Since my cooking is good now, I'll cook for you every day from now on

Noon.

A broadcast could be heard during lunch.

"Starting at 5:00 PM today, a club orientation will be held at the First Gymnasium.

Students interested in joining a club, please gather at the First Gymnasium.

I repeat..."

Many students interested in clubs were already actively discussing it, but others were still unsure of the situation and wanted to ask Sakayanagi Arisu for her opinion.

How would Sakayanagi Arisu know about these things? She didn't know if joining a club would help with class points either, so she glared at those students and said, "Go ask my advisor about such things; don't bother me."

Her attitude immediately made many people keep their distance.

Katsuragi Kohei spoke up at this moment: "I think it's better to sign up; there must be benefits. However, I still need to ask Yagami Shizuka for his opinion later. Regardless, I will definitely apply to join the Student Council again."

Not long after, Yagami Shizuka returned from lunch.

As soon as he returned, many people asked him about the clubs.

"Oh, clubs? Miss Sakayanagi has already told me about them." Yagami Shizuka once again stole the attention of his classmates. "She said that clubs will be of great help to us in the future.

Because the special exams will also test content related to our interests and hobbies. Furthermore, joining a club allows us to meet students from other classes, and some exams will be conducted in cooperation with other classes.

If a club participates in important events or competitions and wins, we will even be rewarded with points.

It's not just to enrich our lives, but also to earn more points in the future; we should all actively participate in clubs."

A few sentences enlightened many hesitant students.

If one wasn't good at exams to begin with, one had to at least put in effort regarding their interests.

If someone was truly useless in class, there was a high probability they would become a target for expulsion.

On one side is the punishment of expulsion, and on the other is a 100% employment opportunity; anyone would know how to choose.

Not long after he sat down, Yagami Shizuka felt someone poking him with a book. Turning around, he found Sakayanagi Arisu, who was stretching her arm and neck, holding that notebook rolled into a tube.

"Hey, what club do you plan to sign up for?"

It was truly unexpected that she would take the initiative to talk to him.

Was she trying to find out clearly so she could join as well?

But with her physical condition, she probably wouldn't find any club convenient.

"I don't know if this school has a gourmet club. If it does, I'll sign up for that," Yagami Shizuka said distractedly.

"Are you serious?" Sakayanagi Arisu expressed her disbelief.

"Of course I'm serious," he said without changing his expression. "If there isn't one, I'd like to create one. I could complete the club's goals just by cooking and eating every day, and I'd even get funding. I'd save on three years of food expenses. Don't you think such a club is great?"

"I thought you would have some strengths you were better at; it seems I thought too much."

Sakayanagi Arisu still felt that the person in front of her didn't seem like someone who could discover all the rules; he must have obtained that information through some means.

But she had been studying it for a long time; it was just a blank notebook, and only the signature of Kiryuin was irreplaceable.

"Miss Sakayanagi, I think you've misunderstood one thing," Yagami Shizuka said with a serious face. "There is no one perfect in this world. A person must have flaws, and my flaw is that I only know a little bit about everything.

Because I believe that if a person only focuses on one thing and cannot experience the joy of other things, that would be truly pathetic. Our lives should be colorful, and experiencing everything we can is the only way to not live in vain.

I know a little of everything, but I'm not an expert in anything. My dream is to sleep, and I have a special fondness for food. That's just how it is."

"What a brilliant philosophy of life!" Sakayanagi Arisu nodded. She approved of this attitude toward life. If it weren't for her physical condition, she would actually like to do as Yagami Shizuka said—eat, drink, and enjoy life.

Could it be realized?

At 5:00 PM, inside the First Gymnasium.

There were quite a lot of people here to see the clubs, and it was very lively.

After each club finished their introductions.

Believe it or not, there really was a gourmet club, called the Cooking Club here.

As the name suggests, it was a club dedicated to studying cooking and improving culinary skills, and it was filled with beautiful girls—not a single boy.

Yagami Shizuka thought it was pretty good and wanted to give it a try, but seeing that it was all girls, he lost the courage to enter.

What is wrong with Japanese men? Do they not cook at all?

It is simply a disgrace to men.

You have to know, in his hometown, men who couldn't cook would become objects of ridicule.

"You aren't actually thinking of joining that club, are you?" Sakayanagi Arisu sneered at that club, not optimistic about it at all.

"What contribution can a club that just eats and waits to die make to the class? Didn't you already understand the rules of this school? Why would you still want to go to such a club?"

It was obvious that Sakayanagi Arisu had strong opinions about the club he chose.

But when they were in the classroom, she didn't seem to have any opinions.

"Didn't you also say that enjoying life is pretty good? Besides, when the school holds the special exam for the cultural festival, culinary skills can also be helpful. It's not completely useless."

"Food is the most important thing to the people. Take the first uninhabited island exam, for example; classes that can't cook might as well give up on the exam."

"This..." Sakayanagi Arisu found herself unable to refute that for a moment.

"Actually, if you don't agree, Miss Arisu, I don't have to go. It's entirely up to you. Just say the word, and I absolutely won't go."

Sakayanagi Arisu blinked her bright purple eyes rapidly, her heart rate quickening once more. She thought for a moment and said, "If you want to help me, you'll certainly be busy. It's best not to get involved in things like this; they aren't of any real use. Besides, is it appropriate for a man like you to be cooking?"

"I don't think there's anything inappropriate about it. Besides, I already know how to cook. I could make meals for you every day in the future, and the better I get, the more variety I can provide."

"Hah! Cough, cough!" Sakayanagi coughed violently twice, nearly stumbling to the ground.

Sakayanagi Arisu turned around abruptly, raising a hand to cover her near-manic laughter.

After a long while, she managed to suppress her loss of composure and said in a low voice, "I'm tired, so I'm heading back. I'll say it again: I don't agree. There's no need for you to waste time on things like this."

"Understood." Yagami Shizuka could only sigh. He clearly felt that Sakayanagi Arisu seemed quite happy, so why would she disagree?

There was nothing to be done; if she didn't agree, Yagami Shizuka had no choice but to drop it.

The next day, in the classroom.

Katsuragi Kohei was complaining once again about the Student Council's lack of discernment, as his application had been rejected yet again.

This was something he couldn't fathom.

He had never expected the requirements for Student Council members to be so stringent.

Quite a few classmates had already begun to tease him, suggesting that the Student Council's refusal might have something to do with his bald head.