Chapter 394: Eavesdropping Through the Wall 2.0
Where did Sakurai Saki go today?
The answer—
A club leaders' meeting.
Shirogane Miyuki sat in the chairman's seat, with two "nuclear occupation weapons" at his sides, making everyone attending the meeting slightly tremble.
"The baseball club wants to enter Koshien this year to compete for the championship? So you're planning to invite a good coach?"
Sakurai Saki held the report, looking toward the baseball club captain.
"Y-Y-Yes sir!"
The baseball club captain, who was large in build and served as their pitcher, answered while trembling.
"I heard if you don't win the championship, the entire team has to shave their heads and do frog jumps around the field ten times? That's some fiery spirit."
Sakurai Saki thought things like that only existed in manga.
"Yes sir!"
That reply was full of sports-club flavor, making Sakurai's ears almost ring.
"Approved. I look forward to seeing you all shave your heads and frog jump around the field."
"Kojima, is the Kendo Club still joining the Gyokuryu-ki tournament this semester? There's still budget left."
Sakurai looked toward Kojima, who was sitting across the long table. Beside him, Ryuju Momo was lying flat on the table, asleep.
"Sakurai, if you're not going then I'm not going. I have to prepare for the Todai exam, I don't have enough energy."
"You don't have nomination rights?"
"My score isn't enough, and you say it like it's nothing. I'm only mid-ranked; forget Todai, even Kyoto University is hard."Kojima rested his chin on his hand, displeased.
The reason he had to take the Todai exam was because the career path for rising in the Japanese police force now worked like this—pass a famous university entrance exam, then pass the civil service exam to enter the police.
People like that are called the "career group," their starting point incomparable to regular police.
Higher than that are graduates of Todai and Kyodai.
Todai grads enter Keishichō (Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department), Kyodai grads enter Osaka-fukei (Osaka Prefectural Police).
These two groups are called the "gold watch group."
"You're someone from Keishichō, you can only take the Todai exam, right?"
"My old man already said, if I don't pass, he'll break my legs."
"That's rough…"
The two of them were third-year seniors and both members of the Kendo Club; no one dared interrupt.
Half a minute later.
"Sakurai, pause for a bit, you two can finish that discussion later."Shirogane Miyuki cut in.
"Okay."
Sakurai nodded and continued the reports.
Shinomiya Kaguya held a pen and recorded the content of the meeting.
Half an hour later, the meeting ended.
...
"Trying to intimidate me is pointless. You might as well call Iino over here."
In the hallway, Shirogane Miyuki turned to look at Sakurai Saki, who was checking data beside him.
"Miko's matters should be handled by herself. Besides, she has a lot of authority now, you didn't know?"
Miko—she can manage herself without senpai worrying.
"Iino has authority?"
In Shirogane's impression, Iino Miko was a cute, weak kouhai who ate an unbelievable amount.
And also liked arguing with Ishigami Yuu…
"At first her approval rate was only a little lower than yours. After running things for half a year, Miko having authority isn't surprising, is it?"
"Yeah… that's true."
Shirogane found his words reasonable.
But inside, he still felt a tragic sense of "the waves behind push the waves before, the waves before die on the sand."
"Shinomiya, when you went back to Kyoto before, you weren't forced to do anything, right?"
"Why? President, why are you suddenly asking?"Shinomiya Kaguya turned to him.
"Ishigami and Secretary Fujiwara kept wanting to ask but didn't dare, so I had no choice but to ask for them."
"Why don't you all just go ask Sakurai?"
Shirogane froze for two seconds, then said in shock: "Ask Sakurai? This involves him?"
"…He really hasn't told you?"
Shinomiya Kaguya felt that this "hero saves the beauty" kind of situation was super cool; a boy would definitely brag about it.
Not bragging now—was he planning to wait until middle age to brag?
A guy wanting to show off prepares twenty years ahead? Isn't that too exaggerated?
"Sakurai, you really don't know your place. No wonder you weren't nervous at all back then."Shirogane Miyuki criticized: "Why did you have to play the lone hero? If you wanted to save someone, we could've gone with you!"
"Afraid you'd slow me down." Sakurai Saki shot him a glance: "That day I went into the Shinomiya house empty-handed, took down more than a dozen bodyguards in one go, and negotiated with her father alone. And you think you should have barged in too?"
"Wait, which shounen manga did you run out from? A single person storming a conglomerate?"
Shirogane Miyuki couldn't believe it.
No one would believe it.
"To be precise, I brought along one bodyguard." Kaguya rested her snow-white chin and corrected him.
"Hey! Even two people would've been too much!"
"Ordinary people really haven't seen the vast world, it's truly helpless."
Shirogane Miyuki clenched his fists.
If these two didn't want to talk, fine, but why make up this story to fool me?
"Just now, that baseball club captain, he's related to the Shinomiya family, right?"
"Umu, I remember he's the son of a medical company director."
"No wonder he was so scared when he looked at us."
"Anyway, word about you has spread all over the Shinomiya house. With the orders my father gave, now who dares mess with you? But… taking down or injuring a dozen executives from major corporations at once… you went a bit too far. How will they replenish the staff so quickly?"
Hearing that, Shirogane Miyuki shook his head slightly.
All he felt inside was helplessness.
'These two… they talk nonsense as if it's real.'
Nowadays, "high school students soloing a tycoon" isn't popular anymore.
Hero saving the beauty? Way too over the top.
...
Back in the student council room.
Sakurai Saki hadn't even stepped in yet when he heard Miko's voice.
"Even Sakurai-senpai has a runny nose, gets angry, feels sad, sweats after exercising. I don't deny that many romances start from illusions. But when you cling to illusions, they usually end in shattered illusions. That kind of breaking will surely hurt the one you love."
Then Ishigami Yuu's voice followed.
"That's true. If you want to love seriously, you must see the other person with a normal mindset."
Outside the door, three people glanced at each other.
Whispering—
"Why are these two suddenly talking about love?" Shirogane asked, puzzled.
"They're just adolescent boys and girls, talking about love is normal."
Kaguya added: "Iino doesn't hide her feelings for you at all, Sakurai-kun."
"Kouhai liking senpai is normal? Besides, she doesn't put me on a pedestal as a god, that's better anyway."
Just as he finished speaking—
"In the future, I'll definitely go to the same university as Sakurai-senpai. Then, if there's an opportunity, I absolutely won't miss it! And you? If you don't go to the same school, Tsubame-senpai will inevitably meet someone better than you and leave you."
"Ridiculous. I just need a bit more effort and getting into the same school as Tsubame-senpai is easy. As for you, check yourself. Even Fujiwara-senpai doesn't care, do you think he'd care about you?"
"If he hugs me, my heart rate will rise too!"
"Any guy's heart rate rises when a girl hugs him."
Outside the door.
Shinomiya Kaguya teased after hearing: "Ai-chan would be really mad if she knew about this."
Sakurai Saki covered his face, voice full of helplessness:
"She really likes Miko, yes, but liking someone doesn't mean she plans to give me to anyone else."
You two! Shut up right now!
Don't say anything reasonable, but go talk about how to cuck on Ai-chan!
Do you even have any humanity!?