence submitted