Nekiri Senzaemon frowned.
He immediately called someone over.
"Convene an emergency Totsuki Academy Ten Elite Council! They must be present within half an hour!"
"Yes."
The person beside him immediately bowed and retreated.
Nekiri Senzaemon continued to look at the person who had already revealed some information.
"What exactly is the situation? And do you know about the two students who went missing earlier?"
Hearing about the missing students, the person visibly became more flustered, nervously averting his eyes.
"I… we really don't know… We all listened to Ryouzan Etsuya-senpai… We…"
The other party seemed to be terrified of something. Although he had been scared out of his wits before, at this moment, he seemed to be overwhelmed by another kind of fear, surpassing his fear of Nekiri Senzaemon, and actually closed his mouth again.
In such a situation, extremely nervous people are very prone to changing their minds. This largely indicated that he had not revealed what he considered most important, only what he cared less about.
Keli felt the scene before him was too drawn out and wanted to stand up and interrogate directly.
However, just at that moment, suddenly, the bodyguard who had gone down earlier rushed back, his expression somewhat strange.
He leaned his head close to Nekiri Senzaemon's ear and spoke. Although he tried his best to keep his voice low, Keli, being right next to him, still clearly heard the content of his words.
"That, General Director, the Ten Elite Council demands that you immediately cease the unauthorized detention of students, and also demands your immediate presence at the Totsuki Academy Ten Elite Council."
"Hmm?"
Nekiri Senzaemon's eyes widened, and he frowned, seemingly somewhat annoyed, but he forcibly suppressed his anger.
"Which members made the demand?"
"It's… it's First Seat, Tsukasa Eishi, Second Seat, Kobayashi Rindou, Third Seat, Akanebo Momo, Fifth Seat, Saitō Sōmei, Sixth Seat, Kinokuni Nene, Ninth Seat, Ryouzan Etsuya, a total of more than half the members jointly made the request."
After hearing these names, Nekiri Senzaemon's expression fluctuated between dark and light.
He actually knew there must be problems in the school, and certainly within the Ten Elite, but he never expected more than half to be so decisive, and to suddenly make trouble at this moment.
At the beginning of the school's establishment, Nekiri Senzaemon, to embody the concept of students and teachers jointly governing the school, granted a large part of the school's operational functions to the Ten Elite Council, and also granted the Ten Elite Council equal management authority as the General Director in school management.
He probably never imagined at the time that this boomerang would come back and hit him in the head.
The bodyguard looked at Senzaemon with a strange expression.
"General Director, if you find it inconvenient to break your own rules, your subordinate will have them restrained immediately."
"No need. This is my problem. For years, I've considered myself an educator and served as principal. Now that there's a problem, of course, it must be handled according to the rules."
Then Senzaemon looked at Keli and Kazuma beside him, with a hint of apology on his face.
"I am very sorry to have caused you to witness this. Please, both of you, sit for a while. I will surely come to apologize to you young sirs later."
With that, Nekiri Senzaemon stood up, glanced at the students sitting there, and left.
Kazuma also heard the content, looking at Nekiri Senzaemon's back with some confusion, then at Keli.
"What does that mean?"
"What else could it mean? This principal of his has been cornered by a group of students he elevated, and he can't bring himself to break the rules he set, so he's going to talk it over with them nicely."
Keli remembered that there was indeed such an incident in Food Wars! Shokugeki no Soma. When Nekiri Senzaemon's good son-in-law returned to Japan, to reform the culinary world that had distressed his beloved Saiba-senpai, he pulled a ruthless move, getting a few students to replace the principal with himself, and then brought in a bunch of biased judges to torment the protagonist group in the school until they were disoriented.
"No? This isn't Hogwarts, is it? The school board dismisses Dumbledore and replaces him with Umbridge, right?
And that school board consisted of at least social elites. This is just a bunch of students, how can they order the principal around?"
Kazuma clearly couldn't understand. He couldn't even grasp how those students dared to do it, nor why Nekiri Senzaemon would actually go along with their childish games.
If Kazuma were in charge, if they pulled such a stunt, Kazuma would directly have them restrained and expelled, and would severely retaliate against their related family businesses to let everyone know that this is the fate of anyone who dares to oppose him, Lord Kazuma!
Keli thought Kazuma's analogy was very apt; it really was like the school board dismissing Dumbledore.
But honestly, when he watched the anime, his thought was that the old man probably only left it as a test for his granddaughter, which is why he didn't interfere. But now that human lives and monsters were involved, and he still didn't interfere, Keli felt it was a bit hard to explain.
When Nekiri Senzaemon left, the people on the opposite sofa visibly relaxed.
Although they hadn't heard what happened, nor any mention of them being released, Nekiri Senzaemon's hurried departure gave them a sense of great relief.
At this moment, Keli stood up, and Kazuma, understanding Keli's intention, also stood up.
The men in black suits who remained immediately stepped forward respectfully when they saw Keli make a move.
"Advisors, do you have any requests? If you need a shower or a meal, we will arrange it for you immediately."
Keli waved his hand.
"No need. I'm fed up with all these red tapes."
Then Keli, without hesitation, put down his backpack and unzipped it.
Everyone was very puzzled. Did this advisor want to take out a guitar at this moment? Even for an impromptu performance, it would be too…
Then everyone saw Keli pull out a chainsaw from inside.
"This…"
The man in the suit looked at Keli, who had suddenly produced a weapon, with some horror, and cautiously reached for his waist.
"Advisors, what… what are you going to do?"
"Nothing. I just want to ask a few questions to those people over there."
Saying that, Keli picked up the chainsaw and walked towards those people.
"Wait! Without the General Director's orders, even if…"
Kazuma frowned, but still stood by Keli's side and pulled out his pistol.
"You can tell your General Director that we suddenly acted out, and you just couldn't stop us."
"You!"
Everyone on the sofa stared, dumbfounded, at Keli approaching with a chainsaw.
The next moment, Keli kicked the side of the sofa, and those people immediately lost their balance and slid down.
Then Keli stepped on the person who had first mentioned Ryouzan Etsuya's matter.
"What are you doing?!"
The other party was extremely agitated, but because the chainsaw, which was rotating as Keli pulled it, was so close, he could only lie on the ground, shaking his head repeatedly.
"You have two choices now: tell me what you know, or start feeling how I cut you into pieces."
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