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A.A : And, I'm back.

Cheers

A.A : We're going to run it back and I'm going to show you two more videos before we go into a 'Timeline Break'.

Everyone : Timeline Break?

A.A : Yes, one that many people have anticipated.

'More people?' But we're the only one here?

A.A : It's a pain to explain everything so let's just think of it as the higher-ups, okay?

Ishizaki : Well, I guess that makes sense a bit.

Horikita : And, what will we be reacting to now?

A.A : We will be reacting to "Kushida's Greatest Mistake".

Huh?

Class D : Kushida's Greatest Mistake?

Kushida & LN Kushida : Shit!shit!shit!shit!shit! This is very bad! Fuck you, you piece of shit! I wish you die in a fire!

A.A : Scary!

LN Ike : Will we finally watch Kushida's thoughts now?! HELL YEAH!!!

Yama-who : WOOOOOOOO!

Oh right, I forgot he exist. Somehow it's a good thing that he's not here in the original universe.

Cold

A.A : Let's begin, shall we?

"Kukuku/Fufufu"

What the hell was that?

I left the library and chased after Kushida. I wanted to thank her for working so hard to get the study group together, and to apologize. Besides, I wanted to do everything possible to get along with such a cute girl, you know?

Such boldness.

But he wasn't wrong. Kushida IS a cute girl.

I wonder.

But I have a bad feeling about this.

LN Hashimoto : Woah, woah, woah, woah. Context?

A.A : Ah, right. This was on the second month of the school. When you guys were having the first exam. The study group consisting of Horikita Suzune, Ayanokouji Kiyotaka, Kushida Kikyou, Sudo Ken, Ike Kanji, Okitani Kyosuke and Yama-something.

Yamauchi : OII!!

LN Sakayanagi & Ryuuen : Fufufufu/Kukukuku

LN Class A & C : HEHEHEHA!

Ayanokouji : But, I wonder why are they showing my thoughts now?

"I don't know man. Maybe it's your turn this time. Then is my turn? I don't know."

Whipping out my cell phone, I pulled up Kushida's contact information. Although it was my second time calling, I felt nervous contacting her. The phone rang twice, then three times. However, she didn't pick up. Did she not notice me calling? Or was she refusing to answer it?

Kushisimp : Poor guy. Was ignored by our goddess.

LN Shinohara & Shinohara : How pathetic. Why are even watching you and your thoughts right now? It would be better if we're watching Hirata-kun.

Yosusimp : THAT'S RIGHT! THAT'S RIGHT!

Can I kill them now?

Thought you repented?

I changed my mind.

Later, when they go out of hands.

Roger!

A.A : That's enough all of you. We'll be fast-forwarding since it's just a one-sided game of tag.

I gently leaned against the handrail and peeked through a crack in the rooftop door. Through the opening, I glimpsed Kushida. No one else was with her. Was she waiting for someone?

Kushisimps : What? No way! I won't allow it!

"And who the hell are you to say that?"

Kushisimp : We're her simps!

"...Kushida, I advice you to not get close with them." I whispered to Kushida.

Kushida : But why? I mean, they are all nice after all :)

Kushisimp : HEHEHA! *smug face*

"Just an advice." Worth a shot. People like them are disgusting.

That was admirable of you, Hakim.

Of course, I like my classmates enough that I don't want anything bad happens to them. Especially the women.

Again, that is admirable.

Agreed.

A rendezvous at such a secluded place... Could she possibly be waiting for her boyfriend? If that were the case, I could end up cornered on all sides. While I agonized over how to sneak away, Kushida slowly set her bag on the ground.

And then...

"Ahhh, so annoying!"

Huh?

What?

Literally everyone : NANI?!

I knew it.

Her voice was so low that it didn't sound like Kushida at all.

"She's seriously annoying! God, how irritating. It'd be better if she just died..."

Oh wow...

She grumbled to herself, as if chanting the words to some kind of spell or curse.

"Ugh, I hate stuck-up, snobby girls who think they're so cute. Why is she such a harpy? A rotten girl like her couldn't possibly tutor me."

Was Kushida annoyed with...Horikita?

I could see Sudou's fist clenching as if he saw the thing that he despises the most.

"Ah, she's the worst! She's just the worst, the worst, the worst! Horikita, you're so annoying! You're so damn annoying!"

I felt like I'd glimpsed another side of this gentle girl, the most popular person in our class. She probably didn't want anyone else to see this darker side. A voice in my head whispered that it was dangerous to stay here.

"Bro, moves. Get out of the way." For whatever reason, I decided to whisper those. It's like complaining about the decision's of a character in show.

However, an odd question arose. Why had she agreed to work with me if she felt such hatred toward Horikita? Kushida should have understood Horikita's personality and behavior perfectly well by now. She could have refused to help, or just left the study group to Horikita, or otherwise washed her hands of involvement.

Why force herself into the study group? Did she want to get along with Horikita? Or did she want to become closer to another participant?

None of it made sense. I couldn't explain her reasoning.

No. She may have shown signs of this from the very beginning. I hadn't really thought about it before, but considering the state she was in right now, I had a hunch. Perhaps, Kushida and Horikita were...

At any rate, I needed to get away from there. Kushida probably didn't want anyone else to hear her venting. Still hiding, I quickly tried to leave.

Thump!

"Bro, you're an idiot. No sympathy for your death. You could've ran."

Ayanokouji : Well, I'm sorry. I wasn't on the common sense mind at that time.

Manabu : Truly impressive.

LN Ryuuen : What deduction power, kukuku. Ayanokouji you damn monster.

I'd kicked the door much louder than I'd anticipated. It'd been unexpectedly loud, really. Kushida tensed and stopped breathing. I'd instantly become her enemy. Turning, Kushida set her sights on me. I'd been seen.

'Louder than anticipated'? Did that idiot do it on purpose?

After a brief silence, Kushida coldly asked, "What...are you...doing here?"

Yabei...

Yes, that is yabei

...that was hot

...

"I got a little lost. Sorry. My bad, my bad. I'll be going now."

Kushida looked straight at me, clearly seeing through my obvious lie. I'd never seen such an intense gaze before.

Why do I have a feeling that he's lying?

"Did you hear?" she asked.

"Would you believe me if I said I didn't?" I replied.

"I see..."

Kushida briskly walked down the stairs. She placed her left forearm against the base of my throat, and pushed me up against the wall. Her tone of voice, her actions, everything about her was completely unlike the Kushida I knew. This new Kushida wore a terrifying expression, one that I could almost compare to Horikita's.

Horikita : and whatever do you mean by that, A-ya-no-kou-ji-kun.

LN Horikita : yeah, could you explain to us what do you mean by that?

Ayanokouji & LN Ayanokouji : I forgor

"If you tell anyone what you just heard, I won't forgive you."

Her words were ice, and I didn't think they were an idle threat.

"And if I did tell?"

"In that case, I would tell everyone that you raped me," she said.

Many people were seething in anger by those words. Of course, false accusation is one of the reasons man goes to prison. The law would not be on Ayanokouji's side if this was brought on the court. Why? Just because Kushida is a woman. It's simple as that.

"That's a false charge, you know."

"That's okay. It wouldn't be false."

Her words had heft and power, leaving me unable to reply. As she spoke, Kushida grabbed my right wrist and slowly opened my hand. She pushed my palm up against her soft breast.

"What are you doing?" I asked. I hurriedly tried to pull away, but she pushed on the back my hand.

"Your fingerprints are on my clothes. That's evidence of my claim. I'm being serious. Understand?"

"I understand. I really do. So let go of my hand."

"I'm going to leave this uniform in my room without washing it. If you betray me, I'll hand it over to the police."

Sudou : YOU BITCH!!!

Sudou got up from his seat and went to Kushida with his hand making a fist. It's not it'll take a genius to understand what was he going to do, but everyone was so stunned that they couldn't stop him. However, just before his fist connected with Kushida...somebody caught the punch.

"Oi... Calm down, will you." I said.

Sudou : Wha— Hakim, what are you trying to—

I pushed Sudou with whatever strength I had left and said "I understand your feelings, but please think about it. Punching her will not solve this problem. Instead, it will create more and will burden Ayanokouji even more."

Sudou : Then, you're saying we should just stand still!! Aren't you his best friend!!

Best friend...

"Well it's not like we can do anything, either. How about leaving this to somebody's hands?"

Kanzaki : I'm not one that likes to interfere, but if I may ask. Who's hands are you leaving it to?

"The victim, of course."

Yama-I-Dont-Know-Who-This-Is : But, the fingerprints. How about the fingerprints?

Shinohara : Yeah, yeah... How about that?

I can't believe they're this stupid

Well, they're still teenagers.

"Leaving a clothes in one place and keeping it there means that it'll have dust. The longer it is kept there, the greater the amount of dust in that clothes. Since this took place in May, it's highly-likely that it's dirtied by the dust, covering Ayanokouji's fingerprints(uhh, reader. Please correct me if I'm wrong. Thank you very much.)"

Ike : But what if she kept it in a clean place?

"Then there's the chance that the fingerprints are gone. If Kushida does keep it in a clean place, then Kushida needs to touch the clothes to move it aside. Sure, Kushida wearing a glove might be a possibility, but that wouldn't stop the dust from outside. If you think about it, Kushida forcing Ayanokouji's hand to touch her breasts were kinda useless. Matter of fact, it's Ayanokouji's win since he got to touch a boob before the Trio-Idiot."

Stunned, aren't you?

Kushida's face were beetroot red. I don't know if it's from frustration or flush from the embarrassment.

Hasebe : Sugoi..

Sakura : Sugoi..

Sugoi

I calmly walked to my seat forgetting why I even stopped Sudou's punch. Wait, Sudou's punch?

"(Softly) That hurts."

I glared at Kushida for a while as she kept my hand pressed against her.

"It's a promise," she said.

Kushida stepped away from me. Even though this was the first time I had felt a girl's breasts, I found I couldn't remember the sensation.

"Hey, Kushida. Which is the real you?"

"That's none of your business."

"I see. Well, I was wondering something. If you hate Horikita, then you don't need to involve yourself with her, right?"

I knew she probably wouldn't like that question, but I was curious about her motivation.

"Is it bad to want everyone to like you? Do you understand how difficult it is to accomplish that? You can't know that, can you?" She asked.

"Well, I don't have that many friends, so I guess not."

"Ooh, self-burn. Those are rare."

Ever since the first day of school, Kushida had made an effort to exchange contact information with, invite out, and of course, talk with the pessimistic Horikita. One could easily imagine how difficult and time consuming that would be.

"At least on the surface, I wanted to appear to get along with Horikita."

"But the stress of that just kept building, huh?"

Shinohara : But why would she be stressed if she were with such good friends?

"I... don't know about that 'good friends' part."

Sato : What do you mean by that?

"Maybe she's not just stressed about Horikita. It could be that she was stressed with something else, too. Sure, she was venting about Horikita just now. But nobody knows that that's the only reason that she was venting her frustration. The only thing that's keeping my theory from the truth is Ayanokouji's interference."

Mii-chan : Is.. is that true, Kikyou-chan?

Kushida : *smirks* I applaud you for finding the truth. That's exactly the right answer.

Manabe : Sugoi

THE Random Girl : Sugoi

Sugoi

"Yeah. That's what I want out of life, though. That way, my existence has meaning." She answered without hesitation. Kushida had a singular way of thinking. Her own internal rules demanded she get close to Horikita.

"Let me tell you something, while I have the chance. I absolutely despise gloomy, ordinary guys like you."

Ouch

The fantasy of a cute Kushida that I'd carried until now had been shattered, but I wasn't actually that shocked. Most people possessed both a public face and a private, inner self, after all. However, I felt like Kushida was both telling the truth and lying right now.

"I'm just speculating but did you and Horikita know each other before this year? Maybe you both attended the same school in the past?"

"The instant I said it, Kushida shuddered in response.

"What the... I don't know what you mean. Did Horikita-san say something about me?" She snapped.

"No, I had the impression that this was the first time you'd met. But something seemed strange."

"Strange?"

I recalled the first time Kushida had spoken to me.

"You learned my name only when I first introduced myself, right?"

"So what?" Kushida responded flatly.

"Well, where did you learn Horikita's name? Back then, she hadn't introduced herself to anyone yet. The only person who knew was Sudou, but I doubt you'd met him by then."

I see. So that's why I had a bad feeling back then.

In other words, Kushida wouldn't have had the chance to learn Horikita's name.

"You got close to me so you could spy on her, right?"

"Just shut up. Hearing you talk irritates me, Ayanokouji-kun. I only want to know one thing. Do you swear you'll never tell anyone what you learned here today?"

"I swear. Even if I did, it's not like anyone would believe me. Right?"

The entire class trusted and loved Kushida. The difference between us was like night and day.

*Video Over*

A.A : Alright, that's it for now. We'll continue later.

Kushida : Oh yeah, I almost forgot. Hakim...

"...yeah?"

Kushida : About that advice you gave me when the video first started...

"What about it?"

Kushida : I think I'm going to accept your advice.

"Cool👍"

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