Even so, he left proper evidence behind on purpose so that it’d be easy to understand that he did it.

Additionally, Kuwahara Katsura deliberately showed himself on the security camera almost as if he was trying to get caught as the culprit from the beginning.

And in this matter… Kuwahara was definitely mad that he’d gotten caught.
But I hadn’t been wounded at all.
To Kuwahara, who was already getting expelled, no punishment from the school would be effetive.
I wasn’t injured, so it was pointless to call the police.
Since I wasn’t injured, I wouldn’t be able to go to court.

On the other hand… my reputation was completely tainted.

It didn’t matter whether that was legitimate self-defence or not.
I, as a lady, dragged down a man, threw him, held him down, vulgarly straddled him, tread on him, and in general used violence against him.
That reputation of me had spread in an instant.
You couldn’t think that it wasn’t planned from the beginning.
It was executed too well.

Kuwahara Katsura was disposable from the beginning.
Then, right before he was going to be expelled, when he had nothing to lose, he was used one last time.

The video recorded at that time had already been spread throughout the school.
I knocked down Kuwahara Katsura, stepped on him, pinned him down, pulled up his hair, then laughed evilly with my brother.
It was constructed like that.
It had even recorded me yelling at the other students.

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Kuwahara Katsura had made and spread this video, but he was being led by police at the moment.
But was that really true? It was probably false.
This was the work of another mastermind pulling the strings.
The school shouldn’t have wanted anything troublesome to happen, so they were planning to shove all the blame onto Kuwahara Katsura and end the matter here.

Kuwahara was already leaving the school, so the school wouldn’t be related to any problems he caused.
The culprit was just pushed to the police.
That was it.
On top of the fact that there was no concrete damage suffered, the police couldn’t react.
They just had to drag him off, lecture him a little, and it’d be resolved.
There was no meaning.

Kujou Sakuya’s image had fallen to the ground.
I had lost everything.
But the police wouldn’t acknowledge that as suffering damage.
I hadn’t gotten injured.
I didn’t even have my money stolen.
That was why I hadn’t suffered any damage…

“…”

“Sakuya…”

It wasn’t the situation to attend class at all; the school and the police had an exchange, and the investigation had finally ended.
I was walking with my brother, who’d waited outside, in the hallway, but… we were walking during break time, in the middle of a large amount of students… we were walking as they whispered.

Oh… this world was a cursed world… why was this world so harsh to Kujou Sakuya? What on earth did Kujou Sakuya do? Why did she have to receive this unreasonable treatment!

“Fuu… fuu…”

My heartbeat suddenly got faster and my breathing got ragged.
At some point, I had curled my hand into a fist.

“Sakuya, I’ll walk you to your classroom.”

“No… I am fine alone.”

I rejected my brother’s offer to escort me and walked on my own.

Kujou Sakuya pushed people she didn’t like out of the academy.

Kujou Sakuya used violence against nonresisting opponents.

Kujou Sakuya pinned crimes on innocent people.

Kujou Sakuya was…

“*grind*!”

The sound of my teeth grinding against each other rang throughout the hallway.
Why…

“Sakuya-sama!”

“Are you alright, Sakuya-chan?”

“Sakuya-chan!”

“Yeah…”

In no time at all, I seemed to have walked in front of my classroom.
Azami-chan and the others jumped out, surrounded me, and called out to me.
I felt saved just from that.
The gloomy feeling I had earlier disappeared like it was all a lie.

I was still okay… if everyone was here… I could still move forward.

Losing my reputation wasn’t a big thing.
If I lost it, I could build it up again.
I hadn’t… I hadn’t lost anything truly important.
That was why it was fine.
I could still walk from here.

  ~~~~~~~

The Kuwahara Katsura incident had become a problem even to my family, but, as expected, they didn’t publicly respond and instead filed a criminal complaint and damages to the police.
The police wouldn’t respond anyway.
I had accepted that.

I didn’t really want to take revenge on the Kuwahara family or make them receive some punishment, but… I was completely dizzy at this reality.
You’d be kicked out of the academy by just doing that…

This world was definitely outrageous.
He probably couldn’t return to high society again.
But… what if he had nothing to lose from the beginning?

I couldn’t quite grasp it, but what if the Kuwahara family had massive debt that they had to do something about? They’d be certainly kicked out of high society since they’d already fallen into debt, so they had no reason to hesitate.
If the debt was paid or they received some sort of reward, they wouldn’t lose anything even if they performed this kind of farce.

Were the adults only vaguely aware of the background behind this incident? And because of that, they kept quiet… They knew that if they investigated the matter, they’d find a horrible bomb…

Of course, that was only my imagination, but… Judging how my father and the academy reacted, that wasn’t a mistake.
But… even if the adults were hesitant to dig up the bomb… I wouldn’t forget.
I would never forget these feelings… towards the mastermind…

  ~~~~~~~

On Monday at lunch break… we gathered without even having eaten.

“…huh?”

“Sakuya-chan, sorry!”

“Me too…”

“Sakuya-sama…”

I couldn’t understand what everyone was saying.
I didn’t want to understand.
Satsuki-chan, Akane-chan, Tsubaki-chan, Yuzuriha-chan, and Renge-chan… everyone was… everyone was leaving.
They were all walking away.

It shouldn’t… have been that big a deal, but… Why… I was alone in the beginning, so… so I could bear this.
I could endure this alone.
That should’ve been true, but…

“…huh? …what?”

Droplets wet my uniform.
Was it raining? That couldn’t have been true… since we were inside… my uniform couldn’t have gotten wet from the rain.
But why was it… Everything was blurry, like my eyes were watery.
What was… this…?

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