If before, when she saw Hikari standing together with Tsukishima Kyoko outside the office, she only had a slight impression of him, then now, it could be said that her impression of Hikari had become extremely deep.
Although she had a good memory, and after the round of self-introductions just now she had more or less remembered everyone's names, in truth, the number of people she actually had a strong impression of was very few.
And even if you added up all those impressions, they probably still wouldn't compare to the one she had of the boy named Hikari who had suddenly stood up in front of her.
In this kind of environment where everyone constantly had to read the room, afraid of saying something inappropriate, Hikari seemed a bit too bold.
But as a teacher, Matsuura Anju found it extremely admirable.
Having calmed down slightly, she directly asked Hikari, "Since you know, Hikari-kun, then please tell us."
"These messy scribbles all over this desk, who exactly drew them?"
Hikari said directly, "It was a few girls."
"It has nothing to do with Yoshida Saki. She was maliciously framed."
"Earlier, I saw some girls from other classes scribbling all over Yoshida Saki's desk."
"The reason I saw it was because my original seat was right behind Yoshida Saki."
Hearing Hikari's words, Matsuura Anju raised her eyebrows slightly, "Oh? Is what you're saying true? Do you still recognize the ones who drew on Yoshida Saki's desk?"
Hikari nodded, "I do. They're the girls sitting in the last row."
He turned his head and raised his hand, pointing toward the last row of the classroom, right at the center of Nogami Izumi's gyaru clique.
Following the direction of his finger, Matsuura Anju also turned to look at Nogami Izumi and the others.
She noticed that the three girls dressed in a gyaru style were all quite pretty.
But as Hikari's sudden, pointed accusation landed, their expressions turned stunned, even a little panicked.
"Hikari-kun, are you sure those drawings on the desk were made by those girls?", Since he had pointed fingers without presenting any evidence, even after confirming multiple times, Matsuura Anju couldn't help but ask again.
"Of course. Every word I said is true," Hikari nodded with absolute confidence.
But in reality, he hadn't seen it with his own eyes.
Otherwise, he would have stood up much earlier.
When Yoshida Saki's desk was being messed with, he definitely wasn't in the classroom.
If he had been, from his seat, he would have seen it.
However, even though he hadn't witnessed it directly, Hikari had extremely sharp hearing.
When the incident with Yoshida Saki just happened and these people began to stir things up, he had started relying on his keen hearing to gather information from the whispers around the classroom.
Especially the few girls who had started the commotion, they had been his main focus.
After hearing the conversations between Nogami Izumi, Hinata Sae, and Sanada Minako, as well as the whispers from their clique and its followers, combined with their deliberate attempts to stir up trouble around Yoshida Saki, Hikari had already become certain.
This whole thing was the work of Nogami Izumi's gyaru clique.
Although he hadn't paid too much attention before, he had vaguely heard of Nogami Izumi's group.
He had also heard that they liked to bully certain classmates.
So now, combining all that information, Hikari pieced together the full sequence of events.
At the time, when Nogami Izumi and the others saw that Yoshida Saki had almost no friends and was always alone, they thought she would make a good follower, so they tried to recruit her into their clique as a loyal tool.
But what Nogami Izumi, who was arrogant and full of herself, didn't expect was that Yoshida Saki, someone she considered to be at the very bottom of the social food chain, actually refused her invitation from the top.
This made Nogami Izumi and the other two extremely angry.
They even felt like their dignity had been insulted by Yoshida Saki.
So, they planned their revenge.
This kind of randomly scribbling and dirtying someone's desk was one of their common bullying methods.
However, they probably didn't expect that this incident would just happen to be seen by Matsuura Anju, causing things to blow up like this.
But after realizing the situation might spiral out of control, Nogami Izumi and the others immediately mobilized their clique.
They started spreading rumors and stirring things up nonstop.
Their goal was to dump all the blame for the obscene drawings and filthy words on Yoshida Saki herself.
And to be honest, with their coordinated effort, they had almost succeeded in steering the situation.
But after understanding all of this, there was no way Hikari would let these shameless girls succeed.
So now he stood up and exposed their behavior.
Of course, much of the above was a conclusion he reached by piecing together information that others simply couldn't hear.
To everyone else, it was all just speculation.
So Hikari didn't explain the entire chain of events in detail.
He simply insisted that he had personally seen Nogami Izumi, Hinata Sae, and the others scribbling on Yoshida Saki's desk.
At the start, when Hikari made such firm and confident accusations, Nogami Izumi, Hinata Sae, and Sanada Minako, who were already feeling guilty, were indeed startled badly.
But since they were capable of leading their clique, they weren't stupid.
After noticing that although Hikari was accusing them firmly, he hadn't produced any evidence, and that even the teacher Matsuura Anju kept asking for confirmation, Nogami Izumi and the others gradually realized something.
Either Hikari had seen them but had no proof, or he hadn't seen anything at all and was just "framing" them.
"Nogami Izumi! Hinata Sae! Sanada Minako! You three, stand up!"
Hearing Hikari's words and noticing the expressions on the three girls, Matsuura Anju, as a teacher, made her own judgment.
She seemed to have taught them before, and accurately called out the names of the three core members of the gyaru clique pointed out by Hikari, ordering them to stand.
Although they were extremely unwilling, they didn't want to directly clash with a teacher.
So they still stood up.
But after seeing that Hikari kept insisting he had seen them doing it yet couldn't produce any evidence, Nogami Izumi and the other two glared at him angrily.
After exchanging glances, the three girls immediately launched a counterattack against Hikari.
Nogami Izumi took the lead, "Hey! What nonsense are you even talking about?"
Hinata Sae followed, "Yeah! Why are you suddenly slandering us? We don't even know you, okay!"
Sanada Minako added, "Exactly. We didn't draw on that desk at all. Hikari-kun, did you get the wrong people?"
Seeing the three girls stand up and unanimously deny the accusations,
Matsuura Anju couldn't help but turn back and ask Hikari again, "Hikari-kun, are you certain the people you saw scribbling on Yoshida Saki's desk were the three of them?"
Actually, after confirming multiple times, her purpose in asking now was no longer just to verify.
Compared to Nogami Izumi and the others, who had a bad reputation, she was more inclined to believe Hikari.
But without evidence, she couldn't directly assign blame to them.
So this question was essentially a hint, urging Hikari to produce some evidence and firmly pin the accusation on them, so they wouldn't keep arguing.
But Hikari seemed not to understand her hint.
He simply insisted as a witness, nodding and saying, "Yes, Matsuura-sensei, I'm sure I saw Nogami Izumi and the others scribbling on Yoshida Saki's desk."
"And actually, they didn't just do it today. As early as last night, they had already secretly swapped Yoshida Saki's desk with another one."
"At that time, they probably took Yoshida Saki's desk, secretly moved it somewhere, made it look like this mess, and then swapped the two desks back this morning."
"That's what I saw before."
Hearing Hikari's words, Nogami Izumi, Hinata Sae, and Sanada Minako were all shocked.
Because what Hikari said was exactly what they had done.
They didn't know that all of this was deduced by him through his excellent hearing, from things he had overheard earlier.
They thought he had actually witnessed everything.
But after thinking that, their reactions only grew more furious.
Because they were starting to get scared.
They were afraid Hikari would truly expose them, and everyone would realize that the ones who had been stirring things up earlier were actually the real culprits.
So in response to Hikari's extremely detailed accusation, Nogami Izumi widened her eyes, pointed at him, and shouted angrily, "What nonsense are you talking about? I remember now, Hikari, you only came into the classroom not long before class started!"
"You're so… eye-catching, no, I mean, you stand out so much, you think we wouldn't notice you?"
Hearing Nogami Izumi's words, Sanada Minako also recalled that when Hikari had just entered the classroom, she had indeed been drawn to him because he matched her taste exactly.
She quickly chimed in, "Right, right! This guy Hikari is talking complete nonsense! I don't know why he's so determined to accuse us, maybe he just saw the wrong people."
"But anyway, we definitely didn't do something like scribbling on someone else's desk. Stop making false accusations!"
The dark-skinned gyaru Hinata Sae nodded repeatedly, "That's right! This Hikari is clearly slandering us!"
"Matsuura-sensei, I have reason to suspect that he's actually the one who dirtied Yoshida Saki's desk, and now he's trying to pin it on us!"
Following the words and signals from the three core members of the clique, the other follower girls also began speaking up one after another in support of Nogami Izumi and the others.
═❀═❀═❀═❀═❀═❀═
[email protected]/AmbitiousTranslator
🥳Joining P@treon keeps me motivated and eager to work diligently, so please consider joining.🥰 You can access upto 20 advance chapter through P@treon.