Ike and the boys in the back row didn't just look concerned.
They kept complaining about his absence in their group chat.
In particular, Ike could be said to be quite excited, though when he mentioned anything related to Ying Ye Zhenshi, he had a strong malice in his tone.
"Didn't I tell them all that that guy is not well-behaved, and then he goes and skips class again today? Sooner or later, his pretence won't be able to hold up anymore.
"By the way, that hot girl didn't come to school either. Maybe they hooked up yesterday."
"That might just be the case since that Kei Karuizawa chick looks like a very casual girl on first impression."
Haruki Yamauchi also added his own thoughts on the situation to the group, with his focus on the absent Karuizawa.
The two started exchanging thoughts, while the other boys interjected from time to time.
The boys generally talked about topics related to the girls or dirty topics.
Like who was cute, or who had a better figure, or if one of the girls would make for a good girlfriend, and so on.
Kei Karuizawa was a hot girl who featured quite a lot whenever such topics were brought up.
Wondering about her time in middle school, they thought she had fucked all the handsome guys, and yesterday she had set her sights on Ying Ye Zhenshi and went straight to his bed.
There was also a topic thrown in the mix saying that she had been eyeing Hirata before but was rejected.
"I'm so envious. Although she's a gyaru, but still! I'm so fucking jealous…"
"Obviously he hooked up with her. That Ying Ye Zhenshi is just a piece of trash. Why does he have to trick our Kushida?"
At first, they talked cynically, but later, their talking turned into envy.
After all, Kei Karuizawa was still quite cute in her own right.
The two single dogs, Kanji Ike and Haruki Yamauchi let out their hormones that had nowhere to go in the chat.
"Chabashira-sensei!"
"Sae-chan...!" (Ike)
"Why didn't Ying Ye and Karuizawa come in today?"
"I can't seem to get in touch with them."
Kushida couldn't seem to connect to Ying Ye Zhenshi and her other missing classmate even in the following class.
When Chabashira Sae entered the class later on, Kushida Kikyo asked her the question.
"Oh, they are both on leave. Focus on the lesson and don't think about anything else."
Chabashira Sae was in a bad mood.
Part of the reason was that she had stayed up late last night, planning to figure out Ying Ye Zhenshi's thought process.
The other reason was because of his words.
'Don't throw things that you don't think you can accomplish yourself to your students.'
'You are a defective product too.'
She wanted to argue that he was wrong, but when she started teaching, she looked at the bunch of students in the room.
She especially focused at the back of the class, where Kanji Ike, Haruki Yamauchi, and Ken Sudo were sat.
'Sure enough, these guys are a hopeless bunch. Between all the D classes I have ever had, this is the worst one.'
The look on her face was expressionless, and colder than usual, as if everyone owed her millions of yen.
"Sae-chan, your face looks ugly today. Is it your time of the month? You should drink more hot water."
When leaving the class at the end of the lesson, Chabashira Sae could still hear the taunting and teasing words of Ike Kanji and Yamauchi Haruki behind here
'God damn, drink more hot water? You guys should just drink some hot magma. Why don't you all just eat the free vegetable set meals in the future?'
Full of anger, she left the classroom hurriedly, even looking forward to the time when they would have to eat the free vegetable set meal.
For the first-year class D, it was yet another fruitless day.
After leaving the campus, Sae Chabashita learned about the current circumstances surrounding the brawl from the night prior.
She found out the intention of the school, as well as the situation of the students from the second year.
The students who had fought him were still being held in custody.
Although they had been beaten unconscious, their injuries were not as serious as Ying Ye Zhenshi's, except that they had some dark circles under their eyes and that their faces were slightly swollen.
Ying Ye Zhenshi was wrapped up like a mummy and still on the bed.
And in the ward—
"You asked me for leave because you said you wanted to rest, Karuizawa-san."
Chabashira found Karuizawa when she entered the room.
"Yeah, I took a rest this morning, but I stopped by to take a look at him when I came out for lunch."
Karuizawa answered straightforwardly.
"Then you will have to join the classes in the afternoon."
Sae responded back expressionlessly.
And she didn't continue to bother about Karuizawa after that.
"What are you planning to do now? I listened to what the second-year students had to say, and they are interested in reconciling with you. As for the school, they just set aside intervening for the time being and plan to see what you want. Whether it's punishment for the students or calling the police, they are willing to accept it. Generally, for fights, as long as they are not particularly bad, each victim will be given 50,000 points each, and the students will be suspended for a while. If the matter is more serious, the suspension will be longer. If it is extremely serious, they would be expelled or the police would be called. Based on the circumstances this time, most of the injuries are just on you. Although Karuizawa was involved, she was not injured, so even if you call the police, it probably won't and up as a big issue."
Chabashira Sae spoke frankly.
This could be regarded as the way the school had always handled things.
Unless it was a very serious matter, such as murder, the school would try to intervene rather than hand it over to outsiders.
Otherwise, it was mostly left to the students to figure out everything for themselves.
No matter what it was they asked for, they would have a supportive attitude.
In their view, as long as no one was killed, it was nothing but a small fight.
Things like what had happened the night prior, like student fights, were very bad, but this sort of thing, no matter what school you were in, was inevitable and happened almost every year or even more than once.
And she left out things she could say.
'You really didn't mention anything about class points, huh?'
Ying Ye Zhenshi internally complained about the woman's penchant for keeping things hidden.
"How about it? Do you have any thoughts on how to proceed, Karuizawa-san? You are a victim too."
Ying Ye Zhenshi looked over at Kei.
This woman didn't know what to do, and she came over early in the morning, and then sat and just accompanied him.
He didn't know what was up with her, so he just thought of her as some kind of clingy chick.
"I will do whatever you think is best."
Karuizawa Kei replied in a low tone with a demure look on her face.
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