Chapter 758 - 758: Guilty Conscience

So most likely, Hikari's words had really come true, and because of what she'd done, a stranger had set their sights on her.

"Sniff..."

The twin-tailed girl's tears welled up despite herself and dripped onto the collar of her shirt, which was pushed up by her towering peaks.

"Huu... I know I was wrong, I really do, okay..."

Nonohara Yuzuka wiped the little pearls from the corners of her eyes, so full of regret that she wanted to slap herself twice across the face, the version of her who'd still talked back to Hikari at noon.

Punch that stubborn her! No, three punches!

That's what you get for your sharp tongue and your stubbornness. Would a popular guy who chats and jokes with gyarus every day really bother lying to a nobody like you?

"Sniff! Sniff! Sniff..."

After a few minutes of misery and agonizing,

Nonohara Yuzuka still decided to go to the place mentioned in the threatening letter.

After all, she really couldn't imagine her identity as an online streamer becoming known to the whole school.

If it really got out, she wouldn't even know how to survive at school.

And deep down, she was still clinging to one last faint sliver of hope.

What if?

What if this really was just a nasty prank by Hikari?

Then at least... there'd still be room to negotiate, right?

Of course... thanks to Hikari's warning at noon, even though Nonohara Yuzuka was panicking badly, she still kept a rare bit of clear-headedness.

Before leaving the restroom, she opened the class group chat, found Hikari's name, and sent him a friend request along with a long string of apologies.

[Hikari, I'm really sorry about today at noon! I shouldn't have been so stubborn! Everything you said was right, and I really regret it! And, um... did you put the letter in my shoe locker? It says to go to the Film Research Club, and I... I don't know what to do anymore... I'm so sorry for contacting you out of nowhere! I really don't know who else to turn to right now... I'm so sorry! I'm begging you on my knees! Thud! Thud! Thud!]

Glaring at the long block of text on the screen, Nonohara Yuzuka's cheeks burned.

After all, she and Hikari were nothing to each other and barely knew each other, and they'd clashed so badly on the rooftop during the day.

Sending a message like this now... was embarrassing enough to make her explode.

But with something like this suddenly happening, Nonohara Yuzuka really didn't know what to do.

So even though she was mortified, all she could do was swallow her awkwardness and pin her hopes on the only possible savior.

She turned off the screen, and with her heart pounding like a drum, clutched her phone tight against her full chest, as if she could hold down her little heart, which was about to leap out.

Then, like someone marching to the execution ground, she inched step by step toward the 'Film Research Club' the letter mentioned...

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Meanwhile, in a secluded classroom in the clubroom building.

Hikari had finished using hypnosis to adjust Izumi's 'cognitive parameters.'

Then he left her hanging.

He turned around and went straight on to Minako and Hinata without missing a beat.

He was getting ready to keep working on the minds of the two gyarus who had come over to his side.

He planned to dig deep into the goodness inside them.

And completely twist their original chaotic evil gyaru personalities into lawful neutral.

In the middle of the activity room, Hikari and the two gyarus chatted away happily.

Off to the side, Izumi could only watch helplessly, forced to look on, unable to move a muscle.

"Haa... Haah..."

The gyaru ringleader's dry lips opened and closed without her knowing it, and a glistening trickle slipped down that she couldn't stop.

She stood frozen on the spot, unable to do anything.

All she could do was stare fixedly at the three of them.

That warm, happy scene, with only her left out, was like a red-hot blunt knife slowly grinding down her nerves, which had been amplified a hundredfold.

This felt... a hundred times worse than any torture she'd ever seen in the movies.

Jealousy, agitation, craving, and that morbid need for Hikari that had been forcibly twisted and planted in her... all those emotions, amplified a hundredfold and mixed together, boiled in her veins.

That craving she couldn't put into words was gnawing at her sanity bit by bit, and every second was agony.

Her brain felt like it was about to burn out.

Almost half an hour went by.

Izumi felt like all the water in her body was about to be boiled away, and her vision began to spin and blur.

Just as everything went dark before her eyes and she was about to faint from dehydration, she finally couldn't take it anymore, and her earlier toughness collapsed completely.

"Huu... I'm sorry! I'm really sorry!"

Tears and snot came pouring out together. Izumi sobbed until she couldn't catch her breath, her usual arrogance crushed to pieces, her voice hoarse and ragged.

"I'll change! I'll change everything!"

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