Chapter 239: She Still Has to Thank Me

Hospital corridors are always long, narrow, and deep. The walls on both sides were painted a dull green. Fluorescent lights hung overhead, their glow pouring down from the tubes. The air was filled with a sharp, stinging smell of disinfectant.

Ryuen Kakeru, Advanced Nurturing's famous delinquent, the one who had sworn to unify the school and ascend to the highest peak of power.

At this moment, he stood rooted by the infirmary door like a statue of Buddha. His hands were no longer in his pockets. His face no longer wore a smile. His expression was indescribable as he watched his lackeys wave goodbye to him again and again.

"R-Ryuen-aniki, I need to go back and review. See you."

"I made plans to play basketball with Komiya and the others. See you tomorrow."

"I, I, well... I still have a special exam paper I haven't finished making. I'm going back to work on it first."

...

Before Ryuen could even open his mouth, the three lackeys scrambled and fled toward the school clinic entrance in a puff of smoke, leaving Ryuen standing alone and disheveled in the corridor.

"Hmph!"

After his expression shifted through a series of dark moods, Ryuen gritted his teeth and punched the pale green wall of the corridor, producing a dull thud.

"Damn it. Not a single one of them has any loyalty."

How infuriating. Just a few days ago, they had been beating their chests and swearing loyalty to him, hailing him as their boss.

And now, they scattered at the first sign of trouble. Every man for himself in the face of disaster!

"It's just a cripple fainting. What's the big deal? I only called her one name. Let's see if she can even..."

Beep!

In the silent school clinic corridor, a cold electronic announcement sound suddenly rang out.

"Under current Japanese law, publicly insulting a heart disease patient in a way that leads to an accident carries legal liability:

Minimum liability: Violation of the Criminal Code's insult charge, facing up to 1 year of imprisonment or a fine of up to 300,000 yen.

Aggravated liability: If the perpetrator knowingly insults a person with a known illness and induces serious consequences, it may constitute intentional injury, carrying criminal liability."

Ryuen opened his mouth, his lips flapping like a fish out of water. "She can even, she can even..." After several consecutive "she can even"s, he silently shut his mouth. He twisted his head around, glaring at the source of the sound with a ferocious, murderous expression, veins bulging on his face.

"Hey, you two over there. Turn your phone volume down, you damn bastards!"

"Okay, okay."

Fuyuji Mikage, sitting on the metal bench, wore a friendly smile and nodded repeatedly like a chicken pecking at rice. Then he lightly swiped upward and, in the next moment, turned the volume to maximum.

"Up to 7 years of imprisonment or confinement..." The clear electronic voice echoed through the long corridor.

"Sorry, sorry. Slipped."

"You!"

"Ahh..." Fuyuji let out a long sigh, shook his head a few times, and muttered quietly, "Looks like this is the last time I'll see the Great Shit-Eater. Thanks for all the entertainment he's brought us over the years..."

Ryuen's furious expression instantly froze. His whole body stiffened in place. His lips quivered a few times, and he could no longer say a word.

After a long silence, the lone warrior Ryuen Kakeru finally let his fist fall open powerlessly. His shoulders slumped. He silently walked to the darkest corner of the corridor, turned his back to everyone, and transformed into a silent plaster statue.

Seeing this, Fuyuji's mouth corners couldn't help but curl upward. He clenched his teeth, his whole body trembling slightly, desperately trying to keep his laughter from spilling out of his mouth.

Ryuen, are you still going to run your mouth after this?

With this combo of dirty moves, whether or not he was guilty before, he was definitely guilty now.

Add in his prior record of harassing Class D students these past few days, and this time he wouldn't be able to get out without shedding a layer of skin.

Beside him, Kamuro sat quietly on the bench. A thin layer of sweat had appeared on her face. She said nothing, working hard to calm her rapid breathing. Her purple hair hung down, covering the upper half of her face. Her lips were pressed tightly together.

This was a side of her that the usual direct, decisive girl never showed.

Since inside the cafe, Kamuro had been performing first aid on Sakayanagi the entire time, and had followed all the way onto the ambulance.

As for Ryuen and his group, who knew what kind of mental struggle they had gone through before finally shuffling their way here on foot.

"Don't worry..."

Sensing the tension in the girl beside him, Fuyuji reined in his smile. He raised a hand and gently rubbed Kamuro's back, leaning close to her ear and speaking in a low voice.

"That damn loli Sakayanagi is fine. This is just a reflex syncope, caused by the nerves being overstimulated, leading to insufficient blood supply to the brain. It's the same principle as when you get so emotional that your vision goes black and you faint. It's not organic deterioration of the heart. When you were giving her first aid in the cafe, she had already woken up. She probably felt too embarrassed, so that perverted loli just shut her eyes and went straight to the hospital in one step."

"Huh?" Kamuro jerked her head up, turning to look at Fuyuji in astonishment.

"Actually," Fuyuji clapped a hand over his mouth, his shoulders shaking with suppressed laughter, his voice leaking through his fingers, "the doctors and nurses on the ambulance figured it out too. The ECG on the ambulance showed no arrhythmia. The simplified ultrasound showed no acute functional abnormality. They had basically ruled out cardiogenic syncope. In other words, it was only that illiterate Ryuen, who never reads a book, who couldn't tell."

As everyone knew, Ryuen's high school grades were less than ideal. His head was full of chuunibyou fantasies all day, thinking about unifying the school. This time, he suffered the loss of not having read enough books.

"Phew..."

Kamuro's tense body instantly relaxed. She let out a long breath. The next second, an expression of irritation returned to her face. She clicked her tongue in extreme displeasure, raised her small leather shoe, and pressed it down on Fuyuji's toe.

"You didn't say so earlier! You made me sit here for so long. And that damn Sakayanagi too, putting on an act... Also, what do you mean, 'only the illiterate who never reads a book couldn't tell'?"

"Of course I'm not talking about you, bro." Fuyuji grinned and reached out to wrap an arm around Kamuro's shoulder, pulling the two of them even closer together. "I keep telling you you're the type with a sharp tongue but a soft heart. You just won't believe me!"

"Get off!" Kamuro's delicate fist landed on Fuyuji's chest, neither too light nor too heavy. Her head rested lightly on his shoulder as she muttered quietly, "None of your business..."

"If I don't look after you, who will?"

"Get lost!" Kamuro's pretty face flushed red.

Looking at Ryuen, who was still rooted in the corner of the corridor, neither staying nor leaving, Fuyuji steered the topic back, lowering his voice.

"That rotten loli Sakayanagi, I didn't expose her, so she still has to thank me. That girl was probably trying to extort Ryuen, which is why she played dead in there for so long. That's why the infirmary doctor took so long to come out."

If it were just a matter of checking for potential risks and examining for aftereffects, that amount of time would have been more than enough.

Sakayanagi was probably trying to increase her bargaining chips for the subsequent negotiation. After all, in every respect, Ryuen had no advantage.

If it were a school adjudication, that would be one thing. But once this matter was submitted to the student council, that blond senpai would absolutely give him a warm reception, letting him experience what it meant to feel completely at home.

One could only say, to have popularity as bad as Ryuen's, there was no one else.

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