Chapter 71.3

After the gentle buzzer sound effect played, the classroom was filled with the emotionless broadcast announcement.

Hearing this broadcast, Ying Ye Zhenshi smiled.

"That's right. Look, it's finally here."

He gestured to Hirata and then got up to act.

"Ying Ye-kun…"

Hirata's almost pleading expression put Ying Ye Zhenshi at a bit at a loss for what to say...

"When a person does something wrong, they will pay the price, no matter who and where they are. Hirata-san, instead of focusing all your efforts on him, you might as well focus on our other classmates who also care about your feelings. I think it would be better for you."

Ying Ye Zhenshi looked at this sincere boy and gave him some advice.

'This guy is like the licking dog for everyone in the class, serving the class right through to the very end. How do I say this to him? He is very unsuitable for Class D. Why has he been thrown here? I don't know if it is just a bad joke on the part of the school. At the same time, it may also be that he has some very dark history I don't know of just yet just like that girl, Kushida Kikyo.'

"I…"

Hirata Yosuke wanted to say something to stop Ying Ye Zhenshi, but he was interrupted.

"What the hell did you do...?!"

An angry roar interrupted him a few seconds after the broadcast sounded, as Sudou had been stunned at first when he heard the sound coming from the radio.

But he eventually realised what was being said and had already started heading Ying Ye's way.

The loud shout instantly frightened many of the students in the class, who watched on as the obvious culprit was about to cause even more trouble.

"What did I do? Isn't it pretty obvious? I already said yesterday that I would sue you, and it is probably for that reason we have been called. I want you to be punished for what you did yesterday."

Ying Ye Zhenshi smiled.

The gentle smile made Sudou Ken feel a little creeped out.

He recalled the words the boy had said the previous day— that he would have him kicked out of the basketball club.

"You…! I am going to kill you."

Thinking of a future in which he was kicked out of the basketball club, Sudou became furious.

This was something that he would not take lying down.

"Stop, stop! You will get into even more trouble if you do this!"

Seeing the rapidly deteriorating situation, Yosuke Hirata quickly stopped him from doing anything.

"Just look. That guy has never known what it means to respect others in his life. You have to make him suffer a little bit, and only then will he know when something comes up later what not to do."

Ying Ye Zhenshi felt a change in the eyes of the students around him.

It was like they were looking at the evil mastermind when they looked at him, but he was most certainly not the villain.

He was just the frightened prosecutor, was he not?

Anyway, he would definitely go through with the sanctions.

"Ying Ye-kun, please just forget it. Let Sudou-san apologise to you, and I'll give you some compensation points too. Don't keep talking about having him kicked out of the basketball club, etc."

Hirata pulled Ying Ye Zhenshi aside to talk.

Ying Ye didn't mind listening to Hirata's pleas, as long as he didn't go overboard.

"Oh, it's a pity, but no. I don't worry about how many points I have at all now, so I don't need your show of kindness. I don't have any grievances with you, so I won't accept your things. What I advocate is that those who deserve to be punished should be punished. That's all. Whether it will be a successful suing or not is a matter for the school to deal with, but I have to sue him nonetheless."

Ying Ye Zhenshi first rejected Hirata and then looked at Sudou.

"People like you just don't deserve to stand in front of me."

His words caused the red-haired boy to see red.

Basketball was Sudou's life.

Ying Ye surely didn't know how many years of hard work and practice Sudou had to put in for the chance to be a part of the basketball club.

He had been working hard for the past few years.

But was this the result?

Sudou felt worry, fear, and, at the same time, more anger well up within him.

He actually hoped that Hirata could persuade Ying Ye Zhenshi somehow.

Although he was still annoyed with the boy, he had to admit that Hirata handled many things very well, and he was very convincing, even if Sudou usually never listened to him.

In the end, all Sudou got back was Ying Ye Zhenshi's refusal and a taunt.

He couldn't help himself.

"You bastard...!"

"Hahahaha~ I'll be going first. The student council will wait for you."

The hot-tempered student Sudo was stopped by Hirata, while Ying Ye did not bother to listen to what he had to say.

He just waved his hand and made his way out of the classroom.

He had found it interesting to watch the other party's irritable appearance, but now he wanted to go to the student council room and witness the moment when he regretted his actions.

"Ying Ye-kun…"

Hirata Yosuke clearly wanted to say something else, however, there was no way Ying Ye would budge.

Ying Ye Zhenshi left directly, leaving only the mess he had been a part of behind.

"Let me go, I'm going too."

Sudou Ken gritted his teeth and said.

Now that this matter had gotten to this stage, he found it was getting more and more annoying.

Hirata let go of him helplessly, thinking whether he should also go with him to the student council to have a look.

Sudo walked directly out of the room, looking at the 'friends' he had made in this school before leaving.

They had been talking all this while about helping him, but now that he was in this situation, there was no action on their part.

This made Sudou leave the class with a gloomy look on his face.

[What should we do now?]

[Why won't that guy just let us go after all he has done?]

[What else does he want from us? It's like he's targeting Sudou.]

[Bastard! That bastard.]

[Ayanokōji, do you have any solutions to deal with him?]

These were the most recent messages from a chat group consisting of Kanji Ike, Haruki Yamauchi, and Kiyotaka Ayanokoji.

There was nothing wrong with the list of names, as ever since yesterday's incident, they had temporarily excluded Sudou from their group.

This shocked Ayanokōji Kiyotaka, but he still stayed in the group chat to better understand the situation.

Watching Sudou leaving the classroom, and looking at the texts in the chat group, he didn't know what response was best to give to them at that moment.

As far as he was concerned, this was Sudou's own mess to deal with.

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