<h4>Chapter 76: Chapter 6:Truth and Lies</h4>


    The day our fate would be decided was here. Before anything else, I wanted to confirm that Sakura wasing to school. When I entered the ssroom, I saw the same thing as always. Sakura sat quietly alone, so as not to get roped into other students'' conversations. Her expression seemed even gloomier than usual. But in any case, she''d stille to school.


    "Are you okay?" I asked.


    "Ah, yeah. I''m fine."


    I wondered if she was nervous. She seemedposed, if notpletely calm.


    "I thought that things would be tough if I were absent today, so..."


    She understood that the entire ss would be upset if she were absent, so she''d made the painful decision toe to school. I imagined it would be impossible to tell her not to think about Sudou and the others.


    "Don''t forget what I said yesterday. Testify for your own sake, more than anyone else''s."


    "Yeah. I''ll be okay."


    Ike and Yamauchi looked over at Sakura with great curiosity. Of course, that was because they now knew of her idol identity. Sakura was probably sensitive enough to notice this. She looked like she''d guessed that Ike and Yamauchi had discovered her identity. Oh no...


    But Sakura just wore a thin smile and quietly mouthed the words, "It''s all right." She was aware that we knew of her double life. Maybe working as an idol had made her sensitive to subtle changes in a room.