Ryunosuke escorted Arisu to her residence. Of course, that scene was witnessed by many people, including his own girlfriend.
Ai pouted her lips, taking Arisu away with a bit of emotion; clearly she was jealous. Seeing Arisu had been picked up by her little assistant, Ryunosuke prepared to return.
Arisu looked back at him. "Remember our promise, Akasaka-kun~"
Whether Arisu said it that way on purpose, that sentence made those who heard it wildly imagine, thinking there was a secret relationship between them.
Ai's nostrils flared, she looked like she wanted to cry because she felt very sad. Even though she was his official girlfriend, why was someone else trying to steal her man?
Hearing Arisu's words, Ryunosuke kept his back to her and only waved his hand as a sign that he understood, without giving an excessive reaction. Arisu gazed deeply at his back before finally looking away.
"Let's go, Morishita-san."
Ai stopped her steps, her face showing a deeply hurt expression. "Sakayanagi-sama, he is my boyfriend. Could you not act so ambiguously toward him?"
"Are you intending to take him from me?"
"Calm down, calm down. I just wanted to joke a little, don't be too emotional." Arisu calmed Ai down, signaling her not to be impulsive. She herself felt she suddenly wanted to tease due to an instinct she didn't understand.
However, Ai was not easily persuaded. She still pouted her lips and asked, "What promise did you actually make with him?"
Arisu felt helpless and finally told the whole story. After hearing everything, Ai breathed a sigh of relief.
"Thank goodness, turns out you don't want to take him. Then I'm relieved." Ai took a long breath; she really thought Arisu wanted to take her boyfriend.
However, Arisu then said half-jokingly, "A man as excellent as him... if I were told to choose a partner, my first choice would definitely be Akasaka-kun..."
Ai looked at her tensely; even in her eyes flashed a sharp glint for a moment.
Arisu realized her joke had gone too far and just wanted to explain. Unfortunately, before she could open her mouth, Ai had already left her and walked away alone, not caring at all about the young lady's uncomfortable legs.
"This is bad..." Arisu watched Ai leave, feeling this situation was a bit difficult to handle. "This really is the result of my own doing... Why did I instinctively do that?"
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On the other side, Ryunosuke quickly returned to his room.
There, Ayanokouji had long returned to the dorm. He sat on the bed with a flat expressionless face, as if waiting for someone.
Ryunosuke greeted him and returned to his bed. Seeing that Ayanokouji seemed to be waiting for him, he immediately asked. "Do you have business with me?"
Ayanokouji nodded flatly. "Yes."
The two sat on their respective beds, staring at each other in silence. Quite a while later, Ayanokouji broke the silence.
"Chabashira-sensei is abusing her authority. Can you help me report her to the student council?"
Ryunosuke was stunned. "What kind of situation is this?"
Ayanokouji told how Sae threatened him at the cinema.
Sae had apparently investigated Ayanokouji's identity and used that to threaten to have him expelled from school if he wouldn't help the class in this exam.
The reason Sae threatened Ayanokouji was because she no longer had money to hire Ryunosuke's services. She realized that without money, Ryunosuke wouldn't move. Rather than continue being passive, she sought another way out by targeting Ayanokouji.
Ayanokouji felt very disturbed, so he sought out his only "close friend." namely Ryunosuke, to seek justice. After all, this only friend was a student council member.
Reporting a teacher who threatened a student with audio recording evidence he had already prepared at the cinema should be effective enough. Although Sae might not end up as tragically as Sakagami Kazuma, at least it could silence her for a long time.
Hearing the full story, Ryunosuke's expression became slightly strange.
Was this proceeding according to the original storyline? Why did Sae still seek out Ayanokouji? Didn't she already have him to help?
He didn't realize that actually Sae was forced to find a second "tool" because she couldn't afford his fee. Although Ryunosuke was somewhat expensive, his service was very satisfying; he dared to face anyone, not even afraid of the chairman himself. However, with only 1 million points remaining, Sae wasn't confident enough to hire Ryunosuke again.
Ayanokouji felt very displeased, so he decided to report. He planned to let Sae understand that if she wanted to threaten him, she had to get past his "friend" first.
He intended to use Ryunosuke as a shield. After all, better to be used than not at all. Moreover, this friend of his had once "sold him out" and called it friendship ethics. As a friend, he felt he should repay that "ethics" to appear polite.
Ryunosuke knew he was being used as a shield by Ayanokouji, but what could he do? He felt indebted for having sold out that friend before; consider this as repayment.
Ryunosuke agreed to his request, but with one condition: he wanted Ayanokouji to contribute in this exam.
Ayanokouji stated he understood and agreed.
Ryunosuke left the room to find Sae. He didn't really want to defend Ayanokouji; he just wanted to extort the last 1 million points from the other party. No matter how small the mosquito, its meat was still meat; especially this was 1 million personal points. A waste not to take it.
To win the bet with Arisu, he would definitely take action in this exam. So, Ryunosuke would visit Sae and say that he would act in this exam for a fee of 1 million points.
Sae, who desperately wanted to advance classes, would definitely immediately agree. For just 1 million points to hire him, she would definitely feel it was very profitable.
The corner of Ryunosuke's mouth slowly curved; he couldn't hold back his cunning smile.
That smile looked like a naughty uncle deceiving a small child, even though what he was deceiving was an adult woman 10 years older than him.
Ryunosuke knocked on the room door. Sae, who was smoking inside the room, immediately came out to check.
When she saw that it was Ryunosuke who came, her face showed extraordinary joy. She immediately welcomed him in even before Ryunosuke could speak.
Sae lit another cigarette, trying to suppress the excitement in her heart. With slightly trembling lips, she asked:
"For this special exam, do you intend to take action?"
"I'll say first, I only have 1 million points left in hand. There's no more if you ask for more."
Sae asked very carefully, as if afraid Ryunosuke would reject her.