Why were you assigned to Class D?

With both sides lacking the most critical evidence and continuing to stick to their own stories, Horikita Manabu finally delivered the verdict:

[The five students from Class 1-C and Class 1-D are suspended for one and a half weeks! During this time, these five students must properly repent, perform community service, and reflect on themselves.]

Hearing this judgment, Zhuge Linghao beamed with joy—a week and a half of vacation!

The disciplinary hearing concluded and everyone left, leaving only Zhuge Linghao and Ryuen sitting face-to-face in the conference room.

Zhuge Linghao spoke first: "The atmosphere is a bit awkward, let me play some background music to liven things up!"

Zhuge Linghao pulled out his phone and tapped on a recording.

"You are definitely getting expelled, even Jesus can't stop it, I said so!"

"You are definitely getting expelled, even Jesus can't stop it, I said so!"

"You are definitely getting expelled, even Jesus can't stop it, I said so!"

Listening to the recording of himself slapping his own face playing on a loop, Ryuen felt terrible!

[No wonder this brat was so arrogant, he actually had evidence!]

Zhuge Linghao said with a grin: "Ryuen, about the 600,000 points you owe me, when are you going to transfer them?"

Ryuen kept a cold face, then suddenly burst into laughter, "Interesting, you black-haired monkey, you really are too interesting. Just you wait, before I finish you off, you better make sure you stay alive!"

Looking at the extra 600,000 points on his phone, Zhuge Linghao couldn't control his facial expressions; the corners of his mouth were pulled high, and not even a ten-million-ton weight could bring them down!

Zhuge Linghao used a cringeworthy, high-pitched voice to say: "Come again next time, Brother Ryuen!"

Not long after Ryuen left, Horikita Manabu and Tachibana-shoki appeared before Zhuge Linghao, with several others still waiting in line outside.

Horikita Manabu said with a formal expression: "Zhuge Linghao, I have to say, you did a great job this time! Any interest in joining the Student Council as my secretary?"

Tachibana-shoki's expression suddenly turned sour: The president already has me as his secretary, why would he need to recruit another one?

Zhuge Linghao looked shocked: "Secretary? Me? What qualifications do I have? A piece of trash from Class 1-D as a secretary? How about I give you 100 trillion yen instead?"

Horikita Manabu said coldly: "Don't joke around!"

Zhuge Linghao immediately replied: "You were the one who started joking with me, President!"

Horikita Manabu didn't press the issue: "There is currently one secretary position open, and it will be kept for you. I hope you will consider it seriously."

Zhuge Linghao shook his head: "No need, I'm most afraid of rigid rules and regulations!"

Horikita Manabu's sharp gaze pierced toward Zhuge Linghao: "I have already delivered a fair and impartial verdict, you can delete that video now, right?"

The video Horikita Manabu referred to was the one where Zhuge Linghao caught him hitting his sister.

Zhuge Linghao looked at Tachibana-shoki and suddenly had a good idea!

Zhuge Linghao said with a straight face: "Video? Ah, I remember now, the video of you and me being gay was deleted by me a long time ago, don't worry!"

Hearing this, Tachibana-shoki's mouth fell open, looking as if she could swallow an entire ostrich egg!

She stared with eyes as wide as copper bells, fixed directly on the president, her face filled with shock and disbelief.

Not long after Horikita Manabu and Tachibana-shoki left, Chabashira Sae appeared before Zhuge Linghao, with several others still waiting in line outside.

Chabashira Sae crossed her arms and sneered: "You really played a ruthless hand, aren't you afraid of being expelled?"

Zhuge Linghao patted his chest, acting as if he had just realized it: "Teacher, I didn't think that much at the time. Now that I've watched the video, I realize it—it's so scary! I might have been possessed or had a ghost take over my body back then..."

Chabashira Sae stepped forward, looking down at him, and said mercilessly: "Hand in a 5,000-word reflection paper tomorrow!"

Zhuge Linghao wailed: "Nani? Can I do 4,998 words less?"

Chabashira Sae didn't even look back: "No room for negotiation."

Not long after Chabashira Sae left, Horikita Suzune appeared before Zhuge Linghao, with one person still waiting in line outside.

Zhuge Linghao looked timid, but had to bite the bullet: "Yo, Suzune-chan! What a refreshing victory! It's all thanks to your outstanding performance! That's the only reason Sudo and I weren't expelled!"

Horikita Suzune said coldly: "You've finally revealed your true nature as a perverted scumbag!"

Zhuge Linghao's eyes darted around, feeling guilty: "Suzune-chan, listen to my explanation, that was force majeure!"

Horikita radiated a freezing chill: "Then I'd like to hear what kind of force majeure that was!"

Zhuge Linghao hurriedly explained: "Whether a person is in a dazed state or any other state, as long as you provide a stimulus to the body, such as a light touch, this stimulus can break a person's original mental set and state, allowing the brain to quickly become active and restore clear consciousness and thinking ability."

Zhuge Linghao said with certainty: "I was waking you up! Yes, that's right! You really shouldn't overthink it!"

Horikita lowered her head and pulled out a compass, her posture like a demon from hell!

Shortly after, Zhuge Linghao's sky-piercing screams of "Awoo-awoo-awoo" echoed far and wide!

Not long after Horikita Suzune left, Ayanokoji appeared before Zhuge Linghao, with no one left in line outside.

Ayanokoji said with a deadpan expression: "Zhuge-kun, you've been hiding quite a lot, haven't you?"

Zhuge Linghao was completely bewildered, saying, "Ayanokoji? What do you mean by that?"

Ayanokoji replied, "Just how arrogant must you be to sit through a two-hour trial hearing without saying a single word? Your mental fortitude is truly something else."

[Ayanokoji, stop overthinking it!]

[I'm telling you, the system muted me! Do you believe me?]

Ayanokoji stared straight into Zhuge Linghao's eyes and said, "All of Sudo's abnormal behavior was orchestrated by you from behind the scenes, wasn't it? You don't need to deny it. Both of you had your phones in your hands throughout such an important meeting, so you must have been editing messages and instructing Sudo on what to do."

"Otherwise, I truly can't imagine that idiot Sudo having such a brilliant performance."

Zhuge Linghao dropped the act; he stopped pretending and simply nodded in admission.

Ayanokoji sat down next to Zhuge Linghao and said, "And aren't you going to explain? Others might mistake you for a brutal person, right? Especially Sakura—the way she looks at you is as if you were a murderer."

"In reality, you held back when you hit those three punks from Class 1-C, didn't you?"

Zhuge Linghao crossed his arms and said, "Oh? What makes you say that?"

Ayanokoji's gaze was profound as he said, "I've practiced piano and calligraphy too. Although your punches looked fast and ruthless, in truth, the wind from your fists only grazed the cheeks of those three punks, didn't it?"

Zhuge Linghao, terrified of being seen through, put on an exaggerated expression and said, "Huh? But in the video, their nosebleeds were spraying everywhere!"

Ayanokoji chuckled, his voice devoid of emotion, "That is true, but you aimed for the cheek just to the right of their noses, using the shockwave and leverage of the punch to create such a terrifying scene."

Ayanokoji continued his deduction, "In other words, those three punks were actually only slightly injured. You just hit them hard enough to make them feel pain and fear, without actually trying to kill them."

Ayanokoji leaned toward Zhuge Linghao's ear and said, "Think about it from another perspective. If you had really used heavy force, you would have broken their nose bridges or caused comminuted fractures. They wouldn't have been able to avoid being hospitalized for ten days or half a month."

Ayanokoji stood up and said, "But as it stands, they are perfectly fine and jumping around. As for Student Council President Horikita's claim that you maliciously caused serious injury, it doesn't hold any water. You could even resolve the expulsion crisis effortlessly just by requesting a medical examination."

Ayanokoji stood at the door of the conference room, looking at Zhuge Linghao from afar, and said, "You could have easily edited the video to remove the latter part where Sudo and you were supposedly acting maliciously. Wouldn't that have been a better way to get those three punks from Class 1-C expelled?"

Zhuge Linghao hurriedly defended himself in his heart: [I wanted to! But I just made a bet with Ryuen. If three people get expelled, I lose, and I'll have to go bankrupt paying Ryuen 400,000 points!]

Before closing the conference room door, Ayanokoji left behind these words.

"I had been wondering why you were assigned to Class 1-D, and now, perhaps I have the answer."

"You really do love the feeling of excitement."

"You really do go out of your way to turn the tables in all sorts of extreme situations."

"You really are intoxicated by the taste of toying with others at will, only to wear a mask and savor their complex and varied emotions."

"You walk on the edge of danger everywhere you go. As your seatmate, I'll warn you: one day, you will slip and fall into the abyss."

"If that day ever comes, I will be the one to correct you, the most severely flawed product of Class 1-D."

Click. The conference room door was shut.

[Heh, first Horikita Suzune, now Ayanokoji Kiyotaka. Truly laughable, laughable.]

[Do I, Zhuge Linghao, need to be corrected? Is there something wrong with me?]

[Actually, I was just acting. You've all been fooled by me!]

[I acted in a way that made you think I was a flawed product, but in reality, I am a transmigrator!]

In the empty conference room, Zhuge Linghao's manic laughter suddenly erupted.

[System, help me open my personal panel.]

[Ding, opening now...]

School: Tokyo Metropolitan Advanced Nurturing High School

Class: Class 1-D

Name: Zhuge Linghao

Alignment: Evil (16%)

Emotion Points: 1985

Academic Ability: A

Intelligence: A

Cooperation: A

Social Intelligence: A

Physical Ability: A

Judgment: A

Identity or Skills: Acting Emperor, Triple Slide-Kneel Kowtow, 50% increased probability of others accepting your requests when begging (System-integrated, ability varies by situation.)

Personality: Weak but loves to provoke, iron-willed straight man, full of inner drama.

Hidden Personality (Identity): A yandere who pursues excitement!