Ryuen Kakeru stood before Ishizaki, Komiya, and Kondo. He grinned. But Ishixaki couldn't feel happiness from him.

He was angry. But Ryuen Kakeru of class C never showed his angry if it wasn't necessary.

"Are you planning to drop the suit? Kuku." He spoke up.

"Y---yes." Ishizaki nodded. "They said they have a video that proves us started first. If we don't drop the suit, they will show it to school."

"And you believe them? Kuku."

"They said they don't want to fight anymore, they aren't sure who will win---" Kondo said.

"What an idiot!? Kuku." Ryuen shouted. "If they have the incident's video, there is no need to hide it. They will win with no doubt! This means they don't have any fucking video! Kuku."

"Excuse me, Ryuen-San." Komiya raised his hand. "Why do you have to end your lines with Kuku?"

"It's my signature, ok? Kuku."

Ryuen shook his head with boring.

"Anyway Kuku, don't even think to drop the suit! Or I will kill you, Kuku."

"B--but how should we do?" Ishizaki stuttered.

"Just go to the meeting room. And you'll win the case. Kuku." Ryuen replied. "Class D is full of defects. Even Horikita can't fight me, Kuku. They will lose for sure, Kuku!"

Ishizaki looked at his comrade and nodded. If Ryuen said so, everything would go like that.

"I will come with you, Kuku."

Ryuen said and started walking. Their minion ran followed him. He grinned when he saw school buildings.

No one could beat his plan.

Especially that defect from a defect class.

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Horikita and Sudo were waiting in front of the student council room.

They didn't dare to say anything.

Ayanokouji told them to wait here. If everything went fine, Ishizaki, Kondo, and Komiya should come here to drop the suit.

Sudo sighed and lean his back against the wall.

Suddenly, he shouted out.

"Ouch!"

"What's wrong, Sudo?" Horikita turned her face to her classmates.

"Nothing, nothing. My back gets wounded, so when I touched it, it's very hurt."

Horkita nodded. Sudo always flared up. He may be crushed something and get hurt. He should be more patient.

She stared at the door. His brother was behind that door. Horikita always admired her brother. The more she admire, the more she feared to make him disappointed.

Horikita breathed in, she had to pull herself back. If she showed him her shakiness, he would be disappointed for sure.

A quarter before the trial, Ishizaki's party appeared in the corridor.

Behind them, there was the man with a scary face. Horikita didn't know him. But she could feel danger from this guy.

"Good evening, Sudo," Ishizaki said. "Are you ready to say goodbye?"

"I'm ready. " Sudo said. "Look, although I hate you. But if you have to go out of this school, I will say goodbye to you for sure."

Horikita was a bit surprised. Sudo didn't get angry or anything.

"Stop chit-chat, girls. Kuku." That guy behind class C said. "Ishizaki, go inside now. Kuku."

"Yes, Ryuen-San."

Ryuen. This name reminded Horikita. Ichinose said about him, didn't she? She told Horikita that Ryuen was class C's leader.

Now, Horikita was sure Ryuen wasn't an ordinary person. Even Ishizaki seemed to be humble with him.

Ishizaki knocked on the student council room's door.

After a moment, the door was opened. Secretary Tachibana walked out of the room. When she saw them, she looked surprised.

"Ara, what are you doing here?" She asked.

"What do you mean? We came here to the trial!" Ishizaki said.

"Eh?" Tachibana tilted her head, then, she asked someone in the room. "Prez! Do we have any trial today?"

Horikita was frozen when she saw her brother come out of the room.

"You should be the one who checks the schedule, shouldn't you?" He asked Tachibana.

"It's Kiriyama's duty, President, but since he was attacked..."

Horikita didn't understand why everyone looked at her.

Horikita Manabu sighed he went into the room and came back a minute later.

"No, we have no trial today." He said.

"What!?" Kondo shouted. "You told us you will judge our case today."

The president looked around, he saw his sister and Sudo, so he recognized that case now.

"I said that, but you have dropped the suit already, haven't you?"

Everyone there was surprised. The smile on Ryuen's face disappeared immediately.

"W---what do you mean!?" Ishizaki protested.

"I mean what I mean." The president glared at Tachibana, she started explaining.

"This morning, we got called from Ishizaki Daichi, telling us they want to drop the petition."

His comrade gazed at Ishizaki. He shook his head frantically.

"No way, it has to be someone pretending to be me!"

"Well, we recorded the conversation too!"

Tachibana took off her phone and started playing record.

It was Ishizaki's voice.

"Hello, I'm Ishizaki Daichi, class 1-C. I want to drop the petition."

Ishizaki's eye turned wide.

"Ishizaki! You betrayed us!?" Kondo grabbed Ishizaki's shirt.

"No, no way! I'm with you for all day, how can I----" He realized something.

"Maybe----that call."

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"Oi, Ishizaki! Let's go to get some lunch!" Kondo said he was standing at the class's door.

"Wait a minute---" Ishizaki replied, his eyes were on his phone.

"Come on! Manabe-Chan was waiting for us!" Kondo spoke. "If we're late, that nerd Kaneda will get her!"

When he saw his friend didn't move, Kondo walked toward him and asked. "What're you doing, Ishizaki?"

"I tried to call the building maintenance department. " Ishizaki explained. "Last night, I can't turn on the tap, so I thought it was broken, I, therefore, called the maintenance and make a petition to send me the plumber."

"So what?"

"This morning, I turned on the tap again, but it worked, the truth turns the faucet in the wrong way."

Kondo laughed. "What an idiot?"

Ishizaki sighed. "Right? If the plumber came, I would be more embarrassed! That's why I tried to drop the petition."

There was the voice from Ishizaki's phone.

"Good morning, welcome to Tokyo Metropolitan Advanced Nurturing High School's call center. Asking for information, press 1. Contact with the director, press 2. Contact with the student council press 3. Asking Chabashira-Sensei on date press----sorry, someone changed the line. Contact the building maintenance department press---"

"Oi, Ishizaki! Look!" Kondo shouted. Ishizaki turned his glared off of his phone.

Komiya was in front of the classroom. He was confronting the girl with silver hair.

Shiina Hiyori, the class's princess.

"Shiina-San, I have something to tell you."

"Yes? Komiya-Kun?" Shiina said with smiled.

Komiya's face turned red. He breathed in.

"Shiina. " He spoke up. "Did my heart love till now? Forswear it, sight! For I ne'er saw true beauty till this night."

He was confessing his love.

Everyone in the class became silent.

The girls were thrilled about Shiina's answer.

The boys hoped Shiina rejected him, so they still have a chance.

Shiina smiled.

"From Romeo and Juliet? I loved that line." She said. "I'm glad to know your interest in the classic book too, see you Komiya-Kun."

She said and walked out of the classroom.

Kondo laughed till die when Komiya walked toward them sadly.

"Ha Ha! You're too complicated! Baka Komiya. Shiina was so naive, you know? You have to be more straightforward."

Ishizaki nodded. "Oh, I forgot it, which number is the maintenance department?"

"3, I guess," Kondo said.

Ishizaki pressed the number. "Please wait for a while." The call center said.

While waiting, Ishizaki talked to Komiya.

"Komiya, you have to keep it simple."

Komiya sighed. "How should I do then?"

"Um, you have to promise. Swear with your heart. The girls love the guys who swear." Ishizaki said professionally. "You have to promise her, never gonna give her up, never gonna let her down, never run around and desert her."

Kondo agreed. "Right! You have to tell her never gonna make her cry, never gonna say goodbye, never gonna tell a lie and hurt her."

"Maybe you should tell her you've known each other for so long---Oh, I forgot my phone call."

Ishizaki took his phone to his ears.

"Good morning." The girl answered.

"Hello, I'm Ishizaki Daichi, class 1-C. I want to drop the petition."

"Ishizaki Daichi---Oh, I see. Do you really want to drop the petition?"

"Yes. Please do it for me. It's just a misunderstanding. Thank you"

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Tachibana hung the phone and said with the president.

"President, Ishizaki Daichi from class 1-C wants to drop the suit."

The president nodded. "So accept it."

"It's strange, last week, he fight till death to beat that class D's boy. Why did he give up at the last minute?"

Horikita Manabu looked through the window.

"Maybe that guy---"

"Who?"

"Nothing." Manabu shook his head and looked up to the sky.

He mumbled with himself. "Suzune, you met someone interesting, very interesting."

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"that's what happen," Tachibana concluded.

Everyone there opened their mouth wide with shock.

"It's just misunderstanding!" Ishizaki screamed. "I just want to call the maintenance department. I--I want to make a petition again!"

The president shook his head.

"I afraid that's impossible."

"Why!?"

Tachibana played the record again.

"I don't want to mess with this stuff anymore. If I or someone told you to make my petition again, please ignore it."

"But I didn't mean about Sudo's case!" Ishizaki protested.

"I mean what I mean! And I mean which petition you mean. If I say something else, ignore it."

Everyone couldn't say anything else.

Sudo sighed with relief.

The president looked around.

"If there's nothing, I will continue my working." He said. "Let's go, Tachibana."

The student council members returned to their room.

When the door was closed, Horkita sighed with relief.

"What's happened?" Sudo mumbled.

"We survive," Horikita said. Sudo smiled and punched the air with happiness.

"Hell yeah!" He screamed and roasted his opponent. "You see! Your big lie! The good man always wins!"

Ishizaki grinned.

"It's your luck this time, you idiot!"

"Who do you call..." Sudo started shouting but he stopped immediately. "No, no. I have to be calmer."

Sudo glared at Ishizaki. "Pardon me, sir. Why do you call me with something harshly like this?"

Ishizaki seemed to be surprised by Sudo's reaction.

Horikita too.

Sudo turned his face to Horkita and smiled. "I did what you tell me to do. " Sudo said. "Ayanokouji know how to handle the thing!"

Ayanokouji-Kun again? Horikita was sure more when the time passed. This man wasn't normal as he tried to tell her. He tried to blackmail class C, win her brother, and control Sudo.

He tried to tell her it was a coincidence. But this guy was the worst lie.

Horikita looked at Sudo. He looked very proud of himself.

"Good boy, I guess." She mumbled.

Sudo's smile became wider.

"Shake your tail? good dog. " Ishizali tried to satirize Sudo again. But it didn't work. Sudo was too happy with Horikita's compliment until he ignored Ishizaki's word.

"Stop being Kid, Ishizaki. Kuku." Ryuen said he walked through the corridor. His minion followed him.

When He walked past Horikita. She saw he smiled without any fear.

"Horikita Suzune? We will met again. Kuku."

After leaving her with that iconic laugh, Ryuen walked away.

"Let's go to Palette! Horikita."

Sudo asked her. But Horikita was still there, she looked followed Ryuen's back.

She noticed right now.

She didn't the strongest student in this school. When there were people like Ayanokouji or Ryuen around here.

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"Ryuen-San. I'm sorry. It shouldn't happen!" Ishizaki almost cried while saying.

They were walking to the dorm. Ryuen didn't say a word since they left the school.

"It's because you were too dumb to remember the number!" Kondo insulted Ishizaki.

"What the---. I asked you but you misremembered it!"

"You had called them once, why you couldn't remember!?"

While those two blamed each other. Ryuen still had a smile on his face.

"There was no one's wrong. Kuku" He said.

"What do you mean?" Komiya asked.

"Don't you think everything was too casual, Kuku? Ishizaki miscalled and drop the suit by the chance. Everything was his plan. That Ayanokouji, Kuku. Ishizaki didn't misremember. Ayanokouji might chance the voice line and tricked you to call the student council instead, Kuku."

"But my tap----" Ishizaki stuttered.

"He might sneak in your room at night. Broke your tap, and fixed it in the morning, Kuku."

"Ryuen-San, don't you think it's just a coincidence?" Komiya protested.

Yes, it was.

"Stupid as always, Komiya, Kuku. All of it is his plan, Kuku!"

No, it wasn't.

Ryuen looked at the sun that falling down.

"We will fight someday, Ayanokouji, Kuku," Ryuen mumbled. "And that day, our battle will be legend! You will never beat me, Ayanokouji, Kuku."

Ishizali looked at the sun and turned his stare to his boss.

"Boss, is there something in the sun? Why do you keep looking at it?"

"For Emotional, Kukuku."

"And who are you talking with?" Kondo asked curiously.

"Do you know monologue?" Ryuen was annoyed. "See, I forgot to say Kuku in the end."

He looked at the sky and laughed historically.

Author's note: Sorry for the short chapter.

Bonus question, how many times have I written Kuku wrong in Ryuen's historically laugh?