Manabu looked at the two people Ryunosuke had brought along, then teased slightly.
"Why? Just yesterday we processed one person, and now today you're bringing two more to register for a club?"
"Huh? How did you know?" Ryunosuke showed a surprised expression.
Manabu stopped smiling. He massaged the bridge of his nose with a dizzy feeling.
"Abusing your position is improper conduct, Secretary Akasaka."
Ryunosuke waved his hand casually. "Look at what you're saying. You yourself, just to help your sister, dared to unilaterally expel Sudo Ken—isn't that also an abuse of power? Just help out, consider it for your sister's sake~"
"What does this have to do with my sister?!" Manabu retorted curtly, but he still processed the Gym Club registration for the two girls. He stamped the Student Council President's seal on it as proof the document was official.
Manabu waved his hand, signaling that he didn't want to see Ryunosuke anymore and telling him to leave quickly.
Ryunosuke didn't linger to cause trouble. He led the two girls out of the Student Council room.
"Haaah..." Manabu leaned back in his chair while sighing deeply. "Working with that person is truly a losing business."
"Whatever, just continue working..."
Manabu straightened up again, picked up his pen, and continued his work.
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Outside, Ryunosuke handed over the processed registration forms to them.
Asuna and Misumi expressed their thanks. With this, they could play games openly. Moreover, since this school was closed off, they didn't need to worry about their parents finding out.
The two girls bowed deeply to Ryunosuke, stating that they would treat him to a meal as thanks.
Ryunosuke didn't refuse. Since he had indeed helped them, eating well was reasonable.
The two girls waved goodbye, and Ryunosuke returned the wave.
This scene happened to be seen again by Nagumo, who was passing by. He immediately ground his teeth in irritation, even cancelled his trip to the Student Council room and turned away angrily.
"Damn it! Today I have to find a woman to date. These past two days have been so unlucky, always having other people's affection flaunted in front of me."
After saying goodbye to them both, Ryunosuke didn't go to the Student Council room. After all, his position was just a casual side job; it didn't matter whether he showed up or not, since there were others doing his work.
"Achoo!" Kohei, who was substituting for Secretary Ryunosuke's work, suddenly sneezed for no reason.
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Time passed quickly until the end of the month, the 28th.
Before points were distributed, the school began to take action.
The reason the school acted this time was because during the previous cruise ship exam, the students had extracted nearly 80 million points in profits from the school.
The main culprit was Ryunosuke, but the school didn't care about that. What they cared about was: how to take those points back?
Thus, the student expulsion exam began earlier. More precisely, this wasn't an exam, but a choice.
Students would independently vote to choose one person in the class to be expelled from school.
Of course, if they wanted to save that person, the method was very simple: just pay 20 million personal points.
This was the school's objective and their cleverness; forcing students to spend points to save their friends.
Of course, the school also considered the possibility that some wouldn't want to pay. After all, humans are selfish, there would surely be certain classes that chose not to care in order to secure their own points.
Therefore, the school added one more rule. Not only must one person be expelled from each class, but if the student expulsion was successfully carried out, class points would be reduced by 300 points.
In short: You don't want to spend points to save someone? Then there will be an additional 300 class point deduction that will lower your class ranking.
Now it was a matter of whether you were willing to spend points or not. Unwilling to save them? Then class points get reduced.
This was no longer an individual matter, but a matter of the entire group's interest.
As long as it involved group interests, those students had no choice but to spend points to save the person.
This move by the school truly left many students unprepared, causing all four first-year classes to panic and become confused.
The school's main target this time was the first-year students, to logically reclaim the large amount of points they had gained from the cruise ship.
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On the other side.
Honami's class, Class A, was currently in difficulty.
Their situation was different. Even if 300 class points were deducted, they could still stably maintain first place. This is what made the situation awkward.
Thanks to Ryunosuke's actions, the gap between them and Class B had reached almost 300 points. Plus, some time ago, Ai from Class B had skipped school for several days to date her boyfriend Ryunosuke, causing class points to be continuously deducted.
Now the gap had widened even further to almost 400 points. This triggered various opinions to emerge within Class A.
Some proposed expelling one person because it was difficult to make a decision—namely, expelling the person with the lowest grades. Others disagreed, because it wasn't that they couldn't afford to pay those points.
They had long accumulated enough 20,000,000 personal points to save someone. But what was amazing was that most students were willing to spend that money. Only two or three people were unwilling. This made Hachiman space out a little.
A class like this... does it really exist?
Hachiman observed all this and seemed to have solidified a decision. In his heart, he mocked himself.
(I really am a hopeless useless person, to actually volunteer myself for the class's sake. Really foolish.)
Hachiman stood up with a calm gaze.
(There's no other choice... let me bear all of this alone.)
Every time he thought about this, he felt like a fool. Truly hopeless.
(I'm not supposed to be this type of person. Since joining this friendly class, I've really changed...)
Seeing Hachiman stand up, everyone's eyes turned to him. They were curious about what he wanted to do.
Himeno also glanced at him from the corner of her eye. As if understanding what the man wanted to do, she snorted softly in her heart.
"Really foolish. You think Ichinose will let you do that? Stupid pig!"
Hachiman took a deep breath and slowly exhaled. His gaze became firm and profound.
He bent his body slightly like a frail old person, then slowly raised his hand.
"That... at my home, I have a seriously ill younger sister who needs care. Could you let me drop out of school? I have to go home to take care of my sister."
That's right, Hachiman was lying. So that his classmates wouldn't feel guilty when choosing him for expulsion, he chose to give a well-intentioned lie.
The students in this class were the kindest and friendliest people he had ever met. Even the "suicide truck" Hachiman couldn't bear to hurt them, so he fabricated this small lie.
Hachiman muttered in his heart: (Komachi, forgive your brother. Onii-chan will only lie this once, won't do it again.)