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When the classroom door was opened by the principal, there was the sound of something falling. Diora immediately hid her laughter. She knew that Tiara and her friends must have planned something to welcome her. She and her friends had also been bullies and they had done things like this too. But they didn't misfire like this.

The bucket fell to the floor making a loud noise. The principal was now drenched from the splashing water in the bucket. Shortly, the principal glared at all the children in the classroom.

"Who did this?" the principal asked.

No one admitted or spoke up. No one accused each other either. At the same time, Tiara and her friends continued to stare at Claia with piercing eyes. Diora smirked.

"So, this girl has been bullying him all this time to the point where he committed suicide?" Diora thought to herself.

"Who has done this?"

"Sir, I'm sorry. It seems like this trap was set for me but you got hit instead. The children who have been bullying me are-"

Diora hung up her words while her right hand raised slowly to point at someone. She didn't want to point her index finger at Tiara. She was waiting for the girl's movement.

Sure enough. Tiara with a quick movement darted at Diora and lowered Diora's hand.

"Hey! No one is setting you up here. We also don't know who did this so no one is confessing," Tiara said sharply.

"Oh, not a bad alibi," Diora thought.

After removing Tiara's hand from her, Diora grinned even more. Tiara's hand tightened as if she wanted to crush it. She must have been furious with her change of attitude which was perceived as defying her.

"But, you all must have known that the teacher would come in and you still left this trap here? Why didn't you get rid of it?" asked Diora in a dismissive tone.

Tiara glared even more. Why did Claia change drastically like this? This girl should never have said that. This girl should be scared as usual. Didn't this girl think that she could be hurt by them in such a cruel way after the principal left?

"We didn't have time because we were investigating who it was," Tiara said.

"Still," Diora said as she closed her eyes and sighed as if tired of Tiara's behavior.

Tiara moved closer to Claia and whispered in front of her face, "I have pictures of you in case you forgot. I can share them anytime."

"You think I'm scared?" asked Diora.

Tiara immediately narrowed her eyes. Claia smiled dismissively at her. This was completely uncharacteristic.

"You...got a big head huh?"

Diora raised her voice so that the principal could hear her, "What did you say, I'm a big head? Are you threatening me? Principal, this is the girl who likes to bully me. Just because she's the daughter of the owner of this school, doesn't mean she can't be punished, right? Because after all, she's also a student here."

"You..."

Tiara who was about to attack Diora was immediately stopped by one of her male friends. The boy stared at Claia with a terrible look. But Diora returned it with a flirtatious look. The guy's gaze immediately changed.

Tiara realized it immediately.

"Tiara," called the principal.

"You're the school owner's daughter and you should be setting a good example to the others instead of being a bully like this," said the principal.

"...Yes sir."

"Where's the apology?" asked Diora in a dismissive tone.

"You..."

"You're guilty too Claia," said a boy. He was a friend of Tiara's who also hated Claia.

Diora narrowed her eyes but her lips were smirking. She said to herself, "That boy..."

In Claia's memories, that boy was one of the people who hated her as much as Tiara and liked Tiara. He also hurt her without mercy. Even when Claia's appearance had changed drastically like this, it seemed that his hatred for this girl had not changed.

"You punched Tiara several times and we were all witnesses," the boy said.

"As if you thought they would confess to being witnesses," Diora thought.

"That's right. He should be punished too, Mr. Principal," said one of Tiara's friends.

"What did I do to Tiara? If I have to be punished for hurting her then she should be punished first and more severely because she hurt me first."

Diora spoke with confidence.

"When did she hurt you?" the boy asked. "We are all witnesses, sir. He was the one who hurt Tiara."

"Claia," called the principal.

Diora turned to the principal. "Do you just believe what they say?"

"Many are already witnesses. You are the guilty party here."

"Just because of what they said?" asked Diora.

The principal was pensive. All this time, Claia's parents would come to her and talk about their troubled daughter every time she came home from school. Sometimes she cried, sometimes she looked like she was depressed, and sometimes her body was injured.

Diora approached Tiara. Tiara glared at Diora even more.

Diora said, "Look, I'm here because I want revenge."

Tiara shot her eyes toward Diroa when the girl walked quickly beside him. Tiara also clenched her fists tightly. Claia needs to be beaten some more. After this, she had to spread the photo.

Diora knew that Tiara was very angry with her. After the principal left, she would be bullied by all the kids in this class. Therefore, Diora's crazy plan was like this.

The girl stayed away from all the kids when the principal told her to come over and talk things over. Diora understood that the principal might be thinking of Tiara who was the daughter of the school owner. If she brought that child into the problem, she would most likely have to deal with Tiara's father, the owner of the school.

"Peter, what do you think?" asked Diora to a boy who was standing the farthest away. Diora touched one of the boy's shoulders and walked beside him. The boy was so shocked that he froze for a few moments.

Peter. When Claia was being bullied, this boy looked at her with a look of pity. But in a situation like this, Peter would have been as helpless as he was when he witnessed Claia being abused. But this was Diora's first move. She wanted to see if she could get support even if only one person stood up for her.

Peter was very surprised. He glanced at Claia in a cold sweat.

"...Why are you silent?" Diora asked Peter. She glanced at Tiara and her friends. They were staring intently at Peter. No wonder Peter couldn't move.

Diora moved a little away from Peter and took out a razor blade. All the kids in the class and the principal were shocked and waiting to see what Claia would do next.

Diora touched the razor blade to her right wrist. "Principal, first, investigate all the phones and media storage Tiara and her friends have because when they rounded me up, they also took my picture. Second..."

Diora put her razor blade next to her neck. "All the places in this school should have surveillance cameras. Third, they must be punished. If the principal doesn't want to punish them, then I will avenge them in a way they could never imagine."

"Since when did you become like that Claia?" asked one of Tiara's male friends. He had just arrived and was standing at the classroom door. Diora turned her head and thought that he was an older brother.

"He..."

In Claia's memories, that man had appeared several times when Claia was being insulted but not as often as the others. And he was the one who most often lifted Claia's chin as if to look at her face. Sometimes he looked at her with a flat stare. Sometimes he smiled contentedly.

"I don't understand this boy since he's only appeared in a few memories," Diora thought. "But he seems...interested in Claia."