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

In the morning, everyone's shoe cabinets received letters reporting Ichinose.

However, due to Ichinose's strong popularity, no one paid much attention to it.

Then after school in afternoon, bulletin board was updated with a fair announcement by Student Council.

It seems that Ichinose went to see president, and he investigated legal channels and amount of her points, so it was not legal to report.

Ichinose did not violate any rules.

As one of the people involved, Sakayanagi also took some actions.

That's when she started going home from school with Ichinose.

In other words, she acted in front of her classmates as if she was friends with Ichinose and they had a deep friendship.

This way, her plan to attack Ichinose was automatically thwarted.

Since she and Ichinose are friends, why would she attack her?

It looks calm.

However, these past two mornings, when Hachiman met students of Class C, he noticed that several boys were yawning.

It seems that people are sleep deprived.

Students in Class C are from the original A.

They are different from the undisciplined students in Hachiman's class.

You have to know such people know school rules from the beginning, and there are behavioral assessments, but can only lose 6 points in a week in entire class.

So work and rest schedule won't be too excessive.

But now the lack of sleep looks obviously a little unnatural.

And this curiosity was soon solved.

On fifth day after Ichinose was reported, when he went to teaching building, he found a commotion near the shoe cabinet.

It seems that something happened.

"Hikigaya!" Yukimura said directly when he came to the shoe cabinet, extremely excited, "The criminal who framed Ichinose-san has been caught! Just now, people from Class C came over, and left..."

Um...Yukimura is a fan of Ichinose.

So it is natural to pay attention to Archangel. But perhaps he was too excited to finish his words.

So Hachiman walked over to Sakura Airi, who was taking off her indoor shoes obediently, "Sakura, I came late. What happened just now?"

"Hey, hey, let me speak, will you?!"

Sakura was shocked. But she still told Hikigaya-kun what she knew.

When she came to shoe closet in the morning, saw two students from Class D secretly putting envelopes into everyone's shoe closet.

Then students from Class C rushed over from not far away, took pictures, caught them on the spot, and sent them to Student Council.

Should we say that she is worthy of being Sakura Airi?

Every time something was about to happen, she was either there or trying to avoid it.

But since they are students from D, it means Ryuen's class that is doing this.

Punishment came quickly.

Evaluation score of Grade 1 Class D was deducted by 50 points.

Because it is 0 points, it is well....

Therefore, members involved were verbally criticized, suspended from school for three days, and fined 200,000 points.

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During lunch break.

Hachiman and Sakayanagi are eating together.

"How did you get the student council to punish them? If it was just an insignificant small report...."

"It's very simple," Sakayanagi didn't even try to look modest, in fact she boasted more eagerly, "The people I arranged seized them on spot, and then submitted a pre-prepared letter of complaint of a serious nature, saying that criminal was going to distribute in shoe cabinet. It will affect the students' health."

You are worthy of it.

The impact is not enough, so you increase it.

"But I don't think this matter will end here just now...."

"I know. But is there any specific reason for you to feel that way, Hikigaya-kun?"

"Sakura told me."

"• •" Arisu who tried to impress this boy with her power of dogs, "You really have a good relationship with her. No wonder you manipulated poor Kamuro-san to get me teach your classmate."

"Please don't exaggerate....."

"Hmmm..." For some reason, Sakayanagi didn't take his words to heart at all.

Criminals are from Ryuen Class.

And it doesn't make sense why Ryuen would attack Ichinose.

But, way people are living in his class.....It can be hired with money.

Therefore, Ryuen's class probably accepted other people's money and became tools to do the work.

"Anyway, your friend is right. They treated me as a weakling and attacked me. It would be rude not to return the favor." Then she said this and clenched her left fist cutely.

'Just say that you want revenge.' Hachiman said in his heart.

But looking at, Sakayanagi is also certain of identity behind the scenes.

Because the people who attacked Ichinose were from Ryuen's class, Sakayanagi was also involved.

Then her reputation as a candidate for next student council president will decline.

There's only one person who likes to see this kind of thing.

Rival.

The real bad guy is most likely Nagumo-senpai who resigned at gymnasium after forest exam.

From the overheard phone call from Nagumo's childhood sweetheart, Asahina-senpai, he knows that enemy is committed to getting Kiriyama to run for election.

If you want to succeed in election, then remove obstacles. It's normal for him to attack Sakayanagi, his rival.

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Hachiman noticed something was amiss.

Because next target of Nagumo's attack is not Sakayanagi but Ichinose!

The 18th is the day when all 3rd graders leave school to take special exams for this month which lasts for two weeks.

But on 19th.

When all first-year students went to their closets to change into indoor shoes for class, found a letter again.

And this time.

Content of the letter was vile.

1. Ichinose is not fit to be a class representative, even now in Class A she will fall down quickly because of her.

2. Ichinose has been chosen as the next student council president's secretary.

3. Ichinose Honami is a fallen angel and should not be in charge of the class points.

Two people from Ryuen's class were caught by Class C and sent to the Student Council.

.....President also brought down the hammer.

At the same time, although Ichinose's case was vindicated and it was proved that it was Class D's fault, her situation still did not get better.

Rumors are still being spread.

Three rumors that seem to have absolutely no connection appear in students' shoe cabinets.

And Ichinose is very popular and her classmates are very united, so one attack can suppress her, but this is already second and third time.

So, rumors still arose.

Ichinose's approach was different from the previous ones. Her solution was even simple: just ignore it.

Believe those who are innocent will be innocent, and don't respond.

The other party may feel bored and give up. This is a very Buddhist approach.

But Ichinose's cold treatment had no effect.

Because equivalent to no treatment, with instigation of some people with ulterior motives, it will cause discussion among classmates.

Point 3 will be denied by people who are familiar with Ichinose, but does the fact that she keeps points of class mean source of huge amount of points that Ichinose was mentioned in report letter is possessed by?

First-year Class A really gathered a huge amount of points.

The first point is annoying to those who support Ichinose, because it seems like they are denying her.

Among them, some people will also pay attention to the second point, and even think it is possible.

After all, she has a high academic ability, is not stupid in brain, and has super strong communication and coordination skills, even better than Kushida-chan.

Joining the office or something like that is also possible.

As Ichinose was in a state of neglect, rumors were spreading.

However, students in her class became dissatisfied.

Although Ichinose felt they were not harmed, still felt that person they worshipped most in class was treated like shit and were very dissatisfied.

Someone had already noticed when they came to shoe cabinet very early in the morning, saw the students of Class D hanging around.

Then found rumor paper in the shoe cabinet.

Still Class D that wants to mess.

Even underground bots have started to play around in garden.

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On third day after rumor spread, Class A of Grade 1 had already taken spontaneous action.

But fact all took action showed that Ichinose's harmless assumptions about others and her saintly behavior were invalid.

That means some action needs to be taken.

People sacrificed usual spare time and began to follow the students in Class D, apparently in an attempt to stop them from spreading rumors.

But this also shows how popular Ichinose is in class, making her classmates actively run around for her.

Hachiman sat in the classroom, supporting his chin with one hand, and looked at the room which had become empty due to the lunch break.

He is not going to the cafeteria today.

But Class A is probably going to explode because of the rumors.

"Class B here is really peaceful."

In comparison, very relaxed.

The atmosphere was tense a while ago because of the rumors about Suzune, only now it is perfect for ruining fun type of girl like her.

"…"

There was a human presence around Hachiman, "You mean empty, right?"

Suzune turned her face around, she seemed to be in a good mood today, "Isn't this a good thing? At least wasteful chatter is now gone. Wait, are you dissatisfied?"

Frowning.

"No, well...it's just that after comparison, I feel a lot has changed from when everything started...."

But Suzune said with a straight face, "Yes, you had a lot of things to do here, and I didn't help much. So, I'm very sorry."

'Good man, so you have started to become self-aware?!' Hikigaya-kun was shocked.

But he is not a person without emotional intelligence.

So he went on to say, "...It's not too bad. It's not too boring. And your problem was solved in two days. I asked Karuizawa to arrange for someone to refute it. Then, after I told Hirata about the situation, he voluntarily provided assistance."

"ha-----"

But Suzune's facial expression became a little bit cute, and she put her head down on table for a bit of rest, looking at empty blackboard, "Well... you took good care of me."

Um? Hachiman looked at her.

"Although my brother has also received your care, but... Anyway, I am still very grateful to you. The worst result is expulsion from school, but this will not eliminate the negative impact that may be brought to my brother, but...you resolved the problem... Thank you."

"…."

"Ծ_Ծ" Hachiman.

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