Mission Accomplished

"Wait!" Yamauchi shouted.

Satsu and the other turned around simultaneously, looking at Yamauchi.

Ayanokoji spoke up: "Have you made up your mind, Yamauchi? Are you going to participate?"

"Since you've both asked me so nicely, I'll give you this face." As Yamauchi said this, he took out his phone.

Satsu naturally understood what Yamauchi meant and took the phone to begin the transfer.

He didn't choose to deliberately avoid Ayanokoji, instead openly letting him see the massive amount of points he currently possessed.

In any case, he had to return these one million points to Ichinose in a month.

If he paid it back, it meant his money-making plan was a success, and he would head to Class A by then.

If he didn't pay it back, he would be expelled anyway, so it made no difference to him either way.

Sure enough, the moment Ayanokoji saw Satsu's phone, he couldn't help but be stunned.

Over a million points! How did he manage that? (Ayanokoji Kiyotaka)

"Alright, ten thousand points. Confirm it."

After completing the transfer, Satsu handed the phone back to Yamauchi while speaking.

Using money to bribe people was highly efficient; he didn't need to carefully craft his words, just negotiate the price.

Moreover, there was basically no chance of someone taking the money and not showing up.

Everyone was a classmate, and they would be together for a long time to come; no one would do something as stupid as causing trouble for the next three years over ten thousand points.

In the elevator, Ayanokoji took the initiative to say: "Next is Ike. He should be in the dorms right now. I remember he was in..."

"Let's go find Sudo first," Satsu interrupted.

"I don't mind either way."

As he spoke, Ayanokoji pressed the button for the first floor: "We should be able to find him at the basketball court."

"Aren't you going to ask why I have so many points?"

Finally, Satsu couldn't help but ask.

"I am curious, but on second thought, having that many points is your ability. The fact that you're still standing here means your source of points is legitimate."

Ayanokoji said indifferently: "If you wanted to tell me, you would have naturally. Besides, my points are enough for my daily life; I don't need to earn points for the time being."

"But having money is truly convenient. Following your method, to get all three of them—including Yamauchi—to join, it will cost at least twenty thousand points."

"With no points coming into the class right now, spending twenty thousand points just to get people to attend a study session—aside from someone as wealthy and generous as you, I'm afraid no one else would do it."

"Twenty thousand?"

Hearing Ayanokoji's conclusion, Satsu couldn't help but be stunned.

To be honest, he hadn't specifically thought about how much he would spend on this; he just spent it.

After all, the three of them didn't know his background, so how much could it really cost?

However, now that Ayanokoji brought it up, it differed from Satsu's initial impression of the cost; he had thought thirty thousand points would be about right.

Now that Ayanokoji said twenty thousand would do, Satsu was happy to hear his perspective—after all, a saved ten thousand is a saved ten thousand.

"What's your plan to get it done with just twenty thousand?" Satsu asked with interest.

Ayanokoji glanced at Satsu and said: "Sudo is not like Yamauchi. He has no grudge against you or me. Although his living expenses aren't as tight as Yamauchi's, I don't think they're much better."

"As long as we tell him that Yamauchi has already agreed to join the study session, driven by the temptation of money and the herd mentality, there's a high probability he'll agree to accept the ten thousand points."

"As for Ike, he's the easiest one to deal with."

At this point, Ayanokoji's tone became relaxed.

"I can tell that Ike is a bit worried about his academic performance. I think as long as we reason with him and appeal to his emotions, then tell him about Sudo and Yamauchi, he'll join out of a sense of crisis."

"After all, you really can get expelled for failing the midterms."

At this point, Satsu couldn't help but applaud Ayanokoji. If the latter had this kind of deductive ability combined with his own mind-reading, wouldn't they be invincible?

Then again, Ayanokoji could already be considered invincible here.

The subsequent events unfolded exactly as Ayanokoji had predicted. Satsu bribed Sudo with ten thousand points to join the study session and then persuaded Ike to join.

Although there were some minor setbacks along the way, the task was successfully completed.

"Lady Suzune, the mission has been successfully completed. Yamauchi and the other two will attend your study session in the library after school tomorrow."

After editing this text message on his phone, Satsu was about to send it, but his finger hovered in mid-air for a long time.

"What's wrong?" Ayanokoji asked, puzzled.

"I'm wondering if there's anything inappropriate about sending it like this."

"I don't understand."

Ayanokoji said: "No matter what you send, Horikita won't respond, will she?"

"Even if you sent that the task wasn't completed, it would be the same."

After some thought, Satsu deleted the message he had drafted and typed two characters instead.

"Done!"

After sending it, Satsu put away his phone and suggested to Ayanokoji, "How about we go grab something to eat?"

"Sure, I don't have any plans later," Ayanokoji replied. "Is the cafeteria okay? I can't afford any fancy meals."

"Of course!"

Seeing Satsu agree without hesitation, Ayanokoji was taken aback.

"Huh~ I thought I might get a free fancy meal again," Ayanokoji Kiyotaka thought.

"Huh!?" Kato Satsu exclaimed.

"Ayanokoji has such a side to him? I must have left a very generous impression on him?" Kato Satsu wondered.

Although Satsu was initially confused, he then realized that he had indeed drawn attention regarding money since the start of the school year.

Furthermore, Ayanokoji had just learned about his million points, so it was understandable he would think that way.

Speaking of which, it would seem stingy of Satsu not to treat him, given how much money he had.

"Never mind,"

Satsu pretended to think for a moment before saying, "Let's go eat something good. My treat."

"So..."

Satsu smiled, looking at Ayanokoji. The smile made the latter uncomfortable, and Ayanokoji involuntarily recalled Satsu smiling at him like this on the bus on their first day.

"Selling myself is out of the question!" Ayanokoji said righteously.

"Oh, what are you thinking, Kiyotaka? Do I look like that kind of person?"

"Yes!" Ayanokoji nodded without hesitation.

"I wanted to ask you to keep my points a secret!"

Hearing this, Ayanokoji finally breathed a sigh of relief. "Oh, you scared me."

"No problem. I'm not the gossipy type either."

"Good, then let's go. Time to eat!"