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

Bai Lan and Horikita subconsciously turned to look at each other, only to find that the other looked like they wanted to say something but couldn't.

"You go first," Bai Lan said, gesturing for him to vomit.

Horikita opened his mouth, then shook his head and said, "Forget it, I don't want to waste time. I was assigned the task of getting high scores, so I need to finish it quickly so I can have more time to continue studying. Let's get down to business. It's not clear over the phone. Tell me the details again, the more detailed the better. Some details may become strong evidence."

Karuizawa raised her chin and said unhappily, "I should be the one in the most hurry! I don't want to waste time, so I'll just get straight to the point..."

"Wait, why don't we go over there, sit down, and talk while we eat?" Hirata suggested.

Kushida chimed in, "After all, we have an hour of free time during lunch break. Once we've finished talking and eaten, we can go to the student council to file a complaint."

Bai Lan: "Agreed."

Horikita: "Alright."

Soon, the five of them sat around the chairs near the convenience store next to the teaching building, eating lunch and discussing things.

During this time, Karuizawa recounted in detail what had happened the day before.

Others would occasionally ask questions about certain things they had discovered in Karuizawa's words.

ten minutes later.

"We've asked everything, do you have a solution?" Karuizawa asked.

Horikita: "As things stand, your situation is very unfavorable."

The other person was injured, while you were unharmed. Furthermore, the surveillance footage outside the restroom proves that you had contact in the restroom yesterday, and it probably also captured the other person's hurried escape from the restroom. All of this is in the other person's favor.

And he couldn't say anything that would be beneficial to you.

"What should we do then?" Karuizawa asked anxiously.

At this moment, Bai Lan spoke up: "Never mind all that, let's appeal first. After all, accepting the punishment is the same as directly accepting expulsion from school."

125. Karuizawa: She was using all my lines!

After lunch, Bai Lan and her four friends went to the student council to file a complaint against Karuizawa.

The closer Horikita Suzune got to the student council office, the more hesitant she became.

However, the others did not give Horikita Suzune much time to hesitate.

Before Horikita Suzune could prepare herself, Bai Lan, as if rushing to follow a plot, pushed open the student council door and entered the student council office first, followed by the others.

Horikita Suzune, who has always preferred to be alone and disliked being "co-opted by the group," felt for the first time that being "co-opted by the group" occasionally was not a bad thing.

After entering the gate, everyone quickly saw the student council members working in their offices.

Those familiar faces are all here.

Manabu Horikita, Akane Tachibana and Nagumo.

The moment Horikita Manabu was discovered, Horikita Suzune instinctively wanted to back down.

But in front of so many outsiders, she didn't want her brother to see her embarrassing him.

With that in mind, Horikita Suzune straightened her back and took the initiative to walk to the front of the line, ready to be the "first spokesperson" of the group and make a good impression.

"Is there anything I can help you with?" Ju Qian looked up when she heard the door open and saw Bai Lan leading a group of people in, so she asked.

“We’re here to file a complaint,” Horikita Suzune said, glancing discreetly at Horikita Manabu, who was engrossed in working on documents.

When Horikita Manabu heard the familiar voice beside him, he looked up and saw that it was his younger sister. He didn't show anything unusual and just said in a businesslike manner, "Tachibana, please help them register first."

After saying that, Horikita Manabu lowered his head again and continued working.

"Yes, President." Akane Tachibana responded, then took a small notebook from her desk and asked Suzune Horikita, "Please make a record first: class, name, content of the appeal, reason for the appeal..."

Horikita Suzune felt a little wronged that her brother treated her like a stranger, but she was also relieved to be spared from "confronting" him.

After that, it's just a matter of following the procedure.

Soon, Akane Tachibana wrote down her statement in her notebook: Karuizawa Kei, a first-year student in Class C, was suspended from school for "bullying a classmate".

Reason for appeal: There was no bullying.

Tachibana Akane showed the written content to Shira and the others for confirmation.

After everyone confirmed that the contents were correct, Karuizawa signed his name in the "complainant" column.

Akane Tachibana handed the newly completed document to Manabu Horikita.

During this time, Bai Lan remained silent, only secretly observing Nan Yun's reaction.

Nan Yun, seemingly oblivious to everything, signed the documents while curiously observing Bai Lan and the others with an air of schadenfreude.

"It's hard to confirm," Bai Lan thought to herself.

After reading the appeal documents, Horikita Manabu took out his seal, stamped it, and put it away. Then, he said in a serious tone, "Karuizawa-kun, I will arrange an arbitration meeting as soon as possible so that you and the whistleblower can confront each other face to face. I will notify you of the specific time and place later."

If all goes well, you should receive notification before the club activity starts this afternoon, or at the latest by tomorrow. Is that a convenient time for you?

When the student council president spoke to him, Karuizawa was momentarily at a loss for words.

After all, Bai Lan only asked Karuizawa to cooperate with Horikita Suzune and the others, but did not tell him how to answer the student council president's questions.

Therefore, Karuizawa didn't know whether she should answer "convenient" or "inconvenient" at this moment.

Karuizawa: Shiro didn't teach this question!

A bewildered Karuizawa instinctively looked at Shirai with pleading eyes, but only for a moment. Remembering that Shirai didn't want her to reveal their special relationship, she immediately looked away, glancing at the other helpers she had brought, before finally fixing her gaze on Horikita, who was standing at the front of the group.

Karuizawa noticed that Horikita Suzune's recent actions and behavior seemed to suggest that she was acting as an assistant to Shirai.

Given that Horikita Suzune had just stepped forward to speak on everyone's behalf, Karuizawa felt that Shirai Ran might have arranged for Horikita to play an important role in this matter.

In that case, just leave anything you don't understand to Horikita Suzune.

"Horikita-kun, am I available during the 'time period' the president mentioned?" Karuizawa asked Horikita Suzune.

Everyone present subconsciously followed Karuizawa's pleading gaze and focused their attention on Horikita Suzune.

"Horikita?" Upon hearing this surname, Nangumo sized up Horikita Suzune, then looked at Horikita Manabu, seemingly lost in thought.

In response to Karuizawa's question, Horikita Suzune asked in return, "Have you been free these past few days?"

"Is being suspended from school a big deal?" Karuizawa countered with a question.

Horikita Suzune sighed at Karuizawa's question.

"Besides the suspension from school, is there anything else?" Horikita Suzune asked in return.

"No."

"That's convenient."

"Oh, then I'll move, it's convenient for me." Karuizawa replied excitedly to Horikita Manabu after getting the answer.

.......

After the appeal was returned, Horikita Manabu used his lunch break and subsequent breaks between classes to repeatedly ask Karuizawa about the details of the case. He even went to the women's restroom where the incident occurred several times, trying to find useful clues.

Surprisingly, nothing unexpected happened this time.

During the break before the last class in the afternoon, Karuizawa received an email notification from the student council.

The email specified the start time and location of the arbitration hearing.

Soon, the last class in the afternoon ended.

Bai Lan and her four companions went together to a special classroom on the fourth floor of the teaching building.

Enter the special classroom.

Bai Lan noticed that the classroom was decorated to resemble a courtroom.

Two rows of tables and chairs faced each other.

There is also a "judge's bench" on one side.

There were still a few minutes before the court session was scheduled to begin.

Horikita Manabu, however, had already taken his seat in the very center of the "judge's bench," with Secretary Tachibana sitting next to him.

After greeting Horikita, Bai Lan and her group chose to sit down on one side of the table.

Another few minutes passed.

There was a sound of footsteps.

A group of people entered the classroom.

Bai Lan found the girl named Mi Cang among the group.

When Yonekura entered the special classroom, she was helped in. She walked with a limp, and there were obvious bruises and swellings on her exposed arms and legs. She kept hissing and breathing out cold air, looking frail and badly injured.

It looks completely different from what Bai Lan secretly photographed yesterday.

It's confirmed; the other party faked the injury.

However, the injuries fabricated may not be fake, as long as one can be ruthless enough to inflict them.

Next, Bai Lan noticed that when Yonekura entered the special classroom and saw Karuizawa, she suddenly flinched and lowered her head, not daring to look directly at Karuizawa, as if she was frightened.

Hmm, this time it doesn't seem like he's faking it.

It seems that Karuizawa's outburst at the time was indeed quite frightening.

Bai Lan glanced at Karuizawa.

At this moment, Karuizawa, as usual, stood tall with his chest out and head held high, arms crossed, still displaying an arrogant and domineering attitude that showed he was fearless.

Bai Lan glanced at Karuizawa's hands, which were casually clasped under his arms as he crossed his arms.

Based on Bai Lan's observations of Karuizawa during this period, it was discovered that Karuizawa liked to cross her arms when she was putting on airs, and this was not just for the sake of putting on airs.

There's a reason for this.

Because Karuizawa's hands and feet would go weak and tremble when she was scared.

To prevent others from noticing her weakness, Karuizawa devised a plan to hide her trembling hands, which would tremble uncontrollably when she was scared, through various movements, or even to fix them in place, so that others would not discover the truth about her weakness by seeing her trembling fingers.

Bai Lan, with her sharp eyes, noticed the fingers peeking out slightly from Karuizawa's arm.

Karuizawa's exposed fingers were still trembling slightly, but compared to the past when she had misunderstandings with Bai Lan and during Golden Week training, the trembling was not too obvious.

This shows that Karuizawa was very confident at this time and did not seem to have much fear of the person who had tried to bully her.