Practical teaching, all I want is your reward.

"It's not a question of whether you can or not, but as a junior, you have to follow me. Like your classmates, Ichinose and Katsuragi, they're doing a great job." Tachibana Akane sat at her desk, summarizing the day's work while still giving Suzuki Toru pointers.

“I sometimes go out with them, but not often,” Suzuki Tetsu defended himself.

"Hmph, you know you don't get to do it often," Tachibana Akane said, her tone turning sour again. "Whatever, the president likes you a lot anyway, keeping you in the office all day, which is different from me."

"You're jealous of a man?" Suzuki Toru wasn't quite sure.

"What, what are you talking about!" Akane Tachibana's face flushed red. "I...I was just...helping you reflect on yourself!"

“I don’t think someone who sneaks snacks in the office can help me reflect on anything,” Suzuki Toru said bluntly, seizing on her weakness.

"Woo..."

Unable to refute him, Akane could only sulk and be angry. Even if she was secretly eating snacks in the office, he couldn't just say it out loud, could he?

I didn't want to share my snacks with him in the first place, and now I'm even less inclined to.

However, thinking of Suzuki Tetsu's expression when he couldn't get any snacks, the girl couldn't help but smile smugly and wasn't so angry anymore.

Suzuki Toru had no idea what she was thinking and simply continued to wait for Horikita Manabu.

After a while, Horikita Manabu finally returned.

"Has the meeting ended?"

"It's over. Sorry to have kept you waiting so long."

"It must be a very important meeting, right?"

Horikita Manabu nodded, his gaze lingering on Tachibana Akane for a moment before he walked over and sat down opposite Suzuki Toru.

"The school decided to hold a sports festival from September to early October. Although they consulted me, the student council president, I was basically just an observer at the meetings." Horikita Manabu seemed used to it. The student council was qualified to participate in some school affairs, but only in those affairs; they had no decision-making power.

"Eh, is there going to be another sports festival?" Akane Tachibana's eyes widened. Most students have a respectful attitude towards sports, especially mandatory sports activities.

Moreover, this school's sports festival is definitely different from other schools', as it relates to the fate of the class.

"Yes, the homeroom teacher will tell us the details about the sports festival tomorrow." Horikita Manabu paused. "However, without a doubt, this is a special exam for this semester, and it is very important."

"Doesn't the chairman know the specifics either?" Suzuki Tetsu asked.

“No, the school only asked our student council to cooperate with them in setting up the venue and preparing the relevant equipment.” Horikita Manabu pondered for a moment. “It’s probably a very normal project, otherwise they wouldn’t have asked our student council to help.”

Involving some students in the preparation process for special exams certainly does not conform to the principle of fairness that schools strive for.

Therefore, it doesn't matter if the events of the sports festival are leaked, or rather, you can only rely on your individual strength to get a ranking.

"It feels strange. If it's a special exam, students with strong athletic abilities will definitely have a huge advantage. It's too harsh on students with poor athletic abilities." Suzuki Tetsu fell into deep thought.

“Exactly, he has no confidence at all.” Tachibana Akane rarely agreed with him.

Horikita Manabu looked at Suzuki Toru thinking and a smile appeared on his face: "Based on past experience, the special exam won't be that simple."

“I think the real focus might be on what comes later.” Suzuki Toru felt a little threatened because there had been cases of students dropping out in the second semester of both the second and third years.

After the intensive study in the first semester, it was clear that no more students would drop out due to midterms or final exams, so special exams were the only option.

Logically speaking, this sports festival shouldn't be about expelling students with poor athletic ability, right?

In that case, wouldn't Sakayanagi Arisu be the first to drop out of school?

"Let's leave the sports festival aside for now." Horikita Manabu said with a look of approval. "I've already heard him say that. It seems you're very confident you can defeat Nagumo."

"Even if I don't fight back, he'll still keep an eye on me." Suzuki Tetsu thought to himself that he had already extorted Nan Yunya twice, and the other party couldn't be a magnanimous person. Sooner or later, she would get her revenge.

Horikita Manabu smiled and said, "Your performance in the special exam was so outstanding that even I have gained a lot of confidence."

Suzuki Toru kept some things from the class, but he told Horikita Manabu almost everything.

Scoring over 600 points in two special exams is enough to completely reassure Horikita Manabu.

Chapter 241 Sports Festival

After listening to the two of them chat for a while, and learning about the first-year exam results, Tachibana Akane immediately became unsettled.

"How much? How much do you want?"

"What's wrong?"

"Your score was 1004 before summer vacation, but it became 1756 after you came back?"

Seeing the disbelieving look on her face, Suzuki Tetsu handed over his phone and winked at her, saying, "If you don't believe me, you can check out my profile."

This phone, specially customized by the school, functions as a student ID card, allowing users to check their personal points as well as the points of their class.

Because of this, Akane Tachibana began to become timid and hesitant.

"Haha, it's really nothing special. Any normal Class A student could do this."

Horikita Manabu silently watched the girl, not immediately exposing her stubbornness.

Even back then, they only increased by about 400 points at most, which was absolutely impossible for them to surpass the entire grade.

"So, you're really amazing, senpai." Suzuki Tetsu looked at Tachibana Akane with understanding. "Having been in Class A for two years, you must have accumulated a lot of personal points, right?"

"Gulp..." Tachibana swallowed hard. She had not only lost to him in class points, but also in savings.

Suzuki Tetsu once exchanged personal points with a third-year senior. Although he spent 300 million, he still had about 400 million left.

With the points he receives every month, he is probably the richest student in his first year.

As Suzuki Toru's senior, Tachibana Akane only had a few hundred thousand yen in her wallet, making her seem particularly pitiful in comparison.

"Don't be so smug, it must be because there aren't any particularly outstanding people in your freshman year!" Ju Qian was a little embarrassed, and the less confident she was, the louder she spoke.

Sometimes, Toru Suzuki really wanted to pin her down on his lap and spank her hard.

“You’re wrong, Tachibana.” Horikita Manabu shook his head. “Suzuki’s freshmen this year may be of higher quality than Nagumo’s.”

Akane Tachibana immediately wilted. She dared to be arrogant in front of Toru Suzuki, but she wouldn't dare to talk back to Manabu Horikita.

"Sakayanagi and Katsuragi from Class A, Ichinose and Kanzaki from Class B, and Ryuen from Class C—although I haven't met them all, their abilities are promising." It's clear that Horikita Manabu has carefully inquired about the first-year students and has some understanding of the leaders of each class.

However, the name of Class D was not mentioned.

"President, isn't my name on the list?" Suzuki Tetsu asked shamelessly. "Don't you think I'm worthy of your expectations?"

Horikita Manabu looked at him strangely: "You probably don't need me to have any expectations, right?"

“I might still have room to grow in the future.” Suzuki Tetsu smiled. “Like Horikita, as far as I know, she has realized her problem and is trying to change it.”

Perhaps because Class D's grades were too poor, or perhaps because his younger sister still showed no redeeming qualities, Horikita Manabu decided to leave Class D out of the conversation.

As expected, Horikita Manabu was silent for a moment, and then said, "Her problem is that she doesn't know herself. No matter how good her grades are on paper, she is actually just a weak cotton doll."

As the older brother, he certainly knew his younger sister's personality better than anyone else around him.

"She should have some self-awareness by now." Suzuki Tetsu thought about Horikita Suzune during the summer vacation. To be honest, what interested him most was that she would do everything she could to change her situation.

Despite her resentment, Horikita Suzune still acknowledged his contract and accepted his unreasonable demands. Later on, she even took the initiative to propose her own terms.

All of this was not because Horikita Suzune gave up resisting; she had clearly calmly accepted her situation and was trying to find a solution.

Of course, the more she acted this way, the more her most fatal weakness became apparent.

“With you in Class A, Suzune probably won’t have a chance to break through your defenses.” Horikita Manabu gave a wry smile. “I just hope she can re-examine herself and her surroundings and step down from her high position.”

"Is this my mission from now on?" Suzuki Toru asked somewhat embarrassedly.

There is no better educational approach than one who believes themselves to be excellent but is repeatedly met with setbacks.

"You seem to care a lot about Rinne?" Horikita glanced at him sideways, this guy inexplicably veered the topic here.

"After all, she's the president's sister, and sometimes I worry that I'm going too far."

"No, it doesn't matter if she goes any further, she won't turn back until she hits a brick wall."

"..."

Suzuki Toru looked away; if things went any further, he would have to call Horikita Hajime "brother-in-law."

"Alright, let's leave it at that." Horikita Manabu looked at Tachibana Akane. "You'll be in charge of leading Suzuki and the others in the preparations for the upcoming sports festival."

As the president, he certainly doesn't have much time to mentor newcomers.

"Eh, you want me to take care of this guy?" Tachibana Akane was a little dissatisfied, but then she thought that this was a rare opportunity to openly order Suzuki Toru around, and the corners of her mouth unconsciously turned up.

Seeing her like this, Toru Suzuki tried to dissuade her: "Let me make it clear in advance that I will definitely be participating in the competition, so I won't have much time."

"Nonsense, every student has to participate in the competition, it's not just you." Ju Qian snorted a few times. "Don't worry, our student council is small, we're definitely short of manpower."

Suzuki Toru was speechless. This wasn't comforting at all.

……

September st.

After a long-awaited return to classes, Majima Tomoya, the class advisor, held a class meeting in the afternoon.

"From today until the beginning of October, each class will have extra physical education classes in preparation for the sports festival. I will be distributing new timetables, so please keep them safe."

Upon hearing the words "sports festival," a small commotion inevitably broke out in the class.

It seems that even among students in Class A, some still find sports activities daunting.

Since Majima Tomoya included the sports festival information along with the class schedule, Suzuki Toru took a look and realized that Koyuu's sports festival was indeed different from other schools.

The school adopted a two-on-two format, dividing all grades into two groups. Class A teamed up with Class D, and Class B teamed up with Class C. The former was the Red Group, and the latter was the White Group.

On this basis, students from different grades will overcome the barriers between grades, cooperate with each other, and compete against each other.

Suzuki Tetsu fell into deep thought. No wonder Nagumo Masa wanted to challenge Horikita Manabu; it turned out there really was a cross-grade battle.

"Damn it, why are we cooperating with those guys from Class D?"

At this time, some students in the class also noticed the competition format in the information, especially students like Totsuka Yahiko who looked down on the lower-ranked classes.

"Does the school want Class D to drag us down?"

"That's too much to ask of us. We might as well compete on our own!"

"It's okay, it doesn't matter if the guys from Class D get a little advantage."

Suzuki Toru frowned. Although their voices weren't particularly loud, this subconscious complaint clearly revealed Class A's biggest problem at the moment.