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

"For Class C of the first year, Long Yuan's weight in their hearts is simply unshakable. Although Long Yuan is indeed inhuman, he is undoubtedly the strongest in Class C of the first year. No matter what happens, no one will give up on him as long as Class C still wants to become Class A. However, Long Yuan, who has lost his usefulness, will be abandoned by everyone, but that is not what I want to see. So, I only hope to ask you, Tianyin, for one thing, which is to let me enter your class, or give me 20 million points so that I can graduate from Class A when I am about to graduate."

As a staunch member of the Ryuen faction, Ibuki believed that Ryuen could not lead them to Class A after witnessing Ryuen's several failures. The reason she obeyed Ryuen was to win and get promoted, which is why she endured Ryuen's beatings and oppression. But now that Ryuen cannot lead them to promotion, her treatment is still the same as before. So what is she after? She is not a masochist who likes to be bullied and beaten.

Having spent so much time with Ryuen, she did develop a little bit of a classmate bond, but that was all. It was true that she didn't want Ryuen to drop out of school, but Ryuen couldn't let her graduate with Class A, and couldn't choose her own future and life, which caused Ibuki immense pain.

So she proposed this deal to Tianyin.

Amane's answer to Ibuki's request was also very realistic.

What can you offer me?

"All information about Class C?"

"not enough."

"I can date you."

"You're not worth 20 million points."

"...I can let you do anything to me before graduation, I'll accept whatever you do to me, but I want 20 million points."

Ibuki offered up her only bargaining chip as a condition.

Tianyin, however, did not seem very interested in her body.

"I already told you you're not worth 20 million points, but judging from your appearance, you don't have any other bargaining chips, do you? How about we change the terms and I might consider it?"

Amane's repeated statements, "You're not worth 20 million points," infuriated Ibuki. However, she needed Amane's help and had no choice but to suppress her anger and continue negotiating with her.

"What conditions?"

"Your words are still the same as before. I'll change it to whether or not I give you 20 million points closer to graduation."

"Are you kidding me?!"

Ibuki blurted out an angry rebuke to Amane, who shrugged as if she didn't care.

"These are my terms. Whether you accept them or not is up to you. If you refuse, just pretend I didn't hear about your deal today."

"...Aren't your conditions going too far? What if you refuse to give me any points in the end because you're not satisfied? Wouldn't I have been played by you for three years for nothing? You're clearly deliberately making things difficult for me!"

As Ibuki spoke, she tried to turn and leave, but no matter how hard she gritted her teeth, her legs felt like they were made of lead, and she couldn't bring herself to leave. She knew better than anyone that once she left, she would lose her last chance.

"That's right, I'm deliberately making things difficult for you. If you can accept it, then accept it; if you can't, then go back. I need to go back and be with my Lingyin."

"I accept."

Memories flooded Ibuki's mind, and she suddenly realized that she was neither Tenon's lover nor someone with whom she had an ambiguous relationship.

The relationship between her, Ibuki Mio, and Miyako Amane, originated from a deal she herself agreed to. It was Amane's indulgence that made her mistakenly believe that she had become one of Amane's lovers.

In reality... she simply traded her future possibilities by voluntarily becoming Tianyin's plaything.

"I am very dissatisfied with your performance just now, but seeing how pitiful you are, I will make an exception and give you a chance to choose again. If you want to terminate the agreement and gain your freedom, I can guarantee that I will never approach you again from now on, and you will not need to provide me with any services or information. I will not target or retaliate against you. From now on, we will be completely cut off."

"If you still want to keep our agreement, I can give you 20 million personal points. What you do with those 20 million points is none of my business; consider it compensation for how long we've been together. After all, I was quite rough with you before. What do you say? Have you thought it through?"

Chapter 217: Tianyin Smears the Book and Asks Jiang Yan

"I am very dissatisfied with your performance just now, but seeing how pitiful you are, I will make an exception and give you a chance to choose again. If you want to terminate the agreement and gain your freedom, I can guarantee that I will never approach you again from now on, and you will not need to provide me with any services or information. I will not target or retaliate against you. From now on, we will be completely cut off."

"If you still want to keep our agreement, I can give you 20 million personal points. What you do with those 20 million points is none of my business; consider it compensation for how long we've been together. After all, I was quite rough with you before. What do you say? Have you thought it through?"

Tenon stated her conditions to Ibuki without any expression.

When Ibuki saw that Amane could say such cold and heartless words, the tears that had been welling up in her eyes finally flowed out.

"Miyako Amane! You're a bastard!"

Ibuki raised her hand to slap Amane, but Amane grabbed her wrist.

"Say whatever you want, but if you want to lay a hand on me, no matter who you are, you have to be prepared. Do you understand what I mean, Mio?"

Amane emphasized the last sentence, but it was clear that Ibuki had lost her ability to think at this point.

"I will never be your plaything! Never!"

Even though Ibuki had lost her mind, her body instinctively resisted conflict with Amane. In the end, after giving Amane a disappointed look, she uttered a harsh word and pushed open the door to leave.

"Oh! You're Ibuki-san..."

"Get out of the way!"

"Huh? Okay, okay..."

Without even glancing at Airi, whom she had bumped into, Ibuki turned and ran towards her tent.

Just as Airi was wondering why Ibuki could cry like this just by going to the bathroom, the figure that came out of it again surprised her so much that she could hardly close her mouth.

"Airi, are you alright?"

"I'm fine, it's just that Ibuki-san seems to be in a bit of a predicament..."

Airi's cheeks flushed slightly. Despite her complete transformation, she was still timid in front of Tenon. At this moment, Airi was like a little... big cat who had made a mistake, with her head down, not daring to look Tenon in the eye, while secretly glancing at Tenon's expression out of the corner of her eye.

This was the first time she had been alone with Amane since the quiz competition ended. She didn't know how to face Amane, nor did she know how Amane viewed her answers to Horikita's tricky questions during the quiz competition.

"Mio... she probably didn't understand what I meant. Sigh, is it really that difficult to understand someone like me?"

"no!"

Airi's loud reply startled Tianyin.

Sakura Airi herself was also startled, and she quickly lowered her head in a panic.

"I'm sorry, I shouldn't have been so loud, but... what I wanted to say is... Miyako Amane is actually a very easy person to understand, not as complicated as everyone imagines."

As Airi spoke, a happy smile appeared on her face, and she bravely looked up at Tianyin.

“Airi…”

Tianyin initially thought that "sparkling eyes" was just a metaphor, but when she actually saw Airi's eyes, filled with courage and determination, Tianyin realized that there really was someone whose eyes sparkled...

Just as Airi was about to say something more, a commotion arose from the outpost tent at the base.

Immediately afterwards, the boys' residential area sprang into action. After that crushing blow, all the boys seemed to have matured considerably overnight.

Although everyone was woken up from their sleep, no one shouted or asked what had happened, and no one fled the stronghold in a panic, barely clothed.

All the boys silently dressed and left the tent. They then lined up with Katsuragi to each receive three paintballs. They were then divided into four teams of about eight people each. After the teams were formed, they went to the gate of the base to meet the first-year students' attack, led by Albert, Kanzaki, Katsuragi, and Ryuen respectively.

The process might seem rather tedious, but it was all completed in about three minutes. Even Tianyin could see that many people still looked like they hadn't woken up yet, but their bodies instinctively carried out the orders given by Ge Cheng and Long Yuan.

No one spoke or refused to obey orders throughout the entire process; everything appeared to be so orderly. Such a level of obedience and execution made Tianyin look at these people with admiration.

Second-year students are second-year students. Having gone through a year of special exams, once they get into the zone, their experience and teamwork skills far surpass those of the less experienced first-year students. Even their level of teamwork is incomparable to that of the first-year students.

However, compared to the boys, the girls' assembly speed was too slow. After Amane asked Airi to inform Horikita and Ichinose to prepare to meet the boys, she took the lead in catching up with the boys' team.

When Tianyin arrived at the stronghold, the four teams of boys had already seized advantageous positions, giving them a superior position over the first-year students.

The first-year students practically came out in full force this time... even Nanase was dragged out.

Tenon immediately spotted Nanase, who was being watched over by Tensawa and bound like a dumpling.

Presumably, the effect of his letter was too obvious. Yan and the others were worried about leaving Nanase alone at the camp, but locking her up wasn't safe enough, so they simply took Nanase with them and entrusted her to Amasawa's care. With Amasawa around, it would be virtually impossible for Nanase to escape.

With their worries gone, the group was able to concentrate all their strength to compete with the second-year students.

At this moment, a suffocating atmosphere of tension permeated the air outside the second-year base.

Jiang Yan, as the strongest student in the first year, stood at the very front of all the first-year students, his face contorted as if he were looking at an unforgivable enemy.

Jiang Yan's eyes were like molten lava, burning with raging anger. His eyeballs bulged as he stared ahead, his brows furrowed into a mess, and the veins on his forehead and body suddenly bulged, like blue cracks trying to tear his body apart.

At this moment, he was no longer the tyrant who never showed his emotions, but a raging lion, ready to pounce on the target in front of him that he hated so much he wanted to tear him apart.

Everything around him became blurry in his eyes, except for the source of his anger, which was clearly visible and became the only focus of his vision.

That person was Kito Hayabusa.

Kito Hayabusa's powerful kick made him rest for a whole week before he dared to engage in strenuous activity. If he had needed treatment from the school's medical staff, it might not have taken so long, but the reason was that the part of his injury was too embarrassing for him to talk about.

Once people find out where he is injured, the ridicule alone will overwhelm him. Unlike Tianyin, who doesn't care about saving face at all, Jiangyan's pride will not allow him to fail again and again, nor will it allow him to be ridiculed by those fools.

So even though he himself almost fainted from the pain, he still gritted his teeth and persevered to defeat Albert, then returned to the camp with Amasawa and Nanase.

This was a promise he made to the first-year students before he set off; he would persevere to the end no matter what.

Even though he was now safe and sound, Jiang Yan still felt a little unwell whenever he thought about what happened that day. Suddenly, the anger in Jiang Yan's heart was burning uncontrollably.

"Looks like you haven't had enough of that. This time I'll let you experience Falcon's strength again. Go on, teach that guy a lesson."

As the head of the outpost, Hashimoto had always wanted to do something to build up his reputation, but his previous failure made him one of Miyako Masahiko's background figures. If it weren't for Kito's sneak attack that forced Masahiko to retreat and regain some face for him, Hashimoto would probably have wanted to escape this terrible place long ago.

Now facing Masahiko again, Hashimoto hopes to rely on Kito to gain some more leverage for him...

"So verbose!!!"

With a roar, Kito's body flew past Hashimoto like a cannonball and crashed heavily behind him.

The gust of wind generated by the demon's body knocked Hashimoto to the ground.

Hashimoto sat on the ground in horror, looking up at Miyako Masahiko, who was still in a throwing stance.

His strong muscles and throbbing veins proved that his clearing out the area last time was not just a coincidence.

boom!!

Just as the ghost head's body was about to crash heavily to the ground, Tianyin reached out and caught it with both hands. The huge impact forced Tianyin back a meter or two before she was able to dissipate the force from the ghost head.

Tianyin estimated the distance Jiang Yan threw and couldn't help but nod in satisfaction. The ghost head weighed about 140 jin (50 kg), and Jiang Yan was able to throw it more than ten meters away, which is considered to be at the level of a strongman in the realm of normal people.

However, she's still a bit lacking compared to her.

"Sister Tianyin..."

Upon seeing Tianyin's arrival, Jiang Yan regained a sliver of his rage.

Jiang Yan's gaze towards Tian Yin was now complex.

His biggest worry right now comes from the letter Tianze brought him yesterday.

Caught completely off guard, Jiang Yan opened the letter—which was nothing short of Pandora's box to him—while he was alone in the tent after Tian Ze left.

In her letter, Amane praised Masahiko for his rapid improvement in strength. She then recounted old stories from when she and Sakayanagi first met him, bringing back memories of how Amane and Sakayanagi secretly brought him food, taught him self-defense techniques, and trained with him. It also reminded Masahiko of how, after Amane left, he challenged the thugs who had been utterly defeated by her, only to be beaten so badly he was almost unable to care for himself. The memory of that embarrassing incident made Masahiko smile involuntarily.

Up to this point in the letter, everything seems normal.

However, the content that followed was much more serious than the previous one. In the letter, Tianyin clearly pointed out that Jiang Yan's control over the first-year students was far from sufficient. At present, Jiang Yan had only managed to make the first-year students fear him, but he could not make them truly respect him. The reason was that Jiang Yan started in Class A, so no matter what he did, others would think that this was the level that a Class A student should have.

Therefore, no matter how well Yan performs, people will still feel that he should do these things, is able to do these things, and must do these things in order to be worthy of the identity of Class A.

Without the process of overcoming difficulties and climbing to the top, it means that Yan has no room to prove his identity as the 'King' of the first year.

Even if Masahiko had the strength to conquer the first-year students, it wouldn't have mattered. That's why the command system on Masahiko's side was so chaotic, why there were always multiple voices from the first-year students, and why no one supported Masahiko's actions.

The root of the problem lies in the fact that those people are not convinced.

There are only two ways to convince others through your strength: one is to demonstrate your ability to overcome all difficulties and reach the top, like a poor young man who started from scratch and eventually became one of the richest people in the world. As long as others can see your success, even a casual remark will be regarded by many as the secret to your success. This is the simplest way to convince others.

However, this method was destined to be useless against Jiang Yan from the start. As a member of Class A, Jiang Yan had no way to prove his strength. Strength is not something that can be achieved by simply defeating the opponent with violence. If others cannot see your strength to move forward, they will naturally choose to follow you. Moreover, Jiang Yan is standing at the finish line with no room for advancement. This means that no matter how perfectly Jiang Yan does things, he is only undefeated. Once he suffers a small defeat, it is no different from a major defeat. Because as long as Jiang Yan has a weakness, he will always be a 'person' who can be defeated, not a 'king' who rules this place.

Another way is to control the fate of others.

If you can control someone else's destiny, that person will naturally submit to you. This is why there are things like a new official making a big splash upon taking office and making an example of someone to warn others.

Essentially, it's about establishing authority, and the concrete manifestation of this authority is telling everyone, "I hold your fate in my hands."

Therefore, if Jiang Yan wants to become the true king of the first year, he must establish his authority. He must get people from other classes to drop out to prove that he is the one who can control other people's fates. However, getting class leaders from other classes to drop out is an extremely difficult thing.

but!

With this special exam, nothing is difficult. As long as Jiang Yan is willing to bring the remaining students to her and have them voluntarily withdraw, Tian Yin can persuade the other second-year class leaders to withdraw the person designated by Jiang Yan when choosing who to drop out. In this way, with the backing of the second-year students, Miyako Jiang Yan can truly make all the first-year students feel his terror. At that time, it will be a natural thing for Jiang Yan to become the king of the first-year students.

To be honest, Miyako Masahiko was very interested in the contents of the letter, but there were two minor flaws.

On one hand, Tianyin had scribbled over some strange words on the letter. Although it didn't affect readability, it made Jiang Yan very curious as to why Tianyin would make so many basic writing mistakes. On the other hand, after others learned that Jiang Yan had received a private message from Tianyin, they barged in and discovered the letter. They questioned whether the scribbling on the letter was done by Jiang Yan himself to cover up certain content. He was truly speechless. To reassure the others, he was forced to bring people to challenge Tianyin.

He was really ruined by Tianyin's letter.

Chapter 218: A Backstab from My Sister

Seeing Jiang Yan's hesitant expression, Tian Yin smiled. She knew that the letter she had given to Tian Ze earlier had worked.

After handing the letter to Tianze, Tianyin made an agreement with her that it must be given to Jiangyan only after all the first-year students have been herded to a base. Otherwise, as long as there are other first-year students in the base outside, the letter must never be shown to anyone.

Tianyin's original plan was to first concentrate all the forces of the second grade to eliminate the branch strongholds of the first grade. Once all the first graders were gathered together, they could use the internal conflicts between their classes to sow discord and cause infighting among them.