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

When Ibuki saw that Shiina seemed interested in Ryuen's suggestion, she quickly spoke up and offered to take on the important task herself.

Ryuen stared intently at Ibuki for a long time, then nodded in the last few seconds before the break ended.

"Then let's vote for Ibuki."

Chapter 248: Two Transfer Students

The day after the special exam, which was unanimously agreed upon by all participants.

As Amane entered the classroom, she bumped into Ichinose. Before Amane could greet her, Ichinose grabbed her hand with a serious expression and led her to the back of the classroom.

"Fanbo, what's wrong with you? Why are you in such a panic first thing in the morning?"

Amane, unaware of what was going on, followed Ichinose to the back row of the classroom.

Several people were already standing in the back row, arguing heatedly. When Tianyin realized who was involved in the discussion, she immediately knew that something serious had happened.

"I admit that what you said makes a lot of sense, Katsuragi-kun, but we don't need to worry about the sports festival at all, right? The school has already promised to guarantee us at least the lowest reward, and that alone should be enough to put your mind at ease, right?"

Moreover, the school promised that as long as we achieved at least a minimum ranking, we would automatically receive the first-place award. This shouldn't be difficult for us either. Since we are outnumbered, we can concentrate all our efforts on ensuring we get a ranking. This way, we only need to prepare for a few sports events where we can get a ranking, and then meet the school's conditions for awarding us the first-place prize.

As soon as Amane was pulled in front of the group, she heard Horikita discussing the sports festival with Katsuragi. This made Amane a little disappointed. She thought the sky had fallen or there was some gossip that had gathered everyone together to discuss it. It turned out to be just a sports festival, which made Amane lose interest in participating in the discussion instantly.

She can't participate in this sports festival, which means that even if she comes up with some tactics, it will be difficult to implement them. There aren't many people in Class A who are good at physical fitness. It's always the same few people. Although they certainly won't be last, there are still too few people who are good at sports compared to Class B or Class C.

If Amane could play, they could make up for the points lost in the team competition and compete with other classes for a better ranking. However, Amane has already been banned from participating in the sports festival before it even started, so this matter has little to do with her.

Furthermore, the conditions promised by the school were far too tempting, essentially allowing Class A to slack off in this sports festival. Clearly, the school itself was aware of the impact their ban on Amane's participation would have on Class A.

So, everyone should just have fun at the sports festival.

"Tianyin, you're here. We were just discussing the sports festival. What are your thoughts on it?"

Horikita first reached out to straighten Amane's school uniform, then gently asked Amane for her opinion.

However, before Horikita could finish asking Amane, she shook her head like a rattle drum.

"I have no objection. Shouldn't this sports festival be a relaxed event for us? Why are you making such a fuss about it here?"

With a guaranteed reward and the ability to get the same reward as the first place winner with just a little effort, Amane didn't know how she could lose at this start, and naturally couldn't understand the point of contention in the sports festival.

"Sigh, it's all because of the number of people. Tianyin, you probably didn't see what's on the bulletin board, did you?"

Notice board?

When Tianyin passed by, she remembered that there seemed to be something posted on the bulletin board, but since no one was paying attention, she assumed it was just a minor announcement and planned to check the photos taken by others in the group later. However, judging from Horikita's tone, could there be some explosive news on the bulletin board?

Seeing that Amane shook her head, Horikita took out her phone, opened a photo of the bulletin board that someone else had taken, and then pushed the phone in front of Amane.

Tianyin glanced at the contents of the photo and was immediately shocked, her eyes widening in disbelief.

First, students dropped out of the second-grade classes A, B, and D.

Maya Sato dropped out of Class 2-A; she should have packed her things and left yesterday.

Masayoshi Hashimoto dropped out of Class 2-B.

This made Amane let out a questioning sound. She had heard that Hashimoto was planning to trip up Sakayanagi, but Amane felt that although Hashimoto had the ability, it would be difficult for him to compete with Arisu, so she did not support Hashimoto. However, what Amane did not expect was that Hashimoto was expelled from school.

The class's second-in-command was expelled!

Amane had imagined what would happen if Hashimoto lost, which would simply mean being kicked out of the core members of Class 2-B and stripped of all his voice. But Amane never thought that Hashimoto would be expelled. With Amane's thorough understanding of Arisu, Arisu wouldn't care about such a level of betrayal from Hashimoto at all. As long as Hashimoto didn't deliberately frame a classmate and get him expelled, Arisu would never let Hashimoto be expelled, because that would only cause Class 2-B to lose a very talented person for nothing.

unless……

Hashimoto pulled out something that crossed Arisu's bottom line. Amane was curious about what kind of trump card Hashimoto had brought out. How strong must this trump card be to make Arisu so angry that she wanted to expel her confidante?

Aside from the fact that Hashimoto Masayoshi was expelled, which surprised Amane, she also sensed something unusual about Ryuen's decision to protect the class members. She was quite certain that Class C was about to make a move, and might try something again during the sports festival. If Amane couldn't interfere with the competition, Class A would definitely run into some trouble.

However, these are minor issues. The scale of the sports festival is such that even if Ryuen wins first place, it won't have much of an impact.

The student who dropped out of Class D in the second year was named Tokito Katsumi. Amane didn't have much of an impression of him, so he probably wasn't a particularly important person.

After the dropout information for each class is released, the next step will be to announce the transfer information.

However, the announcement only stated that the class teacher would be responsible for informing the classes under their management regarding the class transfer information, and it was not made public to the outside world.

Just as Tianyin was about to close the photo, thinking that was all the information in the announcement, she suddenly noticed another announcement about rewards and punishments below the main announcement.

"Announcement of Rewards and Punishments:"

On September 13th at 3:35 PM, Yosuke Hirata, a student in Class 2A, and Maya Sato, another student in Class 2A, got into a verbal altercation in their classroom due to their dissatisfaction with the unanimous result of a special exam vote. The altercation escalated into a violent confrontation after Maya Sato further provoked them with her words, ultimately resulting in Maya Sato sustaining physical injuries and falling into a coma. This incident has had an extremely negative impact, and the school has confirmed the facts after investigation and evidence collection.

After communicating with the student council, the school decided to severely punish the two second-year students who disregarded school rules and regulations in this incident. The punishment results are hereby publicized throughout the school, and the specific punishment results are as follows:

Since Maya Sato was voted out of school for this special exam, her part of the responsibility will no longer be pursued. All of her personal points have been converted into cash and used for medical expenses and subsequent treatment costs.

Yosuke Hirata was found to have severe mental symptoms during a subsequent psychiatric evaluation. Given that his violent behavior was uncontrollable after being subjected to mental stimulation, he was exempted from personal punishment at the discretion of the court.

However, considering that Hirata Yosuke's symptoms can cause him to be extremely aggressive towards other students when they occur, and that he could pose a serious threat to the physical and mental health of others when he is out of control, he has been ordered to suspend his studies for treatment. He will be required to provide a certificate of passing a mental health test issued by the hospital before he can apply to return to school.

The leave of absence is indefinite.

Given that Hirata Yosuke extensively damaged school facilities and public property during his violent acts, causing extremely serious economic losses and a negative impact on the school, 100 class points will be deducted from Class 2A as punishment.

Reward Announcement:

Kiyotaka Ayanokouji, a student in Class D of the second year, bravely protected Maya Sato, a student in Class A of the second year, from further violence. In protecting her, he disregarded his own safety and fought bravely against the attacker, resulting in injury to himself.

To reward Kiyotaka Ayanokouji of Class 2-D for his heroic act of protecting his classmates, the school will award him one million personal points and Class 2-D 100 class points. We hope everyone will learn from Kiyotaka Ayanokouji and bravely stop acts of school violence.

This announcement completely stunned Tianyin.

Amane glanced back at Sato and Hirata's empty seats, clearly indicating that arrangements had been made overnight for some to withdraw from school or to suspend their studies.

She was completely unaware of this.

Aside from the school making an exception, Tianyin couldn't think of any other possibility. As for communicating with the student union?

Is this a joke? She slept in the same bed with the student council president last night. If the student council had an emergency meeting to discuss this, wouldn't she know?

“There are 37 people in our class. Now, Hirata and Sato are on leave of absence and expelled respectively, so we only have 35 people left. Amane can't play during the sports festival, which means... we only have 34 people participating in the sports festival. I don't need to say how many people are just slacking off. That's what Katsuragi-kun is worried about.”

The school has given Class 2A the right to make unlimited substitutions, but the prerequisite for unlimited substitutions is that there must be people available. Although the specific rules of the sports festival have not yet been announced, it has been confirmed that each person must register for at least three events, plus the team events, which is about five. If the class has too few students, it will be difficult to just register for all the events, let alone substitute someone to fill in for someone else.

Furthermore, with Hirata, a key figure in the class, absent, the personnel scheduling and organization depend entirely on Horikita Katsuragi and the others, and the pressure is self-evident. If Amane were there, it would save a lot of trouble, but Amane probably wouldn't be willing to deal with such troublesome matters.

After learning that Katsuragi was worried about the lack of manpower, Amane was not in a hurry. She knew in advance that Kamuro would be transferred to Class A. Although Kamuro's ability was basically limited to running errands, he had been by Arisu's side for so long that he could easily help Ichinose and Horikita.

Just as Tianyin was about to share the news with everyone, the bell for morning self-study interrupted their conversation.

Seeing that Mr. Chazhu, whose expression was neither sad nor happy, walked onto the podium, everyone quickly returned to their seats.

Chabashira was not satisfied with the results of this special exam, but because of the stupid things she had done, she couldn't blame Amane for anything wrong, so she could only accept this imperfect result with great frustration.

Perhaps... if she had dropped out back then... everyone might have been able to be in Class A...

Teacher Chaba shook his head slightly, shaking off the boring thoughts deep in his mind, and then began to announce the most important thing for today.

"I believe everyone is already aware of the school's punishment of Hirata. I hope everyone can learn from this and not do such a foolish thing again."

When Chabashira heard that Hirata had actually hit someone in the classroom, she rolled off her bed onto the floor, ignoring her fever. When she saw the surveillance video that Principal Fujiwara had sent her, Chabashira became even more enraged and smashed her phone screen.

Why fight under surveillance cameras?

She didn't care about what Sato and Hirata said, or what grudges or grievances Chabashira Sae had. What she cared about was why she had to get into a conflict with someone who had been expelled from school. Why not just let her bark like a dog?

Even if they really had to take action, was it really that difficult to find a secluded place or sabotage the surveillance cameras first? Not only would the class lose points for this action, but Hirata himself would also be suspended from school indefinitely.

It sounds nice to call it an indefinite leave of absence, but if a student is unable to return to school within a year, it's basically a withdrawal. So, would a school allow a student whose mental state could deteriorate at any time to return to school?

Stop joking!

The loss of two class members in succession caused Chabashira Sae to feel a strange panic. Fortunately, she soon learned that the same number of students had transferred to Class A. Although the quality of the students was not very good, at least the total number of students in Class A was still increasing, which showed that others also had high hopes for Class A.

After briefly mentioning Hirata's situation, Chabashira-sensei began introducing the two new students who had transferred to Class A.

"Besides Hirata's matter, I have another important announcement to make. You two, please come in."

As soon as Teacher Chabashira finished speaking, two girls carrying their backpacks entered the classroom.

If Kamuro's appearance surprised all the students in Class A except for Amane, then another person left everyone, including Amane, dumbfounded.

"These two are the students who recently transferred to Class A. Kamuro and Ibuki, please introduce yourselves to everyone."

"Hello everyone, I am Masumi Kamuro from Class 2B. From now on, I will work together with everyone as a member of Class A to face the challenges together."

Kamuro read aloud the note with a cold tone that Arisu had written for her yesterday, introducing herself.

This action caused the entire classroom to fall silent. Even Chabashira-sensei was a little flustered. Fortunately, Amane led the applause from below, and the rest of the class followed suit. Although the scene was a bit shabby, it was still acceptable.

However, compared to Ibuki's self-introduction, Kamuro's performance was quite reliable.

"My name is Ibuki Mio. From now on, I'll be counting on you guys to help me graduate from Class A."

Chapter 249: No wonder she didn't like you

"..."

The students in Class A were so shocked by Ibuki's statement that they were speechless.

Although Kamuro's speech just now was practically a charade, at least it seemed somewhat genuine. With Amane leading the way in expressing welcome, everyone turned a blind eye.

Surprisingly, Kamuro's actions were just the appetizer. Ibuki's attitude of not even bothering to be perfunctory and clearly intending to coast through to graduation in Class A is truly that of a heavyweight.

"Hey, hey, if you do this, everyone will be embarrassed."

Kamuro nudged Ibuki with his elbow while tidying his bag, whispering to her that if they made a bad impression on others as soon as they arrived in Class A, Ibuki might become the scapegoat pushed out by Class A during the next special exam, just like how Sakayanagi dealt with Totsuka before.

"You don't need to worry about my affairs."

Ibuki coldly retorted to Kamuro's words. Seeing Ibuki's attitude, Kamuro didn't care about her and went straight to the seat that Chabashira had arranged for her in advance.

When Ibuki saw Kamuro going to find a seat, she followed him down from the podium.

But she ran into trouble as soon as she stepped off the podium.

"Ibuki-san, don't you think your self-introduction was a little impolite?"

Everyone thought the self-introductions would just end there, but when they saw someone planning to make things difficult for Ibuki, they all became interested.

Chabashira-sensei didn't stop them when she saw this. The 'defective products' transferred from Class C were enough to make up the numbers when necessary. If they wanted to try to challenge the strength of the students in Class A, Ibuki was just overthinking it.

Seeing that many people had been angered by Ibuki's behavior, Teacher Chabashira simply stood aside and quietly watched as the students tried to vent their anger at being ignored by the transfer student from Class C and losing 100 class points because of Hirata by making things difficult for Ibuki Mio. He also wanted to see just how capable this Ibuki Mio really was.

Can politeness put food on the table?

When Ibuki saw that the first person to stand up and make things difficult for her was Karuizawa Kei, she felt something was wrong. The entire second year shared a common understanding of Karuizawa Kei: she didn't have any special abilities, but if you bullied her, she would go to Amane. This method of 'telling on the teacher' at the drop of a hat was really disgusting to the students in this school that valued merit above all else. However, it had to be admitted that Karuizawa Kei's method of 'telling on the teacher' was much more effective than going to the homeroom teacher.

The most memorable incident was when Amane dragged one of the boys who had been beaten bloody and tried to harass Karuizawa Kei, and kicked open the classroom door in front of their homeroom teacher, demanding an explanation from their class and insisting that all the students involved in the incident kneel down and apologize.

The incident started when the girls had a quarrel, and one of them called some boys from their class to help. Hui wanted to call Hirata, but her phone was snatched away. In the end, she was surrounded by several men who told her dirty jokes. She was only able to escape because Horikita Manabu and Tachibana Akane happened to pass by.

After learning about this, Tianyin immediately caught one of the boys in the cafeteria, beat him from the last row to the first row, and then forced him into the swill bucket and fed him to his heart's content. Then, in full view of everyone, she dragged the boy to their class to demand an explanation.

It's quite interesting that among the people involved in this incident were former leaders of Class D, Honami Ichinose and Ryuji Kanzaki. At the time, Amane caused a huge scene in Class D, and no matter how Ichinose tried to persuade her, he couldn't stop her. Kanzaki and Shibata then said that they would not allow classmates to kneel down to Megumi, which angered Amane so much that she simply moved a chair, stood on it, and spray-painted the surveillance camera black. Only then did the students in Class D start to panic.

The matter was only resolved after three girls and two boys knelt down and apologized to Hui.

Another participant was a senior from the judo club in Nagumo's class at the time. When Amane went to cause trouble, the senior, who was a third-year student, tried to protect his own, but Amane beat him 24 times. In the end, the senior had to apologize to Megumi before the matter was finally over.

However, until last year, Tianyin was still talking about why that person didn't have to kneel down just because they were in a higher grade.

Since this incident, everyone knows that Karuizawa Kei is a pretty but useless vase, but her background and power are so strong that you can't say anything to her, let alone lay a hand on her or bully her.

In addition, there are rumors that the reason why the Ryuen group was wiped out was because they kidnapped Karuizawa Megumi as a hostage for some reason. As a result, even the most resilient Yamada Albert had to stay in bed for three days to recover.

This made Karuizawa Megumi famous throughout the school as a "human bomb."

Even more coincidentally...

Mio Ibuki was among those who participated in the kidnapping of Megumi Karuizawa.

So the saying "enemies are destined to meet" is quite true.

"Politeness won't put food on the table, but rudeness will get you nowhere. Since you want to stay with us until graduation, you should at least show some respect, right? My request isn't unreasonable, is it?"

Hui was unusually tough on this matter, refusing to back down in the face of Ibuki, who was a militant.

Just as the other students began to cheer for Megumi's actions in protecting Class A's reputation, only Ichinose and Horikita exchanged a knowing glance and then gave each other helpless smiles.

This time, it really wasn't that Hui suddenly threw a tantrum or wanted revenge for what happened before and deliberately made things difficult for Ibuki. Rather, after the survival special exam, someone on the school forum revealed that Amane and Ibuki had broken up. The wording used to describe Amane was absolutely unbearable to read. However, because the details were so detailed, everyone assumed that the revelation was true. They just casually made a few comments and jokes under that post, because not many people knew this girl named Ibuki Mio. In fact, without checking OAA, everyone would have thought that Ibuki Mio was a pseudonym.

After all, who would have thought that someone would reveal their real name in a gossip post?

Unfortunately, when Megumi was browsing the forum out of boredom, she actually came across this post. Megumi immediately questioned the authenticity of the matter in the comments. Firstly, she happened to know Ibuki, and secondly, as Amane's lover, she had never heard Amane mention this. When did Ibuki declare herself Amane's girlfriend? Moreover, even if Amane was flirting with a girl from Class C, the only one that Megumi and Horikita could probably accept was Shiina Hiyori.

As for Ibuki? They're really not close.