April 2nd, the second day of the school, and practically the first day of classes.
"Hey! Did you hear? The gravure model Shizuku is in our school! Look!"
Yamauchi showed his friends a photo of Shizuku coming out of the convenience store in the night, buying supplies.
While not many people knew her, the idiot trio, who keep up with all gravure idol magazines definitely knew her.
"Huh!? I can't believe this!"
Ike exclaimed in excitement, and started making plans on how to make Shizuku his girlfriend.
"How did you get the picture Ike?"
Sudo asked with interest. The convenience store is deserted, at night, probably after the curfew.
So how did Yamauchi manage to stumble upon her?
"Hahaha! You know, there is a function in our phones that allows you to get the location of any student in the school.
I knew her secret identity, so I tracked her down!"
Yamauchi proudly exclaimed his skills in stalking.
He got a crush on Sakura yesterday, due to her massive breasts. And while trying to find a way to get her contact number, he stumbled upon this function.
Moreover, he saw her moving out of the dorms in the map, so he followed her and took a beautiful picture.
Now, he will show off his smartness and love to Sakura that he recognised her secret identity at first glance.
But, he is not going to tell her secret identity to anyone, and tell her to be careful to put on her disguise when going outside.
He would prefer it if she showed her this side to only him.
As he was fantasizing about this, the class heard his proud and loud explanation of stalking, making people feel disgusted.
Even Sudo backed off a little from Yamauchi, not wanting to be associated with him.
"Hey! Isn't that stalki-"
Just then, Shizuku entered the class, and everyone was surprised. They didn't see this beautiful in the class yesterday.
Was she from another class?
She ignored the looks, and walked towards Yamauchi.
'She is coming to me! She must have heard me and fallen in love!'
Yamauchi spread his arms for her.
But, Shizuku passed by him and sat on her seat.
Where Sakura Airi sat yesterday.
Yamauchi was devastated, then realised that she was wearing earphones.
So she probably didn't hear him.
He was disappointed. The secret only he knew was now known to the whole class.
Sudo, the one who was sitting on the seat next to her, coughed a bit, blushed a bit, and averted his eyes from her chest.
He wanted to make a good impression.
"Hello, my name is Sudo Ken."
But she was immersed in listening to the song, and as the chatter died down, everyone could hear her hum a tune.
She realised everyone looking at her, stopped the song, and took out her earphones.
"Yahallo?"
She said awkwardly.
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"Yahallo?"
I said awkwardly as the class was staring at me.
It looks like my high school debut is going well.
Yesterday, I went out at night without my glasses to buy earphones, groceries, pads, and other basic stuff. It was past curfew, but not like following the rules is going to save any class points.
I felt someone take a picture of me, but he had run away when I looked at the direction.
I was scared and went to the dorms, and reported that someone was stalking me.
I had been never stalked in my life. And Sakura's memories of these incidents was suppressed, probably due to trauma. So I didn't realise the dangers before since I didn't really had the time to go through my every new memories, since I started practicing the song almost immediately.
But, why should I hide my identity when I haven't done anything? I am not going to be an idol anyway. And if I kept my identity secret, only creeps will come for me.
Ichinose is as beautiful as me, but she didn't face such problems.
Though, she probably was stalked a lot, but didn't realise it.
Anyway, trying to keep my identity hidden when I plan to have concerts in the school is next to impossible. So, I am going to act as I always do.
"Sakura-san, are you Shizuku?"
Kushida asked me this question.
"Umm, yes. I wanted to keep it hidden, but yesterday, some creepy stalker clicked my photo when I went to convenience store.
I don't want that creep to have any blackmail material over me."
Everyone's gaze shifted on Yamauchi, and I followed their line of sight.
"He is the one! He was proudly boasting about it earlier!"
Kei shouted, pointing fingers at him.
"W-what are you saying!? I didn't do anything!?"
Yamauchi got the cue, and tried to delete the photo, but I moved to him and snatched the phone from his hands.
And it had my picture.
So, he was the one who stalked me.
"How did you do it?"
"He said that there is a function in the phone that allows one to track any student's location."
Someone told me how he did it, and this function unsettled me. I didn't have the time to go through each app on the phone yet, and it's been so long since I read the novel.
So I had no idea about this.
Isn't this... school is promoting stalking? That's why there are so many stalkers in this school?
"Hey, this is true! Why is the school doing this!?"
Kei screamed as she confirmed that there is indeed such a function.
Just as everyone started screaming, Chabashira-sensei arrived.
"What happened?"
It seemed like Kushida wanted to be the first one to do the explaining, but I was perhaps annoyed that she didn't get expelled due to Horikita, and Sakura was.
So, I didn't let her to speak for me.
"Sensei, the stalker that I reported to you is Yamauchi. Here is the proof."
I handed her his phone, which had my photo.
"And, the school is also culprit in the stalking.
How did such a feature of tracking is on students' phones!?
This should be immediately stopped, and I am going to sue this school for facilitating a crime- no. I doubt I can sue the school because of the documents that everyone signed.
I want compensation from the school for the emotional damage this did to me."
"Yes! That's right! This function must be immediately removed!"
"That's right!"
"Yes sensei. This is dangerous. It should be removed."
Hirata also requested to sensei. Every girl came to support this notion, and most boys too.
Chabashira-sensei took Yamauchi's phone, and looked at the pictures in it.
Then, she looked at Yamauchi.
"Sakura, you should take your case of compensation from the school to the Student Council, and I will raise this matter regarding the location function in the next meeting.
As for Yamauchi, he will face appropriate disciplinary action. Maybe even expulsion.
Both of you come to the Student Council after classes end, and I will be keeping this phone with me until then."
"S-sensei! Sakura-chan! Please forgive me! I won't do this again!"
Yamauchi started crying ugly-ly and did a Japanese style hardcore apology.
Well... my high school debut certainly didn't turn out as I imagined.
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