The Stalker, Masumi Kamuro

After making the agreement with the third-year seniors, Dokuho Kouya left the private room.

It was no easy task to get the upperclassmen to pool together 20 million private points for a lottery.

Let alone Dokuho Kouya, even if Manabu Horikita were to come, success would be difficult.

Most people would surely think of pulling this stunt only when all special exams were over and graduation was drawing near.

Fortunately, while at the teachers' office, teacher Hoshinomiya had mentioned the reason why no one in the upper years had managed to do it.

As graduation approaches, the school opens a channel to convert points into yen, reducing the points in the graduates' hands so they cannot pool them together to select someone via lottery.

Originally, teacher Chie Hoshinomiya wanted to use this to discourage Dokuho Kouya and tell him to stop being so whimsical.

Unexpectedly, Dokuho Kouya instead used this very fact to entice the third-year seniors.

If they didn't pool their private points now, it would be too late once graduation drew near.

For the upperclassmen who had already spent two years at the school, everyone except the students of Class D should have quite a bit of savings.

Taking the savings of Katsuragi from Class A in the original work as an example, after spending a year at the school, Katsuragi had over one million points left, and that was while he had to give 20,000 points to Kakeru Ryuen every month.

The seniors in Class B of the Third Year and Class C of the Third Year naturally didn't receive as many points monthly as those in Class A, but after two years, they would have at least 500,000 regardless.

Taking out 200,000 to 300,000 points to participate in this plan was not an impossible thing to accept.

The people in Class D of the Third Year might be a bit troublesome; they might not have saved much money after such a long time, but they should also be interested in a plan to change classes based on luck.

Perhaps they would live frugally in the coming days to obtain the funds to participate in this part of the plan.

"If everyone gives 200,000, then I need 100 people."

"If everyone gives 250,000, 80 people will be enough."

"Even if Class D of the Third Year can't contribute much, the plan should still be achievable."

After coming out of the karaoke bar, Dokuho Kouya walked toward the dormitory building while deep in thought.

Behind him, a purple figure was following.

Seeing Dokuho Kouya turn the corner, the girl with long purple hair followed silently.

But after she turned the corner and was about to look for traces of Dokuho Kouya, she heard the boy's teasing voice.

"Masumi Kamuro from Class A of the First Year, is there something you need from me?"

The boy was seen leaning against the wall with his arms crossed, looking relaxed and comfortable, seemingly unbothered by being followed.

The purple-haired girl's expression froze, then she knitted her pretty brows and said with a cold face, "I don't understand what you mean."

"I just happened to be heading back to the dormitory building as well, so I'm just going the same way as you; I have no intention of looking for you."

Masumi Kamuro said without blushing or skipping a beat, her expression quite natural.

However, she was puzzled inside.

How exactly was I discovered?

Why does the target know my name and which class I'm in?

"It must have been Arisu Sakayanagi who sent you."

Seeing the girl whose expression hadn't changed, Dokuho Kouya secretly admired her.

As expected of a girl with a history of shoplifting, she didn't panic even when she encountered the situation of being discovered while tailing someone.

No wonder Arisu Sakayanagi likes to send her out to tail people.

"Are you close with Arisu Sakayanagi?"

Hearing the name the boy used, Masumi Kamuro's pretty brows arched.

To be able to call her by her first name.

The boy's relationship with Arisu Sakayanagi must be quite good.

"I have her contact information." Dokuho Kouya opened his student terminal and displayed his contact list to the purple-haired girl in front of him.

Many people in Class B are good at socializing.

Not long after school started, Dokuho Kouya had obtained the contact information of everyone in Class B.

But among so many people, the name Arisu Sakayanagi was particularly conspicuous.

Masumi Kamuro rolled her beautiful eyes and complained, "Since you know each other, why did you have to make me follow you?"

That's right.

She had been sent by Arisu Sakayanagi to tail Dokuho Kouya.

The tailing had gone smoothly at noon and after school, but by night, she had been caught by Dokuho Kouya.

"How exactly did you discover me?" Masumi Kamuro asked, looking at the boy in front of her with a puzzled expression as she arched her pretty brows.

She felt that she had maintained a good enough distance and shouldn't have been discovered so easily.

"There were a lot of people at noon and after school, so it was difficult to find you. But if it's at night, it couldn't be simpler to spot you." Dokuho Kouya replied.

In truth, he hadn't relied solely on himself to discover Masumi Kamuro.

Not long after leaving the karaoke parlor, he heard the system chime in his mind, announcing that it was "creating a special scenario."

Based on his past experience, he had inevitably run into a key character from the original story.

However, he looked around his surroundings and did not spot any familiar faces.

He then considered the possibility that he was being followed and that the person was hiding somewhere he would find difficult to notice.

Once he started thinking from that perspective, he quickly discovered Masumi Kamuro sneaking along behind him.

"So you noticed me a long time ago, huh." Although Masumi Kamuro was not good at studying, she was not slow-witted.

Upon hearing the boy mention the noon and after-school time slots, she assumed she had actually been discovered long ago, and that he had simply waited until now to catch her.

However, this was entirely her misunderstanding.

Or rather, it was a misunderstanding he had intentionally led her to believe.

"I don't mind you following me, but as compensation, I'm going to take a photo of you." Dokuho Kouya picked up his student terminal, opened the camera function, and aimed the lens at the purple-haired girl in front of him.

Masumi Kamuro's expression tightened. "You aren't going to use my photo for anything weird, are you?"

Dokuho Kouya smiled. "Kamuro-san, you were the one who started doing something weird first."

Seeing that the girl did not object, Dokuho Kouya pressed the shutter button, and with a click, he captured the girl's image.

Masumi Kamuro's expression was somewhat awkward and uncomfortable, but she did not lash out.

Just as Dokuho had said, she was in the wrong for stalking him first, so having a photo taken of her was not a big deal.

"Hey." Seeing the boy still operating his phone, Masumi Kamuro raised an eyebrow and said nervously, "You aren't really going to use my photo for something weird, are you?"

Dokuho Kouya gave a slight nod. "I sent your photo to Arisu-san."

"Huh?"

Masumi Kamuro's eyes widened, and she froze.

As a stalker, not only was she discovered and captured by her target, but she had actually been reported to her employer by him.

Could there be anything more ridiculous in this world?

This was nothing short of humiliation!

Not long after, Masumi Kamuro's phone rang.

The caller was none other than Arisu Sakayanagi.

After she answered, the calm and cute voice of the white-haired girl came through.

"Kamuro-san, I have received your photo; it turned out very well."

"It's just that you should smile a bit more when having your photo taken, Kamuro-san. You would be even cuter that way."

Hearing the words coming from Arisu Sakayanagi over the phone, Masumi Kamuro's pretty face flushed red.

How... humiliating!