Is This Love? (Continued)

Like a dream, like an illusion.

Just wait and see.

Today, our Uninhabited Island Special Exam officially ended early. The school seems to have some guts; they didn't play dead and drag it out until the last day.

After all, exams have long been a complete mess.

Various violations, reports, and disputes arose.

All I can say is that I had a lot of fun!

Swimsuits! Yachts! Surfboards!

This is what summer should be like! Compared to the hardships of wilderness survival, a refreshing beach is definitely more worthwhile.

Dragon Boy is the best.

Oops, no, the process is wrong, I need to start over.

July 31st, at school with Dragon Boy, the Special Exam is coming up soon, I'm really looking forward to it.

On August 1st, on the cruise ship, Dragon Boy and I hid precious survival supplies in our crotches and got through security.

8.2, Surviving in the wilderness with Dragon Boy. The people in Class B are so mean, but with Dragon Boy around, it's okay.

Dragon Boy is the best!

No, no, no, I can't hold it in anymore.

Hahahaha--

Do you like my Dragon Boy?

I imagine many people wouldn't like it, but honestly, it's really quite interesting.

Although he's a man, he subtly exudes a unique charm that makes people want to laugh just by hearing the name "Ryuen".

Of course, just laugh it off, like Lord Yamauchi does. If you actually act like a grandpa, you'll become the laughing stock.

After all, the Joker's position is inherited.

Yesterday I said I'd save the teasing of the Little Princess for today, so let me make a list and show you what good things Little Princess's done!

First, despite his frail health and distrust, he bravely disembarked from the ship, exchanged walkie-talkies with the class advisor, and then withdrew from the exam and returned to the ship.

That's right, the Little Princess had a flash of inspiration and played a remote-controlled exam game.

He's a genius, but genius is genius, and his fouls are still real fouls.

Who can have someone who withdrew from the exam and still interfere with the exam proceedings?

You might not be able to process this immediately, so let me give you an example. Imagine someone glances at their exam paper during a test, then hands in a blank paper early and goes outside the classroom, shouting out the answers to their classmates while recalling the content of the original exam paper.

Is that correct?

Not getting caught might not be considered a foul, just like how Dragon Boy could be considered acceptable if no one reported him, but you played too blatantly.

Therefore, he died.

Then, probably after reading my diary, the Little Princess heard that Dragon Boy had broken the rules, and wow, her brain started working at high speed. She immediately decided to report him.

... Although it might sound like the whole thing is my fault, I'm not going to apologize.

This is all the fault of the Dragon Boy who broke the rules and the Little Princess who reported it.

Forget about reporting it; just reporting is necessary to maintain a fair and just examination environment and is essential for building a harmonious examination environment.

But the Little Princess shouldn't have, by all accounts, taken it for granted that she would wake up a bunch of teachers in the middle of the night to help her block people.

Yes, reporting it was the right thing to do, accepting it was the right thing to do, and handling it was the normal procedure.

But what kind of kind-hearted teacher would obediently get up in the early hours of the morning just to work overtime like this?

It's only because his mother saw that it was you Sakayanagi Arisu, that he obeyed and did what she said.

Why can't you understand this principle?

Getting up at 4 a. m. is a courtesy, not an obligation. Our obligation is to acknowledge receipt of the report, but according to the school's procedures, the specific handling and verification of the report results will be conducted during the daytime working hours.

I'm not trying to accuse you of Nepo Baby, but the more you jump around, the more it proves yourself, doesn't it?

Moan and groan.

The rest of the operation was even more outrageous. Taking over Dragon Boy's base right in front of him—is that something only a human could do?

Didn't you see how anxious Dragon Boy was?

Give me a written self-criticism, reflect on your actions, or I'll have to feed you like grass.

Oh, but Dragon Boy, you don't need to apologize. Just apologize to me.

I apologize to myself for watching this farce.

Barring any unforeseen circumstances, Dragon Boy should be able to get what he wants.

That's about all for the complaints about the Little Princess's actions. In short, she thought she hadn't done anything wrong, but upon closer inspection, it was all outrageous indulgence.

At first glance, it may seem insignificant, but upon closer examination, it boils down to just two words.

'Privilege'.

Speaking of privileges, one inevitably has to mention the meeting after the exam, and also <My Chairman Father>.

The chairman's attitude seemed quite good, at least on the surface he was rather mild.

Each of them received a hundred lashes with a sledgehammer, and each of them also had to drink three cups of wine as punishment. Apart from the fact that the Little Princess seemed to be completely unharmed and could still jump around and cause trouble, it seemed that all the punishments that should have been given had been given.

After all, 100 strokes of the cane is quite severe; this is how serious violations are usually punished.

Putting everything else aside, the Little Princess was disqualified from the exam for another violation!

--This is based on thinking from the Little Princess's perspective.

Putting yourself in the Little Princess's shoes, wow, that's really going too far! Is that bullying a little girl?

But if I were to think about it from the perspective of an ordinary person like myself, wow, isn't this too perfunctory? What does it mean to punish oneself with three cups of wine and let the matter drop? Isn't this hypocritical? Isn't this putting on a show of virtue? Isn't this wanting everything at once?

Only 100 points were deducted, not even a warning, a stay of absence, or a repentance, apology, or bowing.

However, upon closer examination, it seems that the punishment was too lenient.

It's a bit hard to say, after all, the chairman is indeed the Little Princess's father. It seems unlikely that he would just wave his hand and expel you from school to ensure your safety.

It hasn't gone that far yet.

So after thinking about it for a long time, I realized that the essence is not the severity of the punishment, but rather an issue of attitude.

Yes, that's right. Doubling the punishment by 200 points wouldn't actually be better. The key point has never been about the points deducted, but about the attitude.

Because the Little Princess was indignant; she felt she had done nothing wrong, and no matter how she was punished, it just didn't seem right.

Considering the Little Princess's health, any form of corporal punishment seems impractical.

Because she really is capable of dying right before your eyes.

In a sense, rather than her background, her frail health was the very reason she received so much preferential treatment.

People are being a bit too civilized.

Fortunately, I still have a way.

It is our duty to discipline the Little Princess!

To be honest, the Uninhabited Island Special Exam ended earlier than I expected. I thought I could actually manage to fill seven days' worth of diary entries with the exam.

As a result, they finished work in two or three days.

According to the school's schedule, barring any unforeseen circumstances, the next exam will be called the 'VIP Exam'.

Werewolf? Hide and Seek?

In short, it's essentially a humorous test about finding patterns.

I'm just giving everyone a heads-up on behalf of the school, so you're all aware of the situation. Please don't be as blatant and arrogant as you were on that Uninhabited Island incident, showing off that you knew there would be an exam later.

Yes, that's right, I'm talking about you, Little Princess.

'Information that can be disclosed at this stage'

There's also some publicly available information today. We've had this for four consecutive days – are you all happy? If you are, give us a smile.

To be honest, although Advanced Nurturing skilled talents, my reserves are actually not that many.

There are only one, two, three, four, five, maybe a dozen, twenty, or thirty.

Cough cough.

It seems like it's not actually that little.

Just pick one randomly... no, wait.

I have a great idea.

Although I had already gotten a lot of people to spoil the plot before deciding to release information from time to time, upon closer reflection, it was somewhat disorganized and lacked a systematic approach.

After all, I just said whatever came to mind at the time.

Therefore, I've decided to take a short walk around to give everyone a deeper understanding.

Our Little Princess.

'Sakayanagi Arisu'

As everyone knows, the name Sakayanagi is Advanced Nurturing Sakayanagi, the Sakayanagi who is the Chairman Sakayanagi, and also the Sakayanagi of the Sakayanagi Family.

Little Alice was born before Sakayanagi Narimori took over the position of chairman from his father, Alice's grandfather.

What does it mean to be the chairman of a family council? (shrugs)

From a young age, our Little Alice suffered from congenital heart disease and was frail. I can't say whether she was sickly or not, but she certainly had all the traits of being sickly and weak.

Little Alice firmly believed that she was a born genius, and she was very convinced that all geniuses who were made later in life were fake geniuses, and only she, a born genius, was the real genius.

I don't quite understand this logic.

Let me think about what she said back then...

"Oh, I'll prove to you that so-called genius isn't determined by education, but rather by what's decided at birth."

Why don't you look at the resources around you, the teachers your father hired for you, and your family circumstances, and then say this again?

Seeing the ultimate master's unstoppable performance in Chess inspired me to learn Chess as well. I even longed for this lousy Chess for a full eight years, until the start of the school year, when I suddenly became a humorous person with a cane.

I won't comment on Alice's Chess, but let's just talk about the plans she would have made.

Although I've talked about the Little Princess a lot so far, I haven't gone into much detail.

I've mentioned Alice's nicknames before, right?

Alice needs no introduction; the pronunciation of her name, combined with her long, silver hair that seems to come from Wonderland, is why she is called Alice.

Let me elaborate on the term "Love-struck Brain." It means that eight years ago, she became obsessed with someone else's masterpiece and arbitrarily regarded him as her nemesis. She harbored this obsession for eight years, but in the end, she dropped out of school because "he wanted to fight Dragon Boy more than me."

The Civil War Phantom God incident is mentioned less often, but it's quite related to the one mentioned above. As the name suggests, he fought against external forces for a long time without achieving any results, always losing. However, he was incredibly bad at fighting against his own class, making Katsuragi scream in despair. He was essentially a traitor who conspired with other classes to sabotage his own class.

It can only be said that the Little Princess still lacks corrective education.

Oh right, I almost forgot to mention the most important one.

The Little Princess is actually quite vengeful. If Lord Yamauchi accidentally trips her, she will pretend to be nonchalant and say it's okay, but in reality she will hold a grudge and wait for the opportunity to unleash her amazing wisdom—seducing Yamauchi.

She's not the type to pose or flaunt her figure; she can't do that.

What she did was to learn from the little Angel and only show gentleness to the old man, talking on the phone every few days about seemingly happy topics, in order to build a closer relationship and gain his trust.

... That's stupid.

I really didn't expect her to do that.

Sister, you are truly a genius.

What sustained you through your nausea to face the people Yamauchi? Was it love?

Asakusa Toru wrote down more than ten pages of diary entries with effortless ease. After picking up his pen, he casually put the Diary aside and instead embraced the soft body of the girl who was wrapped around his waist from behind.

The notification that the Uninhabited Island Special Exam was over was issued at eight o'clock in the morning. After tidying up the miscellaneous supplies for the teachers, he returned to the cruise ship at around ten o'clock.