People at the practical education center only want to drop out.

This time, Chabashira didn't continue testing Hirata, because it involved her job responsibilities as a homeroom teacher. She answered directly, "It's not expensive. 'Normal' speaking, it's about one million a day."

"One million a day!"

The crowd below the stage immediately gasped in surprise.

One million—at their current monthly income, even if they didn't eat or drink, it would take them several years to save that much.

However, this was just the "ticket" cost for Bai Lan to go out and have fun for a day.

"The difference between people can sometimes be that big." At this moment, Horikita finally couldn't help but speak up, saying it with an arrogant and sarcastic tone, making his presence felt.

At the same time, this also drew the attention of some people to Horikita, who was hiding in the corner, and they seemed to have discovered something.

"Speaking of which, Horikita, it suddenly dawned on me that you seemed to be calmly reading the whole time? Did you already know something beforehand?" the student sitting next to Horikita suddenly said.

Horikita didn't say anything, just continued reading, but it was as if she had said everything.

As if a switch had been flipped, soon someone else said:

"If that's the case, I noticed that Kushida-san seems quite calm. Normally, if someone in the class dropped out, wouldn't Kushida-san be very agitated?"

Everyone looked at Kushida.

Kushida immediately clasped his hands together to cover his mouth, revealing a forced smile and an apologetic expression, as if he didn't know how to explain.

Although Kushida's acting skills could have allowed her to portray a state of "helplessness," this would have inevitably exposed her true acting skills and hypocrisy to Hirata and Horikita, who were aware of the situation.

In that case, it would be better not to perform at all.

After all, in situations like this, sincerity is the best weapon.

Seeing Kushida's pitiful appearance, the students, both boys and girls, felt it was inappropriate to continue "forcing" him, and finally turned to look at Hirata, the "instigator".

"Speaking of which, Hirata-san, how did you know that Shirai-san wanted to take leave to go out?"

Hirata thought for a moment, then said, "It's like this, on Saturday, after you all left, Kushida, Horikita, and I were the three of us who stayed behind."

Kushida and I hope to persuade Shirai to get along well with everyone.

Horikita asked Shiro a few questions.

When Bai opened the door and entered the room, we found Bai Lan packing her luggage. At first, we also thought that Bai was planning to drop out of school.

But after Bai explained, we learned that he was planning to go out and have fun…”

Hirata briefly told everyone that Bai Lan plans to go out for a while this month, and may even have to go out from time to time in the future.

Upon hearing this, everyone's faces showed a look of sudden realization.

Only one blonde beauty had a strange expression.

Karuizawa recalled the days when the five of them fought against Nagumo's six at the arbitration meeting, and they slaughtered everyone indiscriminately.

As a result, four out of the five people knew that Bai Lan was going out to play, but she was the only one who didn't know.

Karuizawa felt as if she was being ostracized.

So, wouldn't you call this a form of bullying?

Karuizawa felt extremely wronged and unconsciously started biting her sleeve.

"I've done good for Bai Lan! I've shed... sweat for Bai Lan!"

Bai Lan fought for me and relentlessly pursued the vice president of the student council!

There's a secret between me and Bai Lan!

I'm the person in this school who's closest to Bai Lan, yet I've become the only outsider?

Why would Bai Lan keep something from me that even 'them' could know...? Wait a minute!

No, it wasn't Bai Lan's fault. I wanted to stay too, but Matsushita and the others pulled me away..."

Thinking of this, Karuizawa swept her resentful gaze over her close friends.

At that moment, Karuizawa forgot about her "fear of gyaru" persona.

Matsushita and the others seemed to realize that they had ruined their leader's plans, and they all turned their heads away, not daring to meet her gaze.

This was the first time Karuizawa had taken the initiative to "attack" the glamorous girls, and he won in one fell swoop.

Congratulations!

After hearing Hirata's words, someone immediately asked a question similar to the one Chabashira had asked Shiraishan when he learned that Shiraishan planned to spend over ten million yen just to go out and have fun.

"Why does Bai Lan spend so many points to play? Wouldn't it be better to save them for a rainy day? What if our class encounters another emergency and needs points? Of course, I'm not saying we should waste his points, but at least we can borrow them for emergencies."

"Bai Lan has left the school. What if someone takes advantage of this situation and threatens our safety?"

"Has he abandoned us?"

Faced with the relentless questioning from the crowd, Hirata felt he was struggling to cope and wanted to ask for help.

Hirata glanced at Chabashira, who was just flipping through a document in his hand containing what he would say at the morning meeting later, and ignored him.

Clearly, this teacher is of no use.

Hirata decided to ask his teammates for help, and he first looked at Kushida.

At this moment, Kushida was still maintaining a pitiful and innocent appearance.

It also looked like it wouldn't be of any use.

Hirata looked at Horikita one last time.

As a result, Horikita was still quietly reading and completely missed his distress signal...

Just as Hirata was about to give up hope, he noticed a boy sitting diagonally in front of Horikita—Ayanokoji Kiyotaka!

Although Ayanokouji did not respond to Hirata, Hirata was instantly inspired the moment he saw Ayanokouji.

At that moment, Hirata suddenly remembered the rhetoric that Ayanokouji had given him in the past.

Looking back on those things, Hirata felt like he was "already done."

He seems to have found a way to appease these guys!

However, he realized that his method might slightly hinder Bai Lan's plans to drop out of school.

This made Hirata feel somewhat guilty.

But soon he realized that Bai Lan's prestige in the class was already at its peak, so his little obstacle seemed to be nothing at all.

There are too many lice and it doesn’t itch.

Thinking of this, Hirata's somewhat uneasy conscience instantly calmed down.

Soon, Hirata spoke up: "Classmates, you've misunderstood Bai Lan. The reason she wanted to go out and play was all for the sake of this class..."

Hirata is back to his old ways

186. The Awakening of the "Ambitious One"; Kogenji Wants to Seize Power

In order to restore a harmonious and stable atmosphere to the class, Hirata had no choice but to return to his old ways.

This time, Hirata needed to clear Shirahara's name without Ayanokouji's help in writing his speech.

Fortunately, Hirata had already accumulated some successful experience.

Besides, Hirata was also present when Bai Lan said those things to Horikita.

Hirata felt that he could learn a thing or two from the words Shirai used to persuade Horikita.

Hirata's explanation was roughly as follows:

Bai Lan felt that he had done too much in the class competition and that his share of the profits even exceeded the class's income, which was not good. However, as long as he was still in school, if something happened and someone was in trouble, they would probably still choose to ask Bai Lan for help to solve the problem, just like Karuizawa did, because they trusted Bai Lan more.

In this way, the profits will still be his, and only if he deliberately leaves school will the other students in the class have a chance to shine.

Besides, this is also a test and training for everyone by Bai Lan.

Bai Lan probably felt that it would be too tiring for him to handle every single thing that happened in the class.

Therefore, Bai Lan wanted to use the time he was away to see how the students in his class would behave without his protection.

See which students in the class are aware of this and will take the initiative to do things for the class.

Who else might drag the class down without Bai Lan's intimidating presence?

Whether someone is doing things well or dragging others down, it will obviously affect Bai Lan's opinion of that person in the class.

In addition, those who are conscientious and proactive can get the opportunity to train during Bai Lan's absence, and can share Bai Lan's workload in the future, or even directly take over Bai Lan's work, or rather, the "power" and "benefits" in Bai Lan's hands.

As long as she does her job well, Bai Lan won't care about this or feel that those people are trying to seize power or profit from her.

Thus, in Hirata's description, Bai Lan's outing became "Bai Lan deliberately gave everyone a chance to show off," and "Bai Lan's test and training for everyone."

With Hirata speaking so sincerely, as if he were saying, "I really am doing this for your own good," the class accepted his explanation.

Please note that it is "accept", not "believe".

While some in the class did believe and accept Hirata's explanation, the main reason the rest were willing to accept it was because of the claim that "Bai Lan was willing to relinquish her power and interests."

Regardless of whether Bai Lan truly thought that way or not.

Since Hirata said so, they might as well just believe him. If anything goes wrong, Hirata will vouch for them.

After all, they did this because they "believed" Hirata's words, and they didn't really want to compete with Shirai for power.

If I come here, I won't offend Bai Lan.

Not all the students in Class D were slackers; there were a few ambitious individuals among them.

For example, Horikita.

Horikita needs a voice in the class to control it, and she wants to lead the class to show her brother what she can do in class competitions and gain his approval.

For example, Gaoyuan Temple.

Kogenji also hopes to gain a voice in the class!

Kōgenji has always considered himself the most outstanding and talented person.

However, the school assigned him to Class D, which made Kogenji feel extremely humiliated.

In his view, neither his pride nor his status as the heir to the Kogenji Foundation would allow him to leave the school in any way other than "graduating from Class A".

Therefore, he's definitely going to be in Class A!