Karaoke.
Hikigaya arrived at the box.
Behind him followed Ichinose, Horikita Suzune, Katsuragi, Nanase Tsubasa, and the newly joined Hikigaya Komachi and Ichinose Kanon.
Bringing several people was mainly to show fairness.
"Speaking of which, how could a newly bought computer break just from a fall? Kanzaki, did you think this method would work?"
Just as they entered, they heard Ryuuen looking at Kanzaki and sneering. Ishizaki and the others standing behind him suddenly came back to life.
"Yeah, yeah, how could a newly bought computer break so easily? You guys must be trying to trap us."
"What happened?"
Hikigaya stepped forward and asked.
Horikita Suzune and the others behind him also hurriedly stopped the people on both sides.
It was just that Horikita Suzune and Katsuragi respectively glanced at Hikigaya and Ryuuen. Although it was a normal dispute, it mostly had to do with this exam.
Unlike here.
The battle between Class B and Class C was much calmer.
On the other side.
Ryuuen also gave Hikigaya a cold glance.
This kind of entrapment investigation method was clearly not Ichinose's style; it was mostly Hikigaya's doing on purpose.
"You've come."
Ignoring Ryuuen and the others, Kanzaki then nodded to the several people and explained:
"Just now, Ishizaki and several others forcibly smashed open our box door and barged in, causing the newly bought tablet computers and handheld consoles of Nakanishi and others to fall on the floor. They're all broken."
"Are you kidding me? A newly bought computer doesn't break that easily. It's clearly you who broke them beforehand on purpose and then set us up."
This seemed to be the claim of Ryuuen and his group.
Before they entered the door, the computers were already broken.
Katsuragi and Horikita Suzune respectively glanced at Hikigaya and Ryuuen.
It had to be said.
One couldn't deny this possibility.
Moreover, they were naturally aware of the fact that Ryuuen had been constantly harassing Class A lately.
And given the personalities of Hikigaya and Ryuuen.
The possibility of this wasn't low.
"Katsuragi, Horikita, what do you think?"
Hikigaya left the initiative to Katsuragi and Horikita Suzune.
To avoid suspicion.
The two clearly understood this as well.
"You aren't denying the fact that you broke in, so the computers were knocked onto the floor by you, right?"
Horikita Suzune's gaze was piercing as she looked at Ishizaki and the others.
"This..."
Ishizaki and the others suddenly hesitated.
Should they start denying from this point?
"Stop joking around."
Ryuuen gave a scoff and said: "There are cameras outside, so there's no need to play these little games."
"However, that indeed doesn't count as breaking in. Ishizaki and the others were just coming to play with Kaneda. They thought Kaneda and the others were doing something bad by blocking the door, so they wanted to play around a bit."
"Moreover, it's not even certain if the computers fell on the floor after the door was pushed."
"It might be that Kanzaki and the others intentionally put the broken computers on the floor, waiting for a fish to take the bait so they could extort us."
"Besides, why block the door for Karaoke? That point is already suspicious enough."
"Right? Ishizaki?"
"Yes, yes, yes, that's exactly how it is."
Ishizaki and the others nodded like chickens pecking at rice.
Clearly.
Ryuuen was very clear.
Although there are generally no cameras inside the boxes, there are cameras in the hallway.
The scene of Ishizaki and the others breaking the door must have been recorded.
Clumsy lies were meaningless.
They could only define the incident as the computers being already broken for there to be a turnaround. Moreover, Ryuuen was one hundred percent sure that this was exactly what happened.
"You say the computers were already broken before you came in, do you have any evidence?"
Horikita Suzune asked in a flat voice.
"Hey, hey, hey, although I know you and Hikigaya are both in the Student Council and must have a good relationship."
Ryuuen said somewhat sarcastically: "Maybe every night you're in bed under Hikigaya's crotch screaming, but you still shouldn't be so biased, right?"
Hearing this.
Horikita Suzune's face turned red.
She glanced at Hikigaya imperceptibly, only to see that the other person's expression hadn't changed at all.
True.
Ryuuen just wanted to frame their decision as bias to make things more advantageous for himself.
Horikita Suzune didn't take it to heart at all, but she couldn't help but feel a bit of loss.
After all.
Hikigaya's reputation was like that, causing Horikita Suzune's standpoint to be a bit unstable as well.
On the side, Katsuragi followed up the topic and turned to look at Kanzaki and the others.
"Ryuuen and the others said the tablets were already broken, and the fact that you used a table to block the door for Karaoke indeed doesn't fit common sense. What's your side's explanation?"
"Blocking the door was indeed to guard against them."
Kanzaki admitted it frankly.
"During this time, Ryuuen and his group have been picking fights for all sorts of reasons, so we blocked the door today because we wanted to find a quiet environment to prepare for the exam."
"The tablets were also bought recently and were placed on the table for convenience."
"I didn't expect Ryuuen and the others to go so far as to break in."
What is the truth?
Whether it was Katsuragi or Horikita Suzune, both of them were very clear.
It was mostly that Ryuuen had been constantly picking fights, and now he was trapped by Kanzaki and the others.
The problem was.
"You say the computers were knocked down by Ishizaki and the others forced opening the door, do you have any evidence?"
"Hmm?"
Kanzaki frowned, acting a bit dissatisfied: "What evidence could there be? Besides, who would put these tablets on the ground?"
"That... I have it here..."
At this moment, Ando Sayo raised her small hand and handed the phone to the several people.
"Just now I was putting on makeup in front of the lens, it might have been captured."
""
Katsuragi took the phone.
The corner of the screen happened to be pointing right at the door.
The tablet computers, handheld consoles, and other items on the table were arranged neatly until Ishizaki and the others used their shoulders to force the door and they fell to the floor.
"This is clearly intentional on their part, right?"
Ryuuen said in a cold voice: "It's obviously an intentional trap, otherwise how could it have been captured so coincidentally."
Although Kanzaki's acting was good.
His acting in pretending there was no evidence was practically perfect, and Ando Sayo also found the excuse of touching up her makeup, but the traces of the setup were too obvious.
Whether it was Katsuragi or Horikita Suzune and the others.
They all had a judgment.
The problem was that this was evidence...
And while one side had evidence, the other side had none...
Moreover.
What Ryuuen said was the truth.
Katsuragi and Horikita Suzune indeed intended to side with Hikigaya's side.
His actions over these three years made it impossible to feel even a hint of sympathy; given the chance, they would naturally kick him while he was down.
"Ishizaki."
Katsuragi turned to look at Ishizaki and the others:
"Based on the video, it is indeed most likely that the computers were broken because they were knocked to the floor by you. Do you have any other evidence..."
"Wait, they clearly prepared this."
Ishizaki and the others suddenly said with some defiance.
"Then is there evidence that they prepared it beforehand?"
"How could there be such a thing..."
"Then there's no other way."
Katsuragi said with a stern face: "Besides, no matter what reason you have, you are responsible for forcibly breaking in. Why didn't you call ahead of time to contact them?"
"This..."
Ishizaki and the others looked at Ryuuen hesitantly, and Ryuuen couldn't say much either.
After all, what exactly happened.
Everyone present knew it well in their hearts.
Picking a fight on purpose.
And you still think you're in the right?
Ryuuen's actions could not be without a price.
Since they were determined to repeatedly test the rules and be the villains, fairness would also be out of their reach.