Chapter 110: The Unlucky Koenji Rokusuke!
"Since that matter is settled, Ayanokouji, please work with me from now on. Let's raise Class D to Class A."
Yuto smiled and held out his hand to Ayanokouji Kiyotaka.
"Okay..."
Ayanokouji shook Yuto's hand.
Then he hesitated slightly and said, "Shimizu-kun, I dislike standing out, so I hope I can help from behind the scenes."
"That's fine. But when the time comes and I need you to contribute, don't hide behind the scenes," Yuto said.
"Of course." Ayanokouji nodded.
Just like that, Yuto used "helping him stay in this school" as the condition and gained Ayanokouji Kiyotaka's help.
Ayanokouji willingly became one of Yuto's helpers in raising Class D to Class A.
This was all thanks to Chairman Sakayanagi.
If Yuto and Chairman Sakayanagi had not been friends despite their age difference, Yuto really would not have had a way to make Ayanokouji willingly become his helper.
"When I play chess with him later, I'll go a little easy on him."
Yuto muttered softly with a smile.
After throwing all troublesome matters involving Sudo and the others to Ayanokouji, Yuto returned to the detached apartment.
About ten minutes later, Yuto suddenly received a message on Line.
He took it out and saw that it was from Ayanokouji Kiyotaka.
[Shimizu-kun, Sudo and the others have no interest in studying. After hearing that Horikita-san will be teaching them, they became even less interested.]
"...Horikita is pretty, though. She just has an icy face and looks a little scary," Yuto muttered.
[Ayanokouji, how do you plan to convince them?]
[Hm. I planned to ask whether you had a good way to convince them.]
Yuto's mouth twitched.
He replied to Ayanokouji bluntly.
[Think of something yourself! It doesn't matter even if you can't convince them. I've already handed this matter to you!]
Inside Ike Kanji's dorm room, Ayanokouji looked at Yuto's reply.
Then he glanced at Ike, who was excitedly playing games.
'As expected, Shimizu Yuto isn't very enthusiastic about making Ike and the others study properly.'
It was not that Ayanokouji had no way to convince Ike and the others to study.
He had only wanted to probe Yuto's attitude toward this matter.
'Shimizu Yuto has already decided to lead Class D to Class A, but it seems he doesn't need poor students who drag the class down...'
'The reason he asked me to convince Ike and the others to study is probably related to Horikita-san.'
Ayanokouji silently thought for a while.
Then he opened the few contacts on his phone and sent a message to a certain little angel in Class D.
The method Ayanokouji chose was the same as Yuto had thought earlier.
Ask Kushida Kikyo for help!
However, Horikita Suzune did not want Kushida Kikyo joining the study group she had started...
...
Yuto returned to the detached apartment.
After entering the shoe-changing area, he unexpectedly found Chabashira's high heels still there.
That cold and beautiful homeroom teacher had not left yet.
After changing into indoor slippers, Yuto walked to the living room where sound was coming from.
Chabashira Sae and Sakura Airi were sitting side by side on the sofa watching television.
Although Airi had a timid personality, she often went grocery shopping and cooked dinner with Chabashira.
So when she was alone with Chabashira, Airi would not feel shy.
"Yuto, you're back!"
Airi walked over to Yuto, her face lit up with joy. She had already changed out of her school uniform and was wearing a casual outfit. Her two snow-white, crystalline legs were proudly exposed, creating a truly eye-catching sight.
"I'm back."
Yuto smiled and pinched Airi's cheek.
Then he looked toward Chabashira, who was sitting on the sofa.
At that moment, Chabashira was looking at Yuto with disgust, as if she were staring at a scumbag two-timing girls.
This troublesome brat clearly already had Airi, yet he still went to provoke Kei, eating with her and going shopping together.
If this troublesome brat was not a scumbag, then what was he?
Yuto ignored Chabashira's strangely sharp, disdainful gaze.
He smiled and said, "Chabashira-sensei, it's already so late. Why haven't you gone back yet?"
Chabashira curled her lips.
She knew this troublesome brat was chasing her away.
However, Chabashira had also planned to leave.
If she kept staying in this apartment, who knew what noise this young couple, Yuto and Airi, would make?
She did not want to hear whatever they got up to!
"I'm leaving. No need to see me out."
Chabashira stood up.
As she passed Yuto and Airi, she left behind a faint fragrance and departed from the apartment.
After Chabashira, the big light bulb, left, Airi happily threw herself into Yuto's arms.
Her pretty face carried a faint blush, and she looked completely satisfied.
"Yuto, how was your date with Karuizawa-san this afternoon?"
"Terrible. Dating you is much more relaxing, Airi," Yuto said solemnly.
"Don't lie to me."
"When I go on dates with you, I'm always afraid someone will see us, so I hide here and there."
"How is dating me relaxing?" Airi said softly as she breathed in Yuto's scent.
Airi knew herself well.
She did not think dating her would be relaxing.
"Alright, let's stop talking about other people," Yuto said with a beaming smile as he leaned down and swept Airi, who was dressed in casual wear, into his arms.
Airi seemed to realize he was up to some mischief. The faint blush on her cheeks deepened, and a hint of mature womanly charm naturally surfaced in her eyes.
"So, are we heading to the bedroom or the bathroom? Or you can pick a spot yourself, Airi," Yuto said, looking at her with a playful grin as she glowed with bashful allure.
"Mm... Let's go to the bathroom first. You haven't washed up yet."
"Okay."
Yuto carried Airi toward the bathroom.
Even though Airi knew Yuto had just returned from a date with Karuizawa Kei, she felt no jealousy at all. Instead, she continued to serve him with shy devotion.
Yuto, however, felt differently. He couldn't help but feel he was letting Airi down by not reciprocating her feelings, so he treated her with extra tenderness that evening.
He was determined to spoil her rotten!
...
Early the next morning, Yuto left the warm bed and Airi, feeling refreshed.
He put on sportswear and went for his morning run.
Horikita Suzune arrived at the field especially early today.
When Yuto reached the field, she was already warming up.
Suzune was doing chest expansions. Her somewhat well-developed chest slightly stretched her sportswear, revealing the shy curves of a young girl.
She turned to Yuto beside her and asked, "Shimizu, have you already asked Ayanokouji-kun?"
"I already asked him."
"Ayanokouji seems to have a fairly good relationship with Sudo and the others. As soon as he heard I was asking him to invite them to study, he accepted very readily," Yuto answered with a smile.
Not true at all!
If Yuto had not used Ayanokouji Atsuomi as bait, Ayanokouji Kiyotaka would never have accepted the troublesome job of persuading Sudo and the others to study!
"Since Ayanokouji will be responsible for telling you the progress later, I gave him your contact information..."
"Horikita, why are you glaring at me again?"
Suzune glared at Yuto with her charming fox-like eyes.
She said unhappily, "Giving my contact information to someone else without my permission is very disrespectful!"
"Ah. You really are angry."
"Shimizu, if you already guessed I would be angry, why did you still give my contact information to someone else?"
"Because if Ayanokouji contacts you directly, I won't have to act as your messenger," Yuto said with a smile.
Seeing Suzune's unfriendly eyes, Yuto changed the topic.
"In short, Ayanokouji has already gone to persuade Sudo and the others."
"Horikita, prepare the practice questions for teaching them."
"Hmph! I prepared them long ago! I'm done warming up. I'm going running."
Suzune gave Yuto a tsundere huff and went running.
Judging from her dissatisfied pretty face, she really cared a lot about Yuto giving out her contact information without permission.
Yuto smiled.
After warming up for a while, he stepped onto the track and began his morning run.
Suzune seemed truly angry.
Today, she left the field without even greeting Yuto.
Yuto did not pay too much attention to this tsundere snow fox.
After finishing his morning run, he returned to the detached apartment.
After eating a sweet breakfast with a slightly tired Airi, Yuto walked to the classroom together with her.
...
At one side of the entrance to the first-year building, there was a bulletin board.
It was used by the school to post information for students, such as club recruitment notices and lost-and-found announcements.
Since they had reached the school building, there were more people around.
Airi quickened her pace.
Yuto, however, stopped at the bulletin board.
Because quite a few students had gathered around it, as if some major news had been posted.
Yuto stopped and looked at the bulletin board.
He found that the quiz results for all four first-year classes had been posted there.
There was also an announcement from the student council.
After reading the announcement posted by the student council, Yuto's handsome face showed surprise.
"The student council moves fast. I only told Horikita's brother yesterday, and there's already an announcement today."
The student council's announcement mentioned that a certain first-year student had used some improper and illegal method to purchase points within the school.
This had seriously violated the school's authority and regulations.
Because of this!
The school had decided to deduct all the points possessed by that student.
All individuals who privately sold points to that student would have half of their remaining points deducted.
Their classes would lose one hundred class points, and they had to write a three-thousand-word reflection essay.
If they repeated the offense, expulsion would be enforced.
All students were expected to take this as a warning and strictly obey the school's rules and agreements.
After Yuto finished reading the student council's posted announcement, he could not help laughing.
Although the student mentioned in the announcement was not named, Yuto knew it was Koenji Rokusuke.
Now, all the points Koenji had bought with real money had been deducted.
With no points to spend freely, who knew what kind of expression he had right now?
At the same time, the students who sold points to Koenji had also been punished.
Half of their remaining points had been deducted.
Their classes had also lost one hundred class points, and they had to write reflection essays.
If they dared privately sell points again, they would be expelled by the school.
Actually, the most important punishment was the deduction of class points.
Class points determined how many personal points students received each month.
Once class points were deducted, the entire class would be affected.
When the students of those classes discovered that someone selling points privately caused their class points to be deducted, they would definitely resent that person.
It was equivalent to offending every classmate in their class.
From now on, there probably would not be any students who dared violate the rules by selling points.
The students gathered around the bulletin board were not very interested in the student council's announcement.
What they cared about was the posted quiz results.
Through the posted quiz results, the students could clearly see the academic level of the four first-year classes.
Yuto also paid a little attention.
Class A's quiz results were generally very high, almost all above seventy.
Class B's quiz results were not bad either.
Only Class C and Class D had rather pitiful quiz results.
Most Class C students scored in the fifties.
As for Class D, some students scored very highly.
For example, Shimizu Yuto, Horikita Suzune, Koenji Rokusuke, and Yukimura Teruhiko.
But some students also scored very poorly.
For example, Sudo Ken, Ike Kanji, and Yamauchi Haruki.
Class D's quiz results were simply polarized.
The highs were very high.
The lows were very low.
Yuto roughly looked over the quiz results of all four classes.
Then he walked into the school building and called Horikita Manabu while he was at it.
"Shimizu."
"Senpai, the student council's execution speed really surprised me."
"I didn't expect you to handle the people who violated school rules in less than a day," Yuto said with a smile.
"It was a coincidence."
"Last night, Koenji Rokusuke happened to be privately trading with a certain student, and we caught them in the act," Manabu answered in a steady voice.
Caught red-handed.
Koenji Rokusuke really was unlucky.
"Shimizu, your guess was correct."
"There really was a teacher secretly assisting Koenji Rokusuke, which was why he could buy and sell points with students," Manabu said.
"Then what about that teacher? Why didn't the student council's announcement mention this teacher?"
"Teachers are still faculty members of this school, so the school hid his existence."
"However, that teacher has already been dismissed by the school."
"And because he violated school rules, the school has filed a complaint against him. He will likely have to pay a large sum of money."
"I see."
"Shimizu, I'll tell you something you must pay attention to."
Manabu pushed up his glasses.
His eyes became deep as he said, "Yesterday, a friend in my class told me that Nagumo's friends, Tonokawa and Mizowaki, went to the first-year building during lunch break."
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