"Why are you here?" Horikita Suzune still could not understand the situation before her.
"Did you think they didn't know you had cameras set up in the karaoke room? Half the school is carrying voice recorders and cameras around with them now."
Shiraishi Makoto looked at Horikita Suzune's somewhat disheveled, damp hair. "Throwing water on you, insulting you, or something else—he must have used those tactics on you in the karaoke room, right? You thought he was pressuring you into signing an unfair cooperation agreement, but he was really just trying to provoke you."
"He needed to force you to leave the karaoke room voluntarily, because that was the location you had prepared. And on the route back from Keyaki Mall, there were no suitable private locations. Only behind the dorms was suitable for a private conversation."
"Only after confirming that you had no chance to record anything would he lure you here. That way, it would become his home ground."
Shiraishi Makoto had seen through Hosen Kazuomi's intentions long ago, and everyone now understood why he had appeared here in advance.
The real reason for Hosen Kazuomi's failure was that his information had been incomplete.
Kiriyama Ikuto was the Student Council vice president and the leader of a class. Hosen Kazuomi had not expected him to withstand pressure from the school administration and warn Shiraishi Makoto. And since Ayanokoji Kiyotaka had shown almost nothing remarkable over the past year, Hosen had underestimated his strength.
He had thought he was the hunter lurking in the shadows, never realizing that every move he made had been watched by the two of them.
"With both witnesses and physical evidence, even if all the teachers were asleep, the Student Council could issue a ruling on their behalf." Shiraishi Makoto did not approach Hosen