"D-Doma, you're worrying too much. Just having the school vouch for us will be enough to dispel many people's suspicions..."
"A-And Teacher Matsuzaki and Principal Yamamoto will handle the cleanup..."
The boys who had originally come looking for trouble were already starting to offer timid excuses.
Hearing their excuses, Sogo Doma's temple twitched. Teacher Matsuzaki? The guy he'd picked, who was basically just a mascot, was going to handle the cleanup? Give him a break. That guy couldn't even do his actual job properly. What could he possibly clean up?
And then there was that useless Principal Yamamoto.
Thinking of him reminded Sogo of his entrance exam. The guy who'd managed to mark that test as a perfect score and put it in his file... Sogo wanted to rub his temples just thinking about it. If that useless Yamamoto hadn't made such a mess of things, Mafuyu Kirisu wouldn't have set her sights on him, and he wouldn't have had to behave himself for a while...
The good-student treatment he'd imagined was now getting farther and farther out of reach...
Relying on that useless Principal Yamamoto to handle the cleanup would probably make things turn out much like his "perfect-score" entrance exam—equally absurd.
Wait...
Wasn't this already just like his "perfect-score" test? Anyone with eyes could see that the school was simply pretending not to notice and making things up!
"By the way, the person who came up with that ridiculous excuse about self-training—was it Principal Yamamoto?" Remembering just how unreliable that principal was, Sogo wore a troubled expression.
"It was Teacher Matsuzaki who suggested it at first..."
Sogo Doma: -_-!
This was bad. Two wildly unreliable people had crossed paths, setting off this whole farce...
At a time like this, wouldn't it have been better if that useless