[New: Main God Invades Naruto: No One is a Regular Uchiha Anymore]
Not long after, the school loudspeakers broadcasted an announcement that Horikita Suzune had been expelled from school. This was due to the fact that the art knife Ryuen had driven into his own body belonged to Suzune, and the knife carried her fingerprints.
Suzune, who was initially sitting in the Student Council President's office carrying out her duties, was stunned for a moment upon hearing the broadcast, and then her face filled with disbelief.
"I'm... expelled?"
She felt that this was completely absurd. How could she possibly be expelled? She hadn't done anything wrong.
Ryunosuke, who had just returned to school and was helping Suzune manage administration in the Student Council President's office, also heard the broadcast and immediately stood up.
"What happened?!"
He had absolutely no knowledge regarding the art knife because when the art class took place, he was still outside the school. Otherwise, the first person he would have suspected would definitely be Ayanokouji.
Without even taking time to think, Ryunosuke pulled out his phone, preparing to pay 20 million private points to save Suzune.
However, while his finger was still suspended above the screen, the loudspeaker broadcasted a second announcement: the leader of Class 2-B, Ichinose Honami, was expelled from school.
Ryunosuke's pupils contracted.
Followed by the third announcement: Kamuro Masumi was expelled.
Fourth: Yamamura Miki was expelled.
Fifth: Himeno Yuki was expelled.
Sixth: Sakura Airi was expelled.
Seventh: Hasebe Haruka was expelled.
Eighth: Karuizawa Kei was expelled.
Ninth: Wang Mei-Yu was expelled.
Tenth: Kushida Kikyo was expelled.
They only missed Arisu, Megumi, Hiyori, and Ai. Megumi was purely missed because Ryuen forgot about her existence.
Meanwhile, Hiyori was a member of his own class, so it was impossible for him to touch her.
The reason he missed Arisu was because she was the daughter of the Chairman of the Board. Ryuen wasn't a fool; why look for trouble with the school headmaster for no reason? Besides, the number of people present was already enough to force Ryunosuke out, so Ai was released as well.
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Arisu immediately realized something was amiss as soon as she heard the first broadcast. The first thing that crossed her mind was the art knives that carried the fingerprints of all the students.
Gripping her cane tightly, she gritted her teeth and struggled to stand with great difficulty. With her restricted physical condition, she wanted to meet Ryunosuke as quickly as possible to tell him! The man was being framed! He must not do anything foolish.
For Arisu, it didn't matter if other people were expelled. She was only afraid that her man would spend all his points to save them and then get dragged down along with them.
Unfortunately, it was already too late; the loudspeaker had read out all ten names.
Masumi supported the anxious Arisu with a confused face. "What is actually happening?"
Elsewhere, Hachiman, who was lying face down on his desk, began breaking out into a cold sweat. He also remembered the issue of the art knives. If his guess was correct, then the right to life and death of the entire school was now in the hands of the opponent.
In Class D, Hiyori closed her book with an extremely serious expression.
(If it is indeed as I suspect, why was I the only one skipped?)
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Ryunosuke wasn't a fool either. The target was exactly ten people, corresponding to his 200 million private points, and these ten people were his lovers whom he could not possibly just leave behind.
This was truly a way to corner him into a dead end.
He also knew who the mastermind was. Who else could it be but Ryuen? He was the only one causing trouble ever since he returned to school; Ryunosuke suspected him first.
Therefore, Ryunosuke immediately went to see the perpetrator without rushing to spend his points. He wanted to negotiate first to see if there was still hope. If he used his points directly now, he would walk straight into the opponent's trap; simply by having one more person he cared about expelled, he would completely run out of points.
Ryunosuke found Ryuen lying in the infirmary room.
The moment the curtain was pulled back, Ryuen could be seen wrapped in bandages on top of the bed. Don't misunderstand; this was not from being beaten by Ryunosuke, but purely due to his own action of driving over a dozen knives into his body.
Ryuen still wore the same arrogant face. Even though he was severely injured, he could still laugh.
"How is it, do you like the gift from me?"
Ryunosuke remained silent. He already knew about the art knives from Arisu and had already guessed how the opponent had done it. He then asked him.
"Who ordered you behind the scenes?"
Ryuen clicked his tongue with displeasure. "Who else could it be but me?"
"You don't have a brain this clever." Ryunosuke was absolutely certain the opposing party did not possess that capability.
That sentence almost made Ryuen lose control, but he still did not leak Ayanokouji's name.
This was the greatness of Ayanokouji. Let others do the work, let others bear the consequences, while he himself remained clean and only provided the ideas. Even if it failed, his relationship with Ryunosuke would still appear normal on the surface. Because no one knew he was the perpetrator.
This was the agreement made by Ayanokouji and Ryuen, complete with a written contract.
If Ryuen violated it and leaked his name, then Ayanokouji would have the entirety of Class D expelled. For all the knives carrying fingerprints were in his hands, including those of all members of Class D.
This was a blatant threat. Ryuen was forced to comply with the agreement, or Ayanokouji would turn him into a "general without an army," and he himself could even be expelled. For Ryuen's own knife was also in Ayanokouji's hands.
This was unavoidable; in order not to trigger suspicion, all students in the school had to take the art lesson. Ryuen hadn't thought things through and had joined in gripping the knife that carried his fingerprints. The result could be guessed: he was threatened by Ayanokouji and turned into a trump card.
Seeing Ryuen remain stubborn and refuse to admit who had ordered him, Ryunosuke no longer forced him, but instead mentioned one name.
"Ayanokouji Kiyotaka..."
Ryuen immediately uncovered his blanket with a shocked face. "How could you know?!"
"I was just bluffing you, I didn't expect it to actually be him..."
Ryuen was instantly silenced, to the point of almost suffocating from annoyance.
Ryunosuke had obtained the answer he wanted and immediately turned to leave.
Regarding the reason why he suspected Ayanokouji, it was actually quite simple; in this school, only Ayanokouji possessed the ability and drive to act this far. From the start, Ryunosuke had never trusted him completely and was always vigilant. He had even never informed him that his chuunibyou mode actually possessed no weaknesses.
He let Ayanokouji believe that he had a weak point, so that Ayanokouji would dare to frame him by luring him into a fight to lower his intelligence, for the sake of preventing the risk of getting caught himself.
Unfortunately, Ayanokouji miscalculated. More precisely, this failure was caused by a lack of information. If it had been the Ryunosuke of the past who did indeed have a weakness, perhaps he really would have fallen into his hands.
Even now he was almost trapped, if only Ichika hadn't given him information earlier.
Ryunosuke looked at the message on his phone sent by Ichika.
"This time, I really owe her a favor..."