Practical teaching, all I want is your reward.

Toru Suzuki noticed that when Haruka Hasebe encountered a topic she wasn't good at, she would subtly steer the conversation away from it, or simply abandon the topic altogether and start another one to avoid making the atmosphere awkward.

If it were the first time you saw her, you would probably be so captivated by the rabbit on her chest that you would hardly notice her subtle movements.

Even so, Suzuki Toru had to admit that he was indeed momentarily captivated; she was really too big, bigger than Kushida Kikyo, and probably no smaller than Ichinose Honami.

"Aren't you going to the library today, Hasebe-kun?" Kikyo Kushida asked casually.

"There are some books I want to buy. I'm going to the bookstore later, and then I'll go back and read them." Haruka Hasebe stirred her coffee, adding a lot of sugar, and the steaming cup seemed to emit a sweet aroma.

"Are you alone again?" Kikyo Kushida asked. "I'm free right now, do you want to come with me?"

"I really want to agree to Xiaogeng's request, but is the person on the other end really okay with it?" Hasebe Haruka asked with a slightly teasing smile, her gaze falling on Suzuki Toru.

"I already told you, Suzuki and I just happened to bump into each other here." Kikyo Kushida denied her words while blushing on her own initiative, an expression she probably rehearsed a lot.

"That's really suspicious." Hasebe Haruka gave a rather ambiguous look. "This is the first time I've ever seen Kogoro make that kind of expression."

Suzuki Tetsu interjected, "I'm a little curious, you two seem to have a pretty good relationship?"

"Xiao Geng" sounds different from other names. It's not like other people's names, such as "Kikyo-chan," but a special name, almost like a personal nickname.

“I sometimes hang out with Hasebe-kun.” Kikyo Kushida smiled a little embarrassedly. “However, we get along very well and I would say we’re pretty good friends.”

"Speaking of which, Kogoro still keeps calling Hasebe-kun." Hasebe Haruka's eyes were a little resentful. "I told you it's okay to just call him by his name."

"Ahaha, sorry, sorry, I'll be careful!" Kikyo Kushida apologized immediately, while glancing at someone unintentionally.

"Looks like I was overthinking it. I always thought Hasebe-kun didn't have any close friends." Suzuki Toru looked at the two of them being rather intimate.

"Even if you're very handsome, isn't this a bit too rude to a girl?" Haruka Hasebe said with slight dissatisfaction. "Although I don't have much to talk about with the people in my class, jokes are different."

Kikyo Kushida secretly gave Toru Suzuki a peace sign; that's the charm of a little angel.

Haruka Hasebe, oblivious to their subtle actions, proudly added, "Actually, besides Koga, I have another very good friend."

"Who?"

"She is right in front of you now."

"..."

Suzuki Toru looked at Hasebe Haruka across from him. She obediently straightened her back, puffed out her chest so high it almost touched the table, and tilted her neck slightly upward, revealing a somewhat proud chin.

"I'm a little surprised, your friend looks just like you."

"What do you mean by looking alike?" Hasebe Haruka glared at him, then added, "No matter who it is, your first friend should be yourself. Only when you understand yourself can you make a second friend."

Suzuki Toru was somewhat surprised; she didn't seem like a woman who was all looks and no brains.

"Is this also a lesson Haruka learned from the book?" Kikyo Kushida's eyes sparkled.

“Strictly speaking, I’ve been reading this book for this moment.” Hasebe Haruka said with a straight face, but she couldn’t hold back and burst out laughing.

"Now that I understand Hasebe-kun, can I be your friend?" Suzuki Toru asked.

Haruka Hasebe glanced to the side, then readily agreed: "Sure, we can be friends now. Actually, I'd love to have a friend from Class A. Could you treat me to something later?"

“No problem, I can give you a friend’s allowance every month.” Suzuki Tetsu blinked.

Haruka Hasebe almost spat out her coffee. The "friendship fee" thing was too scary. It made her look like a bully oppressing her classmate.

"No, no need, I was just joking."

"Don't worry, I was just joking."

"Hahaha, Suzuki-kun's joke is quite funny."

"..."

After chatting for a while, Suzuki Tetsu took the opportunity to suggest exchanging contact information, which Hasebe Haruka naturally agreed to.

So, the two naturally became friends.

After finishing her coffee, Hasebe Haruka decided not to disturb the two any longer and quickly got up and left the coffee shop, presumably to go to the bookstore to buy books.

"So you're still at this stage. I thought you'd already licked his boots." Kikyo Kushida looked at Toru Suzuki with a grin.

"Didn't you say you wouldn't help me?" Suzuki Tetsu knew very well that if Kushida Kikyo hadn't given him a heads-up, or if she had shown any dissatisfaction earlier, things wouldn't have gone so smoothly.

“I wasn’t helping you. She saw me just now, and I couldn’t ignore her, so I had to greet her first.” Kikyo Kushida sighed. “That’s what I hate most. I have to react immediately and I can’t look unhappy at all, otherwise she will immediately become suspicious.”

“However, I see you smiling very happily.” Suzuki Toru noticed Kushida Kikyo’s reaction. Although it was a somewhat businesslike, fake smile, she wasn’t necessarily disgusted.

Even if she deliberately cultivated her approachable demeanor, there are some things you have to convince yourself of first.

To this, Kikyo Kushida simply glared at him.

"Only a psychopath would stare so closely."

Chapter 296 Keeping Your Word

After Hasebe Haruka's interruption, the original topic seemed to be difficult to continue, and Kushida Kikyo didn't seem to have any intention of returning to the topic.

The coffee shop was a bit noisy, with students from various classes laughing and talking without restraint. Suzuki Toru could even see students from Class A and Class D together, discussing their practice from time to time.

Perhaps it was because practicing together fostered many friendships that some students made friends.

However, the gazes around him would occasionally linger on him and Kikyo Kushida, which was somewhat irritating.

Fortunately, Kikyo Kushida quickly got tired of coffee. As the two left the coffee shop, Toru Suzuki looked towards the dormitory stairs and was about to speak when Kikyo Kushida said from the side, "Excuse me, could I borrow your phone for a moment?"

Suzuki Toru handed her the phone and asked, "What do you want to do?"

“Hasebe just reminded me that you’re the richest person in Class A now, so you should be the one paying the bill.” Kikyo Kushida fiddled with his phone, discovering that it had no password, and easily unlocked the apps. “One, two, three… wait, wait, am I seeing things? Why do you have millions?!”

Looking at the numbers displayed on the screen, Kikyo Kushida was completely unable to remain calm. She thought that Toru Suzuki would at most have three or four hundred thousand, but she didn't expect it to be ten times higher!

What's going on here? Where did they steal these personal points from?

"If you want, I can transfer half to you." Suzuki Tetsu didn't care; Morishita Ran's account was now even more terrifying than his.

"Give it to me? What are you doing here?!" Kikyo Kushida glared at him fiercely, clutching her phone to her chest as if guarding against a thief. "You're giving me half today, and then giving it to another woman tomorrow, aren't you?"

“I haven’t told anyone except you.” Suzuki Toru felt that she was wronging him.

Hearing him say that, Kikyo Kushida felt much better, though she couldn't help but scold him, "I don't know how you got these personal points, but it's best not to tell anyone. It's too eye-catching. What if someone asks you for money?"

Suzuki Tetsu wanted to tell her that Class A was not short of money at all, but then he thought that Kushida Kikyo was a student in Class D after all, and was surrounded by a bunch of poor guys, so it was no wonder that she was worried about someone borrowing money.

“Since you have so many points, I might as well buy them all and not save you any money.” Kikyo Kushida muttered to herself as she skillfully clicked on web pages. “Speaking of which, this school is really strange. It forbids us from contacting the outside world, but it allows us to go online and shop online.”

Suzuki Toru leaned closer to see what she was doing, and then he saw the explicit webpage and her skillfully adding it to her shopping cart.

"I can't believe my eyes, can I?"

"We can give them to Horikita then. By the way, do you think cat ears are cute?"

"The more you act like this, the more I want to use you."

"abnormal."

"Kikyo, do you have the right to say such things to me now?"

"It's not like I'm playing alone."

"..."

After Kikyo Kushida finished selecting, she returned the phone to Toru Suzuki and instructed him, "If you feel it's not enough, you can add more. We'll send them all to your dorm room."

Suzuki Toru looked at the price; it was indeed a number she couldn't afford.

How many points do you have left?

"Why are you asking this all of a sudden?" Kikyo Kushida frowned. "I'm envious of your points, but I don't want to be kept by you."

Although their relationship is strange now, Kikyo Kushida feels she has no right to interfere with his wallet, and besides, asking him for money always makes her feel inferior.

Making Suzuki Tetsu pay the bill was just for the two of them to play games; at worst, she would just give him something as a gift.

“I know what you mean. Actually, I don’t care much about these points. If you don’t want them, I’ll give them to someone else sooner or later.”

"Hehehe, so it really is him keeping other women as mistresses?"

"Please, Miss Kikyo, give me a chance to let my points be a part of your life."

Kikyo Kushida was speechless for a moment. How could this guy say something like that so seriously?

After a while, seeing Suzuki Tetsu transfer 20 personal points to her, Kushida Kikyo whispered two words.

"idiot."

Suzuki Tetsu didn't explain anything because he knew that Class D's life would return to the beginning of the school year next month, and he couldn't just stand by and watch Kushida Kikyo go hungry.

It seems I need to find a way to support Karuizawa Megumi, Sakura Airi, and Hasebe Haruka, otherwise they'll all have to eat a vegetable meal for a month.

"I almost forgot, where's my reward?" Suzuki Tetsu belatedly realized that he remembered Kushida Kikyo had said she would give him a reward, and he had been looking forward to it for a few minutes today.

"As expected, he's a pervert." Kikyo Kushida curled her lip. "You'd better not have too high expectations for the reward. The final interpretation is up to me."

"You have to let me know what the answer is, right?" Suzuki Toru looked at her expectantly.

Kikyo Kushida rolled her eyes at him and said without any mercy, "Go back and wait for news. I will let you know."

This was too agonizing, especially seeing what he had just ordered. Suzuki Toru could already feel himself getting restless; the girl was just too tempting.

However, since Kikyo Kushida didn't want to talk about it, Toru Suzuki didn't intend to force her here. There was plenty of time in the future, so there was no need to rush.

Thinking of this, Suzuki Toru said goodbye to her and turned to walk up the stairs.

"thorough."

Her voice suddenly caught up from behind. Suzuki Toru subconsciously turned around and bumped into something soft that landed on his cheek and gently pecked him, with a slightly warm feeling.

When Suzuki Toru came to his senses, Kushida Kikyo stood with her hands behind her back, her pretty face slightly flushed, but she gave him a sly smile.

"This is the reward; I keep my word."

Without giving Suzuki Tetsu a chance to speak, the girl turned her skirt and moved with a light step, like a deer, disappearing into the crowd not far away. As the elevator arrived, the girl's figure vanished from his sight.

Suzuki Tetsu touched his face. Did anyone see what happened?

He didn't seem to see clearly.

……