I'm in a real religion, why are all the people who confess to me girls?

"Don't be afraid. We have so many of us. How can we let her show off here alone?"

Kanzaki walked out from behind the crowd with a few boys in high spirits.

"Kanzaki-san, are you okay?"

Ichinose looked at Kanzaki suspiciously, who seemed fine. He didn't look like he was knocked down by Amane at all.

As if he had noticed Ichinose's strange gaze, Kanzaki cleared his throat and organized his words before looking at Ichinose.

"I'm fine now. The most urgent thing is to get the key card back from Miyako as soon as possible."

What Kanzaki said was quite right, and Ichinose really focused his attention on Amane again.

Seeing that Ichinose had diverted his attention, Kanzaki finally breathed a sigh of relief.

Of course he pretended to be unconscious last night. He originally wanted to get up and struggle, but he heard Tianyin pull out Shibata who was hiding in the dark and watching him make a fool of himself. If Shibata and Kanzaki joined forces with Tianyin, it would be impossible for Tianyin to control the entire Class B as easily as he does now.

But when Kanzaki thought about how Shibata saw him being knocked down by Amane's punch, he simply chose to pretend to sleep in order to avoid embarrassment. On the one hand, he didn't want to lose face in front of his classmates, and on the other hand, he also wanted to see what would happen when Shibata met Amane.

The result surprised him. Shibata's behavior fully demonstrated what weakness is, which made Kanzaki even less willing to get up and fight.

He might as well just pretend to faint and fall asleep. Anyway, Shibata is there and there is someone to take the blame, so why should he panic?

Kanzaki has been waiting like this until now. When he saw Ichinose being teased by Amane, he couldn't help but stand up with a few people.

Chapter 258: Am I that powerful?

"Hey, isn't this Kanzaki? Come to think of it, I should thank you. If it weren't for you, I wouldn't be able to control Class B so easily. Well, since you made me feel happy, I'll give you a chance. Kanzaki, as long as you crawl over here and bark like a dog three times, I will return the key card to Class B and won't even look at the name of the key card holder."

The conditions offered by Tianyin were extremely tempting, especially the final promise, without even looking at the name of the key card holder.

In other words, Tianyin is willing to give up all the benefits he can get from Class B.

But behind the tempting conditions, there is often an unacceptable price. Now most of the students in Class B have woken up. Tianyin specifically asked Kanzaki to crawl over and bark like a dog. It is conceivable that if he really did this, even if everyone did not say anything bad on the surface, and even praised him for his endurance, there would definitely be a lot of gossip in private.

"Tianyin, your request is a bit too insulting..."

"I reject"

Before Ichinose could open his mouth to refuse, Kanzaki took the initiative.

For a moment, everyone's eyes turned to Kanzaki. Although everyone felt that Kanzaki's refusal was reasonable after putting themselves in his shoes, after all, such a request by Amane was a complete insult to other people's personality, and it was reasonable to be rejected. As the person involved, it was not surprising that Kanzaki made such a decision, but the speed of his answer caused dissatisfaction among some people.

When Class B decided to support Ichinose as the leader of Class B, it was decided that the collective interests of Class B would be more important than individual interests.

Whenever collective interests conflict with individual interests, Ichinose, the representative of Class B's will, will come forward to make the final decision.

Now it was Ichinose's turn to judge whether the other party's request was reasonable, but Kanzaki revealed his attitude before Ichinose could express her decision.

In this case, if Ichinose intended to ask Kanzaki to learn to bark like a dog, it would be impossible for him to force Kanzaki to do this humiliating thing when Kanzaki clearly refused.

There is nothing wrong with what Kanzaki did, but his behavior undoubtedly put personal interests above collective interests. Even if Kanzaki hesitated, everyone could understand, but Kanzaki answered almost immediately, which means that he probably didn't consider what benefits he would get if he agreed to Class B.

In other words, Kanzaki didn't consider the collective interests at all.

Kanzaki, who was particularly sensitive to other people's gazes, immediately realized that he had been too hasty in refuting, causing everyone to have opinions about him, and quickly opened his mouth to try to justify his behavior.

"Why are you all looking at me? You should go to the lake and look at the expressions on your faces. You have fallen into Miyako's trap by showing such a dissatisfied expression."

Kanzaki's earth-shattering words stunned everyone.

"Kanzaki-san, what do you mean by this? Have you seen through Amane's intentions?"

Ichinose looked back at Kanzaki in surprise. She didn't realize that Amane had set any trap, but Kanzaki insisted that everyone had fallen into Amane's trap without realizing it, which made Ichinose become alert.

Even Tianyin pricked up her ears to hear what trap Kanzaki had discovered. She just said a condition that could never be agreed to just to buy time, with the purpose of getting both parties into a stalemate.

Unexpectedly, Kanzaki actually discovered the trap that she hadn't noticed, and Tianyin suddenly became alert.

"I know, some of you must be thinking that Kanzaki refused so quickly, he must have sacrificed the collective interests to save face, right?"

As Kanzaki spoke, he looked at the few people who had just glared at him. Without exception, these people avoided looking at Kanzaki.

"You are wrong if you think so, and you are absolutely wrong!"

Kanzaki originally just wanted to defend himself, but as he was speaking he actually came up with a perfect self-defense speech in his mind, so Kanzaki's voice was also resounding at this time.

"You are dissatisfied. What will Miyako do? He will continue to sow discord between us and use various methods to arouse your anger, making you think that it is Kanzaki Ryuji who is unwilling to put down his pride and act like a dog that put Class B in crisis. Then what will you do?"

Kanzaki glanced at the whole audience proudly, and after discovering that everyone was listening attentively, Kanzaki became even more confident.

"You used the excuse that collective interests are higher than personal interests and asked me to crawl over and bark like a dog in exchange for the key card. On the surface, it was just a disgrace to me, but for Class B, it saved hundreds of class points. Isn't it worth it?"

"No! Absolutely not! Today it's me, Kanzaki, crawling over and barking like a dog. What if it's you, Shibata, tomorrow? What if it's you, Ninomiya, the day after tomorrow? What if it's Ichinose the day after tomorrow? Does the entire Class B have to kneel down at the feet of others and sacrifice their dignity to be dogs? You might say that everyone in Class B will protect everyone... But if you let me sacrifice my dignity to exchange for a key card today, I can tell you that you're dreaming. Class B can't even protect me, Kanzaki Ryuji, so how can they protect you?"

"As for Miyako, she used only a key card to easily destroy the foundation of Class B, turning our proud unity into a mess and making everyone feel insecure. The one who really made a profit is Miyako! Only a fool would not do this deal to destroy an entire class with just one card!"

Kanzaki loudly tells Amane's plan.

Ichinose couldn't help but gasp. She didn't expect that she only made one move, but Amane had already calculated so many steps. Fortunately, Kanzaki saw it, otherwise...

Those who had questioned Kanzaki lowered their heads with red faces.

While they were still questioning their classmates, they didn't expect that the enemy was right in front of them and was planning to watch the farce performed by Class B with their own eyes.

Kanzaki looked at Amane with his head held high like a victorious rooster.

clap clap.

Tianyin clapped quickly and seriously.

I didn’t expect that I was so amazing. Although I don’t know how I could do such a terrifying thing, it sounds amazing!!!

Just applaud!

Hoshinomiya's face also turned red, and she turned and walked towards the girls' tent. She couldn't stay here any longer. Kanzaki was actually making things awkward for her.

Even Xing Zhigong could see that Tianyin herself was confused, and it was obvious that the previous excessive demands were just to stall for time.

But Kanzaki insisted on interpreting it this way, which shocked Tianyin.

Really, why doesn't Class B have one or two Amanes like her that she can be proud of in other exams?

Xing Zhigong's departure did not affect the atmosphere outside.

Tianyin took the lead in clapping, and the entire Class B followed suit.

There was thunderous applause for a moment, and Kanzaki showed a very pleased expression.

But soon, as Tianyin's applause stopped, the scene fell silent again.

"Although your words are brilliant, the reality will not change. Since you have made me happy again, I will make an exception for you once again. As long as someone from Class B comes to me on his knees, I will let him take the key card without even looking at the name of the holder on the back of the key card."

Tianyin modified the rules.

This time, Kanzaki is much more confident than before.

"Don't think that anyone will be fooled by your tricks. Everyone has sharp eyes. Your conspiracies..."

Before Kanzaki could finish his words, he heard a plop.

When he went back to look, his eyes immediately opened wide.

"Shibata, why...are you kneeling down?"

Chapter 259: Walk with me

Shibata's sudden kneeling not only made Kanzaki feel uncomfortable as if he had eaten a fly, but also made his anger towards Shibata reach its peak.

It's not that he doesn't know what Shibata is doing in private, but what does it have to do with him? The reason why he helps Ichinose is because Ichinose can completely trust him and act according to his plan. For a person who likes to make plans, such a leader is the most perfect partner.

This is the key to Kanzaki's immense support for Ichinose. Compared with Ichinose, he certainly knows that Shibata's overall ability is even better than Ichinose. If Shibata is willing to trust him like Ichinose, there is no doubt that his cooperation with Shibata will make the overall strength of Class B improve to a higher level.

But Shibata himself is a comprehensive talent. He has the ability to lead everyone and make plans on his own. Even in terms of violence, Shibata is one of the best in Class B.

Such a person does not need Kanzaki's assistance at all, and naturally will not listen to him. This is the key reason why Kanzaki has been trying to suppress Shibata from the beginning to the end.

Class B does not need a leader with a will of his own.

Or rather... Kanzaki doesn't need a leader with his own will.

He hopes to use his abilities to lead Class B to Class A, but he knows very well that he simply does not have the courage and ability to unite everyone as a leader, so he cooperates with Ichinose and promotes Ichinose to become a leader, and he, as the shadow second-in-command, pushes the development of Class B behind Ichinose. This is what Kanzaki wants.

It was also something that Shibata would never give him.

Kanzaki originally thought that even if Shibata wanted to overthrow Ichinose again, he could only do so by using someone else's knife. However, he did not expect that Shibata would take the initiative to step forward this time.

Shibata, who was questioned in public, also had a bitter look on his face.

If others don’t notice it, how can he not notice it?

His cooperation with Horikita was probably already known to Amane. Both Albert's attack and Amane's deliberate delay were warnings to him.

Warning for what?

It was useless to warn him about cooperating with Horikita, because the decision-making power of Class D was entirely in Amane's hands.

He went to see Mr. Hoshinomiya more than ten hours ago. In order to allow Tianyin to successfully check the name of the key card holder and escape, Shibata deliberately found a place to sleep until dawn before calling Mr. Hoshinomiya.

Otherwise, how could it be possible to be gone for more than ten hours?

According to his estimation, with Amane's ability, he should have escaped long ago. Even if he had only found Mr. Hoshinomiya in the morning, there would be nothing he could do. He could just lie to Ichinose and get away with it.

But he never expected that Tianyin would wait there for ten hours.

Then the problem arises. He, who is actually in cahoots with Tianyin, called Mr. Hoshinomiya to destroy Class D's plan. Although it was Tianyin who was behind it, it was indeed destroyed.

Facing Ichinose, if Amane has already escaped, then even if it is too late to call for help, the main responsibility will not be on Shibata, but on Ichinose. Shibata will at most be criticized a few times and that will be fine.

But now he called on Mr. Hoshinomiya to destroy Amane's plan, which in turn facilitated the perfect realization of Ichinose's plan. With Mr. Hoshinomiya present, Amane could not use violence, and the final result would probably be that he could only flee in panic.

And Ichinose, who led Class B to defeat Amane and regained some face for Class B, will reach his peak reputation and it will probably be difficult to shake in the next few years.

At the same time, if he wins, Shibata's problems will be magnified, and even if Ichinose does not pursue it, he will be labeled as unreliable.

Even if Ichinose resigns from the position of leader in the future, it will most likely be Kanzaki who will take over, and it will definitely have nothing to do with Shibata.

Shibata was completely unable to understand what kind of psychological games and calculations were going on among those fighting. It was clearly an act to help Tianyin, but Tianyin would rather choose to be at a disadvantage and make Shibata lose face.

Such a heavy warning forced Shibata to take action, no matter what he had to do. Class B must fail this exam, otherwise he would never have the slightest chance of defeating Ichinose in the future.

So when Tianyin continued to ask people to kneel down to get the key card back, Shibata knelt down without hesitation.

Since Tianyin wanted to prove that he did not help Class D, he would send the answer to Tianyin's ears. Even if Tianyin didn't want to know who the key card holder of Class B was, he had to know.

Moreover, Shibata also found Tianyin's weakness, which is that Tianyin would definitely not betray Shibata in public.

How difficult is it to recruit a spy from another class? Especially when someone has a say in another class, it is even more difficult to recruit him.

If Tianyin betrayed Shibata in public, it would undoubtedly be announcing to everyone that Class D would betray the traitor at any time, and in this way, Class D would never be able to find anyone to cooperate with.

Knowing this, Shibata knelt down and moved closer to Tianyin.

"I'm sorry... If I hadn't fallen asleep in the woods yesterday, Mr. Hoshinomiya would have come here earlier, and maybe we could have gotten the key card back then. Since it's because of me that things have been delayed until now, let me use this humiliating method to get the key card back. Ichinose-san, you don't have to persuade me anymore."

Shibata found an excuse for himself, and then knelt down and walked slowly to Tianyin in front of everyone.

"Shibata-san..."

Ichinose wanted to speak up and interrupt Shibata's actions.

But Shibata had already knelt down. If he was interrupted at this time and Tianyin became more cautious, Shibata's humiliation would be in vain.

"This guy……"

Kanzaki adjusted his glasses.

He had not expected Shibata's decisive move, and he also knew that Shibata must have his own purpose in doing so, and it was even possible that he was trying to leak information.

Thinking of this, Kanzaki glanced at Ichinose.

If he told Ichinose now that Shibata was collaborating with the enemy, would Ichinose believe him? Kanzaki asked himself in his heart.

Although Ichinose respects and listens to his opinions in many things, he tends to be soft-hearted when it comes to matters related to his class members. This is also Ichinose's biggest weakness in Kanzaki's eyes.

If Class B fails in the end, it must be because they failed from within.

Although Kanzaki cannot be considered a top figure, he still has some vision.

Shibata moved very slowly, and it took him seven or eight minutes to walk on his knees to cover a distance of five meters.

When he came to Tianyin and was about to say something, Tianyin suddenly patted Shibata on the shoulder.

"It seems that there are still people in Class B who are willing to endure humiliation. In this case, I will forgive Kanzaki-san's provocation and violence."