Chapter 82 - Authority

"Sorry, sorry. Did I tease you up a bit too much?" I asked her as I saw her face making a funny face. 

"Y-You... you ever do that again I won't help you again...!" she said to me as she turned her face to the other side as if showing anger at me. 

But I knew that she wasn't really angry, because if she was she would have gotten up and left but she is sitting here, so that is the problem... yet. But there is one problem, does she want me to say something to her or should I just stay shut up? 

"Look if you want me to say something to you then I don't really know what should I be saying in a situation like this so why don't you skip this stupid part and continue talking about the plan?" her being angry is far less important to me as compared to getting rid of the Student Council.

"... Hmph! You really are an airhead in a matter like this, aren't you? If you ever get a girlfriend I can't imagine how will she handle you..." she said as she placed her hand on her head. 

"Why are you concerned about what would my girlfriend think of me?" I asked. 

"Well, that's because then I need to b-" before she could finish her sentence she instantly placed both her hand at her mouth. Seeing her, only one thing came to mind. She was about to say something but stopped just before spilling up the beans. 

"Anyway, let's proceed to our plan. We can talk about that later on, right?" I ignored the non-important matters and continued with the real important matter. 

"... yeah," she said, "We are going to talk a lot more anyway." 

"WAAAAAHHH...!" somewhere in the middle of the park I heard a shout. I turned around to see what happened. There I saw a kid I saw earlier running around lying was now on the ground holding his right knee. I guess he fell on the ground. 

But before that, I heard her saying something. She something in low voice and also because of the background voice I couldn't hear what she said. Well, since she agreed to proceed further then I can ignore the later part and just focus on the plan.

"You were saying that you can collect information but there is still one problem," I stated. 

"What is the problem?" she asked me. 

"What if, what if the Student Council gets the gist of what you are trying to do?" I answered her question with another question. 

"So? Even if they get to know about our strategy it still won't matter," she said confidently. 

"See, that's the problem here," I said, "If you can find someone to find their weakness what makes you think they wouldn't try doing the same thing to me?" 

"Oh... I didn't think about it. But still, what would it matter? It's not like you have done anything, right?" she asked me.

"... I can't answer that," I said as I averted my eyes from her. 

'Wait, wait. You do something? When? How? Where? Tell me." she said. 

"Why don't we find some other way?" I tried changing the subject. 

"We won't talk about anything else until you tell me," she tried pressuring me to answer. 

"I said to let's discuss another plan, why don't you understand it?" I didn't want to do that but I gave her the coldest look I could make at the moment. Well, it was necessary for her to back down.

"... Alright, we will discuss the other plan." that did the trick. 

"That's much appreciated," I said. 

"So, I thought why don't you just stay silent and if they try to expel you again I will step up?" she proposed another idea. 

"Like the same way when I was up on the Stage? Because if my memory serves me correctly I wasn't even able to see you in the crowd so what makes you think that it's going to be different this time?" I said in opposition to her idiotic idea. 

"... That time we weren't collaborating. But right we are so I can step in to help you," she said. 

"Is that your reasoning? If so then I must respectfully decline it," I said, "You know it, I know that you can't do anything with that. It's the Student Council we are talking about. They aren't your ordinary students, even I know that their position is not just for show." 

"W-Well that's..." she tried thinking of something.

I waited for a few minutes to let her think but...

"You might not be knowing this but apparently the members of Student Council came to my class today," I said. 

"So?" she asked me.

"No matter how you look at it, it felt like they came to intimidate or maybe with the intention to expel but-" 

"Expel? They can't do it." she interrupted me.

"Let me finish next time before stepping in next time," I said as I noticed her head shake up and down, "That's true, they can't expel me but they sure have some position in school so at least they can make it happen indirectly if not directly. That's the message they wanted to pass on to me."

"Hmm... if that were to happen I can use my position against theirs," she said confidently.

"... Let's admit that you can't fully suppress them with just your hierarchical position or with your father's post. I am pretty sure that even your father cannot interfere much in students matters. The work of the School's chairman is pretty much not related to expelling or suppressing students. The best he can do is shut them but it will look bad for you then."

"Bad to me?" she looked confused. 

"Think about it, even if we use your father to stop them do you think it won't stop the members of the Student Council from spreading rumors saying that the 'Chairman covered up for Allen'. If something like that were to happen instead of clearing up my name it will taint my name even more," I said, "If something like that is spread by the Student Council the only thing others will think of, is that something fishy is happening. Find it true or not but they have a similar number of popularity as yours or maybe even more."

"..." she quietly listened to my reasoning this time.

"Do you want to involve your father in this?" 

She thought of pretty good ideas but they looked good only on the surface. Executing them wasn't a simple task. 

"No. I don't want my father's reputation to fall." 

"My point exactly," I said. 

...

For the past 30 minutes, we racked up our brains and thought many more plans but after thinking about it seriously and thinking about ways to execute, all of them seemed impossible in the end. 

"That's it," she said in the exhaust. 

"What?" I asked.

"I am out of plans," she said, "Whichever plan I could think of was rejected by you. I don't have anymore." 

"Hey, it's not my fault that all those plans were half complete. Before coming to me you should have thought of it earlier..." I said. 

"Oh... so it's my fault then? Then I guess I shouldn't have come to you in the first place."

"... We aren't the enemy here. Let's not talk about our failed plan and think of what should we do now." 

"..." she nodded in agreement. 

...

I looked around thinking of some other way. To be honest, till now whichever plan we came up with was quite good but after taking all the parts and analyzing it had at least one shortcomings. I can't think of any way to erase those gaps. 

As I was just strolling my eyes around I noticed a trail of ants going somewhere. Since I can't think of anything right now why not just see them go? 

I followed up the trail and noticed it was gathered around my side of the bench's stand. As I looked at it more closely I saw a honey bee trying to move around but it looks like its one pair of wings was cut down. As he wasn't able to escape the ants came up to him and kept on attacking it until one of them stopped moving. 

Well, the outcome was clear. The ants were able to kill it within a few minutes. Seeing the bee trying to escape made me realize that why can't we overpower the Student Council with numbers? Till now we only thought of one way. Why not just use all of them at once? 

"I... think I got an idea," I said out loud. 

"What is it? Tell me...!" she said in excitement.

Why is she excited? Here I am in a pinch and she doesn't look half worried as myself. Well, she isn't in my situation so I can't force her to feel like I do but at least don't look excited. 

"Why not just lay out everything we have at our hands?" I asked her.

"What do you mean...?" she looked confused. 

"I meant like..." I started explaining the plan to her. 

...

It took quite some time but it was necessary. Also while I was discussing our plan with her my folks called me out in between, of course, it was through a smartphone.

Since I forgot to call them me being late today they must have gotten worried.

TO BE CONTINUED....