"Cooperate?"
"I want to borrow your Karuizawa for a bit, when the time comes during the class meeting…"
Ayanokoji immediately spoke out his own idea.
[The current Karuizawa should be completely obedient to Saiki, right.]
'Hey hey hey, what do you mean by my Karuizawa?'
Saiki's eyebrow twitched a little, but he still shook his head, "What you want to do has nothing to do with me, but if you want Karuizawa to do something, you can just go find her yourself, there is no need to come find me."
Saiki really did not want to get dragged into bigger trouble, and he also felt that Ayanokoji's plan was definitely unreliable.
"Is that so?"
Ayanokoji seemed to be a little surprised by Saiki's words, and at the same time his brain spun quickly, thinking about the reason why Saiki would answer himself like this.
[Did Saiki deny my plan? Is it that my plan has flaws? Or could it be, Saiki has a better idea?]
'Hey hey hey, whatever you want to do has nothing to do with me, can you not drag me in?' Saiki thought this in his heart.
Every time when he said something or did something, Ayanokoji would fill in in his head a whole bunch of inexplicable things.
Clearly earlier he had already hinted to Ayanokoji, telling the other party that Chabashira Sae was someone who liked to bluff, but the other party still seemed to make promoting the class to Class A the goal.
"Ayanokoji, before that, I have something I want to ask you first, shouldn't you also be someone who longs for a peaceful life? Why do you still care so much about the matter of being promoted to Class A?"
Saiki finally could not hold it in anymore and opened his mouth to ask.
"Probably because of some unavoidable reasons."
"Were you threatened by Chabashira-sensei?"
Saiki could only advance the progress of the conversation himself.
[Saiki actually noticed even this? As expected of Saiki.]
'With telepathy and clairvoyance, it's hard not to know.'
[But he probably still doesn't know about the White Room.]
'Referring to the white gym? Or that white cram school?'
[But since Saiki already said this much, it's fine to appropriately tell him part of the truth.]
"Mm."
Ayanokoji nodded, "Chabashira-sensei indeed, using a certain condition, let me assist her to help her rise to Class A, it involves my past."
"No matter what Chabashira-sensei says, eight or nine times out of ten she's only lying to you."
Saiki continued speaking. "Mm, at present this possibility is very high, but there's still no substantive evidence, on the other hand..."
After finishing speaking, Ayanokoji paused for a moment, then continued.
"I've developed a little interest in the changes happening in the school, I somewhat want to know what kind of things will happen later in this school, and also, to prevent any unexpected things from happening at that time."
"I think training a tool that is easy to control is the most suitable, so I'm preparing to let Horikita grow, but this time's sports festival might end in a crushing defeat."
"For matters related to that, do whatever you want, just don't drag me in." Saiki sighed and said to Ayanokoji.
"Mm, I understand." Ayanokoji nodded.
[Does Saiki seem to have his own plan? Then I'll just watch the situation for now.]
'Hey hey hey, I just purely don't want to participate…'
———
The next day, within the class, there was a discussion about the list of participants for this sports festival, basically divided into two factions.
One faction wanted everyone to be able to get an opportunity, and the other side was the ability faction represented by Sudo, who prioritized class results.
And Horikita was also a representative of this faction.
But unlike Sudo's single proposal, Horikita also made more rules to slightly take care of the students in the class whose grades were worse, students who won top ranks could, when points were sufficient, transfer the scores or points to members with lower class results.
Horikita also made all other rules so that most of the class members could be satisfied, and in the end they still agreed to her proposal.
[If it were me, I would probably arrange for others to oppose Horikita's proposal, although it would still probably get passed in the end, it should still let Horikita realize that not everything will necessarily go according to her expectations.]
[Karuizawa is the most suitable choice, she leads the largest group of girls in the class, as long as Karuizawa can raise an objection, I suppose many girls would agree too, but I am not Saiki, I cannot completely control Karuizawa.]
[Kushida could also have a similar effect, but as Class B's traitor, she is not a suitable choice.]
Although Ayanokoji had his own ideas, because Saiki seemed unwilling to intervene, in the end he could not successfully implement them.
Saiki looked around; at this moment, there were still people in the class who inwardly did not agree with such a decision, but because the voting result was already clear, they had no choice but to comply with this instruction.
After confirming the overall policy, next was to determine the participants for each event.
Sudo, Horikita, and Hirata Yousuke, and other students with outstanding physical ability, volunteered for many events, but still only filled part of them, and there were still many events with no participants.
"Hey, Koenji, you're not going to help?"
Sudo glared at Koenji, who was sitting on the side and had not participated in the discussion at all.
Although he was very displeased with Koenji, Sudo had to admit that the other had terrifying physical ability.
In last semester's swimming class, Koenji had beaten Sudo.
If Koenji seriously participated, at least in individual events he could guarantee top rankings.
"I have no interest, you all just proceed as you like."
Koenji responded with an indifferent expression, always adjusting his hairstyle, never looking at Sudo even once from start to finish.
"Don't joke around!"
The anger in Sudo's heart had already risen without him noticing.
"I'm not joking, I have no reason to be forced by you. Even if you had the right to force me, I still wouldn't listen to you." A haughty smile remained on Koenji's face.
"You…"
Sudo's anger had already reached its peak, but thinking of earlier events, he still forcibly suppressed it.
"Then let's go to the gym later for a physical test, that way we can arrange different events according to each person's physical qualities, how about it?"
Feeling the atmosphere had shifted, Hirata Yousuke immediately stepped in to smooth things over, and the other students present all expressed agreement.
'Yare yare… there's even a physical test segment…'
Saiki's brows furrowed tightly; originally he had planned to just muddle through, but he had not thought there would be this development,
'A small matter, as long as during the physical test I deliberately keep a slightly below average score, there should be no problem.'
———
Very soon, Class B's students arrived at the gym to test each event; because it was an open gym, the number of people present was not small, and with the presence of students from other grades, it was somewhat noisy.
The first event was grip strength; Hirata Yousuke and Horikita borrowed two grip strength meters, and then tested in order.
'Yare yare, starting with grip strength, huh?'
Saiki observed the equipment around him, guessing what kind of events would follow, and how he should deal with them, 'My turn should be relatively late, so at that time I can just take the average of the scores of some people before me…'
Just thinking about it made Saiki feel a bit of a headache.
"Saiki, it's your turn."
At that moment, before Saiki could react, Ayanokoji had already handed the grip strength meter to him.
"What? So soon? Shouldn't I be one of the last few people?" A trace of doubt flashed in Saiki's eyes.
"Just now Sudo said he wanted to be the first to test, to show the strength of 'leading the whole class,' so it changed; he became the first, I was second, I just finished, now it's your turn." Ayanokoji replied.
"Alright then…"
Saiki carefully took the grip strength meter; just now, when he had been thinking about the problem, he had been somewhat distracted and had not noticed what had happened over here, 'Damn it, originally I was one of the last few, and now I've become the third? Damn it, only Sudo and Ayanokoji's samples ahead of me, I'll just observe for now.'
While thinking this, Saiki immediately used x-ray vision to look at the notebook in Hirata Yousuke's hand, where the grip strength of the first two people was recorded.
Sudo: 82.4
Ayanokoji: 60.6
'How much is the grip strength of an ordinary high school boy? I have no idea… Since Ayanokoji is sixty-something, then I'll just do around sixty too.'
Thinking this, Saiki controlled his strength, bit by bit letting his fingers exert force.
For Saiki, this was the most difficult thing in life; he needed to keep his concentration super high.
"Hurry up, Saiki, what are you dawdling for?"
At the side, Sudo urged impatiently.
'Don't rush me.'
Saiki replied inwardly with some irritation.
But that moment of distraction caused Saiki to instantly lose control of his strength; the pointer on the grip strength meter spun like a mad dog, '!!??'
At that instant, the lights of the entire gym suddenly flickered once, but half a second later quickly returned to normal.
"Strange, what's going on? Is the school's current unstable?"
Everyone spoke in confusion, and Sudo turned his head to look at the grip strength meter in Saiki's hand; the pointer stopped at the value 70.1.
'Yare yare, that was close…'
Saiki let out a long breath in his heart, the corner of his mouth involuntarily lifting slightly.
Because of a moment's distraction, his grip strength had truly gone off the charts.
To avoid causing panic, Saiki immediately used psychic powers to control the gym's lights to flicker a few times, drawing everyone's attention.
At the same time, Saiki continued exerting force to make the pointer go around once and come back, but because the time was too short, he had no time to fine-tune, and could only leave it at around seventy.
'Just now, the shell of the grip strength meter was even slightly damaged; luckily I used restoration ability in time.'
'Sudo's over eighty, Ayanokoji's over sixty, my over seventy might be a bit high, but it should be within an acceptable range, it's their average.'
Thinking this, Saiki turned to look at Sudo,
And what entered his vision was Sudo's incomparably shocked expression.
'???'
"Saiki… I didn't expect you to be this strong?"
"?"
"Although you look incomparably skinny and weak, I didn't expect your strength to be this great?"
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