Four figures blocked the only exit.
The leading girl crossed her arms with a sneer on her lips.
Manabe Shiho.
Behind her were Class C, Yabu Nanami, Yamashita Saki, and the submissive Rika who kept his head down.
Karuizawa Kei's pupils contracted violently.
"Why... is it you?"
She subconsciously took half a step back, and her shoes made a scraping sound on the floor.
She looked over Manabe Shiho's shoulders in panic, trying to find Kushida, "Where is Kushida? Didn't she invite me here?"
"Kushida? Ah, that 'good guy' from Class D?"
Manabe Shiho did not rush to take action, but pushed the heavy Fireproof Door up with his backhand.
"Bang!"
"No need to wait, she probably has some 'emergency' and can't come. Or maybe... she has no intention of coming at all?"
Karuizawa Kei Forced herself to calm down, she raised her chin and tried to maintain her usual posture.
"Huh? That's inexplicable. Since Kushida is not here, then I don't have time to accompany you Class C people Waste of Time."
She tried to overwhelm the other person with her momentum, "Get out of the way, I'm going back."
"Want to leave? That's not possible."
Manabe Shiho winked at Yabu Nanami next to him.
The latter immediately took a step across understandingly, blocking Karuizawa Kei's way.
"We have specially prepared this 'party' for you. How can the protagonist leave first?"
Manabe Shiho's voice had a hint of cat-and-mouse banter.
She turned to look at Rika who had been shrinking behind, "Hey, Rika. Take a good look at this face. Is it her?"
Rika trembled when her name was called. She raised her head timidly and shrank when her eyes touched Karuizawa Kei's face.
But under Manabe Shiho's full gaze, she had to muster up courage.
"Yes... it's her."
Rika's voice was as thin as a mosquito's, "When I was queuing up in front of Summer Vacation... she jumped in line and bumped into me, and said something outrageous... it was her."
"Did you hear that? Karuizawa. Now that the witnesses and physical evidence are all there, what else do you have to deny?"
"I don't know her! I told you it was a misunderstanding..."
Karuizawa Kei felt suffocated.
It was a familiar smell from countless nightmares in the past... the feeling of being isolated and bullied.
"Stop pretending! Your face really makes me want to vomit just looking at it!"
"You... what do you want to do?"
Karuizawa Kei's voice finally became trembling, "If you dare to mess around, the school will not let you go! Hirata will not let you go either!"
"School? Hirata?"
"Look here. There is no surveillance, no signal, not even a ghost. Do you think your Hirata can hear your cry for help?"
"As for the school... as long as you don't say it and we don't say it, who knows what happened?"
Karuizawa Kei's face turned pale. She finally realized that this was not just a simple trouble-seeking, but a carefully designed trap.
She wants to run.
Instinct drove her legs to move, trying to rush over.
"Want to run!"
Manabe Shiho has quick eyes and quick hands. Before Karuizawa Kei could fully charge, she suddenly stretched out her hand and grabbed Karuizawa Kei's long golden ponytail.
"Ah!"
The severe pain from his scalp made Karuizawa Kei scream.
The whole person was pulled back abruptly due to inertia, staggering and almost falling to the ground.
"Who allowed you to leave? Since you have done something wrong, you must accept the punishment!"
Manabe Shiho pulled her hair hard, forcing Karuizawa Kei to raise her head, revealing her face full of fear.
"Let go... let me go! It hurts!"
Karuizawa Kei grabbed Manabe Shiho's wrist with both hands.
Separated by a door.
Although the heavy Fireproof Door isolates most of the sounds, the Observation Window specially set aside allows people to pay attention to everything happening inside.
Kazehara Tetsu stood quietly in the shadows.
Screams and begging for mercy from inside the door came faintly through the cracks in the door.
His expression was indifferent, as if what was happening inside was not a tragedy about Campus violence.
His left hand is holding the mobile phone, and the camera is pressed against the Observation Window glass which is not that big.
He adjusted the angle of the phone to ensure that everyone's face could be clearly captured, and then stopped looking at them again.
The other hand took out a pocket-sized book from his pocket and started to read it under the weak light of the emergency light in the corridor.
The slight sound of the pages turning was soon covered up by the shrill cry coming from the door.
Kazehara Tetsu looked at the words in the book, as if all the noise was just background noise that had nothing to do with him.
Although he planned the play, he did not enjoy the process.
This is just a means, not an end.
Violence itself is ugly, but sometimes it has to be used as a catalyst for some control.
I don't know how much time passed, but the movement inside gradually became quieter.
The originally fierce pushing and shoving turned into one-sided insults, and in the end there were only intermittent sobs and the heavy breathing of several people.
Kazehara Tetsu closed the book, put it back into his pocket, and took a look at the recording duration displayed on the phone screen.
Enough.
He pressed the stop button and quickly hid in the groove next to the pile of debris.
Not long after, Fireproof Door was pushed away.
"Tch, it's really boring."
"That woman looks so ugly when she cries."
"Let's go, it will be troublesome if someone sees you."
Manabe Shiho led the three people out.
Their faces showed the joy of venting, but also mixed with a hint of guilt after violence.
Several people tidied up each other's slightly messy clothes and walked quickly towards Stairwell. The sound of footsteps gradually disappeared at the end of the passage.
After confirming that they had completely left, Kazehara Tetsu stepped out of the shadows.
He lowered his head and checked the video he had just recorded.
The picture quality is very clear and the sound is perfect.
The faces of the four people and the process of violence were completely recorded.
There is a high probability that this video will not be used. After all, we have to keep the Karizawa shell.
If this video is submitted to the school, Class C will face a devastating blow, but Karuizawa Kei's fragile appearance will also be known to the whole school.
But it's not necessarily true. If Karuizawa Kei's personality changes in the future, this video can be used.
Kazehara Tetsu put away the phone and walked towards the half-closed door Fireproof Door.
Push the door open.
The scene inside is a bit messier than it looks in the video.
In the corner, Karuizawa Kei, who was originally bright and bright, is now curled up on the cold floor.
Her clothes were torn a little messy, and her hair was disheveled, covering half of her face.
She hugged her knees tightly with her hands, her body was shaking uncontrollably, and she was whimpering.
"It's really miserable."
Kazehara Tetsu's voice suddenly sounded in the empty room.
Karuizawa Kei trembled suddenly, as if struck by thunder.
She raised her head in panic, her eyes filled with extreme fear and despair at that moment.
When she saw that the person coming was Kazehara Tetsu, her first reaction was not to ask for help, but to desperately try to hide it.
"Don't... don't look!"