Himeno Yuki Has No Motivation

Now that Class A has become his territory, we still need to appease this ticking time bomb, Sakayanagi, and leave her with a glimmer of hope.

"The terms of the contract aren't too difficult. Sakayanagi, you can't deliberately break school rules; second, you can't deliberately lose the Special Exam; and third, you can't deliberately drop out of school."

Thinking about the shockwaves of Sakayanagi's voluntary withdrawal from school in the novel, Aoyama felt that giving Sakayanagi a glimmer of hope was a very important thing.

If a student withdraws from school without a valid reason, 300 Class Points Student Council.

If Sakayanagi has a mental breakdown, the money that will be withheld is all from his future earnings.

"If you break the contract, I will go to your father and make him apologize to me for raising such a shameless daughter."

Given Sakayanagi's ego, Aoyama felt there was nothing he could do to restrain her, so he could only bring up Chairman Sakayanagi. If Sakayanagi Arisu even her father's reputation, he wouldn't have much to say.

"Okay, I have no problem." After thinking for a moment, Sakayanagi nodded. Except for the third reason, which she found a bit inexplicable, the other two reasons were legitimate and reasonable.

But how little does that bastard Aoyama trust her?

While maintaining a smile on her face, Sakayanagi cursed inwardly. The punishment for the contract was to tell her parents—just how much did they look down on her?

Does this guy think of her as a child from the very beginning?

"That's good. Katsuragi, could you please ask Mr. Mashima to come over?"

"Good."

A slight smile appeared on his serious face as Katsuragi calmly carried out Aoyama's instructions.

He was incredibly grateful for yesterday's actions. If he could unite the strength of Class A, then Class A would be invincible against the entire first year.

Tyrant Ryuen and Ichinose will all be no match for them.

"At nine o'clock tonight, after the remaining four groups finish their exams, you lead your team to collect all the cell phones from those dozen or so students." Since Sakayanagi is going to be his subordinate, Aoyama might as well make the most of it.

"After 9:30, I will inform you of the names of the four groups of VIP. Then you can watch them submit their answers to the school one by one."

The first outcome of the school's decision to award money to students is that the time for accepting students' answers is from 9:30 to 10:00, which is only half an hour.

"Okay, but I need Katsuragi's help. Someone has to stand up for me."

Collecting phones and then sending them out is clearly a job that will offend people.

However, in order to gain Aoyama's trust, Sakayanagi had no choice but to accept the task. Although she knew that Kamuro Station would be better, she could only choose Katsuragi.

"No problem, you and Katsuragi discuss it together. This is the first task I'm giving you; if you mess it up, you'll be in trouble."

With a slight smile, Aoyama put pressure on Sakayanagi before she even started doing anything.

What a heartless boss.

Meanwhile, Ayanokoji Kiyotaka, who has risen to fame among the first-year students, is introduced to Horikita Suzune by Hirata, who hopes that he can become an asset to the class.

"Sakayanagi from Class A has recruited a student from our class. Do you have any ideas on how to find him?"

In the open-air seating area of the deck restaurant, Horikita coldly posed his questions.

"Can you be sure it's a man or a woman?" Ayanokoji countered.

"Uncertain."

"Judging from Class A's performance in this Paper Shuffle Special Exam, the three VIP, as well as the students who know they are VIP, are not spies."

"The students in the group of the VIP in Class A can also be basically ruled out, because if the traitor were there, they wouldn't have made a mistake on purpose."

With an expressionless face, Ayanokoji began to analyze based on the information he had.

"Given Karuizawa's usual behavior, she wouldn't hide her VIP status from her friends, so the girls around her can be ruled out."

"Girls with timid personalities like Sakura, Wang Meiyu, and Inokashira can basically be identified by simply calling them over and testing them."

"After ruling out cases where the boy's personality is not firm, you can also use a surprise attack to test his judgment."

"After eliminating a few students, we can identify them by spreading false information," Ayanokoji without pausing. "Simply put, we give a few people false information about the same location, but at different times."

"Finally, if you find this method too troublesome, the girl can just ask Kushida directly to confirm."

Kushida, who is friends with all the girls in Class D except Horikita Suzune, has an extraordinary intelligence network. It's virtually impossible for her to miss the unusual behavior of the girls when they've been turned.

Horikita frowned. "The problem is that we can't trust Kushida right now; Aoyama 'Kushida girlfriend."

Aoyama, now the leader of Class A, would never allow Kushida to help her find the traitors left behind by Sakayanagi.

"If that's the only reason, I think we can trust Kushida." Ayanokoji's gaze was deep as he looked into Horikita's eyes.

He didn't believe that Horikita distrusted Kushida's ability to help the class for such a simple reason.

Based on Kushida's usual behavior in class, she is a girl who cherishes her reputation very much, and she has an obligation to assist Horikita, the leader, in finding out the traitor.

"Because she's love-struck, she won't do anything that Aoyama forbids her from doing."

"Real?"

That's it.

Horikita nodded calmly, subtly concealing the truth for Kushida.

Even though Kushida remained uncooperative, she still intended to win Kushida over on her own.

Of course, there was also the intention of not wanting her brother to get involved in trouble.

Chapter 171 Himeno Yuki, Lacking Motivation

After finishing his meeting with Katsuragi and the others, Aoyama returned to his room and spent a long time cuddling with Yamamura.

Only after the Special Exam in the evening was over did he escort Yamamura back to his room.

At 9:30, after receiving remote instructions from Sakayanagi, the remaining students sent out the names of the VIP treatment, and he continued to wait in the room until the exam results arrived.

[Rat Group, --Due to the traitor's correct answer, this is result three.]

[Ox Group) -- All group members answered correctly after the exam, resulting in Result 1.]

[Boar Group, --Due to the traitor's correct answer, this is result three.]

At exactly 11 o'clock, the students simultaneously received a text message from the school. Like everyone else, Aoyama immediately opened it to view the message, and the result was exactly as he had expected.

As expected, all three groups from Class B and one group from Class C achieved the first result.

The text message ended with the changes in Class Points and the individual points earned during the exam.

Class A... deduct 100 Class Points, add 7 million personal points.

Class B... Class Points remain unchanged, individual points increased by 8.5 million.

Class C... add 200 Class Points, and add 9.5 million personal points.

Class D... deduct 100 Class Points, add 7 million personal points.

For this Special Exam alone, the school distributed 32 million kilograms of rice, greatly enriching the first-year students' knowledge.

That feels good.

Watching the money that others were supposed to pay being deposited into his account one by one, Aoyama couldn't help but show a satisfied expression.

Matsushita helped Saka Sakayanagi get the one million yen, the three members of Class B ended up with a group of ten million and a half million yen, plus the one million yen in leader's salary that arrived this month.

After the VIP Special Exam concluded, and after deducting the personal points he had spent, his total had reached twenty million and a few dozen, less than twenty-one million.

Unfortunately, very little of it was considered illicit money, only a little over one million, which, combined with the previous total of two million two hundred thousand, was actually illicit.

Time to sleep.

In a pleasant mood, Aoyama Shiki turned off the room lights.

Yamauchi Haruki is in a bad mood and is being scolded by his friend.

He boasted that he was sure he would guess the VIP, but in the end, his group guessed the VIP in the exam.

"Kanji was partly to blame too. If you had gotten Sakura's email address back then, I would have chatted with Sakura." Yamauchi turned off the room light and curled up on the bed. "That way, we wouldn't have fallen for Class A's trick."

"You're blaming me for this? Haruki, you're being unreasonable. I can't force her to give it to me."

Facing the location of the bed Yamauchi, Kanji Ike shouted helplessly.

He helped Yamauchi get Sakura's email address, but was humiliated by being rejected to his face, and now Yamauchi is blaming him. He's truly not a good son.

"I don't care, I don't care, it's all your Kanji anyway."

He pulled the blanket over his head, Yamauchi, and stopped replying to his friends.

The night passed in silence.

On a bright and sunny morning, the cries of seagulls perched on the window woke Aoyama, who had been sleeping soundly for nine hours.

Nostalgic for the feeling of sleeping with someone, he left his warm bed and went into the bathroom to wash up. After washing up, he went out alone and ate his breakfast alone in a nearly empty restaurant.

Because they woke up a little late, both Yamamura and Kamuro had already finished eating.

Seeing that the sunlight outside the window wasn't particularly bright and the temperature didn't feel too high, Aoyama went to the deck with the idea of aiding digestion. The cool sea breeze made him feel comfortable, and he leaned on the railing to rest.

Let's talk about things like aiding digestion first, after we've rested enough.

With his arm draped over the railing as a pillow, Aoyama gazed at the sea with his eyes half-closed, enjoying the slightly salty sea breeze.

"Aoyama -kun?"

Just as Aoyama's thoughts were slowly clearing, Ichinose's pleasant voice suddenly appeared behind him. Turning around, he saw four people standing behind him without him noticing.

The familiar Amikura and Shiranami, and then there's a rather aloof girl with a dead fish-like gaze and a fairly tall figure.

With her high twin ponytails dyed purple and blue, small silver rings adorning her earlobes, and a slightly shortened pleated skirt, this girl named Himeno Yuki, compared to Manabe or Karuizawa, was more like a true gyaru (gyaru.

Aoyama noticed a camera hanging from Amikura's chest. "Oh, it's Ichinose. Are you here to take pictures together?"

"Hmm, the weather's really nice today." Ichinose smiled brightly. "Aoyama- kun, are you waiting for someone here all by yourself?"

She was pleasantly surprised to run into Aoyama on the deck.

"No, I just had breakfast and am resting and relaxing here."

Aoyama denied that he was waiting for someone, and then a hint of joy appeared in Ichinose's icy blue eyes, and the corners of her mouth curved into a wider smile.

"Could we ask Aoyama -kun to take a picture for us?"

"That's no problem, but if the photos don't turn out well, don't blame me."

Thinking that he had nothing better to do, taking photos of a few cute girls wouldn't be a bad idea, Aoyama readily accepted Ichinose's request.

Shiranami's cute little face contorted into a threatening expression, "It's okay if I don't look good in photos, but not Xiao Fanbo."

"So, I can also take bad photos, Chihiro?"

Before Aoyama could even tease her, Amikura pinched Shiranami's smooth little face and gave it a good rub.

Less than two seconds later, Shiranami began begging for mercy.

Aoyama looked at Himeno Yuki, who had been silent and seemed unmotivated, and said, "Himeno- kun, is it alright if I take the photos?"

"No... no problem, I'm fine with anything."

Seemingly surprised that Aoyama could call her by name, Himeno Yuki paused for a moment before answering somewhat hastily.

"Aoyama -kun has memorized everyone's names and faces, Himeno, you don't need to be confused." With a slight sense of pride, Ichinose immediately explained to Himeno Yuki.

"That's amazing."

"It's just that my memory is slightly better; is the photo supposed to be taken at the bow of the boat?"

Seeing that Himeno's expression was not very natural, and guessing that she was probably not used to chatting with strangers, Aoyama turned his gaze back to Ichinose.

"Hmm, Komako, don't bully Chihiro too much."

After rescuing Shiranami from the clutches of the Amikura, Ichinose gently patted Shiranami's head and then led the way towards the bow of the ship.

Once they reached the very back of the deck where no other students were, Amikura handed the camera to Aoyama and immediately moved closer to Himeno, pulling her to the best spot for taking pictures.

"Let Koyuki and I be the first test subjects for Aoyama."

Amikura confidently took Himeno's arm and smiled happily at the camera, her purple hair fluttering in the wind, looking absolutely beautiful.

Himeno, who was being embraced, raised her hand and made a peace sign, but her smile was, to put it mildly, disappointing.

"They all look great, fantastic, eggplant---"