"Did you come specifically to see me?"
"Oh my, oh my~~~ This is really a bit embarrassing."
A layer of blush rose on Chie Hoshinomiya's face.
"However, if it's Subaru-kun~"
"It might not be impossible, even though Sensei is already an adult~"
As her voice fell, Chie Hoshinomiya moved even closer to Subaru.
Guided by Chie Hoshinomiya, the atmosphere became somewhat ambiguous and flirtatious.
Looking at Subaru, whose expression had remained unchanged from start to finish, Chie Hoshinomiya spoke softly, with a particular implication in her voice, "If Subaru-kun doesn't mind, you can come to Sensei's dorm tonight~"
"Hoshinomiya-sensei, it is just the two of us here."
"I only have one thing to discuss with you, Hoshinomiya-sensei. You must really hate Chabashira-sensei."
Subaru looked at Chie Hoshinomiya, who was performing passionately in front of him, and smiled. He had absolutely no time to play word games or speak in riddles with her here.
At the same time, Subaru's words caused the smile on Chie Hoshinomiya's face to stiffen instantly.
The layer of blush that had been deliberately created, carrying a warm ambiguity, dissipated as quickly as a receding tide.
"Subaru-kun~"
Chie Hoshinomiya did not back away because of Subaru's words; in fact, she moved even closer to him.
However, the entire feeling she projected changed completely.
"Some jokes cannot be made lightly."
"Little Chabashira and I were best friends when we were in school, and now we've been colleagues for six years."
"This year is the seventh, and there will be an eighth, a ninth, and even a tenth, an eleventh..."
Chie Hoshinomiya was describing her relationship with Sae Chabashira to Subaru.
It was as if she were proving to Subaru that what he had just said was complete nonsense.
However, seeing that Subaru remained quiet and did not interrupt her, Chie Hoshinomiya felt that there was little meaning in continuing. She said, "So, Subaru-kun~ Why would you think I hate Little Chabashira?"
There was another calculation Chie Hoshinomiya didn't voice.
That was the fact that she hadn't interacted much with Sae Chabashira since the start of school. Even during their occasional exchanges, there were no students nearby. It should have been impossible for Subaru to know about the relationship between her and Sae Chabashira.
He shouldn't have even been able to form an association.
Yet, Subaru had called her out alone at this time to say such things to her. It was completely unscientific and illogical.
"The reason Hoshinomiya-sensei hates Chabashira-sensei is due to the class advancement issue."
"More than ten years ago, Hoshinomiya-sensei and Chabashira-sensei were classmates, and you also started in Year 1, Class D."
"After three years of hard work, you encountered a situation before graduation that was sufficient to reverse your fortunes. However, regrettably, due to Chabashira-sensei's indecisiveness, the promotion to Class A ultimately failed."
Ignoring the wildly changing expression on Chie Hoshinomiya's face, Subaru retold the story that Chie Hoshinomiya had told him in a previous 'rollback', recounting it to her from his own perspective.
"You've actually understood it to this extent?"
"This is no longer within a range that can be explained by the words 'keen observation'."
Chie Hoshinomiya stopped pretending completely.
Just like the time she had stumbled upon Kikyo Kushida's true nature, the smile on Chie Hoshinomiya's face vanished entirely, replaced by a cold wariness and assessment belonging to an adult.
"I presume Subaru-kun didn't call Sensei out here specifically to talk about these past events."
The voice that had been identical to, or even sweeter than, Kikyo Kushida's disappeared, carrying a steady chill as she said, "Do you want to obtain something from Sensei?"
"I am very interested in the one million personal points Hoshinomiya-sensei possesses."
Subaru didn't beat around the bush and stated his objective directly.
"One million personal points..."
"Well, since you understand even Sensei's private matters so clearly, knowing about this isn't a big problem."
Hearing Subaru's objective, Chie Hoshinomiya nodded, a look of realization appearing on her face.
"However, Subaru-kun, are you trying to blackmail Sensei?"
"Although letting Little Chabashira know about these things would be a tiny bit troublesome, but... just based on what has been revealed so far, it is still far from enough to make Sensei trade one million personal points to you~"
Surprised as she was, Chie Hoshinomiya was not panicked.
This was already her seventh year working at this academy, and this was her third batch of students. Although Sae Chabashira wasn't entirely sure about the events of the previous six years, she had developed a degree of suspicion and defensiveness toward Chie Hoshinomiya.
If things continued like this, there was a high probability that the third batch would expose Chie Hoshinomiya, letting Sae Chabashira know that she had been obstructing her all along. It would simply mean the time of exposure was advanced by a little bit.
If it was only this, while Chie Hoshinomiya was shocked that the things Subaru knew were not only numerous but also very private, it was impossible to use this to threaten her into trading one million personal points to him.
"Saying these things was just to make Hoshinomiya-sensei believe me."
"Next, I will state the conditions I have prepared."
Subaru laughed as he looked at Chie Hoshinomiya, who had completely stopped pretending in front of him.
Just as Subaru somewhat looked forward to Kikyo Kushida completely letting go of her internal baggage, ceasing to care about the gazes of those around her, and thoroughly displaying her true self.
Subaru also somewhat looked forward to the day when Chie Hoshinomiya would be open and aboveboard, completely dropping the act.
Thinking about it, it would surely be very interesting.
Unfortunately, compared to Kikyo Kushida, the possibility of Chie Hoshinomiya becoming 'real' was much lower. She wasn't as pure as Kikyo Kushida, which left Subaru with some regret.
"As long as Hoshinomiya-sensei is willing to trade your one million personal points to me, then I am willing to expel a student from Year 1, Class D during this midterm exam. How about that?"
Subaru offered his condition.
"Subaru-kun, you aren't saying you want to trade with me under the guise of expelling Yamauchi-kun, are you?"
Hearing Subaru's answer, a scornful smile appeared on Chie Hoshinomiya's face as she said, "Right now, the class points for Year 1, Class D are zero. Even if Haruki Yamauchi is expelled, so what? It won't turn into a negative number."
"Besides, in my opinion, Haruki Yamauchi is a 'good child'~"
"If Subaru-kun is willing to expel Yosuke Hirata, I might be tempted~"
In Chie Hoshinomiya's view, Haruki Yamauchi was a tumor in Year 1, Class D.
Of course, the more students like that, the better. And now Subaru looked like he was cutting the Gordian knot, taking advantage of the fact that Year 1, Class D had zero class points to expel the tumor from the class.
At the very least, for Chie Hoshinomiya, this was absolutely not a good thing.
And he wanted her to trade away the mere one million personal point quota she had each year?
No need to even think about it; it was impossible.
But, if Subaru wanted to expel someone like Yosuke Hirata—capable, and able to integrate the students of Year 1, Class D to a certain extent—then Chie Hoshinomiya would agree to Subaru's request.
In Chie Hoshinomiya's view, the traits currently displayed by Yosuke Hirata were extremely dangerous.
He reminded her a bit of her own class representative back then. If her class representative hadn't been dragged down by Sae Chabashira, and hadn't been too kind, they absolutely could have led the class to become Class A.
If the class representative back then had been a bit more selfish and directly designated one person for everyone to vote to expel, there would have been absolutely no problem.
"Hoshinomiya-sensei, you really dare to speak."
"Yosuke Hirata's academic ability is quite good. It costs two hundred thousand points per mark. For every ten marks, the price increases by another two hundred thousand. To forcibly expel Yosuke Hirata, even if it doesn't cost twenty million personal points, it would be close."
"Ten marks cost two million. Twenty marks cost six million. Thirty marks shoot straight up to twelve million personal points."
"Yosuke Hirata's grades are very good. To dismiss him by lowering his score would absolutely require starting at thirty marks, or even forty."
Subaru smiled gently and said, "Hoshinomiya-sensei, all you can give is merely one million personal points."
"If it's personal points, of course, there is only one million."
"However, it is one million every year. If it's three consecutive years, that would be three million. And..."
Chie Hoshinomiya brought her mouth close to Subaru's ear and whispered softly:
"During these three years, if Subaru-kun gets lonely, you can come to Sensei's dorm at night. Sensei will take good care of Subaru-kun~~~"
"Calculated this way, isn't it much more cost-effective?"
"Subaru-kun, you might as well consider it carefully~"
Three million personal points over three years, plus special treatment lasting for three years.
This was not a condition with light weight. After all, Chie Hoshinomiya's looks were quite formidable, and her figure was also amazing. If not for the fact that she couldn't exactly be called self-loving, she could be called goddess-tier.
"Hoshinomiya-sensei, the conditions will not change."
"However, I can give Hoshinomiya-sensei an extra promise."
Subaru ignored the faint, wet heat coming from beside his ear.
Just now, to increase her seductiveness, Chie Hoshinomiya had lightly extended her tongue and licked Subaru's earlobe.
"Oh?"
"It seems the reason Subaru-kun is truly confident in getting one million personal points from me is this promise?"
Chie Hoshinomiya awaited Subaru's answer.
"I have a little confidence."
"Because, if I really wanted to do it, Class A is just a slightly more troublesome matter, that's all."
"Hoshinomiya-sensei really doesn't want the class led by Chabashira-sensei to become Class A, right?"
Subaru said with a smile, "For one million personal points a year, I will not harbor any thoughts of leading Year 1, Class D to become Class A. How about that?"
"A verbal promise?"
Chie Hoshinomiya frowned, not very satisfied.
"A verbal promise."
Subaru nodded.
"My, my, Subaru-kun is truly bad."
"To think you want to swindle one million personal points from Sensei just by casually saying a couple of sentences."
Chie Hoshinomiya acted somewhat coquettishly toward Subaru in dissatisfaction.
"Hoshinomiya-sensei, you can make your decision."
"Do you want to agree to my verbal agreement? If you agree, just transfer the one million personal points directly to me."
Looking at Chie Hoshinomiya, who had started performing again, Subaru placed the multiple-choice question directly in front of her.
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The Library.
"Natsuki."
"You seem to be very tired."
Hiyori Shiina looked at Subaru, who was sitting opposite her, and felt a bit amused.
Although Subaru usually had an ineradicable weariness on his face, Hiyori Shiina could clearly feel that today's Subaru seemed even more exhausted than usual.
"Is it because of becoming famous in the school all of a sudden?"
Hiyori Shiina had also seen the posts on the school forum.
Year 1, Class C had even held a discussion meeting specifically targeting Subaru.
The things revealed just in the posts had already proven that Subaru possessed power far beyond the ordinary. As the class closest to Year 1, Class D, the pressure on Year 1, Class C was also immense.
It is worth mentioning that after more than a month of interaction, the relationship between Hiyori Shiina and Subaru had been making steady progress.
Now they no longer used the more polite 'Natsuki-kun' to address each other, but used their names directly, making it more friend-like and relaxed.
Of course, this didn't mean that Suzune Horikita calling others by their surnames meant she treated them as friends.
Suzune Horikita was simply rude and lacked boundaries.
"Famous?"
"A little bit, I guess."
"Arisu Sakayanagi from Year 1, Class A found a little something for me to do."
Hearing Hiyori Shiina's words, Subaru smiled helplessly and said, "I feel like I haven't worked this hard on something for many years, so I feel a bit tired."
From scouting to 'rolling back', from Airi Sakura to Chie Hoshinomiya.
Since becoming the Purge King, Subaru had never done things with such a cumbersome process.
"It was actually Sakayanagi-san?"
"Although you feel more exhausted than usual, I feel that the current Subaru..."
"Is even more spirited."
Hiyori Shiina looked at Subaru with eyes full of smiles.
Even though the current Subaru looked deeper in weariness and his sense of exhaustion was more severe, Hiyori Shiina simply felt that the current Subaru was better than before—he had a bit more 'humanity'.
For this, Hiyori Shiina felt genuinely happy.
"Really, to think you'd feel the current me is more spirited..."
Subaru was somewhat speechless.
But thinking about it carefully, Hiyori Shiina wasn't wrong.
Tired as he was, many things that were simple when he was the Purge King had become complicated in this modern society.
It forced him to take several detours just to solve a single matter.
But he had to admit, his current mental state was much better than it was at the very beginning.
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