After class, I go to Book Room #2 to talk to everyone in our "council," Sumeragi included. When I get there, Sumeragi is already in the room talking with Yumeko, who seems a little annoyed with her for cheating the game.

"Jabami-senpai! I did it to test Kokoro-senpai!"

"Well if you wanted to test her, you shouldn't have done it with real money."

"Well if you wanted to control how I gave her the money, you should've done it yourself!"

I tell them to quiet down. I tell everyone that Sumeragi is officially part of our team, and that we have enough money to fight Nishinotouin.

Everyone cheers at that news. After all, we can finally stop having our main goal be fundraising. However, we still have more to do before we can talk about how to defeat Nishinotouin.

"We aren't done yet," I call to everyone. "What we need to do now is we need to find a way for Nishinotouin to accept our challenge. If we just simply ask her to fight, there's no guarantee she'll say yes."

Shinohara pipes in. "Especially after I lost to her. Everyone in the school knows about how you got me out of debt, Nishinotouin included. If you try to fight her, she'll know you'll be trying to get revenge on her."

"That's right. There has to be some way to get her to gamble with me no matter what."

Ryota, who has been silent until now, interjects into the conversation. "You can become a house pet and use your official match against her!"

I completely forgot about the official match! It's the one right a house pet has. Once someone becomes a house pet, they have the opportunity to gamble with whoever they wish only once, provided that the betting limit isn't too ridiculous, but the student council typically accepts all official matches. Mary used an official match against Nishinotouin once before, Yumeko used her's when she was a house pet on Manyuda, and Shinohara used her's on Nishinotouin.

"Ryota, you're a genius! I'll fail to pay my donation and become a house pet!"

I thank everyone for meeting with me on such short notice. "Everyone, get back to work please. I'll start thinking of ways to beat the student council in more detail. This meeting is dismissed!"