Nagumo Miyabi's POV:
There are things in my life, I can't exactly make any sense of.
I was always better than any of my peers since my childhood.
Its not like I worked hard to earn it, maybe it just came all naturally to me.
What you would call effortless results.
Still, there were people who looked down on me.
They said I don't have any self-drive to succeed, and it will cease to exist once I grow older, and meet people of my own calliber and better.
Does it make any sense?
Why do I have to work hard for something, in which, I am better than everyone?
It didn't make any sense to me till I joined this school.
It was exhilirating, proving those people wrong, who suspected I will fail, once I grow older.
I took control of all of the 4 classes of my grade, quite swiftly.
There was no one standing against me.
Yet, the search for someone better than me, always made me anxious, and thus, I found that someone.
The perfect rival for me.
Of my calliber, or even better.
Horikita Manabu.
A year older than me, but he had everything I idolized once.
He was impeccable.
And thus, I wanted to crush him completely too.
I worked hard in order to achieve it.
Conspiring with his enemy classes, sabotaging him in special exams, I tried everything in my imagination.
Yet, there stood someone else in my way, always blocking all of my attacks.
She was not only effectively defending him, she also used me to her own benefits.
There was nothing special about her, if you just look on the surface, but she had some insane information networks, which I can't even think of.
Like she knew everything before it all happened.
And one of the information she provided was the fact that, there would be a temporary chairman change, due to Chairman Sakayanagi's corruption scandals.
There is no way that could be true, is what I thought, but here I am standing in front of the newly appointed chairman, a man named Tsukishiro.
He sat with a professional air around him, looking at the information of all the students, particularly of first years.
"Mr. Tsukishiro, did you need me for something?", I asked in anticipation of some casual talk, as he didn't seem all that threatening to me.
But there was something bugging me, about this man.
"Nagumo Miyabi, the student council president, I need to discuss a few things with you."
"About what, sir?"
"Usually, I would have addressed the general students body today, but right now, in accordance with orders from higher authority, the CCTV survilience around the school building is to be investigated thoroughly. So, I need you to do the job, for today."
".....Are we enforcing more cameras, sir?"
"No, we are actually removing all of them."
.....Huh?
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"May I come in, sensei?"
I knocked on the staff room door, as there was only Chabashira inside.
There was an explanation in order, after everything happened with her.
"Come in."
"Um...first of all I would like to apologize for the inconvenience I have caused you."
"...There is no need to be pretentious anymore, Yamauchi. Just explain how you knew about my past. I have never mentioned about it to any of my students, and Hoshinomiya said that she didn't have a conversation with you either. So how did you know?"
".....She is lying."
"...So he says Hoshinomiya. What do you think?", she said that aloud, and just when I thought it would be just a quick apology, Hoshinomiya-sensei appeared behind me.
Apparently, she had set me up, to corner me here.
"Its not good to lie to your teachers, Yamauchi-kun.", Hoshinomiya, said in a playful voice, as if enjoying the situation.
The tension in the air was so thick it was almost suffocating. Hoshinomiya-sensei was leaning in with that predatory grin, and Chabashira-sensei's eyes were like ice, waiting for me to trip over my own lies.
I had to make a choice.
I could keep playing the "mysterious informant" angle, or I could throw a wrench so large into their gears that they wouldn't know how to process it.
My mind raced through the possibilities, weighing the risks of social suicide against the benefit of complete psychological derailment.
After all the calculation, I decided it was better to just say it.
"The truth?" I started, letting out a long, weary sigh as I looked Chabashira straight in the eyes.
"The reason I've been looking into you, and the reason I know so much... is because I like you, Chabashira-sensei. Romantically."
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