In the middle of the night accompanied by the roar of rain and thunder.
Kushida Kikyo kept running fast, as if fleeing from a terrifying figure.
She ran into a small alley to find a hiding place, but accidentally her foot stumbled on a stone at the roadside. She fell face down on the ground; her palms were scraped, and her clothes were dirty covered in mud. However, she had no time at all to care about such trivial matters.
She was panting, her chest rising and falling rapidly, while her eyes stared full of fear at the black shadow that kept chasing her.
That black shadow figure slowly approached in front of Kushida. He wore a pitch-black raincoat. Judging from his build, he was a man.
Kushida gritted her teeth tightly, then screamed full of anger at that person.
"What do you want so you'll release me?! Akasaka Ryunosuke!!!!!"
Kushida's scream sounded so pitiful.
Along with a lightning strike splitting the sky, that person's figure reflected in Kushida's eyes. Sure enough, he was Ryunosuke.
Ryunosuke slowly opened the hood of his raincoat, showing a very cold facial expression. He looked at the girl in front of him and said in a piercing tone.
"If next time you dare obstruct me from making money, prepare to be expelled from school, Kushida."
Kushida suddenly sat up straight in her bed. Sweat poured down drenching all her clothes like rain.
She looked around her room with a horrified gaze. As soon as she realized where she was, she breathed a sigh of relief with a faint smile.
"Turns out it was just a dream..."
Kushida held her forehead. "A slight fever, did I catch a cold?"
"Sss, it hurts!"
Kushida suddenly realized something. She looked at her injured palm. It was the same scraped wound as when she fell last night.
Her face was instantly filled with fear.
"That wasn't a dream! That was real! Akasaka already knows my secret, he knows everything about me."
"He knows I'm the one who betrayed the class. He knows everything."
Kushida was like a crazy person, pulling her own hair and squeezing it non-stop.
"What do I do? What do I do? He knows I'm a class traitor, what should I do?"
"What should I do?"
"Damn Akasaka! Why don't you just die!"
Kushida screamed full of anger, as if wanting to vent all the resentment in her heart. She understood that Ryunosuke had taken hold of her weakness. She had no way to take revenge, not even room to choose.
If that man used this information to report her, then her career at this school was finished. Not only expelled, all the social relationships she had painstakingly built would also be completely destroyed. She had struggled to come to this school to start a new life, she couldn't repeat the same mistake.
Kushida's gaze suddenly became very cruel.
(I have to make him expelled from school!!!)
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On the other side, at school.
Today was a normal school day. Kushida requested leave from school because of a fever. The reason she had a fever was purely because she was scared half to death by Ryunosuke yesterday, plus her body was soaking wet from the rain.
The perpetrator was still Ryunosuke. Who told him to carelessly discuss class betrayal with her. That made Kushida frightened on the spot and immediately ran away in panic.
Before long, the school dismissal bell rang.
Airi tremblingly took her school bag. Inside was stored her digital camera. That camera experienced damage today and needed to be taken to a service center.
When she walked bent over about to leave the school gate, she accidentally bumped into someone. Her digital camera bounced and fell, and she herself fell sitting on the ground.
The male student who bumped into her picked up that camera and reflexively examined it. This made Airi frightened. She immediately snatched back her camera and hugged it tightly to her chest, while checking if there was further damage.
But unfortunately, that camera was already badly damaged and couldn't be turned on anymore.
Airi's eyes began to tear up. Her personal points this month weren't much anymore. Although this month they successfully rose to Class C, their points were still 8,700 points, completely insufficient to repair a digital camera.
Seeing Airi almost crying, that student immediately apologized to her.
"Sorry, I didn't mean to, Sakura-san."
Hearing this familiar voice, Airi finally raised her head that was always bowed. As soon as she saw who that person was, she reflexively exclaimed.
"Akasaka-kun, why is it you?"
Ryunosuke scratched the back of his head awkwardly.
"Sorry, your camera broke from falling because of me. I'll replace it or pay the repair costs, how about it?"
Airi hesitated for a moment, then nodded softly. "In that case, I'm troubling you, Akasaka-kun."
"No trouble," Ryunosuke waved his hand as a sign he didn't mind. "Besides, that camera broke because of me, I'm obligated to give compensation."
"Let's go, Sakura-san, to the electronics service shop. I'll pay the costs."
"Ehm..."
Airi nodded slightly then followed me to the camera service shop, which was also the place she had visited last month.
There, there was still a lecherous-looking shop clerk on duty behind the counter. When he saw Airi, his eyes immediately sparkled brightly. He even ignored other customers and immediately approached her.
Now in his eyes there was only Airi-chan~
That was his idol! He was a hardcore fan of Airi, a very fanatical diehard fan.
That clerk didn't hide at all his fondness for Airi, his gaze full of greedy glints. As if he wanted to embrace Airi into his arms and inhale her scent to his heart's content.
Airi reflexively stepped back. She really couldn't stand... that dirty gaze.
Ryunosuke immediately stepped in front of Airi, blocking the shop clerk's view and helping her out of the difficult situation.
Airi showed a grateful expression and thanked him internally, but outwardly she didn't have the courage to say it. She bowed her head shyly and remained silent.
Seeing someone blocking his view of Airi, that shop clerk felt annoyed and reflexively wanted to push him.
"Just getting in the way! You..."
But before those words came out completely, he already shrank from Ryunosuke's cold gaze. The clerk swallowed nervously, just realizing he was doing business. While wiping the cold sweat on his forehead, he asked reflexively.
"Uh, customer, is there anything I can help you with? This shop sells digital cameras and other products."
"Eh? I remember now, last month you seemed to buy many spy cameras here."
"Don't tell me you're..."
That clerk showed an expression as if they were "like-minded comrades," clearly he was thinking lewdly.
Ryunosuke didn't waste time making small talk with him. He took out Airi's camera and asked, "Can you repair this camera?"
As soon as he saw that camera, the clerk immediately recognized it as Airi's. After all, that special pink-colored camera was bought by Airi from him, of course he remembered very clearly. Moreover, the owner was his own idol, it was impossible for him to forget.