I, the mastermind behind the scenes at Soubu High, refuse to be caught in a bloodbath.

Ji Xiaolu forced a serious expression and said.

"It's nothing important, but if you keep doing this, you won't be able to eat."

Ju said softly, pointing to Himekoji's right arm that was being held down.

"Well, that's true, but I'll let her sleep peacefully anyway."

"How kind of you, President! So, I, Mariya, am going to give our kind President a little reward," she said, taking the bento box from Himekoji's hand and the chopsticks he was holding. Himekoji's heart pounded. Sure enough, Mariya picked up a sausage that had burst open and looked like a small octopus, caught it in the bento box, and brought it close to Himekoji, saying, "President, say 'Ah—'."

Chapter 044 Amazing! [Himekoji Haruto]'s left and right hands are incredibly nimble.

"...what?"

Ji Xiaolu opened her mouth with great shame and swallowed the little thing.

"So cute, even the student council president can be this adorable."

Juye covered her mouth and chuckled secretly, her thin shoulders trembling slightly, her adorable twin ponytails constantly tugging at Himekoji's heartstrings.

Ah, I'm dead again. High Priestess, may I ask why I must suffer such torment in this world?

So, Ju Ye fed Himekoji until he finished the whole bento box. She waved goodbye to Himekoji and deliberately blew him a kiss before leaving. Himekoji was so mesmerized that he almost lost his bearings.

At this moment, Kasumigaoka was woken up by Himekoji. Otherwise, she would not only be so sleepy in class in the afternoon, but also suffer from hunger. After being woken up, Kasumigaoka gently rubbed her eyes and murmured, "I'm sorry, I'm really too sleepy. Rinne-kun, let me feed you."

As she spoke, she took the lunchbox from Ji Xiaolu's hand, only to find that it was completely empty.

"Eh, you ate it all with your left hand? That's amazing..." Kasumigaoka blinked in surprise, then suddenly blushed for some reason, turning her body slightly to the side and muttering softly, "So, Rindo-kun's left hand is this dexterous too. Then his right hand must be...? As expected of Rindo-kun, he must have practiced a lot in private to make his hands so dexterous. Of course, Rindo-kun plays the piano so well, when his hands roam over my body, he must be teasing me like a piano..."

"Hey! Shiyu, what are you thinking about? If you keep talking like this, this story will be banned from broadcasting!"

Himekoji hurriedly brought Kasumigaoka, who was almost immersed in a fantasy world, back to the real world. She blankly said "Oh," and then casually pointed to Himekoji's empty lunchbox and said, "But, Inspiration-kun, the lunchbox I brought by myself... I put poison in it."

This really is poisonous! Mom, I should have listened to you, help!

"Poison...poison? Shiyu, ah—, I feel the poison taking effect!" Himekoji's eyes rolled back, and he clutched his chest, feigning collapse. Kasumigaoka's face showed utter surprise, but she quickly regained her composure, pulling the pitying Himekoji into her arms and comforting him by placing a hand over his dark eyes. "Rindo-kun, go in peace. After you die, I'll thoroughly study your robust body, like those places..."

"Ahem, alright, enough joking around, Shiyu, you should eat now."

Himekoji removed Kasumigaoka's hand from his forehead, pouting slightly in displeasure. She handed the bento box to Himekoji, pressing her body almost tightly against him. Through the gap created by the deliberately unbuttoned shirt, Himekoji could just see the two little white rabbits that looked like they were being squeezed and struggling to breathe.

"Feed me."

"Uh—, let's not talk about that now, the little bunny is about to burst."

"Little rabbit?"

Kasumigaoka was somewhat bewildered by his sudden leap of thought.

"Cough! It's alright, come on, say 'Ah—'"

Himekoji quickly put on a nonchalant act, picked up the lunchbox and fed her. After Kasumigaoka took the first bite, her expression became one of pure satisfaction, and Himekoji was infected by her sincere smile.

As a result, eyewitness accounts of student council president Haruto Himekoji cheating on student secretary Utaha Kasumigaoka with vice president Mariya Gidou while she was asleep on his shoulder, feeding her under a tree, and then pretending nothing had happened after Kasumigaoka woke up, feeding her again, were flying around the academy like letters with wings...

Gradually, rumors began to circulate that the student council president, Himekoji, was actually a shameless bisexual bastard. After all, there was also the handsome Hayama Hayato from the soccer club and the innocent Shinomiya Kyoya from the GJ club in the student council. However, when these rumors came from the mouths of the fujoshi (female fans of BL), they were completely distorted. It was said that Himekoji himself was a gay man who was outwardly dominant but inwardly submissive, and that his recruitment of beautiful women into the student council and his pretense of cheating on girls were all to cover up this fact. In reality, the student council was a bizarre love triangle between Shinomiya Kyoya, Hayama Hayato, and Himekoji Haruto. Even Hayama Hayato and Shinomiya Kyoya were given a lot of erotic settings by them.

After class in the afternoon, there were club activities to attend. The student council members all obediently came to the office. After everyone arrived, Ji Xiaolu asked them to lock the door first, and then sent each person a copy of the fax she had received earlier.

It was something like an invitation, sent from the Seaside Comprehensive High School. After discussing it with the school's higher-ups, the student council there said they could have a detailed face-to-face meeting to discuss the matter. They invited the student council members of Soubu High School to meet at the library conference room in the nearby community center next Monday at 6 pm.

"Although I said I would leave everything to Hayato, it seems I still have to handle one aspect myself. Hayato, how's the contact with Hekiyou Academy going? And what about the others? Please give your opinions on this fax."

There was no doubt that Himekoji would bring the student council members to the meeting, and he already had a preferred candidate in mind.

"President, I've contacted the Hekiyou Academy student council, but to be honest, I have a feeling their student council is a bit unreliable..."

Ye Shan smiled apologetically at Himekoji, as if to apologize.

“I know a little about the student council over there. They’ve always been the same, so just go ahead and do it.”

If the Hekiyo Academy student council could actually get serious, that would be something that would truly surprise Himekoji.

"We've received an invitation, so it's impossible for us not to go. The only question then is, who will go?"

Kasumigaoka silently shook his leg, pen between his fingers.

"Well, I'm definitely going, so if anyone wants to go on Monday afternoon and anyone can't go, just let me know in advance."

Himekoji interlocked her fingers, rested her elbows on the table, and looked seriously at the other members on either side.

"I'm going on Monday..." Juya was interrupted by Jasmine before she could finish her sentence: "Juya-sama and I are going."

"Hey, Jasmine, don't make decisions for me without my permission. We agreed on Monday..."

"Does Lady Mariya really not want to go?"

Jasmine turned to look at him expressionlessly, and Ju Ye felt a chill run down his spine. He shivered a few times, shook his head, and said, "No... I think I should still go."

Chapter 045: The Student Council Members Must Attend a Meeting to Discuss Crossfire

"Alright, Hayato has to go take care of things at Hekiyo Academy, so I won't be taking you. Kyoya's grades are a bit risky, so you should focus on your studies. I really wanted to take Utaha with me, but Tuesday is the deadline, right?"

"Please don't remind me of that death line, Haruto-kun."

Kasumigaoka, heartbroken, covered her forehead and said.

"Three people might not be enough, right, President?"

"So I have two other candidates in mind. I know one of them will definitely help, but I'm not so sure about the other one. But I'll give it a try anyway."

Ji Xiaolu turned her eyes slightly upwards as she considered what to say.

"Are you going to call Touma-san?"

Kasumigaoka narrowed his eyes, becoming more vigilant.

"President, are you planning to recruit new members for the student council?"

Ye Shan got a little excited. Several of his friends had mentioned wanting to join the student council many times, but they hadn't had any opportunities yet. There were still a few vacancies in the student council, and if they happened to be recruiting new members...

"We're not considering recruiting new students for now," Himekoji waved her hand, shattering Hayama's little plan. She took out two sets of student information and announced to them, "One of them is Kitahara Haruki, the top student in the third year who transferred here not long ago and has always been tied for first place with Utaha. The other is Ogiso Setsuna, who is also a third year and has always been very popular. With these two, there shouldn't be any problem, right?"

When he mentioned Setsuna Ogiso, everyone's expression turned somewhat strange.

"Is Haruto-kun choosing a concubine? Why is he taking that cute girl with him when he goes out to a meeting?"

An ominous black aura silently emanated from behind Kasumigaoka. The amplitude and frequency of her leg shaking were also quite different from before. If she could almost shake out a waltz just now, she was now trying to play "Fate".

"The reason I brought Kitahara Haruki is that I know he was a student council executive member in his previous school, so he must have a lot of experience in planning large-scale events like this. Bringing Ogiso Setsuna is basically like bringing a public relations person. That is to say, her task is to go there, sit down, and say a few words to the student council boys there when appropriate."

Of course, Himekoji brought Setsuna along for more than just that. He wanted to speed up the relationship between Kitahara Haruki and Setsuna. Logically, they should have officially met a month before the school festival in the next semester.

“Public relations... I see,” Jasmine blinked, staring thoughtfully at Mariya and whispered, “So, Mariya-sama could totally be a public relations professional.”

"No, no, no... please spare me."

It's one thing to deliberately act cute to see how infatuated those silly boys are, but I would never do something like acting cute on official orders for work. Even if I were to do it, I'd have to consider who the other party is, wouldn't I?

"As we all know, we are currently short of student council executive committee members, so if we ask Kitahara Haruki to help, no one will feel that their position is threatened. So, who will handle the negotiation tasks for Kitahara Haruki and Ogiso Setsuna this time?"

"It would be better if you, President, went to negotiate with Kitahara-senpai in person. As for Kogiso-senpai... Kasumigaoka-senpai, could you please help me?"

Hayama looked at Kasumigaoka with anticipation.

"Phew—, I feel like if you don't recommend me, the white-haired guy sitting over there will volunteer to go and talk to that Kogiso... um, negotiate."

"Speaking of which, Shiyu, can you please stop pausing after the word 'negotiation' and nodding thoughtfully? What indescribable scene did you associate with the serious word 'negotiation'?!"

"For example, cross-shooting, cross-shooting, cross-shooting, etc... cross-shooting."

She solemnly made a loop with her left index finger, and then repeatedly moved her right index finger back and forth within that loop.

"Why am I automatically hearing a 'beep' sound from the censorship? Shiyu, you'd better not say anything more, or this story is really going to be ruined!"

Himekoji was driven to another frenzy of吐槽 (tu cao, a form of online commentary/criticism) by

"So it seems like the vetting process for Hedgehog Cat is getting stricter and stricter."

Ju Ye crossed her arms and nodded thoughtfully.

"Someone like you, Lady Mariya, is a prime target for criticism. Oh, by the way, Lady Mariya, I'm planning to send your embarrassing photos to the reviewer. Does this remind you of the sapphire earring I mentioned to you this weekend...?"

"Ugh, stop talking! You're making me sound like some kind of pathogen! Delete those photos right now! When exactly did you secretly take those pictures?!"

"For example, when you're contemplating yourself in front of the mirror... you're really adorable then..."

Although Jasmine maintained a blank expression, her cheeks involuntarily flushed slightly.

Himekoji, on the other hand, almost immediately pictured Mariya wearing an adorable little white or black dress, sitting like a duck in front of a mirror, blushing and moaning as she rubbed something... Hmm, that sounds pretty awful.

"Waaaaaahh ...

Juye's face flushed red instantly.

"Oh, so you've already started practicing in front of the mirror how to be a proper president? Like Ananz Ul Gun? That's great, I admire you."

Ji Xiaolu smiled and gently rubbed Ju Ye's head, at which point Ju Ye's eyes rolled back and he fainted.

"Ah, Lord Juya is dead." Jasmine quietly took out more than a dozen insurance policies from her pocket and spread them out, saying, "Luckily, I bought billions of yen worth of accidental death insurance for Lord Juya. We'll make a fortune this time."

Yoru Shinomiya, Utaha Kasumigaoka, and Hayato Hayama all had the same thought flash through their minds: "Are these master and servant crazy?!"

"Also, everyone do your best for the regular exams next week. Well... I don't think I need to say anything. Shiwa, you've always been number one in the third year, and Jasmine and Mariya are also number one in the first year. The one who needs to work a little harder is you, Kyoya. Your English grades seem a bit risky."

Himekoji's grades are just barely above average for Class J; she always almost gets kicked out of Class J, but she always falls just short. (Yukinoshita: Next time I'll definitely do better, so this bottom-of-the-class student can get out.)

"Yes, yes, I recently hired the minister to tutor me."

Shinomiya answered Himekoji's question somewhat nervously, while mentally adding: "Although the club president's tutoring only makes him more confused..."

② The squeaky wheel gets the grease.

Chapter 046 Finding Help, [Kitahara Haruki] is still the same good-natured person

After finishing all the other miscellaneous tasks, Himekoji announced the end of the meeting and went alone to the music classroom at the other end of the student council office corridor.

The sign for the First Music Classroom hung high above the solid wood door. Through the frosted glass in the middle, one could vaguely see someone playing guitar by the window. After passing through this door, Ji Xiaolu knocked on the door next door. Soon, a graceful figure slowly approached through the frosted glass, and she asked in a low voice, "Who is it—?"

"Himekoji Haruto."