Chapter 161: The Student Council Broadcast Causes a Stir!
Afterward, Ike and the other two pleaded several more times, hoping Chabashira would personally appeal to the principal and let them remain at school.
Chabashira rejected every request.
In the end, the three could only leave the faculty office resentfully, muttering that Chabashira was an incompetent teacher who refused to help her own students solve their problems.
Once they were gone, Chabashira pulled a cigarette from her pocket, lit it, and took several drags. The drifting smoke partially concealed her gloomy expression.
Ever since she started acting like a nanny for a certain troublesome brat, Chabashira had barely smoked.
Today, though, she suddenly felt like having one.
After finishing the cigarette, she took out her phone and checked the trio's enrollment records.
Using the contact information there, she began notifying their guardians and arranging for them to come to school and deal with the necessary withdrawal procedures.
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Time passed, and before long, the school day ended.
At that moment, the broadcast system throughout the first-year building came alive, carrying Student Council Secretary Tachibana Akane's sweet voice.
[Class D student Shimizu Yuto, you have passed the student council's review and have officially become a member of the student council.]
[Please report to the student council room now.]
The announcement repeated three times.
With that, practically every first-year student learned that Yuto had joined the student council.
The Class D students immediately began congratulating him, while Yuto himself wore a helpless, slightly irritated expression.
The midterm results had only just been announced!
Was the student council really that desperate to put him to work?
He had expected them to wait at least a few days...
...
Class A—
Hearing the broadcast, Sakayanagi Arisu raised her head and smiled with mild surprise.
"I thought someone with Shimizu Yuto's personality would refuse to join any club or organization. I didn't expect him to enter the student council."
From Yuto's usual behavior, Arisu had already formed a rough understanding of his personality.
He clearly disliked being restrained.
That was why his decision to join the student council surprised her.
"Shimizu Yuto? That guy actually passed the student council review?"
"Why didn't the announcement mention Katsuragi? Did he fail?"
The Class A students began discussing the news.
Katsuragi Kohei, who remained calmly seated, frowned slightly.
He also suspected he had failed.
Otherwise, the student council broadcast should have mentioned his name alongside Yuto's.
At that moment, Katsuragi suddenly remembered something.
Yuto had once come to Class A and asked him what he would do if his student council application were rejected.
'Did Shimizu Yuto already know back then that I was definitely going to fail?'
Katsuragi silently considered the possibility.
Normally, failing to enter the student council would damage his authority and reputation within Class A.
Strangely enough, that was not happening at all.
Everyone in Class A already knew that Shimizu Yuto of Class D was an undefeated monster whose dazzling achievements had spread throughout the school.
So to them, Katsuragi losing to Yuto and failing to enter the student council was...Perfectly understandable.
Katsuragi was not weak.
His opponent was simply far too strong!
"Katsuragi! Let's go check the noticeboard!" Totsuka Yahiko urgently suggested.
Members of the Katsuragi faction had been eagerly waiting for him to enter the student council and greatly increase his prestige, so they had already investigated how student council admissions were announced.
Whenever a student officially joined, a notice would also be posted on each grade's noticeboard.
If Katsuragi wanted absolute confirmation, all he had to do was check there.
"All right."
Katsuragi nodded calmly.
Although the broadcast had not mentioned him, he still held onto a small amount of hope.
Perhaps both he and Yuto had been accepted.
He needed to see the noticeboard for himself.
...
Class B—
"As expected of Shimizu. He successfully joined the student council."
Little angel Ichinose Honami smiled sincerely, genuinely delighted by the news.
For some reason, learning that Yuto had been accepted made her even happier than when she herself had joined.
"That villain probably used some terrifying method to force the student council into accepting him," Shiranami Chihiro muttered.
No, no, completely wrong!
Yuto had practically been dragged into the student council by President Horikita Manabu himself!
If it were not necessary to prevent Nagumo from returning to the student council and causing him more trouble, Yuto would never have joined.
Feeling genuinely pleased, Ichinose took out her phone and sent Yuto a message through Line.
[Yuto, congratulations on being accepted into the student council.]
...
Class C—
The announcement made Hiyori pause briefly.
Her eyes softened, and a faint smile appeared as she instinctively reached for her phone to congratulate Yuto.
But it was not nighttime yet.
Remembering their agreement, Hiyori reluctantly stopped herself.
The other Class C students reacted very differently.
Many of them visibly shuddered.
They had already feared Yuto's reputation for quite some time.
After watching Ryuen get defeated by him repeatedly, most of Class C had gradually developed the impression that Shimizu Yuto was simply unbeatable.
...
Ding.
Yuto's phone sounded.
He checked it and saw Ichinose's congratulatory message, so he casually replied with a simple—
[Thanks.]
Yuto thought that would end their conversation.
Unexpectedly, Ichinose sent another message.
[Shimizu, remember when I invited you to apply to the student council with me at the gym? You refused back then, so why did you suddenly join now?]
[Something major happened afterward, so I ended up having no choice but to join.]
[What happened? Can you tell me?]
[It's a pretty long story. You really want to hear it?]
[Of course. I'm very curious about you, Shimizu.]
Her response made Yuto smile helplessly.
A girl becoming curious about a boy was hardly a reassuring development.
[I'll tell you when I have time. I need to report to the student council now.]
[All right. We'll talk later.]
[Yeah.]
Yuto ended the Line conversation and turned toward Kei.
"Kei, I need to report to the student council, so I can't spend the afternoon with you today."
"Mm~ That's okay. I'll go shopping with Mori Nene and the others instead," Kei replied considerately.
Yuto smiled at her, then turned toward Suzune.
Ever since the announcement played, Suzune had been staring at him with those sharp, foxlike eyes.
"Horikita, stop staring at me like that. Once I establish myself in the student council, I'll invite you to join too."
"Mm."
Suzune nodded before reminding him seriously, "Shimizu, don't forget."
"I won't."
Ever since hearing Manabu's true feelings through Yuto's recording, Suzune had become far less afraid of her brother.
She now understood how deeply Manabu actually cared about her.
Because of that, Suzune desperately wanted to join the student council and let her brother personally witness her effort and growth.
Kei tugged lightly on Yuto's sleeve and looked at him pitifully with her bright eyes.
"Yuto, I want to join the student council too."
Suzune glanced toward Kei.
This girl definitely did not want to join because she hoped the student council would help her grow.
She simply wanted to stay beside Yuto!
"Kei, right now I can only bring one person into the student council, so you'll have to wait until after October."
"The current president will step down then, and I might become student council president. If that happens, I'll bring you in afterward," Yuto said with a smile.
Hearing that, Suzune quietly relaxed.
For a moment, she had actually worried that Yuto might choose his girlfriend Kei over her.
Clearly, she had been overthinking it.
Yuto certainly pampered his girlfriends, but he would never let that interfere with something important.
Kei was capable, but Suzune was considerably more competent.
Naturally, Yuto would choose to bring Suzune into the student council first.
"October..."
Kei considered it before nodding.
"That's fine."
It was already almost the end of May, leaving roughly five months until October.
The wait was neither particularly short nor unbearably long.
Kei could manage it.
In truth, Yuto did not only intend to recruit Suzune and Kei.
He also wanted Hirata Yosuke, Kushida Kikyo, and Ayanokouji Kiyotaka in the student council so they could help handle the workload.
Unfortunately, Horikita Manabu was currently the president, not Shimizu Yuto.
So that idea would have to wait.
There was no chance Manabu would allow Yuto to drag half of his own class into the student council.
Once Yuto became president, however, no one would be able to overrule his personnel decisions.
For now, his plan was to bring Suzune in first, then recruit Katsuragi Kohei from Class A and Ichinose Honami from Class B.
Nagumo had already been driven out of the student council by Yuto.
That meant Manabu no longer needed to worry about Katsuragi or Ichinose being influenced by him after joining.
"Well, I'm heading to the student council now. See you tomorrow."
"Mm~ See you tomorrow."
"See you tomorrow."
Yuto said goodbye to Kei and Suzune before leaving the Class D classroom.
Kikyo glanced toward Kei, who had gone to talk with Mori Nene and the others, then quickly slipped out after Yuto.
Wearing her sweet smile, Kikyo caught up with him and mysteriously lowered her voice.
"Yuto~ Want to hear some good news?"
"What good news?"
"It's about Ike and the other two."
"They were expelled for failing the exams, right? Since they were expelled rather than graduating, they aren't allowed to take anything they bought with personal points out of the school."
Students who successfully graduated were allowed to take away everything they had purchased with points.
The important condition was that they had to graduate.
Students expelled halfway through their education were not allowed to take anything purchased within the school.
Yamauchi had planned to take home the game console he bought for seventy or eighty thousand points.
Unfortunately for him, expelled students and their luggage were thoroughly inspected by school security before departure.
Even clothing bought with personal points had to be surrendered.
Security would provide expelled students with plain, simple clothes to change into before they left.
This school was incredibly generous and accommodating toward its students.
At the same time, it could also be extremely strict and merciless.
As long as a student was never expelled, however, they might never experience that cruel side.
"Kikyo, that doesn't really count as good news," Yuto replied helplessly.
"Huh?"
Kikyo tilted her head cutely.
"But you disliked those three, didn't you? Doesn't hearing about their misfortune make you happy?"
Yuto gave his secret girlfriend an exasperated look.
On the surface, she was a little angel.
Underneath, she was very much a little devil who could enjoy watching people she disliked suffer.
"I'm not happy at all. To me, those three were basically irrelevant background characters."
"Yuto, that's so cruel~ They were your classmates for almost two months. How can you call them irrelevant background characters?"
"What about you, Kikyo? You're happy they were expelled. Isn't that even worse?"
"Hehehe~"
Kikyo showed a shy, adorable smile.
Being with Yuto was incredibly relaxing for her.
Around him, she did not need to hide what she truly thought or felt.
At first, Kikyo had worried that showing her real personality might make Yuto dislike her.
Unexpectedly, he had not disliked her at all.
If anything, he treated her even better.
Gradually, whenever Kikyo was alone with Yuto, she stopped maintaining her artificial little-angel persona and simply showed him her true personality.
"So, Kikyo, does that mean Ike and the other two have completely left the school now?" Yuto casually asked.
"Yep."
"One of my friends told me Ike and Yamauchi's guardians even gave him quite a beating."
"Sudo's guardian didn't hit him, though. Maybe because they couldn't beat Sudo in the first place?" Kikyo replied, tilting her head.
"Probably."
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