Hero Saves the Beauty (For Real)

In the end, Ayanokoji still didn't add Sakura Airi on social media. Ying carefully recalled the events and realized he seemed to have stolen all of Ayanokoji's spotlight. If that was the case, would Sakura call him later? What about the moderator for the student council hearing? Or could it be that Sakura would manage to resolve this incident perfectly on her own this time? That seemed impossible, though.

Ying, currently in his dorm room, fell into deep thought. It seemed he would have to decline the role of moderator for the student council.

"Knock, knock."

Ying's dorm room door was rapped, which immediately brought back unpleasant memories.

"Who is it? What do you want?" Ying opened the door just a crack and poked his head out to see what was going on.

"Ying, what are you hiding? Don't tell me you have something unspeakable in your room?" Ike stood in the hallway and said, sticking one foot into Ying's room, trying to force his way in. Ying hurriedly stopped him, and the two began a tug-of-war over the door.

"Alright, alright. We're brothers, I get it. Since you won't let me see, I won't force it. But I have something good that relates to what you're hiding. Want to come to Ayanokoji's room and take a look?" Ike said mysteriously.

When Ying heard this, what!? Could Ike actually be collecting such high-end products? You really can't judge a book by its cover.

"Is that so? Then I must have a look." Following that, Ying and Ike went together to Ayanokoji's room.

There were already three big guys in Ayanokoji's room, huddled around a computer and chatting.

"Haruki, Ken. I brought Ying over, let's look together." Ike said, pulling out a memory card.

"Whoa~, I know this one, it's Shizuku!" Yamauchi exclaimed excitedly the moment he saw the first photo.

"Right, right! That's her, you really know your stuff, Yamauchi! The photos she posts are all top-tier. Since we're brothers, I'm sharing them with everyone today!" Ike said.

"Kanji, you actually found so many resources! Impressive!" Yamauchi praised.

"Hmph, what's so great about it." Sudo said, though his eyes never left the computer screen.

"And I discovered a very important piece of information. Look at the background of the photos Shizuku has been posting lately—doesn't it look a lot like the Kouiku campus?" Ike said, pointing to the background of a photo.

"It really does." Yamauchi said.

"So I think Shizuku is a student at Kouiku, and it's highly likely she's a first-year." Ike asserted.

"Impossible! If such a cute idol were in our grade, how could I have not noticed? If she's in our grade, I'll eat my hat!" Yamauchi waved his hand, denying it.

"Uh... isn't this Sakura Airi from your class?" Ying said.

"Yeah, that's Sakura Airi from our class. So, could you guys please head back now?" Ayanokoji also spoke up.

"What!? No way!" Ike stared closely at the picture, then his face changed drastically. "Holy crap! It really does look like her! Don't tell me it actually is!"

Ike and Yamauchi exchanged glances, both seeing infinite shock in the other's eyes.

"Well, I'm heading back." Ying looked at the stunned group and left Ayanokoji's room.

The next day, the day of the review, Ying arrived early at the student council to ask for leave.

"BOSS, I won't be the moderator for this review." Ying said to Horikita Manabu.

"Oh? Why is that?" Horikita Manabu asked.

"According to the intelligence I've gathered, the three people from Class C will come here today to drop the complaint, so there's no need for a moderator at all. If the three from Class C don't come to drop it, then I'll have to trouble Tachibana-senpai."

Horikita Manabu and Tachibana both wore expressions of shock after hearing this.

"Drop the complaint? Is this the way for Class D to win a complete victory? Interesting." Horikita Manabu adjusted his glasses and smiled.

Afterward, Ying left the student council, opened his student terminal, and began checking Sakura's location. Just then, Ying suddenly remembered something and hurried back to his dorm.

Ying was sprinting at full speed toward Sakura's location, cursing as he ran: "Huff... are the people at the market regulatory department just freeloaders?! Huff... the processing speed is so slow! If I don't make it in time, you're all finished! Huff..."

Ying, who had originally planned to patrol Keyaki Mall, suddenly remembered that there was a camera in his dorm capable of firing lasers that he hadn't reported yet. Holding onto the mentality of making things worse for that shop clerk, Ying decided to go to the Kouiku regulatory department to report it first. As it turned out, the moment he started the report, he noticed Sakura's location hadn't changed, so Ying had to rush to the scene.

Arriving at the scene and seeing Sakura keeping a certain distance from the clerk, Ying breathed a sigh of relief.

"Please, stop contacting me...!" Sakura threw a huge pile of letters onto the ground; the quantity was mind-boggling.

"Why would you say that? To me, you are truly important. I fell in love with you the first time I saw you in a magazine! I simply cannot stop my longing for you!"

"Why, why do you know where my room is? Why are you sending these things to me?" Sakura said, very angrily.

"Because our hearts are connected."

Ying: Ugh, gag...

"Please don't do this anymore, you're making me uncomfortable!" After saying that, Sakura tried to distance herself from the clerk and leave.

"Why? Why can't you understand? These are all my true feelings."

As the clerk spoke, he lunged forward to grab Sakura, preventing her from leaving.

Ying had already called the campus police earlier, but their efficiency was also remarkably high—there wasn't a single officer in sight yet.

"No, don't come over..."

"I'll tell you this true love right now... that way, you'll be able to understand, Sakura." The clerk pinned Sakura to the ground.

Feeling that if he waited any longer something might go wrong, Ying chose to step forward.

"Let go of that girl! Let me handle this!" Ying ran over while taking pictures, and then... tripped right in front of the clerk.

Neither Sakura nor the clerk reacted for a moment, staring in surprise at Ying, who was sprawled on the ground.

"Uh... mister, actually, I'm here to help you." As he said this, Ying didn't forget to take a close-up photo.

"Give me the camera!" The shop assistant finally reacted, rushing toward Ying to snatch the camera away.

Ying immediately stood up, aimed the camera at the shop assistant, and said, "Don't come any closer! Do you remember this? It's a camera that can fire lasers. Take one more step, and see if I don't fire it right at you!"

The shop assistant froze for two seconds, then continued charging at Ying. Ying kept his word and fired the "laser" directly.

The shop assistant hurriedly covered his eyes with his hands.

"Hey, you have to admit, the flash on this camera is really blinding."

The shop assistant was truly enraged this time; he picked up an empty beer bottle from the roadside and charged over. However, our Ying cranked the laser to its maximum setting.

"Flash! You can't catch me!"

Perhaps the shop assistant's eyes had gradually adjusted to the intense light, as his speed began to increase.

"You're done for, kid!" The shop assistant reached Ying, raised the beer bottle high, and brought it down heavily toward Ying's forehead.

Ying's body reacted faster than his brain; he tilted slightly to the right, dodging the beer bottle. He then followed up by delivering a fierce kick with his right foot to the outside of the shop assistant's supporting left knee. The force of the kick caused the shop assistant to lose his balance, and his body stumbled forward involuntarily.

Ying seized this fleeting opportunity, gripping the shop assistant's wrist with his left hand and bracing his right hand against the man's elbow joint, pulling back sharply in the direction of the man's forward momentum.

"Crack."

The shop assistant let out a muffled groan of pain, and the empty beer bottle slipped from his limp hand. Ying didn't pause; he drove his knee into the shop assistant's waist and abdomen, pinning him against the cold wall. He clamped his left hand tightly onto the man's shoulder, rendering him unable to move.

"You started this, and the surveillance camera right there saw everything. This counts as self-defense, and I've wanted to beat up a scammer like you for a long time. Hehehe~." Ying was about to raise his hand to deliver a few well-placed strikes when he heard the sound of rapid footsteps approaching from a distance.

"Police, it's right here! Come quickly!"

It turned out to be Sakura, who had gone to call the police.

Hearing the police arrive, the shop assistant began to struggle violently. Ying intentionally went along with the shop assistant's force and fell to the ground.

"Ahhhhh! Officers, you're finally here! The evidence is all in this camera!" Ying shouted, handing the camera to the approaching police officers.

The other officers subdued the shop assistant and escorted him away from the scene.

"Byakuya! Are you okay!" Sakura hurriedly knelt beside Ying, her eyes brimming with tears as she asked anxiously.

"I think I'm dying, give me mouth-to-mouth resuscitation quickly!"

"Huh?" Sakura was stunned.

"Ying is my brother, let me do it!" After receiving Sakura's message, Hamaguchi, who was closest, had also arrived at the scene.

"Is this the bond between brothers? Feeling this bond has brought me back to full health. Now, I just want to deepen this bond properly." Ying quickly stood up and put Hamaguchi in a headlock.

Watching the two of them, Sakura couldn't help but laugh out loud. She silently took off her flat glasses and made a resolution: she would definitely become an outstanding idol.