Living in Tokyo, all I want to do is laze around.

So what? It won't work at all.

Uesugi Kai knew they were just being cheeky. He hadn't heard of any fights at the school. There was definitely some passive-aggressive behavior, but it wouldn't be as serious as throwing rotten eggs into the shoe cabinet.

"If you two come here, all three of us will be fired immediately."

"So you're not going to take revenge?" Goto Iwakatsu asked, seeing that Uesugi Kai seemed indifferent.

"When did I ever say I wanted revenge?"

"Damn it! What is that? It died again." Takahiro Tsubokawa, who had been engrossed in playing the game, suddenly shouted in frustration.

Kai Uesugi saw the black and white image on his phone: a person was constantly swaying on a wooden box, and there was a ranking displayed at the top of the phone screen, seemingly not even in the top ten.

Such a distinctive feature allowed him to recognize the game at a glance: PUBG.

He had played some in his past life, but it seemed to be a PC game back then. Now there's even a mobile version? The graphics are quite faithful to the original. I wonder which studio bought the rights.

Goto Iwakatsu retorted sarcastically without any politeness, "Ha, serves you right for not taking me along."

"You?" Takahiro Tsubokawa replied without any politeness, "I don't know who just said they wanted to chat and didn't have time to play."

Watching the two taunting each other, Uesugi Kai suddenly remembered the study group and asked:

"Mr. Haneda asked me to hold a study session. Would you be interested in attending?"

"Study session? No, no, no."

Upon hearing this, the two of them immediately shook their heads without even thinking, looking terrified.

"For study sessions, you should ask the class monitor and the others; they'll definitely be interested."

As expected, the two reacted, and Uesugi Kai didn't ask any more questions. He took the book he hadn't finished reading last time out of the drawer.

Although he was supposed to be reading, Uesugi Kai had absolutely no interest in reading right now. He opened his mental attribute panel instead.

Name: Kai Uesugi

Age: 16

【Height: 174】

【Intelligence: 7】

【Strength: 5】

【Speed: 4】

【Charm: 7】

[Physical Fitness: 5]

【技能：阅读Lv6（1/20），料理Lv0（-10/1），剑道Lv5（0/10），精准Lv3（4/7）】

[Special Skill: The Legend of Miyamoto Musashi (Ready)]

Current status: Normal

He currently has 43 attribute points remaining, and upgrading his Intelligence to 8 will require 40 points.

However, after several days of research, Uesugi Kai discovered that allocating attribute points to things like intelligence, which are very difficult to improve, is clearly more worthwhile.

Speed, strength, and skills can be gradually increased, but intelligence requires soaring through the sea of ​​knowledge to even slightly improve, which is extremely difficult.

Therefore, Kai Uesugi directly allocated 40 attribute points to Intelligence.

You have a new message.

Intelligence has been successfully increased to 8. The attribute points required for the next level are 80.

If a standard attribute of 5 is within the range of a normal person, then an intelligence of 8 would be extremely rare among humans.

Although Uesugi Kai did not immediately feel any changes after the upgrade, given his easygoing nature, he was not in a hurry to verify it.

Chapter Twenty-Six: The Malicious Uesugi-kun###

At lunchtime, Uesugi Kai, Goto Iwakatsu, and Tsubokawa Takahiro waited in line for a long time before ordering a pork cutlet rice bowl.

"Ah, Uesugi, aren't you eating with us?" Goto Iwakatsu asked Uesugi Kai, who had suddenly stood up, at the dining table.

Uesugi Kai pointed to Hanabi and the others eating next to the cafeteria:

"I'm going over there to discuss the study group matters."

"Hmph,"

A cold laugh,

Takahiro Tsubokawa suddenly pushed up his glasses with his middle finger, looking as if he knew everything.

"These are all excuses. Uesugi-kun is preparing to embark on his harem journey."

Goto Iwakatsu's eyes lit up; he was most interested in this kind of thing: "Tell me quickly, what's going on?"

"Think about it, in the morning, Uesugi didn't invite anyone else to the study session except for us. Why is that? There was a break time during the third and fourth periods."

"Actually, it's not hard to guess. He just wanted to wait until noon to catch all the top-performing girls in one fell swoop."

"..." Uesugi Kai was speechless at Tsubokawa Takahiro's wild imagination.

"Then, under the pretense of filling the quota, the study group will be full of girls except for him. Then, wouldn't he be able to do whatever he wants in this so-called study group?"

"Hehe, the days to come will be his."

As Takahiro Tsubokawa spoke, he couldn't help but smile, the corners of his mouth turning up slightly, giving him the expression of a detective who had uncovered a shocking conspiracy.

Goto Iwakatsu's gaze towards Uesugi Kai also became very strange, and he clicked his tongue in surprise:

"I never expected that our Uesugi-kun would be so secretive. Has he finally woken up? Is he finally going to use his face to seduce the girls in our class?"

"..."

"You have such a vivid imagination, I think you could go to a game company and help them create visual novels."

Ignoring the two who were making up their own ideas, Uesugi Kai picked up his rice bowl and walked towards Hanamaru Hanabi.

At a table in a corner of the school cafeteria, Hanamaru Hanabi, Kyuuji Rika, Ayaka Riei, and their classmate Kiyohara Hitomi were having lunch together.

The four students in the class got along well and had outstanding grades, so they often got together to eat and chat.

While eating chicken curry, Rie Ayaka saw Kai Uesugi walking slowly towards her and nudged Hanabi Hanabi beside her with her elbow in surprise:

"Hanabi-chan, your idiot is here."

Hanabi Hanabi looked up and saw Kai Uesugi walking over. She didn't care about Rie Ayaka's teasing and was used to it. Her classmates also knew that the two were childhood friends who had grown up together since they were little.

"Uesugi-kun..."

Under the gazes of the others, Uesugi Kai naturally sat down next to Hanabi.

Rie Ayaka leaned over and asked Kai Uesugi, who was standing next to Hanabi, "Uesugi-kun, what brings you here at noon today? Or are you just here to see Hanabi-chan?"

The group sat at a six-person table, with three seats in each of two rectangular rows. Hanabi Hanamaru sat in the middle, with Rie Ayaka and Kai Uesugi on her left and right respectively.

"A study group. Teacher Haneda asked me to set up a study group, which starts at six o'clock this afternoon. I'm here to invite you to join." After saying that, Uesugi Kai took a bite of the rice bowl in his bowl.

"A study session? Mr. Haneda mentioned it?"

Kiyohara Hitomi, who wore round gold-rimmed glasses and had long black hair, became interested after hearing this.

Can I join?

Kai Uesugi knew she would definitely join, after all, she was an active student and her grades had always been among the top three in the class.

"of course can."

"Hanabi, do you want to come?" Uesugi Kai turned to look at Hanabi, who was eating her bento next to her. The wide collar of her sailor uniform revealed her fair and jade-like collarbone.

She took a small bite of the corn sushi in her bento box, nodded, and said in a soft voice with a slight upturn of her lips:

"Hmm... I'll be fine if Uesugi-kun is here."

Hanabi Hanamaru readily agreed, but Kai Uesugi had a feeling that he was holding her hostage, for some reason.

After a brief pause, Uesugi Kai asked the remaining two:

"you?"

As the class monitor, Kyuuji Rika naturally had no objections to matters concerning studies: "Of course I have no problem with that, but six o'clock in the afternoon should be after club activities, right? How much time will that take?"

"Um..."

Uesugi Kai hesitated for a moment. This was a point Haneda-sensei hadn't mentioned, but it seemed it wouldn't take too long since it was so late.

"It should last about an hour, but you can leave at any time during these study sessions, so it's quite flexible."

"That's good,"

Rika Kuju put down her chopsticks, nodded, and turned to look at Ayaka Riei, the remaining member of the group. "What about you, Riei? Would you like to join the study group?"

Rie Ayaka, engrossed in eating her curry, didn't immediately answer her question. Instead, she glared at Kai Uesugi with extreme dissatisfaction, pouting:

"You bastard, you managed to poach all three of them at once..."

"So?" Uesugi Kai didn't say much and continued eating his pork cutlet rice bowl.

"so!"

Ayaka Rie suddenly realized that Uesugi Kai was too wicked, scheming step by step.

Taking advantage of the time she was eating curry, he first won over Kiyohara Hitomi, who loved studying the most, then won over Hanamaru Hanabi, who rarely refused, and then used the condition of free study time to restrain Kyuuji Rika.

Finally, he gets his best friend to help him win her over while she's eating.

That's outrageous! Scumbag, absolute scumbag!

"So that's why!" Ayaka Rie had no choice but to join as well.

“Hmm,” Uesugi Kai nodded in satisfaction. “So now there are five people in the study group. Please invite anyone else you would like to join, even though Haneda-sensei said the number shouldn’t be too large.”

Hearing him say that, Jiu Shi Li Xiang asked curiously, "You only invited a few of us to the study session?"

"Goto and Tsubokawa aren't coming, so I've only invited a few of you."

"Damn it! Uesugi," Ayaka Rie said with extreme displeasure, her face contorted with rage. "This is a study session, not your harem gathering! How can you only invite girls!"

Faced with a completely fabricated story, Uesugi Kai calmly and unperturbedly stated: