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Although Shizuka Hiratsuka believed that a well-rounded education was the right path for students, she still dared not overlook someone's perfect scores in every subject. After all, Toyogasaki had risen to fame because of the two Doma siblings in their first and second years. Even after that Luo Ben incident, Toyogasaki remained one of the top elite schools in most parents' minds!
Why was Principal Yamamoto able to be so unconcerned? Wasn't it because the two Doma siblings had his back? Back then, the only reason he had accepted them was because the other side had offered too much—cough, cough—their background was too formidable. Even members of the school board had made him this promise upon hearing the surname Doma:
"Yamamoto, we don't care what mistakes you make during your tenure. As long as you can get Young Master Doma and Young Miss Doma to attend this school, then as long as Toyogasaki stands, your position as principal will be as secure as Mount Tai..." What a joke. Who didn't know that the Doma Family's second young master was a wastrel? If he got a sudden urge to invest...
They might even earn back the money they'd invested in Toyogasaki. Even if that young master chose not to invest, the mere fact that those two enrolled would be enough to make Toyogasaki famous among the lesser prestigious schools.
But what Principal Yamamoto had not expected was that he had thought someone was bronze, only for the other party to actually produce results and say exactly what he had claimed back then: "I've never scored below full marks in my life. Just fill it in however you see fit."
That was fucking king-tier!
What was Shizuka Hiratsuka supposed to do about that? Even the school—or rather, her immediate superior—kept bringing