Tsundere

At a park in Advanced Nurturing, a man wearing glasses looked around restlessly, accompanied by a tall girl.

"Hey, are we really doing this?"

"Otherwise? Just rest assured, I'll give you twenty percent once it's done."

"I don't want it."

U Amakusa raised an eyebrow. "That's what you said."

"Hmph." Kamuro turned her head away in disgust.

"That's the one, remember to get a good shot." After dropping this line, U Amakusa unbuttoned the top few buttons of his shirt.

Hikaru Tanaka
Nickname: Liangliang
Family relations:...
Hobbies:...
Class 3-A...
Balance: 632976
Currently on an intimate date with his girlfriend, at night in the room...

U Amakusa took off his glasses, dripped a few drops of eye drops into his eyes, and lunged fiercely at Hikaru Tanaka.

"Wuwuwu~ Brother Guang, didn't you promise to wait for me~"

"Not a chance, buddy! Who are you!" Hikaru Tanaka frantically tried to pull U Amakusa's hands off, but couldn't budge him at all.

Xiaomei, standing to the side, was stunned. What was going on?

"You heartless man~ Wuwuwu~ We clearly agreed to face the judgment of the secular world together." With that, U Amakusa looked toward Xiaomei.

"Big sister, I was clearly here first, you're so mean~"

Xiaomei:???

Xiaomei didn't think that far ahead; she was simply disgusted by U Amakusa's syrupy tone.

"Hikaru Tanaka, contact me after you've dealt with this!"

"Xiaomei..."

Hikaru Tanaka didn't try to stop her. He understood that things couldn't go on like this; the crowd of onlookers was growing, and a few people had vaguely started taking out their phones.

"Brother, let's go somewhere else to talk." Hikaru Tanaka said with an ugly expression.

It had to be said, he was worthy of being in Class A. Even if he was mediocre himself, being carried by Horikita Manabu meant he was at least at the level of a normal person.

"No, to be honest, my greatest virtue is being shameless, and my goal is actually quite simple."

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

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

"Fine." Hikaru Tanaka gritted his teeth, but he clearly had no choice but to swallow this bitter pill; he still cared about his reputation.

After changing the battlefield, Hikaru Tanaka instantly grabbed U Amakusa by the collar, his eyes looking as if they were spitting fire.

"Hey, which class are you in?"

"Which class I'm in isn't important; what's important is, is it really okay for you to play around like this?"

"What do you mean?"

"Still don't get it? You guys in Class A are only sitting securely on the throne of Class A because of Horikita alone; everyone else is trash."

As he spoke, U Amakusa shook his phone.

"I managed to swindle 30,000 points out of you so easily, even though there were clearly many other ways to handle it. You were just afraid of losing face in public, so you made what you thought was a perfect decision."

"Horikita must be exhausted carrying people like you. Your grades are only on the borderline; aren't you ashamed at all?"

"After all, there's more than one burden like you. Including your girlfriend, there are twenty or thirty of you. If I were Horikita, I'd rather just scrape together 20 million points to ensure graduation from Class A."

"Being incompetent is an original sin, but being incompetent and not knowing it? You're the only one~ Haha..."

"Shut up!"

A roar rang out, and Hikaru Tanaka threw a fierce punch. U Amakusa curled his lips upward, neither dodging nor parrying, merely leaning his body slightly backward to mitigate most of the impact.

U Amakusa fell to the ground on cue, rolling on the grass while clutching his cheek and eye.

This left Hikaru Tanaka at a loss.

Was I actually that strong...?

However, Hikaru Tanaka quickly reacted.

"Heh, trying to frame me? There are no cameras here."

"No, then why don't we just create one?"

With that, U Amakusa stood up as if nothing had happened and called out to the bushes beside him.

"Did you get the shot?"

Kamuro Masumi walked out without a word, brushed the weeds off her clothes, and with a look of utter despair, sent the footage she had just captured on her own phone to U Amakusa.

Then, she decisively deleted U Amakusa from her friends list.

"Ahem, allow me to introduce myself. I am U Amakusa from Class 1-A. My apologies for earlier, but, Senpai." U Amakusa shook his phone again. "You know how it is—this time, it'll be 600,000 points."

"Don't joke around. You don't have a single scratch on you," Hikaru Tanaka said with disdain.

U Amakusa rubbed his forehead in resignation. He wasn't wrong earlier; the guy was a complete waste of space.

"If there aren't any, I'll just create them, won't I? Just like that." U Amakusa looked at Hikaru Tanaka with an expression reserved for idiots.

Yet, the moment he finished speaking, Kamuro struck U Amakusa with a lightning-fast punch, then returned to playing on her phone as if nothing had happened.

"What the hell was that for???"

"Didn't you say you wanted to create them? I was just cooperating with you," Kamuro said, completely indifferent.

"...Eh."

There were too many fools in this world. U Amakusa felt mentally exhausted—no, perhaps Kamuro just genuinely wanted to beat him up.

It would have been so simple to just spend some points to have the infirmary staff provide a medical report for the injuries; why couldn't they think of something so basic?

"That's how it is. Time to cough up the gold, Senpai," U Amakusa sighed.

Hikaru Tanaka's clenched fists loosened; he was struggling to accept reality.

"Senpai, if you don't want to pay the 600,000 points, that's fine too. It's just... I'm sure you wouldn't want to cause trouble for Class A and Horikita Manabu, would you?"

"Damn it! I'll pay!"

U Amakusa rubbed his hands together. "That's more like it. As the old saying goes, those who submit to circumstances are wise."

Once U Amakusa saw the points hit his phone, he dutifully deleted the videos from both devices until they were wiped clean.

He even let Hikaru Tanaka check everything thoroughly. It was a brand-new phone he'd received that day, so there was no personal data on it anyway.

After Hikaru Tanaka left, grumbling and cursing, U Amakusa walked over to the patch of grass where Kamuro had been crouching and fished out a small camera.

"Calling him a moron really wasn't an exaggeration. How could he not check for a transaction that lacked a written record?" U Amakusa wore an evil grin. "Heh heh heh~"

"Disgusting," Kamuro muttered from the side.

She had lost count of how many times she had called him disgusting along the way.

U Amakusa, seemingly accustomed to it, brushed the weeds off his clothes while contemplating how many points he should extort from Horikita Manabu next.

"Let's go, Kamuro. Next target."

"I'm done." With that, Kamuro turned to leave.

U Amakusa hurriedly blocked her path. "Hey, hey, don't be like that. Just help me out a bit more; I'll give you thirty percent."

"I don't want it. Why do I have to be the one to help you? Find someone else, stop bothering me."

Kamuro had realized that U Amakusa was quite clever; he had intended to drag someone into this to earn points from the very beginning.

"It's too late to switch to someone else now. If that Senpai has even a shred of intelligence, he'll know we'll keep at it and will definitely warn others." U Amakusa waved his hands helplessly. "As for why I chose you out of everyone in the class..." U Amakusa paused for a moment. He didn't intend to use the shallow excuse of them being seatmates. "Because, Kamuro Masumi, you are my type. That is all."

"What nonsense are you spouting! You jerk! Pervert! Scum!"

As she spoke, Kamuro's cheeks flushed slightly as she swung a few punches at U Amakusa, but he dodged them all, and then... he caught her wrists.

"Oh, stop playing around. Let's get to work."

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

Long ago, through the information provided by his cheat, U Amakusa had known: Kamuro had a tsundere streak.