615 What part of me left you such a deep impression? (1/2)

”Do you think we should keep this a secret?”

”I don't know… What do you think?”

”I think we should keep it a secret. The school will be much safer with the Magic-Devouring Dragon and our student council president around.”

”Do you believe what she says? Maybe she's actually lying. Maybe having the Magic-Devouring Dragon stay is actually more dangerous?”

”Do you want them to leave then? What if demons come after they leave?”

”Maybe this school will be fine after they leave with no demons appearing.”

”How can you be sure?”

”I said only maybe…”

”If you want them to leave, then say it clearly. What if something happens here afterwards? Can you deal with it? Can you take responsibility?”

”I… didn't say I wanted them to leave…”

”Then what side are you on?”

”I said I don't know…”

Judging from President Yoruhana's words, she obviously wanted everyone here to keep the incident a secret. However, some students still felt suspicious and felt that there was some nefarious scheme involved.

However, these people would be asked by others: who would take care of any demons after Seigo and Natsuya left? Who could take responsibility for demons injuring others?

Nobody was able to answer.

This was a question with two choices where the result of the first choice was a known one. If they kept this incident a secret, the Magic-Devouring Dragon and the student council president would remain here to deal with the demons.

The second choice, to spread word of this incident, would end in an unknown result. The Magic-Devouring Dragon and the student council president would leave. Nobody knew what would happen to the school after that.

It was quite easy to doubt others, but when it came to choosing an unknown result… How many people had this type of courage?

Even if one person had the courage to do so, what about the people around them? The entire student population would have to bear with the consequences! This meant that all the students were paying close attention on what to choose here.

If someone chose to spread this information and something bad happened later down the road, everyone would blame this person!

Not only would a person need courage to do this, they would also need to withstand lots of pressure. And, they wouldn't gain anything from doing this at all.

At most, they would contribute to revealing the truth and feel a sense of self-satisfaction.

Having all the students keep the secret together for him… Natsuya's daring idea would have been absolutely impossible before. However, things were now different after the Midnight Spell which caused a sharp increase in mystical phenomena.

Natsuya didn't know whether or not her idea would succeed. After all, it was impossible to say with so many students.

Seiji felt that it would be quite immoral to hypnotize the entire school. He felt that he might as well just quit this school if it came to that.

Although loading back to the first day of the sports competition would be the best way to resolve this incident after catching the culprit, that was only a temporary band-aid for a foundational problem.

His reputation at Genhana High School was already quite exaggerated. The ”magic football” incident where someone intentionally meddled was the only spark needed to fully exaggerate rumors about him to outlandish proportions. Even if he solved this incident before it began, future sparks would always exaggerate his reputation even further.

Would he have to load every time that such an incident occurred? Wouldn't it be too much of a bother to constantly load just to keep his secret identity?

Seiji didn't want to go to such lengths to do so. In that case, he would simply see what Genhana High School's students would decide upon.

The sports competition resumed as normal.

The exorcism incident and the student council president's explanation were the hottest topics at school right now. However, the main characters involved in this, Seigo and Natsuya, were both no longer participating in the sports competition. Apparently, Seigo asked for leave by saying that he was injured, and Natsuya accompanied him.

Every single student in Year 1 Class 5 said that they supported their classmate Seigo Harano. They believed him to be a hero who was protecting the school! Class president Koji Hoshihara even made a school announcement by vouching on his own honor and asking everyone to keep Seigo's secret.

After that, the students who personally witnessed the exorcism came out and also made schoolwide announcements with the same request.

The football team captain Oogi Takasugi also made a schoolwide announcement. He spoke with fiery passion in his hot-blooded style as he called for everyone to support his heroic junior so that Seigo could enjoy his youth!

Many students deleted all records of this incident that they took. They also tried to convince the others to do the same as well.

By the time that the second day of the sports competition ended, the students at Genhana High School basically reached a tacit agreement to no longer discuss this incident.

The teachers were even better than the students at keeping silent on this matter. As they were adult employees of the school, they all knew to keep any incidents out of the media's reach.

Natsuya's plan succeeded… probably.

Right now, it was still impossible to say if it was a complete success or not. It would only be a success if nothing happened even after a long while later.

Later that night, Seiji, Natsuya, Shika, Hitaka, and Rana arrived at the school's football field.