Huh?
Hachiman looked at Kushida.
Kushida seemed somewhat dejected.
"Was the person who told you this information someone Kushida knows?" Hachiman asked.
Based on Hachiman's understanding of Kushida, she was quite skilled at winning people over. Had she really been betrayed so easily?
"Kushida knows them. You know them too," Horikita said.
"..." Hachiman paused. "Then who was it?"
If that was the case, Hachiman figured it had to be a student from Class D.
And that student had actually betrayed Kushida? Then it truly was a huge blow to her.
After all, she still cared deeply about the other students.
During the Ichinose message incident, Hachiman had asked Kushida for some students' secrets to break the deadlock. Back then, Kushida had resisted; she refused to betray her companions.
And now, she had been sold out by one of those companions instead?
What was more, it was by someone who could not judge people properly. Horikita and he were only a couple on the surface, but that was different from Kushida.
Yet without even understanding that much, they had reported Kushida?
"Ibuki told me," Horikita said.
"..." Hachiman.
"..." Kushida.
Hachiman was instantly speechless, while Kushida slowly lifted her head, seemingly recovering her spirits bit by bit.
All right. Kushida felt that her Kushida Empire could still be saved.
Because Ibuki really was that kind of person.
She was the same type as Suzune Horikita—operating on the same wavelength.
PS: This chapter combines two chapters to make up for the update missed the day before yesterday.
Girls Were Best at Acting and Lying, Weren't They, Classmate Sakayanagi? Part 1
Ibuki had a straightforward personality, which made her somewhat similar to Horikita.
However, Ibuki's powers of observation were still lacking.
So when she discovered that Kushida had gone alone to see