Just like that, another month quietly slipped by.
Before he realized it, Saiki and the others had already been at the school for over two months.
Today was July 1st, Monday. In the morning, Saiki got up from his bedroom and, after opening the door, directly returned to his dorm room.
Without needing to do anything, the toothbrush, towel, and other toiletries in the bathroom flew over to Saiki as if they had consciousness, helping him wash up.
In front of Saiki, his student phone slowly floated in midair.
'Yare yare, the points for this month haven't been transferred in.'
Saiki looked at the unchanging point balance and muttered to himself, 'Looks like something happened again. Just a few days away from school and these people have caused more trouble?'
The past two days were the weekend. Saiki had not stayed in school, he had used his psychic powers to return home and rested for two days.
After all, at home he didn't need to spend points on food and drink, and staying at home also let him avoid being targeted by strange people at school.
If anyone noticed that Saiki hadn't gone out for two days, he could also use the excuse that he had stayed in his room watching TV dramas or playing games for two days.
And before the weekend, Saiki had also stockpiled quite a lot of snacks in the dormitory, so that by then he could also explain why he had not gone to the cafeteria these past few days.
After preparing a little bit, Saiki then left the dormitory, preparing to head into the classroom.
"Good morning, Saiki."
And at this moment, from behind Saiki came a slightly somewhat lazy voice. He turned his head to look at the other party, it was indeed Ayanokoji.
[These past two days, it seems I have not seen Saiki. What has he been doing these few days?]
During this period, Ayanokoji was still secretly observing Saiki. He always felt that Saiki ought to possess some aspects that were different from ordinary people. For example, around them, the other people had more or less all undergone a little bit of change.
However, Ayanokoji also, for the time being, had no way of knowing whether these changes were related to Saiki.
But for now, Ayanokoji in his heart believed that the possibility of Saiki coming from the White Room was relatively low.
Ayanokoji was not a conceited or blindly confident person, but he was very clear that if it were someone from the White Room, they absolutely could not be his opponent.
Until now, Ayanokoji also had not obtained any valuable information from Saiki. If it were an assassin sent from the White Room, it would absolutely be impossible to achieve this degree.
And if Saiki came from the White Room, then he could not possibly have had no actions during this period either.
"Morning." Saiki simply responded to the other party.
"These few days I haven't seen you. What did you do last weekend?"
"I was always in the dormitory without going out, caught up on a few anime."
"Anime?" Ayanokoji repeated this term.
[In the White Room there was no education related to this... this also counts as the sort of secular thing that should be discarded.]
'As a high school student, to have not even watched a single anime and to know absolutely nothing about anime, in a certain sense, that can also be considered a kind of sadness.' Saiki said so in his heart.
He deliberately brought up anime-related things, because previously he had already used telepathy to know that Ayanokoji knew absolutely nothing about such matters. Saying this could make Ayanokoji even more certain that he himself had no relation to that so-called illegal educational institution called the White Room.
'But I didn't expect that although Ayanokoji knows most kinds of knowledge clearly, when it comes to anime he has a blind spot.'
"Is that so? But yesterday I even wanted to invite you to go to the library together. I knocked on the door and called for you. You didn't reply to me. I thought you weren't there." Ayanokoji spoke slowly, while at the same time his gaze fell onto Saiki's face.
'Although he thinks I am not a threat anymore, he still wants to test me, huh.'
Saiki also looked at the other party the same way. He could hear very clearly Ayanokoji's inner voice.
[You didn't leave the room for two whole days? Such a possibility does exist, but it's not very high, is it? I feel like Saiki doesn't seem like the type who likes to stay holed up in the room. Let me just ask and test his reaction.]
Ayanokoji had not come looking for him, Saiki was very clear about this point. The other party just wanted to judge from his reaction whether Saiki's words were true.
'You are slightly underestimating an psychic too much.'
Saiki's expression did not show any change whatsoever. He just looked as if casually saying, "Is that so? I didn't hear it. What time did you knock? If you wanted to find me, you should have just called me directly."
"Because it wasn't any important matter, so I didn't continue to disturb you." Ayanokoji replied.
[There was no special reaction at all. Looks like he's telling the truth. If it's like this, then basically I can exclude Saiki from the scope of threats.]
'That's right, you should have done that earlier.' Saiki in his heart responded that way to the other party.
"By the way, Saiki, did you receive points?"
"No."
"I also didn't. Maybe something happened on the school's side. Chabashira-sensei should explain it."
"Mm."
There was no more exchange between the two, maintaining a kind of tacit silence, and together they arrived in the classroom.
"Saiki, did you guys get points? Theoretically speaking, they should have arrived before getting up this morning, right?"
"That's right, Ayanokoji and Saiki, did you guys get points?"
"Could it be that our class's points have been deducted to nothing? Impossible!?"
Everyone was discussing matters regarding the points.
And at this moment, from the doorway of the classroom came a burst of clear and crisp footsteps, it was Chabashira Sae arriving.
Black teacher's suit, below a black pencil skirt were tight semi-transparent black stockings, Chabashira Sae, even standing among the crowd, was without a doubt someone very easily attracting the opposite sex's attention.
"Sensei, why haven't this month's points arrived?" A classmate asked.
"I was just about to talk about this, because the school's system encountered a special incident, so this month's points will be distributed with a delay." Chabashira Sae's face showed a meaningful smile.
"Special incident?" Everyone was endlessly puzzled.
"We received a report from the D class basketball team member, Sudo. They accuse you of unilaterally beating them."
Chabashira Sae's gaze fell upon Sudo Ken.
'Yare yare, I almost forgot about this matter. No doubt this is Ryuen's doing.'
After hearing these words, Saiki immediately made a judgment.
He had already known earlier what Ryuen Kakeru wanted to do. But because the other party hadn't taken action yet, and it also did not affect himself, Saiki had temporarily put this matter to the back of his mind.
"That was legitimate self-defense!"
And upon hearing Chabashira Sae's words, Sudo Ken immediately couldn't sit still, loudly explaining,
"They were the ones who started it first, they were jealous that I became a starting player and deliberately came to provoke everyone!"
"If there are witnesses, then it's easy to handle."
Chabashira Sae narrowed her eyes slightly, as if she had already guessed Sudo Ken's reaction.
"Tch…"
Sudo Ken wanted to say something, but in the end could only fall into silence.
[Damn… it seemed there was no one present at the time!]
Sudo Ken felt extremely frustrated inside while desperately recalling what happened yesterday.
Saiki used his telepathy ability to learn a general situation from Sudo Ken's mind, although there might be deviations because of personal emotions. But Saiki also knew the probability of Sudo Ken proactively starting a fight was not very high.
Although Sudo Ken's temperament was indeed very hot-headed, generally speaking he would not easily fight with others. But Ryuen Kakeru apparently still succeeded in exploiting the flaw in his personality.
"Everyone! May I ask, did any of you see the whole process?"
And at this moment, Kushida stood up from her seat, fully showing a very concerned look for Sudo Ken.
[This should be the method Ryuen used.]
[Make Sudo Ken withdraw from school and drag our class into a crisis, this is the greeting gift I prepared for Ryuen. This way, afterwards I can better borrow Ryuen's hand to get rid of Horikita.]
[Of course, Ryuen who knows all this, in the end will also be the same.] Kushida thought so in her heart.
Saiki of course could directly "broadcast" Kushida's inner voice. That way, the entire class would know what was really going on. But most likely, it would cause even greater upheaval then.
The class Kushida had been in during middle school, it seemed, had collapsed precisely because of a similar reason.
And after Kushida spoke, inside the classroom there was for a moment not a single sound.
But in Saiki's ears, it was rather noisy.
[Sudo? Feels like the sort of thing he'd do.]
[It was definitely Sudo who proactively fought with others!]
[That Sudo guy, why didn't he just withdraw during the midterm exams? Now we've all lost our points this month because of him!]
Although in the class nobody was speaking, Saiki could clearly hear their inner voices.
Because Sudo Ken's popularity among the class members was not very good, and his temper was publicly recognized as bad, everyone believed Sudo Ken really did participate in this matter.
'Although the law advocates that without evidence of a crime you cannot convict someone of it, here it seems to be the other way around, Sudo must prove he did not start the fight in order to avoid responsibility.'
'But even if there were truly eyewitnesses in class, it probably wouldn't help, after all, they are classmates, and there is no substantial evidence to prove Sudo Ken is innocent. Ryuen would certainly deliberately pick a place without other witnesses to make his move.'
'Yare yare, this is a bit troublesome. The most direct method is to wait for an opportunity later and directly transmit the inner voices of the people involved in this matter to everyone else, but when that happens, things might get rather messy. Although Sudo is a bit slow-witted and has a bad temper, he really hasn't done anything wrong.'
Saiki knew that in this school, proactively participating in a fight would lead to a forced withdrawal.
And as Saiki was thinking, he caught a somewhat unfamiliar inner voice.
[Sudo-kun... is innocent... I saw the entire process... and it seems I even recorded it...]
'Hm?'
Saiki was a little surprised, instinctively turning his gaze to the source of the voice.
It was a girl with long red hair, the glasses perched on her nose could not completely cover up her beauty. Her upper body with an impressive figure was lying on the desk.
'She... what was her name again?'
Before his x-ray vision penetrated her skin and bones, Saiki finally remembered her name.
Sakura Airi.
In the class, she was practically a transparent presence, not having much contact with others, and Saiki had never spoken a word to her, so at first he hadn't recalled her name.
'A witness, huh? Seems to be true. But why doesn't she stand up and tell the truth?'
Saiki was a bit curious why Sakura Airi wouldn't reveal the evidence.
[If I say it... I will be noticed by others... and... my side job as an internet idol will also be exposed... I don't dare to say it...]
'Yare yare, another social anxiety case?'
Saiki thought to himself, in this school, there seemed to be quite a lot of people with social difficulties.
'If I just let that idiot get expelled, it's a bit too pitiful. If I could get Sakura to provide the relevant evidence...'
As Saiki was thinking, Ayanokoji's thoughts also surfaced in his mind.
[Just now when the word "witness" was mentioned, Sakura Airi's expression and actions had an obvious change.]
'No way, you even noticed that?'
[Perhaps she does know something, but I don't need to proactively contact her for now.]
'Maybe Ayanokoji can solve this himself.'
[Just now, Saiki's gaze also seemed to glance toward Sakura Airi for a moment, did he also notice Sakura Airi's movement?]
'To be honest, no, I heard it with my esper power.'
"I think you'd better just withdraw."
At the same time, a slightly frivolous, rising male voice sounded next to Sudo Ken.
Golden hair, a mixed-blood face, Saiki remembered his name was Koenji Rokusuke, the number one existence on Saiki's "people in this class I least want any interaction with" ranking.
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