"La liberté est un fardeau qui pèse autant que les chaînes." - Albert Camus [Freedom is a burden as heavy as chains]

"Der Mensch ist nur da ganz Mensch, wo er spielt." - Immanuel Kant [Man is only then completely human when he plays]

Law of Covetousness: This law suggests that people are drawn to what they can't have or possess. By making yourself seem unattainable or creating an aura of mystery, you can increase your allure and attract others. The element of intrigue and unattainability can be a powerful tool in the art of seduction. - "The Art of Seduction" by Robert Greene.

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Immigration.

One of the hugest controversies in this rotten world. First off, what is the problem with immigration? And why is it that controversial? 

Immigration was always a problem for modern countries, that got to have a larger amount of safety, money, and healthcare. Hundreds of thousands migrate yearly whether legally or illegally. That was never a new thing. 

It never trended or disappeared, it was always there. Somewhere else in this world, someone is probably leaving his family at a young age, to start a new life in a richer country. All on themselves, whilst you are probably sitting somewhere at home, reading something completely unnecessary to you. 

Or maybe watching videos, whilst, on the other side of this world, there are wars. 

But there one of the hugest problems will start. Illegal migration.

Illegal migration, often referred to as "illegal immigration" or "undocumented immigration," is the act of entering or residing in a country without proper authorization or in violation of that country's immigration laws and regulations. 

This can involve crossing international borders without the required visas or permits, overstaying a valid visa, or entering a country without any documentation.

Legal and Security Concerns: One of the primary issues with illegal migration is that it involves individuals entering or residing in a country in violation of its immigration laws. This can raise legal and security concerns, as it may be difficult for governments to track and identify individuals without proper documentation.

Strain on Resources: Undocumented immigrants can strain a host country's resources, including public services, healthcare, education, and social welfare programs. This can lead to concerns about the financial burden on taxpayers and public institutions.

Labor Market Impact: The employment of undocumented workers in certain sectors may drive down wages and labor standards, leading to concerns about unfair competition in the job market. This can also result in the exploitation of vulnerable workers.

Humanitarian Concerns: Many individuals migrate illegally due to desperate circumstances, such as fleeing violence, persecution, or seeking better economic opportunities. Addressing the humanitarian needs of these migrants is a complex issue, particularly in cases where deportation could result in harm.

Border Security: The issue of border security often arises in discussions of illegal migration. Governments may implement border control measures and enforcement policies to deter and manage illegal crossings.

Criminal Activity: Some illegal migration is facilitated by human traffickers and smugglers who exploit vulnerable individuals. This can lead to criminal activity and potential harm to migrants.

Public Opinion and Political Controversy: Illegal migration can be a contentious political issue, with public opinion and government policies varying widely. Debate over immigration policies, border security, and the treatment of undocumented migrants can be divisive.

But when will this problem finally stop? To be honest, even after much research, I am unsure about the chance of solving that problem in the future.

Except, for every single war to end, for every ideology to be the same, and for the UN to finally do their job.

But the first one is more likely to happen than the UN doing their job properly.

Well, that is just me, a random author in some random corner of this world. Why would anybody listen to a random student? This is just my 'opinion' on that matter after all.

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After swimming classes

It didn't take that long for everyone to arrive. Kujou was already sitting in the usual meeting spot. A desk at the far left corner of this library, revising all the stuff we learned today, even though there was absolutely nothing new to it. 

"Good afternoon, Suou-kun. You came quite early."

"The same is to be said about your appearance here."

She continued to read the information in her history book. Our current topic was the Korean War. And well, it was quite an interesting topic for most of the students in our class.

What made me question something, is that even though she got a 100 last test, even higher than Horikita's 97, she kept on studying, not failing to revise the stuff we just learned. 

Which is, weird to me.

"May I ask you something, Kujou?"

"It's quite weird that everyone else uses honorifics, even Sudou-kun but then there is you. Not even sensei. But sure go on."

"Why create these study groups?"

"...You know, in Russia, every child gets taught, that if we win it, but we are missing one person, then we have lost. Not only that, but I don't think they should even get thrown out of the school campus for one simple slip-up. I get that this may be an elite school, however, that is quite insane to me."

Ah right...Russian she was. But that isn't only getting taught in Russia. But here in Japan too. However, back when I was in that place, I didn't act according to that rule, I sacrificed, made too egoistic decisions and eventually was all alone. That's when I understood what was going on.

I only saw my parents and my sister during weekends, sometimes I didn't get to see them for two weeks. All this was covered up by the fact that I was 'attending' an elite school at a young age since I was that talented. 

I never said anything. Never. Yuki wasn't healthy enough to even make her situation worse with the whole white room thing. My parents were about to divorce, but when I heard that my father would have taken me away from my mother and sister, I began to act carelessly.

Setting up a secret police investigation, with no routes getting backtracked to me. 

My father then got a life sentence, and my mother went back to her old name after divorcing him. Yuki didn't get to hear this until her health was back to normal. Then the sudden message of me sending my father to prison arrived at her. 

It traumatized her, that a simple thirteen-year-old boy, who looked completely ordinary, suddenly set up his parents' divorce, investigation on his father and was still quite messed up inside. 

Since that, she has been cautious with me, never overdoing things due to fear of an iron fist. 

"I think, that you are somewhat right on that."

"Somewhat?"

"Kujou, how about getting rid of dead weight? This was the best opportunity. Ike and Yamauchi are of no use at all. Even if they suffer from expulsion, our class wouldn't suffer from it. Rather, it would be quite a motivation boost and a pro for having fewer students in our class, thus less chance of expulsion later on."

It was the best on both sides. According to the rules, we cannot drop further than zero. This means, we can now let the others get expelled, to get rid of the mass and have equal striking force with less weight to carry around.

Even if Yamauchi and Ike get expelled, this wouldn't hurt anyone. It's rather a blessing to the girls. Ike at least has a tiny bit of brain, but Yamauchi is a mystery to me. How did that guy get even his application viewed?

And how did it get approved?

"...No. I don't accept this proposal. This is absurd and you had no shame in proposing that-"

"Shame?"

"That you are not ashamed of yourself, maybe risking yourself as well. Just like your best friend Akito and Sudou-kun. I think that your way of thinking is quite terrible. You are lacking morale."

It's quite weird. Wasn't she the type of loner? More like an egoist with a toxic tongue?

"Well, it was just a proposal after all, I don't lead the class, so there is nothing for you to worry about. I am just watching from the sidelines."

"Huh? And you think that I am the leader of this class or what-"

"You still are trying to talk yourself out of it, Kujou?"

"What do you mean?" She said, completely curious about my sudden interruption. Normally, I never interrupted her in the past few study lessons. Mostly because there were other people around, this time, however...

"The study groups, how the events followed each other pretty quickly, in the span of a day."

"Why do you think I had n-something to do with it, idiot? Just b-because I volunteered to watch over these guys, doesn't mean that I lead the entire class."

"Who else? You stuttered a little, so I thought you were lying. Kushida, Hirata and You teaming up was quite scripted. Horikita noticed it as well. At least make it look less obvious. Even though, I never mentioned that you are leading the whole class, did I?"

"Uh---"

Suddenly, someone approached our table, it was red hair. Sudou, who looked like always, was not excited but not annoyed either. He also came a little under the designated meeting time.

That was quite impressive to me. 

"Good morning, Ayanokouji, Kujou-san."

"Uhm...Ayanokouji? Don't you mean Suou?"

Kujou then also noticed how some people were still calling me by the wrong name. Even Hoshinomiya does since I falsely introduced myself as Ayanokouji Kiyotaka to her. 

And that was quite confusing to many. I mean, some call me Suou, some call me Ayanokouji, some call me Kouji, and some call me Kiyotaka. And Haruka, the person she is, has the pro edition of my first name. Kiyopon.

"Huh? Who is that?"

"...Maybe this guy next to me? Brown hair, and golden eyes, his eyes look sleep-deprived and he has a middle part...И он тоже милый..." [And he's cute too...]

That was quite bold of her to say in front of others. But why is she only saying adorable stuff in Russian? Just say it in Japanese as well...

"Huh? Ahhh... Wait a second? You two gave each other nicknames?! Ayanokouji! Teach me your ways!"

Don't I already do that every afternoon? I guess just be quiet, do some silly stuff and a random Russian beauty with huge boobs is going to mutter adorable stuff to you in Russian?

"No! Sudou-kun, his real name is Suou-kun. But why did you call him Ayanokouji?"

"I could swear he was getting called Ayanokouji by Mashima sensei as well!"

Now these two idiots were discussing whether Ayanokouji was my real name or not.

"You know, my actual name is Suou Kiyotaka. But well, I don't mind if you call me Ayanokouji. Or just Kiyotaka."

Sudou's face darkened in realization, as he lost the argument to Kujou. 

A real disappointment. 

"My whole life was a lie?!" Two voices behind me said, and I sadly noticed that it was the rest of the idiot trio. Akito was going to be perfect on time in 72 seconds.

Suddenly Yamauchi and Ike appeared too. Maybe I sensed it by their slight erection by staring at Kujous's chest. Who knows?

I felt some sort of anger welling up inside of me, as this horrible degenerate, who sat next to Kujou, laid his hand on his crotch. Sudou also noticed how horrible Yamauchi's pervertedness could get, but decided to keep quiet for now. 

Not long after we started studying, Akito arrived. 

And well, the girl who sat closely on my left, was quite disturbed by the fact that he was 19 seconds late. 

 A whole 19 seconds. 

"You are late."

"It's still the designated time, after all, we decided to meet up at 5 p.m., didn't we? And guess what? 05.00 p.m. is the current time."

He answered with logic, but apparently, Russian girls don't like it when you talk back. Nah just joking. Women in general hate it when someone comes up with a good counterargument to theirs.

They treat it as a personal attack to them.

Kujou just glared at him. And well do deescalate the situation:

"Uh, someone wants drinks? I will go get us some at the vending machine."

"Sure, just coffee. MAXcoffee if possible." Akito said, just like the man of culture he was, he chose coffee over energy drinks since these cans of 'energy' are live suicide.

"Water please, Suou-kun." The ice queen said and the idiot trio each got a can of Soda.

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I was barely gone for two minutes.

Well, 198 seconds, but no need to be that precise. 

And guess what I came back to. I saw a scene that was getting burned into my brain. Akito was punching Yamauchi in the face, Sudou was trying to defuse the dangerous situation, Ike did absolutely nothing and Kujou was shedding tears in shock.

You really couldn't leave this species of monkey alone for more than two minutes, could you?

What the hell even happened for this to get this far? And since when is Akito that strong?

And why is the ice queen crying? And since when is Sudou the neutral and nice guy in a fight?!

"помочь..." [Help...]

Kujou muttered quietly, and now I knew what my new mission was.

To join this fight- Nah joking. To professionally create peace.

"Alright... I should refrain from getting drinks for too long." Well, Sudou smiled in stress, Ike, the feminine type of 'guy' he was, was holding a certain distance from them whilst Akito kept on beating Yamauchi.

To end the fight quickly, I got between the chair where Yamauchi was sitting, and Akito, and caught a fist or two by Akito, until he realized who he was hitting.

His punches were quite brutal. The force wasn't normal for the ordinary type of student. Not only that but also the fact that he perfectly hit my face twice. 

Yet I didn't fight back. I just stopped the fight by simply blocking some hits for Yamauchi.

And well, I never thought that I would take some fists for Yamauchi. But well, he would be hospitalized by the sheer amount of strong hits Akito landed on him.

"Спасибо..." [Thanks...]

"So? Anybody explaining what on earth happened whilst I was gone for roughly two minutes? Like how could this escalate this far? Sudou, why didn't you interfere earlier? Kujou? Ike?"

I quickly shifted the fault towards the ones who just went on to watch, doing absolutely nothing. Well, there was nothing that Kujou could have done without receiving a hit as well.

"Uhm..." Sudou was thinking about a possible excuse for that, which he, funnily enough, didn't find.

Kujou and Ike were just quiet. Not saying anything at all.

"Miyake?"

"That sucker was blowing dicks all of a sudden! When the fuck was I spying on girls?! Yamauchi was talking shit like usual!"

Usually, that's a quite brutal way of talking for someone like him, yet I understand where he is coming from.

However, I still think that he overreacted quite a bit...

"How about we calm down slowly?  After all, it sounds like there is quite a problem, huh?"

"That ass-"

"I said, calm down now. There is no reason for you to stay angry. Sit down."

"But-"

"Sit down I said."

As Akito then sat down, Yamauchi slowly gained his full senses back, as if he was knocked out, yet woke at the same time.

Kujou also calmed down, Ike just pretended like he saw nothing and Sudou was just sitting in his place.

"See? This is a good example of why I am here. Yamauchi, no need to talk nonsense. Akito, there is no need to hit him. Sudou, do something about it. The same goes for Ike."

To properly solve conflicts quickly, there must be a neutral person who handles the situation with logic.

Not only that, they also need to be brave to interfere.

"Ah well, I got everyone's drinks by the way. Now, how about we don't talk about it and continue like nothing ever happened at all? How does that sound?" I suggested, that, and everyone nodded.

Akito was completely composed again, Yamauchi seemed quite mad right now though.

Ike was just revising his English vocabulary.

And Sudō didn't do anything in particular, just like everyone else except Akito, who was just drinking his cold coffee.

"Thanks Kiyotaka. For the coffee I mean."

Miyake was the first to thank me and the only one who didn't was Kujou due to the state of shock, which she still had in herself.

She looked quite troubled, she stopped crying earlier, but one could easily notice how she was hugely affected by the atmosphere earlier.

"I wonder... What do you think of the school's economic status?"

"...Suou, what's that for a weird type of question?" Ike said, getting caught completely off-guard by it.

"Nah, hear me out. As we finally got to manage big amounts, or maybe small amounts ourselves, we should also try and keep an eye on inflation and actual worth of products."

"You have a good point on that, Suou-kun. Not only the students in our class should improve their spending habits, but everyone else as well. We were caught badly in this unfortunate situation, however, it is what it is currently. We got to work our way back up."

"...That were too many complicated words. Uhm...Suou, can you translate it?"

"We should just spend less and work to get up to class A. That's it." I translated it to Ike in a language every idiot understands.

Well even so, what Kujou said is also easily understandable for everyone who just listens to it for more than a second.

"Ah...makes sense to me."

"Not, since after all you still cannot solve basic mathematical problems from middle school. It seems like you still haven't seen the huge problem in our classes' situation." Kujou said, in a rather aggressive tone, pointing out their under-average performance.

"What are you spitting there?!" Sudo stood up in an instant, grabbing Kujou's collar.

It was quite predictable that he would resort to physical violence when someone pointed his flaws out.

He is Sudō after all. Ike and Yamauchi just watched.

Akito didn't react either, because he already messed up earlier by beating up Yamauchi.

Kujou was blind. She didn't notice that these guys here have a short lever.

"Who are you to say something about the academic skills of others?! I would be ashamed of myself, being so good in academics to still get placed in the same shitplace as people with horrible academics! You are in the same boat as me, so don't yap around!"

Well, not only Sudou was in overhand in terms of physical language, but also in the verbal language in this conflict, completely shattering Kujou's insult, sending it back in a harsher way.

She tried to remove his hand from her collar, but his grip got stronger.

"I suggest to stop this, Sudou. There is a high possibility someone passing by could misunderstand this, causing us even more trouble." I said, trying to de-escalate the situation.

"So? Fuck it! We are already at zero, what's gonna happen? If I teach this little arrogant brat some respect, then I shouldn't get penalized right? This is only a logical