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

"Miyako, are you alright?"

Albert saw Tianyin standing there in a daze, her expression changing rapidly. He subconsciously reached out to touch her forehead, but as soon as he did, he seemed to remember something and quickly withdrew his hand. He could only ask her with concern from the side.

"I'm fine, don't worry. There won't be any conflict between me and Longyuan. You can also find a place to rest."

Tianyin naturally understood Albert's purpose in being brought to Longyuan, but she didn't care; having one more or one less person made no difference to her.

In this forest school, it would be incredibly easy for Tianyin to eliminate someone silently. The boundless, dark night sky and the tranquil, lush forest are Tianyin's most loyal allies.

Albert nodded, sat down on the spot, and showed Tianyin that he had no ill intentions and trusted her.

Tianyin blinked, turned around, and lifted the tent flap.

The three people sitting inside had different expressions when they saw Tianyin enter. They had already heard Tianyin and Albert's conversation in the tent, but even so, they couldn't help but feel nervous when they actually saw Tianyin walk into the tent with a serious expression.

As soon as Tenon entered, she sat cross-legged on the ground. When she sat down, Ishizaki and Komiya subconsciously stood up, but forgot that they were in a tent. As a result, they bumped into the tent frame one after another, which drew a displeased look from Ryuen.

After noticing Ryuen's displeasure, Ishizaki and Komiya quickly sat quietly to the side, not daring to even breathe loudly.

"Miyako, you're still the same as before, so imposing. My two men are as uneasy as mice in front of a cat when they see you."

Long Yuan casually tossed the playing cards in his hand into the deck, his tone carrying a hint of sarcasm, as if he wanted to dampen Tianyin's arrogance by implying that Tianyin was overstepping her bounds.

Tonight's Tianyin performance was truly oppressive.

"Thank you for the compliment, but I'm not just a meowing kitten, I'm..."

"What is it?"

"The king here."

"Hahahaha, Ishizaki! Did you hear what she said? This little girl who hasn't even grown her first hair actually claims to be the queen of this place? Miyako, are you a chuunibyou (middle school syndrome) sufferer?"

Long Yuan burst into an exaggerated laugh.

However, apart from Ryuen, who was laughing so hard he was doubled over, Ishizaki and Komiya chose to remain silent inside the tent. Moreover, as Amane remained silent, sweat began to pour from their foreheads.

Amane's first display of skill at school was knocking Ishizaki down with one punch, then defeating Komiya with another, and of course, Kondo, who had already been expelled.

It can be said that these three people became the first stepping stone for Tianyin to step onto the throne of the strongest in the second year.

The laughter in Longyuan gradually turned dry, and the atmosphere suddenly became awkward. Just then, a boy's voice rang out from outside the tent.

"Ryuen-kun! Something terrible has happened! That monster Miyako... she... she... she just slaughtered her way through the first-year residential area! I heard she's already taken down twenty or thirty first-year boys. Yagami and Utsunomiya tried to stop her but were defeated, all of them knocked out with a single move. She's on her way here now. If she finds out we did this on purpose..."

The boy's voice stopped abruptly because he saw Tianyin sitting there.

"Huh? What did you just say about me?"

"N-no... I'm so sorry! I didn't mean to..."

The other party was so frightened that they actually performed a standard dogeza (a deep bowing gesture) on Tianyin by throwing themselves to the ground.

As a member of the baseball club, he participated in the attack on Amane during the sports festival alongside his seniors.

But the moment he saw his trusted senior fly over his head, he knew that what was standing in front of him was definitely a monster. Sure enough, the next second he lost consciousness.

Later, he heard from his classmates that Tianyin had just grabbed a boy and knocked him unconscious.

In Tianyin's eyes, he wasn't even qualified to play against her. From then on, the baseball club members were terrified of her. Mentioning Tianyin would make them all seem to freeze in shock, which shows how terrifying the experience Tianyin brought them.

Tianyin looked at Longyuan with a mocking expression. Feeling a little embarrassed, Longyuan gave Shiqi a look. Shiqi quickly apologized and then bent down to pull the other person out of the tent.

Seeing this, Komiya also hurriedly followed Ishizaki away from the tent without looking back.

Longyuan felt somewhat embarrassed for losing its trusted confidant.

In the end, it was Tianyin who broke the awkward silence first.

"I agree to your conditions, but only if you demonstrate your value to me."

The moment Tianyin opened her mouth, Longyuan froze on the spot.

He went to great lengths to get Tianyin to come to him in order to negotiate terms, but... did he just state his terms?

Long Yuan frowned.

"Conditions? I don't understand what you're talking about, Miyako."

"Stop playing dumb with me. I don't have time to waste on you right now."

Tianyin hummed softly and tapped the ground with her fingers.

"By striking, you're simply trying to tell me, nonviolently, that you're not satisfied with my arrangements for Kanzaki, and that the price for you to go back to work is for Ryuen to become the second-year commander during the special exam. How about that? Was I right?"

Long Yuan's pupils suddenly contracted after hearing Tianyin's speech.

"Did Albert tell you this? No, I didn't tell Albert anything in such detail. Was it Shiina? Or? Ibuki?... No, none of those are right. This plan should only be known to me."

Ryuen instinctively tried to get up, and then experienced the pain that Ishizaki and Komiya had gone through, slamming his head hard against the tent frame.

But at this moment, Long Yuan was completely oblivious to the pain; he desperately wanted to know who had leaked the secret.

It's true that Amane had planted quite a few spies in Class C, but Ryuen was confident that he had eliminated all of Amane's spies. Moreover, the conditions Amane mentioned were ones he had just thought of while playing cards with Ishizaki.

There's no way anyone else could possibly know.

If we have to say that there was a leaker in Class C, then the only suspect is Ryuen himself.

"It's not difficult to guess what you're thinking. Once you reach a level of strength similar to mine, you'll find that... seeing through someone is actually quite simple. The difficult part is... how to pretend that you know nothing."

As expected, Tianyin was still that omnipotent monster.

"Now that you know my conditions, why don't you try to negotiate? If it were you, you should be able to get some benefits."

Long Yuan never expected Tian Yin to agree so readily. In his plan, Tian Yin would never hand over the entire second year to him. At most, he would make him a deputy. As long as he had the power to speak in the decision-making group, he could protect the interests of Class C to the greatest extent.

But he never expected that Amane would directly appoint him as the commander-in-chief of the second-year students in the special exam. This was definitely a higher priority than Horikita. Why did Amane trust him so much at this time?

"We can negotiate, but there's no need. Besides, from the beginning, I intended for Ryuen to be in charge of the second-year students. Rin and the others are smart enough to be leaders of a few dozen people, but they can't handle leading hundreds."

From the moment Amane heard that the special exam would be a competition between different grade levels, she had already decided to appoint Ryuen as the commander-in-chief.

Horikita and the others only need to manage their class and provide assistance to Ryuen.

As for Tianyin?

She is the sharpest blade in the second grade; good steel should be used on the blade.

For example, when acting as a commander and strategist, Tianyin's specialty is assassination.

"Then Kanzaki..."

"I only put Kanzaki in charge of directing the construction of the wooden house. You don't actually think I'm planning to hand over command to Kanzaki, that's why I did this, do you?"

"..."

Ryuen fell silent. He had indeed mistakenly thought that Amane intended to support Class D after Amane handed over management to Kanzaki, and thus thought of threatening Amane with a strike to negotiate with them.

If other classes went on strike, it wouldn't be long before Tianyin would come knocking and call the strike leaders out for a serious talk. Only the strike in Class C would attract Tianyin's attention.

The reason is that Longyuan is a ruthless person who can actually steal the grain from other classes in the same grade before the grain warehouse is even built.

"Anyway, now that we've reached an agreement, I'll head back first. There's still someone waiting for me to comfort him."

As Tianyin spoke, she stood up and made a move to leave the tent.

Long Yuan's eyes flashed, and he immediately guessed who Tianyin's next target was.

"You're going to find Kanzaki, right? That guy is probably crying in some corner right now, lamenting his helplessness. Luckily, Miyako, you made a wise judgment, otherwise I would have let him taste what it's like to be a stepping stone for someone else on the day of the special exam."

Long Yuan revealed a cruel smile.

Tianyin could easily guess that Longyuan planned to abandon building the granary and then launch a surprise attack to seize all of D Class's granary and grain after D Class finished building it.

"I think you should feel fortunate to have Longyuan."

"I?"

"You successfully avoided the tragic ending of me kicking you all down the mountain on the day of the exam."

"Tsk, well then I really have to thank you."

"You're welcome. We're all classmates and should help each other out."

Watching Tianyin's departing figure, Long Yuan was truly furious. If he weren't so confident in his martial arts skills, he would have definitely taught Tianyin a lesson.

Amane walked briskly back to the wooden house she had built that afternoon. Amane, who had originally planned to meet Kanzaki there, was surprised to see a figure busy on the roof.

Chapter 5, Part 1: 'The Wooden Barrel'

As night deepened, the temperature in the forest dropped sharply, and even Tianyin unconsciously zipped up her tracksuit to the highest setting and tightened her collar.

The cabin was quite a distance from the school's designated residential area. Being in the secluded and tranquil forest made Tianyin feel exceptionally relaxed. Of course, it would have been even more perfect if there hadn't been the occasional sound of heavy objects falling beside her.

Even in the height of summer, the night wind can sometimes feel chilly, but Kanzaki, wearing only a white athletic t-shirt, walks back and forth on the wooden house with his head down, occasionally taking apart a few parts of the house and throwing them aside with a loud bang.

"Do you need my help?"

When Kanzaki heard Amane's reply, his hand, which was dismantling the beam, paused in mid-air. He first glanced at the time on his watch, then looked up at the dim starlight in the night sky and couldn't help but sigh. It would be difficult for him to complete the dismantling task by himself tonight.

"Miyako, do you know how to dismantle architecture?"

"Hmm... does damage count?"

Tianyin pondered for a moment before asking.

For Tianyin, this kind of house demolition work was something she had never done before. The only skill she had ever encountered related to demolition was bomb disposal. However, compared to demolition, Tianyin was definitely a master in terms of destruction.

When Tianyin arrived, she had observed the wooden house for a long time. If she were to use tools to violently destroy it, the unfinished wooden house would only survive for two hours at most.

If things go smoothly, it should be done in half an hour.

"..."

Kanzaki glanced at Amane, then turned back to continue working quietly by himself. Clearly, Kanzaki preferred a gentler approach to destruction.

"Hey, Kanzaki, what's with that expression?! I'm a master at destroying houses!"

Amane felt a little hurt by Kanzaki's disdainful look, so she quickly tried to recommend herself as a master of home destruction to Kanzaki.

"Perhaps, but we need to protect the timber as completely as possible. If the timber is damaged, we'll probably have to repeat what we're doing tomorrow night."

As Kanzaki spoke, he forcefully lifted a joint that was locked using joinery (mortise and tenon joints).

boom!!!

With a loud crash, beams scattered throughout the cabin. Kanzaki, standing on the ladder, finally showed a hint of joy. The most difficult part to dismantle was now completely finished. All that remained were the cabin walls. However, removing all the walls before dawn was no longer a difficult task for him.

"Miyako, aren't you going to rest? It'll be dawn by the time I finish dismantling everything. We have training tomorrow, so it's better to rest as much as possible while we still have time."

Kanzaki wiped the sweat pouring down his forehead and neck as he spoke to Amane, who was leaning against the wooden wall.

“I just came from Longyuan.”

Amane's words made Kanzaki's face turn ugly for a moment, and it took a long time for him to gradually return to normal.

"So that's how it is. You agreed to everything they asked for?"

Kanzaki wasn't stupid. At first, he thought Ryuen was deliberately targeting him and trying to embarrass him, but he quickly regained his composure shortly after leaving the scene.

There was absolutely no need for Longyuan to resort to a strike, a public provocation against Tianyin's authority, to protest against itself.

Unless... Longyuan's purpose was never aimed at him in the first place.

Kanzaki immediately thought of Amane. Although he only had a general idea, he could guess what Ryuen wanted.

"Ah."

Tianyin gave a soft "hmm".

Kanzaki closed his eyes in pain, and after a long while, he let out a long sigh.

As expected, things have come to this.

He ruined the opportunity that Tianyin had worked so hard to get for him to showcase his abilities.

Fate can be quite cruel sometimes.

"I'm sorry, I've let you down. Tomorrow I will take responsibility for today's failed construction of the wooden house and then offer to resign from my position as the chief commander. That way, Long Yuan can rightfully take over the power to command everyone, right?"

Kanzaki had long guessed that Ryuen's purpose was to seize control of Amane's command, but unfortunately, he acted impulsively as before, and as a result, Ryuen took advantage of the situation.

His every move represents Tianyin, so what seems like Longyuan questioning his ability is actually questioning Tianyin's arrangements.

No matter how Tianyin handles things, she can't possibly satisfy Longyuan, unless... she hands over command to Longyuan.

The thought of Amane losing her command because of him reminded Kanzaki of the time on the deserted island when Ichinose lost her position as class leader because of his impulsiveness, allowing Shibata to take advantage of the situation.