Class A classroom.
Only Sakayanagi and Kamuro were in the classroom.
Kamuro was eating a simple serving of fried noodles.
As for Sakayanagi, calling it a full imperial banquet would not have been an exaggeration.
All kinds of lavish food had filled her entire desk to the brim.
The moment Suzuki Tsubame entered, he saw Kamuro eating with complete abandon, looking nothing like a lady.
"Your Highness, eating?"
Come to think of it, did no one else think Sakayanagi looked a lot like Little Grass God? Both were lolis, both had white hair, and both were very "smart."
"Oh my~ What a rare guest."
Sakayanagi elegantly swallowed the food in her mouth, a faint smile appearing at the corners of her lips.
"Would you like to have some too, Suzuki?"
Suzuki Tsubame really did want a taste. Sakayanagi's meals were undoubtedly the finest in all of Classroom of the Elite.
But...
"You only have one pair of chopsticks. How am I supposed to eat?"
Such a simple problem could not stump her at all.
Sakayanagi smiled.
"Kamuro can go buy some."
But clearly, not everyone was satisfied with that solution.
Kamuro slammed her fried noodles onto the desk and shouted impatiently.
"Sakayanagi, enough already!"
Kamuro's resistance only made Sakayanagi smile more brightly.
"Oh dear~ Is the little puppy going to disobey again?"
"You!"
Kamuro looked slightly angry, but she did not seem genuinely upset.
Suzuki Tsubame could even sense that Kamuro seemed to be enjoying it too.
The way these two got along greatly shocked him.
What was that called again? It seemed to be called S&M.
"Well, there's no need to make things so troublesome."
Interrupting their mistress-and-servant routine.
Suzuki Tsubame suggested.
"Whoever finishes first later can just let me use their chopsticks. I don't mind."
His suggestion immediately won Sakayanagi's approval.
"Suzuki's suggestion is very good. It saves Kamuro time and energy while also being very environmentally friendly."
"If we don't consider the difference between men and women, it is undoubtedly a good solution."
"Right? You think so too, don't you?"
The two exchanged smiles and turned their gazes toward Kamuro at the same time.
Kamuro's hand holding the fried noodles trembled.
She said helplessly.
"I get it. I'll go."
Only after Kamuro left did their eyes meet again.
Like Horikita, Sakayanagi Arisu was quite a contradictory person.
On the outside, she appeared composed and calculating, brimming with aggression.
Yet inside, she was rather fragile, more like a little girl.
Only after Kamuro left did she suddenly realize.
"Suzuki, did you deliberately send Kamuro away because there was something you wanted to tell me?"
For some reason, Sakayanagi had an intuition that he seemed to understand her very well.
Even though that had clearly been their first meeting, he had accurately guessed her preferences.
"Didn't you say first that Kamuro should go buy them?"
When it came to playing dumb, Suzuki Tsubame was an expert.
"Hehe, let's not discuss that for now. What did you come to see me for?"
Naturally, Suzuki Tsubame had a reason for coming to see her.
Long-Term Task: Heaven-Jealoused Talent.
The completion requirement was probably to nurse her body back to a healthy state.
But Suzuki Tsubame hesitated. A Human Enhancement Serum with absolutely no side effects was simply too shocking.
The Sakayanagi Family had searched for over a decade and still been helpless before her congenital heart disease.
Yet in the end, the cure had come from some insignificant nobody with no background.
Would he become an honored guest of the Sakayanagi Family, or a prisoner? The outcome remained uncertain.
"My~ Is Suzuki planning to confess to me?"
A trace of slyness flashed through Sakayanagi's eyes, and the upward curve of her lips grew even more pronounced.
"I'm in a pretty good mood right now, so I'll probably say yes."
This girl... Suzuki Tsubame's mouth twitched.
Sakayanagi's petite figure often made him treat her like a child.
But he had forgotten that Sakayanagi, like him, was already an adult.
If he confessed now, there was a high chance she would laugh at him.
A small chance that she would toy with him and turn him into a simp.
And an even greater chance that he could slowly melt her heart.
Forget it. Your fate is in your own hands.
Having made up his mind, Suzuki Tsubame said seriously.
"Sakayanagi, tell me... If someone gave you a second chance at life, possessed infinite wealth, yet had no background whatsoever and was powerless as a chicken."
"Would you choose to betray him for greater benefits, or would you treat him as your benefactor?"
Suzuki Tsubame's serious expression caught Sakayanagi off guard.
She had not expected that the first time he called her by name, he would ask such a question.
She slowly put away her smile and seriously analyzed what Suzuki Tsubame had just said.
A second chance at life... Infinite wealth... Greater benefits...
No matter how she looked at it, betrayal seemed better, but clearly that was not the answer she should give.
After thinking for a long time, Sakayanagi answered just as seriously.
"If someone truly gave me a second chance at life and had no background whatsoever, then I think... I would first see what his wealth consisted of."
"If the benefits were sufficient, cooperation would be best for everyone."
"If not, or if our interests conflicted, I would choose to betray him without hesitation."
Mm... A very realistic answer.
And very Sakayanagi.
It had been the same with Kamuro. She had clearly had enough points to save her.
Yet because Kamuro's value could not compare to those twenty million points, she had ultimately chosen to abandon Kamuro.
But why had she regretted it in the end?
On the night Kamuro left, Sakayanagi had probably hidden under her blankets and cried for a long time.
"Very good answer. Mm..."
After pondering for a moment, Suzuki Tsubame took out a small vial from his uniform pants pocket.
That action, of course, was only meant to deceive her.
In reality, Suzuki Tsubame had taken the Enhancement Serum out of System Space.
The entire bottle was only about a finger's length. Pinched between Suzuki Tsubame's two fingers, it was held before Sakayanagi.
The transparent glass was filled with emerald-green liquid.
Light was unusually active around it.
The emerald color was crystal clear, shimmering like flowing radiance.
Sakayanagi stared wide-eyed.
So beautiful!
It was the kind of beauty that could not be described with words.
She turned to look at Suzuki Tsubame, pointed at the test tube, and asked curiously.
"What is this?"
"This is the blood of the Five Elements Successor. Drink it, and you can transform into an Armor Warrior."
Sakayanagi nearly choked on his answer.
She pursed her lips, displeasure appearing on her face.
"Suzuki, do you think I never watched Armor Warrior when I was little?"
"My father was fairly good to me. He did not restrict my freedom too much."
Indeed, compared to Ayanokoji's father, your father was practically an angel.
"Well, you don't actually need to know what it is. You only need to know that drinking it will make you healthy and full of vitality."
Suzuki Tsubame had drunk the Enhancement Serum once before. It did not have any pungent smell.
He opened the bottle and brought it to Sakayanagi's lips.
Sakayanagi looked at the green-glowing liquid before her, her expression full of suspicion.
"Suzuki, are you sure there isn't fluorescent dye in this?"
Suzuki Tsubame understood the girl's concerns.
He patiently explained.
"Relax, relax. I've drunk it once myself."
Her misgivings faded considerably, or perhaps she was simply treating a dead horse as if it were alive.
Sakayanagi did not hesitate any longer.
She picked up the Enhancement Serum and swallowed it all in one go.
"How do you feel?"
Suzuki Tsubame was very curious whether the Enhancement Serum would be even more effective for someone in poor health.
Sakayanagi wanted to move her limbs and get a proper sense of it.
Yet just as she reached for her cane, she stood up directly.
"Th-This is?"
Her breathing seemed to have become much easier.
Her arms and legs had grown stronger.
Even her thoughts had become more active.
[Ding! Long-Term Task: Heaven-Jealoused Talent. Completion: 50%. Reward: Mysterious Oriental Power. Note: So it turns out... the host's identity is not that of an ordinary student. The host's original identity is Oto Yan, the sole young master of the Oriental Family.]
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