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"You just let it slip, didn't you? That wasn't a cosplay outfit at all..."
Asagiri seemed not to have heard at all and laughed as she spoke.
"Have you eaten?"
"Hmph, I'm not in the mood to eat."
Asuna Yuuki first said this in a bad mood, then reached out and grabbed Asagiri's sleeve, speaking softly.
"You're not back yet, how can we be in the mood for food? But we are indeed a bit hungry now, I'll go cook..."
"No need, let's go out to eat."
"Eating out?"
Kato Megumi glanced at the time on her phone and asked with some confusion.
"It's already past nine o'clock, most restaurants are closed."
Asagiri said meaningfully, "You'll find out when you come with me."
……
Fifteen minutes later, outside a 24-hour convenience store on the street.
"This is the victory celebration banquet you were talking about?"
Asuna Yuuki sat on a makeshift seat set up outside the convenience store, looking at the four buckets of instant noodles on the table, and couldn't help but chuckle as she looked at Asagiri.
"Seriously, we have instant noodles at home."
"Different artistic conceptions."
Feeling the cool breeze of a June night, and seeing the streets of Shibuya, which were much quieter than during the day, Asagiri rested her chin on her hand and murmured to herself.
"It's nice to occasionally enjoy a quiet and peaceful daily life."
After saying that, Asagiri turned her head and found that Yuuki Asuna, Kato Megumi, and Iwanaga Kotoko were all staring at her in a daze, so she couldn't help but laugh.
"What, can't you take your eyes off me anymore, given my irresistible charm?"
"Stop being so narcissistic."
Asuna Yuuki replied irritably, but just as Asagiri said, she, Megumi Kato, and Kotoko Iwanaga were indeed completely absorbed in watching.
My boyfriend is really handsome.
Moreover, when Asagiri was admiring the streets in the night, his unusually quiet and composed demeanor gave him a unique kind of handsomeness.
……
The following day at noon, at the entrance of Class 1-A of the private Shuchiin Academy.
"Are you ready, Utsunomiya-kun?"
Upon hearing Kaguya Shinomiya's voice, Asagiri stood up from her seat, looked at Kaguya Shinomiya with a determined expression, and nodded with a smile.
"It's time to start clearing the obstacles ahead."
5
Chapter 05 Assault.
As Asagiri, Kaguya Shinomiya, and Kotoko Iwanaga walked out of Class A, Chika Fujiwara and Asuna Yuuki also came out of Class B.
Upon seeing the five people enter the corridor, the first-year students who had just finished class and were about to go eat their lunches all consciously made way for them.
"Is this the aura of the new student council...? So powerful..."
"It's Asagiri Utsunomiya and Kaguya Shinomiya, our first-year student council president and vice president. They both look really impressive."
"Utsunomiya-kun and Shinomiya-kun are only freshmen who have been enrolled for two months. Could it be that these two will be serving as president and vice president for the next three years?"
"If Utsunomiya can keep what he promised in yesterday's speech, it's not impossible... Anyway, I support him."
Clearly, Asagiri, Kaguya Shinomiya, and others, as key members of the new student council, have become the most talked-about celebrities in the entire first year... no, in the entire Shuchiin Academy.
Not only did Kaguya Shinomiya, who was elected president as a first-year student, also choose first-year students as the main members of the student council, which was a first in the entire history of Shuchiin Academy.
While the majority of voices support the student council, some more rational students within the school feel that it remains to be seen whether a student council composed entirely of high school freshmen is capable of handling the complex daily affairs of Shuchiin University.
Asagiri, Kaguya Shinomiya, and the others arrived at the entrance of the student council room under the watchful eyes of the students, and then opened the door of the student council room.
When Kaguya Shinomiya took out her key and opened the door, she saw a tired-looking Ai Hayasaka with dark circles under her eyes sitting on the student council president's desk, clearly having been waiting for a long time.
The moment she saw him, she unconsciously smiled, but then tried her best to remain calm.
"I saw you took leave from school this morning and didn't come. I thought you didn't want to participate in our plan..."
Before Kaguya Shinomiya could finish speaking, Asagiri interrupted her.
"Alright, stop being so stubborn. You were clearly happy to see Hayasaka-san, but you had to pretend to be very calm. You really are a pure tsundere."
"That's just how this guy is."
Hayasaka Ai's previously dangling legs landed again on the pure wool carpet. She walked slowly to Kaguya Shinomiya, a slight smile appearing on her face, and shrugged as if in resignation.
"Therefore, I have to come and help her."
"Thank you... for your love."
Kaguya Shinomiya said this first, and then after everyone entered the student council room, she closed the door behind her and locked it from the inside before speaking softly.
“But I lied… In my plan with Utsunomiya-kun, we don’t actually need your help.”
"It's not just her."
Asagiri walked behind the desk and crushed the phantom tarot cards that had fallen from the sky.
"Persona, Mita".
As soon as he finished speaking, Kind-hearted Mita appeared in the student council room and immediately turned on the computer on her desk to begin preparations.
"I don't need anyone's help; I can actually handle it all by myself."
"Perhaps that's true, but..."
Kaguya Shinomiya sat down on the sofa, looked at Asagiri standing next to Kind Mita, and spoke softly.
"If we only let you carry out this operation and we don't participate at all, it's like we've given you leverage. Of course, we won't use this to blackmail you, but for the sake of peace between our two teams in the future, the best way is for me to participate as well. That way, we'll become like accomplices."
"Isn't your pride part of the reason?"
"You figured it out..."
Kaguya Shinomiya did not deny it, but simply raised her hand to tuck her long black hair behind her ear and said in a calm tone.
“That’s right, I can’t accept you taking all the risks while I stay in a safe place and pretend I know nothing.”
Upon hearing this, Asagiri simply smiled and said softly.
"It's because of your overly arrogant pride that we can't be teammates together to conquer dungeons."
"OK, found it."
Just then, Kind Mita suddenly pointed to the computer screen, which displayed footage from all the surveillance cameras inside Shuchiin, as well as a floor plan of the entire Shuchiin.
"Although the cameras in this area are very well-covered and there are no blind spots, they only cover people of normal build. If we move Xiaomi Tower outwards along this route, it won't be caught on any cameras. Let me see... It will take two turns along the way to reach the parking lot."
"Well, thank you for your hard work."
"It's okay, I should do it."
Listening to the conversation between Kind Mita and Asagiri, Hayasaka Ai, though still unclear about the situation, already showed a hint of shock in her eyes.
Judging from this... did that cute girl with long blue hair hack into the Shuchiin's internal surveillance system?
real or fake?
The security measures at the private Shuchiin Academy are much stricter than those of ordinary universities, and are comparable to those of some government buildings. Yet, the blue-haired girl managed to hack into Shuchiin's internal network in less than a minute while sitting in front of the computer.
What level of genius hacker is this? Why didn't I see him in the dungeon where I met Utsunomiya and the others? Is he a newly recruited member of their team? What's the principle behind that summoned appearance?
Hayasaka Ai's heart was filled with doubt.
"I've also set a timer for the surveillance cameras on the roads outside the school. When the time comes, you just need to click here to temporarily block all the surveillance cameras on that section of the road outside the school. I don't know how long it will take to repair, but it will definitely be enough time for you to take action."
"it is good."
Asagiri nodded first, looking at the image displayed on the computer screen, and muttered to herself.
"It will be resolved soon."
……
Meanwhile, outside Ashikaga Miwa's private office.
Shinomiya Hikari stood outside the door, carrying a black briefcase, his face looking extremely grim.
A mere suitcase could not possibly hold two billion yen in cash; it only contained five million yen, which was at Ashikaga Miwa's special request.
1.995 billion was paid via online transfer, while the remaining 5 million was delivered to her office door by Shinomiya Hiromitsu himself, carrying a briefcase, after the Shuchiin course this morning.
If he had a choice, Shinomiya Kōkō would not have wanted to agree to such a humiliating request, but he had no choice. He thought he had the victory in his grasp at the time, and only mentioned the stakes of the duel, without specifying the payment method. According to the rules of the duel, Ashikaga Miwa, as the winner, had the right to make such a reasonable request.
He had to choose between losing face here or losing face in the entire fighting arena. After much deliberation, Shinomiya Hikari chose the former.
However, to his surprise, when Ashikaga Miwa opened the office door and took the briefcase he handed her, she didn't mock him much, or even say a word. She just gave him a look that seemed to have a deeper meaning, and then closed the office door again.
Even as they reached the parking lot, Shinomiya Hikari couldn't help but continue muttering curses under his breath.
"That bitch, who does she think she is? Just you wait, when I become the head of the Shinomiya family, I will make her pay a hundred times... no, a thousand times, ten thousand times over! I can easily do it with just a few players... just you wait..."
The bodyguard and driver waiting by the car saw Shinomiya Hikari approaching, and seeing that he was clearly in a bad mood, he wisely didn't say anything. He simply opened the door of the extended luxury car and drove off towards Shuchiin after Shinomiya Hikari was seated.
"Damn it...damn it, that despicable woman, and her puppet Utsunomiya Asagiri..."
Sitting in the back of the luxury car, Shinomiya Hikari cursed angrily. He opened the compartment under the armrest, took out a cigar, and without caring that the car hadn't left the gates of Shuchiin School, lit the cigar, took a puff, held it in his mouth for a while, and then exhaled the smoke. Under the influence of nicotine, his depressed mood was finally relieved a little.
Just then, the two bodyguards, who had just driven the car out of the gate of Shuchiin, suddenly saw a small, doll-like thing waving at them from outside the front window.
"This is……"
Before the two bodyguards could even get a good look at him, the little figure vanished instantly, replaced by a mysterious person wearing a dark gray mask and a long black trench coat.
"boom!!!"
Asagiri placed his feet on the hood of the car, making a dull thud. Even while standing on a moving car, he didn't sway at all. Instead, he pulled out his usual chain dart and threw it, piercing the forehead of the bodyguard sitting in the driver's seat.
"Zi!!!"
The out-of-control, extended black sedan's tires screeched violently against the ground, making an extremely ear-piercing sound, until it finally came to a stop after crashing into the median strip between the two sides of the road.
Disoriented by the sudden impact, Shinomiya Hiromitsu, whose cigar even fell onto his trousers, looked terrified. Despite the dizziness in his brain, he immediately asked the driver in front of him.
"What happened?! What's going on...?"
Before Shinomiya Hiromitsu could finish speaking, the rear door of the extended sedan, which was originally locked from the inside, was forcibly pulled open from the outside. The force was so terrifying that the entire door was ripped off.
"You are……"
Upon seeing the familiar black eyes beneath the dark gray mask, Shinomiya Hikari was stunned for a moment. The next second, intense fear flashed in his eyes, and his body began to tremble.
The brutal and bloody scene of Ashikaga Miwa's fighter blowing the head off his "player" with a single punch last night flashed through his mind.
6
Chapter 06: The Power of the Strongest Player.
"Wait...wait a minute!"
Shinomiya Huangguang raised his hand and pressed his body against the other side of the car door. In this life-or-death moment, his expression was so terrified that it was almost distorted. He immediately begged for mercy.
"Spare my life, and I'll give you whatever money you want! I am Shinomiya Hiromitsu, the eldest son of the Shinomiya family..."
"The way they try to prolong their lives even when they're about to die is truly disgusting."
Upon hearing that familiar voice, Shinomiya Hikari's expression changed, his face twisting into a ferocious grimace.
"You...it was you...you bastard..."
Before Shinomiya Huangguang could finish speaking, dark red patterns composed of strange symbols began to appear around Asagiri.
"Supreme Magic Bullet".