Stefania

I do not know. We saw him run toward the crowd of students after the car had already starter moving toward the protesters. We don't know where he was before that.

Namo is suspicious indeed, and I am sure that he is somehow important to the story. However, I am starting to think that he might not be bad. Nothing that he has done for now suggests that he is a bad person. He was nice to Thua from the beginning. He was concerned about the protesters when the prefects were forcefully moving them. He did not rat Khan out, and the fact that he told Thua the reason for Khan’s fight with the eleventh graders actually improved Thua’s relationship with Khan. This is why I think that we might be getting Namo all wrong.

Yes, sunshine tae is right. Thua and Ayan did not know each other from before. Ayan asked Thua a lot of questions that he should have known the answer to if they had been acquainted from before.

Your thoughts match mine. :)

There was no driver in the car.

I also forgive him because it does not make him a bad person. I sympathize with him.
He is an ambitious, A+ student who can achieve great things if he goes to college. However, the fact that he is not rich closes doors for him that are wide open for people who are less smart, less ambitious, and less hard-working. He understandably sees this as unjust. Suddenly, there is an opportunity: a scholarship. The only thing he has to do to get it is maintain the order in the school. It is him and his dreams against what he sees as three spoiled, rich kids who do not want to wear a uniform. His future is on the line, and knowing him, he will go to lengths to secure this future. His being behind the incidents makes a lot of sense.
I know that it is more comforting to assign him only good motives, but we people are all morally gray. As @ammmz pointed out, he is a teenager. He can make stupid decisions.

I think that it is because the protest was shared on social media, and if the protesters are expelled, the school would look like a villain.

Finally someone agrees with me! I saw people comment that he looked hesitant, but this is not what I saw at all. He looked determined and pleased – and scary. His facial expression in that scene made me believe that he is indeed capable of doing all this things.

You are right, hahah. I think that I have an explanation for Ayan looking like a gangster, though. He is emotionally vulnerable and broken, but he is trying to hide this. Looking tough is his defence mechanism.
I think that he was not looking at Akk at first. He was scanning the crowd and when his eyes fell on Akk, he stared because Akk was staring at him.
I also do not know why Ayan ran away from Akk. I think that this will be explained in the subsequent episodes.

I agree with you that Akk is not trying to harm the protesters. However, remember how man viewers pointed out that the flower pot and the car incidents did not seem serious. For instance, the car was moving slowly. It seemed like the protesters were way more likely to not be hit anyways. Maybe Akk indeed did that to scare them into ending the protest, but in a way that ensured that they would not be harmed. I am not inclined to assign him only altruistic motives. He wants a scholarship. He is tasked with dissuading the protesters. He might be afraid that if he fails, he will not get the privileges that he wants.

Another thing: someone in the comment section said that Akk looked hesitant to set the protesters' things on fire. However, I disagree. I was actually shocked by his facial expression because it was different from the ones that he demonstrates around his friends and Ayan. He looked determined and pleased. I even found it a little scary. Maybe it is just me, but that expression made me believe that he is indeed capable of being behind the flower pot and the car incidents.

Namo made me think that Thua might have stolen the notebook.
In the scene in which the class is discussing who stole Ayan's notebook, Thua tells them that Ayan carries the notebook with him everywhere and that he would be upset that it is gone. Namo looks at him in a strange way and says: "You're so concerned about him, Thua." Thua does not reply anything and seems to be uncomfortable. Why was Thua uncomfortable?
At first I thought that Namo was teasing him about having a crush on Ayan, but Namo's facial expression was not teasing. It was ironic and knowing.
Furthermore, Namo is not someone who will make fun of Thua's sexuality. He might be suspicious, but he has my respect because he hangs out with Thua. I wonder if he even wants to be a prefect that much. He is way more tolerant to the queer students than the prefects. In the scene in which the protesters were lying in the hallway and the prefects moved them by force, Namo yelled at the prefects to be careful.
This is why I think that his words mean that he knows that Thua stole the notebook, and he was subtly criticizing him for causing Ayan pain.

You read my mind. Today, while I was thinkinh about Akk's punching Ayan, I also suddenly thought of the chasing scene in episode one and wondered why Akk was so quick to run after a stranger. I think that your theory might be the correct one. This also explains why Ayan was so cocky with Akk from the beginning. His smiles in the bathrook scene in episode one struck me as ironic. It is like he is subtly judging Akk.
I wonder, though. If Ayan knew from the beginning, why had he not done anything with the information?

The person who opened Ayan's locker was wearing the taekwondo uniform, so he must be a student. But yes, he might have got the keys from someone in the administration.

You are right! He must have been afraid that Ayan had somehow found out and was going to expose him.

I wonder how come not a single student knows what actually happened to Dika. It does not seem right. Many of them are nosy, and Dika was a beloved teacher – at least one of them must have tried to find out how Dika is doing at the other school and realized that he does not teach there. I feel like Namo might know the truth.
Another thing: Khan and Akk are so observant that they had noticed Dika's pot of white roses. If I am not mistaken, Ayan's notebook used to be Dika's. Khan or Akk, or both might have seen him carry it around school. Maybe Khan stole it to learn how Ayan and Dika are connected.

I added and then deleted the following:
In this episode, Akk opened up to Ayan about having been a violent, misbehaving student because he was made fun of. If he punched people, he was a rulebreaker, and rulebreakers get punished by the "curse". I wonder if something happened to him. Maybe he really knows more about the curse than he lets on.

This is my original comment:
When Ayan screamed that he can tell everyone what the school curse is, he proved my suspicion that he knows way more than he lets on. You know what struck me as weird, though? That Akk punched him immediately to silence him.
I mean, yes, Ayan was going to say something that might be damaging to the school, but the lightning speed with which Akk reacted was suspicious. He has been prying into everything Ayan is doing so persistently that he must be curious to learn what Ayan knows. Why punch him in a moment when he is emotionally unstable and could finally spill the beans? This raises an interesting question: does Akk also know more about the curse than he lets on and what precisely was he afraid to hear Ayan say?

Yes, I removed the second version. Should I post it back? My original comment is further below in the comment section.

I just rewatched the scene in which the class is wondering who stole Ayan's notebook, and Khan says: "Wouldn't it be nice if it was a who?" I am starting to feel like he is directing everyone's attention away from real-life suspects and toward a "curse" on purpose. I think that he is a character with a hidden agenda. Even his nickname, Bruce Wayne, if he indeed is the person who texted Thua, is telling: Bruce Wayne is known for secretly assuming an alternate identity, Batman, to fight crime.