Subaru just ignores him.

"Her family has absolutely pulled strings. They gotta have. There's absolutely no way police would ever believe an alpha claiming to have been assaulted by an omega."

"Oh get over yourself, Yamada, I know you can beat anyone up, but the police are still sexist as fuck."

"It's just rich, coming from Hōji. She was literally using me for punching practice, she wasn't nearly as—"

"—okay she was beat up worse that day than I was yesterday but not any thanks to her. And besides she didn't even break anything, that beta from months ago had a lot more motive—"

"That does not help."

"Ugh I'm starting to think a billion more sexist things to say about her."

"Alphas are all shitty."

"—okay I guess you of all people are generically allowed to be sexist but if this goes to court—"

"I'm not stupid."

"And what's the defence gonna be anyway?"

"What do you mean? The truth! He was protecting that omega!"

"Keep up, Kokonoe, I don't need to spell it out for you."

"Rut is a defence for rape accusations but using force to prevent it from happening anyway is still legal!"

"He's lying about it. Everyone knows he's violent and unstable. Here are two dozen alphas to corroborate the story that he just beat them up out of the blue for no reason."

Inori slams his fist on the desk. "No reason?!?!" The librarian shoots him a filthy glare and says "Shhhhhh!" with the kind of volume only librarians are capable of.

"What'd you expect? Hirune is a rich family and if other rich alphas from Kokonoe High are nudged by them they'll definitely rally around them. They're going to lie through their teeth."

"Okay, then maybe we can get other witnesses? The omegas themselves? Okay, fine, the system is rigged against omegas and they'll trust the words of the alphas and most importantly their money. That's disgraceful."

"My family—isn't that bad, but they're the kind of bad who would not weigh in one way or another. They wouldn't give me money to help. And your father..."

Snort.

"That's a nonstarter, yeah." Sigh. "Well, the actual solution here is this doesn't go to trial at all, the case just isn't airtight enough, but if Hōji's family is actively pushing for it... What we need is a good lawyer. And... money to pay for them."

"My parents have money."

"Inori-kun, I love your family but they do not have the kind of money to compete with the Hirune."