Chapter 44

Creak.

The sliding door opens, and Nishizawa Eri appears.

Her puffy eyes, face marred by dark circles, and the dog collar around her neck with my name engraved on it are visible.

When our eyes meet, she flinches.

“Hey, Nishizawa.”

“What nerve do you have to come to school?”

“Since you’re going to be expelled anyway, I wouldn’t come if I were you.”

I can hear the students murmuring.

Nishizawa Eri flinches and takes trembling steps to stand in front of me.

Her knees hit the classroom floor.

“What is it?”

Why is she like this?

Did she eat something wrong this morning?

Thud.

Nishizawa Eri bangs her forehead on the classroom floor.

It’s a dogeza.

She speaks in a trembling voice.

“I’m sorry... Kim Deok-sung... It was all a misunderstanding... It’s all my fault... I did everything wrong... I won’t ask for forgiveness... I won’t hope for leniency... I’m just a piece of trash that deserves expulsion... I’m sorry... I’m really sorry.”

An unsolicited dogeza and an unsolicited apology.

Of course, as a light novel character, she’s supposed to have ‘kindness’ in her heart, so it does seem like a sincere apology.

But that’s her problem.

Whether the apology is sincere or not, I have no reason to accept it.

If I were the original protagonist, Yuji, he would probably say, “Well, since you seem to have truly repented, don’t do it again next time,” but I can’t do that.

“What do you want me to do? Why should I accept your apology?”

“I’m sorry... I’ll spend my life atoning as your slave...”

Is she crazy?

“What, a slave? Stop acting like a fool and get up. If you don’t, it’ll cause a commotion when HR starts and Mayuzumi-sensei sees you. I’m not going to accept your apology, so don’t put on a show.”

“...I understand...”

Nishizawa Eri stands up and flinches when she sees her desk.

She takes out a wet wipe from her bag with trembling hands and starts cleaning her desk.

Just as Nishizawa Eri’s desk is all cleaned up.

“Hello, everyone! Good morning! This is Mayuzumi-sensei! Let’s start HR!”

The classroom door opens, and Mayuzumi-sensei, holding the attendance book and a pointer in both hands, announces the start of HR.

There’s only one day left until the disciplinary committee.

Expulsion is impossible as long as the chairman and the final boss are holding the line.

If I make an enemy of the chairman, it will cause significant disruption in my life, which is as clear as day.

I’m not stupid enough to ruin all my future plans for a moment’s pleasure.

Instead, I plan to make Nishizawa Eri’s school life a living hell.

It’s already a hell, but still.

According to the setting, the disciplinary committee is organized by the student council.

Of course, she will be present at the scene.

‘I’ll see Sionji Arisu’s face tomorrow.’

Sionji Arisu, the student council president.

Ranked third in the original heroine popularity vote.

She was my favorite character in “The Weakest Hero is the World Savior.”

Finally, it’s time to meet her.

The master is kind (illustration included).

Shuou Hero Academy.

The Second Annex.

This building, also known as the Student Council Building, is home to only two organizations.

The Morality Committee, responsible for the students’ discipline, and the Student Council, representing all the students of the academy.

Student Council Building’s small auditorium.

According to the setting, this place is usually rented out for club activities or various student events, but now it’s filled with a heavy atmosphere.

It’s because the disciplinary committee is about to start.

Olivia and I are attending the committee as witnesses.

The spectator seats, arranged with chairs, are already full.

Turning my head, I see Seira Yoshizaki, the chairman with white hair and red eyes, dressed in a black gothic lolita outfit, sitting in the front row of the spectator seats.

‘A ridiculous person who stands out from the moment you see her.’

Seira, wearing a black lace umbrella despite being indoors, is smiling happily. When our eyes meet, she winks fatally and sends a kiss.

Ugh. Why is she like that?

Is she senile at 15, with her appearance regressing?

I can’t understand it.

It’s good that I passed the kindness virtue test and won the chairman’s favor, but it’s a bit disappointing that I couldn’t get Nishizawa expelled.

She seems to be genuinely repentant, but that’s none of my business.

‘If it weren’t for Messia and the old chairman...’

If it weren’t for those two, I would have expelled her, or even made her disappear through the gate.

It’s disappointing.

Of course, in this crazy world, unlike in a hunter web novel, the Hunter Watch records everything inside the gate, so it would be difficult to dispose of her without a trace.

Still, if this incident ends with leniency, the reputation of being a ‘demon’ or ‘devil’ will be somewhat diluted.

And Nishizawa Eri’s father is the villain, the Mad Hatter.

If she is expelled, the New World League will recruit her as a villain through the Mad Hatter.

The probability of her, plunged into despair by expulsion, joining the New World League and turning into a villain is 100%.

‘It’s a title heroine, but I can’t just hand her over to Messia, that crazy guy, for free.’

It’s a suicidal act to be blinded by a moment’s satisfaction and invite a bigger problem.

Still, I can’t help but be angry.

‘Damn final boss, damn old chairman, I’ll use the old chairman to the bone.’

Burning with resentment towards Seira Yoshizaki and Messia, the culprits who prevented a complete ‘soda’ moment.

“President, Morality Committee President is entering.”

Nagamine Reiji, the student council secretary in charge of the disciplinary committee, announces in a loud voice.

At the same time, everyone’s gaze is drawn to the small auditorium door.

The door opens, and a glamorous, slender beauty with a red armband reading “Student Council President” in Chinese characters on her right arm appears.

Her silver hair, reminiscent of silver, flutters, and her mysterious silver eyes sparkle.

Shuou Hero Academy Student Council President.

Sionji Arisu.

‘She really looks the same.’

Just like the atmosphere in the anime.

Arisu’s character setting pops into my head reflexively.

The strongest in the academy, both in academics and martial arts.

A cool beauty who pursues perfection in every aspect, almost to the point of obsession.

However, she is actually from a rural area in Wakayama Prefecture, and has a habit of speaking in Kansai dialect when excited or flustered.

‘That’s Arisu’s complex and the past she wants to hide.’

Before her ability awakened, Arisu was a clumsy, bespectacled girl from the countryside who was teased every day.

Her current appearance is the result of her desperate efforts after her awakening to deny her past black history.

Thanks to this, the students of Shuou Hero Academy do not know about her past and background, and think she is from a wealthy family.

Arisu came to Tokyo to attend Shuou Academy to support her sick mother, two younger siblings, and her father, who runs a small tangerine farm, as the eldest daughter of a poor rural family.

‘...I liked her because she was similar to me.’

I might have liked her more because her character setting didn’t feel like someone else’s, and I was in a similar situation when the seventh volume was just released.

“President!”

“It’s Sionji!”

“Sionji-nee! She’s so cool!”

“Sionji saw me!”

“Silver Queen! She’s the best!”

The audience becomes noisy as soon as Arisu appears.

While Nishizawa Eri, Shinozaki Rin, and Olivia are popular among the first-year students, Arisu is the most popular idol across all grades, so it’s natural.

“Everyone, please be quiet.”

A blue shaggy-haired, glasses-wearing handsome man standing next to Arisu speaks in a soft voice.

His name is Maeda Shinji, the second-in-command of the academy with skills just below Arisu’s, and a typical prince character with a fanbase of female students due to his good looks.

At the same time, he is a personality disorder with a hidden contempt for people below the middle class and a refusal to treat anyone other than the upper class as human.

The heir to the Maeda conglomerate, the second-largest in Japan, he is the main villain of the seventh volume.

‘The core story of the original seventh volume is the cultural festival.’

The protagonist, Yuji, helps the student council with festival preparations and thwarts the plot of the New World League and their internal collaborator, Maeda Shinji, who take advantage of the academy’s opening to the public during the cultural festival to carry out a terrorist attack.

It’s a typical school destruction event, a cliché in the middle of a Japanese school battle story.

‘It’s a shame I can’t deal with that guy right now.’

Maeda Shinji’s reason for teaming up with the New World League is