Miss Academy was Auntie Tami?! Principal Samejima: Tami-chan was as beautiful as an angel!

"Pfft!"

Jaden nearly spat out the sandwich in his mouth.

"Seriously?! A kiss from Miss Academy?! Oh my god, doesn't that mean Principal Samejima and that goateed principal get all the perks?!"

Jaden clutched his spiky hair, his face full of envy and resentment.

In the front row, Chazz Princeton, Asuka, and the others also showed subtle shifts in expression, clearly not having expected the school to go this over the top.

Yet just as the atmosphere throughout the venue heated up...

Principal Ichise's expression in the VIP seats turned uglier than if he had swallowed a hundred flies.

"I'm not going! I absolutely refuse!!"

Ichise pulled his white mink coat tightly around himself and shrank into the spacious leather chair. His scrawny body shook like a dead leaf in a gale, and he had almost rubbed off the thick layer of lip balm on his lips.

"Brother Ichise, why put yourself through this?"

Principal Samejima had wandered over at some point, his gleaming bald head reflecting a dazzling light in the setting sun.

With his hands tucked into his sleeves, he leaned toward Ichise with a beaming smile and a concerned expression, his tone as obnoxious as could be:

"Look, although your North Campus unfortunately lost, and those stone tablet fragments from the ancient ruins in the far north have to go to our Headquarters for research as agreed... friendship comes first! This special grand prize is a perk I specifically requested for you. How could you refuse me this courtesy?"

"Get lost! Samejima, you damn baldy, spare me your fake sympathy!!"

Ichise suddenly raised his head, his wrinkled old face completely twisted with anger and terror.

He pointed at Samejima's nose through gritted teeth, his voice as shrill as a cat whose tail had been stepped on.

"I