Although the matter was ultimately put behind them after someone claimed there had been a witness.
When Sudo was framed, his way of handling things had been astonishing too. Three against one, and he'd actually taken the blame upon himself. Instead of simply denying it and making Ryuen's group produce evidence, he'd turned it into a straightforward brawl.
Even Ryuen had been surprised that Sudo didn't understand a thing.
So Ryuen immediately labeled Sudo as an easy target.
And faced with this scene,
Nakano Yuu watched Kushida.
Kushida looked rather nervous. "Nakano, we need to hurry and rescue Sudo."
There was a lot to unpack in those words.
If Kushida were good-aligned,
then an ordinary girl who saw someone being bullied might be scared and hide. Or, at best, she might say something self-protective and insincere, like, "Nakano, shouldn't we go help Sudo?" When a classmate was being bullied, a normal person would help.
But by asking whether they should go, she left herself a way out. Sudo was one of the more hot-tempered and capable fighters in their class, after all, and there were three students from Class C over there, one of whom was the leader of Class C. Could they even win? And what if she got dragged into it too?
Then she could run off without anyone blaming her, pretending she hadn't seen anything.
If she were a hypocrite, that would be enough.
But Kushida had said...
"Hurry and rescue him." That meant she wouldn't abandon Sudo. She wanted to save him.
She really was like an angel.
There was not a single flaw to pick out.
Nakano Yuu knew that Kushida wanted to keep playing her friends game with her classmates, just as she'd said when she first enrolled: "I hope we can all become