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At 2:17 p.m., Haneoka Private High School.

There was still over an hour left before classes ended.

But Saijo Mari was not in the classroom.

Instead, she was in the courtyard, wearing the boys' school uniform.

Her neatly trimmed short hair was also put up and covered with a baseball cap, and a black mask concealed the lower half of her face, making her look androgynous, unrecognizable even to acquaintances.

She sat on a bench, listlessly playing with her phone as if waiting for something.

Suddenly, her phone rang—a call.

Saijo Mari pressed the answer button.

"Hello."

"Ayakoji Chiyoko is with me, she won't be returning, commence."

"Understood."

After hanging up, Saijo Mari looked around, making sure no one was there, and quickly headed towards the old school building.

Since it wasn't dismissal time yet, the old school building, usually bustling with club activities, was as quiet as a mortuary, utterly devoid of students.

So it was hardly an infiltration; Saijo Mari simply walked in.

She went up to the second floor and found the room with a sign that read 'Girls' Volleyball Club.'

Just as the sign suggested, this was the Yu Gao Women's Volleyball Club's clubroom.

Since their usual club activities took place in the gymnasium, this space served mostly as their changing room and storage, so it was smaller than a typical clubroom and located at the very end of the second floor hallway.

Saijo Mari arrived at the door of the Women's Volleyball Club, took out a pair of black gloves and put them on, then pulled out a key and smoothly unlocked the door.

Of course, she was not a member of the Girls' Volleyball Club; she was with the Sports Committee, but even Sports Committee members wouldn't have keys to another club's room.

There was only one explanation for Saijo Mari being able to open the door—she had either duplicated their key or a Volleyball Club member had lent it to her.

The situation was the latter.

The key Saijo Mari held originally belonged to Ai Cheng Hua Lian.

For this operation, the latter contributed the key, as today, all Kiryu Hina asked her to do was this one task.

Saijo Mari pushed open the door of the Women's Volleyball Club, glanced inside to ensure it was empty, and closed the door behind her.

Before her was a row of upright lockers, a few volleyballs on the floor, and clearly personal items like backpacks, makeup cases, and towels scattered around.

The space was very small, probably only a third the size of a normal clubroom, almost like a short corridor and akin to a dressing room.

There was a fragrant scent in the room; it was probably perfume, or perhaps the natural scent of the girls.

If the boys of Yuqiu High School were to rank the 'changing rooms they'd most like to infiltrate', the Girls' Volleyball Club would undoubtedly be at the top.

Girls who played volleyball all had attractive legs, and since it was a sports club, they were good at managing their figures. Furthermore, Uka High's Women's Volleyball Club had many beauties, always popular among the boys.

Unfortunately, and perhaps not, the first to 'invade' the Women's Volleyball Club's room was not a boy but Saijo Mari.

She was not here to relish the scent of sports club girls today.

She tried pulling open the locker doors, which opened without any resistance, unlocked.

As Ai Cheng Hua Lian had said, the members of their club were quite lax about security. To put it nicely, they trusted each other, but to be frank, they were just lazy and usually didn't bother locking their lockers.

"Sorry!"

With hands pressed together, Saijo Mari apologized to the empty room and then began her task.

The lockers mostly contained clothing, the Women's Volleyball Club's uniforms, and even some underwear could be found.

She opened all the lockers in the room and messed up the clothes and personal items inside, including the locker belonging to Ai Cheng Hua Lian.

She had no intention of stealing anything, but the mere act of making it seem like they had been searched was grave enough for a girls' club and would inevitably lead to gossip and concern from the school authorities.

However, this fell within the purview of the Disciplinary Committee, meaning it would ultimately be the Discipline Committee's job to handle.

This was also the objective of Saijo Mari and her team.

They had to keep the Disciplinary Committee busy.

After rifling through every storage locker, even opening the bags on the floor, and tampering with nearly everything in the club, Saijo Mari finally left the room, re-locked the door, and vanished into thin air.

Then, she returned to her own club, the Sports Committee, which was also located in the old school building.

In the deserted club room, she changed back into the girls' school uniform, took off her gloves, mask, and cap, tidied her hair, picked up her backpack, and left the old school building as if nothing had happened. Your next chapter awaits on My Virtual Library Empire

It was hard to imagine that this elegant girl had just personally participated in a small-scale crime.

But her mission was far from completely accomplished.

The school's indoor swimming pool was located near the old building, close to the gymnasium.

That was Saijo Mari's next target.

The indoor swimming pool was not open to the public, and was typically maintained by the Swimming Club, but Saijo Mari, being a member of the Sports Committee, had a spare key to the swimming pool.

Upon entering, she smiled faintly at the sight of the beautiful azure hundred-meter swimming pool.

As Saijo Mari approached the pool, she unzipped her bag, pulled out a can of red liquid, unscrewed the lid, and poured all of the contents into the swimming pool.

It was Magic Dye with an added ingredient that could quickly change the color of water.

While the dye was originally easy to wash off, Saijo Mari had specifically purchased the most difficult type to clean, so that even draining the pool immediately would require a lot of scrubbing.

As the dye entered the pool, the clear water quickly turned blood red, and the color spread, predicting that within five minutes, the entire pool would become a 'sea of blood'.

After completing her task, Saijo Mari put away the can of dye and quickly left.

When she arrived at the courtyard, she just happened to run into Kohinata Motoyo, who was also not in class and was heading towards the Drama Club.

"President Saijo." Kohinata Motoyo greeted her with a smile, "Finished with your work?"

"Yes," Saijo Mari responded with a smile.

"Is everything alright?"

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"That's good."

Saijo Mari watched with interest as Kohinata Motoyo and several male and female students, who seemed to be members of the Drama Club, used a small handcart to transport a large openwork iron basket filled with small animals—it was cats, a large number of cats.

At rough estimate, there must have been more than fifty, crowded together, constantly meowing.

Saijo Mari asked in a drawn-out voice, "Kohinata student, what are you doing with so many cats here?"

Kohinata Motoyo said with a smile, "These are for the upcoming play of our Drama Club. We decided not to use props, but to create a better effect with real animals."

"You truly are dedicated, Director Kohinata," Saijo Mari complimented.

"Likewise."

Saijo Mari crouched down, and reaching through the cage, teased the cats, "Where did you get all these cats?"

"We bought them from a cat shelter nearby the school."

"That must have been expensive."

"Not really, it was purchased with the Drama Club's funds, although I did personally contribute a 'small' sum to the club budget." Kohinata Motoyo pinched two fingers and made a mockingly adorable gesture, "But for the sake of drama, I'm happy to make the sacrifice."

"I admire your determination, Kohinata student, and I will definitely come to watch the play of the Drama Club," Saijo Mari expressed.

Saijo Mari's eyes remained on Kohinata Motoyo as she spoke, but her fingers 'unintentionally' pried the latch of the cage open.

The opening of the cage holding the cats was quite large, and the latch made a 'snap' when opened.

The already frightened cats suddenly became excited and, one by one, they escaped through the only exit.

Within the blink of an eye, in full view of Kohinata Motoyo and the others, fifty cats scattered and ran off disappearing completely, not a single one remained.