'Shiina Chizuru's ability to take action is quite strong.'
'The news had already spread early in the morning.'
'From this, it seems that either Shiina Chizuru spoke early in the morning or had already spoken yesterday, in any case, she must have planned it well in advance.'
'After all, as the class representative and a top student with good grades, without the influence of the NTR's intelligence-reducing aura, she is quite normal and even somewhat smart.'
Just as Hikari was pondering, many classmates in the class were also discussing the matter.
As the class representative, Shiina Chizuru suddenly stood up, patted the table, and shouted, "Class is about to start, everyone stop making noise, keep it down, or stay quiet."
"Also, the homework from yesterday is due, get it ready, I'm collecting it now."
After Shiina Chizuru's words, the noise in the class indeed lessened.
Although Shiina Chizuru is not very popular due to her rigidity and has few friends, she does lead by example, strictly adhering to those harsh and rigid rules herself, so she does have some authority in managing the class.
Quickly walking past each person's desk, Shiina Chizuru swiftly collected the homework.
Basically, everyone in the class handed in their homework, even the usually more unruly ones, like the gyaru, either copied it themselves or had others copy it for them.
Because Shiina Chizuru, as the class representative, is too meticulous, anyone who doesn't hand in their homework not only gets scolded on the spot but also reported to the teacher.
The various methods are endlessly annoying, not handing in homework is like taking her life, so everyone prefers to avoid trouble and hands in what they can.
Soon, Shiina Chizuru arrived at Hikari's desk.
She extended her slender fingers and gently tapped on Hikari's desk.
"Hikari-kun, hand in your homework..."
Unlike the cold, business-like tone she used with other classmates, when facing Hikari, Shiina Chizuru's tone was obviously much gentler and softer, and her voice was much lower, reducing the sense of pressure.
As for why, others didn't know, but Hikari and Shiina Chizuru naturally understood each other.
Hearing Shiina Chizuru's words, Hikari rummaged through his bag.
Then, somewhat helplessly, he shrugged and spread his hands, saying, "Sorry, Shiina class rep. I was a bit... well, a bit busy yesterday. So I forgot to do the homework."
Hearing Hikari's words, many classmates around glanced over, looking forward to the drama.
After all, they all knew how rigid and strict Shiina Chizuru, who looks pure and cute, is in handling affairs, and how harsh she is with those who don't hand in their homework.
But to everyone's astonishment, completely unexpected.
Hearing Hikari say he forgot to do the homework.
Shiina Chizuru didn't show any sign of getting angry.
Not only did she not get angry, she even smiled at Hikari, "So that's how it is, Hikari-kun."
Hearing Shiina Chizuru still treating Hikari, who didn't hand in his homework, so kindly, was already surprising enough for the classmates.
But what shocked them even more was yet to come.
As Shiina Chizuru smiled at Hikari, she took the blank homework book he handed over, then said to him gently, "Since Hikari-kun was busy and forgot to do the homework, it's understandable. Hand your homework book to me first, I'll help you complete this assignment."
'''''''What?'''''''
Hearing Shiina Chizuru's words, the classmates were all shocked.
Completely baffled as to why.
"Is this... the benefit of good looks?", The gloomy boy Morishita Wataru in the same class, seeing this scene, almost gritted his teeth in envy.
"If I were as handsome as Hikari-kun, would Kasumi-san...", Morishita Wataru's deskmate Haruno Ryoto was also full of envy and jealousy.
However, things were naturally not as simple as they appeared on the surface, in places they couldn't hear.
Shiina Chizuru was quietly thanking Hikari, "Hikari-kun, this morning I reported that Tamura guy."
"Really, thank you so much! It was you, Hikari-kun, who saved me, otherwise yesterday I might have been insulted by that disgusting Tamura."
"Indeed, it was Tamura who embezzled the public funds."
"It was found out as soon as it was investigated, now we're just waiting for him to go to jail."
"In any case, thank you so much, Hikari-kun!"
Shiina Chizuru said to Hikari with great gratitude.
Last night, thinking about how Hikari had cast spells several times in a row until the water element couldn't hold out, and couldn't release the water magic, in the sage mode, Shiina Chizuru also soberly reviewed the incident of being threatened by Tamura yesterday.
The more she thought about it, the more Shiina Chizuru felt scared, if it weren't for Hikari, she really might have been in trouble.
In short, she didn't dare to imagine that outcome.
So she collected the evidence early and reported Tamura first thing in the morning.
At the same time, her gratitude towards Hikari also increased further.
Looking at Shiina Chizuru's extremely moved expression, Hikari, who had already received the Pure Love Points reward, waved his hand, "It was just a small thing I did in passing."
Shiina Chizuru shook her head, "No, whether it's a small thing for Hikari-kun or not, it really helped me."
"I am really very grateful, Hikari-kun, if you are willing in the future, I will help you with your homework as a way of repaying you," Shiina Chizuru said.
"Alright, it's a deal!"
Although he originally didn't intend to get any return from Shiina Chizuru.
But the return Shiina Chizuru mentioned was indeed not bad, so why not agree, Hikari agreed.
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Hurriedly driven out of the prison, Tamura, still wearing tattered prison clothes, stood at the back door of the prison, mentally disoriented, not even caring about the strange looks people around were giving him.
Just today, he found out he had been reported.
Or rather, he had a vague premonition yesterday, couldn't sleep all night, kept his eyes open in fear.
But worrying was useless, what was to come still came.
Early in the morning, he received a notice.
He was reported for embezzling the school trip's public funds.
Upon investigation, it was true.
And the amount embezzled was close to 20 million yen.
At that time, the school gave two options.
The first was to return the money.
The second was to rot in jail.
At first, Tamura absolutely did not want to return the money, because the amount owed was too much.
He never thought that just on a whim, wanting to gamble once, using the large principal of public funds to win back the money he had lost before, but instead, he fell into an abyss.
So at first, he didn't want to return those tens of millions.
But after entering the prison, he began to regret.
Looking at the dilapidated environment of the prison, the dirty prison clothes, those 'friendly' fellow inmates.
Tamura was completely scared.
To avoid jail, he chose to return the money.
But he had no money, so he had to sell the house he had worked so hard to buy.
And he used up all his savings, borrowed all he could, barely making up for the embezzled amount.
And because the amount of embezzled public funds was large.
Tamura had to repay even more to avoid criminal responsibility, that is, to avoid jail.
So at this time, Tamura could be said to be penniless, not a single coin, and still owed a lot of money.
Of course, with such an incident, Tamura had already been expelled from the school and would never be hired again.
Then with his resume now tainted, he absolutely couldn't find a stable job like a teacher, in fact, now he couldn't find any job at all.
Plus, his house and car were sold, his savings were empty, and he still owed a lot of money, Tamura was in such pain.
Walking alone on the road, Tamura's bald head was blown by the breeze, feeling only chills.
Now his situation was really one of a broken family, with wife and children gone.
When the incident happened, his wife immediately distanced herself from him, found a rental place to live by herself.
He wanted to go to his wife, but was directly driven away by her.
And after learning about his actions, the neighbors around also cursed him.
What made Tamura even more furious was that after cursing him for a while, a neighbor even put his arm around his wife's waist.
From the familiar posture, it seemed it wasn't the first or second time.
And now, watching this scene, Tamura didn't dare to make a sound.
Just pretending to glare at the two, after his wife and the other glared back, Tamura ran away with his tail between his legs.
Walking alone on the road, mentally disoriented, Tamura accidentally bumped into a blonde.
"Hey? Old man, don't you look where you're going? Are you blind?", The blonde scolded Tamura angrily.
"I'm... I'm sorry..."
If it were when he was still a teacher, Tamura would have loudly scolded the other.
But now, dressed in rags and penniless, Tamura just lowered his head, not daring to look the delinquent in the eye, and meekly apologized.
Seeing Tamura's cowardly appearance, this delinquent and his delinquent friends instantly got excited.
"I say, old man, you're like fifty or sixty, right? At such an age, still so cowardly, what a waste!"
The delinquent fiercely kicked Tamura to the ground.
"Haha! This old man is just pure trash, garbage of society, a loser among men."
"Hit him! Hit him hard! Dare to bump into us, heh! Beat him to death!"
A group of delinquents rushed up, punching and kicking Tamura who was kicked to the ground.
Tamura's fat body was just a pile of flab, with no strength at all, and he completely lacked courage.
At this time, he didn't dare to resist these violent blondes at all, just let them bully him.
Because Tamura knew, he was no longer the teacher who could scold them at will, but just a homeless man.
Spit!
Spit!
After beating Tamura until his face was swollen, these delinquents each spat on him, then left swaggeringly.
Before leaving, they also stripped Tamura of his clothes and pants, leaving him only in his underwear.
Tamura's fat belly was exposed, attracting sidelong glances from passersby, shivering from the cold, and unable to bear the looks from others, he could only hug himself and hide in a secluded street.
After so many things happened today and being beaten up, Tamura was starving.
Walking in the alley, he saw a trash can, his eyes lit up, and he quickly ran over.
But after just two steps, suddenly a sharp pain hit the back of his head, as if something had hit him.
He covered his head and looked back.
Only to see a few boys, whether middle school or elementary students, holding small stones, pointing at him and laughing.
"Haha! Everyone come look, here's an ugly old man not wearing clothes!"
"Haha so ugly! Dirty and smelly, like a monster!"
"Everyone throw stones at him! Don't be polite! Throw stones to rid the people of a scourge!"
"Hahaha, throw!"
Countless small stones flew towards Tamura's head and body, Tamura crouched down covering his head, but was still hit all over, his head swelling with three or four bumps.
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