"You want to play with me? This trick isn't exactly clever." Ryuuen flicked the water from his hands onto Ayanokoji's clothes. When he couldn't shake it all off, he simply wiped his hands on Ayanokoji's shirt collar.
The water stains left irregular patterns on the collar. Ayanokoji watched everything Ryuuen did without expression, then straightened the collar Ryuuen had wrinkled. "I have no idea what you're talking about."
"Boring." Ryuuen walked away from Ayanokoji.
Ayanokoji followed behind Ryuuen as the two headed to Ishizaki's room together.
By the time Ryuuen arrived, Horikita Manabu had already found the Kamen Rider Belt Ishizaki had mentioned in his room, just as Ishizaki was holding it up in an attempt to clear his name.
But Ike told Horikita Manabu, "Ishizaki's belt is fake. The real one is in my room. He's fabricating evidence—obviously, he's the culprit!"
"How could it be fake?!" Ishizaki protested as he inspected the belt, only to be utterly stunned by what he found. The belt really was fake—or rather, a high-quality replica. Anyone but a veteran collector would never spot the difference, and Ishizaki was exactly that. He examined it from every angle for a long time before realizing it was not the belt from before at all. Someone had swapped out his belt!
Seeing Ishizaki's dumbfounded expression, everyone present understood that the belt was fake, even if they weren't Kamen Rider fans.
"Do you have anything else to say, Ishizaki? You never sold the camera. You kept it for yourself, and you'd been planning to secretly film the girls' changing room from the very beginning. You'd been plotting this since school started! The belt incident was staged by you too!" Suzune questioned Ishizaki before Horikita Manabu could.
This overstepping behavior drew everyone's attention, but no one thought there was