For the past two weeks, Kushida Kikyo had been plagued by rumors. Let alone helping Class 2-C-minus grade recruit students, she had found it difficult to even find a partner for herself. Ichinose Honami had taken this into consideration, so she brought Kushida along when meeting with the new students.
The dark history circulating throughout the school had indeed had a considerable negative impact on Kushida Kikyo, but after genuinely interacting with Ichinose Honami and Kushida Kikyo, quite a few freshmen began to have doubts.
Kushida Kikyo didn't seem quite like the rumors described.
Over the entire past year, Kushida Kikyo had not only been warm and attentive in her everyday interactions, but had also consistently worked hard to help her classmates. Whether it was tutoring them or borrowing money from other classes to save a classmate, she had made no mistakes in how she treated people throughout the year. Alongside Ichinose Honami, she had been known as one of the "big and little angels of the First Year."
Ichinose Honami's kindness was universally acknowledged. It was not merely something the First Year students had witnessed themselves, but a fact recognized by every grade. Since Kushida Kikyo had once been mentioned in the same breath as Ichinose Honami, the freshmen could more or less imagine what she had been like before the rumors spread.
After public opinion began to ferment, Kushida Kikyo had not responded to it, yet none of the classmates who had interacted with her for an entire year had been attacked by her. Although everyone knew that what happened to Sudo Ken and Ike Kanji had been the work of her boyfriend, Shiraishi Makoto, their act of secretly filming the girls' changing room truly did not deserve sympathy.
Moreover, since this account had been written by Kushida