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

"Of course I want to, but... I don't think this matter has escalated to the point of no return."

When Hoshinomiya said the second half of his sentence, he was clearly not very confident, and Arisu immediately drew a conclusion.

The revenge that Hoshinomiya-sensei mentioned was nothing more than embarrassing her or torturing her with pain and destroying her hopes and dreams. It didn't reach the level of hatred that made her want to erase Chabashira Sae from this world.

If that's the case, wouldn't things be much easier?

"I have a plan to help you get revenge."

"...May I ask you, Sakayanagi-san, why did you help me get revenge?"

Although Hoshinomiya doesn't look particularly intelligent, she is actually quite perceptive.

Why is Arisu helping her get revenge when she clearly came here to cause trouble?

Instinct tells Hoshinoguchi that something is very wrong.

Seeing that Hoshinomiya-sensei was so wary, Arisu immediately came up with a plan and said to Hoshinomiya-sensei with a sad expression.

"Actually, I also have a score to settle with Mr. Chabashira... It was one afternoon, I was in the movie theater..."

In a suppressed and sorrowful tone, Arisu embellished the story of what Chabashira and Amane had done in the screening room that day, and then described Chabashira as someone who used his professional position to seduce Amane into doing something unforgivable in order to satisfy his personal desires and fetishes.

She hated Chabashira to the core, but unfortunately, Chabashira was her teacher, and as a student, she couldn't find any opportunity for revenge on campus...

Because of Arisu's vivid and expressive delivery, the usually innocent Hoshinomiya-sensei was filled with righteous indignation and wished she could expose Chabashira Sae's ugly face right now.

Seeing that the emotions of the Star Palace have been stirred up.

Arisu began to implement her first step in the plan.

"Alright, Hoshinomiya-sensei, don't be angry. Bad people should get their comeuppance, shouldn't they? Since heaven hasn't punished this villain, we can't just wait any longer. We have to take the initiative. I have a plan that can help you and me get revenge: Hoshinomiya-sensei, you should invite Chabashira-sensei out for drinks tonight..."

Chapter 329: The Real Sakayanagi Arisu

"That might be a bit difficult..."

Upon hearing Arisu's plan, Hoshinomiya immediately stated that inviting Chabashira out for drinks would be extremely difficult.

Arisu was a little surprised to hear Hoshinomiya say that.

"But I heard from Tianyin that you two often drink together, and your relationship seems quite genuine?"

In Arisu's plan, getting Chabashira drunk is a necessary action, and everything that follows is based on this premise. However, if Hoshinomiya is unable to get Chabashira to come out, things will become troublesome.

"That might have been the case before, but ever since the special exam where everyone agreed..."

Arisu fell silent upon hearing this.

She had just learned from Hoshinomiya's account that Hoshinomiya's constant mockery of Chabashira during the special exam was intended to make Chabashira experience pain. However, Amane directly used the most decisive method to lead Class A to successfully pass the special exam. Although Class A paid a considerable price in this special exam, in general, it was through this special exam that Class A completely stabilized its class points and class ranking.

Despite her dissatisfaction with Amane's decision, Chabashira encountered the same problem as before: a special exam that could never achieve the best of both worlds could not possibly lead to an ideal outcome. Amane was not the saint who would sacrifice herself to save the whole class. She would rather leave it to Hirata than do something that she considered utterly foolish.

After successfully passing the special test that everyone agreed on, Chabashira completely broke up with Hoshinomiya. When their colleagues were around, the two could still greet each other normally, but once no one was around, they were completely like strangers. Under these circumstances, it is easy to imagine how difficult it would be to ask Chabashira out.

"If we're going to reject her if we ask her out normally, can't we just say it differently?"

Arisu quickly came up with a solution.

"To put it another way? Deceiving Kosae isn't an easy thing to do. What reason do you have?"

Hoshinomiya thought for a moment, but couldn't come up with a good excuse or a lie that she was confident would not be exposed by Chabashira. Because she and Chabashira were once close friends, Hoshinomiya knew Chabashira's abilities better than anyone else. Chabashira's unguarded nature often made her easy to outmaneuver, but once she was on guard, even Hoshinomiya found it difficult to deceive her.

"That's easy, we'll just use a reason that she has no choice but to fall for it, right?"

Arisu's smile was so gentle.

"How could this happen..."

"You told her you were... um?"

Arisu's suggestion froze Hoshinomiya's expression. Hoshinomiya really didn't expect that Sakayanagi Arisu, who always seemed to be a well-behaved girl, could come up with such a treacherous plan. Hoshinomiya could already foresee that Chabashira would drop everything and rush to her after hearing the news.

Arisu even went so far as to damage her and Amane's reputations to lure Chabashira out. What deep-seated hatred does she harbor towards Chabashira? Could it be that witnessing Chabashira and Amane's affair twisted her mind? No! Then why does Arisu turn a blind eye to other girls having closer relationships with Amane?

At this moment, she vaguely sensed that something was wrong. Why was Arisu encouraging her to lure the tea pillar out? What kind of revenge was she planning to take?

"May I ask you one question... Sakayanagi-san, how do you plan to get revenge on Kosae?"

Hoshinomiya cautiously observed Arisu, fearing that Arisu might utter some shocking statement.

"What do you think of the punishment of being betrayed by a former friend and then being bullied by students in front of that former friend?"

hiss! ! !

Hoshinomiya couldn't help but gasp and got up to escape from Arisu, but Arisu stepped forward and pressed her cane against Hoshinomiya's throat.

"What? Mr. Hoshinomiya, are you trying to back out at the last minute?"

That icy tone made her feel as if she were naked and exposed in the freezing cold, and she began to tremble uncontrollably. Just as Hoshino was about to ask for help, she saw Tenon's figure not far away.

Wait, what's Amane doing here? Does Sakayanagi Arisu dare to come here alone and threaten Amane while she's still here?

From the very beginning, Hoshinomiya felt that Arisu was acting strangely today. Now she finally understood what was wrong with her. Arisu never mentioned how to punish Amane. In fact, even in her plan to get revenge on Chabashira, she wanted Amane to bully Chabashira. Could Arisu really have come up with such a shameless plan?

Or perhaps it was Amane who deliberately sent Arisu to guide her to complete this plan?

“Teacher Hoshinomiya, I think we can sit down and talk. Standing here might cause unnecessary trouble, don’t you think?”

Faced with Arisu's threat, Hoshinomiya had no choice but to sit back down and start thinking quickly. She had never heard of Arisu's bad behavior before; otherwise, the school would not have appointed Arisu as the student council president. She had also never heard of Arisu using her power or relying on Amane's violence to threaten others in private.

In other words, Arisu's behavior this time was abnormal, and the mastermind behind it is very likely that Amane is the one behind it!

Suddenly, Hoshinomiya had a flash of insight. She understood everything. It was clear that Amane wanted something to happen between herself and Chabashira, but Chabashira was unwilling. So Amane devised this underhanded plan, having her girlfriend use their relationship to morally blackmail her, threatening to lure Chabashira out so she could do something bad. This way, Chabashira would vent all her anger on Hoshinomiya, because she had tricked Chabashira into coming. Therefore, after being abused, Chabashira would feel that Amane was also a tool used by Hoshinomiya to humiliate her. Afterwards, Amane would have her fun and leave, leaving Hoshinomiya as the mastermind, bearing the blame…

What a vicious scheme!

Hoshinomiya glanced fearfully at Tenon, who was still happily feasting.

'Is this because they're so confident their scheme will succeed that they're eating at a buffet so relaxed?'

After weighing the options in her mind, Hoshino Palace realized that she was already in a predicament. At this point, she had no way to break the deadlock except to expose the matter and perish together with Tenon.

However, Hoshinomiya was well aware of how difficult it would be to punish Amane at this school, and she couldn't even imagine how cruel Amane's subsequent revenge would be.

So now it seems that only one option remains for her: betraying Chabazusa.

No! There is still one last hope!

Hoshinomiya suddenly looked at Arisu in front of her. If it was really as she thought, that Arisu had been tricked or persuaded by Amane, then she might be able to turn Arisu against her.

If Arisu refuses to carry out Amane's plan as her girlfriend, then even Amane has nothing to say.

Upon realizing this, Hoshinomiya immediately began working to win over Arisu.

Now that I've decided to turn Arisu against me, where should I begin? As one of the people Amane trusts most, Amane and Arisu must have an incredibly close relationship. If I, an outsider, want to sow discord, I must come up with a powerful weapon that can shake Arisu's resolve.

What could possibly make Arisu waver?

A series of questions gave Hoshinomiya, who hadn't used her brain in a long time, a headache, but she could only endure it because it was a critical moment.

Fortunately, Hoshinomiya is a fairly intelligent type. After quickly sorting out the current situation, she actually found something that might cause Arisu to defect.

"Sakayanagi-san, according to your plan, the final way to torment Kosa is to have Amane bully her, right?"

"Yes."

Arisu answered very decisively.

It's something Tianyin has touched, how could she let an outsider touch it? Besides, wasn't all her hard work in arranging this just to package these two together and give them to Tianyin as a gift? If Tianyin doesn't show up in the end, then all her efforts will have been in vain.

On the other side, Hoshinomiya was even more certain that Arisu had been tricked by Amane into threatening her because of Arisu's quick reply. According to normal logic, how could a girl help her lover find other women?

"So you don't mind?"

"Mind? Mind what?"

Arisu tilted his head, seemingly puzzled.

"You mind Amane and Kozae's relationship? You're Amane's girlfriend, aren't you? Do you want to see Amane doing that kind of thing with other women?"

Hoshinomiya pressed down on Arisu's wrist urgently, shaking her hand forcefully with a look of disappointment.

Arisu was a little confused by Hoshinomiya's actions. She frowned and pondered for a long time but still couldn't see anything wrong with it.

Seeing that Arisu didn't react, Hoshinomiya assumed that she didn't know what to do, so she became even more excited and began to explain to Arisu.

"I know you were tricked by Tianyin into threatening me, and I don't blame you. But Tianyin used you just to satisfy her own desires. Don't you find that disgusting?"

Hoshinomiya's words enlightened Arisu, who finally understood what Hoshinomiya-sensei meant. So she thought she had been sent by Amane to carry out this plan.

So adorably silly.

"Sigh, Hoshinomiya-sensei, I thought that you were a smart person and that working with you would be a smooth thing. It seems that I overestimated you. Perhaps Chabashira-sensei is right. Once we lose an excellent class leader, it is really wishful thinking to think that we can graduate from Class A with a student like you."

Arisu's words displeased Hoshinomiya.

What are you trying to say?

"What I'm trying to say is... haven't you realized that I went to great lengths to set up this whole scheme just to get Chabashira-sensei into Amane's mouth?"

Arisu finished speaking and sighed.

This wasn't a deliberate sigh meant for Hoshinomiya's benefit, but rather Arisu Makoto felt he had overestimated Hoshinomiya.

"What?! Are you crazy?! Why would you do something like this, Sakayanagi-san? Is this some kind of fetish of yours?"

Hoshinomiya frowned, unable to comprehend what it meant to send one's lover into the arms of another.

"The reason is simple. If this happened to someone else, my actions would be nothing more than making things difficult for myself. But Tianyin is different. Look at Tianyin now. Can you imagine that she was a blank sheet of paper a year before she enrolled?"

Hoshinomiya glanced at Amane, who was surrounded by women on either side and whose hands were still on Airi and Megumi's legs, and shook her head.

She simply couldn't imagine that someone as experienced as Tianyin would be a complete novice shortly before enrolling.

"Because she is a blank sheet of paper, as the owner of this paper, I need to fill it with all sorts of colors, and these colors come from learning. Tianyin can learn all sorts of things from other people, such as common sense, personality, ways of interacting, etc. The more she learns from those girls, the more perfect my Tianyin becomes. That's why I can accept her dating other girls."

Arisuna's words, which were beyond the comprehension of ordinary people, left Hoshinomiya speechless with shock.

After a long while, Hoshinomiya finally asked a question.

“Since Tianyin can learn from others, why don’t you let her learn from you? That way you won’t have to push her to someone else’s side.”

“I really want to do that too, but unfortunately, Amane and I are completely the same kind of people. She can’t learn anything useful from me, and I can’t teach her the ‘common sense’ I have. Other people are different. For example, Amane can feel the sweetness of ‘first love’ and witness hysterical jealousy from Horikita Suzune. From Karuizawa Megumi, she can see that even a timid weakling has a tenacious side, and she can also see that an overly dependent little bird will throw itself into her arms just because of a word of affection…”

Besides these, there's Ichinose Honami's selfless tolerance masking a selfishness stemming from her tragic family background; Sakura Airi's resilience after being framed, yet her cowardice that allows her to be easily manipulated; Amasawa Ichika's inherent arrogance and conceit, yet she's a dog who admires strength to the extreme—a gentle pat on the butt and she'll wag her tail at you… Oh, and there's Hayasaka's pure self-interest; as long as her demands are met, she can fulfill any of Amane's needs.

Let me think... Who else? Hmm, I almost forgot. There's Nanase Tsubasa's untainted innocence and absolute trust, Shiina Hiyori's gentleness and assertiveness... Kaede... never mind her, she was purely an accident. These things aren't something I could teach Amane alone. When Amane was with them, she constantly imitated and learned from them until they were integrated into her own personality, allowing her to be corrected back to being a person, a normal person. Hoshinomiya-sensei, you probably can't understand my feelings and emotions. Even now, sometimes when I dream that Amane has returned to the way she was when I first met her, I can't help but wake up laughing.

Listening to Arisu's slightly crazy words, even though Hoshinomiya didn't know what had happened between Amane and Arisu, he could understand that Arisu was doing something that could change Amane's life.

But... is it really right to make Tianyin develop feelings for other people in order to correct Tianyin or teach her something?

"You distributed Tianyin's love for you to so many people so that Tianyin could learn these common sense things. Are you so sure that Tianyin won't abandon you one day? After all, I don't know much about the others, so I won't comment too much. I don't think Xiaofanbo is any less than you in terms of being a qualified girlfriend."

In Hoshinomiya's eyes, Ichinose is gentle and considerate, good at studying and physical fitness, and cute. Such a girl should be better than Arisu in every way. Once Amane falls for Ichinose, it should be an easy thing for Ichinose to win Amane's heart with her abilities.

"You're right, Fanbo is indeed a suitable girlfriend, so I agreed to let her be Tianyin's girlfriend. What's wrong with that?"

???

Hoshinomiya-sensei felt her head starting to ache more and more; she just couldn't understand the underlying logic behind Arisu's actions.

"Don't look so surprised. Is it wrong to want the person you like to be taken care of meticulously? Someone else is taking care of my lover for me, and even teaching her how to date, how to like someone else, how not to make me jealous, how to tolerate everything about me, how to trust, and how to make her the embrace that this little bird can rely on, hahaha... Sorry, I can't help but laugh out loud when I think about how Tianyin will use everything she has learned on me to make me happy."

"As you can see, I'm almost spoiled by Amane now. What's wrong with this kind of life? I'm enjoying the meticulous care of the person I love in my only life. As a woman, I feel very satisfied. And to repay Amane, who makes me so happy, I will give her everything she wants, even my heart. If she wants it, I will happily agree to it~ Hoshinomiya-sensei."

Chapter 330: She's drunk

"She does seem like a spoiled child... So what do you want Amane to learn from Kozae? I don't think there's anything worth learning from Kozae."

Hoshinomiya's evaluation of Chabashira may sound biased, but it is actually based on a completely objective perspective. Chabashira has never shown any outstanding qualities or endearing qualities, either in the past or present.

Her only redeeming quality, her cheerfulness and liveliness, vanished without a trace after that heartbreak. You could say that the current Chabashira gives Hoshinomiya the feeling of a lifeless adult.

There is nothing left to shine about him.

"Ever since that day, Amane has been unable to forget Chabashira-sensei... I used to try to help Amane find love with many girls, but I was often rejected by her. So I wondered if it was because they weren't attractive enough to Amane, or... Amane's possessiveness wasn't strong enough?"

Arisu squinted her eyes, looking like a kitten that had just stolen some fish.

"So you're tormenting Kozae like this just to make Amane understand what 'possessiveness' is?"

Hoshinomiya immediately understood Arisu's intention, but this also made Hoshinomiya feel a chill down her spine. Her life and future were just a tool or a whetstone in the face of these twisted geniuses.

"I never said that, so please don't misunderstand me, Hoshinomiya-sensei!"

"So what do you mean?"