In the afternoon, most of the student council members were gathered in the student council office, including Kamio Tatsuya. However, Nagumo wasn't there. Was he not at school?
The topic at hand was naturally the secret filming incident in the first-year locker room that Kamio Tatsuya had discovered that morning.
Horikita Manabu took out a small plastic bag containing a common SD card.
"After confirmation by Tachibana, this memory card does indeed contain secretly filmed footage from inside the women's locker room."
Horikita Manabu's tone was very calm, but everyone could feel the anger within it, like a volcano ready to erupt.
"Based on the report and preliminary investigation, the perpetrators are likely Ike Kanji and Yamauchi Haruki from Class 1-D, but depending on the situation, we can't rule out the possibility of false accusations or framing.
Therefore, I have already reported this to the school, and I expect they will soon find out who this memory card belongs to."
Horikita Manabu was indeed thorough in his considerations; there was a real possibility of framing.
It was simply that Kamio Tatsuya had overheard their entire plot, which caused him to overlook this point.
"Let's put aside the question of who the culprit is for now. I want to first discuss the handling of the culprit within the student council. The school will also take the results of our discussion into consideration."
There was a sense of helplessness in Horikita Manabu's words.
Hearing this, Kamio Tatsuya immediately felt disgusted. Did they really need to discuss such a thing?
Shouldn't they just be expelled?
What were those rigid-minded higher-ups at the school thinking?
Were they afraid of making a big fuss?
"President! Is there even a need for discussion? To dare to do something like this is simply an act of public enemies against women! There is no other choice but expulsion."
The first to speak was Tachibana Akane, who had examined the contents of the SD card. At this moment, she was like a lioness whose cubs had been stolen, radiating anger from her entire body.
"I agree with Senior Tachibana's opinion. People like that don't deserve to be in our school. Expulsion is too good for them."
"Yeah, it's really disgusting!"
"In my opinion, they should be sent to a juvenile detention center to have their personalities fixed!"
A juvenile detention center is a prison in Japan for young people between the ages of 14 and 19.
Kamio Tatsuya thought this suggestion was very good. Those guys really needed some personality correction.
"Kamio, what do you think we should do?"
Asking me?
"I think Senior Tachibana is right. There's no other way besides expulsion, is there?" Kamio Tatsuya said calmly.
"But the culprits might all be your classmates."
"Not for long."
Looking at Kamio Tatsuya, who wasn't cooperating at all, Horikita Manabu sighed slightly.
"Although I also considered expelling the culprits immediately, this time the culprits may be connected to several people, and it can be considered attempted rather than completed. Therefore, the school thinks that expelling them all might be too rash."
Having come this far, everyone in the student council understood. The school was afraid of making too big of a deal out of it and planned to quietly deal with it, just like the stalker incident with Sakura before.
Ha, they were so heartless during regular exams, but so weak when it came to this kind of thing. It was as if Kamio Tatsuya was seeing this school for the first time.
They didn't want to expel everyone involved?
Okay, no problem.
"In that case, I have a suggestion," Kamio Tatsuya showed a sly smile.
"Let's hear it."
"Since this involves many people, the mastermind definitely needs to be expelled. I don't think anyone has any objections to that, right?"
No one objected to Kamio Tatsuya's statement.
"As for the accomplices, they also need to be punished. Don't worry, I'm not a devil. Let's just make public what they did, and let the students judge what's right and wrong."
Horikita Manabu's mouth twitched.
This was even scarier than expulsion.
Those whose names were made public would be isolated by most students, even if they weren't openly bullied in the school.
Social death is in some ways an even more severe punishment than expulsion!
"Since we can't expel them all, we have a duty to remind regular students to be more careful around them, so that there won't be another victim. We, the student council, should do this to be responsible for the large number of regular students!"
Kamio Tatsuya's words rang out loud and clear, full of a sense of justice!
How ruthless!
That was the thought that came to everyone's mind.
Because once this got out, those guys would be living with strange looks and gossip every day.
Not everyone can handle that kind of verbal bullying. Not everyone has a mind as strong as Karuizawa's.
In a few days, they would probably be crying and begging to be expelled on their own. Even if they wanted to persist, how long could they endure the isolation?
It would be an act of kindness to expel them now.
Anyway, they felt that they wouldn't be able to endure this shame.
As someone once said, if you want to open a window in a room full of people, everyone will disagree. But if you want to tear off the roof, people will agree to let you open the window.
So, is it possible to expel the mastermind and punish the accomplices without revealing their names?
Sure, it's possible, but then the students would probably start guessing who the accomplices were.
The school probably wouldn't want to see people panicking.
Moreover, quite a few people know about this, and it's always possible for things to leak out.
So the decision was really making Horikita Manabu's head hurt.
"What are your opinions?"
"I think Vice President Kamio's proposal is very good."
"I agree too."
One by one, they were all dancing around the issue... Horikita Manabu was somewhat speechless.
"In that case, I'll report it to the school. I'll also question the suspects to find out the truth and close the case as soon as possible."
After the meeting, the student council members left one after another. Kamio Tatsuya was also planning to go back to the pool; he had to work his shift.
"Kamio, wait a moment."
"Okay."
After everyone had left, Horikita Manabu spoke to Kamio Tatsuya.
"I thought you would try to protect them."
"I already saved them once, and I thought they would reform and work hard. But the facts have proven me wrong," Kamio Tatsuya said calmly.
Then he told Horikita Manabu about what had happened during the midterm exams.
After learning about this, Horikita Manabu suddenly thought of a question.
"Was your request for me to change the midterm exam questions because of them too?"
"That was one of the reasons," Kamio Tatsuya admitted frankly, "But then I felt it would be too cruel to ruin their future just because of some personal grudges, so after the midterm exams, I spent points to keep them in the school."
Of course, that wasn't the case. Kamio Tatsuya looked calm, but he was actually spouting nonsense.
But what did it matter? It was enough if Horikita Manabu believed him.
It didn't matter if he didn't believe him; he wouldn't admit any other reason.
Part: First Year, Second Semester
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