My New Life

Chapter 74: Dangerous

Some part of me felt bad for siding with Ryuen on this matter, Horikita is my classmate after all, as well as someone whom I'd like to call friend, a true friend.

However, I messed up, I hadn't realized that Ryuen planned to so thoroughly trap Horikita in his little play. I underestimated just how badly he wanted to drag her into hell.

But because of my interference, things went wrong.

Of course, I've interfered before, but this was different.

I shouldn't have interfered the way I did this time.

I caused an evolution in Horikita.

I had wanted for Horikita-senpai to talk to her because I hated seeing the twisted relationship they had, I hated that, even though it was clear that they cared about each other, that there was so much misunderstanding that they appeared to be hostile to one another.

I hated seeing that, it left a bad taste in my mouth.

I wanted to fix that, as soon as possible.

When I saw the opportunity to do that, I jumped at it, not thinking about the repercussions.

I can't have Horikita win now, because if I do then all of my plans to rehabilitate Kushida will go down the drain.

Because if Horikita wins, then the next logical thing that Ryuen would do would be to cut off Kushida.

She became useless to him after all, so the only way he could come out on top would be to disrupt the hierarchy in D class by exposing Kushida.

He has the evidence to back it up as well, class D would be thrown into chaos.

I can't have that happen, at least not yet, because as Kushida currently is, she wouldn't repent, she would try to play it off, blame others, or perhaps would just try and escape it all.

She wouldn't look to reconcile.

But I can turn her into someone who would do that.

I know I can.

But I got in the way of that plan.

So now, we move on to the next stage with a clean slate.

Knowing Ryuen, he probably won't press Horikita any more on the matter after confirming his victory, taking me into account.

Which means the next time, whatever next event there is, that'll be where the curtains will finally be drawn, where everything will fall together.

If Horikita ends up winning, then that's all there is to it.

If she does, then that means I failed.

But if Ryuen wins, then everything will fall into place exactly as I wanted it to.

Or, maybe there could be a third option.

A third path.

I felt a sort of second wind as I started putting together something new.

What if, I win?

This is my stage after all.

It's my theatre, it's my show.

It's only natural that I would be the winner, the main actor, the star of the show.

Wait, that's, that's perfect.

I brought a hand up to my mouth, trying to hide my smile.

If I can pull off something like that.

Then I can do three things all at once!