The Purpose of Ryuen

[Ps: Matsushita Chiaki, Wang Meiyu, Sato Maya]

Mornings in D Class were always lively. After all, most students could not understand the importance of studying.

As usual, Yeyue stood together with Hirata, Matsushita Chiaki, Karuizawa Kei, and the others. Nearly ten girls gathered around the two boys and began chatting.

The topics were generally things like, "The whatever at some cafe is super delicious," or "What should we do after school today?" It was the same routine every day, yet they genuinely enjoyed it.

The usual pattern was for the girl named Karuizawa to casually make a suggestion, Yeyue and Hirata to agree, and the other girls to chime in. It happened every day, yet they still enjoyed it.

Matsushita Chiaki, who had originally been the central figure at the start of the school year, had faded from view at some point. Her goal was probably just to slack off and avoid being overly relied upon by others.

She always stood beside Yeyue, occasionally adding a word or two in agreement, with Yeyue taking the lead.

The two looked like a close couple. The other girls also cooperated by not getting overly close to Yeyue, and whenever the conversation went stale, Matsushita Chiaki could smoothly bring up a new topic and maintain the group's atmosphere.

It was worth mentioning that—

Yeyue keenly noticed that, within this Karuizawa Group, aside from Karuizawa Kei herself presenting herself as a babe, the other girls all tended to be gentle and timid.

Take Mori Nene, for example. She always followed behind Karuizawa and echoed her words. When girls from the other two groups asked something of her, she agreed without hesitation. She was not good at refusing others—a type commonly seen on Sakurajima.

She gave off the impression that, as long as someone came up with any excuse, even if they beat Mori Nene up, a girl like her would be too afraid to speak out. She might even naively think, It's just a beating. It's not that big of a deal. I just need to endure it, and I was at fault too. As long as I apologize, everything will be fine.

That was extremely abnormal!

Yeyue had always believed that birds of a feather flocked together.

Mori Nene and the others had probably also perceived that this babe named Karuizawa was different from the babes they had seen in junior high. Real babes were extremely self-centered and cared nothing for the feelings of those around them, while Karuizawa was very considerate of what others thought.

Rather than gathering around Karuizawa because they were close, they had formed a group to guard against the other girls' clique in the class.

The Shinohara Gotsuki Group!

Like the Sudo Three Fools among the boys, Shinohara Gotsuki and her group were somewhat arrogant.

The difference between them and Karuizawa was that when someone rejected Karuizawa's suggestion, she would make another proposal and ask everyone what they thought. Shinohara, on the other hand, would bluntly ask, "Why are you refusing?" Only after hearing a reason would she offer another option.

Mori Nene would have a hard time dealing with someone like Shinohara.

Choosing to follow behind Karuizawa was probably just the survival method she had naturally chosen. Of course, Mori Nene herself might not have thought that deeply about it.

Unfortunately.

Without exceptional social skills, excessively agreeing with others and being too humble would only make people reluctant to get close while finding it hard to refuse her. Although Mori Nene interacted with all the girls, she seemed out of place in every group.

Simply put, she had a people-pleasing personality.

Most of the members of the Karuizawa Group were like that, aside from Matsushita Chiaki. That was why the group could remain so harmonious.

"What exactly is the school doing? My points are already in a huge crisis." Karuizawa held up her phone in both hands, looked at the mere two digits left in her Private Points, and sighed.

The girls around her echoed her complaint.

According to Chabashira—

D Class had received � Class Points in May, but due to some issue on the school authority's side, they had still not been distributed.

Yeyue could not help but turn around and glance over.

It seemed Sudo had already fallen for Ryuen's scheme. Though Yeyue had considered stopping it, since it brought Not Any benefits to D Class, the two barely interacted in the first place. Yeyue could not possibly follow Sudo around every day and take care of him like a nanny.

Now that it had already happened, there was no point thinking about it anymore.

Since Ryuen had not come looking for trouble with him, his target could only have been Sudo.

This was not an intentional move against D Class!

After taking control of their class, capable people like Ryuen had already begun trying to gain a deeper understanding of the rules, testing how the school authority would respond if someone were expelled.

Yeyue had also run into students from A Class and B Class, as well as Ryuen, in the upperclassmen's areas several times. Perhaps First Year D Class was the only class in the entire school spending its days in a daze.

Still.

To the other classes, Kouenji and he were probably representing D Class in gathering intelligence.

Ryuen's goal was to test the rules, and while he was at it, test the strength of D Class's leader. If given the chance, he might even extort a few payments.

After all, Yeyue had Appeared at the door of C Class right after school began. That would make Ryuen wary of D Class and prompt him to wonder, What kind of person could take control of a class so quickly? After all, only someone like Ichinose from B Class could accomplish that.

And someone as impulsive and hot-tempered as Sudo was the ideal target.

There would be more and more exams that tested teamwork in the future. In order to Promote to A Class, someone with outstanding physical ability like Sudo was essential.

An individual's strength was ultimately limited.

But if he ran around busily just to help Sudo over a single matter, how would he be any different from Hirata?

The return was too low. It was not worth it.

How much he could gain still depended on how he played it.