Chapter 40

The person that popped in the door was none other than the Alchemy class teacher, stroking his grey beard.

He looked troubled.

"I am afraid that young Kamamori had guessed right.", he said to us, having listened to the whole thing.

"REH!?", Shy-kun exclaims in shock.

Even he was taken aback by the validity of his own hunch.

"Your vice president does indeed have someone held captive.",The old veteran says, looking at him.

Shy-kun was overexcited and anticipated at the chance that it may have been just a hunch, and nothing more, but now that, despite evidence himself, the wisest teacher that he knows of all people, had confirmed his sinking feeling, he was ready to burst in tears.

He couldn't believe that Makoto would take someone prisoner.

He wouldn't believe that Makoto would take someone prisoner.

"P-please...", Shy-kun chokes up, sobbing.

The Alchemy teacher looks at him, saying nothing.

"PLEASE TELL ME THIS IS A JO~"

"I don't deal in jokes.", the old man says with a stoic demeanor as cold as the inside of a storage locker he had used for survival 30 years ago.

Shy-kun covers his ears and runs out of the Student Council room.

"Chotto matte kudasai! YAMERO!", screeches Prez-kun from his desk.

Shy-kun didn't hear him, however.

"I'm sorry that you all had to hear it from me.", the Alchemy teacher continues.

Cringe-kun asks, "How do you know all of this."

"Don't ask questions you don't want to know the answers to, young Motonoya. Let's just say an old English seabird told me.", he responds, sighing heavily.

Cringe-kun yelps in shock.

I ask him, "Is it Abe-kun he has held captive?"

The Alchemy teacher says, "Said seabird was not clear on the details, but he said something about a cat maid cosplay outfit. He is alive and well, thankfully."

My eyes lit up. It was him.