That's right—the person trying to sell voice recorders to the Student Council President was Asakusa Toru.
What he had written in his diary yesterday wasn't just advice directed at Horikita Suzune.
It also included "calling out names."
There were far too many "eccentric geniuses" at Advanced Nurturing High. Without even thinking, he could list a whole bunch of them. Although selling information on the first day of school looked flashy, when he thought about it carefully, it really wasn't that bad.
After all, no matter how hard a schemer worked their whole life, they couldn't match a single moment of genuine stupidity from a so-called "genius."
Still, it wasn't reasonable enough.
So, he gave himself a suitable identity.
For example, the "Voice Recorder Guy" he had secretly slipped into that list of nicknames.
Since Class D had Koenji Rokusuke—the "Beautiful Guy" who only cared about his own beauty—then it was perfectly reasonable for Class B to have a "Voice Recorder Guy" who handed out recorders everywhere, right?
Let's start an arms race of voice recorders at Advanced Nurturing High!
In short, in order to complete his character setup and confirm whether Horikita Suzune was truly a reader, Asakusa Toru spent a bit of his personal points. He disguised the origin of his recorder replicas by adding some "materials" to his expense records, prepared enough copies, and arrived late to start causing trouble.
Using a stern expression and silence to suppress students and calm them down was a common strategy.
Usually, teachers used it.
That Horikita Manabu could use it so skillfully already showed that he was far ahead of his peers.
But honestly…
It was too pretentious.
Hard to watch.
Bro, you're just a student council president. Why are you acting so high and mighty?
If you're going to recruit, do it properly.
If you don't want to recruit sincerely, then don't.
Who are you fooling here?
"..."
Horikita Manabu's expression didn't change at all as he looked at this troublemaking first-year.
Asakusa Toru's appearance was unexpected. He truly hadn't thought that a freshman would dare to do something like this.
More importantly—
Why was he buying used fridges and TVs?
And wholesaling voice recorders?
Was he… trying to sell something to him?
He couldn't understand this guy's logic at all.
Since he couldn't understand it, he decided not to.
Just as Horikita Manabu was about to speak again, Asakusa Toru moved.
He tapped his own head and showed a sudden look of realization.
"Oh, you want to test it, right?" he said to himself.
Then he took out another recorder, turned it on in front of Horikita Manabu, and began recording.
He opened his mouth:
"Student council recruitment, student council recruitment. We don't want weak ones, don't want stupid ones, don't want part-timers, don't want disobedient ones, don't want slackers. In short, we don't want any first-years at all—"
His voice echoed clearly through the silent gym.
Click.
He stopped the recording.
Then pressed play.
"Student council recruitment, student council recruitment. We don't want weak ones, don't want stupid ones, don't want part-timers, don't want disobedient ones, don't want slackers. In short, we don't want any first-years at all—"
An even louder voice looped endlessly from the recorder.
"..."
"..."
"Pfft—"
The first person to burst out laughing was a blonde-haired girl in the audience.
Ichinose Honami laughed happily and brightly.
"Haha, hahaha, hahahaha—"
This was exactly something he would do.
At first, the other students didn't dare speak.
But once Ichinose laughed, the tense atmosphere instantly melted.
"Wow, this guy is even crazier than I thought."
"He really dared to do it—right in front of the president."
"What is this guy doing?"
"Does he have no respect for seniors at all?"
"Is he a freshman? Does anyone know him?"
"Seems like it's Asakusa Toru from Class B."
"Wasn't the one laughing just now also from Class B?"
"He's amazing. I think I'm starting to like him."
"Hmph, just a clown, right, Haruki?"
"Yeah, yeah, just attention-seeking."
Noisy voices quickly flooded the entire gym.
Amid the chatter, a blue-purple-haired girl cupped her hands around her mouth and shouted loudly:
"Are—you—crazy?!"
Even though she tried her best to shout, her voice was completely drowned out by the crowd and couldn't reach Asakusa Toru on stage.
Horikita Manabu: "..."
The carefully prepared atmosphere had been casually destroyed by Asakusa Toru.
At this point, it was safe to say that this recruitment session had basically failed.
He didn't really care whether his authority was damaged. At most, it would slightly affect the school's evaluation of him. His accumulated achievements wouldn't disappear because of this.
What interested him instead was the content of the recorder's repeated playback.
That childish elimination method.
That childish summary.
Yet, what it expressed was exactly what he had planned to say later.
Of course, he wouldn't phrase it so bluntly.
But the meaning was almost the same.
Interesting.
Lightly pushing his glasses, Horikita Manabu took out his personal terminal.
"Price," he said coldly to Asakusa Toru, in front of more than a hundred students.
Tachibana Akane, who was hosting, was completely shocked.
"P-President?!"
Wait—why take out a terminal?
Was he going to buy it?
The Student Council President personally buying a freshman's voice recorder?
Tachibana's mind was in chaos, but she couldn't oppose his decision.
"Three thousand personal points, dear customer," Asakusa Toru replied with a smile, surprise flashing in his eyes as he took out his own terminal.
He gave them away for free to cute girls.
But since there was a sucker willing to pay, why not take the money?
Smile service. Premium smile service.
Ding.
The points arrived.
Asakusa Toru handed over the recorder, which was still looping his recording, without hesitation.
"This one's fine, right? Or do you want a brand-new one?"
"This is enough," Horikita Manabu replied.
He took it and stopped the loop.
Then, he turned on a new recording.
"Student council recruitment. There are no special requirements for candidates. However, those considering applying should avoid joining other clubs. In principle, applicants who participate in both the student council and other clubs will not be accepted."
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