People at the practical education center only want to drop out.

Karuizawa: "It's not decided yet."

Bai Lan: "Huh? Not decided yet?"

Bai Lan was somewhat surprised.

"Not yet decided" means there is still room for "discussion".

This school actually gives students the opportunity to "discuss"?

Didn't they always deduct points quietly before, without giving students a chance to react?

Or perhaps it's because this violation is different in nature from the previous ones?

After all, the previous violations all occurred under surveillance and have direct evidence of misconduct, so under normal circumstances, no special "discussion" is needed.

The bullying incident in Karuizawa occurred in a place without surveillance cameras.

The school lacks evidence and therefore will not make a decision immediately. Instead, it will allow time for both parties involved to provide evidence for conviction and acquittal. Only after providing more substantial evidence from both sides can a final decision be reached.

Karuizawa quickly replied, "Tea Pillar-sensei said that I can choose to 'accept the punishment' or 'file an appeal'."

If you choose to 'accept punishment' before lunch break, your suspension period will start from today.

If the punishment is not accepted until after noon, then the student will be suspended from school starting tomorrow.

If you do not wish to accept the punishment, you can choose to 'file an appeal'.

After an appeal, the student union will conduct an arbitration process. Based on the arbitration result, the punishment will be reassessed, including the start date of the punishment.

"The student council will handle the arbitration?" Bai Lan was stunned for a moment after seeing Karuizawa's answer.

Is the student council of this school really that powerful?

The school actually handed over the responsibility of suspending or even expelling students to the student council!

Although Bai Lan joined the student council and became a disciplinary committee member, the school's rules and regulations were fully accessible to him.

However, Bai Lan was only focused on dropping out of school; his goal was to be the one who was "punished," not the one who "punished others."

Therefore, during the time he gained access to the school rules, he focused on figuring out how to be punished, and didn't care much about procedural punishments of others.

He couldn't be bothered to waste that time; he could just pull it out when he really needed it.

Then, Bai Lan replied: "Send a message to me, Kushida, Hirata, and Horikita respectively, tell 'us' that you are going to be suspended from school, ask them for help, and ask them to meet downstairs at the teaching building at noon."

I will go then.

I'm reminding you again: Don't reveal the special connection between us!

Just pretend that I'm the same as them, someone you asked for help from, and don't treat me differently. Just pretend that I knew nothing about this before.

Also, remember to delete our chat history later, just pretend this is our first time meeting.

Karuizawa: "Okay, what else do I need to do?"

Bai Lan: "At that time, you just need to maintain your arrogant and assertive hot girl persona while cooperating with them."

Karuizawa: "Huh? I asked them for help, and they're acting arrogant and domineering? What if they don't help me because of my attitude, or they don't cooperate well?"

Bai Lan: "It's understandable that the teamwork wasn't good."

Karuizawa: "What do you mean by 'should'? And you're cooperating with them? What about you, Shiro? Don't I have to cooperate with you?"

Bai Lan: "Cooperating with them is cooperating with me."

Karuizawa: "I don't understand, but anyway... I'm leaving everything to you, Shiro-kun."

.......

Shortly after, Karuizawa returned to the classroom.

The first class is over.

Bai Lan was looking at her phone.

At this time.

knock knock.

A slender, pale finger tapped twice on Bai Lan's desk.

Following the direction of the finger, Bai Lan noticed Horikita at the next table.

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"Bai Lan, did you receive the message from Karuizawa?" Horikita asked, waving her phone.

Bai Lan shook the phone she had been looking at: "I just received it too."

Horikita frowned, looking nervous, and said, "Today is the 19th, and the exam is on the 24th. There are only 4 days left until the exam. If Karuizawa is suspended from school for a week at this time, won't he miss the exam?"

Bai Lan: "Yes, if we have to stop going to school, we'll probably miss it."

"If I miss the exam this way, I don't know if I can retake it. If I can't retake it, won't I get a score of 0?"

If a student suddenly scores 0, our score control plan will be affected, and the scores we have set for the class will have to be changed accordingly.

Also, regarding the issue of student withdrawal...

At this point, Horikita leaned closer to Shirai and whispered:

Is dropping out of school really just as simple as having one less person in the class?

Being late or skipping class will result in points being deducted, so wouldn't dropping out of school really affect the class's score?

You're in the student council, do you even know that?

Bai Lan does not intend to respond to Horikita's questions about "dropping out" and "deduction of points".

Therefore, Bai Lan shook her head dismissively: "Dropping out of the academy won't result in any points being deducted or anything, that's not important."

"How can it not be important?" Horikita asked, puzzled.

Bai Lan: "Let me ask you, if Karuizawa really did bully someone, would you distort the facts and cover for her in order to protect the class's grades?"

"This..." Horikita hesitated for a moment, then gritted her teeth and said, "No, if I protect the 'criminal' for my own benefit, even if I successfully protect our class's score and ranking, I don't think my brother will approve of me, right?"

Bai Lan shrugged: "That's fine then. Anyway, if Karuizawa Masaru did something like that, she deserves to be expelled from school because she can't make it to the exams due to the suspension."

Horikita argued, "But given the severity of her behavior, shouldn't she have only been suspended from school?"

If all that is needed is to suspend school, but due to bad timing, it ultimately leads to "dropping out of school," isn't that going too far?

Shouldn't we try to get her a 'suspension of school' instead of her ultimately being expelled?

Should we try to get the school to delay the punishment of Karuizawa, or to punish him in stages, or to offer him a make-up exam opportunity?

Ultimately, the goal is to enable her to take the exam.

I don't want to protect her, nor will I let her escape the punishment she deserves. I just hope the punishment is 'appropriate'.

Bai Lan shook her head: "No, you're wrong. She's not innocent. She knew that the exam was coming up soon, that failing the exam would mean expulsion, and that bullying would likely result in severe punishment, which is one of the 'severe punishments'."

She's a grown woman; she couldn't possibly be unaware of the risks involved.

However, even so, she still chose to do this so close to the time of the exam.

It's her choice.

Since she made her choice, she should pay the price for it.

Anyway, if she really did such a thing, I won't protect her. She should be punished accordingly, even if she's in our class, even if her punishment would harm the class. I don't want to defend someone like that.

"It's precisely because of your uprightness that your brother approves of you. Simply protecting the students in the class and preventing them from losing points may seem to be in the best interest of the class, but in fact, it will make the students in the class more unscrupulous under protection, and it will become increasingly difficult to manage them."

Horikita sighed, then said, "However, according to Karuizawa, she said she was wronged. She did not bully anyone. In fact, she was the one being bullied. She was just stimulated by the danger when she was bullied and subconsciously fought back. The other party accused her first."

We cannot give up on her until we have a clear understanding of the situation.

"It's possible that someone is deliberately using Karuizawa to attack our class."

Bai Lan nodded: "That's true. I naturally don't want others to bully me. If Karuizawa is innocent and is just being used as a weak point to attack our class, then we really have to find a way to fight back."

"Shall we go together at noon?"

"Ok."

A short while later, Bai Lan received two emails in succession.

The emails were from Hirata and Kushida respectively.

They also came to ask Bai Lan for her opinion on Karuizawa.

Bai Lan's stance in answering the question was basically the same—not to cover up bad people, and not to wrong good people.

Hirata and Kushida both seemed very uneasy about Bai Lan's response.

Hirata didn't want anyone in his class to "drop out" because of "suspending school," and he hoped Bai Lan could help him think of a solution.

Kushida, in order to maintain her image, couldn't easily give up on her classmates; she had to at least appear to have "tried her best." Thinking about the trouble that was about to come, she couldn't help but complain to Bai Lan on her phone.

.......

Time flies, and it's lunch break time.

The bell rang to signal the end of get out of class.

Hirata and Kushida, who were sitting in the front, immediately turned their heads to look at Shirai and Horikita in the corner.

Through this action, Hirata, Kushida, and Horikita seemed to realize something.

Afterwards, Shirai, Horikita, Kushida, and Hirata exchanged glances, nodded, and finally confirmed that they were all people Karuizawa needed help from.

Then, the four of them left the classroom together without eating, and then went downstairs together.

Soon, Bai Lan and her group of four were sitting on the roadside in front of the teaching building, near Karuizawa.

When Karuizawa saw Shirai, her eyes lit up and a look of joy appeared on her face. But quickly, as if she remembered something, she instantly suppressed her joy and said angrily, "I'm so angry! How dare she frame me! I can't stand this injustice! I signed the class rules agreement. As long as I don't break the rules, you are the class administrators, so you have to protect me!"

This hot girl was clearly asking for a favor, but her tone was extremely arrogant.

Although it was Bai Lan who requested it.

"Tsk~" x2

Karuizawa's words immediately drew two disapproving clicks of the tongue.