COTE: Daily Life of Saiki K

Saiki, in the instant just now, once again untied his shoelaces, and they tangled together.

Thud!

Yamashige once again knelt on the ground, and the loud crash from his fall caused everyone's attention to be directed toward him.

"Again you?!" Sudo Ken's gaze instantly fell upon Yamashige.

"Aren't you the same person just now? Are you following me?"

"I—I—I…"

Yamashige became completely at a loss for what to do, because not only Sudo Ken but also many others in the gymnasium were all focusing their attention on him.

[It's over, it's over…everyone noticed me…what should I do, what should I do… The original plan can't be carried out at all now.]

"I also wanted to learn basketball…so I came over."

Yamashige could only hurriedly find an excuse that barely sounded plausible.

"Is that so?"

Sudo Ken's eyebrows slightly furrowed, but very soon relaxed, and instead a smile appeared on his face.

"That's perfect. The basketball team's coach and everyone else are here, so let's just do a round of physical assessment directly!"

And without giving Yamashige any time to refuse, the basketball team members nearby surged forward all at once and directly dragged him away.

"Wait, wait!"

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[An Hour Later]

Yamashige was almost already exhausted to the point of collapse, lying on the ground, and only after half a day did he recover some strength, barely able to stand up.

"What a pity. In terms of physical ability, you still need improvement. Your talent in basketball is truly limited."

The basketball team's coach said this sentence to Yamashige and then directly took the others to continue training. Yamashige had not managed to pass the basketball team's assessment.

And the various tests just now had almost drained all of Yamashige's strength. He could only drag his tired body and leave the gymnasium.

[Crap… the plan didn't succeed… When I go back later…I'll definitely get beaten half to death by Ryuen… But there's no way…]

In his heart, Yamashige felt a little helpless, because he hadn't expected things to turn out like this.

[These damned shoelaces…what the hell is going on?!] Yamashige cursed in his heart.

And behind him, Saiki was still using invisibility, following his every move. Although invisibility could only last ten minutes at most, it could be used almost without interruption.

'Although you really are very unlucky, since you're planning something bad, you must also be prepared accordingly.'

Saiki thought in his heart. Now Yamashige's plan was no longer possible to implement. Next, he should be going to look for Ryuen.

Saiki was a little curious about Ryuen's objective, so he kept following behind Yamashige, wanting to see what their plan actually was.

Very soon, Saiki followed Yamashige to the school's KTV. As a school with every sort of entertainment facility, of course there was also KTV.

Yamashige's target was very clear; he walked straight into a private room.

And inside the dimly lit room, Ryuen was sitting on the sofa, shaking the cocktail glass in his hand. The clear liquid inside kept swaying, while Albert stood silently beside him wearing sunglasses, like a security guard.

'That's juice, right? Minors are forbidden from drinking alcohol.'

'But they actually set the meeting place in KTV? This is the first time I've come here.'

'It seems there aren't surveillance cameras inside the private rooms, is that the reason?'

Saiki thought. Although he knew there was KTV in the school, he had never come before, because karaoke was generally a group activity, and that was the kind of situation Saiki disliked the most.

"What's with you?"

Seeing Yamashige in such a miserable state, even Ryuen Kakeru showed some doubt.

[I only told him to deliberately provoke Sudo Ken, how did it end up like this.]

"I'm sorry, Ryuen…I failed."

"Failed? Why." Ryuen slightly narrowed his eyes, and within his gaze there was a cold murderous intent.

"I…"

For a moment, Yamashige didn't know what to say, because the fact that he fell down twice in a row because his shoelaces came undone sounded absurd even to himself.

He didn't quite understand what had happened either. But facing Ryuen's terrifying pressure, he could only recount everything exactly as it occurred.

After hearing Yamashige's words, Ryuen was momentarily stunned.

[What is this guy even saying? Falling twice in a row because of shoelaces? Any carbon-based life form with normal limbs shouldn't be able to do something like that.]

[With his courage, he definitely wouldn't dare to lie to me. Moreover, such an absurd thing… Originally today I only planned to simply test the other side. Since it didn't succeed, then forget it. Anyway, we have plenty of opportunities.]

[But Sudo Ken of Class C, his explosive personality is still usable. If we think of a way to make him drop out, that should deal a big blow to their class. Start with Class C, and little by little, eat them away… Let's do it after the midterm exams.] A meaningful smile appeared on Ryuen's face.

'Yare yare, so that's how it is.' Saiki, hearing Ryuen's thoughts, immediately knew the rough outline of their plan.

As he had guessed before, Ryuen wanted to use Sudo Ken's personality to make him drop out.

'As a high school student, is this really what you think about every day?' Saiki muttered in his heart.

'But, how did they know about Sudo's bad temper? When they were monitoring, Sudo shouldn't have lost his temper…'

Just then, there was a series of hurried knocks at the door.

"Oh? Here already?"

Ryuen slightly lifted his chin. Yamashige, not caring at all about his own exhaustion, took the initiative to open the door.

'Yare yare, no wonder.'

Saiki narrowed his eyes slightly, because standing at the door was a face he was very familiar with.

Kushida Kikyo.

"You... you are?"

Yamashige was somewhat surprised. He hadn't expected Kushida to appear here.

"Although we previously had some contact over text, this counts as our first formal meeting, right, Kikyo."

Ryuen maintained a smile on his face, looking at Kushida with a gaze as if looking at prey.

[Truly a terrifying woman. I had never expected she would actually take the initiative to disclose information about her own classmates to me. With her help, I should be able to bring down Class C faster.]

"First time meeting, please take care of me!" Kushida smiled and greeted them, looking just like a cheerful and cute girl.

But Saiki knew very well what her real thoughts were.

[Ryuen wants to act against Class C, that's perfect. It doesn't matter. What happens to the class has nothing to do with me. My only goal is to get rid of that Horikita Suzune. I must make him drop out. And Ryuen is a weapon I can use.]

The two of them both wanted to use each other.

It was Kushida who had informed Ryuen about Sudo Ken, which made Ryuen decide to act by exploiting his personality.

'Really two troublesome people.' Saiki thought. For the class, there was now going to be even more trouble.

"To betray your own class without hesitation and seek cooperation with me, what is your purpose?"

"Simply to make someone I believe must be removed leave the school."

At this moment, Kushida's expression changed. Her previously clear eyes now showed a cold gaze.

[This woman…is she really the same person as the one I saw before?]

At this moment, Yamashige looked at Kushida with a gaze of disbelief. When he first saw her during the day, he thought she was like an angel. She was completely different from how she looked now.

'So you've finally seen this person's true face? But actually, this person is even scarier than you imagine.' Maintaining invisibility, Saiki silently observed the few of them.

"Sudo Ken is impulsive and easily angered. Horikita Suzune is arrogant and conceited…"

Ryuen narrowed his eyes, locking his gaze onto the phone screen showing the information Kushida had sent.

"Yamauchi Haruki and Ike Kanji have no value. Ayanokoji Kiyotaka and Saiki have no presence."

'No presence, huh? Not bad.' Saiki nodded with satisfaction.

"Saiki, is that the guy with glasses?" Ryuen stretched out a finger and lightly stroked his chin.

"That's right. You know him?" Kushida asked curiously. She hadn't expected Ryuen would know the name Saiki.

She thought that with Saiki's almost transparent existence, he shouldn't have much contact with people from other classes.

"Only met once." Ryuen replied.

Earlier at the café, Ryuen and Saiki had met once. He remembered Saiki seemed to be a friend of Shiina Hiyori from their class.

[Shiina Hiyori and that Saiki seem to have a good relationship. Although Shiina Hiyori is hard to exploit, she is a very important existence for our class and might play a huge role for Class D in the future. If I act against Saiki now, the relationship with Hiyori might become tense. There's no need for that for now. Besides, Saiki can't provide me much value.] Ryuen thought so in his heart.

'Yare yare, in a way, does that count as Shiina helping me out?' Saiki thought.

"The reason we were able to get a pretty good result in the first test is that we obtained the previous test's answers in advance, the test questions were exactly the same as last year's." Kushida said.

"I see. No wonder you were able to surpass our class." A smile appeared on Ryuen's face.

[Although I can't be sure if the future questions will also be identical to previous years, it definitely gives us another option.]

"But how did you know about this? In theory, senior students wouldn't tell you something like that proactively." Ryuen narrowed his eyes slightly and asked.

"I just happened to overhear it."

"You just so happened to hear it?" Ryuen still found Kushida's words hard to believe.

[Could it really be such a coincidence? But this woman, Kushida, should also know that such a clumsy lie can't fool me. Was it really just a coincidence?]

'After all, the actions of a psychic are beyond what you can imagine.'

"Anyway, that's all for now. Let's talk about the rest later."

After Kushida finished this sentence, she directly turned and left the private room.

[Was it really just a coincidence? Or did someone do it intentionally?]

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