Ibuki Is So Easy to Fool / The Plan Begins

Of the four— Ichinose, Sakura, Yamamura, and Hasebe— Yamamura's presence is somewhat less noticeable due to her unique characteristics, while the other three are adorable girls with an exceptionally high level of presence.

He was already the center of attention, and now his popularity has soared even higher. He's probably even more famous than Nagumo among the third-year students.

"Aren't you secretly pleased?"

"Yes, just seeing Masumi makes me very happy."

Because Aoyama had accumulated too much tyranny, none of the boys in Class C, even if they were curious, dared to step forward and ask him questions. At present, the only one in Class C who dared to do so, and who would be rude to him, was Kamuro.

Sakayanagi, who used to always be breathing heavily, has become much quieter since her last trip outside the school.

"I don't know how many girls I've said this to."

"So far, I've only told Masumi that."

With a light laugh, Aoyama began chatting with Kamuro, peacefully passing the ordinary yet pleasant time.

Ordinary school hours, spending free time playing with close female friends, a leisurely September without Special Exam, slowly came to an end, until the day before the deadline for submitting the Sports Festival entry form arrived.

Thursday evening at the end of September.

"Tomorrow is the final deadline for submitting the forms, hasn't Aoyama made a move yet?"

In the quiet karaoke room, Ryuen, who was in the core meeting of Class B, frowned slightly.

During this time, he had been waiting for Aoyama to come to his door, but that guy was playing around with girls every day and didn't seem to take the Sports Festival seriously.

Because Class D and Class C had produced traitors, despite his confidence in his control over Class B, he still planned to submit the completed competition forms half an hour before the end of the day.

It is understood that Class A and Class D share the same idea as him, so he has no idea how to deal with Class A either.

Ishizaki looked at Shiina with some unease, "Shiina, do you know anything?"

The reputation of an Aoyama is built on hard work, and he wouldn't think that Aoyama has done nothing, so he's afraid that Aoyama has done something, but they don't know yet.

"I won't ask Aoyama about that, but as far as I know, Class C's entry form hasn't been submitted yet," Shiina calmly replied to Ishizaki.

She didn't avoid Aoyama during this time, but she did maintain a necessary distance.

Aoyama made no attempt to hide the fact that Class C's entry forms hadn't been submitted yet. A few days ago, he had publicly stated that Class C's entry forms would only be submitted at the last minute.

"Class A and Class D also have the same idea, planning to submit their work at the very end." Ryuen spread his arms and rested them on the top of the sofa back, tilting his head back and squinting his eyes.

"Class C doesn't have many athletic talents. Shiina, what do you think Aoyama should do to help Class C win first place?"

The newly appointed class leader is leading Special Exam for the first time, and it seems like they're determined to give it their all and get first place.

Given this premise, Ryuen doesn't believe that Aoyama will do nothing; it's highly likely that he has already found a way to win.

"I didn't expect that." After careful consideration, Shiina shook his head.

As things stand, it's impossible for Aoyama to know the contents of each class's entry form, unless the student who ultimately submitted the entry form betrayed their class and sided with Aoyama.

But that's impossible, even in the drafty Class D.

Because the newest leader of Class D's Sports Festival is Ayanokoji Kiyotaka, who was punched in Aoyama not long after the start of the school year.

During physical education class, he demonstrated athletic ability that completely overwhelmed his classmate Sudo, dominating in every event. He successfully seized power, replacing the irritable Sudo, and became the leader of Class D's Sports Festival.

"Starting tomorrow, Ibuki, you will spend all your time with Aoyama except when you are in class, until the deadline for submitting your entry form."

Since they couldn't imagine what methods Aoyama would use, Ryuen could only resort to stalking and harassment.

Meanwhile, Ayanokoji Kiyotaka is alone in a private room at a café meeting with Amikura, the new leader of Class A, and her classmate Kanzaki.

"This proposal is in your class's best interest," Ayanokoji expressionlessly.

Just now, he proposed a cooperative plan that would benefit Class A: separating the athletic talents of the two classes to avoid internal friction, and he also had a solution to the key issue of mutual distrust between the two classes.

That is, each class creates two completely different competition lists, one with sports talents grouped at the front and the other with sports talents grouped at the back.

Before the final deadline, both classes will go to their respective homeroom teachers and then use a coin toss to determine which class gets priority to choose their entry form, while the other class will choose the other form that doesn't match.

After submission, the class leaders who submitted the entry forms must stay together and are prohibited from contacting anyone outside the class until the deadline has completely passed.

Chapter 229: The easy-to-deceive Ibuki

"When Ayanokoji met with Amikura and Kanzaki, did Amikura seem unhappy when she left?"

In the boys' dormitory, Aoyama was sitting at his desk talking to Kushida on the phone. On the desk was Class C's Sports Festival entry list.

Tomorrow is the deadline, and it's time for him to arrange the order of appearance for the students in Class C.

"Yeah, a friend just saw it and mentioned it to me. I guess they've reached some kind of cooperation agreement."

Kushida's voice came through the phone, his tone implying a desire for praise.

"Very good, this is very helpful to me, Kikyo." With a light laugh, Aoyama used the affectionate nickname a girl would use for Kushida.

"As long as it helps, that's fine. You haven't been contacting Horikita lately, have you just given up on her?"

After speaking with Horikita Manabu on the phone, Aoyama never contacted Horikita Suzune proactively, and Horikita Suzune did the same. After more than ten days, the students in Class D also vaguely noticed this.

In recent days, more and more students from Class D have been picking on Horikita, but Horikita has been able to refute them all.

No one could have predicted that Yukimura would betray them, and the only reason Yukimura, who had always advocated for promotion to Class A, would betray the class was that he saw no hope in Class D.

"Ask this because you want to bully Suzune, right?"

Although Kushida's tone was no different from usual, Aoyama noticed her subtle thoughts.

If he confirms it, Kushida might try to influence the students in Class D to isolate Horikita and make her feel even worse.

"Have we been discovered~~~"

A playful tone came through the phone, and even though he couldn't see Kushida now, Aoyama could imagine Kushida sticking out his tongue cutely.

"You'll never be caught! But you can tease Suzune a bit, just be careful what you say."

Aoyama lightly tapped the desk with his finger. In the matter of Yukimura's betrayal, after Ayanokoji focused his fire on Horikita would not be able to return to the leadership position unless he made some great contribution.

He originally wanted to shift the blame to Hirata, but he couldn't outmaneuver his classmate Ayanokoji in passing the buck. And the fact that Horikita had no friends to speak up for him was fatal.

He now wants Horikita to transfer to Class C to help him, and also to help Class C get promoted to Class A.

First, she needs to completely lose hope in Class D; otherwise, given her stubborn nature, it will be very difficult to deal with her.

"I recorded what you said."

"Yes, yes, I said it. If you go too far, even if I don't come after you, Horikita President will. Be careful."

"Okay, okay, then you go ahead and do your thing."

"Okay, goodnight, Kikyo."

Not knowing how Kushida guessed he was busy, Aoyama smiled faintly, said goodnight to her, and then started rolling the dice.

He had already divided the class into groups for the Sports Festival, separating the best and worst groups. The dice roll was just to determine the order of the groups.

If he's already been randomly assigned to groups like this, and other classes can perfectly target him, then he can only conclude that there are bad people in the school.

He asked Manabe to confirm that Class B's entry form was not submitted.

According to the information provided by Kushida, Class A and Class D probably made a deal to avoid internal conflict, and Ayanokoji must know that he has people in Class D.

Provided that the student can confirm the entry form with the class advisor, Ayanokouji will definitely choose to submit it a little before the deadline to be on the safe Ayanokoji, not giving him time to change his class's entry form.

The easiest way for the two classes to build mutual trust is to submit their entry forms together at the last minute and then monitor each other until the deadline has passed.

Lucky, I don't need to check if the Amikura has submitted its competition form tomorrow; I can just keep an eye on Class D.

After filling out the entry form, Aoyama stretched and expressed his gratitude to Kushida for the information.

He has connections in Class B and Class D, so he can be 100% sure whether the entry form has been submitted. It's different with Class A; he won't force Ichinose to do anything that would upset her.

Haha, Ryuen, what kind of expression will you have tomorrow?

Recalling his conversation with Mashima last week, which confirmed that his whimsical plan was feasible, Aoyama couldn't help but smile.

The deadline for submitting the entry form is 5 PM tomorrow. If you miss the deadline, the school will randomly assign students to groups, including both those who are recommended to participate.

To increase the chances of the plan's success, he spread the idea through Kushida to both Class A and Class B that submitting the plan at the last minute was the safest approach.

The next day.

Aoyama woke up in bed normally, washed up and went out as usual, only to discover an unusual stalker.

"That's not how you follow someone."

"Ryuen said to just follow along, since I'll be found out eventually anyway."

Following Aoyama into the elevator, Ibuki wasn't embarrassed at all, staring straight at him.

Instead of being annoyed by being followed, Aoyama smiled leisurely. "Is this what you call giving up? I watched the video of your fight with Ayanokoji last time. Your strength is probably only slightly inferior to Suzune's."

He quite liked Ibuki's straightforward personality, because it was somewhat similar to Kamuro's, although Ibuki was much simpler than Kamuro.

To put it simply, they are children who are very easy to fool.

"Is Horikita Suzune really that strong? I don't believe it." Ibuki's eyes became very concerned.

She could accept that boys who frequently fought could beat her, but as for girls, she believed that among the first-year students, there was probably no one stronger than her who had practiced martial arts for many years, not even Horikita, who had never fought her.

She can't beat Ryuen and Ayanokoji, yet she can't beat girls?

"Really, if you just tell Suzune that I said she's not as good as you, she'll challenge you to a fight." Aoyama said with a serious expression.

"Don't blame me for not reminding you, Suzune's brother Horikita President, is a black belt master, and she's naturally not much different."

Aoyama thought it was a great idea to add some fun to Horikita Suzune's monotonous school life, but the trouble was with Horikita was being bothered.

Moreover, given Ibuki's unpretentious personality, she might become Horikita's first female friend.

He truly meant well for Horikita.

"Where is Horikita? I'm going to find her right now." Ibuki her hands together and loosened her knuckles, making a crackling sound.

All she wants now is to find Horikita, have a good fight, and correct Aoyama's wrong thinking.

After correcting the mistake, she would use it as an excuse to challenge Aoyama.

One advantage of being around Ryuen is that you can learn many things that ordinary students don't.

Ibuki knew that Mizowaki, a former star player in the judo club in Class 2-A, was only able to come to school on crutches because he was beaten up by Aoyama. This meant that Aoyama was also a skilled fighter.

That imposing physique wasn't achieved simply through weightlifting.

"Suzune usually arrives at the classroom earlier than me. If you walk a little faster, you can probably catch her before the morning class starts." Aoyama pointed directly ahead.

"Very good, thank you, Aoyama."

Like a pet receiving a command, Ibuki excitedly trotted forward.

Upon seeing this, a faint sense of guilt flashed through Aoyama's heart.

Chapter 230 The Operation Begins

You lied to me.

I made a special detour to Aoyama's bakery. As I passed the front door of Class B on my way into the teaching building, a slender figure darted out of Class B.

With clean and swift movements, Ibuki a side kick directly to his waist.

"Hey, hey, I was wrong, okay?" Blocking Ibuki's kick with one hand, and seeing that Ibuki was still trying to attack, Aoyama used his arm to trap Ibuki's raised leg and then pulled hard to make her lose her balance.

Taking advantage of Ibuki's unsteady stance, he lunged forward and pinned Ibuki against the wall.

"This is a small apology gift, a chocolate cake."

Seeing Ibuki looking at him indignantly, Aoyama took out a small cake he had specially bought. Upon hearing that there was a delicious cake, Ibuki's angry eyes cleared up considerably.

"Horikita called me an idiot, and you still believed him?"

"I think you also bear some responsibility for this."

Aoyama smiled helplessly. He knew Ibuki was easy to fool, but he didn't expect her to be this easy, and she even said thank you.

At that moment, he felt like he was being a monster, how could he have deceived such an innocent child?

"But aren't you really afraid I'll drop out of school, and you've already taken the initiative to attack the Student Council Vice President?"

When Ibuki took the paper bag and saw that there really was a cake inside, her eyes lit up. Aoyama asked gently.

Ibuki is simply naive, not stupid, which is why she didn't attack Horikita, no matter how much she wanted to.