Chapter 251: Audio Recording Supremacy
"Louder!"
"Let me hear it again—the way you beg for mercy!"
Ryuen Kakeru continued to inflict violence, dealing a flurry of punches and kicks to Manabe Shiho, who was curled up in the corner.
Ibuki Mio frowned and said.
"Hey, Manabe! Aren't you going to hand over the name of the person pulling your strings from behind the scenes?"
"I don't know what you're talking about..."
Manabe Shiho kept her head lowered and refused to speak.
"Bang!"
Ryuen Kakeru stepped heavily on the other girl's face and said coldly: "Still acting tough with me? You think if you don't talk, I won't find out?"
"Ayanokouji Kiyotaka. Am I right?"
"!!!"
Manabe Shiho was instantly shocked and instinctively blurted out: "How do you know it's Kiyotaka-kun?"
"Yo! Listen to that, 'Kiyotaka-kun'!"
Ryuen Kakeru wore a mocking expression: "I didn't expect there would come a day when even a gal like you would have her emotions toyed with."
"I—I'm not being toyed with!
Kiyotaka-kun and I share a true love!!"
Manabe Shiho retorted righteously: "Ahhh~ someone like you who has never been in love definitely wouldn't understand, Ryuen. Heh!"
"Boring. I don't understand you, but where exactly does your confidence to provoke me right now come from?"
"Slap!"
Ryuen Kakeru raised his hand and gave Manabe another loud slap; her cheek swelled up immediately.
"I say, are you an idiot?" Ibuki Mio couldn't help but refute: "That guy instructed you to deliberately trip Kinoshita. Such a clumsy method—how could it possibly go undetected?
A traitor being exposed will never have a good end. That 'Kiyotaka-kun' of yours is clearly just sending you to your death!"
"Hahaha!"
Manabe Shiho laughed without saying a word, looking at Ibuki Mio as if looking at a fool.
"Tsk! To be able to train a woman to such a devoted degree, I'm actually curious—what kind of 'bewitching soup' did Ayanokouji feed you?" Ryuen Kakeru said sarcastically: "Could it be 'Essence of Man' soup?"
"Hahahaha!"
The boys in the room all revealed lecherous smiles. A few girls lowered their heads with flushed faces, clearly understanding the metaphor instantly.
"What's that?
What are you guys talking about?"
Ibuki Mio blinked her clear eyes, looking completely lost.
"What?
That fish-eyed guy—no, he should be called the 'bastard with glasses' now—didn't he feed you?"
Ryuen joked.
"???" Ibuki Mio was full of question marks.
".....Vulgar."
After meeting Shiina Hiyori's slightly narrowed eyes, which flashed a signal of danger, Ryuen Kakeru had no choice but to stop joking.
"Hmph!! You guys with brains full of trash.
My love with Kiyotaka-kun is pure!"
Manabe Shiho looked proud.
"I spit on that!
Someone who's been a 'loose-pants' since middle school—what are you pretending to be pure for?"
Ryuen Kakeru couldn't help but curse loudly.
They were from the same middle school, so they knew exactly what kind of woman Manabe Shiho was.
"That... that's all in the past..."
Manabe Shiho was clearly hit in a sore spot, her expression turning frantic: "Besides, Kiyotaka-kun wouldn't care about that."
"Fine, fine, I don't want to hear about your trashy business.
I'm just curious, given the situation, where does the confidence to keep acting tough come from?" Ryuen Kakeru seemed to vaguely sense something unusual.
"Guess!
A guy whose head only knows violence... that's as far as your IQ goes."
Manabe Shiho provoked him recklessly.
"What did you say?"
Ryuen's face darkened. He stepped forward quickly, grabbed her collar with one hand, and lifted her bodily into the air. Just as he was prepared to escalate the violence, Shiina Hiyori's cold voice came from the side.
"Let's stop here, Ryuen-kun."
"What?"
Ryuen frowned.
"The enemy spent so much effort calculating against us; it's impossible they didn't prepare a back-up plan. This is also where Manabe's confidence lies."
Shiina Hiyori closed the book in her hand and instructed Ibuki Mio, who had a clear-eyed look of confusion: "Ibuki-san, please check Manabe's desk."
"Oh, okay."
Ibuki Mio instinctively followed the instruction. As expected, she soon found a recording pen. The indicator light showed it was in a recording state!
"A recording?!
Meaning, our voices just now were all recorded?"
Everyone was instantly pale with shock. Although violence was a common occurrence for Class C, once recorded as evidence, it became a lethal weapon sufficient to get someone expelled!
"Tsk! Always these petty tricks!"
Ryuen's face was gloomy.
"The method might not be brilliant, but it's enough to deal with you!" Manabe Shiho grinned mockingly.
"Ibuki, check Manabe's person as well."
Shiina Hiyori instructed again. Only this time, before Ibuki could move, Ryuen Kakeru stepped in personally.
"... Where... are you touching?"
A flash of panic crossed Manabe Shiho's face: "Men and women shouldn't touch, dame!"
"Shut up! You bitch!!"
Ryuen performed a rough body search. Finally, from inside her bra, he pulled out a recording device the size of a fingernail. Simultaneously, two soft pads fell from Manabe Shiho's body, which the quick-handed Ibuki Mio caught.
"What are these?"
"..."
Manabe Shiho remained silent.
"More recordings! Is there no creativity at all?"
Ryuen was practically laughing from rage, unable to stop himself from venting: "Classroom of the Elite? They might as well change the name to 'Classroom of the Audio Recording Supremacy'!"
"Give up, Ryuen-kun.
If there's one, there's a second. How can you guarantee the opponent doesn't have a third recording device?"
Shiina Hiyori analyzed seriously: "If I haven't guessed wrong, our class meeting yesterday—where we discussed using points to bribe the seniors from 3rd Year Class D to deliberately interfere with Ayanokouji's race—was also recorded, wasn't it?"
"As expected of Shiina. You're the only smart person in this stupid class."
Seeing the plan was completely exposed, Manabe Shiho admitted it frankly.
"Bitch! You think I'll be threatened by you?"
Ryuen threw her to the ground with one hand.
"Cough, cough~ Keep hitting me then... and just wait to be expelled!!"
Manabe Shiho was broken and reckless now.
"You!"
Ryuen's expression shifted between light and dark. Given his violent behavior today, if this were truly reported to the school, he really might be expelled.
"Haha!"
"Dumbfounded, aren't you, Ryuen? You can't touch me at all!"
Manabe Shiho thought she had grasped the upper hand, and her attitude became arrogant instantly.
"That's not necessarily true, Manabe-san.
There is a rule in the S-System: as long as you pay 20 million points, you can be exempted from expulsion once.
Did Ayanokouji not tell you that?"
Shiina Hiyori's whisper struck straight at the other girl's heart!
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