Chapter 632

Amused by Kitagawa Ryo's teasing remark, Sakayanagi Arisu also slightly raised the corners of her mouth. Having intentionally grown her hair long since her student days ten years ago, it had now successfully reached shoulder length, and her demeanor seemed to have softened considerably. However, the stubborn competitive spirit she once possessed still lingered in her eyes.

"There's nothing I can do. The White Room didn't end with me, so all I can do now is manage ANHS well. If possible, I hope that in another ten or twenty years, it can become the number one high school in the country, and that the 99.9% college entrance rate and employment rate after graduation will no longer be entirely due to the school's resource allocation, but will truly be due to the students' own abilities and qualities."

"Of course, the latter half of the above statement is copied verbatim from the second half of the speech I used at the opening ceremony not long ago."

As she spoke, Sakayanagi Arisu feinted again before smilingly asking Kitagawa Ryo:

"Ryo should know my true thoughts."

"I know, but I'm too lazy to say it."

"Hey, what's so hard to say?"

It was as if a punch that had been prepared for a long time had landed on cotton. Sakayanagi Arisu had finally managed to build up the atmosphere, almost couldn't hold her breath. She ran up to Kitagawa Ryo and glared at him with her little face slightly raised in dissatisfaction.

Incidentally, this is also the second Arisu Kitagawa Ryo wanted to say but didn't, that Arisu can do better than Sakayanagi Narimori. After all, the latter has to deliberately bend over or half-squat when talking to children to keep their eyes level in order to express his attitude, while Arisu's height perfectly avoids this difficulty from the start.

Sigh, I can only say that I've been corrupted by Hiyori. There's nothing I can do about it. Ever since she first made fun of Arisu's height during the Uninhabited Island Special Exam back then, I've become quite adept at thinking about things like that now.

However, on the other hand, some poses are really only suitable for Arisu, which is another perfect example of how anyone can be the first as long as there are enough prefixes and modifiers.

Seeing that Sakayanagi Arisu seemed genuinely about to get angry, Kitagawa Ryo abandoned his plan to tease her any further. After all, she had dragged him in and launched into a long explanation of things related to ANHS. If Arisu was behind many of Sakayanagi Narimori's initiatives over the years, then many of Arisu's ideas were actually the result of their collaboration.

He didn't come here today to hear Arisu talk about work again. After all, this isn't the kind of Matoba we should be discussing work. So, teasing him like this is just a small act of revenge. In a sense, it's a habit he learned from Ichika.

"Because Arisu has indeed mentioned this to me many times before. In fact Mashima -sensei also discussed this topic with me last year."

Kitagawa Ryo reached out and gently rubbed Sakayanagi Arisu's face. Although both of them were in their late twenties, thanks to their usual skincare and natural good looks, they could still pass for high school students. So, it wasn't particularly strange for them to do such intimate things occasionally, especially since there was no one else around.

"As educators, we often find ourselves particularly troubled by our own children's education. Although it's widely believed that teachers' children receive a more privileged and comfortable upbringing than those from ordinary families, both statistics I observe and more authoritative reports suggest that parents in the education field are more likely to encounter problems in family education and child development."

"Arisu spent so much time at ANHS and interacted with so many faculty and staff members, You should have realized this by now, right?"

"... Um."

With practiced ease, she pressed her head against Kitagawa Ryo's chest, resulting in a slightly muffled, nasal sound as Sakayanagi Arisu responded with a soft "yes," before continuing:

"The more I hear about these kinds of things, the less confident I become in this area, because it's not something you can try again if it doesn't work the first time."

Just as Ichinose Honami seeks to have children only after everything is in place and she feels at ease, Sakayanagi Arisu also has her worries and hesitations.

"It may sound a bit strange, but the child I want most is probably Liang when she was little. I want to be her mother and accompany her as she grows up, making up for the time when I wasn't there for her."

"... This goes beyond just sounding a little strange."

Kitagawa Ryo twitched his lips upon hearing this, but soon noticed that Sakayanagi Arisu also raised her head, a sly smile appearing on her lips in unison.

Okay, this time it's his turn to get tricked.

"But as parents, we always want to do our best, so we hope that when our child comes to Tokyo Advanced Nurturing High School one day, the school will have become the kind of school I just described. Then I can tell her, 'This is a school that Dad and Mom created just for you...' Hmm, is that a bit much? I feel like that would put a lot of pressure on her."

"I think so, eh? So, Arisu was just saying, why did you suddenly start drawing the curtains?"

"That's because if you can't say it that way, you have to say it another way—"

Sakayanagi Arisu swiftly closed all the curtains in the room, then expertly reached out towards Kitagawa Ryo:

"Then I'll just tell him that his mother and father conceived her right here. That should put less pressure on him..."

"Didn't you just mutter something like, 'So we definitely have to beat so-and-so and so-and-so's kid?'"

You misheard!

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