Only Need to State the Facts, Nan Yun Ya Can Fall to the Bottom

"Could this matter have something to do with Classmate Sakayanagi?"

Ichinose's angle of thought was quite different; Hiyori was considering things from my perspective, while Ichinose was looking at it from the perspective of the incident itself.

"It is related, but it doesn't have much to do with Sakayanagi herself. It's mainly that I need to use her to report a situation to her father."

I actually have Chairman Sakayanagi's phone number, but if I were the one to bring this up, the nature of the matter would change, and I still want to drag things out a bit.

While I was taking a detour to bring Sakura back, I could already feel that almost palpable malice. I only need to provoke that guy a little more, and he will definitely be unable to hold back.

"Classmate Sakayanagi's father?"

Ichinose didn't understand. Could this matter really be kept hidden from so many people?

One had to remember that Chairman Sakayanagi had given a speech on stage during the entrance ceremony. The surname Sakayanagi isn't exactly a common one, so connecting Sakayanagi to Chairman Sakayanagi should be perfectly normal, right?

"Sakayanagi Arisu—her father is the chairman of this school, Chairman Sakayanagi. While we are still running ourselves ragged, she is already sitting at the finish line sipping tea."

My own situation is not much different from Sakayanagi's, it seems. Hiyori's family isn't exactly poor either, and Sakura could even debut in the future; you can't walk that path without some money. Japan isn't like Korea, where trainees have to go into debt for their training.

Thinking about it this way, among the four of us here, only Ichinose's family background is the weakest.

"So, Masaryu-kun still hasn't told us what exactly is going on."

Hiyori pulled the topic back while applying medicine for Sakura.

"Classmate Sakura, can I make the call on this for you? What I can guarantee is that I will do my best to keep the attention on your situation to an absolute minimum. Aside from those necessarily involved in assisting with the arrest, the only people who will know are those of us here and Classmate Sakayanagi from Class A."

The words I had said to Ichinose earlier were now coming back to haunt me like a boomerang. To maintain my persona, I had to act in a roundabout way while respecting Sakura—at least, I had to maintain an attitude of respect in front of Ichinose.

"I, I am actually—"

To my surprise, Sakura chose to take the initiative to explain her identity to Ichinose and Hiyori. However, due to her social anxiety, her words were stumbling and fragmented, and she kept missing the point, hovering around the edges and unwilling to dive in.

"Actually, Classmate Sakura is very introverted by nature, so she isn't good at expressing herself.

As everyone knows, in schools here in Japan, the hierarchy among students can be divided into several layers.

At the top of the pyramid is the group composed of delinquents and members of popular sports clubs like baseball and soccer. They are essentially the masters of the school; they are the only ones who bully others, and no one bullies them unless there are bad habits within their own ranks.

The next layer consists of less successful delinquents, those with good but complex social networks, members of literature or niche clubs, and the followers of the people at the top. This type of person makes up the majority of the student body.

Even if many of them aren't as sociable as they appear on the surface, they will try every possible way to integrate into larger groups to protect themselves.

At the very bottom are the shut-ins and social outcasts who have no friends and no social life. They usually become the targets of school bullying.

Classmate Sakura is actually at the very bottom of this ecological niche. Fortunately, Classmate Sakura disguises herself very well, avoiding trouble from the student body—or rather, before anyone could bother her, someone else had already become the 'chicken' sacrificed to warn the 'monkeys'."

I explained Sakura's ecological niche first to ensure she was inherently positioned as a vulnerable party, standing on the moral high ground. This way, the content that followed would be more emotionally resonant, especially for Ichinose.

"However, luck and misfortune are not always mutually exclusive. While Classmate Sakura was lucky enough not to become a target of school bullying, unfortunately, someone even more disgusting and despicable has set their sights on her.

Just today, when I bumped into Classmate Sakura, I discovered a guy who had been stalking her and taking candid photos of her with a camera. That person wasn't a student, but a staff member of the school!

If I were the only witness, I wouldn't have immediately believed what I saw. But after Classmate Sakura showed me the messages she received on her phone, combined with some of her private circumstances, I became convinced that Classmate Sakura had encountered a stalker who had been targeting her for a long time within the school.

Considering the perpetrator's extremely despicable methods and the possibility that he holds many indecent photos of Classmate Sakura, the impact would be catastrophic if they were leaked.

That is why I am preparing a plan. To protect Classmate Sakura's reputation, we must eliminate the possibility of her privacy being leaked. Once we make a move, we must take him down immediately; we cannot give him any chance to dispose of the information.

Furthermore, we must avoid crowds to prevent him from acting out of desperation. To achieve these conditions, I need the help of the school administration. But if I report this to the school, the Student Council will find out. The Student Council knowing isn't the problem; the problem is that the people inside the Student Council knowing is a huge issue.

Our second-year Vice President, Nagumo Miyabi, would never let such a good opportunity to expand his fleet slip by. We cannot let Classmate Sakura escape the tiger's den only to fall into a wolf's lair. Going directly to Chairman Sakayanagi, skipping the Student Council procedure, and asking Sakayanagi for help is the only way to do it."

Because the Sudo incident was preemptively altered by Ryuen and me, Ichinose's desire to join the Student Council this time has been severely diminished. Moreover, without any dark history, Nagumo's attempt to groom her didn't succeed; she didn't enter the Student Council through the back door this time.

However, to guard against Nagumo, I still had to aggressively tarnish his image. And this couldn't even be called tarnishing—it was simply recounting his true nature exactly as it was, without adding a single drop of exaggeration.

"Vice President Nagumo Miyabi? His fleet?"

It seems these pronouns of mine are still too advanced for the current Ichinose. Pure children don't really understand these things, even if the education here in Japan regarding such matters is truly advanced.

"According to reliable information and credible audio and video materials, we can simply assume that when Nagumo Miyabi entered his first year, while still in an ambiguous relationship with his childhood sweetheart, he chose to date a girl from his own class and a girl from Class D simultaneously.

Later, that girl from Class D stood up and accused Nagumo Miyabi of his evil deeds on the forum, but the matter didn't cause much of a stir. By then, Nagumo Miyabi had already joined the Student Council and used his influence to suppress it, eventually getting that Class D girl expelled during a subsequent special exam.

If you want to find that post now, you can still go to the forum and dig for it; I remember it being around page eighty or so.

Besides that, during his first year, Nagumo Miyabi dated a new girlfriend every single month for the entire semester and maintained improper relationships with multiple girls throughout.

This intelligence is the essence summarized by our seniors, all buried deep in the forum. It takes some time to dig it all up."

I couldn't help it; curiosity is just like that. On the night of the first day of school, I was bored, so I flipped through all the forum posts. I originally only wanted to see if there was any useful information, but I ended up getting hooked on Nagumo Miyabi's romantic history and started gossiping.