Practical teaching: Starting from the soul traveling through Dragon Garden

Chapter 490 Narrow-minded
Ayanokouji's suggestion seemed the most reasonable, but it clearly conflicted with Ichinose's ideas.

"Ayanokouji-san, now that you've joined the student council, it's better not to be so passive. Although our student council is the highest authority among student organizations, it is still subject to the school's supervision. If we fail to satisfy the school, we may be disbanded and reorganized."

Ichinose looked troubled.

"I'm sorry, I didn't take the school's attitude into account."

Ayanokouji nodded and apologized to Ichinose, who quickly waved her hand and said, "I didn't mean to blame you. You don't need to apologize to me, Ayanokouji-san."

A silence fell over everyone again. In fact, no one really wanted to get involved in the troublesome affairs of the older students. In Japan, seniority is highly valued. Apart from Ryuen and Ayanokoji, everyone present felt pressured when facing the older students, even if the other students did not show any signs of oppression.

"The one who tied the knot must untie it. This is a conspiracy against Nagumo. Although we don't know how Nagumo will deal with it yet, let's just do the most basic things."

Seeing that opinions could not be reached, Longyuan simply gave up on the discussion, which was not his usual style.

"Kikyo, you and Ayanokouji will go together to investigate who is behind the spread of the information. Honami, you will communicate with the leaders of the three classes and try to calm the students down to prevent violence. Kanzaki, you will stay with Nagumo to prevent any accidents from happening to him."

Everyone else had no objections to Ryuen's arrangements, which were indeed the most basic things that should be done at the moment, but Kanzaki didn't understand his own arrangements.

"You want me to be Nagumo-senpai's bodyguard?"

Kanzaki wasn't being self-deprecating; he felt he was inferior to Nagumo in both strength and intelligence, and that it would be a bit ridiculous for him to be Nagumo's bodyguard. If they really ran into trouble, it would probably be Nagumo who would protect Kanzaki.

“I know what you’re thinking. Nagumo is unlikely to encounter any violent incidents, so you don’t need to worry about holding Nagumo back in terms of force.”

Kanzaki breathed a sigh of relief, but then tensed up even more: "So you want me to spy on Nagumo-senpai! I can't do that."

No, you can do it.

"..."

Kanzaki felt that coming to the meeting was a mistake. He suspected that Ryuen was deliberately messing with him. If Kanzaki were really given such a difficult task as monitoring Nagumo, he felt that there were only two possible outcomes.

One scenario involves Kanzaki being discovered by Nagumo-senpai, who then shakes him off, causing Kanzaki to lose his target and the mission to fail.

Another scenario is that Kanzaki is discovered by Nagumo-senpai, who then gets angry and beats him up, causing Kanzaki to lose his tracking ability and the mission to fail.

No matter how hard I try, I can't do it.

"Of course, it's not just about surveillance. If Nagumo does anything rash, you also need to stop him. Surveillance is not the goal; the goal is to prevent things from escalating."

Kanzaki wanted to curse after hearing this, as he had no power to stop Nagumo. However, Ryuen acted as if he had left it to Kanzaki, so Kanzaki couldn't refuse even if he wanted to. Ryuen wouldn't listen to him, so Kanzaki had no choice but to bite the bullet and go for it.

Theoretically, Ayanokouji is the more suitable candidate, but Ryuen wants to test Nagumo's attitude towards Kanzaki, since Kanzaki was recommended by Nagumo, and there might be some relationship between the two.

After everything was arranged, the meeting was almost over, but before Ryuen could say to disband, the door to the student council room was kicked open by Kiryuin.

"Longyuan!"

After kicking open the door, Kiryuin noticed the others, and his imposing manner diminished by half: "I need to see Ryuen about something. If it's inconvenient, I'll come back later?"

"Dismissed. You all go first. I'll have a private chat with Senior Guilongyuan."

Ichinose looked worried. Kiryuin was clearly up to no good, but since Ryuen had said that if they left first, the others couldn't insist on staying.

Kikyo felt a little smug; she had a premonition that Ryuen was going to get a lesson from Kiryuin-senpai.

After the others left, Kiryuin sat down opposite Ryuen with his arms crossed.

"Tea?"

"Don't drink."

"Who provoked you again?"

"Who do you think it is?"

Kiryuin glared at Ryuen. "Anyway, it wasn't me."

Long Yuan leisurely picked up his teacup and sipped his tea; the taste was just average.

"That's you!"

"I don't remember doing anything that would be detrimental to my senior."

"You still say you didn't! Are you doing this on purpose?!"

Long Yuan was somewhat confused: "So what exactly happened?"

"Yesterday, you messaged me saying you solved my problem!"

"Yes, isn't the problem solved yet? The rumors about you should have disappeared by now, right?"

"It's resolved!!! But now other rumors are flying around the class, and everyone is being exposed with all sorts of outrageous information!"

"I know that. We were just discussing this in a meeting. And then what?"

Ryuen remained leisurely, slowly sipping his tea. Kiryuin tried to snatch the cup away, but Ryuen skillfully dodged it.

"Rumors about everyone else are circulating, but there's absolutely no information about me! If you were a student in our class, how would you feel? Just a while ago, there were rumors about me all over the internet, but overnight, they all disappeared, and in their place came rumors about other students!"

Ryuen finally understood; it turned out that Kiryuin was now suspected of being the one spreading rumors.

"Although what you went through is indeed quite tragic, it can't really be blamed on me. You should go find the person who actually spread the rumors, instead of taking it out on me."

Ryuen was helpless; it wasn't like he intentionally made Kiryuin the scapegoat.

"Do you think I'm such an unreasonable person? I came to you because I suspect you're the one spreading rumors!"

"puff!"

Ryuen vomited tea all over Kiryuin's face.

Kiryuin's expression right now could kill Ryuen.

"Excuse me."

Ryuen used tissues to wipe Kiryuin's face.

"Senior, you're overestimating me. My connections in my third year aren't enough to support me doing something like this. I might be able to investigate the secrets of one or two people, but the amount of information about so many people's privacy is simply beyond my capabilities. Besides, I have absolutely no motive for doing this, do I? The third year is so chaotic; it doesn't benefit me at all, does it?"

Instead of answering Ryuen's question, Kiryuin asked Ryuen in return, "You like Nagumo?"

"How can it be."

"You hate him?"

"That's for sure."

Ryuen and Nagumo have a complicated relationship, but if forced to choose between liking and disliking, Ryuen would undoubtedly choose to dislike.

"So that's your motive: you want to disgust Nagumo! To get revenge on him before graduation!"

"..."

"Senior, am I really that narrow-minded?"

"Have."

"..."

(End of this chapter)