Even if you couldn't swim, you could still save someone.
Ichinose felt as though she had learned a lesson.
Without having time to think, she immediately joined those pulling the rope.
Five minutes later, the Hero who had dived in to save someone and the girl who had fallen into the water were both pulled up.
After the girl was rescued, she did nothing but cry.
In that instant, it had felt as though she had experienced death. Her past had flashed before her eyes like a carousel.
For a flower raised in a greenhouse like her, having suddenly faced death and not wetting herself was already quite impressive.
"Great job, Cousin Su Yang."
After untying the rope around himself, Su Yang took the clean towel handed over by the maid Hayasaka—who, at school, was posing as his cousin—and wiped his face.
That was right.
Su Yang had been the one to jump into the pool and save her.
And everyone was watching him now.
They looked at him with admiration.
Sensing the gazes around him, Su Yang spoke as if he were only talking to Hayasaka.
"Don't say something so foolish. I only saved her because the drowning girl was the Director of the News Bureau's daughter. I was merely doing her a favor to gain some goodwill."
"At this school, it's important to make connections and maintain good relationships with others."
"I only acted for my own sake," Su Yang said.
Those words were far too deliberate.
After doing something like that, he could have simply kept it to himself instead of saying it out loud and making people think less of his kindness.
Although some people lost a bit of their respect for Su Yang because of what he said, others understood.
Su Yang was simply trying