Saiki looked at the number of his points on the terminal screen decreasing by several thousand points, and in his heart was thinking secretly.
And just as Saiki was preparing to properly enjoy the dessert in front of him, a slender figure suddenly appeared next to him.
"Saiki-kun, such a coincidence!"
Although he did not look directly at the other party's appearance, already before this light female voice reached his ears, Saiki had already known the identity of the other party.
Kushida Kikyo, Saiki vaguely remembered this name; when he had just come to the classroom to do self-introductions among classmates, he had some impression of Kushida Kikyo.
Under her short brown hair was a face cute like a doll, and her voice was as light as a feather, the type that very easily blends together with the surrounding people. However, Saiki had earlier already used telepathy to know what kind of person Kushida Kikyo was.
[I want to become friends with everyone, that way I can maintain this image of good popularity~ then everyone's gaze will all be on me, besides, in that case, I can also use this interpersonal network to grasp more information, right!]
[Earlier I didn't manage to speak to Saiki, he looks like that very indifferent type.]
[Let's see if I can use this chance to get closer to him.]
Saiki could hear Kushida Kikyo's heart-voice; the thoughts in her heart were completely different from what she showed outwardly, probably there weren't many who could discover her true face.
Meeting him in the cafeteria was no coincidence.
'Yare yare, I got targeted by a troublesome person.'
'Kushida and I are the most incompatible types, she is enthusiastic about interpersonal interaction, the type that easily gets noticed by others, I don't like this feeling.'
'But from how things look now, if I don't talk to her, it will create more trouble, so I'll think of a way to deal with her for now.'
Saiki made such a judgment, slightly nodded toward Kushida Kikyo, and at the same time activated his ability.
Favorability Display, a derivative ability of telepathy, its function is to detect and quantify people's favorability towards oneself or towards others. Compared to ordinary telepathy, this ability is more controllable.
'Too high favorability makes me get more attention, too low probably will make me become a bullying target, in the limelight, best to keep the favorability at about 50.'
Saiki thought, and at the same time spoke, slowly saying, "Such a coincidence, Kushida-san."
Saiki could have directly used telepathy to transmit what he wanted to say into others' minds, but naturally would not use it on ordinary people who didn't know he had supernatural powers. However, normally he was still rather taciturn, and in non-essential situations basically didn't speak.
[Favorability: 42]
'Medium-low favorability? But this score is within the acceptable range.'
Saiki slightly turned his head, shifting his gaze away from Kushida Kikyo.
He possessed x-ray vision, the longer he looked at the target, the deeper the x-ray depth became. In just a few minutes, in his eyes, Kushida Kikyo was already developing toward the biological textbook human anatomy diagram direction.
"Didn't think Saiki-kun would like sweets this much! I also quite like them!"
Kushida Kikyo while smiling said this, and at the same time sat down next to Saiki, looking like they were very close.
[Saiki looks like the very difficult to get along with type, let's use sweets as the topic to draw closer relations with him.]
'Have to admit, truly impressive, even though favorability doesn't reach fifty, she can still pretend to be very close.'
Saiki's face did not have any expression change, and at the same time he adjusted the Favorability Display's display range, to look at Kushida Kikyo's favorability towards others.
Without exception, Kushida Kikyo's favorability towards people around was all floating around forty.
'There really are quite a few weird people in this class.'
"From now on, I'll be in your care! Let's exchange contact info!"
"Mm."
For Saiki, who possessed telepathy, using the terminal to send messages had no meaning at all, but in this situation, to directly refuse a request proactively raised by the other party would be impolite, and surely the favorability would greatly decrease.
"Kushida-san!"
And at this time, another person came over.
It was a girl with long peach-colored hair, her hair draping down to her waist.
On her slightly baby-fat cheeks were embedded very delicate features, especially those eyes like jewels, she looked very cute. On her slender legs were black calf socks, and her white thighs were revealed without doubt under the skirt hem.
Ichinose Honami, B-Class member, Saiki used telepathy to know her identity.
"Ichinose-san!"
Kushida Kikyo also smiled to greet Ichinose Honami. Earlier on at the entrance ceremony, she had proactively approached Ichinose Honami and became 'friends.'
"This is Saiki-kun, my classmate."
"Hello, Saiki-kun, nice to meet you, please take care of me!" Ichinose Honami very warmly greeted Saiki.
"May I sit here?"
Although Ichinose Honami asked this, at the same time she had already pulled out a chair and sat opposite Saiki.
'In this situation, if I directly refuse, it would surely be very awkward, but this is my extremely precious dessert time. I must think of a way to leave later.' Saiki was thinking this in his heart.
"Ichinose-san, how is it getting along with your classmates?"
"Pretty good..."
Kushida Kikyo deliberately made a very troubled expression.
"Just...there is one person who doesn't seem very willing to talk with me."
"Who?"
"It's Horikita-san. Ichinose, have you heard of her?"
Kushida Kikyo then began complaining about this to Ichinose Honami. Although it sounded like she was just casually saying it, Saiki could very clearly know Kushida Kikyo's true thoughts in her heart.
[Horikita Suzune, in middle school was in the same school as me, she might know everything I did in the past. I absolutely can't allow someone who knows my true face to stay in this school! If there is a way, I must make her drop out!]
'Yare yare, seems the people in this school are even stranger than I imagined.'
At the side, Saiki acted as if he had heard nothing, and at the fastest speed swept away the dessert in front of him, thinking that as long as he finished the dessert early, he could rightfully leave the table.
'Horikita, is it Horikita Suzune? This name seems somewhat familiar, she should be from our D-Class, but whatever. I also don't want too much contact with people here. As for Kushida, what you're really like, looks like there's now another person who knows, but this has nothing to do with me.'
While thinking this, Saiki had already swept all the dessert clean and was preparing to leave.
'I have to admit, these desserts really tasted superb. Although all are coffee puddings, the flavor styles were completely different, and the texture was very unique. Should I speed up digestion and eat a few more...'
And just as Saiki was about to leave, Kushida Kikyo beside him directed her gaze at him, "Saiki-kun, could I trouble you to help me with something?"
'You want to use me to help communicate with Horikita Suzune, right, through telepathy, I can already know your thoughts. But you've found the wrong person, I'm not good at handling these interpersonal matters. Besides, I don't even know Horikita Suzune, we've never spoken a word. You know that if it's me, it will surely fail. So your real purpose is just to use this chance to get closer to me, sorry, but I have no such intention.'
Saiki was about to refuse, just then, Kushida Kikyo continued speaking, "If it really works, then I'll treat you to dessert!"
"Deal."
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After leaving the cafeteria, Saiki quickly headed to the campus supermarket.
Although he had never had contact before, Saiki remembered the other's voice. The number of people in the school was much fewer compared to other ordinary high schools. Using telepathy, he quickly knew Horikita Suzune's location.
'Yare yare, for the sake of coffee pudding, let's pretend to make some effort.'
'Today is the first day of school, freshmen should all come to buy daily necessities.'
'Although I can go home anytime, if I don't buy anything, maybe others will get suspicious. Just right, I'll use shopping as an excuse to approach Horikita.'
Saiki thought while walking into the school supermarket. At the same time, the thoughts of the surrounding students almost all flooded into his mind at once.
[This month again no points...can only use the free daily supplies...]
[Every day there's only the free vegetables...really can't get full...]
[So envious of the A-Class guys, but with our D-Class level, there's no way we can compete with those monsters...]
'Most are upper-year D-Class students? As expected, no pie falls from the sky for free. Surely they had all their points deducted, so now they can't get enough points, and can only rely on free supplies to barely survive, this really is a special school.'
Saiki's gaze quickly swept across these people.
'Just to be safe, I still can't casually waste points, like those game consoles, clothes, laptops, completely no need to buy. I can go home anytime. These things have no meaning. Even though it's a school, there are too many products unrelated to studying. Honestly, selling game consoles in a school is a bit ridiculous. If you wanted to buy these, even 100,000 points wouldn't be enough.'
'The school wants to forcibly link points with students' capability, using material rewards to stimulate growth. But for these things, I'm not very interested. Game consoles I can play at home at night, laptops too. This 100,000 points for me, aside from buying desserts, seems like it has no...'
'Wait, jelly maker?!'
Saiki's gaze was instantly caught by a certain product in the supermarket.
In not even one minute, Saiki had finished paying, hugging the jelly maker like a treasure.
'Yare yare, as expected of this school, to let me discover such a treasure. It can make multiple flavors, comes with different molds, after charging has ultra-long battery life...'
'Compared to other devices, this jelly maker's cost performance is way too high. I only needed 40,000 points to get it!'
'When I go home tonight, I'll try making jelly myself!' Saiki's mouth slightly curved up, and his steps became light.
"It's Saiki, huh."
And at this time, a somewhat lazy-sounding voice spoke beside Saiki.
Saiki turned his head to look, what entered his view was a medium-height boy, his face could be called handsome, only his eyes seemed a bit hollow, and the whole person looked very slack.
Ayanokoji Kiyotaka, Saiki remembered this person's name. After all, his heart-voice was a bit too noisy.
[Saiki, judging from his clothes, probably from an ordinary family. His behavior also quite normal. In the class, his presence isn't strong. This point is somewhat similar to me, could he also be hiding something? For now, I can't read more information from him.]
'Hey hey hey, are you a detective? Normally nobody would think this when seeing a classmate.'
[Maybe he's a White Room student who entered this school? No, if that man had the ability to do that, he would've already tried to stop me at admission. Obviously, now his power can't yet reach into this school.]
'During the day, I already heard him mumbling about the White Room. I'm slightly curious about this term.'
[At present, the other party is most likely just an ordinary high school student. How should I interact with such a person? In interpersonal relations, I'm still a bit poor...]
'What a strange guy, and don't you have way too many internal thoughts? If this were a novel, you'd probably occupy half a chapter.' Saiki complained in his heart.
Using telepathy, Saiki knew that Ayanokoji Kiyotaka's background seemed somewhat special, he wanted to hide his ability and past, and seemed unable to understand ordinary people's emotions. This point was somewhat similar to Saiki himself.
But Saiki wasn't interested in Ayanokoji Kiyotaka. No matter how special he was, in the end he was just an ordinary person.
Saiki's gaze shifted to Ayanokoji Kiyotaka's side. Standing beside him was precisely his target for this operation.
Horikita Suzune.
She possessed beauty no less than Kushida Kikyo and Ichinose Honami, but she didn't have Kushida's cuteness or Ichinose's vitality. She just looked extremely cold, practically having "Strangers Keep Out" written on her face.
Below was the school uniform's white short skirt and dark pure-black over-knee socks, her fair thighs faintly visible in the gap between skirt hem and sock tops.
[Is it Saiki? Seems to be someone in the same class as me, but no need to have too much interaction.]
'Although it sounds a bit unpleasant, but this attitude is actually good for me.' Saiki was thinking in his heart.
Earlier, he had used telepathy to know the school's class assignment rules.
In this school, academic grades weren't the most critical factor, adaptability, decision-making, leadership were all parts being assessed.
Students assigned to D-Class obviously all had clear flaws. Horikita Suzune's flaw was lacking leadership, treating all others as burdens. That was why she, despite having very excellent grades, was still assigned to D-Class.
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