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

"Hmm, that makes sense... So that means tsundere?"

"Tianyin, have you seen my cane?"

"Ahem, Arisu, calm down first. I'll go get you something to eat."

Seeing that Sakayanagi was really starting to look for his cane, Amane was so frightened that she quickly rolled off the bed and onto the floor.

Immediately afterward, Sakayanagi was dumbfounded to see Amane roll sideways all the way to the bathroom door, from the bed to the floor and then to the bathroom, the whole process was incredibly smooth, which made everyone wonder if Amane had really practiced such a skill.

What? Wasn't the battle taking place on the floor last night?

Well, it did start on the floor, but it gradually moved to the bed, though by then it was already the fourth round.

After quickly washing up, Amane started preparing breakfast for Sakayanagi and helped him get dressed.

It wasn't that Amane wanted to take advantage of her, but rather that Sakayanagi was completely exhausted, her legs were so weak they were like noodles and she couldn't even stand up. Expecting Sakayanagi to put on her clothes by herself was really asking too much of her.

"Tianyin... how did my pantyhose end up here? I don't remember wearing pantyhose yesterday... and what's with those black stockings? I remember buying them and not liking the color, so I haven't even opened them yet..."

Sakayanagi stared in surprise at the school uniforms, white tracksuits, a smaller version of the teacher's uniform, and some other strange and indescribable outfits scattered on the bed, lost in thought.

What made Sakayanagi even more suspicious was that her pantyhose had been torn. Who was the culprit?

"Tianyin, what exactly is going on?"

Sakayanagi smiled gently.

Glug glug.

Amane swallowed a few mouthfuls of saliva. Well, Arisu is always very gentle, so she probably won't beat her to death... right?

What are you thinking?!

They'll definitely beat her to death!!!

Amane's eyes began to scan the room rapidly, trying to find something to distract Sakayanagi. If there were some cute pet at this moment, Sakayanagi might be distracted by it, but right now Sakayanagi's room was empty except for the essential daily necessities, there wasn't even a large plush pillow, which made it impossible for Amane to find a topic to talk about.

Just as Tenon was feeling that things were getting a bit tricky, she saw the bouquet of snacks that had been thrown aside, and her eyes lit up again.

I've decided on you!

"Hey~ Hey~ Arisu, I brought you a present yesterday~"

It has to be said that the way Amane found to distract Sakayanagi was quite effective. As soon as she heard Amane say that she had brought her a gift, Sakayanagi's eyes started to look Amane up and down.

"It's not on me anymore, it's right here~ Arisu, look!"

Amane knelt on the bed like she was presenting a treasure, offering a bouquet of snacks to Sakayanagi.

However... it seems the gift didn't improve Sakayanagi's mood.

"Is this what you're talking about? At first, I thought you brought these snacks because you were worried you wouldn't have enough to eat here."

Sakayanagi disdainfully rummaged through the bouquet of snacks.

As expected, these were all foods that Tianyin liked. Tianyin was being too perfunctory in giving her gifts... No, if they were really snacks that Tianyin bought, she wouldn't have given them to her so easily.

If Tianyin were to give her jewelry or something, she wouldn't even blink an eye. But if you were to ask her to give her snacks, that's unthinkable, unless the sun rises in the west.

At this moment, Sakayanagi remembered that Amane had mentioned yesterday that she seemed to have met Masahiko once.

And then, thinking about this snack gift pack in my hand that's guaranteed to win over Tianyin's heart...

"Why do I find all these snacks that you like, Tianyin? Did someone give them to you and you just happened to accept them as a gift?"

Sakayanagi asked a question in a seemingly casual manner, and Amane immediately gave herself away.

"H-How is that possible... Hehe..."

Hmm, it seems this is the gift Jiang Yan gave to Tian Yin. I didn't expect that Jiang Yan would be so good at catering to her tastes.

"Huh? Then why is there half a piece of chocolate here?"

Sakayanagi pretended to be curious and waved the bag of half a chocolate in front of Amane. Amane thought for a moment before remembering that she had been eating chocolate when Horikita rushed over and suddenly attacked her. She bit off half of it and was grabbed by the ear. The other half probably fell into the pile of gifts at that time. However, Amane was so engrossed in the conversation that she forgot about it.

Now, however, Sakayanagi has seized on this weakness.

"I took a bite of that because I was so hungry on the way."

Amane's excellent acting skills made Sakayanagi Akira realize that Amane was lying, but he couldn't find any evidence at all. In the end, he could only accept the snacks and bouquet with a 'happy' expression.

They also confiscated the half-bar of chocolate.

"That's strange, it's so quiet today."

While eating the breakfast that Amane had carefully prepared, Sakayanagi kept glancing at the door.

Although the soundproofing in the dormitory is fairly good, it's impossible to not hear a single person's voice so early in the morning. Today is Tuesday, and everyone should be going to school. Right now, the corridor should be filled with a constant stream of talking, footsteps, and the elevator running.

The current quiet made Sakayanagi feel somewhat uneasy.

"We must have gotten angry too early, right? Maybe it's not even seven o'clock yet... uh, it's already eleven o'clock."

Tianyin opened her phone, and the 11 o'clock time displayed on it stunned her.

Sakayanagi was also stunned and stood there.

then……

"Miyako Amane!!!"

"I really didn't know we were late!!!"

It seems that Tianyin didn't miss the alarm clock because she woke up too early.

Instead, the alarm clock had given up on Amane... But thinking about it again, Amane doesn't seem to have the habit of setting an alarm clock. Usually, Horikita is the alarm clock that wakes Amane up, but yesterday Amane stayed at Sakayanagi's place, and since Horikita wasn't by Amane's side, Amane overslept. Thinking about it this way, it seems quite reasonable.

However, Sakayanagi Arisu probably couldn't accept that her first time skipping school was because she fainted during sex, causing her to miss school.

But is this a reason that can be explained to the class teacher?

Just thinking about it makes Sakayanagi feel incredibly ashamed, let alone using it as an excuse to skip class.

Unless she wants to be laughed at by the whole school, what happened yesterday can never be used as an excuse.

She needs to come up with a reasonable and acceptable excuse...

Just as Sakayanagi was racking her brains to come up with an excuse, Amane was making the most of her time to eat. In Amane's opinion, since she was already late anyway, she might as well fill her stomach first.

Neither of them intended to go to class in the morning. After all, it was already this late, and going there would be a waste of time. They might as well rest and go in the afternoon.

Amane thought so too, but when she arrived at the classroom in the afternoon, before she could explain to Horikita why she had skipped class in the morning, she saw Masahiko anxiously pacing outside their classroom.

Upon seeing Tianyin, Jiang Yan immediately rushed to her side.

"Yo! Good afternoon, Masahiko."

"Big sister, something has happened."

It must be said that Jiang Yan truly lived up to his reputation; he stunned Tian Yin the moment he opened his mouth.

Because Jiang Yan was in such a hurry, he spoke quickly and in a string of words, making it sound to Tian Yin as if something had happened to her older sister.

Amane immediately glanced at Horikita, who was peeling an apple. Hmm... fruit knives shouldn't be allowed in...

Amane left the classroom feeling a little guilty. As she began to consider whether to ask for another half-day off and go to Arisu's place to hide, she heard Masahiko continue to explain to himself.

The gist of it is that yesterday, Tianze Yixia, representing his class, agreed to team up with the second-year students to complete the special exam. Because Tianze Yixia's academic ability is quite good, he was assigned to Class D of the second year. However, Tianze insisted on teaming up with Tianyin.

This infuriated Jiang Yan. In his opinion, he was the only one qualified to partner with Tianyin in this special exam.

However, Tianze, as the female representative of Class A in the first year, has nearly a third of the supporters in the class.

As for Masahiko, since Hayasaka was assigned to Class B, he could only control two-thirds of the students for the time being. These students were in the lower middle class of Class A. A few of the students with better academic performance supported Masahiko, but compared to the arrogant young master image, the gentle, cute, and well-built Amasawa was obviously more likable. Therefore, the few boys in Class A with good academic performance supported Amasawa.

Tianze had specifically discussed it with Jiang Yan that morning. If Jiang Yan didn't agree to Tianyin forming a partnership with her, she would have her supporters do something sabotage.

Jiang Yan initially dismissed this and was too lazy to even talk to her, but after checking the partner assignment list, he discovered that the people who supported Tian Ze were actually paired with some of the lowest-ranking students in Class A.

He could completely ignore what Tianze said, but if his actions led to someone in Tianyin's class being expelled, Jiang Yan would feel extremely troubled.

It's easy to imagine that if a student drops out of Class A in the second year, someone will blame Tianyin's arrangements, and Tianyin's reputation may even be tarnished.

This was something Jiang Yan could not tolerate under any circumstances, but he could not agree to Tian Ze's request on behalf of Tian Yin, so he had no choice but to ask Tian Yin for her opinion.

"You mean Tianze... insists on partnering with me, and if I don't agree, she'll try to pull some dirty tricks, right?"

This was the first time Tianyin had encountered something like this, so she asked Jiangyan for a second confirmation in a somewhat uncertain tone.

“That’s right, but I know that my older sister definitely wants to team up with me! But Tianze does have the ability to interfere with the results of special exams, so it depends on what my older sister thinks. If my older sister finds her an eyesore, I can…”

Jiang Yan, his eyes flashing with malice, lightly made a cut on his neck.

As a result, Tianyin rolled her eyes at her.

Is it really necessary to take such a trivial matter so seriously? All he wanted was to team up with her; he wasn't planning on doing anything wrong. There was absolutely no need to make such a fuss.

"Let me take a look at this guy named Tianze's file first. If he's too bad, then we'll talk about it..."

Tianyin opened Tianze's information, and then her eyes widened involuntarily.

Seeing this, Jiang Yan felt that Tian Yin probably looked down on Tian Ze, a nobody, so he turned around and decided to help his dear sister get rid of the troublesome Tian Ze.

"Jiang Yan, where are you going?"

"I went to help my older sister deal with that guy who was giving her trouble. She thinks she can get my older sister to compromise with me with just a mere threat? What does that woman take her for?"

Jiang Yan completely disregarded Tian Ze's threats.

As for showing pity and tenderness to women...

Jiang Yan felt extreme disgust for women other than Tianyin and Banliu. He was already showing some restraint by not smashing the jade. As for showing any mercy to women, forget about it...

"Wait, um...actually I..."

After seeing Tianze's photo, Tianyin's smile never left her face, but Jiangyan saw this as Tianyin feeling troubled.

"Big sister, you don't need to feel troubled or worried for me. I can have Hayasaka take care of her. Hayasaka's skills are trustworthy."

As expected, Tianyin still cares about him the most.

"No, what I mean is that it's not actually unacceptable for me and her to be partners..."

"ha?!!!--"

Chapter Twenty-Three: Tianze's Revenge Plan

The afternoon sun in summer gives you a warm and cozy feeling.

Although the temperature had begun to rise, thanks to the air conditioning in the classroom, which had been running almost non-stop throughout the day, the students did not complain about the outside temperature.

School has only just started, and the novelty hasn't worn off for the first-year students yet. Compared to the second and third-year students who are already quite familiar with the campus, the first-year students are much more active on campus. Even their after-school chats revolve around things like where they're going to play today or which bubble tea shop they visited yesterday.

Watching his classmates excitedly discussing campus life, Tianze leaned against the window and let out a cold snort.

Even though the second-year students in the gymnasium have already demonstrated the school's style, there are still some people who don't take the school's self-proclaimed "merit-based" label to heart.

If we continue with this mindset, we'll eventually suffer a great loss, and then those kids in the class who are just playing house will suddenly realize that the war has already begun from the moment school started... Well, it's not hard to imagine.

However, Tianze understood his classmates' mindset. Being a member of Class A from the beginning meant they didn't feel any pressure. Furthermore, after learning the true meaning of Class A from senior students and their homeroom teacher, these self-proclaimed best students simply couldn't take the lower-ranked classes seriously.

Originally, Tianze had some similar thoughts, until she heard that the current second-year Class A had actually fought her way up from the first-year Class D. Even a confident girl like Tianze dared not say that she could definitely stop the attack of Yagami, Utsunomiya, and Takarazumi.

But... if that man were here, maybe it would be possible...

Tianze opened the OAA system, found his class, and directly clicked on Miyako Masahiko's profile. With both his learning and physical abilities at the A+ level, Masahiko was a top-three student even in the entire school.

Without a doubt, as long as she obediently accepts Jiang Yan's leadership, she has a high probability of being able to enjoy the wonderful time on campus under Jiang Yan's wing, graduate peacefully as a student in Class A, and enjoy the power to control her own future.

The price she had to pay was simply to bow down to that dim-witted tyrant, which was an extremely easy thing for her to do—or so she thought!

Want to make her bow down? There's a limit to jokes. If Jiang Yan were even slightly normal, Tianze might have considered whether or not to obey Jiang Yan's orders, just based on his face.

However, Tianze abandoned this idea after only ten minutes of contact with Jiang Yan. In Tianze's eyes, Jiang Yan was like an arrogant aristocrat from the old era, and finding someone like Jiang Yan in this day and age would really require a lot of luck.

If it's just a bit of arrogance, that's fine. After all, talented people are more or less arrogant, especially young people. Everyone is a genius, and if they don't compete with each other, no one will be convinced of anyone else's superiority.

So even if Yanxing has problems with his thinking, as long as he is a normal person and has the ability, Tianze wouldn't mind giving up his position.

Unfortunately, Jiang Yan is not a normal person. Tian Ze originally felt that his personality was becoming a bit abnormal and that he had long since said goodbye to being a normal person. However, in Jiang Yan's case, Tian Ze's condition was actually relatively mild. Jiang Yan was the real madman.

'That guy is absolutely insane, a complete psychopath, I guarantee it.'

Since entering that white room, this is the first time Tianze has said that someone has a personality defect.

So far, no one who has come out of that room has been without some kind of personality problem, but none of them have been as serious as Yan's defect.

'In his eyes, probably only that older sister remains?'