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

However, from the perspective of other classes, that sports festival was a truly unbearable memory.

Especially for those students who participated in the siege of Amane and were thoroughly defeated, those who have already graduated are still okay, but for those students who have not yet graduated but still have to participate in this sports festival, the name Miyako Amane has become their nightmare.

Especially the second-year students who participated in the last sports festival have now become third-year students, and are true upperclassmen and upperclasswomen. The thought of being beaten up by Amane, who is their junior, or becoming a background to Amane in this sports festival makes them unwilling to participate in this sports festival.

The reason is simple: they can't find a student stronger than Tianyin. This means that whoever is grouped with Tianyin will win, so what's the point of competing?

You should know that sports are just like doing math problems. In math, you either get it right or you get it wrong. There is no middle ground. Sports are the same. If you can do it, you can do it. If you can't, you can't. What's the point of taking a break?

In short, in sports where the use of certain special drugs is prohibited, it is almost impossible for someone with weaker physical fitness to suddenly defeat someone who takes the game seriously and whose physical fitness and skills completely overwhelm them.

Therefore, the third-year students began to protest as early as the first semester and suggested to the student council that Amane be banned from participating in the competition. They said that if Amane insisted on participating, it would be better to just give her the championship, which would save the time, energy and cost of preparing for the sports festival. It would be a win-win situation.

However, for some unknown reason, after such protest letters were sent to the student council, there was no further response. Instead, the students who submitted the protest letters were found to have committed various misdeeds, and the student council punished both the students and their classes. This situation led the third-year students to give up their efforts to have Tianyin banned from the competition.

However, somehow the letter of protest still ended up in the hands of a board member, who then brought the matter up for public discussion. The vast majority of board members wanted to reject such an absurd proposal. What's the point of watching the sports festival if the strongest players aren't allowed to participate? They had all agreed that this sports festival would be broadcast live, which would generate a lot of revenue for the school!

However, the director eventually convinced the others, for a simple reason: the cultural festival following the sports festival allowed foreign guests to attend, and the attendees were all important figures. If Tenon caused another incident like this at the sports festival, would those who accepted the invitation refuse to attend to protect their image? Moreover, Chairman Fujimori's term as interim chairman was ending in November.

That would have been right after the sports festival ended. If the sports festival had been ruined, would it have affected the power transition?

This reason convinced the board members. They didn't care at all about whether Tianyin was strong or not, or whether he was strong enough to break the rules. In fact, if they were to have a serious discussion, they could argue for a whole day and still not reach a conclusion. But when it came to the transfer of power, these permanent board members who were politicians and representatives of large corporations and conglomerates who had obtained their board positions by spending money to fund schools could make a decision immediately.

"Miyako Amane's strength is indeed strong enough to influence the outcome of the competition. It would be reasonable to use the last sports festival as an excuse to ban her from participating. However, if we don't give Class 2-A appropriate compensation, it would be unfair to them. Miss Miyako might even be angry."

If mentioning the name Miyako Amane could still make these people remain calm, then the title "Miss Miyako" made all the board members break out in a cold sweat. Some of those who had just voted in favor even considered changing their tune, saying that their hands had just cramped up and that's why they had raised their hands, and asked to vote again.

However, in the end, it was Chairman Fujiwara who finalized the decision.

"If you don't want to participate, then you don't have to. But the compensation must be paid in full. As for the content of the compensation... it can't affect the fairness of the sports festival, nor can it make people feel that the school is making an exception and being stingy, understand?"

And that's how the matter was finally settled.

……

Ms. Chabashira smiled faintly as she recalled the compensation plan that Principal Fujiwara had told her.

"Although Miyako-san cannot participate in this sports festival, the school has provided our class with a corresponding compensation plan, and it does not mean that Miyako-san will have no chance to participate at all."

Compensation plan? Opportunity to play?

Hirata was a little puzzled by the simultaneous appearance of these two words that should not have appeared at the same time. If Amane was not allowed to play, but was given the opportunity to play in the end, then what was the purpose of this ban?

If Tianyin can perform under certain conditions, then why is there a compensation plan? Is it just to compensate for Tianyin's inability to perform in other events, so that the school can come up with a separate compensation plan?

That day, the scale of the music was a bit too much.

"Teacher Chazhu, what compensation plan has the school given us?"

Since there was still a possibility that Amane could play, Horikita simply started to focus on the compensation plan.

This action prompted Tianyin to protest quietly.

"Rinne, shouldn't you stand up for me? I didn't do anything wrong last time, but I was banned from participating in the sports festival. I also want to play with everyone."

Hearing Amane's words, Horikita couldn't help but roll her eyes at Amane.

You call that "not doing anything"? Last time at the sports festival, Amane went berserk, almost tearing down the playground or punching the board member twice. If that's considered "not doing anything," Horikita doesn't even want to imagine what a terrifying scene it would be if Amane actually did "something."

Horikita even thought it was a miracle that Amane wasn't expelled after the sports festival; if it were any other school, Amane would probably have been expelled countless times.

Horikita left his seat and came to Amane. He gently stroked Amane's hair and then pressed Amane's head back into his arm on the desk.

"Go to sleep quietly."

"I……"

"Ok?"

Looking at Amane, who was lying obediently on his arm with her eyes closed, seemingly about to fall asleep, Horikita patted Amane's head with satisfaction and then turned his gaze to Chabashira-sensei.

Without Amane's interruptions, Chabashira-sensei was spared the possibility of Amane causing a scene due to dissatisfaction with the school's handling of the situation.

"The school's compensation is that Class 2A can make unlimited substitutions in all events during the sports festival in October without having to pay substitution points."

Ms. Chabashira paused deliberately, looking at Horikita, wanting to see if Horikita could accept these conditions.

As expected, Horikita frowned when he heard that there were only these conditions, and secretly poked Tenon with one hand in a very hidden place.

Tianyin, who should have been fast asleep, immediately opened her eyes and sat up.

Chabashira-sensei naturally knew that Horikita intended to use Amane to put pressure on her, but compensation was not something she could change just because she said so.

One substitution opportunity costs about 100,000 points. In the last sports festival, each person could only sign up for three events, but it was mandatory to sign up for three events. This forced many students in the class who were not good at physical sports to participate in various competitions, and their results were naturally quite poor. Moreover, due to their lack of exercise, many people were injured after participating in only one sport and were unable to participate in other competitions, so Hirata had to spend points to substitute for them.

A simple replacement costs 100,000 points, which is a huge sum even now. This time, the compensation directly eliminates the cost and restrictions of replacing players, meaning that as long as the situation allows, they can even use one person to participate in all competitions.

This is indeed a great thing for them, but compared to the cost of losing Amane, a key player in the Sports Festival, it seems to be of little use. The two are not equal.

Seeing that Horikita was not satisfied with the compensation, Chabashira-sensei had no choice but to tell Horikita about the second compensation.

"That was the first compensation. The second compensation is that Class 2-A will be exempt from any possible sports festival punishments. If they don't reach the minimum reward ranking, the reward will be calculated based on the minimum reward ranking. If they are above the minimum reward ranking, they will receive the reward as if they were first place."

If the previous compensation was only slightly surprising to others, this compensation is truly exciting news for Class 2A.

"So, if all twelve classes across the three grades receive rewards based on their individual class performance in the sports festival, and assuming only the top four receive rewards, then if we're below fourth place, we'll automatically receive the same reward as fourth place; if we're above fourth place, we'll receive the same reward as first place?"

Horikita, still somewhat skeptical, asked Chabashira-sensei to confirm, and received an affirmative answer from him.

"It's exactly what you think, except that our class receives a corresponding reward instead of a ranking. For example, even if we get the first place reward, we should still be second place. Horikita, you should understand what I mean."

Teacher Chabashira's answer made Horikita nod in satisfaction, and then he casually pressed Amane's head down again.

Although this compensation doesn't include any direct rewards, it can be described as a generous promise to Class A that they won't be punished, can change their participants for free an unlimited number of times, and will receive a guaranteed minimum reward.

It's barely acceptable.

Just when Chabashira thought he was about to go back, Koenji suddenly raised his hand.

"Kōenji-kun, do you have any questions you'd like to ask?"

"Teacher, I admit that such compensation is very tempting, but hasn't the school considered another possibility? If... we still get first place without the Miyako girl, what kind of reward should we receive?"

Koenji's confident attitude gave the impression that they would get first place even without Tenon.

"Then the reward will be doubled. Can you accept this answer, Koenji-kun?"

Faced with such an overconfident question, Ms. Chabashira's expression did not change at all. Having come from this school herself, she naturally knew what kind of mentality these students had. So, when she first learned about this matter, she confirmed with Principal Fujiwara one by one the questions the students might ask. Only after receiving Principal Fujiwara's reply did she officially inform the students.

"Of course! It seems that this sports festival is quite important to the school. They even went so far as to offer so many rewards and compensation measures to try to stop the Miyako girls from causing trouble at the sports festival. It seems that the rumors about allowing guests and important figures to come and watch at the cultural festival are not unfounded."

Koenji's words immediately caused an uproar in Class 2-A.

It's not unusual for students to have important figures attending; apparently, they invited important figures to the last sports festival. But the school is actually inviting guests to this year's cultural festival? This is unprecedented!

Some people even hoped that their parents would be invited to watch the school's cultural festival, and for a moment everyone forgot about the sports festival.

When it comes to cultural festivals, people's first reaction is to think of highly engaging programs such as food and haunted houses.

This is clearly more interesting than any sports festival.

When Koenji brought up the topic of the cultural festival, Chabashira took the opportunity to explain about it.

"Kōenji is right. The school is taking this cultural festival very seriously. This is the first time the school has tried to hold a cultural festival publicly. They will also invite guests and important figures from various industries to participate. However, most of the invited guests are people with considerable social status and position. Ordinary people will not receive invitations from the school."

Chabashira-sensei's last words were specifically addressed to those students who still harbored illusions. She knew all too well how agonizing it was to be confined to a school for three years without contact with family. Therefore, everyone would try every possible way to seize even a single chance to meet. Unfortunately, the school's decision to open the cultural festival and invite important figures had ulterior motives. Perhaps it was to attract sponsorships and investment, seek political support, or demonstrate to neutral parties how excellent the students, the cogs in the machine of social development, were, hoping to change their views and gain their support…

In short, the underlying purposes are all things that have nothing to do with ordinary people, so it's impossible to invite ordinary people to participate in this cultural festival.

As Chabashira had expected, many people showed disappointment upon hearing that the so-called guests invited to this cultural festival were all important figures. Seeing that everyone's interest in the cultural festival was waning, Chabashira stopped talking and instead sent the relevant information about the cultural festival to all OAAs for the students to check on their own.

Amane also took out her tablet, opened the OAA software, and began to look up information about the cultural festival.

This year's cultural festival was similar to other school cultural festivals, yet it was also somewhat different.

Overall, the school probably wanted to make the cultural festival better, but ended up creating a competitive format.

All classes in the school had to participate, and the method for determining the rankings was something no one could have imagined...

Turnover.

It's normal for schools to charge fees for their cultural festival booths, but Gao Yu actually wanted several classes to compete in sales at the festival, especially with important figures coming to experience it. In Tianyin's opinion, this was simply outrageous, utterly absurd.

The reason is simple: there are no restrictions on the performances of each class at the cultural festival, which means that what to perform or what booth to set up to attract the most attention becomes the first issue that each class needs to consider.

Since the school said that the guests are all important people or people with social status, would they really disregard their image to eat takoyaki or sit on a stool at a roadside stall eating yakitori while wearing a suit?

Obviously, that's impossible. This means that food stalls won't make any money from the guests at all. But you can't not open them either, because the cultural festival would feel incomplete without these food stalls.

In addition, how much should be charged for places like mazes, art exhibitions, and haunted houses? Are there really guests willing to pay to experience a haunted house made by high school students? If you are not scared, you may seem a bit out of place and be said to be unable to read the room. But if you are scared, as a successful person in the industry, if you show a panicked expression and behavior, you will inevitably be pointed at and even ridiculed.

Therefore, anyone with a modicum of sense would avoid activities that might lead to words or actions inconsistent with their status.

So the question is, what kind of performance can both avoid embarrassing important people and still make money?

While pondering this crucial question, Tianyin quickly scrolled through her emails.

The general idea is that all students are authorized to use a certain number of personal points: 5500 points for first-year students, 5000 points for second-year students, and 4500 points for third-year students.

The total budget is the sum of all students' points. Taking Class A of Grade 2 as an example, there are 37 students in Class A of Grade 2. Each student has a quota of 5000 points. Therefore, the total budget for Class A of Grade 2 is 185000 individual points.

In other words, the cost of the performance by Class A of Grade 2 must be controlled within the range of 185000 individual points.

In addition, the email also explained another important point: the total budget would be supplemented for each class based on students' performance in clubs and their social contributions to the student council.

This additional budget is determined and approved by the student council.

The current student council president is Sakayanagi Arisu.

Suddenly, Tianyin's eyes lit up as if she had thought of something.

Chapter 232: Cherish Tianyin

For Arisu to increase investment in the student council is just a matter of a word. After all, Amane was once the head of the disciplinary committee, and many of her classmates still hold positions in the student council. Giving her a little more shouldn't be a big problem.

With the funding issue resolved, the next step is to consider what categories of goods and services to offer at the cultural festival.

Tianyin is no longer considering things like revenue. If they had to focus on revenue, they would have plenty of ideas, but it would definitely attract some criticism. Besides, this cultural festival is a rare competition without any penalties, so it seems the school doesn't want everyone to make the festival a mess by competing for revenue.

三个年级共计十二个班级，营业额1到4名可以分别获得100点班级点数，5到8名分别获得50点班级点数，其它班级点数则是不变。

According to Tianyin's idea, even if they just make some casual preparations, they should be able to get at least 50 class points. It doesn't matter if a second-year class gets 100 points in one go. The goal of this cultural festival is for everyone to have fun.

Suddenly! A very interesting idea slowly took shape in Tianyin's mind. The more she thought about it, the more suitable it seemed, and she couldn't help but smile.

"Don't laugh so wickedly."

Horikita used his fingers to press down on the corners of Amane's mouth, pulling back the corners of Amane's mouth that were almost turned up to who knows where.

"Rinne! I've got a great idea!"

Hearing that Amane had come up with an idea so quickly, even Horikita was a little surprised. However, when he thought of Amane's mischievous smile just now, Horikita became seriously suspicious of Amane's 'good idea'.

After handing out the instructions for the cultural festival to everyone, Ms. Chabashira left the classroom, leaving the self-study period for the students to discuss. After all, there were various monthly exams and final exams interspersed between the sports festival and the cultural festival. After school, everyone was either participating in clubs or staying in class to receive tutoring from the top students as usual, so it was difficult to find time to discuss the cultural festival.

Moreover, this doesn't even take into account the fact that the proportion of physical education classes has increased significantly in the past few months because the sports festival is held before the cultural festival. If there are team competitions, students may have to practice for them after school. It is unknown whether students who have been exhausted both mentally and physically all day will still have the energy to prepare for the cultural festival.

Therefore, these two classes are very valuable for the second-year students who are about to enter a busy period, and they must make effective use of the self-study time for group discussions.

However, Horikita did not want this matter to be discussed publicly, because Amane had already hinted that someone in the class had been passing information to other classes. This meant that although a collective discussion could quickly resolve the issue, it would also risk leaking the plan.

Although the school doesn't prohibit different classes from having different performances, no class wants their carefully prepared performance to be "clash" with another's. The impact on revenue is a minor issue; the main problem is that it will cause a strong sense of disappointment to the students who actively participated in the preparation and hoped to surprise everyone. Unfortunately, this kind of competition without punishment means that even if you achieve the highest revenue, you can't convince your competitors who have the same product, because they might deliberately prepare the same performance just to annoy you. This is the most troublesome and disgusting thing.

Therefore, Horikita wanted to avoid letting other classes know about the performance as much as possible. So she had to find a way to get everyone involved in the discussion without letting them know so quickly what kind of performance her class was going to prepare.

This was undoubtedly a difficult task, but it was no challenge for Horikita.

Horikita stood up and walked onto the podium under everyone's gaze.

Upon seeing Horikita, the previously noisy class quickly quieted down. However, everyone's eyes were immediately drawn to Amane, and only after Amane showed no reaction did they turn their attention back to Horikita.

Amane holds absolute authority in Class 2-A. Regular class affairs are handled by Katsuragi, Hirata, Horikita, and Ichinose. However, Amane takes the lead in organizing or arranging events for special exams or important situations. Everyone immediately understands that Amane intends to delegate both the sports festival and the cultural festival to Horikita, which is a good thing in some ways. It shows that Amane sees no threat to the class rankings from these events; otherwise, she certainly wouldn't have entrusted such important events involving the entire school to Horikita Suzune.

Seeing that everyone had quieted down, Horikita cleared his throat and began to talk about his arrangements for the cultural festival.

"I believe everyone already has a general understanding of the content of the cultural festival, so I won't repeat it. It's September now, and the cultural festival will be held in early November. Considering that everyone needs to prepare for exams and the sports festival, the energy that can be devoted to the cultural festival is limited. Therefore, I hope that the content of the performances for the cultural festival can be finalized this weekend."

Horikita had just finished speaking when he saw someone raise their hand high.

"Do you have a question for Maehara-kun?"

"That's right. I saw on the OAA website that the rankings this time are determined by revenue. If you want to make money faster, the food and beverage industry is definitely more suitable, right?"

Since this ranking is based solely on revenue without considering costs, there shouldn't be any problems as long as the initial investment isn't exceeded. Therefore, Maezono's suggestion is quite reasonable. However, Horikita doesn't want such a general suggestion.

“What you said makes a lot of sense, but I don’t intend to discuss the programs we’re preparing for the school festival here.”

Horikita's answer surprised Maezono. Wasn't Horikita's purpose in standing on the stage and emphasizing that the results should be obtained this week for everyone to discuss? And if not here, where else should they discuss it?