Tsundere

At Advanced Nurturing, on a park bench, a bespectacled man was looking around nervously, with a tall girl beside him.

"Hey, do we really have to do this?"

"What else? Don't worry. I'll give you twenty percent once it's done."

"I don't want it."

U Amakasa raised an eyebrow. "Those are your words."

"Hmph." Kamuro turned away in disgust.

"That's him. Make sure you get a good shot." U Amakasa left her with those words, then undid several buttons on his shirt.

Hikaru Tanaka

Nickname: Liangliang

Family relations: ...

Hobbies: ...

Class 3-A ...

Balance: 632,976

On an intimate date with his girlfriend, spending the night in her room...

U Amakasa took off his glasses, put a few drops of eye drops in his eyes, then suddenly threw himself at Hikaru Tanaka.

"Waaah~ Big Brother Hikaru, you promised you'd wait for me~"

"Dude! Who are you?!" Hikaru Tanaka frantically tried to pry U Amakasa's hands off him, but couldn't budge them.

Xiaomei, standing nearby, was stunned too. What was going on?

"You heartless man~ Waaah~ You promised we'd face society's judgment together." With that, U Amakasa looked at Xiaomei.

"Miss, I got here first. You're so mean~"

Xiaomei: ???

Xiaomei hadn't even thought that far. She was simply grossed out by U Amakasa's sickly sweet voice.

"Hikaru Tanaka, get this sorted out, then contact me!"

"Xiaomei..."

Hikaru Tanaka didn't try to stop her. He knew this couldn't go on. More and more people were gathering to watch, and he could see a few of them pulling out their phones.

"Bro, let's talk somewhere else," Hikaru Tanaka said, his face dark.

As expected of Class A. Even if he was useless, Horikita Manabu had carried him far enough that he was at least a normal person.

"Not happening. To be honest, my greatest strength is that I have no shame. My goal is simple, too."

U Amakasa opened his hand, revealing a slip of paper.

"Send 30,000 points to this account, and we'll talk somewhere else."

"Fine." Hikaru Tanaka gritted his teeth. He clearly had no choice but to swallow the insult. He still had his reputation to think about.

Once they'd moved to a new location, Hikaru Tanaka immediately grabbed U Amakasa by the collar, his eyes blazing.

"Hey, what class are you in?"

"What class I'm in doesn't matter. What matters is, do you really think it's okay to live like this?"

"What are you talking about?"

"Still don't get it? Your Class A only holds on to its precious spot because of Horikita. The rest of you are all useless."

As he spoke, U Amakasa waved his phone.

"You handed over 30,000 points that easily, even though there were plenty of other ways to handle this. You were just afraid of losing face in front of everyone, so you picked the solution you thought was perfect.

Horikita must have a hard time carrying people like you. Your grades are barely above the cutoff, and you're not even ashamed?

You're not the only deadweight, either. There are twenty or thirty of you, counting your girlfriend. If I were Horikita, I'd just gather 20 million points and make sure I graduated from Class A.

Being useless is a sin, but being useless and not knowing it? You're one of a kind. Hahaha..."

"Shut up!"

With a roar, Hikaru Tanaka swung a punch. U Amakasa smirked and didn't dodge, leaning back slightly to lessen most of the blow.

U Amakasa hit the ground and fell backward, rolling around while clutching his cheek and eye.

Hikaru Tanaka didn't know what to do.

Was I really that strong...?

But Hikaru Tanaka quickly came to his senses.

"Heh, trying to frame me? There aren't any cameras here."

"There aren't any? Then we'll just make one."

With that, U Amakasa got to his feet as if nothing had happened and called toward the bushes beside him.

"Did you get it?"

Kamuro walked out without a word, brushed the weeds off herself, and sent U Amakasa the footage she'd just recorded on her own phone, looking utterly done with it all.

Then she promptly deleted U Amakasa from her contacts.

"Ahem, allow me to introduce myself. I'm U Amakasa from Class 1-A. Sorry for the trouble just now, but, senpai..." U Amakasa waved his phone again.

"You know the drill. This time, it's 600,000."

"Don't joke around. You haven't got a scratch on you," Hikaru Tanaka said scornfully.

U Amakasa sighed and rubbed his forehead. He hadn't been wrong about him at all. Useless.

"If I don't have any injuries, can't I just make some? Like I did just now." U Amakasa looked at Hikaru Tanaka as if he were an idiot.

But just as he finished speaking, Kamuro punched U Amakasa at lightning speed, then went back to playing on her phone as though nothing had happened.

"What was that for?!"

"You said we had to make something up. I was helping you," Kamuro replied, completely unconcerned.

"...Huh."

There were too many idiots. U Amakasa felt exhausted. No, maybe Kamuro simply wanted to punch him.

He could've just paid the nurse at the infirmary to help fake a medical report. How could she not think of something so simple?

"That settles it. Time for you to cough up the points, senpai," U Amakasa said with a sigh.

Hikaru Tanaka's clenched fist relaxed a little. He seemed unwilling to accept reality.

"Senpai, if you don't want to give me 600,000 points, that's fine. It's just that... you don't want to cause trouble for Class A and Horikita-senpai, do you?"

"Damn it! I'll pay!"

U Amakasa rubbed his hands together.

"That's more like it. There's an old saying: 'A wise man knows when to yield.'"

Afterward, once U Amakasa saw the points come through on his phone, he obediently deleted the videos from both phones without leaving a trace.

He even let Hikaru Tanaka check everything thoroughly. After all, he'd only gotten the phone that day, so there wasn't anything private on it yet.

Once Hikaru Tanaka had left, cursing under his breath, U Amakasa went to the spot where Kamuro had crouched in the bushes and pulled a small camera out of them.

"I wasn't wrong to call him an idiot. How can you not check that a deal has been properly documented?"

U Amakasa gave an evil grin.

"Hehehe~"

"Gross," Kamuro muttered from the side.

She'd lost count of how many times she'd called him gross on the way here.

U Amakasa seemed used to it. He brushed the weeds from his clothes, thinking about how many points he should extort from Horikita Manabu next.

"Come on, Kamuro. On to the next target."

"I'm done." Kamuro turned to leave.

U Amakasa hurried to stop her. "Hey, hey, don't be like that. Just help me out. I'll give you thirty percent."

"I don't want it. Why do I have to help you? You can find someone else. Just leave me alone."

Kamuro had realized how clever U Amakasa was. He'd planned from the start to recruit someone to help him make points.

"There's no time to switch to someone else now. That senpai will realize we're going to keep pulling this stunt, as long as he's got any sense. He'll definitely warn the others."

U Amakasa spread his hands helplessly.

"As for why I picked you out of everyone in our class to help me..." U Amakasa fell silent for a moment. He wasn't going to use such a shallow excuse as them being desk mates.

"Because, Kamuro Masumi, you're my type. That's all."

"What are you saying?! You jerk! Pervert! Scumbag!"

As she spoke, Kamuro's cheeks flushed slightly as she swung a few punches at U Amakasa. He dodged every one, then...

Caught her by the wrist.

"Come on, quit messing around. We've got business to take care of."

With that, U Amakasa shoved the camera into Kamuro's hands and dragged her off to find their next target.

U Amakasa had already learned from the information his cheat ability provided that Kamuro had a tsundere side.