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

Seeing Amane's happy face being rubbed, Horikita raised an eyebrow. It seemed that in addition to dealing with the troublesome Sakayanagi and the others, the second-year students also had internal enemies waiting for them.

"Ichinose, your worries are unnecessary. Given my relationship with Amane, how could I possibly bear to actually hit her? We were just joking."

Horikita took a step forward and moved closer to Ichinose.

Isn't it normal for couples to make jokes to spice things up?

After Horikita finished speaking in a low voice, he reached out and gently pinched Amane's face again.

"hey-hey……"

Tianyin made the same sound.

"Enhance the fun? Oh, I see. It seems I misunderstood. As expected of Horikita-kun, you know so much more than I do. I'll have to learn more from you in the future."

consult?

Do you have any suggestions on how to enhance the intimacy between you and Tianyin?

Horikita's eyes gradually narrowed.

"Of course, I welcome Ichinose-san to ask me for advice anytime. After all, I'm the one who's ahead, so it's only natural for me to help those behind me, isn't it?"

"That's wonderful! I thought Horikita would be angry because the student has surpassed the teacher. It seems I underestimated Horikita. I'll definitely visit Horikita when I have time."

"You are welcome anytime."

Both of them wore gentle, harmless smiles.

Only Tianyin, whose hair was slightly disheveled from being ruffled and whose face was red from being pinched, sat obediently in her seat, pretending to be a real-life body pillow.

"So who should go and communicate with Sakayanagi and the others next? Time is of the essence. If I remember correctly, there seems to be a recruitment event organized by clubs and the student council in the gymnasium this afternoon. Most of the second-year students should be there at that time. If we can take advantage of the recruitment event to hold an auction, we can save ourselves the trouble of communicating with the first-year students class by class."

Matsushita noticed that the atmosphere between Horikita and Ichinose was a bit off, so she made this suggestion. Originally, Matsushita planned to take on the task herself so that she could legitimately escape from this chaotic situation.

To Matsushita's surprise, she raised her hand impatiently as soon as she finished speaking.

"I go!!"

Chapter Six: I'll Punish You Severely

After the official start of the semester, the student council's work suddenly became very busy.

The first thing to do is the handover ceremony for the student council president of Tongshan. After communicating with the school, the school agreed to let Tongshan leave six months in advance. Therefore, preparations for Tongshan's departure ceremony and the handover ceremony for the student council president should begin now.

Because there are special exams for second-year students, the handover ceremony was scheduled for May 1st to avoid keeping Sakayanagi too busy.

This gave Sakayanagi a rare respite, but it didn't make her feel relieved. On the contrary, Kiriyama's departure led to the resignation of several former student council presidents who had been brought in by Kiriyama. As a result, only Asahina Nazuna, the publicity committee member, remained as a third-year student.

Sakayanagi needs to select a significant number of new members from the second-year students to keep the student council running, but... their class has just fallen from Class A, and morale is low. They are not very willing to help the student council. Helpless, Sakayanagi has to borrow Matsushita from Class A from the disciplinary committee and ask Shiina and Kanzaki for help.

Kanzaki felt it would be awkward to work with Ichinose and declined the invitation, while also resigning from the student council's disciplinary committee.

Sakayanagi had no choice but to settle for second best and temporarily transferred Himeno, who had recently been making great strides in Class D, from the Disciplinary Committee to the Student Council to start working.

After dealing with all these miscellaneous matters, Sakayanagi discovered a critical issue: she was also concurrently holding the most crucial secretary position in the student council. Currently, she serves as the chairman of the disciplinary committee, the vice president of the student council, and the secretary of the student council.

The goal is indeed to seize control of the student council, but what will happen to these messes once she becomes the student council president?

Ichinose could barely fill the position of student council vice president, and Matsushita should be able to handle the secretary position, so... wouldn't the disciplinary committee be going to have to cancel again?

Sakayanagi felt a huge headache coming on. Although the Disciplinary Committee wasn't doing anything right now, it had become Sakayanagi's main source of first-hand information. Even though it was only the first day of school, someone had already reported a first-year student to her via email, which meant that Sakayanagi was one step ahead of all the second-year students in terms of intelligence gathering on the first-year students.

This might be very useful for Class B in the subsequent special exams.

"Honestly, I've been getting distracted so easily lately. How am I going to handle the position of Disciplinary Committee Chairman? The best answer is still Katsuragi, isn't it?"

Sakayanagi's best choice is still Katsuragi. Although Katsuragi is a bit rigid in terms of strategy, his meticulous personality is a perfect match for this position.

However... after what happened, putting aside whether Katsuragi would come back to help, Katsuragi himself probably wouldn't even want to talk to her anymore.

There's no need for me to try and win someone's favor.

"Well, forced relationships won't be happy. Let me see who else can take on this role..."

Sakayanagi opened the list of second-year students in the background of the computer. Since it was not sorted, Sakayanagi found it a bit hard on her eyes, so she directly clicked on the sorting by physical ability.

After all, the chairman of the disciplinary committee should ideally have excellent physical fitness, at least at a B level, to keep others in check.

As a result, the first character in the automatic sorting by Sakayanagi was actually Miyako Amane, who scored 100 points in the S-rank category.

Upon seeing this name, Sakayanagi conjures up an image of a silly grinning face, shouting "Arisu~ Arisu~" in his mind.

Sakayanagi couldn't help but laugh at the images in her mind, but she quickly returned to normal.

The Disciplinary Committee was originally established by Tianyin, so bringing her back shouldn't be a problem. However, the usual student council affairs are enough to give her a headache, let alone adding Tianyin...

Sakayanagi didn't even dare to imagine what kind of mess Amane would make of the entire student council.

Sakayanagi decisively chose to pass on Amane, and then continued to look through the next list.

Then my eyes involuntarily lingered on another name that sent chills down my spine.

Long Yuanxiang.

If he were to run the disciplinary department... just thinking about it is hilarious.

"Then let's send an invitation to Longyuan. If he agrees, we can formally issue him the appointment letter as the head of the student council's discipline committee... What's that?"

Just as Sakayanagi was about to get up to get the invitation, a furtive figure appeared on the computer monitor next to him.

She was described as sneaky because she moved cautiously, bending over and hugging the corner of the wall. When she got close to the door of Sakayanagi's office, she was even more tiptoeing.

He doesn't look like a normal person at all.

Who in their right mind would sneak around like that in broad daylight, especially while wearing a school uniform?

"It looks a bit dangerous. We should call the security detail."

If the other party has ill intentions, Sakayanagi has no means of resistance. The only thing she can do is contact the security department in advance and ask them to send someone to handle the matter.

Just as Sakayanagi picked up her phone to make a call, the other person suddenly looked up, staring intently at the security camera that was filming her.

"We've been spotted? No, we're just wary of the camera... Huh?"

Sakayanagi rubbed her eyes, afraid she was seeing things, but after rubbing them several times, the surveillance footage still showed that familiar figure.

"What is Tianyin doing? She's not trying to assassinate me, is she?"

Upon seeing that it was Amane, Sakayanagi sat back down in her chair with a sense of relief. If it was Amane, there was nothing to be afraid of. The only thing she didn't understand was what Amane was up to by acting so suspiciously.

When Tianyin saw the camera, she paused for a moment, and seemingly instinctively pulled a small black object from her pocket, raising her hand as if to throw the camera away.

This startled Sakayanagi. Previously, Amane had caused the school a lot of expenses because he often violently damaged the cameras. Unlike Ryuen, who usually just sprayed the cameras black with paint, Amane almost smashed the camera screen with a small solid lead bullet, which would completely damage the camera.

As a last resort, the school replaced the cameras with those that were supposedly bulletproof, hoping to reduce the rate of damage to the cameras.

Although Sakayanagi knew that Amane shouldn't be able to damage the camera, her actions seemed to be an attempt to destroy the video evidence in advance.

So what is she doing here?

"Maybe we should just call the garrison command..."

Sakayanagi picked up his phone, somewhat uneasy.

Just before Tianyin was about to throw the lead bullet, she pulled back from the brink. As if realizing that her actions were somewhat excessive, she put the lead bullet away and then pressed her face against the office door as if trying to listen to what was happening inside.

Could Tianyin be here to steal something?

Sakayanagi touched his chin suspiciously.

Suddenly, there was a knock on the door.

Sakayanagi, who was deep in thought, knew it was too late to make a phone call now, and could only hope that Amane had no other purpose in coming here.

"Please come in."

"Arisu~~"

As soon as the door opened, a figure ran over the desk and pounced on Sakayanagi.

"Hey! Tianyin, what are you doing?! Get off me right now!"

Sakayanagi tried hard to push Amane up, but Amane's hug was too tight. Sakayanagi struggled for a few moments and then gave up. After all, she wasn't stupid enough to try to outmuscle Amane.

"Arisu~ It's been so long~ I missed you so much www"

Amane rubbed against Sakayanagi's face, but Sakayanagi only gave Amane a disdainful look.

"Stop with the nonsense. Just say what you want to say so I don't waste your time. And you idiot, get off me right now, you're crushing me!"

Amane reluctantly got off Sakayanagi after his protests.

The moment she stood up, Tianyin quickly tilted to the right.

With a whoosh, a cane appeared in front of Tianyin.

It has to be said that Sakayanagi's reaction was actually quite quick. If it weren't for the fact that her legs couldn't run, she might have been an all-around athletic girl.

"Whoa, Arisu, you ambushed me! I even came all this way to see you, and this is how you treat me..."

"Hmph, you came all this way just to see me? When was the last time we met? It's been almost half a month, hasn't it? If you missed me, would you have gone half a month without even sending me a single message?"

After saying this in a complaining tone, Sakayanagi put away his cane.

"This... was an accident. I promise it won't happen again!"

"There will be a next time? Next time, if Horikita kicks you out of the room again, no matter how much you knock, I won't open the door for you."

"Then I'll go to Hui's place..."

"Ok?"

"Ahem, what I mean is that Arisu is so nice, how could she bear to let me spend the night alone outside the door?"

Seeing Tenon's deliberately ingratiating smile, Sakayanagi snorted and ignored her.

If Tenon had started chatting with her normally right away, Sakayanagi would have believed that Tenon missed her and came to visit. But Tenon was deliberately trying to please her. There was an 80% chance that Tenon had come for the special exam. If she fell for Tenon's trick and chatted happily with her now, she would find it difficult to refuse Tenon's conditions during the negotiation later.

Therefore, Sakayanagi deliberately ignored Amane's attempts to please him.

Seeing that her tactics were not going well, Amane also put away her smile and decided to confront Sakayanagi directly.

"By the way, Arisu, did you know that we second-year students have a joint exam with the first-year students recently?"

Amane's question was simply a way to get things started; if Sakayanagi answered "I know," their conversation could continue around the topic of the special exam.

These are quite practical tips for conversations between girls.

However, Sakayanagi shook his head blankly.

"I don't know what you're talking about, Tianyin. I've never heard of any joint examination."

Sakayanagi's calm tone, coupled with her bewildered expression, evoked a strong urge to share with her what she didn't know.

"If you knew, that would be much easier. My plan for this special exam is... Eh? Arisu, you didn't know? The special exam is for all... Hmph! Arisu, you're being too perfunctory! Everyone in the second year knows about the special exam, yet you say you don't. Don't think I don't know that a memorandum has to be submitted to the student council before the special exam is officially established. Only if the student council deems the rules reasonable can the school's special exam proposal be implemented."

The student council of the high school has such enormous power that many people are eyeing the position of student council president. However, the second-year students of Sakayanagi's class are so strong that everyone feels that even the student council president cannot suppress the monsters of this year.

Thus, this position, which was once coveted by students of Gaoyu, became a hot potato.

"It's truly remarkable that you still remember these things."

"Hehe~ Wait a minute! I haven't even mentioned how you deliberately brushed me off, Arisu! You knew perfectly well about the special exam and still tried to fool me, Arisu is so mean!!!"

Sakayanagi simply shrugged in response to Amane's accusations.

"So... you actually came to see me because of the special exam, right?"

"Huh?! How...how could this be..."

Amane guiltily avoided Sakayanagi's gaze.

Sakayanagi caught this suspicious behavior red-handed. Sakayanagi simply glared at Amane, who was pretending to admire the bonsai nearby, before deciding to talk to Amane about serious matters.

Sakayanagi knew Amane. If Amane really wanted to fool her, there were countless ways. The reason she was acting silly in front of her like this was simply to please her. However, Sakayanagi Arisu was not the kind of resentful woman who would quarrel with Amane if they didn't see each other for a few days. After seeing Amane's 'sincerity', Sakayanagi didn't intend to beat around the bush with Amane.

If Tianyin's request aligns with the interests of both classes, then it's not impossible to discuss it.

"Tell me your purpose for coming. If you're still saying you came because you missed me, I'll start making plans for tonight in advance."

Sakayanagi's ambiguous smile caused Amane's body to stiffen slightly.

"Today, it might, probably, maybe not..."

"Hmph, I knew this would happen, so hurry up and tell me what you want to see me about."

"I'd like to drink tomato juice... cough cough, tea will do too."