Unveiling the Mastermind - Classroom of the Elite Reaction

Interlude 2 - End of Day One

I thought that my troubles had been dealt with but then Matsushita-san opened her mouth again.

"He did say some weird things about his past though,"

"What do you mean, Matsushita-san?" I asked.

"Well you heard him," she responded, "He basically said he wanted his life to be peaceful because it wasn't before."

He had said that, hadn't he? I hadn't had time to think about it but he really did say that. We haven't spoken about his past at all, apart from the time he told me to guess. Well, my guess had been super unrealistic but I really wanted to know. Now that I think about it, that was really the first hint that I'd had about his past and he'd gone and told the whole year.

"I wonder what his life was like..." Inogashira-san looked somewhat worried. She'd always been caring toward people.

"Eh, does it matter that much?" I cut out her thought process straight away, "Loads of people have difficult lives, I'm sure his story isn't anything special,"

"That's true but I feel sorry for him, I feel like we forced him to talk about it," she replied,

"That was his decision," I shrugged.

At that point, Mori-san changed the subject of the conversation by commenting on a bird that had just landed in front of us. Thank you, bird, you saved me! The rest of our walk back I thought about what was to come. If they kept showing Kiyotaka's life here in the school then eventually everything would be out in the open, and with it, our relationship. He had told me he would protect both of us but could he really? Wait, what am I talking about? Why am I doubting him now? I choose to believe that he can get us out of this. I've never seen him lose.

Ryuen

I left the gymnasium with Ibuki, Ishizaki and Albert in tow. Well, hadn't that been something. I went into the gym not expecting much but this was amazing, truly amazing. How would that monster deal with this? Knowing him, he wouldn't take it lying down at least. But was he really as good as I thought? He left a clear sign that he wasn't just an ordinary student in the very first exam. Guess he thought he was funny.

"Thinking about him again, Ryuen?" Ibuki asked with a sigh.

"And what about it?" I snapped, "He's the only interesting thing about this school,"

"He kicked your ass and now you're bitter," she snarked, " That's what you call interesting?"

"Kuku, you know how many times I've lost, Ibuki," I responded, "I take no shame in it, especially not losing to a monster like him,"

He truly was incomprehensible. I didn't even know the full extent of his abilities. Perhaps I could glean some knowledge from these videos that I could use to beat him. Everyone has a weakness, some are just harder to find and exploit. But I was certain about one thing. I would crush him with my own hands.

Horikita

I left the gymnasium alone and in thought. What on earth was the point in this? It didn't make a shred of sense to compromise a student or his class like this. The whole point of this school was the competition between classes and a certain level of discretion had to be made to keep the competition fair. Why would the government do something like this? It was clearly a violation of privacy and not only that, it would greatly affect the inter-class competition. Ayanokoji-kun has already done so much for our class without any recognition and, although I don't have proof, I believe he's done much more than what I know about. However, his thinking is incomprehensible to me. He was willing to expel Kushida-san without any mercy and the only reason he didn't was to let me have the decision. Would our classmates be able to accept that mindset if it is revealed in these videos? How is he planning on working his way out of this?