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

[center][color=39b54a][b]Mentionings:[/b][/color] ?????[/center]

[h3][i][b]April 25th, 2025.  For real, this time...[/b][/i][/h3]

The events of last night had been entertaining, and before he had to turn in for the night, Hakuro had purchased some quick half-priced bento that his watchers and listeners wanted him to fight some people over, all because of that one anime.  What they didn't understand was that life did not work that way.  In order to even fake a choreographed fight in a public place, you have to have alot of permissions and consents, along with waivers to cover the damages or possible injuries.  And if you just spontaneously tried to make a real food-based Fight Club things, the police would be all over you in seconds, even in [i]this[/i] small town.  It wouldn't work, and he told his fans to stop trying to [i]make it[/i] work.

So, the next day at lunch time, he was reviewing the online submission as he ate from his bento box, not initially noticing Nagi as she came in, but then becoming aware of her once she called him out by name.  He didn't know what it was she wanted - He hadn't actually [i]done anything[/i] to her - but there was always that [i]tone[/i] that suggested you were in trouble.  It was a natural enough reaction, and she was also prepared to throw down if he didn't make himself known.  That was what bade Hakuro to stand up and follow her to discuss...well...nobody in Class 3-A would know.  Anyone, like Kenzan, who'd placed bets on him getting beaten up would find him unblemmished.  [i]You[/i], the viewing audience, know what really went down, but anybody asking - and a couple of his classmates, including the Class Rep, DID - would receive the same answer, that [color=39b54a]"She was consulting me about a rumor she'd heard, and asked about this weird drawing of me she'd seen online."[/color].  Honestly, the picture thing caught him by surprise, and what even [i]more[/i] surprised him was that Nagi seemed disappointed that it wasn't a real thing.  Honestly, did she [i]want him[/i] to be some kind of street-talking, full-of-themselves kind of person?  Apart from not being his style, he'd sound just like every single influencer out there on the internet trying to sound tough and cool, when it's all just an act, and even if you don't enjoy the Hatto-Show, at least he was FUNNY.

Anyway, that whole business was neither here nor there, and the main issue - the one that kept Hakuro in that club room until the end of lunch - was what he and Nagi had been talking about.  It was clear as soon as she'd asked that Nagi had been planning to move against her teacher, assuming she hadn't already.  Okamoto hadn't been met with any sort of violence or been threatened, as far as Hakuro was aware, but everything pointed toward some unspecified action to take place, and that she didn't want him to worry about it...which was street code for 'I don't want you sticking your nose in that part.'.  However, she DID want to hear more information, if he came across any, and to that he had an angle ready and waiting.  Words were not said in direct confirmation, but Hakuro definitely got the impression that Nagi was saying Okamoto was in [i]deep[/i] with something.

[i][color=39b54a]She has a number of success stories, of Third-Years and Graduates singing her praises.  I wonder...  Is there a common thread among the failures?  Flunked out, perhaps, but I'd better make sure that they're not DEAD or something.[/color][/i]

After school, he was going Hatto again, as per usual.  This time, however, he was hitting the library to just cross-reference some names.  Thanks to Rina, he'd gotten a list of some of the names of Miss Okamoto's successes.  A bit of computer work and looking at school records for a 'comparative look at the greatest test scores throughout the year' would reveal who it was essentially suffered at her hands...and then he would try to find out what happened to them, what she did to them...