"Junu sunbae did?"

"That's what I'm telling you. Kang Junu sunbae went to the charity case's classroom himself and dragged him off to the Management Studies Society."

"Dragged?"

"He followed, so it comes to the same thing."

The canteen entrance.

Kang Ari had been lifted by the thought of sitting at the same table as Ha Tae-ung again today.

She was badly startled by news she had not expected, and it shook her.

The rumour had already spread wide into every corner of the school.

What is this?

Lunchtime at school has been making Kang Ari very happy lately.

"Tae-ung?"

Park Jiung, waiting for Ha Tae-ung alongside her, was as startled.

Kang Junu is Cheonghwa's real crown prince, and everybody knows it.

This is certainly trouble over Ha Tae-ung not answering the summons at the canteen last week.

"My mother says he really is Haryun Group blood. But that he's a crown prince deposed."

"Deposed?"

"His dad was put out of the group, apparently."

"R— really?"

"So he isn't the real crown prince."

"Then what's he so bold about?"

"That's a question for me too."

"Didn't he say he had a lot of money?"

"Did he come into an inheritance?"

The children shared out the information each of them had collected.

It is the result of a heat gone into gathering information on Ha Tae-ung since the business in the great hall.

And parents well supplied with information have joined in on top of it, setting out to find the truth.

"The charity case is finished."

"Putting on airs like that…… and he was a knockoff?"

"Hoho. This is exactly justice."

"If he's been dragged off by Kang Junu sunbae……."

Whisper, whisper.

The bored children worked their mouths with relish.

Kang Ari's face set harder by degrees as she listened.

"Ari-ya. Are you all right?"

An Aram asked it, looking Kang Ari's face over.

"Kang Junu, of all people."

Park Jiung was worried too.

He is not a man there is any answering.

Even so!

Park Jiung set his mind and found the courage.

Ha Tae-ung is the friend who…