Practical teaching: Starting from the soul traveling through Dragon Garden

Chapter 28 Stolen Again

"This man named Hirata Yosuke is a handsome guy. Rather than being outstanding in appearance, it is more about his philosophy of action. He takes the lead in taking on things that ordinary people find troublesome and unwilling to do, and he will satisfy the other party at a very high level."

Based on previous observations, this is how Ayanokouji evaluates Hirata.

When Ayanokouji returned to the camp with some medicinal herbs, he was met with a group of scrutinizing eyes.

"Where have you been?" Horikita asked.

Realizing that something was wrong with everyone, Ayanokouji didn't lie: "I saw that Horikita seemed to have a fever, and I thought that if Horikita dropped out of the exam, she would lose points, so I went out to find some herbs without permission, hoping that it would help."

Ayanokouji did bring back some medicinal herbs. Although most of the classmates thought they were just weeds, Wang Meiyu knew those herbs. With her evidence, the girls did not have much ill will towards Ayanokouji, but they still remained skeptical.

Hirata heard Ayanokouji's voice and walked out of the tent. "I'm sorry, Ayanokouji-san, for entering your tent without permission to search it. Hui's underwear was stolen. I'm investigating."

"Have you found out the results?" Ayanokouji asked calmly, as if this matter had nothing to do with him.

At this time, Hirata was still complaining in his heart: "I really didn't realize that Ayanokouji was such a pervert. I really have to admire this man. He can still be so calm at this time. Hey, I still have to clean up his mess."

"Ayanokouji is innocent." Hirata was lying, but the girls didn't see through it. Only Ayanokouji noticed that Hirata's expression was a little unnatural.

Regarding the theft, the girls actually didn't think that the culprit would be Ayanokouji at first, because Ayanokouji was very handsome and usually taciturn, so the girls all had a good impression of him. This is the handsome guy effect, just like no girl would suspect the handsome guy Hirata.

They had a premonition that the culprits were Suten, Ikekan, and Yamauchi, boys who were always obscene and used foul language.

"Then search them one by one! We must find the criminal!" Shinohara was not satisfied with the result.

Her proposal was opposed by all the boys: "Why? The underwear was lost because you didn't take good care of it. Why do you want to search all of us? What right do you have to search all of us?"

Seeing that the trend of confrontation between men and women was getting more and more intense, Hirata stood up again and said, "Everyone, leave this matter to me. I will definitely give everyone a satisfactory conclusion. Now everyone should go and do your own thing."

After Hirata said that, the boys dispersed. The girls were still trying to keep going, so Hirata gave Karuizawa a look and Karuizawa had no choice but to take the girls away.

Wang Meiyu stayed and processed the medicinal materials with Ayanokouji.

As soon as the crowd dispersed, Hirata found Karuizawa and the two of them came behind a tree.

"Hirata, you'd better find the murderer." Although he was the person he depended on, Karuizawa's tone was not friendly at this time.

Hirata pulled out the pink panties from his pocket and said, "I'm sorry, Hui. It was me who did it."

Karuizawa was shocked: "Impossible, it can't be you. Hirata, who are you protecting?!"

Seeing Hirata's hesitation and embarrassment, Karuizawa exclaimed, "It's Ayanokouji!"

Although Hirata admitted that he was a criminal, Karuizawa still believed that he was not a thief. Karuizawa was not stupid and immediately thought of the biggest suspect, Ayanokouji, because Hirata had only been to Ayanokouji's tent.

With a pale face, Karuizawa took the panties back from Hirata and wanted to confront Ayanokouji, but Hirata was determined to protect Ayanokouji: "Hui, let's end this matter here. I will talk to Ayanokouji and make him apologize to you after the exam."

"But I'm your girlfriend. How can you treat your girlfriend like this?" Karuizawa obviously couldn't accept such an outcome.

Karuizawa was very disappointed, very disappointed with Hirata, thinking that he was someone who could protect him, but in the end, what did he protect! Karuizawa felt that he was betrayed. Today, Ayanokouji stole his panties, but Hirata not only did not punish Ayanokouji, but also helped him. Is an apology enough? Is this something that can be solved with an apology?
What Karuizawa saw in this incident was Hirata's attitude. This time his panties were stolen, he could ask Ayanokouji to apologize to him, but what about next time? The next time he is bullied or his body is violated by other men, can it be solved with just an apology?
Karuizawa was silent. She realized that Hirata was not able to protect her, or that other people were more important to Hirata than herself. Recalling her experience in junior high school, Karuizawa felt a dull pain in her abdomen. However, what else could Karuizawa do? In this class, she could only rely on Hirata.

"Okay, I'll tell others that I made a mistake, the panties weren't stolen, I found them myself." Karuizawa left with a look of despair. Hirata heaved a sigh of relief, and then began to worry about how to tell Ayanokouji.

On the other hand, after drinking the medicine that Ayanokouji and Wang Miyu had boiled for 2 hours, Horikita broke out in a sweat, but her mind became much clearer.

During lunch, Karuizawa apologized to the whole class, saying that he had made a mistake.

Although the boys were very unhappy and the girls were suspicious, the matter was just brushed aside.

In the evening, Horikita drank another bowl of Ayanokouji's medicine. His facial features were twisted together. The medicine was really bitter, but Horikita still drank it all without leaving a drop: "This must be the most unpalatable thing I have ever drunk in my life."

"Not necessarily. Don't make such an absolute conclusion so early." Ayanokouji took the bowl back from Horikita. "The culprit this morning should be Ibuki."

"You also think that Karuizawa didn't make a mistake?" Horikita moved to keep a certain distance from Ayanokouji.

"This is so strange. I guess it was Hirata who asked Karuizawa to say this. But considering the result, this is not a bad way to deal with it. I'm just worried that Ibuki's goal may not be limited to this. You have to be careful." Ayanokouji put the bowl at his feet.

"You mean Ibuki's target is me?" Horikita fell into thought.

"It's a magnetic card. From what I gather, Ryuuen isn't the type of person who would give up easily. I'm sure he'll make a move when guessing who the class leader is at the end, and Ibuki is his spy." Ayano analyzed expressionlessly.

Horikita, who had already been on guard against Ibuki, was now even more wary of her.

"What's the situation in other classes?" Horikita asked. Due to his poor health, all the field investigations were assigned to Ayanokouji. In fact, other classmates also went out to gather information, but they got nothing. Horikita hoped to hear some good news from Ayanokouji.

"We can basically confirm the leaders of Class A and Class B. Since Class C has returned to the ship, this is difficult to investigate."

"How did you do it? Why were you able to investigate the leaders of Class A and Class B? What did you do when you were out?" Horikita asked a series of questions, but did not get any answers from Ayanokouji.

Seeing that Ayanokouji looked completely dead, Horikita had to change the subject: "The leader of Class C will most likely be Ibuki. After all, the students who returned to the ship have lost their qualifications for the exam, so Ibuki is the only one left in Class C on the island."

Ayanokouji shook his head: "I searched Ibuki's schoolbag, and there was no magnetic card."

"When did you search? How come I didn't know? That's not right! Ibuki has always lived with me, and I've been keeping an eye on her almost all the time. When did you do it?"

Another dead fish-like silence.

"Is it possible that Ibuki carried it with him, or hid it somewhere else?" Horikita changed the subject again.

"It's possible, but the chances are slim. I'm more inclined to believe that there are other Class C students on the island, such as Ryuen."

What Ayanokouji said did make sense. Although everyone knew that the students in Class C had returned to the ship, no one could confirm that all the students in Class C had boarded the ship. The timing for them to return to the ship was after the evening roll call, when each class would take roll call in their own camp.

After Class C finished calling the roll, they walked the distance from the camp to the boat. No one knew whether anyone would leave because it was very dark at night and there were so many people that it was difficult to judge. Class D, who were separated by a river, could only vaguely see that the members of Class C had collectively left the camp.

After chatting with Ayanokouji for a while, Horikita felt that Ayanokouji was far from being as simple as it seemed, and at the same time he had a different view on the exam. Lying in the tent, Horikita couldn't fall asleep, thinking about some details of the exam.

At midnight, Horikita felt someone hovering around her, and a light breeze blew on her body. She didn't alert the enemy, and squinted her eyes. Although it was pitch black, she couldn't see anything until Ibuki opened the tent. In the moonlight, Horikita saw Ibuki steal something from her schoolbag.

Before Ibuki moved in, Horikita left the magnetic card with Ayanokouji, so now Horikita was very curious about what Ibuki had stolen.

(End of this chapter)