Danrito, become a consultant for the Millennium Game!

"In that case, we'll contact you next time we release a limited edition dessert~"

Xiaoxia raised her hand. Today had been quite a surprise. She'd originally planned to treat Danrito to dessert just to repay a favor, but she'd gotten a surprise. This favor was probably even bigger.

"Mr. Danrito, can you make desserts other than cakes?"

"It's all the same to me!"

Danrito said proudly, "Whether it's baking or making games, with my divine talent, there's nothing I can't master!"

221. An adult like you!

The sky was clear and the air was fresh, with a gentle breeze. Danrito and Nagisa met in the tea garden.

"Everyone in the supplementary course department passed the first academic ability test."

Nagisa shook the stirring spoon in her hand to dissolve the sugar cube in the black tea.

"Everyone got remarkably high scores—even Koharu scored 70. Mr. Danrito, you're a better teacher than I thought. Perhaps you're worthy of the title 'teacher'?"

"Thank you so much! I never thought I had such potential."

Danrito crossed his legs and sat in a chair with a rather arrogant attitude. The tea party members nearby had been dismissed by Nagisa after initially serving tea and snacks. So now, Danrito and Nagisa were the only two people in the garden.

"Mr. Danrito, regarding the situation of the supplementary lessons club, I believe I have already explained it to you appropriately during our previous meeting."

Putting down the exquisite and elegant teacup, the bottom of the cup and the tray made a crisp collision sound, and Nagisa looked a little unhappy.

"The Remedial Education Department is a special department established for special purposes. From the very beginning, it has been entrusted with a special mission. Mr. Danrito, I believe you should be clear about what kind of place the Remedial Education Department is."

Danrito crossed his arms and shook his head regretfully, "You're just a little brat... you haven't even grown all your hair yet. When will it be your turn to teach me how to do things?"

"Mao... Wh-what?!"

Nagisa's face flushed, and then she looked annoyed. "Really... such vulgar words. Is this the quality and upbringing of Huanmeng's president?"

"If you bring up something nutritious, I might listen."

Danrito straightened his back and looked down at the tea party chairman. "My personal suggestion is that you use your tea-swollen brain to think carefully about what you should say now that's more interesting."

"You! You are a vulgar and unreasonable person!"

Nagisa's brows furrowed deeply, and he slammed his hand on the table with a thud. "I've already said it! The Treaty of Eden concerns a historical issue left over from the two university districts of Trinity and Gehenna. Everything I'm doing now is to ensure the smooth signing of the Treaty of Eden. Under such circumstances, I won't allow even the slightest mistake!"

After venting loudly, Nagisa felt that the anger in her heart seemed to be released a little, and then she suddenly realized that she had done something inappropriate.

Nagisa sat down again and said calmly to Danrito, "Mr. Danrito, you are the president of a company after all. If you were faced with a crisis that affected the company's survival, would you still act so cautiously?"

"I need to correct a mistake, Ms. Nagisa," Danrito raised his hand, denying Nagisa's question. "A crisis of life and death does not exist for my dream. As long as I am here, the dream will never face such a crisis."

He raised his head proudly: "Don't use mortal wisdom to speculate on my talents!"

"Wow...how can you be so unreasonable..."

Nagisa had seen the arrogant, the self-confident, but she had never seen a man as godlike as Danrito. It wasn't that Danrito was anything special, but the aura of a seasoned warrior that emanated from him was overwhelming to Nagisa. She could clearly sense that the man before her possessed immense confidence in everything he did and said.

Danrito, a man who had no doubts about his own judgment, firmly believed that he had the resolve to solve any problem. His subsequent actions completely disrupted Nagisa's cram school plans.

"Ha... After all, you should be able to understand my original intention of setting up the supplementary lessons club, right?"

As a second choice, Nagisa decided to first gain the support of Danrito in front of him.

It's not that, for the past half month, Nagisa has been busy collecting information on Danrito, in addition to working on the signing plan of the Eden Treaty.

Faced with such a completely self-centered man, Nagisa still had considerable doubts about Danrito's self-proclaimed positions of "President of Genmu" and "President of Xialai".

From the first sightings that appeared a thousand years ago, to the destructive and repressive power displayed in several battles, to the business prowess he rapidly built up into the "Dream Group," a company that rivaled the Caesar Group, Danrito's strength was enough to make Nagisa, the tea party chairman, approach him with caution.

"I simply hope to be fully prepared for the upcoming signing of the Treaty of Eden. Mr. Danrito, there's no need to pick a fight with me in a place like this, right?"

Nagisa folded his hands, "This is a sacrifice for the greater good. For the signing of the Treaty of Eden, just sacrificing a few uncertain students will allow the signing to proceed smoothly. As the chairman of the tea party, I have an obligation to choose the option that will make Trinity better."

"For justice?"

Dan Lidou shook his head and said, "My awareness is still too low."

"what?"

"I mean—if you really have this realization, you shouldn't choose between the two."

Dan Lidou stood up, his hands grasping, "I want them all!"

Facing Nagisa's eyes widened in surprise, Danrito opened his arms and said, "You are the chairman of Trinity's tea party, and I am the president of Genmu. Our positions are essentially the same. Now, let me explain."

He clenched a fist. "In my opinion, when a company has to lay off some employees to ensure continued operations, it is a naked declaration of management incompetence."

"As the chairman of the tea party, holding the power of Trinity, your responsibilities should urge you to make better choices." Danrito sighed in a fake manner and shook his head in an exaggerated manner that seemed to be mocking. "Why give up Trinity's students to protect Trinity? Shouldn't Trinity protect its own students?"

"That's easy for you to say!" Nagisa's shoulders slumped. "Traitors don't need to be protected! It's precisely to protect everyone that I'm working so hard to facilitate a peace treaty with Gehenna! It's precisely to protect this school that I'm doing everything I can to exclude the hateful traitor!"

Nagisa slammed the table and stood up. Facing Danrito, she couldn't swallow this insult. Her shoulders trembled with anger at Danrito: "Why should I be called a useless leader by you?"

"A grown-up like you—!"

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222. The important thing is to believe

"—What if I tell you that all the people you speculated might be traitors aren't actually traitors?"

Danrito's words stopped Nagisa from speaking.

"You, what did you say?"

Nagisa's expression looked awkward. It was like someone had put a lid on a volcano about to erupt, and then loosened their grip just as the eruption was about to begin. The tension between wanting to vent and not wanting to vent made Nagisa's face flush red.

Danrito pointed to his head. "I say, when you chose the person you considered a 'traitor,' it was obvious that your brain was blocked by something—probably tea leaves or something."

"...Mr. Danrito, please explain your words more clearly."

Trying her best to maintain her dignity as the chairperson of the tea party and her basic elegance, Nagisa clenched her fists.

"In the past two weeks, based on my personal judgment, these four students are clearly not the traitors you claim they are."

Danrito put his hands in his pockets and began to walk around Nagisa. Firstly, he didn't want to stand there, it was really too boring, and secondly, he didn't want to sit either, so he just thought of it as a way to stretch his muscles.

Time goes back to the night before, after the second academic ability test simulation.

Looking at the starry sky, Hifumi hugged her knees and sat on the picnic mat on the rooftop: "I feel like... I'm gradually getting used to this kind of tutoring life."

The first week of supplementary classes and the first mock exam were over. In the second week, when things were a little calmer, the consultant Dan Rito adjusted the intensity of the course. After the morning supplementary classes in the gaming field, the afternoon time was said to be for self-study, but in fact it was for everyone to move freely.

As their interactions increased, the relationships that had been somewhat distant due to tutoring began to warm up. After all, the four of them were confined to this area, like an isolated island within the academy, and their interpersonal relationships were limited. Besides studying, they could only wander around this area every day, and with only these few people to talk to, strengthening their relationships only took a few conversations.

This time, the cheese hotpot was proposed by Hifumi as a gathering to enhance friendship and relax.

"When it comes to relaxation, it's all about eating, drinking, and having fun!" Hifumi said. "Even though cheese fondue is high in calories, it's super satisfying after eating it~"

In the second test simulation, Hanako was still in the lead, scoring 99 points. Hifumi, on the other hand, had improved to 84 points. While this wasn't much of an improvement from her first score of 78, it was still quite a significant improvement.

In addition, Azusa's hard work, coupled with the help of the cassette tape, allowed him to reach the 79-point mark. Xiaochun also steadily entered the 70-point mark.

"The improvement in my grades is a bit slow. I only scored 79 on this test."

Azusa was also kneeling beside them, though her expression wasn't as relaxed. On the picnic mat before them lay a cheese fondue they'd just finished eating minutes earlier—Danrito had brought in the cheese, and the fondue ingredients were the same. "Next time, I'll have to work harder. I'm requesting more time to study gaming."

"Your grades don't improve by bloating, Azusa-san," Hanako said, smiling. "Going from 30 to 60 is easy, but going from 60 to 90 is a lot harder."

"Hanako! Why aren't you wearing any clothes again?!"

Xiaochun, who was standing next to him, suddenly stood up and said, "I haven't been watching you for a few minutes, how come you've taken off all your clothes?"

"How can you be naked? You still have a swimsuit on~"

Hanako gave a confused look. "Really? It's Koharu who's wrong. I'm wearing my clothes perfectly."

"Ahahahaha... Hanako-san, it's like this again."

Hifumi laughed awkwardly. "Well, Hanako-san always says surprising things in strange places like this. Could it be that dressing like this will help improve your grades?"

"No way!" Xiaochun yelled in shame and indignation, her earlobes flapping rapidly up and down. "Why do you have to show your underwear at this time?"

"But isn't this a swimsuit?" Hanako proudly displayed her form-fitting swimsuit, her enormous fruit squeezed dizzyingly by the material. "When we were in the pool, everyone wore it like this, even walking around the edge. At the time, no one had any objections to each other wearing it like this. We just moved to a new place, so why shouldn't we wear it like this anymore?"

"Still quibbling!" Xiaochun blushed and said, "You should have worn a swimsuit in the pool! If you're still wearing it outside, it's just underwear! You're just showing off!"

"Eh? It's obviously a swimsuit?"

Hanako sat elegantly on the picnic mat in the standard Yamato Nadeshiko kneeling posture. Everything was perfect - except that her swimsuit was really distracting.

Koharu's face flushed bright red as she intermittently criticized Hanako, the walking obscene creature: "When she's in the pool, it's a swimsuit, but when she wears it outside the pool, it's just underwear!"

"Eh...Is it a swimsuit or underwear? I'm really worried."

Hanako cast her gaze over to Danrito, who was sitting on the railing nearby. He was typing away on his notebook, making adjustments to the extensive Chronicle cassette. "Mr. Danrito, tell me, is what I'm wearing a swimsuit or underwear?"

"This kind of question doesn't matter, right?"

Danrito took the time to glance at Hanako before continuing with his movements. "After all, the definition of this kind of thing is pretty broad, isn't it?"

"In the secular world, some people think the distinction between the two is 'inside and outside the pool,' while others think it's a matter of 'different materials.' However, with the gradual opening of ideas and the emergence of new materials, the distinction is no longer significant."

"As long as you feel you're wearing underwear instead of a swimsuit, it's underwear. The same applies to the other way around."

Danrito was tapping away at his notebook, while Hanako, standing behind him, opened her mouth slightly in surprise. "I think so, it is?"

"Listening to you two arguing over there about swimsuits vs. underwear or something, given your completely different perspectives, you won't be able to convince each other even if you argue until tomorrow morning."

Danrito closed his notebook, slid down from the railing, and turned toward Hanako and Koharu. "This seemingly unanswerable question about whether it's a swimsuit or underwear is wrong from the start."

Some people wear swimsuits under their clothes as an emergency measure, some can openly show their underwear at cosplay exhibitions, there are tights in between, and even more revealing three-point swimsuits. It is said that there are also optical camouflage tights next door.

"What's important isn't the argument about swimsuits or underwear, but belief." Danrito stared at Hanako, "Because belief doesn't need argument."

"Believe...?"

Hanako closed her eyes, and when she opened them again, a smile spread across her face. "Mr. Danrito, you're right."

"So, who's still debating between 'swimsuit' and 'lingerie'?"

Xiaochun beside him pointed at himself and said, "Are you talking about me?"

"It's not just you," Hanako said with a smile. "There are many people who are also struggling with this kind of stupid question, just like me just now."

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223. Only Xiaochun really needs tutoring (sad

Time returns to the present.

"Let's change the subject back, Mr. Danrito."

Nagisa's gaze swung back and forth between Danrito and Nagisa. "Since you're saying these four aren't traitors to the Holy Trinity, where's the evidence? If they aren't traitors, then what about the traitor mentioned in Saint Ya's prophecy?"

"You're always calling me a traitor. You students are just bored and have nothing better to do."

Danrito moved behind Nagisa, and now, Nagisa's neck couldn't keep up. After all, Nagisa wasn't an owl, so she couldn't twist her neck 360 degrees. So she turned her neck back and focused her gaze on the cake on the table.

"To judge a person's true character, you have to look at what they actually do. During the two weeks of observation in the cram school, I thoroughly observed all four students there."

"Oh? Is this true?"

Nagisa was quite surprised. She had thought that Danreto had been slacking off for the past two weeks. "So, what does Mr. Danreto think of these four students? Actually, I'd like to hear how Mr. Danreto refutes my presumption of guilt."