Chapter 73.2

T/N: Been getting a lot of requests to make chaps longer. If I were in your place, I'd ask the same of me too. So, I'll split these longer chaps into 2 instead of 3 starting from the end of my current uni semester (mid-December-ish). Please bear with me until then.

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"Do you have any questions about this?"

"No."

"And you, kouhai Ying Ye."

Horikita looked to the other side.

"I don't have any either. After all, I'm only a friendly classmate of his. Let's just have it sent over it in instalments."

Ying Ye Zhenshi smiled.

This smile of his was very annoying to those who were looking at him.

"Then, sign this contract here."

Horikita straightforwardly asked Tachibana to print the contract, and then it was signed there and then.

This contract had completely cleared the short-tempered boy's balance to zero private points.

"Remember to return my points soon, Sudou-san."

Watching someone going bankrupt right before his eyes, Ying Ye Zhenshi reminded him happily.

At that moment, Sudou Ken really wanted to hit the boy but he didn't dare to.

He had been beaten up while not having been able to land some good hits the other day, and then he was put into debt by the same boy and almost expelled from the basketball club as a result.

So now, how could he dare to hit Ying Ye again?

In a sense, this episode had cured his restlessness.

"I will."

The sound of gnashing of teeth grinding was heard in the room.

His plan to beat Ying Ye up was unsuccessful, and he was beaten up instead, and then he had to apologise and pay compensation to the very same boy.

These things had really made him fed up with this school.

"Also, don't forget to apologise. It's convenient that it is time for class now too. Anyway, we have been bothering the student council for too long, so it's time to leave."

Seeing that the red-haired boy could endure his taunts, Ying Ye smiled as he thought that Sudou had really grown up.

The flesh on Sudou's forehead twitched at Ying Ye's last words as if there was a worm beneath.

'Who was the one that bothered the student council in the first place? Are you trying to say that you weren't the one who wanted to come here?'

"Let's go back to class."

Chabashira Sae also spoke at this time.

It had been really hard for her to watch the play unfold over the last hour.

Sudou Ken was not in a good mood and didn't feel like being nice towards anyone right now.

Leaving angrily, with things ending just like that, he still found himself feeling very irritable, but he dared not get angry at these people in his immediate surroundings.

Now that he was being like this, one could only suspect whether the stray dogs would have been punched a few times if Sudou passed by them on the streets of China in his current mood.

"As expected, only after suffering can a person control their anger better."

Ying Ye Zhenshi looked at Sudou's disappearing figure and said interestedly, before also making a move out of the room.

'Is that meant to be a warning for me?'

Chabashira Sae walked at the back of the line, looking at the two figures in front of her.

'He wants to get me under control? What an unlikeable student.'

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In the 1st year's Class D…

The atmosphere in the class seemed a bit sensitive now, and there was not the usual hustle and bustle of excited students.

Apparently, Chabashiru Sae's words yesterday had scared most of the students very much, and even the naughty class was able to implement some sort of order as a result.

It was currently the time for class, but they had been notified a little earlier that Chabashira was busy doing other things, so they were told to study by themselves for the time being.

And amidst this atmosphere, Hirata sat on his seat with a gloomy expression on his face.

Those who were unaware of his thoughts thought that something very bad had happened to him.

He had been like this since Ying Ye and Sudou had left the classroom in the morning.

The students around Hirata had tried to cheer him up earlier, but they were soon dismissed with a forced smile, and then helplessly entered the state of self-studying during the morning homeroom.

*Boom!*

The door of the classroom was opened suddenly and smashed against the wall, and then, the red-haired boy walked in, his angry appearance causing everyone to be on guard, for fear of being kicked by the boy as he was passing by.

"Hey~ Sudou-san, are you trying to go back to your seat? Did you forget something already?"

Before Sudou could return to his seat, Ying Ye Zhenshi had also made his debut once more

And a few seconds later, it was the expressionless Chabashira Sae that followed.

"Ying Ye-kun, you are back. This...?"

Seeing that everyone had come back, Hirata stood up and wanted to persuade the boy to not provoke Sudou anymore.

But then—

"Ying Ye Zhenshi...!"

Sudou Takeru gritted his teeth and took a deep breath.

It was like he had placed the name Ying Ye Zhenshi in his mouth and chewing on it.

He didn't continue to walk up to his seat, until then.

He had experienced unprecedented humiliation because he didn't want to be kicked out of the basketball club, so there was nothing he could do.

In fact, he didn't want to apologise or anything like that.

But there was no way out anymore.

When he thought about the fact that he had to do this in front of everyone in the class no less, he couldn't stand the humiliation.

It made him wish he could find a hole in the ground to burrow into right there and then.

It was just a pity that the concrete floor in the class prevented Sudou's strange thoughts from becoming a reality.

"Sit down, Hirata. This does not concern you. Come on up, Sudou. Since you have agreed to do this already, you should do it before you take a seat."

Chabashira Sae was straightforward in her approach, walking to the podium and urging Ying Ye Zhenshi to come on up as well.

As for Hirata who was stuck on what to say just now, Chabashira's words for him caused him to finally sit down.

And at the back of the classroom was the protagonist of this scene.

Everyone was looking at Sudou Ken who was still gritting his teeth in a daze.

"I see."

Exhaling, Sudou walked directly towards the podium.

After turning around, he looked at Ike Kanji and Yamauchi Haruki who had also been staring at him all this while.

'These two guys. Are they not even going to ask me how things went?'

The two of them were also among the nervous kids in the class, and they didn't dare to look at Sudou at all

When Sudou looked over, they would quickly avoid his gaze, appearing guilty.

The fragmentation of their friendship had already begun.

In the face of real difficulties, that was just what so-called friendships were all about

Ying Ye Zhenshi watched this scene with relief.

"You should all know what happened yesterday."

"Because Sudou suddenly attacked Ying Ye in the class yesterday, he had now been punished and agreed to apologise and compensate him. I won't explain the details. Please apologise, Sudou."

Chabashira Sae stood on the podium and told them the result concisely so that the class was aware of what was going on.

The students in the class were stunned when they heard these words though.

'Did you say that something happened to a certain someone yesterday? While this seems to be correct, wasn't it Sudo who was beaten in the end?'

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