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

"So... Amane, you didn't even eat the bento I made for you at noon and ran out. So you went to eat Ibuki-san?"

Horikita gave a gentle smile.

Horikita's smile seemed warm from any angle, but it was precisely this warm smile that sent a chill down Amane's spine.

"That's not how it is! I went to Arisu's place first..."

"What? Amane, you actually took care of Arisu before getting involved with Ibuki? Are you that amazing?"

Kamuro exclaimed in surprise before Tenon could finish speaking.

Those around them also showed expressions of shock, and subconsciously looked at Tianyin's fingers...

Tenon's feelings at this moment were beyond words. Kamuro's words were like adding fuel to the fire. Just now, when Kamuro was speaking up for her, Tenon was still somewhat hopeful. But she didn't expect Kamuro to turn around and deliver such a cruel blow to her, catching her completely off guard.

Faced with this enormous accusation, Tianyin could only clutch her head and collapse onto her desk.

She truly couldn't explain the current situation; any explanation would inevitably lead to the question of how she made Ibuki cry...

Just when Tianyin was about to despair, a small hand suddenly touched Tianyin's head.

"I believe Tianyin wouldn't do such a thing!"

Upon hearing that somewhat weak yet unusually firm voice, Tianyin abruptly raised her head.

“Airi…”

"But even Tianyin herself admitted it, didn't she?"

Ibuki shrugged. Although her reputation was ruined by Amane this time, at least she would definitely get her hands on the sauce recipe. At this point, Ibuki no longer cared about reputation.

Let's just consider this her last chance to help Class C.

"Perhaps... Tianyin has some unspeakable reason for saying that..."

"Huh? Isn't what you're saying just making wild guesses?"

"I...I have evidence!"

Airi's confident demeanor aroused everyone's curiosity.

"If you have evidence, just show it to us and you'll prove I'm lying."

Ibuki felt that Airi was definitely bluffing. If she had evidence, she wouldn't have waited until now to bring it out. Besides, she really was bullied to tears by Amane. She wasn't lying. These people misunderstood what she meant. What did it have to do with Ibuki Mio?

Therefore, Ibuki confidently waited for Airi to reveal her evidence.

However, to everyone's surprise, Airi directly pressed her hand against Ibuki's chest and loudly uttered words that were enough to make Ibuki go berserk.

"There's no way Tianyin would be interested in a girl with such small breasts!!!"

"what?!"

Ibuki never expected that Airi's so-called evidence would be this. Enraged, Ibuki rolled up her sleeves, ready to give Airi a couple of slaps. Airi, frightened, quickly hid behind Amane and secretly observed Ibuki through Amane.

Finally, with everyone working together, Ibuki calmed down. However, the girls present didn't look too happy, since when it came to breasts...

If we use Airi as the standard, then that's way too much.

It's like Airi's AOE area-of-effect damage directly offended all the girls present.

Seeing that things seemed to be going badly, Amane stepped forward and shielded Airi behind her.

"Alright, it's just a recipe, right? Here you go. If you keep making a fuss, forget about the recipe, I'm going to wreck Class C's place on the day of the cultural festival!"

When Ibuki saw Amane's serious gaze, she felt a little intimidated. But since she had already achieved her goal, she had no intention of making a fuss any longer, so she readily agreed.

The girls present were all incredibly clever. From the brief conversation between the two, they were able to guess the whole story. They even connected the strangeness of Ibuki's class transfer to this matter, believing that Ryuen orchestrated Ibuki's transfer and that Ibuki's purpose in coming here was to act as Ryuen's spy and sabotage Class A's future plans.

Tianyin silenced everyone with just one sentence in response to such speculation.

"The reason Mio helped Ryuen was just to get into Class A, right? She's already in Class A, so what's the point of her helping Ryuen? It's highly likely that Ryuen sent Hiyori to persuade Mio. It's not a big deal. Although Ryuen got the recipe for that barbecue sauce, it's not some top secret. Barbecue is all about the skill of the barbecue. If you could make a good barbecue business just by having good sauce, there would be barbecue stalls everywhere by now."

Besides, everyone knows that Class C was planning to set up a barbecue stall at the school festival after Mio caused this mess, right?

Amane's words awakened the girls who were still dissatisfied with Ibuki's two-timing.

"But even if we get this information, it's useless, right? The maid café we're going to open has absolutely no conflict with the experience project of Class C. In the end, they'll just take advantage of us for nothing."

Hui pouted and complained.

If everyone were operating in the same category, they could compete against each other, prove their abilities, and also annoy Class C for taking the barbecue recipe from Tianyin.

"Who said I would let them take advantage of us?"

Tenon glanced at Ibuki, who was sitting there looking smug as if she was about to send a message to someone, and gave Megumi a look that was best left unsaid.

Then everyone realized that Amane must have come up with some bad idea again, but Ibuki was in the class right now and it wasn't convenient for her to say it.

Seeing that Amane already had a plan, Horikita didn't say anything more. Horikita had been overwhelmed by the recent events surrounding the cultural festival. Although Amane was the one who proposed the maid café project, she was always unavailable, so Horikita had to figure out how to get the maid café up and running herself. She even decided to make Amane a lucky cat at the door on opening day!

If Tianyin can't attract any customers for coffee, and they work for nothing all day, then when they get home at night, so many people won't let Tianyin off easily...

Horikita laughed so hard her shoulders trembled as she thought about the scene that would be censored afterward. However, she quickly realized that she was still in class. In order to maintain her image, Horikita hurriedly managed her expression and it took her a long time to calm down before her expression looked much more normal.

However, Horikita's gaze, as if looking at a little white rabbit, still made Amane feel vaguely uneasy.

Horikita's fighting strength shouldn't be enough to devour her...

Could it be... that Horikita has accomplices?

After Amane personally handed the sauce recipe to Ibuki, Amane thought that was the end of it. But before Amane could even change her shoes and return to her dormitory, she saw Ibuki blocking her at the door in a great hurry, saying that she couldn't make it.

Speechless with frustration at Ibuki's words, Amane had no choice but to abandon her plan to have a fun evening with Airi and instead teach a guy who was utterly clueless when it came to cooking how to make sauces.

After being taught by Amane step by step, Ibuki finally learned how to make the sauce after failing more than forty times. Then, she immediately called Shiina to brag that she had mastered Amane's sauce recipe and told Shiina to come and get the recipe right away, completely forgetting that Amane was standing right behind her.

"I'm sorry to interrupt Mio and Hiyori's conversation, but shouldn't you keep this kind of thing from me? How can you act like a spy like this?"

"Mind your own business! If you don't want to hear it, just turn your back."

Ibuki's confident and assertive manner finally made Amane lose her temper. She simply picked Ibuki up and threw her onto the bed. Although Ibuki wanted to hang up the phone immediately, Amane quickly snatched the phone away and threw it aside. Then she and Ibuki engaged in some pleasant and healthy activities.

So engrossed was Amane that she forgot Ibuki's phone call hadn't ended. As a result, Shiina on the other end of the line listened to the live broadcast for several hours until Ibuki's phone ran out of battery and shut down. Only then did Shiina put the phone down with a hint of regret.

However, when they ran into Amane the next day, no matter how Amane tried to probe, Shiina insisted that Ibuki had hung up the phone. After hearing this so many times, even Amane began to suspect that Shiina might have accidentally hung up the phone when she was trying to snatch it from Ibuki.

In short, Tenon was relieved to find that Shiina hadn't overheard anything.

Then I started helping Horikita prepare for the cultural festival.

As for why Amane suddenly became enthusiastic about the cultural festival? Well, it's probably not because Amane insisted on personally vetting the maids during the selection process... right?

"So the opening is in three days, and Tianyin, you're telling me the maids haven't been chosen yet? You haven't been so busy taking advantage of them these past few days that you've forgotten about the important matter, have you?"

Horikita casually picked up a green onion from the side and tapped Amane on the head.

"How could such a thing possibly happen! Do you really think I'm the kind of person who would forget about important matters because of beautiful women?"

Amane looked at Horikita with righteous indignation, but under Horikita's silent gaze, Amane herself felt a little guilty. In the end, she put on a flattering smile and came behind Horikita to massage her shoulders.

"Hehe~ This time, the main problem is that everyone is excellent in the selection of maids, but the number of positions in the café is very limited, so the selection process has been slow."

Tenon whispered in Horikita's ear the reason for the slow selection process.

The school approved Class A to use a space of about 70 square meters to operate the maid café. This size requires at least six to eight people to run the café. After discussion among the whole class, the number of people was decided to be eight.

Of the eight people, one was responsible for acting as a lucky cat to attract customers outside the door. This position had been reserved for Tianyin. Since the main product is hand-ground coffee, the service speed is much slower than that of instant coffee. Therefore, two people need to operate one workstation each, so that coffee can be served as quickly as possible after a customer places an order.

Besides the two maids who make coffee, there is another maid who is responsible for making tea drinks. This position is handled by Horikita. Considering that not everyone can accept coffee, Horikita is responsible for making some simple teas and milk teas. In addition to these, Ichinose is responsible for making some simple desserts such as cookies. Then, Ichinose is responsible for cutting a batch of desserts such as mousse cakes and chiffon cakes from Marina in advance to be cut into small pieces to accompany coffee or tea drinks.

Of the remaining three maids, at least one is responsible for overall coordination, cashier duties, and product introductions—essentially, the role of store manager.

The remaining two maids only need to act as waitresses, which means that Amane, Horikita, and Ichinose each occupy one of the eight maid positions. Then Amane persuaded Matsushita and Wang Meiyu to help make coffee, and Megumi and Kamuro act as waitresses. Right now, the only crucial position left is the manager of the maid café.

However, this position has troubled Amane for a long time, because there are not many people who are capable of being the store manager besides Amane. In addition, maid cafes cannot allow boys to participate, so Amane lost the help of Katsuragi and Kanzaki. Ichinose and Horikita, who are capable of overall management, are the only people besides Amane who can make milk tea and desserts. This made Amane feel that she was still somewhat short of talent.

Although Class A has many top talents, the number of talents who can support the core of the group is pitifully small. Even though Megumi, Kamuro, and Airi are already considered to be among the more outstanding female core members, Class A is very likely to lose to classes with more balanced overall abilities when a special exam is needed to determine the outcome of the competition between students of the middle and lower levels of the class.

However, these are all things for the future; Tianyin needs to solve the immediate problems.

She needs a manager for a maid café.

Amane originally wanted Ibuki and Airi to make a cameo appearance, and then Ichinose could help out when she wasn't busy. However, Ibuki refused to help no matter what, so Amane had no choice but to give up.

As for Airi, she said she wanted to take photos to promote the maid café. Considering that Airi might be able to attract customers, Amane didn't insist. So where should they find this person?

Amane was getting anxious because she couldn't find a girl to fill in as the shop manager. She even considered asking Marina and Kaede to help, but was told that all the staff had to be from her class. This dashed Amane's hopes. Seeing Amane struggling with the selection of the shop manager, the girls in her class all actively participated, wanting to help Amane share some of the responsibility. For example, Shinohara thought that with her abilities, she could definitely be the shop manager. However, just memorizing the product list made Shinohara dizzy and she eventually gave up.

Now Tianyin really has no one to choose from.

So this time it really wasn't because Tianyin delayed the personnel selection for some reason.

"The store manager position is indeed quite important. If all else fails, we can let Panasonic take over. Finding someone to grind coffee shouldn't be a problem, right?"

"If there's really no other way now, we'll have to let Matsushita take over."

Amane sighed. She had actually wanted Matsushita to be the store manager from the beginning, but since the class was promoted to Class A, Matsushita had returned to her low-profile state. After all, Matsushita was willing to help Amane in order to get into Class A. Now that the goal had been achieved, Matsushita had no reason to show off. She had even considered resigning from her student council position and just coasting until graduation.

"Actually, there is another person who could be the store manager... but... it might cause controversy."

As soon as Horikita speaks, Amane knows who Horikita is talking about.

To be fair, Kushida is indeed more suitable to be the store manager, but unfortunately, Kushida's reputation is really a bit... The things she did back then, like exposing her classmates' dirty secrets, have become common knowledge. This time, there are foreign guests coming, and Amane is afraid that there will be some problems with Kushida, so she has not dared to use Kushida. Moreover, Megumi and the others don't usually hang out with Kushida, so it's hard to say whether they can accept working with Kushida in the coffee shop and accepting Kushida's management.

"Let's talk about Kushida when there's really no suitable candidate and Chiaki isn't willing to be the store manager..."

From Amane's tone, Horikita could tell that Amane had some concerns about Kushida becoming the store manager. Horikita gave up trying to persuade her. In any case, although the matter was rather tricky, it was not unsolvable. If all else failed, they could just let Amane the Maneki-neko take on the role of store manager and then just assign someone else to attract customers outside. Horikita thought the effect would be about the same.

"Sigh, if only we had a few more mature and composed girls in our class, but unfortunately most of them are like Hui..."

Horikita stretched and remarked.

Horikita said this not because she thought there was anything wrong with Megumi, but because Megumi was the standard template for a high school girl. Compared to Ichinose, who was naturally tolerant, Horikita, who was both academically and athletically gifted, and Amane, who was a monster, it would be difficult for an ordinary high school girl like Megumi to play any role in a school that operated almost entirely like a social system.

Most of the other girls were also like Megumi. Among them, Megumi was the most outstanding girl, after all, Karuizawa Megumi was the first female leader of the class.

"Mature and steady? Lingyin, your requirements are a bit too much..."

Tianyin's voice stopped abruptly as she suddenly remembered something she had seriously considered a few days ago.

Let Chabashira-sensei make a cameo appearance as a maid!!!

Chapter 285: The Kiss

Ring ring ring ring—

The alarm clock rang in the room. Chazhu reached out quickly without saying a word, and rudely pressed the alarm clock button, successfully stopping the noisy ringing.

Because the tea stalk moved too quickly, the alarm clock fell off the table. Unlike the previous time when the alarm clock made a 'ring' sound in protest, this time the alarm clock made a clattering sound as its parts scattered on the ground after it fell to the ground.

The sound instantly woke up Chabashira Sae, who was still a little sleepy. She quickly knelt down by the bed to check her old partner's injuries. However, after seeing that her old partner was already covered in wounds and was now so badly injured that he would be kicked out of the repair shop if taken there, Chabashira Sae sighed.

"It seems I was a bit too rude this time. Please forgive me. I will definitely treat your successor well."

With gratitude, Chabashira Sae tidied up the fragments of her old partner and sincerely threw them into the trash can.

Although she said the same thing as the previous one when she first got this alarm clock, this time Chabashira Sae decided to treat her personal belongings better.

Chabashira Sae came to the mirror and tidied her appearance.

"This is really disgraceful."

Chabashira touched her cheek, feeling the firmness of her skin through her fingertips—a texture completely different from the elasticity and smoothness she had during her student days.

"I'm getting old too..."

Chabashira looked at herself in the mirror, exuding the unique charm of a mature woman. However, Chabashira Sae still missed her student days. As a well-known beauty back then, Chabashira Sae still valued her appearance.

After carefully washing her face, Chabashira Sae, on a whim, took out some cosmetics that she rarely used and dressed herself up before leaving the room.

A teacher's day is busy, even though the school is a boarding school and the teaching building where she works is only a few steps away. Every day is busy. Whenever she has a moment to catch her breath, she either goes to the tea room to drink tea or goes to the rooftop to smoke a cigarette to relieve her stress.

But even so, when faced with special exams, these teachers' workload can increase two or three times.

With the recent special exams that everyone agreed on, plus the back-to-back sports festival and cultural festival, Chabashira Sae has been living a life of going back and forth between her dormitory and school for the past two months.

If everyone were this busy, Chabashira Sae could console herself, but whenever she was so busy that her feet were practically touching the ground, she would always see a guy with his arm around a girl, grinning so wide his mouth almost reached his ears.

Comparing yourself to others can sometimes be incredibly frustrating.

But as a teacher, she could only suppress the urge to grab Tianyin's smiling face and tear her mouth apart.

I set my alarm for 8 a.m. today. The main reason it was two hours later than usual is because it's the weekend and tomorrow is the cultural festival. If I don't take advantage of this last day to relax, I feel like I'm about to be crushed by the pressure of life.

Chabashira Sae had even planned that once she got this class of students to graduation, she would switch to an easier job. Whoever wanted to take care of these unruly kids could go ahead, because she didn't want to take care of them anymore.

I'm going out.