COTE: A Man On A Mission || Love is War?

On December 10th.

When 1st-year students come to teaching building from dormitory, will change into indoor shoes at the cabinet.

When took out indoor shoes, found an identical letter.

[Ichinose Honami from Class 1A has an illegal large number of points.]

And below this line of printed words, there is a person's name.

Arisu Sakayanagi.

It seemed that she put such a note in everyone's shoe cabinet and reported Ichinose, her 'friend'.

All first graders were a little confused.

When a person finds a letter in his shoe cabinet, he thinks it is a love letter, but soon finds out.

Something more serious.

Because it concerns everyone's Archangel Ichinose!

There is Sakayanagi-san, current leader of Class C, slated next student council president.

Students discovered this thing, so didn't change their shoes or leave immediately.

Both parties at center of the incident came here.

"Ohayo! Why is everyone not going to class? Did something bad happen?"

Today's Archangel is also refreshing.

But it happened quickly.

Ichinose was not stupid.

She immediately noticed that her classmates seemed to be paying more attention to her than usual.

And they all had considerable doubts.

Hachiman was also present.

When he received the letter of complaint, he took a photo.

Then looked around shoe cabinet, unfortunately, school had installed cameras in various places.

But not installed here.

Maybe staff thinks it's transparent area and no abnormal behavior will occur.

"Ichinose-san..." A girl who looked familiar to Hachiman, a girl from her class who he had met once, ran over to her, "Take a look at this..."

Is it weird to think you look familiar after meeting each other once?

Not surprisingly.

Because this girl is Chihiro Shiranami from Ichinose's class.

She once confessed her love to Ichinose, who went to Hachiman to help reject her.

Afterwards, Hikigaya-kun did not have any contact with the other party.

Know her but there is no intersection.

"Chihiro-chan..." Ichinose took the envelope handed to her by Shiranami.

[Ichinose Honami from Class A, Grade 1, used unfair means to gain a huge amount of points. —Sakayanagi Arisu reports]

"..." Her expression suddenly became stunned.

"Is it Sakayanagi-san——" She was not unfamiliar with this Arisu, and even felt banging her own head.

She knew that she was one of the two leaders of the original Class A, but when she met Arisu during the holidays and went shopping together, she felt that relationship between 2 seemed to have become closer.

And according to Ichinose, aren't they friends?

Can't understand.

Totally incomprehensible.

Why would her name appear in this nonsense-like letter of accusation?

"Ala, it looks like something exciting has happened!" Culprit, Salayanagi Arisu walked slowly towards the door under protection of puppies in her class.

She walked very slowly, but with a lovely smile on her face.

People did not dislike her slow pace, but instead had the urge to look at her with pity.

"You bit---"

But some people are not like this.

The first person to speak was Shibata from Ichinose's class.

As sports expert with a saint, he would not allow such a trustworthy classmate of his to be slandered.

Without knowing whether Sakayanagi did it, he rushed forward and asked, "Why would you do such a bad thing?!"

"???"

"...Did my cat bite you or something?"

"???" Shibata felt horrible, he gave her the letter with a complex face.

However, Arisu just showed a puzzled expression and took the letter of complaint from Shibata.

Now, it seemed that everyone was looking over here.

But expression she showed was one of surprise at seeing her own name for the first time.

It seems....She was not the mastermind.

....How could such a cute girl slander Ichinose-san?

Ichinose is a person with better social skills than Kushida, and is known for being beautiful, gentle, sweet, and easy to get along with.

She has friends in every class, and there are people who like her.

So, regarding fact that Ichinose-san was attacked, many people wanted to stand on her side.

Some even think it's too much for whole grade to distribute such things.

This situation may also occur.

"Sakayanagi...do you think people will feel pity because you don't have any legs to walk properly?"

Some random also fired at her.

Tap! Tap! Tap!

"Whoever said that. I order you to come forward and show me your face!" Sakayanagi was now coldly glaring at some idiots from Hachiman and Ryuen's class.

No one did.

'When I become President, first thing I am going to do is get rid of these people with no faces....' Sakayanagi took an oath right there, holding her cane tightly, her knuckles going white.

Kamuro-san was doing her best to make a straight face instead of pufff.

The reason why I call him an idiot is that if Sakayanagi really wanted to target Ichinose, it would be despicable to use this method.

First of all, Ichinose is very popular, and if she does this directly, Sakayanagi will lose a lot of votes.

Sakayanagi isn't the student council president yet, so she wants ordinary first-year student's ticket.

So why would she do something like this to lower her own voter turnout?

And even if she wanted to do it, she wouldn't let her name appear on!

Because this is a serious incident, even if a single name appears on it, evaluation will drop.

And now, because an idiot spoke, many students began to look at her.

If she doesn't handle the current situation well, her vote share will definitely drop.

"💢" Sakayanagi. 'Damn it...I need to appease these people for sake of my votes....'

Looking ahead once more.

A girl was smiling at her.

But not a friendly smile, it's the worst smile Arisu had ever seen.

Deep breaths...

"Hey, Sakayanagi...."

"Are you there? I think she's out...."

Shake! Shake!

"W-what? K-Kamuro-san...."

"Good, you are still alive. It's time for class, remember?"

And the one who reported Ichinose for having a huge amount of points, her own account is one filled with 20 fucking million....

So she wouldn't feel good if this kind of thing was exposed.

In other words, she was attacked.

A little consideration.

Sakayanagi after being taken care of by her best friend, she maintained a proper smile, "Gomen. I was just a little bit shocked, but it seems like someone is targeting you, Ichinose-san...."

She avoided looking in that direction just in case.

"However, why don't you take advantage of this situation where everyone is paying attention to you and explain it in detail right now, Ichinose-san? You can prove your innocence right away...."

From the perspective of others, Sakayanagi seemed to be kind enough to give Ichinose some room to explain.

As long as you can prove your innocence, it will be useless no matter how others slander you.

This sentence can also be regarded as a trap, where everyone's attention is now.

If Ichinose didn't have a huge amount of points, wouldn't it be better for her to show her balance right now?

But it was as if this was arranged by person who wrote the report letter.

Completely led by the nose.

Showing that one has no ability to make proactive judgments.

It will lower evaluation of her and even the current Class A.

Moreover, Ichinose really has this many points on her mobile phone.

There is no other way around.

Although there is a way to hide points, such as point cards, she needs to announce her points to her classmates frequently, so using point cards is quite inconvenient.

The announcement of such a huge number may be considered fraud by some people as the result of discovering some loophole or other means.

Therefore, will lower evaluation of class.

Although Ichinose was a saint, she was also very smart and understood immediately.

"I don't know how I offended that student to send such a letter to the whole grade...."

Ichinose began to face her classmates, with a look of a crying angel who is framed, "But I will report to teacher today, including my personal points and how I obtained them, etc. School will decide whether I violated the rules or not."

Then she turned to glance at Sakayanagi, who also looked quite paled, "Thank you for your concern, Sakayanagi-san. And I'm sorry, if someone is targeting me, then I'm also implicated by you."

Although Arisu showed surprise as if she was seeing it for the first time when she received letter of accusation handed over by Shibata, it is still unclear whether she is innocent.

And now, Ichinose can still smile and thank Sakayanagi for her concern.

To clear name.

Let me tell you that Sakayanagi was also wronged.

The person being attacked was herself.

From this perspective, Ichinose is indeed an angel.

Hikigaya-kun also arrived at the scene, or rather, he had been watching.

Ichinose's class is current A-class, and Sakayanagi's is former A-class, so it is very likely that she will attack her rival and hold a grudge.

'Probably not done by Sakayanagi because her face looks very angry.....'

Because after leaving the shoe closet, Hachiman received a message from Sakayanagi.

[Come to 3rd floor at noon.]

He just knew it.

'Because now, even though Ichinose blocked the attack, she felt someone was targeting her and thus implicated Sakayanagi. But is it possible that someone wanted to attack Sakayanagi, and Ichinose is just a tool? Isn't it her name that is marked in report letter? And she also had an agreement to go to war with me....Probably needed to eliminate my suspicion first, so she arranged to meet at noon....well, I can eat her food...'

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