Yuigahama Yui, the second-in-command of the Service Club, a recognized veteran figure, known as the Grand Senior of the Service Club.
As the first person to be defeated by Yukino and taken under her wing, she could be considered the most senior among the seniors.
She was a founding veteran, one person below and above a hundred, possessing the merit of a kingmaker.
If nothing unexpected happened, Yuigahama's entire youth would be dedicated to the Service Club, struggling to help Yukino ascend to the summit.
No matter the result, this experience would become a beautiful story. Even if she became a corporate slave severely beaten by society many years later, she could still use the memories of those eventful years as a side dish for her meals, sighing with emotion that she had truly followed the right person back then.
It should have been like this, but the appearance of a man changed everything.
The appearance of Kanzaki Saku was just like the critical moment in a passionate shonen manga when the protagonist's team has fully assembled and is ready to challenge the powerful arch-enemy.
Suddenly, 200,000 words of sticky, female-oriented romance novel text were forcibly inserted. While being completely out of place, it also shattered everyone's fantasies.
In the days past, the tone of the story was supposed to be about the hot-blooded growth protagonist, Yukinoshita Yukino, defeating various powerful enemies along the way, gaining many partners, and reaching the end of the journey amidst sweat, tears, and bonds.
As a result, a Kanzaki Saku burst out halfway, and she started acting out a melodramatic emotional drama with Yukino. The stairway to godhood named 'The Summit' was no longer climbed, and the powerful enemies blocking the road were no longer fought.
Where was the promised hot-blooded growth? Where were the promised bonds of partners? Where was the promised climb to the summit?
All gone.
The atmosphere of the entire club took a nosedive from a hot-blooded base of 'struggling to realize common ideals' to the front-row audience seats for 'onlooking the President's romance serial drama'.
Can you stand this? Especially since, apart from Yukino, the rest are all single dogs.
Originally, everyone was an ordinary person, or even marginalized individuals who were unwelcome. They gathered together to jointly pursue the 'summit' on which their youthful ideals were entrusted.
You, Yukinoshita Yukino, just have to be special, right? You got yourself a man and are lovey-dovey every day; you don't even fight battles anymore, and the club has gone to waste!
Everyone followed you because the ideals of the Service Club members were pinned on you. Following you to the summit seemed to allow them to touch something different, briefly detaching from the hardships of reality.
It wasn't because they liked shipping the CP of you and Kanzaki Saku!
It is unknown how many Service Club minions' inner voices were voiced by these words of Yuigahama Yui.
Although it was spoken in a high-sounding manner, the reason Yuigahama truly wanted to backstab still lay with Kanzaki Saku.
His appearance broke the atmosphere of blind worship towards Yukinoshita within the club, allowing everyone to view the person Yukinoshita Yukino more dialectically and objectively.
Everyone suddenly discovered, oh, so that invincible President also gains and loses heart, and also delays serious business because of a man.
Once the golden body of the myth is shattered, the idea that 'she can be replaced' naturally arises.
And for Yuigahama Yui, who fell in love with Kanzaki Saku at first sight, this idea was unprecedentedly strong.
The Service Club was not a monolith; Yuigahama knew this better than anyone.
Yukino relied on absolute martial suppression, and the dual foundation that following her meant being able to step on others' heads and winning continuously.
But when she abandoned her sisters to chase a man under the watchful eyes of everyone, those advantages developed invisible cracks.
Yuigahama also started to secretly contact those who dared to be angry but dared not speak out against Yukino after her defeat by the Kato Legion.
In less than a week, she had figured out the factions within the club.
About thirty percent of the members, led by Miura Yumiko, were absolutely loyal to Yukino; Yuigahama called them the Die-hard Faction.
About fifty percent were the Swing Faction. They followed Yukino because they could win, gain face, and enjoy the thrill of stepping on others' heads, but they had quite a few complaints about Yukino's arbitrary actions.
The last twenty percent were the Dissatisfied Faction. Their composition was complex. There were warmongers who purely pursued the joy of combat and felt that following the current Yukino meant no fights and was boring.
There were perverts who were unhappy because Yukino didn't share the man, and a minority who turned from fans to haters of Yukino due to various matters.
What Yuigahama had to do was also very simple: reel in those dissatisfied with Yukino and incite the opinions of the Swing Faction.
Originally, achieving her goal would have taken some effort, but Yukino personally delivered an assist to her.
It was that event where Kanzaki Saku was kidnapped, almost starting World War II.
At that time, it could be said that the time, place, and people were all favorable. Yuigahama had originally planned to rely directly on the twenty percent of the Dissatisfied Faction to blow up at Yukino, but unfortunately, the event subsided anticlimactically in the end, giving her no chance to launch an attack.
However, a blessing in disguise; due to this incident, Yukino once again shattered her own golden body, making Yuigahama's small group grow stronger again.
Even Yuigahama herself, due to her active performance in this incident, became Kanzaki Saku's personal bodyguard.
Yukino was still immersed in the romantic atmosphere with Kanzaki Saku, totally unaware that beneath her seemingly solid throne, the soil had already begun to loosen, and the crown had started to turn green.
During the time she served as Kanzaki Saku's bodyguard, Yuigahama played her role naturally, acting out a cringey woman so vividly that she deceived everyone, including Kanzaki Saku.
But in secret, she was still probing for her plan to backstab Yukino. The object of her probing was naturally Yumiko, who was Yukino's loyal dog.
Yuigahama wouldn't believe even if beaten to death that someone could spend time with Kanzaki Saku all along yet endure without harboring evil thoughts.
That fellow Yumiko was definitely pretending. Once she got a hold of Yumiko's leverage, she would definitely coerce her into being an accomplice.
Therefore, after Yuigahama became the personal bodyguard, she often arrived late or simply didn't show up, quietly hiding in the dark to peek at the interaction process between Yumiko and Kanzaki Saku.
The result was nothing. Yumiko really was like a log; facing Kanzaki Saku who was all alone, she did nothing. Trash! An impotent woman!
Yuigahama sometimes even thought about finding a way to send Yumiko away and directly take down Kanzaki Saku, initiating a magnificent rebellion against Yukino.
Fortunately, she persisted in her probing for a while longer, and hard work paid off; she finally witnessed crucial evidence.
That day, Yuigahama tracked Yumiko as usual, but found that she suddenly went up to the rooftop she rarely visited.
After a while, Yuigahama outside the rooftop door understood what Yumiko had come to do.
Having understood, Yuigahama immediately ran to find Yukino and led her to the teaching building where that rooftop was located, expecting a grand scene of catching adulterers.
However, too much time was spent on the way. By the time they arrived, the battle on the rooftop had ended. Yukino only had a little liquid drip onto her head and didn't notice anything unusual.
Although she failed to make Yukino break up with her successfully, this didn't hinder her from grasping Yumiko's leverage.
Now, lacking only an opportunity, Yuigahama could officially initiate the magnificent backstab against Yukino and take Kanzaki Saku under her body!
And this opportunity appeared when Yuigahama alone encountered Kushida Kikyou, who was fleeing in panic because of Yukino's insults.
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