"Fox? Then thank you for your sincerity, Ryuen-san."
Hearing Ryuen Kakeru say that the special identity in their class was the Hunter, there was no expression on Ichinose's face.
A perfect poker face.
"Since the cooperation has been settled, we will take our leave first. We will discuss intelligence regarding the other two classes with Ryuen-san privately later."
Ichinose tried hard to maintain her facial expression, trying her best not to let Ryuen spot any flaws.
"Take care, Ichinose-san."
With the meeting over, Ryuen, wearing a smile, crossed his arms over his chest. His long legs were crossed, the tip of his leather shoe dangling in mid-air, bobbing up and down.
Ryuji Kanzaki and Kohei Katsuragi, who had consciously stood back behind Ichinose after she mentioned "my man," saw Ichinose leave the classroom and followed her out.
Ryuen Kakeru in the classroom didn't speak. His slightly ruthless eyes watched the retreating figures of the three Class A students. Behind him, Daichi Ishizaki and Albert exchanged a glance and didn't dare to speak either.
Bang.
The classroom door was closed. Inside the large classroom, only Ryuen, Ishizaki, Albert, and the silver-haired girl who had been sitting in the back reading a detective book without showing any reaction remained.
Along with the departure of the three Class A students, Ryuen's smile also vanished. The upturned corners of his mouth gradually flattened, and Ryuen stared gloomily at the closed classroom door.
It was as if he wanted to see through the door and pierce through Ichinose, who had already left.
"Shiina, it's confirmed. Class A's special identity is Fox."
Ryuen's eyes were sinister, and his words sent a chill down the spines of Albert and Ishizaki behind him.
What the hell? In just this short moment?
Boss Ryuen already confirmed what Class A's special identity is.
"Ryuen-san, the reason?"
Seeing Ryuen bring up business, Hiyori Shiina, who had come to act as the chief of staff, closed the book resting on her lap.
As a lover of detective novels, Hiyori Shiina was particularly interested in this special exam. Therefore, when Ryuen approached her wanting her to contribute to the class in this exam, Hiyori did not refuse.
Hiyori had understood the previous cooperation terms in advance, so she hadn't paid much attention to them just now.
"Ichinose's pupils showed signs of slight contraction the moment I said 'Fox'."
"Although Ichinose tried hard to put on that poker face, her eyes betrayed her."
"One more thing: her reaction was too flat. It was so flat that it was as if she already knew the abilities of the Fox identity."
"One can never have too much intelligence. The fact that Ichinose didn't try to fish for information about the Fox's abilities and missions from me is the biggest problem."
Facing Hiyori's question, Ryuen stated his deduction without thinking.
Ichinose was still too inexperienced; many of her micro-movements and micro-expressions were easily noticed by Ryuen.
Stretching comfortably, a slight cracking sound came from the bones in Ryuen's body.
"Since we've confirmed the special identity... let the girls in our class who get along with Class A try to gather some information."
After identifying the target, Ryuen began to consider his next move.
The cooperation between Class A and Class C was unequal from the start. Class A had morals, but Class C did not.
Once Ryuen learned that Class A had valuable information, he quickly set his sights on his partner.
"Also..."
Ryuen turned his head to look at the contemplative Hiyori Shiina behind him.
Her long silver hair was scattered casually around her waist. The gray over-knee socks wrapped around her thighs squeezed out a hint of fleshiness at the junction, coupled with Hiyori's exquisite face.
She was quite a natural beauty.
"Shiina-san, please trouble yourself to get a little closer to Ren recently."
Ryuen wanted to make use of everything at his disposal, and Hiyori, as chief of staff, was no exception.
"Ryuen-san, are you planning to use me as a honey trap? I don't think Katsuragi-kun will fall for it."
Even though Ryuen so blatantly wanted to use her, Hiyori didn't get angry; instead, she simply pointed it out to him.
There were too many beautiful girls around Ren. Hiyori didn't think this plan of Ryuen's was very good.
Besides... if Ren was the target of the honey trap, Hiyori didn't actually mind going along with it.
She hadn't read books with Ren in the library for a very long time.
Because of her connection to Ren, Hiyori had become closer to female classmates in Class A like Airi Sakura and Ichinose, but the distance between her and Ren seemed to have grown slightly.
"It's not a honey trap, Shiina-san."
"No matter what, Ren is ultimately the behind-the-scenes leader of Class A. With this kind of special exam appearing, the student who got the special identity will very likely ask Ren for help."
"I need you to help me pay attention to which Class A students have suddenly approached Ren recently. After filtering slowly like this, the answer obtained will be much closer to the truth."
"And..."
Ryuen didn't want to let Class A go easily. He wanted to seize every opportunity to find out who the student with the special identity in Class A was first.
One result in the exam rules was indeed correct.
The first prey is the most delicious, even if it was your partner a second ago.
"I understand."
Hiyori accepted Ryuen's order.
...
Strolling on the bustling street.
Taking two ice creams of different flavors handed over by the ice cream shop staff, Ren handed the vanilla-flavored one to Suzune Horikita, who had been following behind him, before licking the chocolate-flavored ice cream in his hand.
"Horikita-san, I think you see clearly. My identity is Ordinary Villager; there is nothing special."
Unlike the three classes above, the student with the special identity in Class D was still hiding to this day.
Yosuke Hirata, the good-natured guy with excellent popularity in the class, had shouted himself hoarse appealing for that person to step forward, but received no useful results.
This was also human nature.
The Personal Points of the vast majority of students in Class D had long since returned to zero, and they were all living bitter lives.
The special identity that appeared at this time represented not an opportunity to fight for Class Points for the negative-score Class D, but a fortune that could be exchanged for a massive amount of Personal Points.
No fool would miss their own major opportunity for the sake of their classmates.
Except...
I'm talking about you, from the original work!
The candidate who had enough points to buy this special identity and was not afraid of being bumped into by others was Ren, who had transferred to Class D.
For this reason,
Like a little follower, Suzune Horikita followed behind Ren after class, temporarily blocking the little schemes of that classmate hiding their identity.
"Thank you."
Horikita accepted the ice cream handed over by Ren openly. She hadn't eaten this kind of dessert for a long time.
She extended her pink, delicate tongue to scoop up a bit of ice cream from the cone and put it in her mouth. The sweet, creamy vanilla flavor spread across her taste buds, and Horikita savored this dreamlike treat.
"You are strangely polite."
"Want more?"
Eating the crispy cone in his hand, which no longer had ice cream, Ren planned to pack a few for his girlfriends and asked Horikita politely.
"Thank you."
"..."
"Hello, please pack five ice creams of different flavors for me. What flavor do you want?"
Ren first placed the order with the ice cream clerk, then looked at the little tail beside him that might have been there recently.
"Vanilla again, thank you."
"Also, take another vanilla ice cream; no need to pack this one."
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