My love index is at its maximum.

Murakami Mizuiro quickly turned around, bowed deeply, and said, "I'm very sorry, I'll go back and reflect on my actions now."

"...Minister?" Tsukasa Tazaki didn't dare turn around and just looked at the air in front of him to ask.

"Hello? Moshi Moshi?"

"Say something! I'm a little afraid you'll suddenly pull out a knife and stab me from behind if you stay silent like this..."

His response was a helpless and troubled sigh from Kuriyama Sakura.

"Oh, Tazaki-san..."

"Yes, please let me know if you need anything."

"Please go back to the activity room now and write a 2000-word self-criticism."

"What should we review?"

"Reflect on what you just said!"

"If what I just said was wrong, then I need to reflect on it. So, according to the Minister, does that mean you're going to wear your maid outfit for other people to see?"

"……I don't!"

Kuriyama Sakura's voice was weak, and Tazaki Tsukasa knew without turning around that her expression was very unnatural.

It's that frustrating feeling when someone twists your original meaning with fallacies, but you can't refute them and can only go along with their words.

The crisis is over.

With his hands in his pockets, Tsukasa Tazaki walked happily toward a corner of the fifth-floor corridor.

The two entered the ATF department activity room one after the other.

One student boiled water to make tea, while another went to the window to read. At noon, students in uniforms could be seen everywhere on the playground and in the school buildings. Music could be heard from the music clubs as they hurriedly rehearsed for their performances at the school festival.

ATF is an outlier among them.

Just like its secluded location on the 5th floor of the club building, it is a little-known secret place.

A minister with very beautiful legs, and a member who really likes legs.

They would drink tea, read books, and chat together, but they wouldn't do anything productive...

The clock ticked away.

Tsukasa Tazaki brewed some tea, brought it to the bedside, and sat down.

Kuriyama Sakura rested her cheek on one hand, flipping through a notebook rapidly with the other. The warm midday sun shone directly on her seat, while the whistling wind outside the window mingled with the roar of trains entering and leaving Yotsuya Station.

Taking a sip of tea, savoring the rich aroma of black tea on his taste buds, Tsukasa Tazaki asked, "What do we do?"

"What do you want to do?" Kuriyama Sakura asked without looking up, turning the page of her notebook on the desk.

"I want to slack off."

"I want, too."

"As expected of the most understanding club president," Tsukasa Tazaki complimented, then tentatively asked, "There are only two of us in our club. If we both slacked off at the school festival, who's going to take care of things?"

"you."

"how about you?"

"Slacking off".

See that?

Minister, she's just a lazy bum who only knows how to shirk her responsibilities. Tsukasa Tazaki has seen right through her!

“The problem is, I have to participate in class activities,” he said, as if trying to negotiate. “It’s my older sister’s request. If I dare not to listen, you might have to go to the hospital to read ‘Remembrance of Things Past’ to me again.”

“You have to listen to your older sister,” Kuriyama Sakura looked up at him, “but you don’t have to listen to the club president?”

Although her voice carried a hint of laughter, her eyes were very intimidating.

It's that oppressive feeling that if Tsukasa Tazaki dared to refuse, she'd turn into a female Super Saiyan in the next second.

“The problem is I don’t have time,” Tsukasa Tazaki asked tentatively. “How about we hire a few people…”

"Don't even think about it!" Kuriyama Sakura puffed out her slightly heaving chest, her tone inexplicably proud: "Vulgar fools are not worthy of stepping into this activity room."

"..."

"See, you agree with what I said, right?"

"No, I just really want to complain about why there are narcissistic people like you."

"Because I am a perfect beautiful girl, I have the right to be narcissistic."

Tazaki Tsukasa instinctively looked down, his gaze falling on her obviously flawed chest, and then he received a "thud" on his head.

"Here, take a look." Kuriyama Sakura tossed the notebook that had just hit him on the head in front of him, speaking in a commanding tone: "Look at the activities other clubs are preparing, and you figure out how to handle it all by yourself. If you can't, then you can expect the club president to take care of you!"

With a helpless expression, Tsukasa Tazaki opened his notebook and found several forms distributed by the student council tucked inside.

[Social Dance Club: An indoor dance party will be held at 3:30 PM on the second day, taking place in the gymnasium. Everyone is welcome to join in the dancing.]

[Fashion Research Department: Fashion shows will be held daily at 11:00 AM and 2:00 PM in the dressing room. Models are cordially invited.]

[Chemistry Research Department: On the first day at 9:00 AM, come to the chemistry lab to witness the power of sodium! (Dangerous experiment, proceed at your own risk.)]

[Football Department: We have invited J-League FC Tokyo to play a friendly match at 3 PM the following day.]

[Debate Department: An English debate competition will be held in the new auditorium from 11:00 AM on the first day to 2:00 PM on the third day.]

[Faculty of Mechanical Engineering: For the three days of the school festival, we will showcase our self-made robots every morning at 9:00 AM sharp. We'll have both bipedal and quadrupedal robots. (There will be a drone show on the last day!)]

[Magic Department: Performing magic on the gymnasium stage starting at 11:30 AM on the first and third days.]

[Department of Literature: Tarot readings are offered daily at 9:00 AM in the old school auditorium.]

The pages were densely packed with activity plans from nearly a hundred clubs for their respective school festivals. Only the ATF club on the last page had "[To be determined]" written on it.

"What are your thoughts after watching it?" Kuriyama Sakura leaned back in her chair, picked up her mug, and sipped her black tea.

Tazaki closed his notebook and asked in confusion, "Our school only has about a thousand students, how did we manage to gather hundreds of clubs?"

"A student isn't limited to just one club."

"Why don't we join a club with lots of members?" Tsukasa Tazaki suggested. "We can quit the club together after the school festival."

“No way.” Kuriyama Sakura rolled her eyes at him. “As the only member, you have to shoulder the responsibility and honor of the ATF club.”

Hoshino Hanami also made the same request of me… Tazaki Tsukasa protested, “If all the members do everything, then what is the department head doing?”

"The Minister oversees the department members."

"This..." Rank is power, and Tazaki Tsukasa couldn't argue with her, so he could only resort to pleading: "I don't care, I can't do it by myself anyway, even if I jumped off the fifth floor right now, it's impossible!"

Kuriyama Sakura didn't immediately remain silent. Instead, she rested her chin on her hand and pondered for a moment before saying, as if she had planned it all along, "It's alright, the department head is very understanding of you and has already thought of a solution for you."

After saying that, she took a piece of paper from the book in her hand and handed it to Tsukasa Tazaki.

[School Festival Executive Committee Member Application Form]

Tazaki Tsukasa looked up in surprise, and their eyes met.

"Go for it, Tazaki-san!"

"You framed me!"

"Don't put it so harshly." Kuriyama Sakura smiled at him, a mischievous smile. "When half of the club members participate in the work of the executive committee, the club has the exemption from participating in the school festival activities. Didn't anyone tell you that?"

"I also need to participate in class activities..."

"It's okay. The executive committee is only busy with the preliminary preparations and publicity. After the school festival starts, they will only need to maintain order. It will be very relaxed and will not prevent you from participating in class activities."

"...Are there any other methods?"

"That's the decision."

"I……"

"Either join the executive committee or perform well at the school festival; in short, don't embarrass my ATF club."

After issuing the ultimatum, Kuriyama Sakura lost interest in the conversation and turned her gaze back to the hardcover book in her hands.

Looking at her flat chest, Tsukasa Tazaki secretly vowed in his heart—when he petted the Kuriyama cat girl in the future, he would definitely not hold back!

No... don't think about ripping off the minister yet.

The immediate challenge is figuring out how to get through this school festival.

After all, you can't be in two places at once, so how can you have time to handle two completely different jobs at the same time?

After leaving the activity room, Tsukasa Tazaki went into the library and asked Kana Shimamoto for a copy of the "Kitagawa School Chronicle" to look up the details of the school festival activities over the years.

As a century-old school, Kitagawa Academy Festival has a very complete and mature process for organizing, which can be used as a reference. Future generations only need to follow in the footsteps left by their predecessors.

Each school festival is organized by the student council.

The first task is to establish the [School Festival Executive Committee] and appoint its leaders. The next step will be to conduct a school-wide questionnaire survey to determine the theme of the school festival.

Once the theme is established, the specific work carried out by different departments revolves around that theme.

From the overall event planning of the school festival to the specific venue arrangements and the opening and closing ceremony performances, etc.

As he looked around, Tsukasa Tazaki noticed a problem.

The main part of the Kitagawa School Festival consists of "various stalls" operated by different classes and clubs, which is a great way to showcase the students' talents.

The problem is that, apart from the awards for excellence given by the student council, there is a lack of a more reliable ranking mechanism.

Although the final ranking can be determined by the sales amount, because sales can be obtained by cheating, no one pays much attention to the final class club ranking.

Not focusing on ranking competition means it's not exciting enough...

If a "challenge" mechanism could be added, the hype would be explosive...

Tazaki Tsukasa suddenly realized that if a mechanism was added where points were earned by challenging other teams to determine the final ranking, then he could simply keep challenging other teams to help his class and club stand out in the school festival!

There's no need to run around at all to accomplish what Hoshino Hanami and Kuriyama Sakura asked me to do!

Tazaki Tsukasa closed the book and smiled confidently.

He's definitely going to be the chairman of the school festival's executive committee this year!

I skipped my afternoon swimming lesson and stayed in the classroom reading.