After confirming that Sakayanagi had no intention of cooperating, Kanzaki Ryuji turned his gaze toward Katsuragi Kohei.
"What about you, Katsuragi?" Kanzaki demanded bluntly. "Or was this actually cooked up by everyone in Class B? Have you really stooped this low in your competition with the other classes?"
"Yoo-hoo~" Ryuen Kakeru, who had come to watch the show, stepped forward as if he couldn't resist stirring things up. "Just as you'd expect from the former Class A. You're certainly decisive in your attack as you try to reclaim your position."
"But this is wrong!" Yosuke Hirata of Class D couldn't help stating his position. "No matter how important class competition is, things between students at the same school shouldn't go this far."
"I urge everyone in Class B to stop immediately, while this can still be fixed..."
Hirata's face was tense, nothing like his usual friendly self. He looked as though he was holding something back.
He could sense the dangerous atmosphere!
At this school on Sakurajima, malicious rumors spreading widely were often the precursor to a group bullying someone.
He absolutely wouldn't allow that to happen. Class B had to be stopped from using such dangerous methods.
Otherwise, even if these methods couldn't hurt Aragaki Shun, things would be disastrous if other students got caught up in them.
He couldn't let the tragedy from middle school happen again. He had to stop this!
"Wait. We haven't finished investigating, so we can't just conclude that this was done by Class B, can we?"
Seeing the other three classes insist that Class B had launched this rumor campaign against Class A, Katsuragi Kohei couldn't hold back any longer.
He could assure them that he knew nothing about it.
Even Sakayanagi... Well, it was hard to say with Sakayanagi.
"But we're investigating