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

Kito's injuries haven't fully healed yet, so Sakayanagi prefers Amane to go and intimidate Ryuen while Kito is injured.

After all, if they were to encounter Albert, Ghost Head wouldn't be so easy to deal with.

However, to Sakayanagi's utter surprise, Amane's sudden blockade made everyone feel as if they were facing a formidable enemy.

When words like Amane, Sakayanagi, student council, and Class A are linked together, they tend to lead people to think in a darker direction.

Although Sakayanagi is very cautious and has not publicly revealed any information, most of the power in the student council is now firmly in the hands of Class A. Sakayanagi is responsible for almost all important matters such as daily announcements, financial accounting, personnel organization, and meeting arrangements.

Although Ge Cheng has been quiet lately, he still holds the position of the former head of the Discipline Committee of the School of Discipline at Tianyin. He has the responsibility and power to supervise violent behavior throughout the school and can legally use violence. This makes Long Yuan very wary. This is why Long Yuan has not taken violent measures to solve problems recently. He is not sure how far this seemingly dispensable Discipline Committee can go. In recent days, he has gradually begun to test the bottom line of the Discipline Committee.

Getting back to the point, Horikita's goal is well-known: to be promoted to Class A. It sounds like a one-sided declaration of war against Class A, but there are far too many things that can be manipulated.

Ryuen believed that if he were Sakayanagi, he would definitely persuade Katsuragi to give up his position. Then, by bringing Amane back to the student council, he could increase his own power and take advantage of the opportunity to form a formal alliance with Horikita. Privately, as long as he tacitly agreed to promises such as Horikita being able to transfer to Class A, he could easily undermine Horikita with a little trickery and directly integrate Horikita's class with the existing Class A into the largest force among the first-year students.

Ryuen couldn't believe that Sakayanagi couldn't have come up with such a solution.

This was something he had always been wary of, and now that he saw Amane and Sakayanagi openly making contact to cooperate, his sense of crisis reached its limit in an instant.

"It seems we need to get Kushida to speed things up."

Chapter 68: I heard you starved to death?

With Tianyin's restrictions in place, no one intended to cause trouble in the teaching building. As the weather grew colder, some even began to have second thoughts, quietly slipping away from the back of the line while everyone's attention was focused on the teaching building.

There are quite a few people like this.

In their view, the only thing that matters to them in terms of the class's success or failure is the change in their material life. However, since everyone receives the same number of points every month, they don't feel proud or dissatisfied even if the points increase or decrease.

Then why should they work so hard for the class? Anyway, the class's decisions will never take their opinions into account, and as for fighting for power and profit? That's even further removed from their lives, and any benefits they might gain are none of their concern.

There are quite a few people who think this way, and it can even be said that many people believe that the competition between classes is actually a power struggle between the class leaders.

Gradually, only a few people remained waiting outside the teaching building; everyone else had left, either returning to their dormitories or going to the shopping center in small groups to have a good time.

Fortunately, the person who was asked to check the school's posted notice knew that there were other people waiting outside, so they didn't stay in the teaching building for too long.

First was Sakayanagi, who already knew the outcome perfectly well. She had originally planned to come today to see how Ryuen would react after discovering his defeat. Unfortunately, Ryuen seemed to have sensed Sakayanagi's thoughts, so Shiina went to check the results while he waited outside with his men.

In this way, Sakayanagi's actions became meaningless, and there was naturally no need for him to stay there.

Seeing the smiling face of Sakayanagi when he came out, Ryuen already knew the outcome. He turned around and left with his men, seemingly intending to avoid Sakayanagi's sharp edge for the time being.

However, Shiina hadn't come out yet, and Ryuen was in a hurry to leave with his people. When Shiina came out and couldn't see his classmates, he must have been a little disappointed.

"I didn't expect them to be so honest. You've really worked hard, Tianyin. Let's go. If you're here for hot pot at noon, we'll need to buy more ingredients."

Sakayanagi tiptoed and gently patted Amane's head, seemingly quite satisfied with Amane's execution.

"I want to eat beef!!!"

"Beef? Then let's buy some more beef rolls. Masumi, why don't you stay and have dinner with us today? It would be a bit strange to have shabu-shabu with just the two of us."

Sakayanagi seemed to be in a good mood today, and casually extended an invitation to Kamuro, who hesitated only for a moment before nodding in agreement.

"I'm getting a bit tired of the cafeteria food, so it's nice to change things up once in a while."

"Huh? Kamuro, don't you usually cook for yourself?"

Amane looked at Kamuro strangely. Although the school cafeteria was open even during holidays, very few people ate there for months at a time. This was because the food in the cafeteria was not cheap and was far from plentiful; it was just some simple home-cooked meals.

So going to a nearby restaurant or buying ingredients to treat themselves is something that most students here do.

Leaving aside the boys, most of the girls, except for those like Amane who go straight to high school, have had a good education in home economics and how to cook simple dishes in elementary and junior high school.

Therefore, even if the taste is just so-so due to skill issues, it doesn't mean that the food is completely unsuitable.

But Kamuro's words made it seem as if she had been eating all her meals in the cafeteria these past few days.

"Isn't that kind of thing a hassle? I'm exhausted from classes every day, and after school I still have to buy groceries and cook. It's a complete waste of time, not to mention I have to spend all my time with this guy. It's driving me crazy!"

"Masumi-kun, you're really bold! If you have time, I hope we can have a good talk about the things you find annoying about me."

Sakayanagi's smile deepened, while Kamuro retreated to the side with a look of disgust.

"See, I told you so. This person looks cute but is actually quite wicked. Sorry... I forgot you look like that too, Miyako."

Kamuro, as expected of the expert in foreign affairs negotiations of the Sakayanagi faction, offended both Sakayanagi and Amane in just three sentences.

No wonder Sakayanagi always keeps Kamuro by his side... cough cough, it's questionable whether he'll even come back intact if he's let go.

"I didn't mean any harm! This is slander! Masumi-kun, you're slandering me!!"

"Well, don't worry about the details. Anyway, cooking is a very troublesome thing, so I always eat in the cafeteria. Since you invited me, I might as well take advantage of it. I'm always running errands for Sakayanagi, so it's only right to treat me once in a while, right?"

Amane blinked, then turned to look at Sakayanagi.

"How can she talk about getting a free meal so confidently?"

"I guess I learned it from you. You and Maple have been coming to my place for meals quite a few times."

After finishing speaking, Sakayanagi reached out his hand to Amane.

Amane naturally helped Sakayanagi up; they had repeated this action countless times, it had even become muscle memory.

"Speaking of maple leaves, it feels like I haven't seen her in ages."

Tenon then remembered that she had an old acquaintance named Kiryuin Kaede, but for some reason, Tenon would always subconsciously forget about her.

"Her class's points plummeted because of you, and she's always broke. She used up all her points at the beginning of the month, so now she can only stay in her dorm waiting for next month's points to arrive, right?"

When Sakayanagi mentioned Maple Flower, his tone became a little strange. Although he still spoke in a very intimate manner, Amane felt that something was not quite right.

Sakayanagi and Kaede's friendship probably wasn't that good.

"Why didn't she come and tell me? I still have quite a few items here."

After several huge expenditures, coupled with the extremely high level of luxury she and Horikita lived, it could be said that Amane spent money like water.

Even so, Tianyin's points were still ridiculously high. Even if they spent tens or even hundreds of thousands of points every month, they would still have more than enough to last until graduation. So, for Tianyin, points were something they could never spend.

Of course, the old man still had to reimburse her for the purchase of points.

This also means that although they can enjoy themselves now, Tianyin will be pulled back to work and pay off their debts as soon as they graduate.

"You know her personality... Hmm, Tianyin, do you think she might die in the dorm?"

"Eh!!!!—"

Chapter 69: Please, please let me close my eyes!

"Maple Flower! Maple Flower! Open the door quickly!!!"

I heard a deafening knocking on the door early in the morning.

The sound was so loud that it attracted the attention of many people on the same floor.

However, Kiryuin, who had just fallen asleep, covered his ears with a face full of anger.

"Are you trying to get yourself killed?! What are you yelling about so early in the morning?"

Kiryuin shouted angrily towards the door, then buried his head under the covers.

I stayed up all night watching horror movies yesterday and only just fell asleep recently. It's a miracle I can even open my eyes now... Oh, sorry, she didn't open her eyes.

After seeing that things had finally calmed down outside the door, Kiryuin, with his eyes tightly closed, finally poked his head out of the covers and fell asleep peacefully.

Just then, a loud bang came from the entrance hall.

boom!

Was there an earthquake?

Kiryuin rolled over, and although the voice seemed very close to her, she couldn't open her eyes at all.

Then came a second loud bang, this time even louder than the first one.

Even Kiryuin cannot turn a blind eye to this.

because……

It seems someone is banging on her door.

Kiryuin leaned against the wall and slowly walked towards the entrance. After staying up all night, her legs were so weak that she could barely walk. When she finally arrived at the entrance and was about to look through the peephole to see which bastard wanted to demolish her house, a sudden loud noise caused Kiryuin to crash into a complete system crash.

The collapsing gate pinned Kiryuin down beneath it. Before Kiryuin could even figure out what was happening, she felt the gate suddenly press down on her, making it hard to breathe, as if something had stepped over the gate.

"Huh? Maple isn't in the dorm. No wonder no one answered the door. But I couldn't get through on the phone either. Honestly, I wasted my time."

Tenon wiped the sweat from her forehead, glanced at the empty room, and was about to leave when she saw Sakayanagi carefully crouching outside the door frame, pointing cautiously to a section of white hair sticking out of the door.

"The person you're looking for might be behind the door."

Upon seeing this, Tianyin quickly moved the door aside, only then discovering that Guilongyuan was lying peacefully on the ground, motionless. From the dark circles under Guilongyuan's eyes and the lingering signs of listlessness, even his skin looked rough.

Seeing this, Tenon carefully picked up Kiryuin with trembling hands.

"Arisu... Kaede starved to death..."

You're the one who's starving to death!

"Huh?"

The moment of emotion lasted less than three seconds before Kiryuin interrupted him.

She was so tired that when she was pressed against the door, the cold ground and the weight on her body caused Kiryuin to fall asleep without realizing it.

She had originally planned to get a good night's sleep and deal with those messy things when she woke up, but before she had slept for long, that bastard Tianyin grabbed her head and something soft blocked her breathing.

If all of this was still within her tolerance, Tianyin's next sentence, saying that she had starved to death, really made her break down, and she couldn't help but interrupt Tianyin's three seconds of emotion.

"Maple Flower, you didn't starve to death?"

"Do you... have some serious illness? Why should I starve to death?"

Kiryuin gave a weak rebuttal and then closed his eyes.

Suddenly, with a crisp snap, Kiryuin felt a sharp pain on his face and slightly opened his eyes.

Why did you hit me?

"Now is not the time to sleep! Hang in there, I'll go find something to eat."

"What are you talking about... Never mind, I'm going to sleep."

Snapped!

"No! I can't sleep now!!"

"Just a little while, let me sleep, I'm so sleepy..."

Snapped! !

"Stay alert! It's precisely at times like these that we must not give up!"

"Let me sleep, I really can't keep my eyes open anymore!"

Snapped! ! !

"You're Kiryuin Kaede! You have to show some spirit. You absolutely can't fall asleep at a time like this, or... you won't wake up."

"Can I just take a nap?"

"No!! Open your eyes now!"

"Ouch!! Ouch!! I'll open my eyes! I'll open them! Stop scratching! Can't I just open them? Waaaaah, what kind of world is this... I just wanted to sleep... Waaaaah!"

Just as the onlookers were still confused and didn't know what was going on, the sounds of running and shouting came from the stairs.

"The key! I got the key from the dorm supervisor! We can open the door now..."

Kamuro, panting, ran towards Sakayanagi while holding the key.

It seems that because the elevator was occupied, they were forced to run up the stairs. Unfortunately, Kiryuin lived on a very high floor, which made Kamuro, who was not very physically fit to begin with, so tired that he could only pant heavily without caring about his image.

But when she ran to Sakayanagi's side, she was stunned by what she saw.

The door that had originally blocked their way had been moved aside, and the three deep footprints on it clearly showed the inhumane violence it had suffered before its glorious end.

If the fact that the door was kicked open gave Kamuro a slight shock, then watching Amane slap Kiryuin repeatedly with both hands left Kamuro completely stunned.

As soon as Guilongyuan closed her eyes, Tianyin would give her a jolt to keep her awake. No matter how much Guilongyuan begged her to sleep, Tianyin ignored her completely.

Is this really a rescue operation?

Looking at Kiryuin's face, which was almost swollen, Kamuro's forehead was constantly dripping with sweat. Even if he didn't starve to death, he would be beaten to death by Amane.

Sakayanagi, on the other hand, seemed quite leisurely and observed from the sidelines with a detached eye.