Aragaki Shun looked at the several Source Power notifications on his Personal Panel, a strange expression crossing his face.
The first two made sense. After all, the Student Council at Kodo Ikusei Senior High School wielded extraordinary influence, and the Student Council President could even revise the school's rules and regulations to a certain extent.
But the third one was a little ridiculous.
So Horikita Manabu really did intend to pave the way for Horikita Suzune to inherit the position of Student Council President?
If Shun hadn't happened to witness Manabu lecturing his younger sister on a whim, would the person who showed up have been the supposed mastermind behind Class D?
And would Manabu have seen in that person the hope of supporting Horikita Suzune's succession as president?
There were only two people in Class D with that kind of ability whom Shun knew about. Koenji Rokusuke definitely wouldn't be hiding in a corner and spying.
That left only—
"Ayanokoji Kiyotaka, do I really have to walk over there and drag you out?"
"..."
The surroundings remained quiet. Only when Aragaki Shun actually started walking over did a brown-haired boy with golden eyes silently emerge from behind a tree.
He was quite handsome, but had a relatively weak presence. His expression was blank, and he had dull, lifeless eyes.
That did little for Ayanokoji Kiyotaka's public image, making it easy for other students to see him as gloomy and antisocial.
But he didn't care in the slightest. After Shun called him out, Ayanokoji's blank expression barely changed. He simply asked with some curiosity, "I can understand how you noticed someone hiding behind the tree—you must have remarkable perception. But how did you know that the person hiding there was me?"
Ayanokoji felt that his future school life might not