Chapter 75.3

Outside the library, Kiyotaka had successfully figured out what was going on.

Things were more troublesome than he had thought.

"Please, Ayanokōji, you are my last hope. Help me find a way to handle this."

Sudou's voice could be heard coming from the phone, while Ayanokōji pondered over what he had heard expressionlessly.

"Even if you say that, it's really difficult for me to think of something so suddenly. The most important factor in this circumstance is the attitude of our classmate Ying Ye. But I have only exchanged a few words with him at most since we started school. It seems that there is nothing I can do."

He paused before he spoke.

Eventually, he noticed Hirata Yosuke walking towards him, giving Ayanokōji a spark of inspiration, and he added a few more words to give Sudou, who had already been made disappointed, some hope.

"If it's Hirata-san, maybe he can fix things."

'Does he need my help? Ask me for what?'

Hirata Yosuke was a straightforward person.

Even if Ayanokouji approached him with a request, the boy was sure the honest Hirata wouldn't mind.

In addition, he guessed that even if he didn't mention anything, Hirata would come to ask him about what was going on.

"Really? Please, as long as he is willing to help, he can ask for anything from me. It's the same for you too. Thank you, Ayanokōji. Feel free to come to me for anything in the future. You are really different from those two bastards. You should also be careful with hanging around them. They were the ones who caused me to get into this mess, and then they fooled me into dealing with that bastard Ying Ye Zhenshi. Now they pretend that nothing happened and they didn't start anything. You probably know how it is. "

Sudou's violent temper came over the line.

When talking about Ike Kanji and Haruki Yamauchi, he had evidently become agitated.

At this time, it felt like he had found his life-saving straw in Ayanokouji.

In fact, even without the reminder of Ayanokōji Kiyotaka, he had also known that Hirata might have been his best bet and the person most likely to help him, but he was embarrassed to ask the boy for further help

Sudo was just glad that he had contacted Ayanokoji first.

'You seem to have come to a rational conclusion. Is this personal development, Sudou? What a surprise.'

Listening to Sudo's words, Ayanokōji was a little surprised, even if all one would have noticed was his expressionless face.

"I see. I'll help you, and you're welcome. I'll do my best, but if I can't change anything, I hope you don't blame me."

"Don't worry, I won't. This was all my fault in the first place."

Sudo seems to have learned how to behave when making requests.

But now, Ayanokōji was pretty much his last straw, so he had no choice but to behave.

"Ayanokōji-san."

And soon, Hirata had arrived where Ayanokouji was, and he had actually heard some of the conversation exchanged from afar just now.

It seemed that they were actually talking about him, but he didn't come over to listen in immediately in case it was a sensitive topic.

"I am guessing you are talking to Sudou-san, right? If you get the chance, I hope you can advise Sudou-san to come and study with us. If there is anything that you think needs to be done for this to happen, you can also come to me, and I can help with preparing anything."

Hirata Yosuke approached him and opened his mouth.

'This guy always approached others first when he realises, they probably need something from him, so that they don't feel embarrassed. What a caring mother hen.'

Ayanokōji Kiyotaka commented in his heart and followed the boy's tune since he was offering his assistance.

"It's to do with Sudou. Sudou has encountered some trouble. The basketball club seems to want to kick him out because of what happened yesterday. He doesn't know what to do now. Can you help him?"

"What?"

Hirata Yosuke's complexion changed drastically.

Those who didn't know what was going on would have thought that he was the one being kicked out of the club.

'No, actually…'

Ayanokōji gave some serious thought to whether Hirata would display such an expression if he himself was the one being expelled from the school too, let alone his classmate just being kicked out of their club.

"What happened? Can I talk to Sudou-san? Wasn't the matter resolved? He apologised and compensated Ying Ye, didn't he?"

Hirata Yosuke spoke anxiously, pointing to Ayanokoji's cell phone.

"No problem. Sudou, I am giving Hirata the phone. Please tell him about your situation."

Ayanokōji Kiyotaka spoke to the mobile phone with the call that had not been hung up yet, and after receiving an affirmative response, he handed the mobile phone off to Hirata.

As for whether Sudou would be embarrassed to speak to Hirata, that was not Ayanokouji's problem.

Sudou was the one to have offended Hirata the number of times he had before.

If it was an ordinary person, even if they didn't immediately quarrel when they met, they would probably have a dark look arise and refuse to entertain the words of someone who had annoyed them.

As for helping them and whatnot?

They would not even think about it.

But here was Hirata, who still played the role of the mother of class D despite the abuse.

Whenever someone needed help, he was there.

"Sudou-san, didn't everything from yesterday get resolved?"

Hirata turned off the loudspeaker and said his greetings, before asking Sudou his question as softly as possible.

"Is the student council meddling in your affairs?"

"No, the student council didn't completely handle my case. They actually informed the basketball club of the matter so that my club could deal with it themselves. And my manager notified me that he would expel me from the club today."

Sudou was actually a little unwilling to have to utter what he had said at the end.

'Am I that worthless?'

Not to mention the freshmen in the basketball club, he was certain that he could compare with the senpais in his club, or even the official players.

But even so, the management didn't seem to care about his potential at all.

It even felt like they held an attitude of being able to give him up casually.

And the facts were as he said, otherwise he wouldn't be looking for help everywhere so helplessly like this.

Now, Sudou didn't know what to do, and his heart was set on Hirata.

He hoped that this classmate of his could come up with some way to help solve this issue.

Now, Hirata was his last straw.

Without him, he could only approach Ying Ye Zhenshi by himself to persuade him to change his mind.

"This..."

Hirata Yosuke frowned slightly.

'In such a situation, what should I do? Should I ask the head of the basketball club to do something or…?'

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