"What I say now is very important." Julian was looking up to Kato, he did admit right now that he got hired or at least asked to do it, should he counter quick witted or stay serios and factual?"
"You said, you got asked to, who was it?"
Julian saying that made Kato´s eyes shine and gave him a big, excited smile. "I wish I would now that myself, Hihi…" He walked away leaving Julian with questions left. "Is this some psychological tactic, or does he really not know who it was?"
Anyways he decided to go to the principal. "The last time I saw the principle was already long ago…"
Knock…knock.
"Hello…oh Julian, we haven't saw us in a while, how are you?"
"I am good, and how are you?"
"I am also good; how can I help you?"
"Sigh…so it's again a problem, I really wonder if you maybe already heard of it or not?"
"I am sorry, but I don't know what you mean, could you please explain?"
"It's again rumors about me, what can we and the school do now?"
The principle gazed in the nothingness for a few seconds having a pensive look as he thought about something, he exhaled and said "I am sorry but we can't do anything there, if you mind I still have a meeting soon, could you please go now?!" His voice was friendly and calm.
"Sigh…okay, bye…"
As Julian walked out, his back facing the door he thought "I bet everything I have on it that he got bribed, this is even more realistic because this is still an elite school, seems as almost everyone or at least many are able to be bribed."
"The longer I wait the stronger the rumors are becoming! Beside that I wonder who could hire him?"
"Students council!" These two words flashed through his head.
"I already had I kind of problems with them already sometimes, in one of the first days the chess club thing, the observation, the festival and that I became more and more popular, do they see me as a potential threat in future, but why do they care even any more, most of them will be gone anyways after this school year, the only one remaining is Suou Hatsune…is she maybe the mastermind behind it or something?"
"I need get an idea…" Julian gulped, his heart started to race faster than usual, he tried to be as careful as possible to not attract any more rumors.
The next day.
Julian came into school, even more and worse rumors, she rumors say that Julian might molested some female students, these were hard accusations against him, so he even got called in the principal's office.
Pretty quickly he was allowed to go back to his class, even though there are these rumors there is no evidence, not even a girl accusing him! Just the rumors!
"Sigh…FUCK, FUCK!!!" Even though he was exploding he tried to only think this.
"Maybe I know someone that can help…"
As he met up with this student, he whispered something to him and walked away.
"This guy is someone that spreads rumors, he is not creating them but if he hears something he spreads it quick; the rumor is the truth!"
One day later he was full of hope, if it might work, he heard the rumors. "I heard that Kato should spread these rumors over this guy Mercer, but I don't believe that!" Even though everyone heard the rumor almost no one believed it.
"Exhale…I already thought this, heh, his status is really that untouchable, even though I know what he does, his normal reputation is to be extremely kind but just not the smartest, it is as there is an cat that broke a vase but no one things it's her because she looks so cute and always acts kind and cute!"
"The problem now is, what comes back now, what is his attack back to me?
For two days there was absolute silence, the rumors got bigger but no other move from Kato.
"Heh, he is way smarter than I thought, spreading the truth had two uses, the obvious one, that if they believe it he has a big problem, the second option is that it is a provocation, if he maybe would get physically hostile against him he would just record this, but none of this happened, the rumors only got bigger, not good."
"Again, I need another plan…"
The next day in school he got an idea, as he went in he saw Kato walking out of school, his usual smile, no trace of it anymore…there was even the police, he had handcuffs on, through the speakers the principle announced something, after school is over everyone should go to the schools yard if they want to know why he got expelled.
After school was over not just a few people went to the yard to know why he got expelled and even got dragged out by the police, it was almost the whole school, he was someone he called in the top one hundred of the most popular in school, so many had interest why?
"Dear students, I know that Kato Ichiro was very popular in this school, but some people that want to stay anonymous gave us some information…the information was that he is guilty for multiple big rumors in this whole school, not just since short time, already since he was on that school, on top of that the anonymous people also said that there are plenty of female students that got sexually molested and harassed by him but were afraid of telling anyone, also those victims stay anonymous, there is nothing left to say, see you tomorrow again, bye."
"What, did he really do these things?!" "I don't know if you can believe that?!"
Such similar things were said multiple times after the principle's speech.
"So, so, I don't know why but something feels wrong there, I don't know why but it seems everything so weird, I mean, the rumor thing was true, but the other part seems strange, things don't make sense? Let's say the student council really hired him, why should they get rid of him how even though he almost beat me?"
This situation left him with many questions, no matter how you turn it, it doesn't makes sense, on the one hand it seems as the students council hired him, on the other hand maybe none other could be influential enough to do this, and so fast!
"Maybe it was someone different then the student council, maybe I thought too big about them and me still too unimportant for them?"
"Beside why he got expelled now, the student council itself doesn't makes any sense, from what I heard it sounds like they student council did and do all those things, but the member don't seems like they would do it, are they really so good at hiding their true face? On the one hand it seems as they are not that bad but then there are little rumors about what they all did."
"Wait…one thing." Students still asked the principal some questions, Julian looked around in this big mass of students, not a single member of the student council was present!
"If they are really not here, does this mean maybe they don't come because they already know it? Maybe I am just paranoid, and they just don't care?!"
As Julian thought more and further he went out of the mass, wanting to go home, we walked through the hallway, he walked passed some stairs, while walking past them, he saw Saotome, he wasn't saying anything, he just gazed at him, as he even waited there, patient.
"What???"
His legs started to shake and tremble a bit, Saotome wasn't doing a thing, beside gazing.
He quickly walked further, about fifty meters further, this time at the edge of the hallway he saw Suou Hatsune, also staring at him, not doing anything else.
Uesugi Wakana also appeared a bit later, another part later Mikazuki Ruri also appeared, at last almost outside school there stood Yuuma soma.
"What happened right now, I am even more confused now, whether they only hired Kato or also expelled him, they are fucking weirdos! If that was some kind of psychological warfare, it worked!"
"The question more what this means now, if I am there next victim I have no chance in no way, even if I would be in the top ten of the most popular in school I would've have no chance, popularity is not everything in such a situation, there resource's and influence is just way too much to somehow beat them! But…they don't have something I have, in comparison to them, I can see ropes, the problem is not if they don't like me…"
"Is being passive the right answer, or maybe even be more aggressive, what is it?" Even though he has an ability they don't have he still seems like he is in a completely helpless situation.