[center][h1][color=39b54a][b]Hakuro Kuroda[/b][/color][/h1][/center]

[center][color=39b54a][b]Mentionings:[/b][/color] [@PrankFox][/center]

It's always hard to tell with Hakuro, but most people found him harmless enough, unless he was actually out to cause some damage.  Most people he found to be decent enough, though.  It was always they Hatto-san's way to gravitate towards people of interest who might have something to say on life or impart something useful or interesting about the world.  For instance, Hakuro had been doing a food-related podcast, and had therefore gone specifically to a couple of small-but-dedicated establishments, plus a fortune cookie manufacturer, to get some insight.  Back to the present, though, Kenzan had clearly been through this before, but he was apparently giving our hatted boy here the reins to decide.  The curio shop was actually closer since it was IN town and the bookshop was on the edge of residential, but the bookstore had the towels, and it wasn't MUCH farther because this was still a small town.  Kenzan was fine either way, and so was he.  A fairly-even split.

[color=39b54a][i]Well...I know how to handle this.[/i][/color]

From his pocket, Hakuro produced an American quarter.  It was left behind by a guest of the Kuroda Inn.  For no reason other than the fact that it was there, he considered it lucky.  It also reminded him of the Batman villain, Two-Face, but the fact is that the hatted youth just hated to strain over decisions that need not take up so much time.  It was much quicker and easier to just allow fate to decide in the form of a simple coin toss and just follow the ruling made.  If you don't like the results, just do the other thing some other day.  It wasn't an [i]important[/i] decision, right?  Hakuro decided alot of random things by this method, but not when it was a dire decision.  It was mainly to eliminate INdecision when weighing the outcomes didn't help any, like now.  So, he said [color=39b54a]"We'll decide this way."[/color] and flipped the quarter into the air.  It spun for a hot second before landing in the palm of his hand on Tails.

[color=39b54a]"Bookstore, it is."[/color]

That was another thing about the Hatto-san.  He didn't always explain the rules of this game.  Still, with the two of them basically committed to the act, the doors would be opened and they would dash out against the rain!

[center][youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sh7BZf7D5Bw[/youtube][/center]

Needless to say, the two of them would brave the storm at the speed of GO, heading to the bookstore at light speed (or close enough), though the rain didn't let up, and may have even strengthened as they arrived at the location.  Hakuro stepped in, removed his hat and coat, and asked for a towel, which he offered to Kenzan, as the other boy was no-doubt by the time he got there.

[color=39b54a]"So!  What's good today?"[/color]

[h3][b][i]April 25th...[/i][/b][/h3]

[color=39b54a]"Wait a minute.  The date's wrong on this thing.  How did [i]that[/i] happen?"[/color]

[h3][b][i]April 24th, 2025[/i][/b][/h3]

When Hakuro woke up this morning, he found the date wrong on his phone, which was weird, though stranger things had happened.  No matter.  Minor phone issues aside - it was probably an accident - he got up and prepared for the day unabated.  Hakuro lived in a small apartment complex located in the residential district of Fujihama.  The rooms were nothing special, but they were comfortable for a single person, with at least accommodations for a guest longterm or a small gathering for the hell of it or what have you.  Naturally, when he got up, Hakuro checked the Hatto site.  Nothing special going on.  The idiot troll from before was still making noise, but mostly people were razzing him or ignoring him.  'Hatto has spoken' seemed to be a repeated theme, with gifs of Dead Poets Society going "O Captain, My Captain!".  That put a smile on his face.

The school day was nothing to write home about, or write here about.  Hakuro's classroom didn't [i]have[/i] an infamous derpy teacher like Classroom 2-B.  Oh yes, he'd been hearing about Miss Okamoto, alright.  She definitely DID NOT seem like someone to get to know in the proper light, and today...he would learn just how bad that could get.  Fujihama High had an unofficial message board and chatroom that regularly saw venting about the bad things that happened to someone, regardless of how serious it was.  It was about a half an hour before the end of the day, when things in 3-A were winding down, that the topic exploded.

[center][b][color=f7941d]BURNING TOPIC:[/color] [i]2-B OR NOT 2-B?  THAT IS THE QUESTION![/i][/b][/center]

Hakuro arched an eyebrow when he saw it, and then as he read further on...what?  [i]The whole class?[/i]  Impossible.  A teacher doesn't have that power unless this were a classroom of delinquints, and last he checked, this wasn't Cromartie High School!  You might make an argument for Nagi, but one thing Hakuro noticed about her was that she wasn't trying to bring that into school.  At least...not so far as he was aware.  Still, this was madness...  The history teacher wasn't even that [i]good[/i] a teacher, and according to the thread, all of this was over - of all things - a stupid doodle.  This was unacceptable.  As soon as class let out, he got moving.  People normally watching Hakuro as he left usually saw him dash out or something to go for his hat and coat.  He was still doing it, but he was actually moving in simple purposeful strides while his thumbs were sending messages.  Messages to whom?  Why, to his peers, of course, to the people on the scene whom he could contact with ease, especially those he'd put on his frankly-extensive contact list.

[quote][color=39b54a]Azuma, tell me what happened in 2-B.
What was this picture, exactly?[/color][/quote]

[quote][color=39b54a]Kai, I need to know what the rules are for school expulsion.
The EXACT rules, as they are written.[/color][/quote]

[quote][color=39b54a]Rina, can I ask you to talk to someone in Student Council?
I know one of 'em is in your classroom, but I forget which.[/color][/quote]

This went on, with only a certain pause to put on the hat and coat.  He stood by an outlet out of the general school traffic after that and plugged his phone into it so he wouldn't run down on batteries when he needed to get out messages.  Hakuro was having effectively a dozen conversations to try and gather different angles on this situation.  Azuma was the only 2-B student he had on phone, because of a recent favor which - Surprise, surprise! - was down to a bad history lesson.  He helped him out a little, and thus managed a fairly-decent grade.  The point was, though, that he had to get information piped in around the classroom to filter out the false information from the true.  He also wanted to know the exact rules because there just [i]couldn't[/i] be a single reason for which a teacher could actually just chuck [i]an entire classroom[/i] into the bin.  You can't punish all so severely for one person producing what is essentially an unflattering, but smirk-worthy picture.  And as for the Student Council?  It seemed like it was probably best for someone with a bit of clout in the main office to come to the Principal in protest, to give information indicating that Miss Okamoto was overstepping her boundaries ALOT.  This could not be allowed.

[i][color=39b54a]Not in this town, not here and now, not while I have something to say about it.  I'm coming after you, lady, and believe me, you won't just be humiliated by a simple picture.  This whole school should expell YOU.[/color][/i]