Chapter 23: The Hesitant Archangel Ichinose

"Teacher, that wasn't so nice of you to hide this from us. Couldn't you have made it clearer? We had to use our points to buy this information. After gathering so many points in one bank account, that guy is probably going to become a nuisance."

In the classroom, after Ying Ye Zhenshi had disappeared, Ryuuen Kakeru looked at his homeroom teacher.

"Come on, let's go."

There was no denial on his part, which was already the greatest admission.

Sakagami Kazuma didn't expect that someone would have learned all this information so early in the year.

And not even directly at that.

"I will make sure he takes them from the other classes too, and have to work to not to drop too many points from the get-go. What a sinister guy… we'll have him spit out all those points sooner or later."

Ryuuen's goal was not just to suppress Class D.

Now that he knew the hidden intricacies of this school, his goal was naturally class A.

At least, he couldn't let the classes ahead of him stretch out their class points too far ahead.

Ying Ye Zhenshi, who left the Class C room, soon met up with the Archangel Ichinose.

Ichinose Hoonami was surprised to have been invited out, but she was also not the type to not give face to someone who asked to speak to her.

She thought she was about to be confessed to which had her very worried, but after listening to Ying Ye Zhenshi's words, her expression morphed.

"You… is that really okay?"

'One's classmates should also be their precious companions, right?'

But in such a kind of environment where there was intra-class, she wondered where a ghost, who wanted to sell out his own class before the competition had even started, had spawned from.

"Ichinose-san, whether I'm okay with that or not is not your concern. What you have to think about now is whether you want to agree to my terms or not. I am sure you also hope that you can bring your classmates to graduate from Class A, right?"

In the face of her unwarranted concerns, Ying Ye Zhenshi didn't spare her a trifle and spoke frankly.

"If I don't agree, will you still cause such a thing to happen?"

Ichinose Hoonami asked, looking straight into his eyes.

She badly wanted an answer.

"Yes, that is inevitable."

Ying Ye Zhenshi replied.

He had already reached an agreement with Class C.

Now Class D's score would have to fall right down.

Honestly, he didn't think he would need to intervene in Class D's demise.

It would be better if he didn't even have to do anything.

So long as he cut them with a knife at a few critical junctures, that would be enough on his part.

"So you don't have to worry about anything because it's none of your concern. This is a very normal thing to happen during competitions and the school's way of doing things. Class D and Class B are rivals, Ichinose-san, so what you should only care about is the feelings of Class B."

"But this..."

Ichinose Hoonami was very hesitant.

The matter of the price of the information was trivial.

But to have to make such a decision, she was a little bit reluctant.

"Ichinose-san, you don't want your classmates to have any problems with you because of your decision, right? If you caused class B to have such a big loss because of your unfair decision, you would regret it for the rest of your life. Even if you drop out of school to make up for your folly, you would not be able to make up for the losses of your classmates!! You know, there is no such thing as redemption in the point deductions mechanism set by this school."

Observing Ichinose's inner struggle, Ying Ye Zhenshi spoke slowly.

"If you can't make up your mind, you might as well ask your classmates."

"..."

Ichinose Hoonami really wanted Ying Ye Zhenshi to calm down, and not to say such strange phrases, which would have made it easy for others to think something, especially when the two of them were alone like they were right now to discuss his proposal.

And with regard to the matter at hand, she still couldn't come to an appropriate decision alone.

Even if it was true that a lot of points would be saved by her class as a result of the information.

After a moment of hesitation, Ichinose Hoonami chose to call her classmates over, instead of agreeing straightforwardly as Ryuuen had.

But she didn't ask everyone directly, but only called a few classmates to discuss it with.

Soon though, there were several people in Class B who had heard the contents of the deal.

And when they knew what the contents were of…

Ryuji Kanzaki from Class B looked at Ying Ye Zhenshi in shock.

Then, he lobbied for her to agree without delay.

"If we can really get our homeroom teacher to confirm it all, I think it's fine. Although it is just Class D, it would still be a good thing to have one class not trouble us."

"But, that's too much."

Ichinose Hoonami responded.

Her intention of refusing was clear as day.

"I agree with Kanzaki-kun too…"

"It's none of our business what happens to the other classes. Just don't think that the other class is being affected. It's better to just say that we are paying protection and information fees."

Students from Class B spoke up one after another.

They had their own thoughts on the deal.

With them having been assigned to Class B, they naturally were all gifted thinkers.

Seeing them open their mouths to say their own opinion, Ying Ye Zhenshi knew that it was a done deal.

As long as there were many people in Class B who agreed with him, it would be too easy to sway Ichinose Hoonami's decision.

"Ichinose, do you think he dared to tell us this and didn't prepare a backup plan? I think, if we don't agree, and Class A and C both agree, then he and they will attack us together later. And he can also use it as a condition for persuading class A and C. I don't doubt he could even fool people from Class D to attack us. Ichinose, we are in one class, and he is in another. If there is a conflict or competition between our two classes, do you think they will trust their classmate or us? It doesn't matter what answer you gave him before since we didn't know about this deal, but now, I have to tell you that I want to be a student in Class A, and I want all the students in our class to be students of Class A."

Ryuji Kanzaki stood in front of Ichinose Hoonami and spoke seriously, looking at Ichinose Hoonami with a piercing gaze, which made her afraid to continue to look at him.

In just a few days, the relationships these students had forged had already become very tight-knit.

It could be said without a shadow of a doubt that this was the most harmonious class in the first year.

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