After listening to Kanzaki's explanation, Ren looked at Arisu, who was still arranging her chess pieces opposite him, with surprise.
"Katsuragi-kun, staring at a lady like that is very rude."
Arisu, who was already somewhat interested in Ren, noticed his gaze immediately.
Of course, Arisu didn't feel offended; she was just stating a fact.
Ren, the true genius she had acknowledged, held great privileges in Arisu's eyes.
The candy in her mouth had completely melted. Arisu extended her small, somewhat sickly pale hand toward Ren.
There were no formalities, as if the two had truly become friends.
Placing a few candies into Arisu's palm, Ren said seriously: "Sakayanagi-san, I think you might really need to go to the hospital."
"Thank you for your concern, but I don't think there is any hospital in Japan currently known to treat heart disease, don't you agree, Katsuragi-kun?"
Unwrapping a fancy candy and putting it in her mouth, Arisu enjoyed the happiness brought by the dopamine release and spoke calmly.
Arisu knew Ren was aware of her illness, but she didn't expect him to bring up her medical history.
Trying to add external pressure on me?
Unfortunately, Ren's plan failed. She had long accepted the fact that she suffered from congenital heart disease.
"No, Sakayanagi-san... I think you should see an ophthalmologist."
"An ophthalmologist?"
"Yes, an ophthalmologist."
According to Kanzaki, some Class A students saw two male students from First Year Class D sneaking into the women's changing room at the swimming pool.
And it wasn't just two. Kanzaki and the others specifically observed the surroundings.
They found that Ken Sudo and Ayanokoji were also standing not far from the women's changing room, not moving at all, suspected of keeping watch for the two who sneaked in.
The reason Kanzaki and the others were so sure was thanks to those scumbags from Class D getting a set of walkie-talkies to make their plan look professional.
Ren really didn't know what to say...
Who rushes to hand their own leverage to someone else like this? Are they in such a hurry to die?
"Is what Kanzaki-kun and Katsuragi-kun said related to Ayanokoji-kun?" Arisu quickly grasped the main point.
Ren telling her to see an ophthalmologist meant there was something wrong with her vision. Currently, she only had eyes for two people.
One was Ren, and the other was Ayanokoji-kun.
Ren was right in front of her, so who Ren was referring to was self-evident.
"Kanzaki, go call Honami... actually, forget it. Call everyone in the class over."
"If conditions permit, let everyone bring their friends along too."
"Such an interesting event, the more people, the more fun it is."
After thinking for a moment, Ren ordered Kanzaki.
Some people really don't learn their lesson. Since they don't want to learn, they might as well stop learning altogether.
Stopping her action of placing chess pieces, Arisu became interested in the "fun" Ren mentioned: "Fun? Can I go see?"
Fun, and involving Ayanokoji-kun.
Arisu wanted to see what exactly would make Ren tell her to see an ophthalmologist.
"Sure, but can you keep up, Sakayanagi-san?" Pointing at the wooden cane leaning against the beach chair, Ren hinted.
"I think Katsuragi-kun will be a qualified gentleman." Taking the cane, Arisu slowly stood up, her right hand lightly lifting the hem of her white dress embroidered with small flowers.
After doing all this, Arisu opened her arms, like a princess waiting for her knight to carry her.
Not proceeding as Arisu fantasized, Ren grabbed Arisu's cane with one hand and wrapped the other around her slender waist, carrying her like a sack as he ran toward the crime scene.
"Katsuragi-kun, you are not a gentleman at all." Pressing down firmly on her sun hat, Arisu, tucked under Ren's arm, said irritably.
"I never said I was a gentleman."
Seeing Ren leave, Mochi, who was pretending to be cute and teasing Masumi, stopped playing and trotted after Ren with her short legs.
"Meow... Meow meow meow..."
But her four legs were too short, and Mochi couldn't keep up at all, so she could only meow behind Ren.
Hearing Mochi's call, Ren stopped abruptly, causing the small pendant named Arisu hanging at his waist to be caught off guard, and her strapless white sandals fell to the ground.
Arisu didn't struggle, only pressing her sun hat tighter: "Katsuragi-kun..."
"Sorry, sorry."
After a sincere apology, Ren scooped up Mochi running towards him with one hand and placed her on his shoulder.
After picking up Arisu's cane and sandals from the ground, Ren continued to rush to the crime scene.
So... what happened?
Masumi, maintaining the posture of petting the cat, didn't understand what happened in that instant.
Why did both Arisu and Ren leave, and even the kitten left her?
Peanuts, will anyone feed me peanuts!
Masumi wanted to cry but had no tears.
The poor slave of the old era, watching helplessly as her mistress was kidnapped, had to stay behind to clean up the mess for the two.
Coming to the beach chair, Masumi began to pack up the chessboard at an extremely fast speed.
This wasn't because Masumi was dutiful and wanted to serve that damned loli Arisu as soon as possible, but...
There's gossip!
Big gossip!!!
A huge gossip that even Ren and Arisu didn't want to miss!!!
As a gossip expert, Masumi had to stand on the front line of watching the drama.
"Ren-kun wants us all to go?" Honami, who was splashing water with Airi, stopped what she was doing.
Yume, who understood the whole story from Kanzaki, began to relay the reason to Honami.
Noticing the abnormality here with Honami, the girls of Class A also gathered around with Honami as the center.
Class D boys, put up a fake maintenance sign outside the women's changing room and sneaked into the women's changing room.
Connecting familiar yet strange terms, Honami's face turned solemn.
"Everyone follow Yume there first. I have to go to the Student Council. Airi, go with everyone. Ren-kun should be there too."
Making a quick decision in her heart, Honami arranged everything methodically and specifically instructed Airi at the end.
"Understood, Honami. We'll go find Katsuragi-kun first."
"Are Class D boys this disgusting..."
"Every class has bad apples, but Class D has especially many."
While condemning Class D, Class A gathered and rushed toward the changing room area.
...
"Report, this is Haruki Yamauchi, plan completed!"
"This is Kanji Ike, I declare this operation a great success!"
Haruki Yamauchi and Kanji Ike, who had hidden the camera in the women's changing room, proudly flagged the walkie-talkies in their hands.
The two of them had ensured the concealment of the camera placement, and now they just had to wait for the harvest.
Hehehe...
Haruki Yamauchi, whose mind had already begun to fantasize about the perfect bodies of girls revealed when changing clothes, couldn't help but let out a lewd laugh, even wiping the non-existent drool from the corner of his mouth with his hand.
Taking the maintenance tools, putting on masks, and putting on maintenance worker hats, Haruki Yamauchi and Kanji Ike swaggered out of the women's changing room just as they came in.
As soon as the two walked out of the women's changing room, they realized something seemed wrong.
Outside the women's changing room, it was crowded with people at this moment.
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