Demon Slayer: I was taken home by Shinobu Kocho at the beginning.

The topic of discussion was naturally the first-year students' secret filming incident that Kamio Tatsuya discovered that morning in the changing room.

Horikita Manabu took out a small plastic bag containing a common SD card.

"After Ju's confirmation, this memory card does indeed contain secretly filmed footage from the women's changing room."

Horikita Manabu's tone was very calm, but anyone could feel the anger raging within it, like a volcano that could erupt at any moment.

"Based on the report and preliminary investigation, the perpetrators are most likely Ike Kanji and Yamauchi Haruki from Class 1-D. However, depending on the circumstances, the possibility of a false accusation or framing cannot be ruled out."

Therefore, I have reported this matter to the school, and I expect they will be able to find out who owns the memory card soon.

Horikita Manabu was more thorough in his considerations; there is indeed a possibility that he might have been framed.

In other words, Tatsuya Kamio overheard their entire plot, which is why he overlooked this detail.

"Let's put aside the question of who the perpetrator is for now. I'd like to discuss the handling of the perpetrator within the student council first, and the school will also take the results of the discussion into consideration."

Horikita's words were filled with helplessness.

Upon hearing this, Kamio Tatsuya felt a wave of nausea. Did this kind of thing even need to be discussed?

Why not just drop out of school?

What are those rigid-minded school administrators thinking?

Are you afraid things will escalate?

"President! Is there even a need for discussion? How dare she do such a thing? She's practically an enemy of women. She has no choice but to drop out of school."

The first to speak was Tachibana Akane, who had examined the contents of the SD card. At that moment, she was like a lioness whose cubs had been stolen, radiating anger from head to toe.

"I agree with Senior Ju's opinion. People like this don't deserve to stay in our school. Dropping out would be too lenient for them."

"Yeah, it's absolutely disgusting!"

"In my opinion, they should be sent to a juvenile detention center to properly reform their personalities!"

Juvenile detention centers are prisons in Japan for juveniles aged 14 to 19.

Tatsuya Kamio thought the suggestion was excellent; those guys really should have their personalities corrected.

"Kamio, what do you think we should do?"

ask me?

"I think Tachibana-senpai is right. There's no other way but to drop out, right?" Kamio Tatsuya said calmly.

"But the perpetrators might all be your classmates."

"Not anymore."

Looking at Tatsuya Kamio, who was completely uncooperative, Manabu Horikita sighed slightly.

"Although I also considered expelling the perpetrator immediately, this perpetrator may have been involved with several other people, and it was an attempted crime, so the school thinks it would be a bit arbitrary to expel all of them."

Having said that, everyone in the student council understood that the school was afraid of things getting too big, so they planned to deal with it quietly, just like the previous incident involving a sasaeng fan in Sakura.

Haha, they're so ruthless during exams, but they're so weak when it comes to this kind of thing. It's like Tatsuya Kamio is seeing this school for the first time.

Don't you want to expel everyone involved?

Sure, no problem.

“In that case, I have a suggestion.” Tatsuya Kamio’s lips curled into a sinister smile.

"Tell me."

"Since this matter involves many people, the mastermind must definitely be expelled from school. I think everyone agrees on that, right?"

No one objected to Tatsuya Kamio's statement.

"As for accomplices, they also need to be punished. Don't worry, I'm not some kind of devil. Just make their actions public, and the students will judge right and wrong."

Horikita Manabu's lips twitched.

This is even more frightening than dropping out of school.

Those whose names are made public will be ostracized by most students, even if they are not openly bullied at the school.

Social death can be a more severe punishment than dropping out of school!

"Since we can't expel them all, we have an obligation to remind ordinary students to be more vigilant against them to prevent the next victim from appearing. This is what our student council should do to be responsible for the large number of ordinary students!"

Kamio Tatsuya's words were resounding and full of a sense of justice!

How cruel!

The same thought popped into everyone's mind.

Because once this news gets out, those guys will be subjected to strange looks and gossip every day.

This kind of verbal bullying is not something everyone can withstand; not everyone's heart is as resilient as Karuizawa's.

I'm afraid it won't be long before they start crying and demanding to drop out of school. Even if they want to stay, how long can they endure being isolated?

Making them drop out of school now would actually be an act of kindness towards them.

Anyway, they felt they couldn't tolerate this humiliation.

As Zhou once said, if you want to open a window in a room full of people, everyone will disagree, but if you want to tear down the roof, everyone will agree to let you open a window.

Would it be feasible to expel the mastermind from school and then punish the accomplices without revealing their names?

Of course it's feasible, but at that point the students would probably start speculating about who the accomplice in taking the photos was.

That would create widespread panic, which is probably not something the school wants to see.

Moreover, quite a few people know about this, so it's not impossible for it to spread.

So deciding which option to choose is indeed giving Horikita Manabu a bit of a headache.

"What's your opinion?"

"I think Vice President Kamio's proposal is very good."

"I agree too."

One by one, they're all trying to smooth things over... Horikita Manabu was speechless.

"In that case, I will report to the school and interrogate the suspect to try to find out the truth and close the case as soon as possible."

After the meeting, the student council members left one by one. Tatsuya Kamio also planned to go to the pool, as he still had his shift to do.

"Kamio, please wait a moment."

"it is good."

After everyone had left, Horikita Manabu spoke to Kamio Tatsuya.

"I thought you would speak up to protect them."

“I’ve already saved them once, and I thought they would turn over a new leaf and strive for a better future, but it turns out I was wrong,” Tatsuya Kamio said calmly.

Then he recounted what happened during the midterm exams to Horikita.

After learning about this situation, Horikita Manabu suddenly thought of a question.

"Was it because of them that you asked me to change the midterm exam questions?"

"That's one reason," Tatsuya Kamio said frankly. "But later I felt it would be too cruel to ruin someone's future just because of a personal grudge, so after the midterm exams I spent some points to let them stay."

Of course, that's not how it is. Although Tatsuya Kamio looked calm, he was actually talking nonsense.

But what does it matter? As long as Horikita Gakushin believes it.

It doesn't matter if you don't believe it, since he won't admit to any other reasons anyway.

Section: First Grade, Second Semester

Chapter 171 Results of the Handling

On September 1st, after waking up, Tatsuya Kamio first checked the balance on his phone, which was a full million yen more than the day before.

This is a reward issued by the preferential treatment test. Since Kamio Tatsu is also a preferential treatment recipient and his group achieved result one, the preferential treatment recipient himself received one million personal points.

Apart from this, no other points were credited, meaning that Class D's class points were once again completely depleted.

It's a pity. Class D was supposed to be promoted to Class C today, but because of what happened a couple of days ago, they've been pushed back to square one.

After packing his things, Tatsuya Kamio arrived at school, just like last semester.

At the school entrance, Tatsuya Kamio saw the class points for each first-grade class.

First-year class (Sakayanagi Arisu): 1130 points

Class 1-B (Honami Ichinose): 912 points

Class C, Grade 1 (Long Yuanxiang): 269 points

Class 1-D (Horikita Suzune): 0 points

Now that Class D's points are zero, those guys in Class D are probably even less likely to hand over their points, because even if they did, they wouldn't be able to raise 20 million.

Moreover, if they hand over their points, their living expenses will probably become a problem.

However, compared to that, Tatsuya Kamio still wanted to see what the current situation of Class D was like.

Upon arriving at Class D, one desk was missing, and the number of students had increased from forty to thirty-nine.

The students in the class were basically discussing this topic as soon as they arrived at school in the morning. This was true not only for the students in Class D, but also for students in other classes.

However, the students in Class D were relatively calm. Although some people were unhappy that their class points had been deducted, they also felt that Chi and the others deserved it.

Girls, in particular, find this behavior utterly repulsive and have absolutely no reason to sympathize with them.

Moreover, because Chi was not there, both boys and girls began to list Chi's 'crimes' and spoke ill of him without restraint.

It was as if they were about to unleash all the malice they had been suppressing.

The school forum also reported on the matter through the official student union account.

[Announcement: It has been confirmed that Kanji Ike and others from Class 1-D conspired to take photos of the girls in the changing room. The student council has investigated and confirmed this.]

The mastermind, Kanji Ike, has been expelled from school, and 300 points have been deducted from his class score. All personal points of the two accomplices have been confiscated, and 300 points have also been deducted from their class scores.

In other words, Class D does not have 900 class points, meaning there is no such thing as a negative class point.

Otherwise, Class D would definitely never recover.

"I never expected something like this to happen in just one summer vacation."

As soon as he sat down, Horikita let out a deep sigh, clearly caught off guard by the situation.

"What's wrong? Are you feeling discouraged? If that's all, you won't be able to advance to the next class," Tatsuya Kamio said with a smile from his seat.

Horikita Suzune didn't speak, but simply turned her head and quietly looked at Kamio Tatsuya.

Why are you looking at me like that?

"You seem very happy today, you seem... different from usual."

Horikita Suzune looked suspicious, because this was truly the first time she had ever seen Kamio Tatsuya like this.

Tatsuya Kamio raised an eyebrow: "Really? You actually found out. Maybe it's because the one million private points from the preferential treatment test have been credited to your account."

Horikita Suzune didn't believe his fabricated story. She rolled her eyes, turned around, and took out the textbook she needed for the first class.

Next, Kamio Tatsuya looked at Hirata Yosuke, the class's best friend.

At this time of day, he would usually be chatting and laughing with the students in Class D, but today was different. He was just sitting in his seat, head down, not saying a word, and it seemed that he was not in a good mood.

As for the other two accomplices identified through the investigation, Haruki Yamauchi and Hideo Sotomura sat silently in their seats, like statues.

Kamio Tatsuya was very dissatisfied with this result, because he had wanted to expel all three of them from school.

Is it simply a matter of confiscating personal points and deducting class points?

Taking photos without consent is a serious crime in Japan, and even if the perpetrator is a minor, the punishment is far too lenient.

After all, in terms of personal points, the villagers in the mountains and the outer villages probably don't have much at all. As for class points, Class D doesn't have many class points to begin with, because after Ike deducts 300 points, it's only a single digit.

There wasn't even a symbolic suspension of classes...

That's true. Wouldn't suspending students be equivalent to directly announcing who the accomplice is?

Moreover, the school's approach completely disregarded his words, as if they really thought they could suppress the matter this way.

too naive!