"By fuzoku activity, you mean…"
Upon hearing Usui Makoto's stammered explanation, Hachiman, who still had some impression of a certain disciplinary committee member, suddenly had an incredibly bold guess flash through his mind.
But he still wasn't sure if the "fuzoku activity" Usui Makoto mentioned was the same as the one he was thinking of.
If his guess was correct, then this was just too ridiculous.
Those disciplinary committee members who had always strictly managed school morals and forbade students from impure interactions between boys and girls, were actually now going to lead the charge in disrupting school discipline?
"It's that, that… to eliminate your desire from the source…", Usui Makoto lowered her head and didn't dare look up at Hachiman, stammering shyly.
Because she was on duty yesterday and didn't attend the disciplinary committee's meeting, she was also extremely shocked, shaken, and in disbelief when she heard from other class's committee members that this was the meeting's content.
But something like this clearly couldn't be a lie. She asked several committee members in a row and they all gave the same answer. She even felt that a few of them, although acting improper in speech, seemed faintly moved, restricted by their identity as disciplinary members and Sobu High's strict rules, unable to date, yet showing signs of interest.
In order to prevent the school's order from being disrupted, and to give the clearly disruptive Hachiman a special disciplinary measure, so he wouldn't go on to harm other girls…
Even though the method sounded utterly absurd, this was the reality, under long-term pressure, there were both committee members opposing and agreeing.
"Uh…", Seeing Usui Makoto so ashamed she couldn't face him directly, Hachiman naturally understood what "eliminating his desire" meant.
What else could law-abiding disciplinary committee members do to eliminate his desire? They couldn't really touch him or anything, right? Obviously, this was a personal attack.
"Hachiman, what do you think about this?", The student council president and Hachiman's childhood friend, Kaede, folded her arms and turned her head expressionlessly, eyes locked on Hachiman who was sitting right next to her.
They had just finished listening to the intel Makoto brought back and were thinking about how to get Hachiman to come over when, unexpectedly, he showed up on his own.
Considering the recent bet between her and Hachiman, and the harem wager that seemed to include not only Tsubaki but also Makoto, she began to suspect this guy might've realized he couldn't win through normal means and secretly bribed the disciplinary committee to pass this outrageous proposal just to trick Makoto into his harem.
Otherwise, with Makoto's personality, there's no way she'd get involved with Hachiman.
"What do I think? You should be asking Usui-san that. I, the person being fuzoku-activity'd, just found out about this too," Hachiman replied with a touch of speechlessness, reaching out to rub Kaede's tense cheek firmly.
To be honest, he had thought about building a harem openly at school, especially after learning that Sobu High had a disciplinary committee member like Kotegawa Yui, who talked tough but had a soft body and no shame. He was even more eager about meeting the three Galactic Princess sisters, Lala, Momo, and Nana, who might be hiding in some corner of the galaxy.
But this fuzoku activity being pushed by the committee now was giving him a massive headache.
If he really wanted a harem, he'd never do it so publicly through something like this, right? After all, there were disciplinary members in every class. If this happened, wouldn't all the students in school know?
Or was it because all the committee members were involved, so no one would talk?
He knew the committee girls at Sobu High were all beautiful and had always been the school's dazzling scenery at the gates every morning, but there's no way they'd all agree to something this ridiculous.
"Hmph! Makoto-chan, which committee member proposed this? I'm going to give her a piece of my mind. What were they even thinking with such a ridiculous suggestion. You're supposed to maintain order, how can you willingly destroy it?"
Seeing Hachiman neither nervous nor flustered, even teasing her by rubbing her face, Kaede, both embarrassed and angry, smacked his hand away and turned to Usui Makoto with a serious tone.
She might not be able to control this guy who dreamed about harems all day, but she could certainly deal with those disciplinary committee members.
Even though the disciplinary committee technically wasn't a subunit of the student council, they were still under the council's jurisdiction in the end.
She needed to properly interrogate both the member who proposed and those who approved this idea. Had they lost their minds? Causing such chaos, and involving her childhood friend of all people, it was unbelievable.
"Right! How could the disciplinary committee approve something like a fuzoku activity? You must be mistaken," Rurikawa Tsubaki quickly chimed in.
She too was shocked that a disciplinary committee member wanted to conduct a fuzoku activity with Hikigaya, but she didn't have time to think too much, she needed to support Kaede first.
She and Hikigaya already had some entanglements, and she couldn't afford to mess up on something like this.
But thankfully, this fuzoku activity was concocted by the disciplinary committee, so if anything went wrong, it would be on Usui Makoto's side, it had nothing to do with her in the student council.
"Actually… this fuzoku activity was something the school board wanted to implement. The committee meeting was only to discuss whether to approve it, and if approved, how to handle the members who would carry it out…", Usui Makoto stole a glance at Hachiman, who didn't seem to care about the topic at all and was instead dividing up octopus sausages in their lunchbox, and continued explaining quietly.
After class ended at noon, she had brought her lunch to the student council office and only then shared the intel she gathered. She hadn't had a chance to explain that the fuzoku activity wasn't something the disciplinary committee just randomly came up with.
"The school board? Official authorities? Are they crazy? Just messing around with student affairs like this?", Kaede froze, instinctively blurting out a complaint.
She knew it, she was the student council president after all. There's no way the disciplinary members would dare target her childhood friend without backing.
Private school boards were backed by investors, including various conglomerates or individuals, but public school boards had official backgrounds, so their boldness was understandable.
Still, even if it was the school board's idea, she thought this "maintaining discipline" measure was plain dumb.
To pull something like this in Sobu High, the top school in Chiba by deviation score? Ridiculous…
"Um… they said Hikigaya-kun has been getting too close to the girls in school recently. Not only is the Service Club full of girls besides him, but he was even invited by the girls' swim club captain to serve as a temporary manager… To prevent the Elven Princess from suffering any negative effects…"
Usui Makoto nodded awkwardly. Even though she hadn't attended the meeting and didn't agree with this rule-breaking way of preserving rules, she was still a disciplinary committee member, meaning she was one of the candidates who could conduct the fuzoku activity with Hikigaya.
She also thought the officials were nuts. Just because they feared the Elven Princess might get into trouble at school, they came up with this? That excuse was too arbitrary, probably just made up to fool them.
She had been to Hikigaya's house for dinner, and the Elven Princess Iris was there too. Their relationship was already very close, what could the committee members possibly stop?
At school it was still manageable, just watch closely during breaks. But the Elven Princess had even gone to his house. What could they do after school? Follow him home?
Uh… well, maybe that's it. Maybe the authorities realized this and saw that keeping them apart at school wasn't enough, so they wanted the committee to completely eliminate Hikigaya's improper desires at school, cutting the threat to the Elven Princess at the root.
"When did you join the girls' swim club, Hachiman? And Makoto-chan, so everyone except the absent committee members agreed?", Kaede glared fiercely at Hachiman, who looked like he didn't care at all, took a deep breath, decided not to get caught up in how he'd gone to the girls' swim club to flirt, and turned to her good friend Usui Makoto to ask again.
"Of course not everyone agreed. This fuzoku activity was an internal notice from the school to the committee. At the very least, it's supposed to be trialed on Hikigaya to stop him from disrupting school discipline. Yesterday's meeting was just to discuss how to handle the matter," Usui Makoto quickly shook her head and explained.
"For example, who will carry out the fuzoku activity on Hikigaya-kun…"
"If any committee member is actually willing to do it voluntarily… how should we respond when we witness it…"
Though there were occasional rule-breakers at Sobu High, compared to this issue, those were nothing. The committee members were facing this kind of explosive situation for the first time and had no idea how to handle it.
Because if a disciplinary committee member really went to conduct a fuzoku activity on Hachiman, they might even have to cover for her…
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