Some People Should Never Be Given Free Rein...

Well, the Oolong Tea Research Club really did manage to get permission to work part-time at a transgender bar, thanks to Kotaro Katsura. Of course, it wasn't because Principal Yamamoto had been blinded by money. Rather, he had genuinely been won over by Katsura. "Principal, if the students at your school have never even set foot in our establishment, or if they regard us as some kind of monster, then they'll never be able to develop this alcoholic oolong tea tailored specifically for us..." "I don't know what qualifies as talent, but to us, the people who developed this alcoholic oolong tea are talented individuals..." "Perhaps you believe you're merely stopping students, Principal, but what you don't realize is that these students possess the talent to change the world..." "Learning comes from life, and research does too. Using the knowledge learned at school to transform the world and change one's life—that is the ultimate purpose of learning, isn't it?" See? Whether money was involved didn't really matter. The important thing was that he made everything sound lofty while also backing it up with concrete examples. Forget Principal Yamamoto—even the young lady had wavered. She had gone from, "Ridiculous!" to, "Do they really have to work at a transgender bar to..." and finally, "Indeed, as long as they complete their studies, it wouldn't be unacceptable for high school students to work..." With Sogo Doma keeping quiet, Kotaro Katsura went completely wild. "Reading ten thousand books is not as good as traveling ten thousand miles..." "The prerequisite to applying knowledge is immersing oneself in every profession..." "If you reject something without ever coming into contact with it, what right do you have to say it isn't viable?"... He spouted lofty principles one after another, and Katsura could somehow make every one of