"So this is how the school screens its staff? Do you realize how much harm someone like this could do to students like us, who are still growing up?"
"This is a serious failure on the school's part. This school has already had a huge security risk lurking for three years, since it couldn't communicate with the outside world. If the school can't properly vet its staff, how many students might get hurt when a criminal like this shows up on campus?"
Sawahara berated the school leaders over the incident, making it sound worse and worse.
"This incident wasn't as serious as you're making it out to be..." Someone had just started to argue when Sawahara immediately seized on their words.
"What do you mean by that? Are you hoping something like that will happen? Do you think it only counts as serious if a dozen or two female students get toyed with until they're broken?"
Watching Sagara Zoya argue with the school leaders, Sakura, who was attending the discussion as a victim, felt nothing but admiration. He actually dared to talk to adults like that.
Sagara's amazing.
Sakura didn't really understand what was going on. Listening to Sagara, she thought he was speaking up for the students, but the adults present knew exactly what he was after.
Extortion. He was planning to use the incident as an excuse to extort the school.
The employee would certainly be disciplined, but just as with the earlier hidden-camera incident, making this public would damage the school's reputation and cause unnecessary panic among the students.
If it had only been Sakura, given her personality, they could have simply scared her a little by being stern, then had her sign a nondisclosure agreement.
But with Sawahara there, handling things that way would be difficult...