What does it have to do with me if they hate vests?

"Because, because the school and the student union won't allow it..." Eriri answered subconsciously.

"The student council president has agreed and plans to get involved. She will help us negotiate with the school."

Yukino spoke up.

"Well, then there's the issue of budget! How much do you think it costs to hold a festival?"

Eriri then raised an objection. As someone who frequently participates in various fan festivals, Eriri even feels that she can say: No one understands festivals better than me.

"Is 20 million yen enough?" Si Ji asked calmly, "Because the venue is the school auditorium, as long as the school agrees, there is no need to pay the large venue rental fee and service fee."

"It's almost the same," Eriri tried to keep herself calm. "The point is not 'how much money it will cost', but who will pay for it..."

"Someone has already sponsored it." Shiki said with a happy smile: "20 million yen."

Ying Lili was like a backstroke bass that had been caught and brought ashore. Her mouth moved but no sound came out.

"Okay," she finally slumped her shoulders and said in a somewhat depressed tone, "but this way you don't need my help at all, right?"

"Shiina-san is preparing the stage art. Although many of the scenery can be directly made of the legacy left by the drama club, some new ones still need to be made. This work is too much for her alone." Shiki looked at her and said sincerely, "I hope you can go and help."

"If that's all..."

Ying Lili sighed helplessly: "Then I will spare a little time to accompany you."

But even she herself didn't realize that there was a hint of eagerness in her tone.

Chapter 169: Monopoly

"But the student council president actually agreed to your ridiculous plan..."

After agreeing to help, Eriri got her own chair in the service club and was also pulled into the Monopoly game by the two.

Eriri casually moved her chess piece according to the numbers on the dice, and said with interest: "Although I did hear that this year's student council president is a bit strange... Yukinoshita-san has seen her, right? What kind of person is she?"

Yukinoshita Yukino was silent for a moment, then replied, "You don't want to know."

Ying Lili looked confused.

"Ha!" Shiki rolled the dice, then moved his chess piece proudly and said, "I'm a policeman now. I'll activate the effect to send the Minister to jail for 1 turn! Riddler, get out of Tokyo!"

Yukino frowned as she looked at the chessboard and the assets in her hands, as if she was considering whether to launch a retaliatory acquisition of Shiki's industries on the chessboard after she was released from prison.

"It doesn't matter if you say anything good or bad, right? It's not like you're just saying bad things about people behind their backs."

Eriri also took the opportunity to say this to Yukino.

"It's not as simple as a good or bad person for the student council president. She is very special..."

Yukino sighed. Even she seemed to have no good way to describe the student council president for the moment - of course, it was possible that she could describe him, but she herself could not accept herself saying such words.

There was a bang.

Ying Lili was so scared that she subconsciously shrank her head.

At first, Si Ji thought that the guys from the baseball club had broken the window and dropped their baseballs into the room again, but he soon realized that it was not the case. Instead, someone had used a lot of force to open the door of the activity room.

"excuse me!"

The visitor was a beautiful, slender, and powerful black-haired girl. She asked cheerfully, "This is the service department, right?"

"The Discipline Committee... No, is it the Student Council?"

When Si Ji saw the red armband on the other person's arm, he subconsciously thought of the group of discipline committee members who were always arresting people everywhere, but then he immediately discovered that the words on it were different.

"…I wonder what the student council president wants to do by visiting my club."

Yukinoshita Yukino stared at the other person intently, and after a moment she sighed as if she had given up something and said.

"Eh? Is this the student council president?" Eriri looked at the other person in surprise.

The student council president is heroic and dashing, and her chest, which is almost flat when compared to Yukino, makes her look somewhat androgynous. No wonder she is so popular among girls.

She was a beauty no matter how you looked at her, so Eriri couldn't understand why Yukino thought she was weird.

"Don't be so cold!"

Although Yukino's attitude is as stubborn as ever, the student council president named Amakusa Shino seems to be very close to her: "Fufufu, and I know that the club's name is the Service Club, which itself shows that Yukinoshita-san is cold on the outside but hot on the inside... No, she's the type who's cold on the outside but warm on the inside, right!"

Shiki noticed that although Yukino had no expression on her face, her fists were clenched and suddenly became hard.

"The service department is not meant for such boring things. We have other things to do and don't have the luxury of entertaining guests. If there is nothing else important, please go back, President."

However, considering that she had to rely on the other party to negotiate with the school, Yukino rarely put away her sharp tongue and just spoke indifferently.

But her excuse was too fake, and the pile of Monopoly pieces and cards on the table didn't look like she was 'busy' at all, giving people a rather perfunctory feeling.

But I don't know if Amakusa Shino is too naive or if she doesn't care even if she realizes that Yukino is chasing her away. Not only is the student council president not angry, but she said seriously: "Hey, I didn't come here to comfort myself with nothing to do. I have something to discuss with you about the Toyotsu Festival - well, it should be called this name~"

Since it was related to the Toyoin Festival, Yukino had no intention of continuing to chase people away, but sat upright and waited for what was to come.

"By the way, who are these two?" Amakusa Shino did not start talking about the business directly, but turned her attention to Shiki and Eriri.

"Temporary members of the Service Club and ordinary humans." Yukino answered concisely.

She seemed to remember the joke she had played with Shiki before, and naturally classified him as not a human being.

"What do you mean by a normal human? Introduce me something more normal!"

The ordinary human Eriri was unaware of the joke between the two. She just felt that she was being made fun of. She slammed the table in dissatisfaction and her chess piece also jumped up and down, looking inexplicably funny.

"I see." The student council president nodded.

"Over there!" The blonde with twin ponytails got even more angry and pointed at the student council president and complained loudly, "Don't just accept it like that!"

"Isn't that right?" Amakusa Shino asked puzzledly.

“Gu, although it’s true in a broad sense, it’s true…”

Eriri was interrupted by her question and was speechless.

"Actually, this Eriri is my wife." Shiki said while playing with the chess pieces.

"Huh? But the legal age for marriage in Japan..." Amakusa Shino was stunned.

"And there were three children. One of them was not my biological child, and we divorced because of that." Si Ji lamented in a deep voice.

"You're playing so wildly... You're a mixed-blood, after all." Amakusa Shino looked at Eriri with respect.

Ying Lili's face also turned red, and she looked at Shiki in astonishment: "You, what nonsense are you talking about..."

"Damn it, if half of my property hadn't been divided up, I would have won the last round." Si Ji said regretfully.

"It's Monopoly!" Ying Lili finally came to her senses and threatened with her cute little fangs, "Don't say something that could cause misunderstandings!"

Si Ji pretended to look at the chess piece in his hand intently, as if he was amazed by its exquisite workmanship.

Then, Eriri seemed to realize something and looked at Amakusa Shino with a dangerous look: "Wait a minute, you know I'm a mixed-race? You actually know me, right? The reason you asked me who I am is just for fun, right!"

"..." The bright and cheerful smile on Amakusa Shino's face froze for a moment, and then she continued to speak to Yukinoshita Yukino in a very cheerful tone: "Regarding the Toyotsu Festival, I actually found a very big omission. I hope to negotiate with you to resolve it!"

“Don’t ignore me, ahhhhhhh!”

Today's golden-haired girl with twin ponytails also feels like a loser.

Chapter 170: Doujinshi = light novel?

Although Eriri fell silent temporarily due to the persecution she suffered from her employers, the topic continued normally.

After all, the student council president said that there were "major omissions in the Toyotsu Festival", so neither Yukinoshita Yukino nor Shiki could sit idly by.

"If you mean that the budget is not enough, Washimiya-kun has already secured quite a bit of sponsorship today..." Yukino said, "I have already sent the relevant documents to the Student Union Activity Room this morning."

"I've already seen that, and I've also learned about the specific revisions to the plan, so I'm saying that this plan has a huge omission!"

Amakusa Shino waved her hand and spoke passionately.

"What kind of omission was that?"

Si Ji asked straight to the point: "As long as it's not a matter of principle, we can make adjustments as soon as possible."

The Fengyin Festival is still in the planning stage, so no matter what the problem is, it doesn’t matter and it is very simple to adjust.

On the contrary, it is when everything is on the right track, but suddenly you discover a big problem. You can neither change direction to correct the problem nor stop the activity in which you have invested a lot of money. That is when it is really painful.

"A matter of principle?" Amakusa Shino looked at Shiki.

"For example, because it's the Toyotsu Festival, the drama club is not allowed to participate." Shiki answered with a straight face.

Amakusa Shino still looked confused, as if she didn't quite understand why the drama club had become a matter of principle.

Yukinoshita Yukino nodded: They had done such a big thing just to keep the drama club going, but in the end they squeezed the drama club out just because of the name, that would be a hell of a joke...

"Well, although I don't quite understand your criteria for judging issues of principle, it has nothing to do with the drama club. What I want to say is-"

Amakusa Shino narrowed her eyes, took a deep breath, and spoke in an extremely serious tone.

Yukino seemed not to care, but the way she tapped the table anxiously and unconsciously revealed that she was not at peace inside; even Eriri was infected by this atmosphere and swallowed nervously.

Only Shiki, because the current conversation seemed to be judged as a negotiation, triggered the level 10 business skill, and quickly made a basic judgment on Amakusa Shino. Then he triggered the first-come-first-served skill and almost predicted what this guy wanted to say. He immediately lost all his nervousness and just looked at the student council president with dead fish eyes.

"Why don't the stalls outside sell doujinshi?" As Shiki's eyes turned into dead fish eyes, Amakusa Shino also said loudly.

"……what?"

The cold expression on Yukinoshita Yukino's face collapsed.

The answer was so unexpected that she even thought she was hallucinating: "Sorry, I think I heard it wrong. What did you just say..."

"Why don't the stalls outside sell Gong□ fan fiction!" Amakusa Shino repeated loudly.

"It's getting even worse?!" Yukino looked at the student council president in surprise, whose expression remained unchanged. For the first time, she felt that she had witnessed the disparity in people's sense of shame.

"Didn't the project plan mention that a stall would be set up in the school lobby specifically for selling light novels? Then it's only natural that fan fiction books should also be sold!" Amakusa Shino said passionately.

"I'm sorry, please forgive my lack of knowledge and I didn't hear the word 'of course' at all..." Yukino said with a cold face.

"From the appearance and layout, aren't those booths designed to imitate comic convention booths? If that's the case, if we don't sell doujinshi, those otakus who come to Toyosaki thinking that Toyosaki is a comic convention like Reitaisai... well, won't they be greatly disappointed!"

Amakusa Shino spoke for the otakus righteously: "As the organizer, how can we let the guests go home disappointed!"

"What's with this twisted service spirit..." Eriri complained in a low voice to Shiki beside her.

"Anyway, most of the people who buy doujinshi and light novels are the same people, so it doesn't matter if we arrange it this way, right?"

It's unclear whether Amakusa Shino heard Eriri's complaints or whether she heard them but didn't care, as she said with an expression that said 'doujinshi = light novel'.

"First, the target group of the Hoyone Festival is not those people, so there is no such thing as disappointing the 'customers'; second, the sale of light novels is mainly due to the requirements of the sponsors, not because of our preferences; third, even if it has the word 'light' in it, and most of them are just follow-up toilet paper, there are also works with certain literary value such as "A New World", "The Ancient Book Hall Incident Notes" and "Sword Demon Realm: Re-emergence" among light novels, so don't insult light novels with worthless fan fiction!"

Yukinoshita Yukino refuted Amakusa Shino's request with quite serious words.

Although the tone was bad, this was actually Yukino's relatively friendly attitude. After all, if it were usual, she would not even bother to glance at such a rude request.

That is to say, as the student council president, Amakusa Shino cannot bypass the holding of the Toyoin Festival, so Yukino can only use reasoning to defeat the other party and make her give up her unrealistic demands.

"That's not the case. Don't underestimate fan fiction!"

But Amakusa Shino is one of the few who, even when facing the serious Yukinoshita Yukino, is not intimidated by the other party's eyes that look at her like a water flea. She has a strong spirit (or maybe thick nerves) and still argues: "I won't say that mating and reproduction are instincts engraved in the DNA of living things, and are the most primitive pursuits of all living things! I am opposed to the fact that fan fiction has no literary value! For example, this!"

As she spoke, Amakusa Shino pulled out a comic book that was not too thick and not too well made from under her pleated skirt and stuffed it into the hands of Yukinoshita Yukino who looked disgusted.

The beautiful yet slightly twisted and painful girl character on the comic cover, and the two big words "Transformation" above it, made Shiki feel dazed.

"This doujinshi hasn't even been officially released. It's only circulated on the Internet. The tragedy and pain in it have the power to comfort people and guide readers to walk on the right path in life, so that they won't deviate from the right path because of some external temptations!" Amakusa Shino said loudly: "The power contained in it is not much weaker than those pretentious novels!"

Yukinoshita Yukino held a corner of the comic between two fingers, her expression changing constantly as she looked at the water stains on it, which she couldn't tell whether they were sweat or other liquids. She seemed to be unsure whether she should open this book that was obviously printed and bound privately.

Chapter 171 Rejection

In fact, Si Ji has always enjoyed being praised by others.

In his opinion, as long as he can keep his true heart in mind and not be deviated by the flattery of others, those voices of praise will not have any effect other than making him happy.

But the prerequisite is that the things that are praised cannot be things like dark history.

After all, "Transformation" is just a practice work of "Fuyuo Kishihisa", and it can be regarded as one of his dark histories. I originally thought that this comic would only be sealed in those anonymous forums, but I didn't expect that I would see this thing in real life...

Especially there is Amakusa Shino who is never afraid of trouble and continues to add fuel to the fire and say some weird things that make people blush.

Shiki tried to look normal: Anyway, "Transformation" was posted on an anonymous forum, so there is no evidence, and no one would know it was written by him...