Chapter 152
The current situation seems dangerous, but it's a good opportunity for him to test some of his ideas.
If the truth is as he suspects, then he should still be able to remain in Advanced Nurturing and need not worry about it.
After glancing at the Class D idiots who were making a ruckus again, Aragaki Shun also felt a bit annoyed and directly took a document from his hand and handed it to Manabu Horikita.
"President, this is a list I had compiled of all the girls who went to the Swimming today, along with my suggestions for handling this upskirt filming incident."
"I'll leave the rest to you. Senior Nagumo has his own plans, and I can't fall behind!"
After he finished speaking, he gestured to Ichinose Honami, Ibuki Mio, and the others, and then led the way out of the Student Council Office.
"Elder brother?"
Horikita Suzune remained here, the primary target of Kanji Ike, Yamauchi Haruki, and others. She loathed these idiot classmates and only wanted to know their ultimate fate as soon as possible.
Manabu Horikita paused, a cold glint flashing in his eyes. Instead of feigning profundity as usual, he made a direct guarantee.
"Don't worry, Suzune, no one can commit a crime without facing the appropriate punishment."
As the Student Council President, I shouldn't act on emotion.
But if an older brother can remain calm after his sister has been so humiliated, he might as well just die.
Seeing that both Aragaki Nagumo wanted to make some behind-the-scenes arrangements, Manabu Horikita was also harboring a lot of anger, which he felt he couldn't stand not venting.
Of course, as the face of the Student Council, he wouldn't do anything irrational in public.
But as the highest authority among the students, he promised that he would handle the matter impartially in this incident and its aftermath.
We will never wrong an innocent person, nor will we let any bad person go unpunished!
An invisible pressure swept over them, and they felt the Student Council President's barely concealed killing intent. Kanji Ike and the others were immediately stunned and dumbfounded.
They had offended all three of the most powerful students in each grade.
Maybe I should just drop out of school; it feels like staying might actually make things worse.
Whether they regret it or not is hard to say, but they are truly afraid now.
Even with their shrunken brains, they could imagine how bleak their future would be.
"Ibuki, could you please go and summon the boys from Class C and have them follow the second-year students?"
After leaving the Student Council Office, Aragaki Shun did not hesitate and immediately began to arrange the next steps.
"Girls who want revenge can also be brought along. If anyone from other classes wants to join, that's fine too."
"Huh?" Ichinose Honami wondered if she had misheard. What was this guy up to?
"I'll go right now!"
In contrast, Ibuki Mio revealed a sinister grin and began dialing a number on her phone without any hesitation.
She'd been wanting to beat those bastards up for ages, and now that Aragaki Shun had given her the chance, she didn't need to think twice!
"Aragaki-kun..."
Ichinose Honami well-behaved girl, she watched helplessly as a violent incident was about to unfold before her eyes, and the instigator was none other than her class president, whom she had always admired and respected. The girl instinctively wanted to say something.
As a result, Aragaki Shun simply waved his hand, abruptly interrupting Ichinose's subsequent advice.
"Don't worry, nothing will happen."
"We're just providing students with a way to vent their anger."
After saying that, Aragaki Shun took out his phone again, selected Sakayanagi Narimori as his target, and sent two emails to him.
"I wonder what the Board Chairman thinks about his daughter becoming the target of a voyeur?"
"Here is the list of girls who went to the pool today: Sakayanagi Arisu, Kiryuuin Fuuka..."
221. The Four Voyeurs the students all dropped out of school; free Combat within the school.
In the office of the Board Chairman the Advanced Nurturing Board, Sakayanagi Narimori, who was troubled by the unrest on campus, suddenly received two emails—
[Aragaki Shun]: "I wonder what the Board Chairman thinks about his daughter becoming the target of a voyeur?"
[Aragaki Shun]: "Here is the list of girls who went to the pool today: Sakayanagi Arisu, Kiryuuin Fuuka..."
After repeatedly confirming the information conveyed in the email, Sakayanagi Narimori could no longer sit still.
Why did Arisu go to the Swimming today?
Given her physical condition, how could she go to that place, and almost get photographed without her consent?!
The doting father immediately put down his work, a hint of murderous intent flashing in his eyes, and began dialing Sakayanagi Arisu's mobile phone number.
"Father?" A somewhat surprised voice came from the Sakayanagi Arisu after the call connected. "Shouldn't you be trying to calm the unrest at school right now? Why are you contacting me?"
"I just received an email from that kid from the Aragaki Family. He said you went to the big Swimming today too. Is that true?"
Given the magnitude of this locker room peeping incident, Sakayanagi Narimori, as the Board Chairman of Advanced Nurturing, naturally received the news immediately.
However, his focus was on how to mitigate the impact of this crime on the school's reputation, and he hadn't yet had time to investigate which girls were almost spied on.
Because of Arisu's illness, he subconsciously assumed that his daughter would not be involved in this incident.
Unexpectedly, she was placed at the top of the list by that girl from the Aragaki Family.
"I see, so you chose to use me to provoke you, Aragaki -kun?"
Upon hearing Sakayanagi Narimori's question, Sakayanagi Arisu immediately understood what had happened on her father's side.
However, she also loathed those audacious fools, and naturally, she would not deliberately cause trouble to protect these criminals just because she was being used as a pawn.
Therefore, the silver-haired girl simply stated truthfully, "Because I'll be joining Class A in a few days after summer vacation ends, Ichinose and the others invited me to this pool activity."
"I thought that even if I couldn't Swimming, I could at least paddle around the pool and observe the daily lives of the students in Class A, so I agreed. I never expected to encounter something like this."
Actually, it wasn't just her. In Class A, Sakayanagi Arisu also saw Wang Meiyu, Yamamura Miki, Kamuro Masumi, Kito Hayato, and other students who would also be transferring to Class A next semester.
It was just a normal class activity, so who would have thought that someone in Class D would dare to cause such a big commotion?
Sakayanagi Arisu was equally furious, after all, she was preparing to change into her swimsuit and then go to the shore to test her swimming skills, but she was almost secretly photographed by a group of perverts!
"Father, perhaps we should give more consideration to students' moral character when recruiting for Advanced Nurturing education programs in the future."
"Even if they're flawed products placed in Class D, they should at least know what they should and shouldn't do, right?"
"I will make sure the relevant faculty members take note of this," Sakayanagi Narimori, trying to suppress his anger as he assured them like a father. "Don't worry, Arisu, I will make those criminals understand right from wrong."
How dare they spy on his precious daughter!
This school can no longer tolerate such unruly students!
While Advanced Nurturing reputation certainly needs to be maintained, such matters can be resolved by spending more money. How can we let these ungrateful criminals go unpunished for this reason?
He must take decisive action to purify the campus environment for the next three years.
Otherwise, how could he feel at ease Arisu living in the same school as a group of voyeurs after he leaves school?
"It's just that Kanji Ike, Yamauchi Haruki, Ken Sudō, and Sotomura Hideo are four people who are relatively easy to deal with..."
Just as he was planning to create a relatively safe environment for his daughter, Sakayanagi Narimori glanced at the relevant information and noticed something strange about this incident.
The report submitted to the Student Council even mentioned that this upskirt photography incident involved Ayanokoji Kiyotaka, the son of Ayanokoji Atsuomi and the Masterpiece the White Room.
Because the other party was the whistleblower, no action was suggested for Aragaki Shun and Manabu Horikita; the matter was left to the school to decide.
However, Miyabi Nagumo, the Vice President of the Student Council, directly suggested that she and four other students drop out of school.
"How did Ayanokoji's father's son get involved in this upskirt photography incident?"
Sakayanagi Narimori's astonishment was genuine. He never imagined that the Masterpiece that Ayanokoji Atsuomi spoke of, which would inevitably change the future of Sakurajima, would actually be facing expulsion because of such an absurd matter.
If he doesn't take action now that they have this leverage over him, other members of the Board of Directors would genuinely not mind using this excuse to expel him and thus suppress the White Room.
After all, the two sides belong to the Naoe /faction and the Kijima Faction respectively, and Advanced Nurturing and White Room are undoubtedly competitors.
Ayanokoji Atsuomi allowed the White Room's Masterpiece to enter Advanced Nurturing, not only to teach him social knowledge that he couldn't learn at the White Room, but also to let him prove his strength starting from Class D and defeat the other students in Advanced Nurturing during his three years of growth.
To put it more plainly, Ayanokoji Atsuomi intended for his Masterpiece to showcase itself on the Advanced Nurturing Program stage, so that he could use the pretext of cultivating "artificial geniuses" to garner support from various factions.
In order to get the Kijima Faction to agree to the plan, the two factions naturally made many private exchanges of benefits.
But despite the deal, the two sides remain rivals in terms of political stance. If there is a legitimate reason to expel the White Room's Masterpiece, the school will certainly not hesitate to do so.
"Looks like I'll have to make Ayanokoji's father bleed a little more!"
If the only successful student at White Room were to be expelled for conspiring with others to secretly film women's changing rooms, the resulting amusement would be immense once the news spread widely.
Although Sakayanagi Narimori was a member of the Kijima Faction, he did not want to suppress the White Room in this way, after all, he had a good personal relationship with Ayanokoji Atsuomi.
In other words, although the Naoe /faction and the Kijima Faction are fiercely competing for the prime ministership, this is based on the premise that both camps are important members of the ruling party. Their competition is also an intra-party competition, and it is normal for them to fight without breaking apart.
"That hypocritical genius..."
On the other end of the phone, Sakayanagi Arisu's voice sounded somewhat complicated.
Before being suppressed by Aragaki Shun, she always considered herself a "true genius" and regarded Ayanokoji Kiyotaka as a "hypocritical genius," always longing for a fierce battle with him.
She had imagined that she would win, using her victory over Ayanokoji to negate the White Room's philosophy.
She could also accept a future where she lost. When she was a child, she had observed her opponent playing chess in White Room and knew that her opponent's chess skills were no worse than hers among her peers.
But now it seems that, just as she was easily crushed by another genius, Ayanokoji Kiyotaka, the Masterpiece of the White Room, is not as powerful as she imagined.
It feels a bit ridiculous, whether it's that "pseudo-genius" who hangs out with the idiots in Class D, or myself, the "real genius" who's already out of the game.
"Never mind, Father, do you have any other important matters to attend to?"
"Aragaki- san and second-year student Miyabi Nagumo seem to be gathering people to do something. If there's nothing else, I'll hang up."
"Arisu ..." Sakayanagi Narimori had a headache, partly because of the restless students, and partly because his precious daughter clearly wanted to join in the fun.
The middle-aged man sighed. Knowing his daughter's personality, he didn't intend to stifle her curiosity. He simply gave her a gentle yet stern warning. "Be careful. Always bring a caregiver. Don't act recklessly or try to be brave on your own."
"I understand, Father. Please rest assured, I'm with my classmates from Class A, so I don't think Aragaki-kun will let anything happen to me."
Less than half a minute after receiving assurances from Arisu, the phone indicated the call had ended.
Chairman Sakayanagi put down his phone and began browsing the materials sent by the Student Council.
Not only Arisu his family almost spied on, but the children from the Kiryuuin Family were also caught up in the incident. Aragaki Shun and Kanzaki Ryuji were particularly upset because the girls in their class were being secretly photographed.
Under these circumstances, Sakayanagi Narimori could think of no reason to protect those criminal students.
Even in a place like a school, which usually adheres to the principle of "making big problems small and small problems disappear," we still have to consider whether it's worth it!
These brainless idiots...
"Taking photos in a women's changing room is a crime of trespassing, which carries a maximum penalty of up to three years in prison."
"However, since they are currently minors, they are more likely to be transferred to a family court as 'specific juveniles' and sentenced to probation or placed in a juvenile detention center for three years."
After searching for information and confirming that taking proper legal steps would result in criminal penalties for these voyeurs, Sakayanagi Narimori began making phone calls to arrange things.
That's settled then. Lock up Kanji Ike, Yamauchi Haruki, Ken Sudō, and Sotomura Hideo for three years, and then have them diagnosed with mental illnesses after they're released.
They will live in a mental hospital for the rest of their lives and can forget about ever returning to a normal life.
As for Ayanokoji's father's child... let Ayanokoji's father discuss it with the Kiryuuin Family herself.
After making this decision, Sakayanagi Narimori suddenly remembered an interesting question—
Ayanokoji's father used to be a male escort, and now his child is involved in secretly filming women's changing rooms. Is there any genetic influence behind this?
Following the decision of Chairman Sakayanagi, the school quickly issued a notice that Yamauchi Haruki, Kanji Ike, Ken Sudō, and Sotomura Hideo should all withdraw from the school.
Manabu Horikita announced the decision in the Student Council Office, ignoring their wailing and coldly warning them:
"You have half a day to pack your belongings. You must submit your withdrawal application by 6 p. m., and a guardian will need to accompany you. Your Class D advisor will make the necessary arrangements."
"This matter is now closed. We hope you will cooperate fully with the school; otherwise, the school will not hesitate to take coercive measures."
After saying that, Manabu Horikita immediately ordered the Student Council Member to kick the few people who were still shouting and trying to get the school to change its mind out of the Activity Classroom.
Of the five suspects in this incident, only Ayanokoji Kiyotaka remained sitting quietly to the side.
Horikita President glanced at the other person with a calm expression and warned in a neutral tone:
"Ayanokoji, you were the whistleblower in this incident. Under normal circumstances, the school should have given you a corresponding reward."
"However, given that Vice President Aragaki noticed something amiss in the locker room, you only submitted the recording you had prepared the day before. Furthermore, Kanji Ike, Yamauchi Haruki, and others have accused you of being deeply involved in their activities... Therefore, the school is not prepared to accept their statements, but has decided to issue you a warning."