After obtaining photographic evidence of D Class's leader, Katsuragi Kouhei left the rocky outcrop, weighed down by worry.
Once he was sure Katsuragi had gone,
Ryuen sneered. "That useless man will never beat the Yanagi Faction."
Ibuki Mio saw that the rain had let up a little and decided to head back first.
Tennoji Kaede had also been thinking of retreating, but suddenly the Haiya Causal System flashed a striking "Karma" notification.
["Cause": Ayanokoji Kiyotaka witnessed the entire transaction between Katsuragi and your group from the bushes. He now firmly believes you hold an unusual position in Class C, and will pay particular attention to your actions from now on...]
["Effect": Charisma +5, Breath Concealment +30, Logical Thinking +30, Combat Mastery +30, Common Sense +1, Subculture Points +1]
[Under normal circumstances, an ordinary person's potential level is 10.]
A suspicious little deer was spying from the bushes!
Although this was within Kaede's expectations, how should he handle things from here?
One thing was certain: the Haiya Causal System had chosen to notify him now because this moment could be considered a relatively important branch in the story!
The only other time the system had necessarily placed a Causal Mark and given him a notification was when Kaede first met a stranger.
After that, the system might not repeatedly notify Kaede and award points for people who had already been marked.
But as Kaede's fame grew, he could expect to receive more and more notifications about people he had already marked.
There was no way around it. Eventually, people were bound to take an interest in him.
So Kaede usually skipped over trivial system notifications and treated them like little stories.
But now, with both Ryuen and Ayanokoji present, only Kaede had noticed Ayanokoji spying on them.
So he should...
"Who's