Classroom of Accomplices: The Honor Student Falls by Her Hand

Classroom. Grades. College boards hung like judgment on the wall. Everyone in Kasumigahara City smiles the same smile, walks the same narrow path, and calls it "normal." Murakami Hiroto—honor student, class representative, soccer club regular—has perfected that smile. Perfect enough to fool his classmates. Perfect enough to fool his mother. Perfect enough, he almost thought, to fool himself. Then, in an empty classroom after school, he let it slip. *"Why is it always me?"* He thought no one h