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

"Well, not bad, not bad, this name really suits your style."

Himekoji clapped her hands at Yukinoshita in the classic way that Professor Snape from Harry Potter clapped.

"Because the kittens are still a bit hard to distinguish, I used a marker to mark the first letter of their names on their ears."

The first letters of the names (pen names) of those five writers are indeed different.

"Great labeling, which one do you prefer?"

"My love is equal."

Yukinoshita responded calmly, and at the same time the elevator doors opened, and Himekoji walked out with her to the 15th floor.

After fiddling around for a while and opening the door, she invited Himeko to go in first. Perhaps because of the addition of a few cats, the whole house seemed much more lively, unlike the lifeless state it had been when she visited before. Some decorations had also been added or changed, probably because the cats had scratched things.

As soon as she entered the door, a chorus of meows began to ring out. Yukinoshita hurriedly locked the door, changed into slippers even faster than Himekoji who had entered first, stepped into the house, casually tossed her schoolbag onto the sofa, and ran straight to the cats' large cage, opening it.

After not seeing them for a month or two, the kittens had clearly grown two sizes bigger. When all five kittens huddled in Yukinoshita's arms, Himekoji felt as if she were the happiest woman in the world.

"It's so itchy... ouch~ haha..."

The cats were climbing all over her; speaking of which, Yukinoshita, their claws would ruin her school uniform...

However, judging from her completely indifferent attitude, she probably has about ten sets of Soubu High School uniforms in her closet. Never mind, Himekoji threw the ingredients into the kitchen and reached out to the cat mother lying near the TV cabinet.

However, the mother cat had clearly forgotten about Himekoji and was about to scratch him, so Himekoji quietly withdrew his hand and picked up a kitten from behind Yukinoshita and put it in his hand.

The one he caught was "Machi," a small female kitten.

"Hey, be quiet."

Yukino stood up, holding two kittens in her arms, one of which was perched on her shoulder, while the other rolled around on the floor as if throwing a tantrum, occasionally swiping at Yukino's slippers.

"I was just imitating the way a mother cat picks up her kitten and pinching it. It's perfectly normal."

"Hmph... Himekoji, take out the sashimi you just bought and give it to the cat mom."

Are you sure you're raising a cat and not its owner?

Are there any obvious differences?

Completely captivated by the cat, Yukinoshita said without thinking.

"...I'll pretend I didn't say anything."

Yukinoshita's love for cats truly opened Himekoji's eyes. The person who had always wanted to have a cat suddenly had six cats, five of which were still kittens, which made her extremely happy.

The mother cat jumped down from the cabinet and rubbed her toes against Yukinoshita's feet before stretching out and lying down. Ryunosuke, who had been rolling around her feet, seized the opportunity to snuggle up to the pink bump on the mother cat's chest and began to suckle contentedly.

At the same time, Himeko deliberately glanced at Yukinoshita's chest, but this glance was noticed by Yukinoshita, who was on guard. As if an electric arc popped out of her forehead, she immediately frowned, silently hugged her chest, and turned away.

Hey, I didn't look at her chest because I thought there was a girl next to me. There's practically nothing to cover up with your chest, you wouldn't be able to suck anything out even if you tried!

"Uh, I'll go get some food."

That is, the sashimi I bought for the cat's mother. Yukinoshita bought bluefin tuna sashimi, the most expensive kind. It's not far off from the super expensive stuff that's freshly cut at Ginza sushi restaurants.

What a waste of money, what a waste of money, ugh.

However, it still pales in comparison to the gold and silver that Himekoji's mother adorned for that little duck.

After feeding the cats, Yukinoshita put on her little black apron with cat paw prints, stood at the entrance to the kitchen from the living room, holding a spatula, and asked, swaying the spatula in her hand, "Do you want to stay for dinner?"

"So you're planning to kick me out?"

"I was originally going to invite you to stay for dinner, if it weren't for that aggressive look you gave me earlier."

"Well, since the host doesn't welcome me, I'll go back."

Himekoji removed the cats from his lap, but he only had two hands. He removed two, and two more would climb on top of him. The more he tried to remove them, the more the cats clung to him. Finally, he pointed helplessly at the cats on his lap and said to Yukinoshita, "Yukinoshita, your owners don't want me to leave."

"..."

Yukinoshita rubbed her temples with one hand on her forehead, looking quite troubled and distressed, before silently turning around and going inside to cook.

After the meal, even the cat's protection couldn't keep Himekoji from staying at Yukinoshita's house any longer. So, after drinking a cup of tea, Himekoji immediately stood up and said, "Then I'll be heading back."

"Wait a mininute."

Unexpectedly, it was Yukino Shino who tried to persuade him to stay. However, judging from her businesslike demeanor, she probably didn't even consider that she was trying to keep a boy at her house.

"what?"

There's something I need to ask you.

Yukinoshita opened the schoolbag she had thrown on the sofa and took out a large stack of documents, all of which were about the school's sports festival.

"Security precautions... budget application... inventory registration... how did you end up taking over all of these?"

“This is what’s left after it’s been distributed,” Yukinoshita said seriously, shaking the large stack of documents. “Thanks to you, student council president Gidou helped me with some of it.”

Chapter 163 So Troublesome, [Himekoji Haruto] Prefers Destruction to Repair

"So, Sagami is just dumping her job on you too?"

"Or rather, she simply wasn't capable of handling it, so I had to take over."

Yukino spoke such a truth, walked past the cat playing on the ground and sat on the sofa. Himekoji also walked over and sat about forty centimeters away from her.

"What do you want to ask me? How should I assign tasks to Sagami, or...?"

“I’ve given up hope. Even if it’s reassigned, she’ll just dump it on me again with the ‘I’ll leave it to you then’ approach. To be honest, I’m not complaining that there’s too much work to do. I’m capable of handling it. It’s just that she’s also dumped some of the work that requires approval from the operations committee chairperson on me. Out of a sense of responsibility, I need to ask you for advice.”

Yukinoshita's gaze was fixed on the document. She quickly flipped through it with both hands, took out the part that Himekoji needed to see, and placed it flat in front of him.

Night had already fallen, and outside the floor-to-ceiling windows of Yukinoshita's house, various lights from the high-rise residential area in the distance shimmered, while the damp evening breeze made the brown curtains flutter.

"Because it's Friday today, these things need to be completed within this week, and it will be very troublesome without her authorization."

"Let me take a look."

Himekoji picked up the document and quickly scanned the important information. This was indeed a document that required Sagami's signature. It would be an overreach of authority for the vice chairman to do this, and Yukinoshita, who was meticulous in her work, would not do such a thing.

However, if authorized by the student council president, no one would say that this is an overreach of authority, or that it is something that the student council president should have done in the first place, and that the temporarily elected operations committee chairperson, Sagami Minami, is just an agent.

"The pen is here."

She took a ballpoint pen with a ginger cat drawn on the end of it out of her backpack and handed it to him.

"You don't need to worry about it, I'll handle these things."

Ji Xiaolu tapped the documents, neatly arranged them, rolled them into a tube, and held them in her hand.

Yukinoshita's eyes widened in surprise, then she frowned and stammered, "But...this..."

"What are you planning to do after this?"

"Work."

Yukinoshita pointed to the silver-gray laptop lying flat on the other end of the sofa and said.

"Then you go ahead and work. I won't bother you anymore. I'll take these things home and deal with them."

"All right..."

She nodded helplessly, put the pen she was clutching into her handbag, and then Himekoji took her leave. As she went out, Yukinoshita said in a very soft voice, "Thank you..."

The sports festival preparations were proceeding smoothly, and as the date drew closer, Sagami remained as useless as ever. Apart from signing authorizations, he mostly spent his time discussing girls with Jasmine and Kasumigaoka. Kasumigaoka had the ability to multitask, typing data and talking at the same time, and Jasmine was no ordinary person either. Although they were chatting, she was completing her work at a normal pace. Only Sagami seemed to be doing nothing.

For some reason, the files around Hachiman were piling up higher and higher. Even though his hands were working at lightning speed, they were still piling up. It wasn't that the field crew wasn't working; rather, it was because the field crew was constantly working on-site that some document processing tasks had to be completed by the headquarters staff working overtime.

Although Hikigaya was on the field shift, he was in the "miscellaneous record-keeping" category, so he also stayed in the conference room to handle documents.

Himekoji, needless to say, was playing the piano with Kazusa in the second music room; he was a master at stealing moments of leisure from his busy schedule.

But this can't be said that Himekoji is being lazy. He is definitely working hard every day, he just took a day off today.

However, the atmosphere in the meeting room changed drastically the next day. First, Sagami Minami was absent from the meeting. Second, some people in the field team, led by Haruka and Yuko, began to band together. Their main goal was "non-violent non-cooperation," which means not resisting your orders, but also not doing any work. Even when working on-site, they would just chat or occasionally hand over a tool.

"What happened?"

Himekoji asked Hikigaya, who was constantly entering information.

Hikigaya stopped what he was doing. He wasn't some superhuman who could accurately input information while talking about other things (Kasumigaoka). Yuihama, who was about to leave, glanced over, hesitated, and then stopped. Yukinoshita was focused on her own work; she had a mountain of documents on her side.

According to Himekoji's plan, even if some members of the on-site team had complaints, the sports festival could still proceed normally. However, the current situation means that an unexpected situation has occurred that Himekoji could not control.

"They had a fight."

Hachiman said it very briefly.

The root of the argument was that Sagami Minami, as the head of the operations committee, was not doing any work, while the people on the field team were exhausted. The trigger was that when Sagami greeted those two people this morning, they ignored her. In short, it wasn't that Himekoji's arrangements were wrong, but that Sagami was being reckless.

However, under these circumstances, Himekoji did not intend to fire Sagami, since he had only been in this position for a short time, and it would be difficult to explain to Hiratsuka Shizuka if he were dismissed.

Working with mediocre people is incredibly boring.

Even though the assignments were already so good that you could just act as a mascot and fiddle with some documents to get by and earn points, you still managed to squander this advantage. Himekoji is utterly speechless at Sagami Minami's idiocy. (Serving as the chairperson or vice-chairperson of the operations committee will earn you extra points, which will be very helpful for future university entrance exams.)

Anyone with a modicum of sense wouldn't do something so stupid. Puberty really does make you stupid.

Himekoji tapped her left hand repeatedly on the table, then looked up at the ceiling, pondering how to deal with Sagami Minami's situation.

There's a simple and straightforward solution: ignore Sagami Minami, just finish the work here, and let the field crew continue working according to plan. Whether she comes or not doesn't matter. However, this approach presents a problem: the Service Department.

Once Sagami Minami seeks help from the Service Club, then according to Yukinoshita's orders, no matter how hopeless a person is, as long as they extend a helping hand to them, they will lend a helping hand. Therefore, Yukinoshita, Hikigaya, and Yuihama will also try their best to help Sagami Minami repair her relationship.

So, how about we just let this relationship become irreparable?

Himekoji pondered this plan and asked Kasumigaoka for a list of operations committee members and volunteers.

Chapter 164 A Scene is About to Erupt: The Strike Team Acts Unlawfully

He drew two long lines under Haruka and Yuuko's names with a black ballpoint pen, then stamped the list with the "Sobu High Student Council" seal and handed it to Shinomiya Kyoya: "Go to the work area of ​​the field class and inform them that Haruka and Yuuko of the basketball club can stop serving as operations committee members from now on. The basketball club's club fee will be reduced by 50%, while the club fees of all other clubs will be increased by 15%. In addition, inform them that they have been sent home for three days to reflect on their actions for leading the way in slacking off, and that they must write a 5,000-word self-criticism and apologize to all students at the school-wide student assembly next week."

If it were Hiratsuka Shizuka who made this decision, she definitely wouldn't have made it. And after Himekoji made this decision, Hiratsuka Shizuka would definitely call and scold him, but that wouldn't do any good. Just like what Hiratsuka Shizuka said, "Special times call for special treatment." If you take the lead in slacking off during such an important event, you have to bear the corresponding responsibility.

Because two boys in the basketball club are still working hard, Himekoji can't cut off all the club's allowance. So it was Haruka and Yuuko's slacking off that led to the reduction of the basketball club's allowance. They will be hated by all the basketball club members, and other clubs that contributed to the volunteer work will take this as a negative example and work even harder.

Besides, they were rewarded, weren't they? This is a combination of making an example of someone to scare others and using a carrot-and-stick approach. It's an old method, but it's always been effective.

I guess they'll quit the basketball team.

"Hey...isn't this a bit too serious?"