The next morning, as expected, Shoujin held a school assembly. At the venue, the plump principal announced to the entire school that Koji Nishi, a third-year student, had died in an accident, with a grief resembling the death of his own father.
It must be said, for the students, the stimuli this term had been far too great. First, a classmate's failed suicide attempt by jumping off a building, then a teacher was exposed for bullying students, and now a student had died in an accident... The chatter was rampant, leaving everyone feeling restless.
Fortunately, the principal did manage to do something human; he hastily announced that to soothe the students' emotions, the school had invited a psychologist to provide counseling services—of course, in Duanmu Ai's view, he was likely trying to avoid another death at the school, fearing that a few more deaths making the news could cost him his job as principal.