บท 29: #29 Solving the theft
"Alright, since there are only us boys here, I want everyone to tell the truth" Hirata said to all of us inside our tent.
"Hirata-kun, you really think that someone of us did it?!" Ike said with a frantic face.
"I want to believe in everyone but the truth is that there is still Karuizawa's missing underwear. I want to check everyone's bags, I hope you will allow me to do it since there are no girls around to see what you have in there." Hirata said with an apologetic smile towards Ike.
"You can't be thinking that we really did it, right? There is still that girl from Class C who might want to make us fight each other" Sudo said that he would rather suspect Ibuki than his own classmates and friends.
"I know that she can be suspect too but why would she do it when her Class already gave up. I just want to check everyone's belongings, please don't make it even harder for me..." Hirata said with a guilty face, it was apparent that he didn't like this idea but he still had to do it for the sake of girls and of course, his "girlfriend"
"You know if we find the missing underwear inside someone's bag then it doesn't have to necessarily mean that they are the culprit..." I calmly pointed out with folded arms.
"? What do you mean, Walker-kun?" Hirata-kun asked me, a little bit startled by my words. Most of the boys looked at me with confused looks, waiting for me to continue.
"Everyone was sleeping during the night and anyone could steal it. But why would you assume that thief would keep it? Although our class doesn't have the best academic results out of all classes, I doubt that anyone would be so dumb to actually steal something and then keep it inside his bag. If you steal something important as underwear then it is inevitable that the victim is going to notice. And there is also one more thing...Karuizawa-san is actually Hirata-kun's girlfriend so I don't think that any of the boys would actually try to steal especially her underwear" I calmly explained with my eyes closed. Constantly running around at night took a toll on me so I was resting my eyes whenever I could, of course, it wasn't anything serious. I just grew accustomed to getting enough sleep every day after coming to this school.
"...That sounds reasonable but what should we do?" Hirata mumbled aloud while holding his chin with a thoughtful expression.
"That's easy...We will show our belongings to everyone here and if anyone will have the underwear in their bag then we can definitely say that they are innocent" I said with a smile.
"Wha-?" Hirata seemed a bit surprised and probably thought that it was unreasonable but he didn't complain in the end.
Everyone went to grab their bags and in the meanwhile, Hirata came closer to me.
"You seem to have great trust in your friends" He said to me with a happy smile.
"I would rather say that I used logic instead of blind trust..." My expression didn't change a bit after he said word "friends"
"...I see" Hirata said with a bit sad smile and the awkward atmosphere was slowly invading the tent but it didn't last for long before everyone returned with their bags.
Everyone formed a circle and started to show our belongings to others.
When it was my turn I was slightly surprised since I thought that I would be the one getting framed but it seems that I was wrong. There was nothing much to show since I already got rid off the bottles with poisonous liquid and my outfit for the night time was on me under my casual clothes.
Almost everyone was done showing their belongings and it was Ike's turn now.
When he opened the bag for everyone to see, he froze and most of the guys had wide-opened mouth while looking at the white unfamiliar underwear, definitely not man's underwear.
Well, it was pretty obvious that it will be someone, it was just a question who.
"GUYS! I swear I didn't do it!!" Ike immediately screamed out and I quickly moved to cover his lousy mouth.
"Guys? Is everything alright? Did you already find the culprit, Hirata-kun?" Girls started to question us through the thin blanket of the tent.
"Ah, not yet!" Hirata immediately reacted to save the situation.
I threw Ike an annoyed look and he instantly nodded his head numerous times so I moved my hand to free his ability to talk.
"Well, this makes things even easier..." I said aloud for everyone to hear.
"What do you mean, Walker-kun?" Hirata immediately asked, expecting me to have some kind of plan already.
"It's nothing personal but everyone here knows about Ike-kun's intelligence right?" I asked quite a rude question but instead of being bothered by it, everyone nodded in unison.
"Hey! That's a pretty rude question and why is everyone nodding?!!" Ike immediately yelled but this time he controlled his voice not to be too loud.
"...Do you really think that Ike-kun would be able to show us his belongings if he knew that he has the missing underwear? We already agreed that anyone who would have them would be innocent yet he screamed out like a freak, worrying about his innocence. I think that clearly shows that he is by no means the culprit"
"But even if he is innocent...we still have no idea who is the culprit or why they tried to frame Ike-kun plus it is still a fact that the missing underwear is here with us. I doubt that girls will actually believe your theory, Walker-kun. You know how they can be impulsive" Yukimura was the one who joined the conversation.
"True enough...I guess the best way how to avoid raising the uproar within the class is in Hirata-kun's hands" I said while looking at Hirata and everyone followed after me.
"...I guess I can save the situation since I am her boyfriend and no one will blame anyone" Hirata said with a small smile.
"You don't have to do it, no one is forcing you, Hirata-kun. You should do whatever you want to do" I crossed my arms and said in a serious tone.
"Whatever I want to do...huh?" He mumbled but then he put on his usual encouraging smile.
"I want to do it. I don't think that there is the culprit here among us"
After our discussion was over, Hirata took care of the problem and said that he perhaps took it by a mistake. No one really doubted his words since they were a couple and he had no need to do such a thing intentionally.
"Thank you very much, Walker-kun. I don't know what I would have done without you..." Ike came to me and sighed in relief.
"No need, this wasn't your fault and it would only disrupted our class's teamwork and trust" I plainly told him my thoughts.
"You know, I always thought that you are someone hard to approach but now after this incident, I think that you would make a great friend, what do you think?" Ike said with a confident smile as he lightly hit my shoulder with his fist.
"..." I just looked at his actions with a weird expression but I didn't say anything in the end.
"But I really "wonder" who is the culprit" Sudo came to us and joined the conversation. The way he sarcastically said "wonder" it was pretty obvious that he already suspects someone.
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Felix9713 I never thought that I will have spare time today to write this chapter but I am fast af. Just kidding, there are only 1277 words so it's not much but better something than nothing, right?
The next chapter will be probably the last one of the survival test.
I am having a bit of a problem to show more of the original MC so I want to ask if you mind not seeing much of him or not.
Also if you happen to see any major grammar errors please let me know.
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