Gentleman's Agreement, Million Points Achieved!

After dealing with Horikita's pestering, Kamuro Sumire arranged to meet with Class A's homeroom teacher, Majima Tomoya, in the teachers' office as per Tennoji Kaede's request.

Majima Tomoya was a stern-faced, upright man in his thirties, clearly someone who exercised regularly and possessed an upright character.

At this moment, Teacher Majima looked at them inquisitively and said, "Kamuro-san, this must be Tennoji-san from Class C. Is he already your boyfriend?"

[Detected Black House's 5-point failure work 'Majima Tomoya']

[Causal Mark for 'Majima Tomoya' has been deployed]

['Cause': Majima Tomoya is very interested in you, but also somewhat worried. If you are in a class competition in the future, it might affect your relationship. Perhaps... falling in love between classes at this school is a good thing.]

['Effect': Charisma +5, Body Strengthening +10, Teacher Ethics +10]

"Teacher Majima, you've misunderstood. We're really not that kind of relationship."

Kamuro's face was filled with embarrassment. Could she and Tennoji be that kind of relationship? Wouldn't that be like the plot of Maiden's Holy unfolding...

"Then let's get back to business. What kind of contract do you need me to guarantee?"

Majima Tomoya's expression turned serious. He was always meticulous when it came to work.

"I need you, Teacher Majima, and Kamuro Sumire, to sign a written agreement prohibiting equivalent actions and words."

Majima looked at the contents of the agreement, which could be broadly summarized into the following points:

Tennoji guarantees not to use any secret private actions of Kamuro to coerce her into doing things against her will, including but not limited to future interest disputes between Class A and Class C.

Kamuro Sumire guarantees that she will not engage in this private behavior for the three years she is at school.

Majima will act as a fair supervisor.

If either party, A or C, violates the contract, they will be punished by expulsion.

If any of the three parties rejects this agreement, the entire contract becomes void.

"May I ask a question?" Teacher Majima asked him solemnly after reading the contract.

"Please go ahead," Tennoji Kaede said.

"First, I thank you, Tennoji-san. I understand the meaning of this contract. This is the most unusual agreement I've seen in my many years at this school."

Seeing this, Majima Tomoya was convinced that they were indeed not a couple.

This contract was clearly the result of Tennoji having discovered some secret about Kamuro.

Not only that, but Tennoji had a complete understanding of the rules behind this school and had explicitly pointed out the future interests of Class A and Class C.

This point was deliberately and subtly written for him, the homeroom teacher of Class A, to see.

And yet, this contract had no legal standing and could be unilaterally broken at any time, meaning...

"Why are you willing to offer this special contract that clearly favors Kamuro-san? To be honest, I can only think of reasons that are difficult to articulate."

Kamuro was also full of doubts. Although she had already seen the contract, she still didn't understand the point of doing this, while Teacher Majima seemed to have seen through it.

Tennoji Kaede chose his words carefully and said:

"In this world, it's absolutely impossible to make someone believe that the other person will never betray them."

"Even if you gain some advantage today through a coercive agreement, you will be resented for life."

"My goal is to hope that Kamuro-san will stop engaging in that inappropriate behavior and will no longer have to worry about me using it to blackmail her."

"Precisely in this special school, such an invalid contract will, instead, become stronger as time passes."

"This is merely a gentleman's agreement," Tennoji Kaede finished.

Simply put, it meant: I won't harm you, and you shouldn't do evil either. If either of us breaks the contract, outsiders will know our true character.

When one party holds absolute initiative, any guarantee-type agreement is useless.

For example, Tennoji Kaede discovered Kamuro's secret this time, giving him absolute initiative. In the future, when the classes start to compete, there will only be one outcome.

If he reveals the secret, she will reveal his too.

This was also the key reason why Ryuen could control Kamuro in the original work, although it was also because they were in the same class.

This gentleman's agreement could also be seen as a special inter-class whistleblower report.

"For the remaining time, you can talk with Kamuro-san."

"Tennoji-san, please wait a moment. Let's exchange contact information," Majima Tomoya said, asking him to stay.

Tennoji Kaede nodded. Exchanging contact information was fine, but it felt a bit impolite to Class C's homeroom teacher, Sakamoto.

I'm adding contact info for other homeroom teachers first. No discrimination intended!

After Tennoji Kaede left, Majima learned directly from Kamuro that she had kleptomania and had been caught red-handed that day.

Majima Tomoya: "...I understand. Let's leave it at that, Kamuro. Don't do it again in the future."

He was well aware of the dangers of such a handle falling into someone else's hands.

Suppose in the future Kamuro had to participate in some selection or hold some position for a class assessment, and this dark secret was suddenly exposed, it would have a significant negative impact.

This was essentially similar to how Ryuen later exposed Ichinose's past as a thief in the original work, causing a huge stir. The students of Class B were all little angels, and their complete trust in Ichinose meant they were unaffected.

Otherwise, if it were Class D, and Horikita had some scandal like this exposed, the three idiots of Class D would immediately jump out and start a revolution.

After Majima Tomoya saw off Kamuro, who still had a look of thinking it was making a fuss over nothing, he took out his terminal device, pondered for a moment, and sent a message.

"As expected, helping others resolve hidden dangers does bring rewards."

Tennoji Kaede received the 300,000 private points transferred by Majima.

It was probably a thank-you fee because he already knew that Kamuro's problem was neither too big nor too small.

It was very beneficial for Majima to know about the privacy issues of the students in the class in advance.

Coupled with the fact that he had won his goodwill through that gentleman's agreement.

Even if Tennoji Kaede were to break the agreement in the future and expose Kamuro's privacy issues, Majima could still use the now-invalid agreement to make a big deal out of it, and Class A would have nothing to fear.

This was the true meaning of a contract; having one was better than not having one, even if it lacked any mandatory force.

Currently, Tennoji Kaede's points were just shy of 1 million, less than half a day after enrolling:

100,000 for the first month of enrollment, plus 90,000 for defeating the second-year senior from the Boxing Club, plus 210,000 for defeating the Vice President of the Boxing Club, plus 300,000 for agreeing to join the Boxing Club, and plus 300,000 from Teacher Majima's thank-you gift.

Excluding expenses at the convenience store, it was exactly 1 million points!

"Starting ten times better than my peers, it's barely acceptable."

Tennoji Kaede had put in a little effort, making full use of his foresight advantage to gain benefits.

It was already close to noon, and after a whole morning of activity, he also wanted to return to the dormitory to rest well.