Chapter 119: Win-Win for Saki and Marin, Important Internal Meeting of the Super-Quant Club
"You want to join?"
Yoru rolled his eyes and teased.
"I may not necessarily agree."
"You guy..."
Kawasaki Saki clenched her fists but finally could only helplessly lower them.
She wanted to beat Yoru up.
The problem was, what if he snitched to her sister next time he saw her?
Don't say Yoru wouldn't do such a thing.
Kawasaki Saki felt he was perfectly capable of doing such a thing.
At that time, she would have to face her sister's harsh torture.
Moreover, he still had leverage over her.
"Hmph, I won't join anyway."
"Join or not, getting anxious now?"
"You guy..."
Kawasaki Saki's skin was already very fair. Now angry, the slight blush on her pretty face became more obvious.
"Alright, back to business."
Seeing Yoru instantly switch to a serious appearance, Kawasaki Saki was even angrier.
Obviously, you were teasing me, right?
Seeing this, Yui patted Kawasaki Saki's shoulder and said earnestly.
"You still have too little contact with him. When you contact him more, you will get used to it."
"Cough cough."
Yoru stood up, walked slowly around the clubroom, then spoke slowly.
"First thing, the Super-Quant Club has recruited three new members. Congratulations, congratulations..."
Before he could finish, Rio suddenly interrupted with a vigilant look.
"Hey, you aren't thinking of playing the Suona to celebrate, are you? Warning you, not allowed."
Yoru smiled contemptuously.
"Oho, your wording is quite cute? Then I want to blow even more."
"Not allowed to blow!"
"Just gonna blow."
"Not allowed to blow!!!"
"If not allowed, forget it. I'll blow you later."
Facing this extremely suggestive sentence, Rio's face instantly flushed red. She bit her silver teeth lightly, lowered her head, and dared not speak.
She really couldn't beat Yoru.
Admit defeat, giving up.
"Then, the second thing."
Yoru looked at Marin.
"Kitagawa-san, haven't you always wanted to try Cosplay but couldn't proceed because you couldn't find suitable costumes?"
"Yeah..."
Marin sighed deeply, holding her cheek with one hand.
"I have high requirements for Cosplay costumes. Don't want to buy mass-produced ones, but custom-made ones are really too expensive."
Marin's face had two words written on it.
Poverty.
This was a word Yui and Miko understood, but currently couldn't empathize with at all.
The wealthy Yukino and Rio, and Mai, who could earn hundreds of thousands from one episode of TV series and couldn't finish spending her savings, naturally couldn't empathize even more.
Only Kawasaki Saki showed an expression of empathy.
Kawasaki Saki's family wasn't exactly poor.
Just too many children, burden somewhat heavy.
She had a mature and sensible personality, didn't want to cause extra burden to her family, so to support the family and pay for cram school, she worked every day.
"Sigh..."
Kawasaki Saki and Marin sighed at the same time.
Looking at the lonely expressions of the two girls, Yui opened her lips, intending to say something, but was stopped by Miko beside her.
The latter leaned close to her ear, frowning and whispering.
"Don't talk nonsense. Our money is hard to explain."
Having been together for so long, Miko knew Yui's personality too well.
Nicely put: innocent, cute.
Unpleasant to say:
A silly child gentle to the extreme.
Seeing Yui's expression just now, Miko guessed she must want to say she had money and could lend it to Kawasaki Saki and Marin if not enough.
The problem was.
Where did this money come from?
Tell the truth, rewards from exorcism?
Miko didn't trust Yukino, Kawasaki Saki, and Marin right now.
For Kazusa, she trusted relatively more.
The opponent was once a client of the Super-Quant Club and didn't reveal a word during this period.
After all, Kazusa didn't talk to others.
Besides.
Marin and Kawasaki Saki weren't so poor they couldn't afford food or had problems with living.
Excessive gentleness and consideration would only hurt their self-esteem and make the relationship awkward.
Yui's high EQ had flaws.
She knew how to read the atmosphere but thought too much for others, leading to making some rather stupid decisions sometimes.
Hearing handmade clothing, Kawasaki Saki's eyes fluctuated.
Could it be...?
Just as she thought, Yoru then pointed at her and smiled.
"Kawasaki-san is very interested in sewing and also good at it."
"Eh, really!?"
Marin first showed excitement, then looked pitiful like a withered eggplant.
"But... I have no money."
Kawasaki Saki also added weakly.
"I haven't made complex things like costumes either; my skills might... not be good enough."
"Both of your problems are easy to solve."
Yoru looked at Rio: "How much is our club's activity fund now?"
Rio didn't think at all and directly reported a number that dumbfounded Kawasaki Saki and Marin.
"About 400,000 yen."
Not just these two financially embarrassed beautiful girls.
Even Yukino and Kazusa were surprised hearing the astonishing number of 400,000.
For the two of them, a mere 400,000 naturally wasn't big money.
But as a high school club's activity fund, wasn't this number a bit too exaggerated?
Where exactly did this come from!?
"My plan is simple."
Yoru leaned against the window, looking lazy and relaxed.
"All initial material costs and Kawasaki-san's labor fees will be advanced from our club activity fund."
"And Kitagawa-san, you are responsible for collecting Cosplay costume making experience online, and exchanging various details and professional knowledge required for Cosplay costumes with Kawasaki-san, letting her gradually grow into a qualified Cosplay costume maker through constant practice."
"When Kawasaki-san's technical level reaches the level where she can customize clothes for others online, then repay the advanced activity fund."
"What do you think of this plan?"
Since Yoru said so, Rio and the others naturally wouldn't have objections.
Although this money wasn't earned entirely by him personally—part of it was Miko and Rio's credit.
But they obviously wouldn't care about these.
Having that kind of relationship with Yoru, was a mere few hundred thousand still important?
"OK, then it's decided."
"Wait a minute!"
Kawasaki Saki frowned, bit her lower lip lightly, looked at Yoru sitting by the window, and said with a complex expression.
"You... why help me?"
Yoru replied in a matter-of-fact tone.
"Because one of the purposes of our Super-Quant Club is to help Sobu High students solve difficulties."
Miko, who joined earliest, heard this with a puzzled look.
"Is there such a clause? Why don't I remember?"
Yoru pointed to Yukino.
"It existed after she joined."
"Oh, so it is."
Miko nodded without any objection.
Yoru looked at the still tangled Kawasaki Saki and said nonchalantly.
"What are you still thinking about? In this way, Kitagawa-san has costumes, and you have a part-time job that isn't so hard, can be completed at home, and pays well."
"If you really feel bad, pay back a bit more then. Consider it our investment in you."
Hearing this, and thinking of what Keika said recently about not wanting her to go out to work all day, plus her own inner interest and hobby in sewing, Kawasaki Saki finally made up her mind and nodded.
She looked at Yoru with a complex expression, slightly shyly.
"Yoru-san, be... before I misunderstood you. You are actually a good person."
Yoru frowned.
"Hey, giving me a Good Person Card? Repaying kindness with enmity, huh?"
After complaining, Yoru looked at Yukino and smiled.
"Yukinoshita-san, see? Our Super-Quant Club has already completed two commissions, just in this short..."
Speaking of this, he took out his phone and checked.
"Just in these short two minutes."
Yukino was speechless.
She was very competitive and stubborn.
But witnessing the whole process just now, Yukino couldn't be stubborn anymore.
Yoru solved the difficulties of Kawasaki Saki and Marin with such high efficiency, in such a short time, using such a perfect method that didn't just solve the present but solved it once and for all.
If it were her, could she do it as perfectly as him?
However...
Seeing Yoru chatting with the Super-Quant Club members, Yukino frowned slightly.
Why do I feel he is somewhat similar to my sister Haruno in some aspects?
At this time, Mai, Rio, and Miko noticed another thing.
They looked at Kazusa sitting by the window with a calm face, feeling something wrong in their hearts.
Why hasn't the opponent's gaze left Yoru?
It was as if in Kazusa's eyes, other people in the clubroom were completely invisible.
Invisible, completely invisible.
Another new rival appeared?
....
Before the afternoon classes started, Yoru made a special trip to the teachers' office.
After entering, he sat directly opposite Hiratsuka Shizuka without even saying hello, speaking in a tone like issuing a notification.
"Shizuka-chan, telling you something."
"Rio Futaba won't participate in the Summer Sports Festival on Thursday and Friday."
Hiratsuka Shizuka froze for a moment, then laughed and cried.
"Leaving aside whether this conforms to the rules, Futaba-san isn't in our class either. What I say doesn't count."
Yoru looked completely indifferent, spreading his hands.
"Letting her participate is fine too. Then I'll transfer schools next week. Goodbye Sobu High."
Hiratsuka Shizuka frowned, saying grumpily.
"Using this to threaten me again?"
"I am first in the Joint Exam."
"Can you change to something else?"
"I am first in the grade in the Spring Exam."
"This..."
"Touma-san, Kawasaki-san, and Yukinoshita-san have already joined the club."
Hearing this sentence, Hiratsuka Shizuka, who originally had a worried face, instantly switched to another face, as if the embarrassment just now was feigned, smiling.
"Why didn't you say so earlier? Don't worry, leave Futaba-san's matter to me."
Yoru complained with a look of disgust.
"Shizuka-chan, what an ugly face you have."
Hiratsuka Shizuka smiled disapprovingly.
"Hmph, this is the adult world; learn from it."
Looking at Yoru's defeated and unwilling appearance, before Hiratsuka Shizuka could start to be proud, she heard him whisper a sentence that caused true damage to her.
"True, you haven't eaten rice for almost thirty years for nothing." (Calling her old).
"You brat..."
Hiratsuka Shizuka clenched her five fingers, striking towards Yoru's abdomen in an extremely standard straight punch posture.
"Take my Iron Fist Sanction!"
"That's enough."
Yoru didn't even bother to dodge, taking Hiratsuka Shizuka's punch head-on, his eyes not fluctuating at all.
Although she practiced, she couldn't break his defense at all.
"Eh?"
This was the first time Hiratsuka Shizuka used Iron Fist Sanction on Yoru.
The move that was always successful before, why has no effect this time?
Really strange...
"No."
Yoru looked speechless, lowering his head, looking at Hiratsuka Shizuka's hand pressed against his abdomen with five fingers spread open.
"What are you touching here?"
Hiratsuka Shizuka blushed, speaking shamelessly.
"You have abs; not bad."
"Strip naked for you to touch?"
"Th... th, this is not necessary."
Hiratsuka Shizuka, who pretended to be calm, was broken directly by Yoru's astonishing words.
After Yoru left, she breathed a sigh of relief as if a heavy burden was lifted, her cheeks slightly red, gritting her silver teeth resentfully.
"This brat... is really... really, don't know what to say. Personality is truly nasty."
Although she lost in the verbal confrontation.
Hiratsuka Shizuka felt she won big today.
She was almost moved to tears.
Finally.
Yukino and Kazusa, these two problem girls, joined the Super-Quant Club.
And Kawasaki Saki was included as a bonus.
Hiratsuka Shizuka pondered.
Class A's Yoru, Yukino, Kazusa, Kawasaki Saki—this quartet of problem students all gathered in the Super-Quant Club.
She couldn't determine yet whether this was a good thing or a bad thing.
However...
As a fellow problem student, if Yukino had a so-called place to belong in this school, and possibly existed like-minded people.
That could only be found in the Super-Quant Club.
"You sisters..."
Hiratsuka Shizuka twirled her ballpoint pen, sighed softly, and murmured.
"Really cause me trouble."
.....
After school that day, inside the Super-Quant Club room.
Yoru didn't choose to sit by the window this time but sat at the table.
He looked at the Super-Quant Club members and called out a few names.
"Yotsuya Miko, Futaba Rio, Yuigahama Yui, Sakurajima Mai."
"And... Touma Kazusa."
"Except for the members whose names I just called, others can leave first. Today's club activities end here."
Hearing these words, Kawasaki Saki and Marin looked at each other, didn't say much, greeted Yui and others, and left the clubroom.
They agreed to check out those Cosplay costume shops together after school. Since club activities ended here, they happened to be free.
But Yukino frowned, sitting motionless in her seat, speaking slowly in that consistent cold tone.
"Yoru-san, as a member of the club, is there anything unspeakable that needs to exclude me?"
Unexpectedly for Yukino, this time her remarks didn't get anyone's support present.
Yui, Mai, Miko, Rio, four girls looked like they wanted to say something but stopped.
And Kazusa cast her gaze on someone other than Yoru for the first time.
She looked at Yukino and said coldly.
"Of course because of distrust. Can there be any other reason?"
Although Yukino and Kazusa were in the same class, they weren't familiar. Hearing the opponent say such things at this time, she retorted without showing weakness.
"Since I have joined the club, I have the right to know..."
Before Yukino finished, Yoru changed his usual frivolous appearance, waving his hand calmly to interrupt.
"Just as you said, Yukinoshita-san, you are just a member of the club now."
"The people I called are those I can trust."
"And what we discuss is not something you can accept at this stage."
"Of course, if you are dissatisfied with this, you can choose to quit."
"Perhaps your determination to help others is just lip service, nothing more."
Yukino was silent, looking expressionless.
Finally, she stood up silently and walked straight out of the clubroom.
If it were at the beginning, hearing Yoru's words excluding her, Yukino would definitely choose to quit without hesitation.
But during lunch break, she had already witnessed it.
The opponent had the ability to help those in trouble.
Yukino didn't want to give up her goal.
Similarly, her competitiveness was aroused.
What Yoru could do, she could definitely do too.
....
After Yukino left, Yoru looked at the members present and spoke slowly.
"There is only one thing to discuss today."
"Recruiting a new member for the Super-Quant Club squad."
"Rio will introduce the specific situation to everyone."
Rio nodded and told everyone exactly what Yoru told her about Amano Hina's ability, life, general personality, and current predicament.
After listening, the members of the Super-Quant Club squad all had one attitude.
"Since she is in trouble and is a fellow spirit medium, we must help her."
"It's not that simple."
Yoru shook his head. Facing the puzzled girls, he explained.
"If we recruit her, if she encounters danger one day, what should we do?"
Miko gave the answer without hesitation.
"Of course, do our best to help her. No matter who the enemy is, isn't this the goal we gathered together for from the beginning?"
Yoru smiled and said word by word.
"Then what if... the enemy we have to face..."
"Is a True God?"