Chapter 48

When Syl approached the boys tent Ike ran out and nearly assaulted him.

"How could you?! I thought we were friends!" Ike screamed as he tackled Syl to the ground.

Syl was confused. "We are. Why?"

Ike was on the verge of tears. "Some friend you are! How could you sell me out! I told you I didn't do anything! You bastard! Asshole! You killed my social life!"

Ike smacked the ground with his fist. "It's over!!!"

Syl sighed. "I didn't-"

"I thought you said you found them outside?" A female voice sounded from behind Syl.

Syl chuckled nervously. "Haha, Matsushita! Just the person I wanted to see! Would you believe me if I said it's a long story?"

"Not one bit." She said with a smile.

Syl sighed. "You did this to yourself." He told Ike.

"W-what did you say?" Ike asked.

Matsushita 'smiled'. "Your friend on the floor there told us that he found them outside, I wonder what really happened though?"

Ike was stunned. Syl was trying to help him the whole time! Who knew?!

"I-wh-I -what? Pfft. Who said that? Heh … he.. Haha… hahaha." Ike tried to play it off.

Matsushita looked at Syl. "So what really happened?"

Syl sighed. "It wasn't Ike. Someone left them in our tent, he just happened to find them… in his luggage… Okay I know it sounds bad, but it really wasn't him. I've seen him all day and he's been with other people."

Matsushita narrowed her eyes suspiciously.

Ike started sweating really hard and slowly crawled away on the floor.

"Is that your best excuse?" She asked.

She turned around and acted like she was going to call the rest of the girls over.

Ike saw this and fell to his knees. "Don't please! I swear on my life! I swear! I didn't do it!"

Matsushita sighed. "Can I talk to Syl for a moment?"

Ike nodded frantically and ran away.

Syl smiled wryly. "I get how this looks, but it really wasn't him. You know I'd never help out someone who actually did something like that, right?"

Matsushita pursed her lips. "I've heard good things about you from the other girls, and cause your friends with Karuizawa, I'll give you the benefit of the doubt, but I need a better explanation, or the real culprit."

Syl chuckled. "Thanks, but I think you already know who it was, right?"

Matsushita thought for a moment. "What do you mean?"

"I mean, it's pretty obvious, if you think for more than two seconds. Who benefits from our class's discord? You're smart, I'm sure you've already figured it out." Syl said confidently.

Matsushita sighed. "I don't know what you're talking about."

"Sure. Anyway, thanks for the assist back there." Syl said with a smile as he stood up and dusted off his pants.

Matsushita giggled. "It was pretty funny."

Syl nodded. "It works every time."

Matsushita looked back to the girls' tent. "I should probably head back, I told them I was going to the bathroom. See you around, we should talk more."

Syl nodded. "After that performance? Of course we should! We're a perfect team!"

Matsushita smiled and walked away. "We were pretty great."

Syl sighed when she left. "Phew, if that was anyone else, we would have been fucked."

Syl walked back to the tent and went to bed.

About 30 minutes later Syl was abruptly awoken by the sounds of shouting.

He got out of the tent.

"What's up?"

He asked as he rubbed his eyes with his pink sleeve.

"Someone stole Karuizawa's underwear!" A girl shouted.

"Huh?" Syl asked, he was shocked!

He turned to Ike, who shrugged. It seems he knew nothing about it.

"Didn't you give those back?" Ike asked him.

Syl nodded absentmindedly. "Yeah…"

"Then what's going on?" Ike asked.

Syl shrugged. "I have no clu- unless. That bastard did it again!"

Ike gasped. "What? Twice in one day! What a madman!"

Syl trembled in rage, he was so done with that fucking toddlers shit!

Syl walked over to the large group. He soon found Matsushita.

"What's a place like you doi-"

"That won't work on me." Matsushita cut him off.

Syl scoffed. "Impossible! It works every time!"

Matsushita shook her head. "Not this time."

Syl gasped. "S-she's immune!"

Matsushita sighed.

Syl smiled and got serious. "I told you it wasn't Ike."

She nodded. "I'm started to believe you."

Syl frowned. "So you didn't before?"

She looked away. "50-50."

Syl smiled. "You round up 0.5 so technically you did believe me."

"That's not how that… nevermind." She trailed off.

Syl shrugged.

"Apparently they are searching all the boys and their luggage. So you should probably head back."

Syl nodded and walked away. "See you later."

"See ya."

Syl made his way back to the tent. He opened it up and grabbed his luggage, only to find the panties in his own luggage!

'That bitch did it on purpose!' Syl thought before sighing.

He smiled and walked out.

"Someone looking for these?" He asked everyone as he handed the panties to the nearest girl, which happened to be Horikita.

"Syl, whose bag did you find them in?!" Shinohara screamed, never thinking for a second Syl would have been the one to steal them.

Syl shrugged. "Someone left them in my bag."

"What? It was Syl?" One of the girls asked.

A couple of the girls started accusing him of stealing them while a small few girls argued that it wasn't Syl and that they should hear him out.

"Syl, explain why you had them!" One girl shouted.

Syl just awkwardly shrugged. "I honestly just found them in my bag two seconds ago, the moment I saw them I brought them out, no clue how they got there."

At this point the girls all started losing faith in Syl, accusing him of being a pervert, an asshole, a creep and many more things.

Syl just sat down at the fire and made himself some food while everyone screams insults at him. A few people defended him, especially a few of the boys, but Syl just tuned it out.

"It really wasn't me. How could you accuse the guy in a pink bunny suit of being a panty thief? It just makes no logical sense." He said casually as he started cooking some more shark.

Syl wasn't very concerned because he knew that Karuizawa, who was the owner of the panties, would know it wasn't him. Eventually this misunderstanding would be corrected.

It was then that Kei walked out of the tent with red eyes. "It wasn't Syl!"

The girls all stopped talking and listened to their queen, who was the one whose underwear was stolen in the first place.

"How do you know that?" Sato asked.

"Because, Syl already found a pair outside earlier! They were mine as well! He gave them back to me without telling anyone because he thought I lost them! The real thief clearly tried this earlier but was scared off by Syl! Then he decided to frame Syl for it!" Kei shouted out.

Syl took a bite of shark. "Oh yea! That happened too!"

"Did that really happen?" Sato asked suspiciously.

Matsushita stepped in. "It did, I was there, so was Shinohara."

Sato looked at Shinohara, who was the #1 hater of the boys in the group.

Shinohara nodded. "It's true."

The girls all gasped! They had been accusing the wrong guy the whole time!

"... sorry." Sato said quietly.

Syl nodded. "No problem, it's a pretty scummy thing to do, so I understand why you're all upset, but I really didn't do anything."

The rest of the girls started apologizing to Syl one by one and he forgave them all instantly.

Syl just ate his meal in peace as the class was arguing and fighting with each other.

Eventually Ayanokoji walked up to him. "Aren't you going to help them out?"

Loud screams and yelling was heard in the distance as Syl stared at the campfire.

"This is fine." He said with lips pursed into a smile.

"Is it really?" Ayanokoji asked.

Syl nodded. "I mean what do you want me to do about it? I think the boys in this class need a wake up call to stop being such creeps, this is a good thing. Learn from their mistakes before they even make them."

"Before they even make them?" Ayanokoji asked.

Syl nodded. "Let them learn that they shouldn't ever do this, before they ever do it in the first place."

"But it's already done." Ayanokoji pointed out.

"But none of the boys did it." Syl countered.

"What do you mean?"

Syl smiled. "You already know who it was, right?"

Ayanokoji was silent.

Syl chuckled. "Anyway, it's Chihiro Shiranami."

"What is?" Ayanokoji asked.

"Class C's leader." Syl said as he stood up and walked away.

"I'm not going to finish that so feel free to have some." Syl said as he pointed at the rest of the shark.

Ayanokoji sighed and picked up the plate before taking a bite.

"Wow, this is really good."