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"I don't think it's good to threaten people into helping."
Yuigahama Yui said, frowning.
"Naive, Yuigahama! You are too naive!"
Amakusa Shino clicked her tongue and wagged her finger: "You're as sweet as a twenty-centimeter, uneven licorice candy!"
"Isn't licorice candy not very sweet and also very hard to eat? Also, why specify twenty centimeters?"
Yuigahama Yui asked in confusion.
"Forget it, Yuigahama, knowing too much will prevent you from going to heaven."
Yukinoshita Yukino patted the girl's shoulder, advising her.
"Eh?"
Yuigahama Yui looked bewildered.
"Don't worry about it. President Amakusa is inherently the type with a very low bottom line. If you insist on understanding her thoughts, your brain will break."
Asakura also uncharacteristically agreed with Yukinoshita Yukino.
By the way, Yanami was mumbling about licorice candy with an expression that made her want to taste it.
"If there's a twenty-centimeter licorice candy, maybe someone could go to heaven today."
Amakusa Shino was unfazed by their criticism, instead stroking her chin and contemplating.
"Huh, is it so bad it can kill people?"
Yuigahama Yui showed a surprised expression.
"...Retract my previous statement. The extent of this guy's no-bottom-line might already be able to activate Unlimited Void."
Asakura's eye twitched.
"Promise me, Yuigahama, never become like that person."
Yukinoshita Yukino also earnestly warned Yuigahama Yui.
"It's just a joke, why are modern people always so harsh on dirty jokes?"
Amakusa Shino muttered in distress: "Desire is one of humanity's three great desires, after all."
Asakura said: "Because it's inappropriate, right? No one stops you from telling dirty jokes when you're watching a gross-out movie, do they? The so-called public order and morals of society are pretty much that feeling."
"Understood. It seems I need to start working hard to become Prime Minister after graduation. My goal is to amend laws and make dirty jokes go viral worldwide!"
Amakusa Shino was full of fighting spirit.
"I have a feeling that even if President Amakusa really became that kind of Prime Minister, she'd still be defeated by a group of high school students shouting about friendship and bonds..."
Asakura muttered.
Yuigahama Yui also nodded her small head in agreement, busily.
"To accomplish my great, sorrowful wish, the first thing to do is to defeat the Student Council! Break free from the shackles of being a student!"
Amakusa Shino ignored Asakura's retort and continued to speak with passionate enthusiasm.
"Realize that you are the Student Council Vice President!"
Asakura continued to retort.
"For this, I need to submit a perfect answer sheet for the Founders' Festival!"
The Vice President said with a resounding voice.
"You actually managed to steer it back to the main topic..."
"Asakura-kun, Yukinoshita, Yuigahama, Ya... cough, please share your energy with me!"
The girl said grandly, in a tone as if she was about to unleash a Spirit Bomb at any moment.
"Wait a minute, Amakusa Shino, did you just naturally skip my name?"
Yanami Anna protested discontentedly.
"Because I felt that if I invited Yanami,"
Amakusa Shino avoided the other party's gaze and said unnaturally: "I felt that the snack reserves might not last until the Founders' Festival is held..."
"There are snacks too!"
Yanami's eyes lit up, then she calmly said, "Since Amakusa thinks I can't help everyone, then I won't cause trouble. I'll just be responsible for keeping all the consumables."
"What's the difference between letting you watch over snacks and letting a monkey guard a peach orchard? Would anyone really do something so foolish?"
Asakura retorted.
"That's not true at all! I'll definitely take good care of the snacks!"
Yanami protested, "I'll make up for any shortages with plain noodles!"
Asakura looked astonished, "That hasn't been eaten yet...?"
"Speaking of which, the original auditorium performances for the Founders' Festival were mostly poetry recitations, and there wasn't any service providing snacks. If even this part needs to be improved now, is the funding really okay?"
Yukinoshita Yukino asked with a frown.
"Hmm, I'll reallocate the budgets of the abolished clubs to here."
Amakusa Shino said cheerfully, "Originally, the Magic Club and the Service Club would also become the flesh and blood of the Founders' Festival, gu gu gu..."
The girl probably wanted to make a villainous strong laugh similar to 'hehehe,' but due to her voice and aura, her laugh had a strangely comical and cute quality, almost like a pigeon's coo.
"Whether it's this guy's Magic Club or my Service Club, it's regrettable that the Student Council didn't provide a budget, so we couldn't become part of the Founders' Festival. My apologies."
Yukinoshita Yukino showed a sarcastic smile.
"No, no, no, the Magic Club is a regular club with enough members, so we do have club funds," Asakura interjected, "Though it's only enough for two boxes of instant noodles."
"Huh, is that all? But..."
Yanami couldn't help but look surprised, but she didn't continue, merely looking at Asakura with a rather complex expression.
Knowing that he had accidentally let slip that his previous hot spring trips were all self-funded, Asakura immediately made a zipping motion over his mouth, saying nothing more.
"I think even if Amakusa Shino didn't use such a seemingly threatening way of speaking, Yukino would definitely help."
Yuigahama Yui said.
"Yuigahama, did you just very naturally try to keep the Magic Club out of this?"
Yukinoshita Yukino's gaze suddenly sharpened.
"Eh? No, not at all, it's just, how should I put it...?"
Yuigahama Yui showed a troubled expression, seemingly unsure how to describe her thoughts.
However, Yukinoshita Yukino still read her intended meaning from her face: Asakura-kun is already very tired; asking him to do something like this would be a complete waste of his talent.
Recalling the strange phenomena on Mount Kumotori in the news earlier, Yukinoshita Yukino also fell silent for a moment.
Fortunately, the girl adjusted quickly and immediately asked Amakusa Shino, "So what do you want us to do? Contact the students who were rejected by the Student Council to participate in the Founders' Festival performance?"
"The Student Council can handle that. In fact, only I, with my official Student Council identity, am most suitable for that. But as I said before, about half of the rejected program applications, and among those, only a little over half would actually accept an invitation to participate in the Founders' Festival. Aside from stage plays, which are time-consuming, labor-intensive, and expensive, those programs alone won't fill the performance time needed on the day of the Founders' Festival."
The girl looked around the club room, then continued, "So I hope you can prepare some atmosphere-boosting programs to perform as warm-ups during the Founders' Festival... Hmm, one program per club, plus an additional one from each club president, making a total of four programs should be about right."
"No, wait a minute."
Yukinoshita Yukino gave Amakusa Shino a death glare, "Doesn't that mean I have to prepare two programs by myself?"
"Is there a problem?"
Amakusa Shino asked.
"The problem is your brain."
Yukinoshita Yukino stated with conviction, speaking her mind directly.
"Oh my, are you sure you want to say that my brain, who ranked ninth in the last academic test, has a problem?"
Amakusa Shino looked at Yukinoshita Yukino (who ranked tenth in the grade) and asked with a rather superior tone.
"Temporary success or failure is not a precise indicator for measuring a person."
Yukino said coldly.
"Then what should it be measured by? The sharpness of one's tongue?"
Amakusa Shino met her gaze without fear.
"Everyone, please don't argue. Can't we just get along peacefully...?"
Yuigahama Yui (ranked fifty-ninth in the grade) said weakly.
"Damn it, our Reiatsu is too weak, we can't intervene in the struggle between the top ten in the grade!"
Yanami Anna (ranked forty-third in the grade) put a hand in front of her face, making an expression as if she was intimidated by their aura.
Seeing the atmosphere seemingly deteriorating due to their sharp exchange, Asakura felt that this was the perfect moment to display his demeanor as the top student in the grade.
So he cleared his throat, drawing the attention of both Yukino and Amakusa Shino to himself.
Then he spoke in a rather gentlemanly and elegant tone.
"How about bust size?"
""Shut up—!"" The two, who had been at loggerheads, shouted in unison with a four-hundred percent synchronization rate.
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