Ryuen clutched his waist, which had just been kicked. Slowly leaning against the wall, he pulled himself up from the floor.
"Which absolute bastard is so completely devoid of morals?"
Before he even had a chance to catch his breath, a second person arrived and stuffed him into a bag.
That person was Kanzaki from Class 2-B. He led a large number of Class B members to beat and kick Ryuen mercilessly.
Hachiman also joined in, picking up a small piece of wood and seizing the opportunity to strike him once.
After all, the dowry money for his sister, Komachi, had been completely drained because of this man, even though he himself was usually very reluctant to spend it.
Once the beating was finished, Himeno took out the lollipop she was sucking on and spat toward the bag wrapping Ryuen. She snorted in disgust, feeling her anger finally vented.
She had finally managed to exact revenge for her beloved man. It was this bastard's own fault for making Ryunosuke lose 140 million points.
Himeno put the lollipop back into her mouth and walked away, following the large crowd from Class 2-B.
By the way, this action had received tacit permission from Honami, even though the girl herself did not show up.
Ryuen lay flat on his back upon the ground.
He was actually enduring all these beatings on behalf of Ayanokouji, as Ryuen had become the scapegoat for his actions. Meanwhile, Ayanokouji managed to untangle himself from the mess completely clean. It was truly an extraordinary stroke of bad luck for Ryuen.
With his body covered in wounds, Ryuen slowly struggled to his feet. His footsteps were somewhat staggering. Fearing that someone else might come along to bag him again, he deliberately chose to walk along a route equipped with surveillance cameras.
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The next morning.
Ryunosuke brought Ayanokouji along to negotiate with all the first-year representatives.
The four first-year leaders gathered at the venue, including Nanase Tsubasa, Amasawa Ichika, as well as two new class leaders who took office after the departures of Utomiya Riku and Tsubaki Sakurako.
Ryunosuke didn't even deign to look at them for long. He dropped an art knife containing someone's fingerprints onto the table with a loud thud as a form of threat.
"You guys made me lose 140 million points, and even caused me to completely drain all the points of the second-years. Don't expect this matter to be resolved just like that."
The four leaders instinctively glanced toward Ayanokouji, who stood behind Ryunosuke. Everyone knew that he was the true mastermind, but due to the confidentiality clause in the contract, they couldn't say it aloud.
Ayanokouji merely remained silent while eating a red apple in his hand, looking as though he were entirely clean of this mess. If they dared to speak, based on the agreement clause in the contract, the entirety of the first-year students would be instantly expelled from school. This contract was signed after being inspected directly by the Chairman of the School Board, so they couldn't wiggle out of it.
Despite their reluctance, the four leaders were forced to shoulder this blame. Ryunosuke certainly knew that this was Ayanokouji's doing, but he had to pretend to be ignorant for the sake of extorting the money back.
His lost 140 million points had to be seized back from the party that caused this chaos.
Thinking of that, Ryunosuke suddenly felt incredibly furious. He snatched the art knife containing the fingerprints from the table, then drove it into Ayanokouji's thumb.
Ayanokouji fell silent.
His movement of eating the apple came to an immediate halt. He looked down at his stabbed thigh without daring to make a sound.
Ryunosuke was clearly venting his anger over being made to lose 140 million points. He acted as if nothing had happened as he yanked the knife out, then slapped it back onto the table while threatening the first-years with a flat face.
"On this knife is one of the fingerprints from the four of you; in fact, I possess the fingerprints of the entire first-year class. If I want to, I can have all of you expelled."
"If you don't want to be expelled, from now on I demand two-thirds of all the points generated by your four classes, until my loss of 220 million points is paid in full."
The four leaders immediately protested on the spot.
"On what basis should we pay? Besides, wasn't your loss only 140 million? Why are you factoring the losses of the entire second-year into your calculations? This is blatant extortion!"
Ryunosuke didn't waste words. He crossed his legs, pulled out his phone, and shook it in front of them.
"Want to try me? I can have one person expelled right this second on the grounds that someone deliberately stabbed Ayanokouji with an art knife. And when I stabbed him just now, I was already wearing gloves. So there are no fingerprints of mine on that knife; there are only the fingerprints of a first-year student."
Everyone was instantly silenced, not knowing how to argue back.
Right at that moment, a student who thought he was clever suddenly spoke up, uttering a sentence that made people shake their heads. "There are 160 people in the entire first-year class; I don't believe you have enough people to stab!"
Ryunosuke instinctively glanced toward Ayanokouji. Meanwhile, Ayanokouji, dragging his right leg that had just been wounded, silently backed away a few steps.
Everyone ignored the fool who offered such a ridiculous idea and continued the negotiations. In any case, the opposing party held the art knives containing their fingerprints. If he wanted to expel them from school, there were countless ways.
For instance, stabbing one person every few days, and then after the wound healed, stabbing another person. In essence, they could drag out the time, and sooner or later the entire first-year class would be completely expelled.
The first-year students didn't dare to gamble. After all, the man before them was a ruthless individual, the Demon King who ruled over the entire second-year.
Therefore, both sides conducted negotiations. The first-year party felt that a two-thirds cut was too high and tried to bargain.
Ryunosuke tapped the table with his finger, asserting that this matter was non-negotiable because he had calculated everything thoroughly.
Currently, the first semester had been running for four months. After deducting the 8 million points the first-years spent to oppose him, they currently held only 21 class points, or a total of around 29 million.
In a single year, their total points wouldn't even reach 100 million, and that was assuming they could obtain the full 100 thousand points every month. If there were reductions due to inter-class competition, that amount wouldn't even be achieved.
Ryunosuke had factored in the interest as well. With the principal and interest installments, the money would be paid off in exactly three years.
The first-year students thought to themselves that this man was truly money-mad, to the point of being able to calculate their finances in such precise detail. However, what else could they do? They could only accept their fate.
From this point, it was evident how terrifying the fact was that Ryunosuke possessed 200 million private points. Even if the entire first-year class lived frugally for a whole semester, they still couldn't gather a small fraction of that amount.
Ultimately, the first-year students signed that unfair agreement with an installment payment system to settle the 220 million points to Ryunosuke within three years.
The leader of Class 2-A, Amasawa Ichika, actually desperately wanted to beat this man up. Despite the fact that she had provided secret information beforehand, this man showed absolutely no favoritism and still extorted her money.
With a flat face, Ryunosuke tidied up the contract documents on the table. Since his goal had been achieved, there was no reason for him to linger. He stood up and left together with Ayanokouji.
Now, only the matter of Ayanokouji remained unresolved.
Ryunosuke halted his steps and turned toward Ayanokouji. "Get yourself expelled from school."
Ayanokouji complied with a flat expression. "I understand."
In any case, he knew that Ryunosuke would certainly have a way to bring him back later. As for what method would be used, Ayanokouji didn't want to overthink it, even though he could already guess the general outline.
Not long after that, Ayanokouji cancelled the strategy of using 100 thousand points to stall his expulsion process for one day. He manfully accepted the decision to be expelled from school.
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