CPU Kushida Kikyo

Leaving the rooftop, Chihaya Rei made a point of inspecting the situation in classes A, B, and C on his way back to his own classroom.

The students in Class A and Class B were largely maintaining order, resting in their seats.

The door to the Class C classroom was shut tight with the curtains drawn, making it impossible to see inside, though some rather discordant noises drifted out from time to time.

Chihaya Rei leaned curiously against the window to listen.

He could roughly hear Ryuen Kakeru declaring that he was going to be the boss of this class and that everyone had to obey his orders...

As expected of the tyrant of Class C.

His initiative was truly top-notch.

However, things weren't going entirely smoothly for Ryuen, as it seemed quite a few people had stood up to oppose him.

After all, no one wanted to be stepped on by a thuggish hoodlum for no reason.

Chihaya Rei silently wished Ryuen luck; after all, the sooner he became the boss, the sooner he could trade with him to earn points from their class.

"Good afternoon, Chihaya-kun~"

Just as Chihaya Rei arrived at the back door of Class D, he saw Kushida Kikyo standing by the hallway, greeting him with a friendly smile.

"Mm, good afternoon."

Giving a casual reply, Chihaya Rei looked Kushida Kikyo up and down with curiosity.

She had been scared into a pathetic retreat by him just this morning, yet she couldn't wait to find him by noon?

And judging by her posture, she was clearly waiting for him.

"Chihaya-kun, let me buy you a drink."

The girl extended her fair, delicate arm, gently offering a bottle of cola.

"Since I wasn't sure what you liked, I took the liberty of buying a Coca-Cola, which most boys enjoy."

Kushida Kikyo's eyes curved into crescents as she pursed her lips and smiled.

Although she was all smiles at this moment, her mood was exceptionally complicated.

The reason, naturally, could be attributed to the culprit standing right before her.

It was all this man's fault; it was all because he had said such malicious things!

After adding Chihaya Rei on social media that morning and returning to her seat, she hadn't been able to focus on a single lesson all morning because of his deeply meaningful words.

Kushida Kikyo had spent the entire morning racking her brain.

Yet she still couldn't figure it out—she couldn't understand it at all!

Why had Chihaya Rei said such strange things this morning?

Was it a mere coincidence?

Did he really have a musician friend who spoke in a cutesy, affected voice?

Or had Chihaya Rei discovered her secret, and was he speaking that way on purpose to drop a hint?

But that shouldn't be possible; Kushida Kikyo had absolutely no memory of Chihaya Rei.

She was also certain that Chihaya Rei had not been a student at her previous middle school.

Only Horikita Suzune had been in the same grade as her, though they were in different classes.

Considering the worst-case scenario, if Chihaya Rei really did know her secret...

Kushida Kikyo speculated that it could only have been that bitch Horikita Suzune who told him.

After all, the two of them looked like they were getting along quite well!

So, after a morning of contemplation, Kushida Kikyo couldn't help but shift half of her anger toward Chihaya Rei onto Horikita Suzune.

Regardless, Chihaya Rei had become a target she had to proactively engage with.

On one hand, she needed to investigate whether he knew her secret, and on the other, she could use him to get closer to Horikita Suzune.

"Then, thank you."

Chihaya Rei reached out to take the cola, feeling the slight chill of the aluminum can, and glanced at it to confirm it was unopened.

"So, Kushida, between buying me a drink and waiting here for me, what exactly do you need?"

"You really can't hide anything from you, Chihaya-kun..."

At these words, Kushida Kikyo's face flushed slightly, and she offered a perfectly timed, embarrassed smile.

Can this wicked woman actually control her own blushing now?

Chihaya Rei wondered with some curiosity.

Just then, Kushida Kikyo suddenly stepped forward, closing the distance, and took hold of Chihaya Rei's wrist, placing it just a few centimeters from her chest.

With an expectant look on her face, she spoke in a cutesy, affected voice:

"Actually, I still want to be friends with Horikita-san, and I wanted to ask for your help, Chihaya-kun."

"Would that be okay?"

This distance was somewhat ambiguous.

Chihaya Rei could even smell a faint citrus scent drifting from her.

It wasn't the scent of green tea, which surprised him a little.

More importantly, his hand was quite close to the swelling bosom of Kushida Kikyo.

If it weren't for the surveillance cameras in the hallway.

Chihaya Rei would have suspected that Kushida Kikyo had been pushed to her limits by him and was planning to hit him with a smooth combo of holding hands and pressing fingerprints right here.

"Then you've found the wrong person, Kushida."

Chihaya Rei pulled his hand back.

Since there were no fingerprints to be pressed, where was the fun in that?

"Actually, I'm not that close with Horikita Suzune either."

He spoke the honest truth.

Kushida Kikyo watched helplessly as Chihaya Rei's hand slipped away from hers.

A question mark couldn't help but pop up in her mind.

Am I really that unattractive?!

To deal with Chihaya Rei, she had gone as far as using a honey trap, thinking that it wouldn't matter even if she let him take a little advantage of her—damn it!

For idiots like Ike Koji or Yamauchi Haruki, she wouldn't even need to go that far.

She would only need to crook her finger, and they would come running over, wagging their tails and calling her "Kikyo-chan!"

"Ugh... Chihaya-kun is joking again."

Kushida Kikyo pouted her lips and retorted softly in a tone filled with coquetry:

"I even saw you two sitting together eating dinner last night!"

This actually surprised Chihaya Rei a little.

He hadn't expected Kushida Kikyo to have seen that.

But with so many people in the cafeteria, he couldn't possibly keep track of which students were around at all times.

"That was just a coincidence."

"Then..."

Kushida Kikyo didn't believe a word of Chihaya Rei's nonsense.

On the first day of school, she had seen Chihaya Rei chatting away happily with Horikita Suzune!

However, after a brief moment of hesitation, Kushida Kikyo chose to change the question, "Then, Chihaya-kun, could you give me Horikita-san's contact information?"

"I don't have her contact information."

Chihaya Rei shook his head at first, and just as Kushida Kikyo thought he was going to refuse her again, he changed his tune.

"But I can help you get Horikita Suzune's contact information, but in exchange, you help me get the contact information of a few people."

"How about it?"

Upon hearing this, Kushida Kikyo's eyes lit up, and without even thinking it through, she agreed immediately, "Sure!"

"May I ask whose contact information Chihaya-kun wants?"

"Katsuragi Kohei from Class A, Ichinose Honami from Class B, and Ryuen Kakeru from Class C."

Chihaya Rei quickly reeled off the three names.

Since Kushida Kikyo, this two-faced girl, was asking him for a favor, he might as well outsource this task to her and save himself the trouble of figuring it out.

"Do you have them now? Or can you get them?"

Chihaya Rei smiled, "If it's Kushida-san, you can definitely get this done."

"Eh? Chihaya-kun is so cunning..."

Kushida Kikyo blinked her pink eyes and muttered softly, "To think you'd trade one person's contact info for three."

"But it's okay, I agree."

She wore an expression of being very understanding.

She emphasized it specifically, as if to say you must remember how good I am to you, a tactic that felt like she was farming for Chihaya Rei's favorability.

"Then I'll leave it to you."

"Leave it to me, please wait a moment, Chihaya-kun."

Kushida Kikyo smiled and patted her proud chest, then took out her phone.

Although she was curious about why Chihaya Rei wanted the contact information of these three people, now was not the time to ask.

Fortunately, this task wasn't very difficult for her; aside from Ryuen Kakeru, whom she didn't know, the other two were quite recognizable students in the grade.

After all, one was bald, and the other was a popularity king who ranked even higher than her.

Thinking of how Ichinose Honami's popularity was even higher than her own, Kushida Kikyo felt a wave of irritation.

Gritting her teeth in secret, Kushida Kikyo opened her chat interface and began to operate it; she was likely using her vast social circle to inquire about the contact information for those three people.

After a while, Kushida Kikyo sent three screenshots to Chihaya Rei, adding, "Mission perfectly accomplished!"

"Many thanks."

Chihaya Rei offered a polite reply, feeling that this trade was quite a bargain.

It had to be said, even though Kushida Kikyo was likely cursing him out in her heart and would surely be greeting his ancestors the next time she kicked a railing, she truly got things done when asked for a favor to her face.

"Then, I'll leave Horikita-san's contact information to you!" Kushida Kikyo didn't forget to remind him.

She couldn't afford to put in so much effort and end up with nothing to show for it.

"You can rest easy on that front."

Looking at the screenshots of the contact information for Ichinose and the others that Kushida had sent to his phone, Chihaya Rei nodded in satisfaction.

Although he felt that even if he didn't help Kushida Kikyo get Horikita Suzune's contact information...

Kushida Kikyo wouldn't really be able to do anything about it, nor would she even be able to get angry at him to his face, given that her persona was exactly like that.

However, he didn't intend to just freeload off Kushida Kikyo either.

If he didn't give her a sweet treat, it wouldn't be easy to gaslight her next time.

Hearing Chihaya Rei's guarantee, Kushida Kikyo returned to her class, feeling satisfied, and began chatting with her other friends.