Chapter 105: Nagumo Miyabi Makes His Move!
"..."
Manabu's silence made Yuto frown.
"Nagumo Miyabi is really doing something big? And this matter is related to me?"
'How sharp, Shimizu Yuto.'
Manabu silently admired Yuto's sharpness.
Then he said in a calm, steady voice, "In truth, something unpleasant happened in the student council this morning."
"And this unpleasant matter is related to me?"
"Yes."
"I kept your student council application form in my desk drawer. When I opened the drawer today, I found the documents inside somewhat messy."
"I believe someone searched through them."
"The person who searched those documents definitely wasn't me or Tachibana Akane. So it could only be someone from Nagumo's side."
"Therefore... Nagumo should already know about you joining the student council."
"That's it?" Yuto asked in surprise.
"Mm. That's it."
Manabu pushed up his glasses.
"I believe Nagumo absolutely won't allow you to join the student council, so he will definitely act to stop you."
"Shimizu, be careful."
"I'll be careful. But honestly, I hope Nagumo Miyabi finds a way to stop me from joining the student council," Yuto said casually.
He did not really want to join in the first place.
"..."
Manabu felt helpless.
Even at a time like this, Yuto was still saying such things.
"Then that's all. Contact me if something happens."
"Mm."
Manabu glanced at his phone after the call ended.
He thought for a moment, then called his younger sister, Horikita Suzune.
Although Manabu had never exchanged contact information with Suzune, he was the student council president.
He had plenty of ways to obtain students' contact information.
...
Horikita Suzune was eating a convenience-store sandwich in small bites.
The sudden ringtone from her pocket made her feel puzzled.
"Is Shimizu contacting me?"
Why did Suzune immediately think Yuto was calling her?
Because the snow fox-like, tsundere Suzune had only exchanged contact information with Yuto!
However, when Suzune took out her phone, she saw that the caller display was a string of numbers.
It was not the caller display she had saved as "Shimizu Yuto."
"Not Yuto's call?"
Feeling confused, Suzune answered the unknown call without hesitation.
"Who is this?"
Her questioning voice was as proud and cold as a snow fox.
"It's me."
The reply was even colder than Suzune's.
"Onii-sama?!"
Suzune widened her eyes.
The cold girl immediately softened.
"How do you have my contact information...?"
"That isn't important, Suzune."
Suzune felt it was quite important!
"Today is the beginning of the month. The first-year students should have learned from their homeroom teachers how cruel this school is."
"Do you still plan to stay in this school?" Manabu asked coldly.
"Of course!"
Suzune answered without hesitation.
Then her tone softened.
"Because I already promised you, Onii-sama, that I would definitely reach Class A."
"I see. Then do as you wish."
"Tell me what happened in Class D, as well as the interaction between Shimizu Yuto and Koenji Rokusuke."
"Oh..."
Although Suzune was full of confusion, she obediently explained Yuto and Koenji's conversation.
Suzune did not even skip Koenji saying he had an exchange with beautiful girls.
Through Suzune's explanation, Manabu roughly guessed why Yuto wanted to target Koenji.
Because Koenji was the only student in Class D who did not submit to Shimizu Yuto's management.
Or rather...
He was someone Yuto had no way to manage.
On top of that, Suzune mentioned Koenji intended to buy Yuto's points.
So Manabu guessed that Yuto planned to cut off Koenji's point source, forcing Koenji to obediently earn class points for Class D.
After reaching that conclusion, Manabu decisively ended the call with Suzune.
"..."
Suzune silently looked at her phone after the call ended.
Now she understood.
Her brother, Horikita Manabu, had called her entirely because he wanted to know about Yuto!
"Could it be that in Onii-sama's heart, that Shimizu guy is more important than me?!"
An indignant Suzune stood up and returned toward the Class D classroom.
...
Holding his phone, Manabu muttered to himself.
"So Shimizu is indeed using the student council to restrain Koenji Rokusuke in his class."
"But this really is a good method."
"Using the student council to act also avoids being hated by Koenji himself. Not a bad plan."
That was right.
This was Yuto's idea.
He would let the student council step forward and cut off Koenji's point source.
That way, Koenji would not know Yuto was causing trouble behind the scenes.
Yuto would also avoid being hated by Koenji.
Moreover, Yuto had to complete this plan to cut off Koenji's point source before joining the student council.
After all, if Yuto joined the student council first and Koenji's point source was cut off afterward, who knew whether Koenji would resent Yuto?
Especially once Yuto joined the student council and became vice president.
Koenji was different from a useless poor student like Ike.
If a highly capable person like him hated Yuto, Yuto would have a headache.
"I hope the student council can smoothly cut off Koenji's point source."
"That way, he can only be forced to work hard with everyone and earn class points together," Yuto muttered as he returned to the Class D classroom.
Yuto had already provided Manabu with all useful information.
Whether they could successfully cut off Koenji's points now depended on the student council's execution ability.
Questioning students to gather information.
Finding the bribed teacher.
Obtaining evidence of private point trades between students.
Catching the buyers and sellers who violated school rules.
These tasks were not exactly easy.
"Horikita's brother should be able to handle this much, right? Don't disappoint me."
By tomorrow, Yuto would know that Manabu had not disappointed him.
He had even given Yuto an unexpected surprise.
...
When Yuto returned to the first-year building, he unexpectedly ran into Horikita Suzune, who had a gloomy expression.
When Suzune saw Yuto's handsome face, her gloomy expression instantly became cold and sharp.
Even the way Suzune looked at Yuto became slightly frightening.
"Horikita, why are you looking at me like that... It's like I stole something important from you," Yuto said subtly.
Wasn't that exactly it?
Right now, Suzune felt Yuto had stolen her brother!
"Hmph!"
Suzune snorted coldly at Yuto.
Then she walked past him in a tsundere manner, leaving Yuto with a blank and puzzled expression.
...
At that moment, Nagumo Miyabi was sitting in the Class 2-A classroom.
His face looked somewhat gloomy, and his mood seemed extremely bad.
The reason was that this morning, his subordinate, Secretary Tonokawa, had unexpectedly found Shimizu Yuto's student council application in Horikita Manabu's drawer.
If Tonokawa had found application forms from all students, Nagumo would not have been in such a bad mood.
But he had only found Yuto's application form in the drawer.
What did that mean?
It meant student council president Manabu had rejected every other student's application and kept only Shimizu Yuto's!
It also meant the student council president intended to let Shimizu Yuto join the student council.
Otherwise, why would Manabu keep only Yuto's application?
And also...
What happened to not letting first-year students join the student council this year?
Was Shimizu Yuto not a first-year student?
After learning that Manabu had kept only Yuto's application, Nagumo knew what Manabu intended to do.
He planned to use Shimizu Yuto, who did not get along with Nagumo, to restrain him!
'Shimizu Yuto's reputation is far too loud right now.'
'If he joins the student council, he will definitely become a candidate for the next student council president and become my obstacle!'
Nagumo silently thought with a gloomy face.
Nagumo had conflict with Shimizu Yuto.
Moreover, Yuto had powerful ability and was not someone Nagumo could control.
So no matter what, Nagumo could not allow Shimizu Yuto to join the student council.
Absolutely not!
However, Nagumo had already thought of a way to solve this problem.
He had sent his most trusted right-hand men, Tonokawa and Mizowaki, to gather information related to Shimizu Yuto.
Now Nagumo was waiting for them to return.
Ten minutes before lunch break ended, Mizowaki and Tonokawa both returned to the Class 2-A classroom.
They lowered their voices and said to Nagumo, "Boss Nagumo, we've already found the information!"
"We discovered that among the four first-year classes, there are two people easiest for us to persuade into acting against Shimizu Yuto!"
"Two? That's quite a lot."
Nagumo showed a slightly relaxed expression.
It was good as long as there were first-year students suitable for acting against Yuto.
Nagumo was most worried about having no one he could use against him.
Nagumo, who had conflict with Yuto, was not only planning to stop him from joining the student council.
Petty-minded as he was, he even intended to make Yuto withdraw from this school!
Because Nagumo knew Yuto was close with Chairman Sakayanagi, he absolutely could not personally step forward to deal with Yuto.
He planned to use other students against him.
Just now, Nagumo had sent his right-hand men, Mizowaki and Tonokawa, to the first-year side to gather information related to Yuto.
They needed to find which first-year students had the deepest conflict with Yuto.
They also needed to find who could most likely become Nagumo's weapon against him.
"One of them is Ichinose Honami from Class 1-B," Mizowaki said.
"Ichinose Honami?!"
Nagumo showed a surprised expression.
He had not expected the girl he had taken a liking to would have hatred and conflict with Shimizu Yuto.
Because Ichinose had submitted an application to the student council, Nagumo had naturally read it and knew about her.
Moreover, Nagumo had a deep impression of her.
He found this first-year student, Ichinose Honami, to be exactly his type! Not only was she beautiful, but she also had a stunning figure!
So after seeing Ichinose's application, Nagumo immediately developed other thoughts.
Although Manabu did not plan to let first-year students join the student council this year, Nagumo decided to wait.
Once Manabu stepped down and he became student council president, he would immediately recruit Ichinose and let her join the student council.
Nagumo simply had not expected Ichinose Honami to have a grudge against Shimizu Yuto.
"Actually, Shimizu Yuto tricked Class B at the start of school and took 740,000 points from the students of Class B."
"And Ichinose Honami is Class B's leader."
"I'm certain she hates Shimizu Yuto because of that," Mizowaki said confidently.
"He tricked Class B out of 740,000 points at the start of school?"
"Then Ichinose Honami, as Class B's leader, would indeed hate Shimizu Yuto because of that," Nagumo nodded.
However, the truth was not like that at all.
Ichinose Honami not only did not hate Yuto because of that, she even thought Yuto was a good person.
There was no hatred between Ichinose Honami and Shimizu Yuto at all.
The two of them were actually friends who got along very well.
It seemed Nagumo's lackey Mizowaki was not very good at gathering information.
He had only collected one-sided information.
He had not found the true relationship between Ichinose Honami and Shimizu Yuto at all.
"What about the other person?"
"The other one is Ryuen Kakeru from Class 1-C."
"Like Ichinose Honami, he is the class leader, except he rules Class C through violence."
"Oh, Ryuen Kakeru is a delinquent?" Nagumo showed an interested expression.
"That's right."
Tonokawa nodded.
"At the beginning of school, Ryuen Kakeru tried to rule Class C through violence."
"But at the time, Shimizu Yuto happened to pass by Class C."
"It seems he couldn't stand it, so he made a wager with Ryuen."
"What couldn't stand it? Shimizu Yuto just had his eyes on someone else's points," Nagumo said disdainfully.
Right now, everyone in the school knew Shimizu Yuto was extremely greedy for points.
Otherwise, could he have won so many points?
"Shimizu Yuto not only beat Ryuen Kakeru badly, he also tricked him out of 750,000 points."
"Ryuen Kakeru should be the person who hates Shimizu Yuto the most," Tonokawa continued.
In truth...
The person who hated Yuto most was right in front of Tonokawa.
It was Nagumo Miyabi!
Ryuen had been beaten badly by Yuto.
Nagumo had been crushed by Yuto on the basketball court and lost all face.
Ryuen had only been tricked out of 750,000 points.
Nagumo Miyabi had been tricked out of 3.58 million points by Yuto!
When he thought of all the humiliation Yuto had brought him, Nagumo's entire expression darkened.
He said gloomily, "Choose Ryuen Kakeru."
"After school this afternoon, contact him and tell him the method to deal with Shimizu Yuto."
"Understood."
"I will definitely make Shimizu Yuto withdraw!"
"Don't worry, Boss Nagumo. As long as your plan succeeds, Shimizu Yuto will definitely be expelled!"
Nagumo Miyabi had decided to cooperate with Class 1-C's delinquent, Ryuen Kakeru.
And with that, a conspiracy targeting Yuto began.
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