Chapter 53: Suzune, You Don’t Want Your Big Brother To Know About Your Performance In Class, Do You?
"She's too arrogant. So arrogant in fact, that she can't see the reality for what it is, and she doesn't even understand why she is in class D, let alone accept the placement. Given the fact that she thinks like this, she won't be able to survive in this school without learning a lesson. And instead of her being taught this lesson by others, I'd rather find someone to teach her myself. If she can't take the humiliation, it would be better to have her drop out early. With her academic ability, she might be able to live better in another school. She came here simply because I also went to this school, so she chased after me here. This school is not suitable for her. She is her own person- Horikita Suzune. She's not Horikita Manabu, nor will she ever be a substitute, if you get what I mean. If you have a brother or sister, you would understand."
Seeing Ying Ye Zhenshi's gaze on him becoming stranger and stranger, Horikita Manabu didn't continue with his rant and raised his glasses up the bridge of his nose.
When he had spoken just now, his breathing had noticeably gotten a little faster.
"...I see, so she is a bro-con, huh? I couldn't even tell. Besides, you seem to be a sis-con yourself too. You have been paying a lot of attention to your sister too, but you look calm as you say all this. Sure enough, it looks like the whole family has been corrupted by this problem. That's really terrible."
Ying Ye Zhenshi did not doubt the girl in question's academic ability, as she was the younger sister of the student council president.
No matter what, she would not be too far behind her brother in academics.
He had got to understand the cool girl that was Horikita Suzune a little bit with this conversation.
She was the type who stood high in the rankings of the class and was like a flower in the desolate high mountaintops.
Just from having seen her temperament, he knew she was very difficult to get in touch with.
It was very obvious that she put off an aura that screamed not to approach her.
Her personality was a bit cold on the outside but she was hot and fiery on the inside.
She was quite different from her appearance by the sounds of it, and someone who needed help apparently.
As long as someone took the initiative to keep coming to Suzune's front door for help, she would be unable to refuse and would offer help but with a look of disdain and arrogance.
For example, when he was in the hospital, Ying Ye Zhenshi would often see the notes of the girl from class brought over by Karuizawa, who complained to him several times.
From time to time, she would complain about some topics related to Horikita Suzune.
"What do you want me to do?"
'Does he want to get a reaction out of her? Or just outright humiliate her?'
Ying Ye Zhenshi thought of something.
'Horikita Suzune, I wonder how you would react if you knew your big brother was aware of how you behave in class. You don't want your big brother to know anything about your performance in class, do you? Or, Suzune-san, is it that you don't want to affect your big brother's reputation because of your lowly status.'
This question was something to be carefully considered.
"I suspect you are thinking of something strange."
Having been called a sis-con, Horikita Manabu didn't even flinch.
But Ying Ye Zhenshi's strange look caused him to raise his glasses involuntarily.
"No, I am just thinking normal thoughts."
'Yes, they are the most normal sibling-cons out there,' Ying Ye Zhenshi thought expressionlessly.
"Anyway, I am certain that she will have a problem with her placement in class D. Use your points and previous discoveries to get a reaction out of her and have her come to understand the gap between people. For example, you can let her find out just how many points you have collected in this one month. Or maybe make it known that you have the means to enter Class A etc. As for how you want to go about it, I'll leave the fine details to you to decide."
Horikita felt that it would not be a good idea to leave the entire matter to Ying Ye Zhenshi.
Fearing that his sister would suffer a big loss under his hands, he added the latter examples for what he expected.
"Oh~ As long as I embarrass her a little, that's fine with you, right? I will cooperate with you if necessary then."
Ying Ye Zhenshi didn't bother about the specifics.
Since he had gotten a free meal out of him, it was but a small matter.
Helping the student council president would also help himself in the long run.
The next time he came to ask the prez for something, he wouldn't resist too much.
Moreover, at the beginning of the year, he had indeed learned about the school because of the information handed over by the boy sitting opposite him.
So he also felt like he had owed him a little.
After discussing the matter, Horikita Manabu decided to get right down to business.
He mainly went through the affairs and obligations of being a member of the student council.
A newcomer like him would basically do some odd jobs, being assigned tasks wherever he was needed.
To put it simply, if there was a task that needed a first year, the aim was to have him on call to carry it out.
And if he didn't show up enough times, he could lose his salary, or even be removed from the student council.
As such, Ying Ye's days returned to being the boring, ordinary days of late.
There were no problems for the first few days since having come back to school, but when he arrived at the class on the third day, he noticed a few strange gazes his way from some of his classmates in class D who had come in earlier than him.
As soon as Karuizawa Kei saw Ying Ye Zhenshi, she took out her mobile phone and gestured to it.
"..."
Ying Ye Zhenshi walked to his seat and took out his mobile phone.
It turned out that Kei had sent him a lot of messages before, but he hadn't paid much attention to them since he had been walking to school.
Some of the messages were just text messages, while the others were screenshots.
On the school forum, most likely, someone had directly framed him as a 'bad boy', who had been involved in fights non-stop since middle school.
It went on to say that after having enrolled at ANHS, he had skipped class, and later asked for a week off because of a fight.
It was a well-grounded post, and it seemed that the proof of his admission to the hospital had been dug up too.
There were even some pictures of him at the hospital.
At that time, he was still wrapped like a mummy in bandages.
Ying Ye had to give credit where it was due since he imagined it would be quite hard to attain that many images and proofs.
It could be assumed that the individual who posted it had made his rounds to a lot of different spots to obtain the surveillance photo images.
"What is this? A collection of… bad students? A bad person leaderboard? A beautiful girl's ranking? And a handsome guy's leaderboard?"
Ying Ye Zhenshi also located the school forum after reading Kei's texts.
He found what was already posted as threads, and the rankings of the beautiful girls and handsome guys had naturally become a trending topic.
The students in high schools were very concerned about such matters.
And now, there was another ranking for 'bad' students.
When it was first created, some anonymous respondents had posted something about how they were worried about others being bullied for being on this leaderboard and even concerns over provoking someone they didn't have the qualifications to provoke by voting them in.
But this sentiment slowly disappeared as the channel's description implied that if the appropriate students were put forward and evidence was given, rewards would be handed out.
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