After the battle in the gymnasium, Ryuen Kakeru took a full week off and didn't go to class.
It wasn't that Ryuen Kakeru didn't want to keep taking time off.
A week was already the limit of how much leave he could take at Advanced Nurturing High School. If he stayed away any longer, he would probably receive an expulsion notice.
The reason Ryuen Kakeru had taken time off, of course, was that he didn't want anyone to see him looking so pathetic, with a swollen face and black eyes.
If the students of Class C saw how badly he'd been beaten, it wouldn't just cost him face. It would also threaten his control over the class.
However, a week wasn't enough for Ryuen to recover completely from his injuries.
He was in much better shape than a week ago, but his lean face was still covered in bruises. It was obvious he'd been hurt.
So plenty of students suspected that Ryuen Kakeru had been beaten up.
The most likely suspect was naturally Chihaya Rei, who'd had a conflict with Ryuen.
This time, Chihaya Rei's name spread through the year once again.
He'd gone from being Sakayanagi Arisu's crush to the righteous enforcer who'd beaten Ryuen to a pulp.
He'd picked up another nickname.
In the Class D classroom, Chihaya Rei had naturally heard the rumors about himself. He chose to laugh them off.
It was a relief that Ryuen hadn't been beaten so badly that his spirit was broken.
So now he was looking forward to Ryuen recovering quickly and launching his next attack.
Besides, nothing else interesting had happened lately, and he had nothing better to do.
Come to think of it, didn't he still have dirt on Kushida Kikyo?
Chihaya Rei's eyes lit up as he looked