Chapter 16: Kushida’s True Face Finally Reveals Itself

However, almost everyone harbored ulterior motives, their thoughts all different.

Ayanokoji wanted to probe Saiki, wanted to know the other's background, and at the same time wanted to take this opportunity to let Suzune and the other students get closer.

Suzune's thoughts were entirely focused on the next exam. She urgently wanted to promote Class C to Class A, so she wanted to quickly improve Sudo Ken and these people's grades. She could not let them drag her down, and at the same time she also wanted Ayanokoji and Saiki to help her accomplish this matter.

Kushida was constantly racking her brains on how to isolate Suzune, then make her drop out of school.

As for Saiki, he was racking his brains on how to deal with these guys.

On one hand, he needed to avoid as much as possible becoming the focus of everyone's attention. On the other hand, he also had to completely hide his psychic powers, while also guarding against whether the idiot trio would wipe their fingers on the sheets.

As for the other people, their minds were as pure as white paper, basically only thinking about things like "this snack is tasty," "how to chat with Kushida later," such completely worthless matters, and they hadn't even put the upcoming midterm exam in their minds.

During the conversation, basically it was Kushida leading the topics, and the idiot trio almost instantly picked up the conversation. Ayanokoji occasionally participated in the topics, while Suzune, although she was in the room, was basically just eating alone on the side, not participating in their conversation.

In her heart, a thought lingered. [Next month is the midterm exam, but these people look like they don't care at all, still discussing these completely meaningless topics, wasting time here.]

'I definitely agree with that point.' Saiki thought this in his heart.

He also didn't really participate in the chat, but his mouth and hands never stopped, always eating snacks.

[It's about time to let Horikita participate in the topic.]

At this moment, Ayanokoji glanced at Suzune out of the corner of his eye, then spoke, "Although this exam we somehow passed, what about the next midterm exam? Chabashira-sensei said that people who fail will be directly expelled. That shouldn't be a joke, right? Horikita, do you have any thoughts?"

"I want to let the whole class achieve better grades. Only then do we have the possibility of surpassing Class A."

Suzune replied, and her expression gradually became serious, at the same time shifting her gaze onto Sudo Ken and the others, "...How about following Hirata's idea, organize a study group, I will tutor you few in the courses. Right now for our class, you few are the ones dragging us down the most, and the people most likely to fail are you few."

"Hey, hey, hey, what do you mean dragging down the most?" Hearing Suzune's words, Sudo Ken stood up, his displeasure overflowing visibly.

"Sudo-kun, please calm down a bit. Horikita-san, please also stop saying such things!"

Next to them, Kushida also quickly stood up to persuade the two, her face showing an extremely worried look.

But in reality, Kushida was very happy that things had turned out this way. She extremely longed for Suzune to be hated and shunned by the others.

'Yare yare, as expected, it still erupted into conflict, but it'd be best not to start fighting in my room, or else cleaning up would be a hassle.'

Saiki quietly sat at the side, putting food in his mouth like watching a movie.

"Did I say something wrong?"

"Horikita, who can stand you talking like that..."

Beside them, Ike Kanji frowned and said, "Besides, the midterm questions should be able to be bought, right? By then our scores should..."

"Even when you had the questions, your results on the surprise exam this time were a complete mess, weren't they?"

Suzune spoke mercilessly, the disdain in her gaze not concealed at all.

Just as she said, even with the exam questions obtained in advance, Sudo Ken and the others' scores were extremely poor. They hadn't cared about the exam at all before, so they had only roughly memorized part of the answers. What's more, because of limited academic ability, they couldn't even understand some solution steps.

According to the school rules, the passing line was half of the class average score, so the idiot trio could be said to have been wiped out completely.

"This..."

Yamauchi Haruki next to them wanted to argue back, but for a while couldn't think of any suitable words.

"Ah, I got scolded too."

Ayanokoji had just opened his mouth when Suzune fiercely glared at him.

"Then let's first go with Horikita's proposal and hold a study group... Even if you can get the questions, if we can explain the answers to Sudo-kun and the others, they should be able to get a decent score!"

Just as the atmosphere was gradually becoming more tense, Kushida took the initiative to suggest, "Our class is one whole, we absolutely can't let even one person drop out!"

Kushida's expression was extremely serious, looking very genuine.

[Kushida-san... really is as kind as an angel.]

Sudo Ken and the others had this thought in their hearts at the same time.

'These three have been completely deceived.' Saiki stuffed a potato chip into his mouth.

Hearing Kushida's words, Suzune frowned tightly.

[Kushida can actually say such words? Although I don't know the exact reason, in middle school, their class order suddenly collapsed... But it should be related to her.]

'So even Horikita doesn't know the specific reason?' Saiki grumbled in his heart, also hoping this conflict would end quickly.

"Since Kushida-san says so, then we'll temporarily agree to participate in the study group."

Sudo Ken answered, the corner of his mouth twitching, still looking very reluctant, but because of Kushida, he still agreed.

"Count yourselves as having a bit of self-awareness."

'Finally over, huh. Study group or whatever, anyway it has nothing to do with me.' But before Saiki could finish sighing inwardly, he felt a gaze fall on him.

"Saiki, you have to come too."

"Huh? Why do I have to participate too?" Saiki voiced his confusion.

Suzune stood in front of Saiki, her extremely serious gaze falling directly on him, as if wanting to peer into his heart, and then she spoke, "First, although your grades are in the middle of the class, teaching them should be more than enough, and you seem very familiar with them."

'Your misunderstanding of me seems pretty deep. When did I become close with them?' Saiki grumbled inwardly, but didn't say it aloud.

"Second, the class points must be tied to everyone's exam scores. I hope everyone can achieve better grades, so we'll have a better chance to rise to Class A. Right now, we're still about 400 points behind Class A. We have to think of a way to recover these points in the shortest time possible!"

Suzune's voice was firm and forceful. On one hand, she indeed hoped everyone's grades would improve further, but she also wanted to judge whether what Chabashira Sae had said before was true, whether Saiki had deliberately controlled his scores.

Saiki's heart naturally was rejecting this. He didn't want to deal with these people again. Not one of them was easy to handle.

Moreover, if he participated in the study group, then a lot of his free time would be taken up... but in this situation, Saiki had no room to refuse. If he refused, he would only be pestered more by others, so he could only nod.

"Then it's decided for now. After school tomorrow, we'll meet at the library. For today, let's end here."

Suzune spoke in a tone that was almost a command, then left. For her, her goal was achieved, so there was no need to stay any longer.

"Ah, then let's end for today."

The atmosphere had become somewhat bad, and Sudo Ken and the others also left the room one after another, leaving only Kushida still remaining.

'Hey, hey, hey, you guys didn't clean up your trash...'

"Ah, since everyone left, Saiki-kun, I'll help you tidy up! Messing up your room, I'm really sorry!" Kushida said with a smile, looking very friendly, taking the initiative to handle cleaning up.

[I must maintain a perfect image. I absolutely can't overlook these details. Only this way, people like Saiki and the others will trust me more, and afterwards I can better use them to make that bitch Suzune drop out.]

'How much hatred do you have for Horikita? In a sense, it's already reached a slightly deranged level. But it seems Horikita also doesn't really know your past.'

Saiki grumbled inwardly. 'If I didn't have telepathy, I'd definitely think Kushida was a really good person. No wonder she's so popular. But after knowing her true nature, there's no going back.'

After a few minutes of cleaning, Saiki's room was basically spotless again. Kushida clapped her hands and smiled at Saiki, "It's mostly cleaned up! Then I'll leave first!"

After saying this, Kushida also left Saiki's room.

'Ah, finally over.' Saiki let out a long sigh of relief like he was liberated. This meaningless celebration was finally over.

He looked around the room to see if anyone had tampered with it, technically, in this school you could also buy things like surveillance cameras. If his room was being monitored, it'd be troublesome.

But after sweeping with his X-ray vision, there was nothing suspicious left, 'Wait.'

Saiki saw a black object lying on his bed. Looking carefully, it was a student-use phone terminal, probably Kushida's.

'Left it behind on purpose? No, I didn't pick up any thoughts related to that. It should just be she simply forgot it.'

Saiki picked up the phone and thought, 'Pretend I didn't see it? No, if Kushida notices her phone missing and comes back here, that'll be troublesome. I might not be able to go home tonight.'

'Bring it to Lost and Found? That won't work. If it's a classmate's, sending it to Lost and Found instead of giving it back directly doesn't make sense.'

'Use psychic power to teleport it over? Also no. At long distances, Telekinesis can't precisely control, and can only swap positions of two things... Equivalent exchange doesn't work either, and the risk is too high.'

Countless possibilities floated in Saiki's mind, but in the end there was only one way to solve it, he would have to deliver the phone himself.

Saiki sighed, used Clairvoyance to check Kushida's location, she hadn't returned to the dorm, but had gone to the plaza in front of the dorm building.

'Strange, what's she going to do there? Never mind. If I don't give her the phone now and she comes back knocking on my door later, it'll be annoying.'

Saiki shook his head. Although he hated trouble, to avoid bigger trouble later, he could only follow.

There were surveillance cameras near the dorm building, so to be cautious, he didn't use psychic powers. He took the elevator down and went to the plaza in front of the dorm building.

'Yare yare, coming out so late, what is she doing?'

Saiki was a little puzzled, but still quickened his steps and used Clairvoyance to locate Kushida. She seemed to have walked to a deserted corner of the campus.

Very soon, he heard Kushida's extremely noisy thoughts.

[Damn it, damn it, damn it, damn it! That b*tch, why doesn't she just die already?]

[Just because she's cute and has good grades, she always acts so conceited, it's disgusting, disgusting! Do you really think you're the center of the class?]

[I'll definitely make you drop out, definitely make you drop out ahhh!]

'Yare yare, now it's not just in her heart, she's actually venting her dissatisfaction aloud.'

Saiki expressionlessly looked toward Kushida in the distance.

At this moment, Kushida kept kicking the railing in front of her, her mouth constantly cursing Suzune, completely different from the usual her.

Normally, although Kushida was inwardly very disgusted with Suzune, she never showed her emotions on her face. Ordinary people could not see it at all. Even someone with Ayanokoji's observation skills probably hadn't realized Kushida's true face yet.

But long-term pretending also accumulated huge stress. Now, Kushida wanted to take advantage of this time when no one was around to vent all her emotions.

"Damn it, damn it, damn it! That damn woman!"

Kushida kept venting her emotions, kicking the railing forcefully, making crisp, loud sounds.

Anyone who knew Kushida would probably never be able to connect this hysterical girl in front of them with the usually kind and enthusiastic Kushida.

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