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

"I won't tolerate that kind of guy!"

"Ayanokouji is unforgivable! He actually hit Hirata-kun! What kind of person is he?!"

"What if Ayanokouji doesn't listen to Amane-san again and makes us lose the special exam and drop to Class B?"

……

The girls almost unanimously supported Horikita's 'cleanup plan'.

"Hirata, what do you think?"

Amane directly called out Hirata's name. Hirata, who had just been grabbed by the collar and thrown to the ground by Ayanokouji, was now clutching his stomach with one hand, looking rather unwell.

This is a lingering injury he sustained when he risked his life to protect the class's base points on a deserted island, clinging to Ryuen as they fell down a hillside. Because Amane hadn't taken control of the class at the time, Hirata, fearing trouble, prematurely ended the doctor's advice to stay in the hospital for at least three months and returned to school. Then came the sports festival and forest school, among other physical activities, which prevented Hirata's injury from fully healing. This time, being thrown by Ayanokouji, the old wound seems to have reopened.

Even so, Hirata still wanted to persuade everyone not to be so impulsive.

"I always felt that Ayanokouji shouldn't be this kind of person. Maybe he has some unspeakable difficulties behind his back. Why don't we talk to him first? Maybe we can change his mind and get him to help Class A?"

Hirata's words displeased many girls, but because they were spoken by Hirata, no one wanted to object.

"What if he just slacks off? For example, he agrees to Hirata-san's request on the surface but still goes his own way and slacks off. We can't blame him for not performing at his best in the exam, and we can't help him get back together with Sato... At least I don't think Sato can forgive Ayanokouji. So what should we do?"

The speaker was Yukimura.

If it were anyone else, Hirata might have been able to refute him, but Yukimura was the first to support Ayanokouji, who had shown his talent at the Sports Festival, after seeing that Hirata had no potential to become the leader of Class A. Now, even Yukimura believes that Ayanokouji's value needs to be re-evaluated and that there are potential risks. This is enough to show that Ayanokouji has completely lost his supporters in Class A, and there is not even anyone to defend him.

"But now is such a crucial time. After the special training comes the final exam, and after the final exam comes the special summer exam. If Ayanokouji doesn't handle things well with such a tight schedule, it could cause chaos in the class and we might end up falling to Class B, right?"

Hirata's impromptu reason did convince Yukimura. Yukimura believed that since they were already in Class A, Ayanoji was no longer important. However, eliminating Ayanoji would be quite troublesome. If Ayanoji chose to fight to the death, they might fall back to Class B. Therefore, it was better to leave Ayanoji alone and keep him as an idle person.

"Miyako-kun should have a better way to handle this, right? Someone who has angered the class can no longer stay in this class, and I believe you are well aware of that, Miyako."

Katsuragi looked at Amane, who remained silent. He knew that Amane definitely had a way to deal with Ayanokouji without affecting the class. However, if Amane directly proposed to get rid of someone, it would seem that she was too domineering. Therefore, she wanted to use other people to say something that would affect her own evaluation.

"It seems everyone has a lot of opinions about Ayanokouji. How about this, I'll talk to him first, and then try to resolve this peacefully."

“A peaceful way? Amane, are you planning to use the rules of the special exam? Although Ayanokouji has lost his value to us now, his own strength... I don’t think he will be expelled by the rules.”

Horikita was determined to get rid of the last problem student, but she also knew that Ayanokouji's strength was probably on par with Amane's, and even if she was slightly weaker, she was still far superior to ordinary people. It seemed very simple to use the rules of the special exam to expel someone, but in reality, expulsions were often linked to failure. In other words, every attempt required failure in the special exam as a prerequisite.

This is probably a price that the students in the class can accept, especially if Ayanokouji is not expelled but causes others to be expelled instead, then Amane will bear all the responsibility.

The rewards and costs were completely disproportionate, and Horikita had made up his mind that he could not let Amane take the risk under any circumstances.

"No need for that... Well, I'll handle this. Everyone, let's go eat."

Since the first-year students were forced to climb the mountain with heavy loads, the second-year students who didn't have any tasks could choose to go directly to the cafeteria for a meal or go back to sleep. However, since they were woken up early in the morning, they weren't sleepy, so most of them chose to eat in the cafeteria.

It was only because of the Ayanokouji incident that everyone from Class A gathered here.

Upon hearing Amane's words, the students of Class A all headed towards the cafeteria, leaving only Horikita, Karuizawa, and Ichinose by Amane's side.

"Amane, you're not thinking of sending Ayanokouji to another class, are you?"

Ichinose only spoke up after realizing that there were no outsiders present.

"Send them to another class? That's too much..."

Horikita initially thought that this idea was too stupid. It was no different from aiding the enemy. If Ayanokouji was sent to another class and still slacked off, that would be one thing. But if he resented losing his Class A status and helped other classes take revenge on Class A, wouldn't things be even more complicated? It would be better to keep an idle person.

"As expected of Honami, that's exactly what I think. It seems to be the best way to prevent Ayanokouji from going all out."

Chapter 96: The Prime Minister is in Danger

After reaching a conclusion, Amane put the matter of talking to Ayanokouji on the agenda. However, since there was still a long time for special training, there was no rush to deal with Ayanokouji's matter. Moreover, dealing with it too quickly would disrupt Ayanokouji's plans.

However, Tianyin still needs to take some action, otherwise everyone's dissatisfaction with her will become unstable time bombs, which may affect the quality of Tianyin's future campus life at any time. Tianyin is too lazy to waste energy dealing with internal conflicts in the class, so she must find a way to take care of and appease everyone's emotions.

To prevent the conflict between the two from escalating further, Amane arranged for Karuizawa and Ichinose to take care of Sato. She also had them convey the decision they had just discussed to Sato, letting her know that Amane was trying to resolve the conflict at its root.

At the same time, I hope that Sato will behave herself for the time being and leave everything to Amane to handle. If Sato dares to provoke Ayanokouji again and cause changes in the negotiations, Amane will no longer interfere in this matter and will find a way to make both of them drop out of school.

Admittedly, Ayanokouji's actions this time were absolutely wrong, but the reason for this outcome was Sato's provocation. Amane knew very well what Ayanokouji wanted to do and originally had no intention of getting involved, but the situation is different now.

Ayanokouji has become the public enemy of both boys and girls in Class A. He has lost the soil to take root here. In addition, he is unwilling to contribute to the development of Class A. As the class leader, Amane has no choice but to abandon him completely.

Sometimes, what is good is not necessarily the most suitable. For Tianyin now, the position of Class A is already quite stable.

Although most people believe that there are only a few dozen class points between Class B and Class A, and that Class B's position is not particularly secure and could catch up with Class A at any time, a failure in a special exam could cause them to fall from this glorious position.

But in reality, this was just Tianyin deliberately creating a sense of crisis for Class A to prevent them from becoming complacent.

With four top-tier cards in hand—Horikita, Ichinose, Katsuragi, and Hirata—and supportive talents like Yukimura, Wang Meiyu, and Matsushita who excel academically, Class A fears almost no enemy.

Even though these people are still somewhat behind the top talents, their overall strength has reached the point where, even if Amane herself doesn't take action, only Class B, led by Sakayanagi, can compete with Class A in the entire second year. Moreover, even Sakayanagi isn't confident that Class A will definitely win.

But what if Amane could still use Koenji? The scales of victory would tip completely in favor of Class A.

However, none of this is Tianyin's true trump card. Tianyin's true trump card is her current ridiculously large account balance, which is enough to shatter any class in an instant. That's right, any class! Even if she had to buy all the top students from any class with money, she could eliminate the opposing class outright. This is Tianyin's greatest confidence.

Tenon harvested almost all the personal points of the previous and current third-year students. At first, some people dared not trade with Tenon because of Kiriyama's orders, which caused Tenon's private acquisition of points to be interrupted for a time.

It wasn't until Kiriyama himself started trading with Amane for economic reasons that the trading of personal points got back on track.

However, Tianyin's biggest source of income from points doesn't come from privately buying students' points. You see, apart from classes C and D, who are basically giving up in their final year and might want to sell their points to plan for graduation, students in classes A and B don't dare to sell points on a large scale even in their final semester. They're afraid of being expelled if their class performs poorly in a special exam. What's the point of getting a lot of money from Tianyin if they're expelled because they don't have enough points?

Therefore, if you want to buy a lot of points from second-year students, you usually have to wait until the third-year students have actually graduated before someone will sell a lot of points to Tianyin.

The school's latest policy is to exchange personal points for cash at half price, which is clearly a very unfavorable transaction. Tianyin, on the other hand, offers 20% of the personal points, although it's not a full exchange either. After comparing the two options, third-year students often choose to exchange their personal points for checks at Tianyin.

Even so, the income was still very limited. Tianyin harvested almost the entire grade of Horikita Gakuen's class, and only then did he gain more than 80 million personal points.

It seems like a lot, but in reality, it's only enough points for one person per class to avoid expulsion. When averaged out, it's even more pitiful; each person only gets about 500,000 points. What can you do with that many points?

So Tianyin found a new way: to cooperate with merchants.

Because Gaoyu is a boarding school, and it allows students to accumulate a large number of personal points equivalent to money, many businesses are eager to enter the Gaoyu market.

What many people may not know is that in addition to paying a hefty rent, the school also has to charge a service fee from the business for every transaction.

Personal points are essentially a form of fiat currency. Merchants need to periodically exchange the points they receive with schools for actual money, but they still have to pay a considerable transaction fee when exchanging them for money, which further squeezes the merchants' profits.

To protect their own interests, businesses other than supermarkets tend to inflate the prices of their products, passing on rent, handling fees, and service charges to students.

Because students at Gaoyu University have long held huge amounts of points, sometimes in the tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands, they have become less sensitive to numbers. As a result, they often become easy targets for merchants to exploit, especially in luxury goods, clothing, and cosmetics stores.

After seeing through this, Tianyin directly approached various shop owners to discuss cooperation. Tianyin provided them with separate sub-accounts to receive points, and then they could exchange them with Tianyin on the agreed date. Tianyin would settle the payment with the merchants in the form of a check.

In this way, on the one hand, since the student's sub-account cannot be set to charge service fees, it can successfully evade the school's supervision and avoid being charged service fees for every transaction. On the other hand, it can also avoid being charged handling fees when merchants exchange funds with Gaoyu, which can be described as killing two birds with one stone.

The most important point is that Tianyin wants personal points, which are the school's credit currency. These personal points have no market circulation channels, so they don't even qualify as virtual currency. They also lack legal backing and are therefore outside the scope of currency transaction regulations. Merchants give personal points to Tianyin as a "gift," and Tianyin's checks are also given to merchants as gifts. This operation helps merchants avoid some taxes.

Therefore, the merchants are very happy to cooperate with Tianyin in this regard.

What? Doesn't the school know about this?

How could the school not know what Tianyin is doing? But so what? All the businesses that Tianyin partners with are businesses under the control of the Gaoyu board of directors.

The biggest beneficiaries are the school's board members. Would they allow Gao Yu to cut off their source of income? Tianyin's move can help them gain more than 20% net profit. Only a fool would stop it.

So how could Gao Yucheng have gone through so many decades without anyone noticing something so incredibly profitable? The answer is, of course, yes, but no one possessed the financial resources of the Miyako family to almost cover all of Tianyin's check payments.

Even those tycoons wouldn't dare to play like that, for a simple reason: they're spending their own money, while the money Tenon spends is just a drop in the ocean compared to the 'tribute,' 'rules,' and 'goodwill' the Miyako family receives.

This is why Koenji chose to give up competing with Amane. Amane used the gifts that the Koenji Zaibatsu gave to the Miyako family to buy points. Seeing Amane's actions, Koenji Rokusuke didn't dare to compete with Amane for this lucrative deal. In addition, Koenji judged that he could eventually be promoted to Class A by following Amane, so there was no need to spend money to buy face. Therefore, Koenji chose to give up.

Apart from Tenon, the most powerful Koenji Temple has chosen to give up the competition, which naturally led to Tenon's monopoly. Nowadays, if a new merchant wants to cooperate with Tenon, they need to give Tenon a gift first.

Otherwise, it would be impossible to even see Tianyin.

Even if they meet, Tianyin will say things like "everyone has a hard time" or "the market is saturated," implying that the other person should be "sensible."

Merchants often end up complying with Tianyin's demands when faced with the choice between being continuously exploited by Gaoyu and being deprived of their rights once and for all.

In this way, Tianyin's points never ran out again. Tianyin's business operations have now become a rule of Gaoyu. Anyone who wants to make money must come to Tianyin to "pay their respects".

Horikita was once quite curious as to why people often sought out Amane to discuss business and gave her gifts for no apparent reason, so he arranged to meet with them together.

As a result, Horikita was stunned by Amane's masterful political maneuvering. The other party transferred three million personal points to Amane in one go, but only to obtain the right to use the sub-account of Amane's student card ID account.

After Amane agreed, Horikita showered her with numerous luxury gifts, only realizing what was happening when she returned to her dorm numbly carrying bags full of them.

Capitalists are right next to me!

"Tianyin, you wrote on your application that you want to become the Prime Minister, could it be true?"

"How could that be? Volunteer positions can change at any time, and I've heard that the chances of becoming Prime Minister aren't very good lately; it's quite risky."

The market is bad? Quite risky?

"Tianyin, what career do you want to pursue in the future? I think something like being a lawyer is pretty good..."

"I've been quite interested in money lately, so the finance minister shouldn't be a problem."

"The finance minister? That's quite nice, hmm?...Eh?!"

Before I knew it, the morning had passed.

Since it was the first day of special training, the main focus was on wilderness survival courses, and physical training did not account for a large proportion on the first day. However, things changed in the afternoon.

As soon as class started in the morning, the instructor who was in charge of explaining wilderness survival pulled everyone out of the cool classroom and onto the playground.

"I'm glad everyone is here. In the second lesson, we will focus more on practical operations. Since it will involve a lot of physical activity, please raise your hand now if you are feeling unwell."

The instructors originally intended for the girls who were feeling unwell to simply watch from the sidelines. This class required a considerable amount of physical strength, and since it was being conducted in high temperatures, if they were feeling unwell and forced to continue, they could potentially suffer from heatstroke or other injuries. Therefore, the instructors were specifically instructed to screen out students who could not participate in the entire class from the very beginning.

What the instructors didn't expect was that times had changed.

Upon hearing that anyone feeling unwell should raise their hand, and knowing from the instructor's words that they would likely be treated like animals that afternoon, almost everyone immediately raised their hands.

Looking at the hundreds of hands in front of him, the instructor was completely stunned. Shouldn't the normal situation be that each person should demonstrate a spirit of hard work and perseverance, not afraid of hardship or fatigue, and then work together to complete the task?

Why are they all rushing to desert when it comes to him? It must be because he asked the questions incorrectly…

"I mainly asked the girls."

"I! Instructor, I'm not feeling well! So, can I go back and rest?"

The instructor's lips began to twitch uncontrollably.

At this moment, the one who raised his hand the most enthusiastically was Tianyin, who was standing in the first row. This instructor had also watched the competition during the day.

In the morning, Tianyin was so aggressive, he could have punched a bull to death, but by the afternoon he was feeling unwell? Does he seem like someone who's so easily fooled?

"People who are feeling unwell can put their hands down."

Tianyin immediately put her hand down.

"Well, no one is feeling unwell, so please follow me."

Upon realizing that the other party was Lao Liu, Tianyin clenched her fists immediately. However, thinking that if she went up and beat up the instructor now, she might not have dinner, Tianyin could only vent her anger and reluctantly followed the instructor into the woods.

After walking about two hundred meters, the instructor stopped in an open space. Not far away, there were rows of neatly stacked tree trunks, as well as various tools used in the construction industry.

When Tianyin saw these things, her heart skipped a beat.

"Next is the first lesson in wilderness survival. You will be required to build a sturdy wooden house that can be used for living and storing supplies, in groups of your grades, based on blueprints, available materials and tools."

Building a wooden hut? Has the drill instructor lost his mind?

"Wait a minute, aren't we supposed to be taking a wilderness survival course? Why would everyone need to build something like a wooden hut? Even if it's a special exam, it'll probably be like last time on the deserted island, where everyone slept in tents or sleeping bags together. I don't think learning how to build a wooden hut will be of any use."

When Hashimoto heard that the second lesson in wilderness survival was to build a house, he was completely dumbfounded and immediately stood up to raise his doubts.

The entire audience consisted of students who had taken the deserted island exam, and they all nodded in support of Hashimoto after hearing his words.

A tent and a sleeping bag are enough. Who would waste time and energy building a wooden cabin? That's ridiculous.

The instructor was clearly aware of the special test on the deserted island. He first nodded in agreement with Hashimoto's statement, then shook his head.

"Compared to cabins, tents and sleeping bags are indeed more convenient alternatives, but... if I remember correctly, tents and sleeping bags were items you could purchase during that special exam, right? And that was supposed to be a special exam, but for some classes, what was the difference between it and a vacation? What will you do if we don't provide sleeping bags and tents for this special exam, and we don't support purchasing them?"

"This……"

Hashimoto was speechless at the instructor's question. If the school didn't provide them, it would be impossible for the students to make tents and bags that seemed to have no technical content on their own. Yes, what would they do if the school didn't provide them?

"Instructor, you're really good at twisting the facts. Even a layman like me knows that a log cabin can't be built in a day, right? Besides, during a special exam, if we lack materials and tools, I don't think everyone can build such a huge project in one day. That means we won't have a place to rest while building the cabin, will we? Or is the school going to kindly provide ready-made log cabins? If so, why waste our time learning how to build one?"

Tianyin keenly sensed the problem, raised her doubts, and tried to extract some information about the special exam from the instructor.

Tenon thought that the instructor would be stumped by her question or would choose to reveal some valuable information in order to refute her, but then she saw the smile on the instructor's face.

I have a feeling that something bad is going to happen next.

Chapter 97: Do you want to admire the moon with me tonight?

Tianyin deliberately used a critical tone to try and extract some useful information from the instructor, but this was obviously within the instructor's expectations. In fact, the instructor would have found it strange if no one questioned this matter.