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

Kushida shook his head subconsciously.

Bai Lan: "You know nothing!"

"Let me tell you just how hard Horikita works!"

"Horikita works so hard! She exercises for three hours a day, studies for fifteen hours, and still manages to get eight hours of quality sleep every night..."

"Wait!" Kushida quickly interrupted, realizing something was amiss. "Three plus fifteen equals eighteen, eighteen plus eight equals twenty-six... Shouldn't a day only have twenty-four hours?"

Besides, does Horikita just study, exercise, and sleep all day? Even if she doesn't need entertainment, doesn't she still need to eat, shower, use the toilet, and travel?

"Look! This is the difference between you and Horikita!" Bai Lan said with a look of disappointment. "Can't you take care of things like eating, showering, and traveling while studying and exercising?"

Kushida was stunned when Bai Lan said this.

Taking advantage of the opponent's momentary lapse in concentration, Bai Lan launched a combo attack:

Will eating affect your ability to memorize texts?

Will taking a shower interfere with your ligament stretching?

"Can't I take the time to practice running and high knees while on the go..."

"Um, girls' school uniforms are skirts, so if you lift your legs high, won't you expose yourself?" Kushida finally found an opportunity to interrupt the combo.

"Oh, in our country, both boys' and girls' school uniforms consist of sports pants, so we're used to it... so let's skip the high kicks."

"But you still have 26 hours a day... Oh, I see, you study or exercise while you sleep, right?"

"You've got it! See, haven't you gained a better understanding of Horikita under my guidance?"

"But what does her hard work have to do with you telling me to learn that skill of arguing?"

"Tsk~ I just praised you! It's because she works so hard that she's under a lot of mental pressure!"

She relieves her mental stress entirely by arguing with and hitting people!

You don't have to learn how to argue with people, then why don't you learn how to hit people?

As the old master once said: "To hit someone, you must first get hit yourself..."

"Then I'll learn how to roast people."

Kushida made her decision.

As he finished speaking, Kushida lowered his head, looking as if he had no choice but to submit in order to befriend Horikita.

This surprised Bai Lan.

He initially thought that Kushida might be a girl with some ulterior motives, and that it might take a little effort to persuade her.

Before he could even open his mouth, the other side had already voted?

Seriously, is this girl really that easy to fool?

Perhaps he misunderstood, and the other party might just be a little clever, but not much?

After all, they were from Class D, so their overall score was relatively low.

Kushida is so beautiful and sociable, and judging from her classroom performance, her academic performance seems to be quite good as well.

According to the "balance" principle, she must have some flaws, otherwise she shouldn't have been assigned to Class D at all.

Therefore, it's not incomprehensible that the little angel of Class D is a fool who blindly trusts others and is easily persuaded.

Someone like her, once she enters society, won't she be scammed and get pregnant eight times in ten years?

Thinking of this, Bai Lan shook her head, and couldn't help but feel a pang of pity.

However, Bai Lan wouldn't let her off just because the other person was an idiot.

On the contrary, he intends to intensify his efforts!

26. Repeat after me: Bhaga!

Sangi-erba-gi-ji-esu-ju

Bai Lan plans to intensify her efforts.

He wanted to use this opportunity to make the other party realize their problem and teach them a lesson!

I believe that after being fooled by me once, she will be more cautious in the future and will not easily believe what others say again.

However, what Bai Lan didn't know was that her expression changed instantly the moment Kushida lowered his head.

Her once angelic, sunny face could no longer hold back, instantly turning gloomy, ferocious, and distorted, her teeth clenched, her eyes wide with rage.

Jiuwu Mountain is famous for its wine.

"He's actually teaching me how to argue? Does he know something? Did Horikita already tell him something? Is he implying that he knows about me?" Kushida thought to himself.

The thought that the other person might know something he didn't want others to know filled Kushida with panic.

"Stay calm! I'm not sure if he really knows. Maybe he's genuinely trying to teach me how to talk back, rather than hinting at something."

If I confront him directly, it might make him think of something else, and it could end up backfiring!

Moreover, if he does know, how much does he know?

Let's test the waters.

In order to test Bai Lan, Kushida decided to endure the humiliation and learn how to argue with people from Bai Lan.

She plans to use her affability to get closer to Bai Lan while learning from her, gain her trust, lower her guard, and then carefully extract the information she wants.

This is Kushida's specialty; she uses this trick to make many close friends who are willing to share their private matters with her.

As a result, she also learned secrets from others, many of which were things that couldn't be made public.

Although, most of the time, she didn't want to know these things; rather, it was out of trust in Kushida and a desire to confide that she would take the initiative to tell Kushida, and Kushida had no choice but to listen.

In order to maintain the "Kushida Empire," Kushida could only patiently listen to their complaints.

The so-called "Kushida Empire" was not an evil thing.

It's basically a circle of friends centered around Kikyo Kushida, where everyone is Kikyo Kushida's good friend.

Kikyo Kushida simply wanted to be a school idol loved by everyone, and for this, she put in a lot of effort, spending a lot of time and energy helping others and responding to their expectations in order to gain their favor.

Most of the time, the complaints Kushida heard were negative and pessimistic.

This made Kushida feel like he had become an "emotional dumping ground".

Moreover, this "emotional trash can" is not only dirty and messy, but also full of all sorts of shady things, making it a very dangerous place.

Once this "emotional dumping ground" develops a loophole, the evil within will burst forth, and the world she has painstakingly built around her—the "Kushida Empire"—will be instantly destroyed!

In fact, her world had already been destroyed once!

Kushida had always disliked this "side effect" of her affable nature.

After all, this side effect had brought her such a disaster, almost ruining everything.

Kushida accepted the offer of admission to Advanced Nurturing High School. A large part of the reason she went to study in this place far from home was to get away from the world that had been destroyed and made it impossible for her to continue living there.

If the "Kushida Empire" were still around, she would never have abandoned the fruits of her labor to come here to study.

She arrived at Advanced Nurturing High School full of anticipation.

She felt that since she was so far from home, no one should know her, and she could start a new life and rebuild her "Kushida Empire".

As it turned out, she realized she was wrong.

First day of school...

"Why is Horikita Suzune here?!"

Horikita and Kushida were classmates in the same junior high school. Because of her outstanding beauty, academic ability, and outstanding personality, Horikita was also a celebrity in junior high school.

Kushida easily recognized Horikita Suzune.

In other words, Horikita likely knows about her dark past!

Once Horikita exposes her dark past, it won't just be a matter of her being unable to rebuild the new "Kushida Empire"; she might even find it difficult to stay at the school any longer...

Although Horikita usually appears to be someone who "ignores everything else and only focuses on studying the classics."

When I saw Kushida, I seemed not to recognize him at all, but what if I did?

In order to protect their own world.

Therefore, Kushida plans to take the initiative to use the "side effect" to test Horikita and find out whether Horikita knows about his affairs.

If necessary, she planned to get some kind of leverage from Horikita that could shut her up...

Ironically, she now has to rely on this "side effect" that destroyed her world to save the "new world" she has just built.

She never wants to go through that kind of pain again!

To preserve this "new world," she would find a way to eliminate all threats, and she was willing to pay a heavy price for it.

As a result, Horikita completely ignored her.

Kushida couldn't tell whether the other person was ignoring her because they didn't want to talk to anyone, or because they knew about her dark past and looked down on her.

Kushida wanted to continue trying to find a way to probe.

Since Horikita was ignoring her, she decided to take a roundabout approach.

It is said that Bai Lan and Horikita get along well and even flirt in public, and they also interact after class.

Therefore, Kushida approached Shirai, hoping to gain access to Horikita's circle of friends through Shirai.

As a result, not long after they met, Kushida was shocked to discover that Shirai might know about her dark past!

There's one more person we need to test.

Fortunately, Bai seems to be a good person.

Good people are probably easy to fool, right?

At least he talks a lot, and seems easier to get information out of him than Horikita, that guy who's so quiet he's practically a ghost.

"You want to teach me how to argue with people?"

Do I need you to teach me how to argue?

You have no idea what I've been through?