The next day, Shinji arrived to class as usual. He gave Sae the doctor's permit, which he just bought from an upperclassmen. And now, he and his classmates were in PE, preparing for the sports festival. As his classmates were training, Shinji helped them, but he didn't train himself, which seemed weird for a few, so it wasn't surprising when Suzune asked Shinji:

"Why aren't you also training?" asked Suzune

"Because of them" Shinji said, pointing towards the seating benches, where you could see a couple of students from classes D and A sitting on the benches, observing their class.

"They're scouting for their classes, so I don't want to reveal my full capabilities to them. And to be honest, I don't need the training with the class. My body is in top shape, and my regular training is enough for keeping it. In PE classes, when everyone can come and see our training, I won't train. Instead, I'll focus more on the others, to help them get better" he whispered to Suzune. And with that, Suzune returned to her training, and Shinji returned to help his classmates.

However, Shinji noticed a few students who are relatively unathletic than the other students, so he asked Kiyotaka to train them. Shinji and Kiyotaka reached an agreement, in which Kiyotaka will show some of his athletic abilities, so he would look above average, but won't stand out too much. Those students were Haruka Hasebe, Airi Sakura, and Teruhiko Yukimura. Hideo Sotomura was also unathletic, but he was even more unathletic than the other three, so Shinji marked him as a lost cause.

Because of that training, and with the addition of Akito Miyake, which was close to Haruka, they all became friends with Kiyotaka, and often hang out with each other. After he observed them, Shinji could tell that Airi was obviously in love with Kiyotaka, but Kiyotaka was oblivious to her feelings, or at least, that was what he showed on the outside.

Shinji, for his part, already completed his preparations behind the scenes. Arisu, Shiho, and Kikyo all submitted the participation tables he prepared on the first day of the semester, and Arisu also confirmed when exactly her class submitted their participation table, and Shiho confirmed that her class haven't submitted theirs yet. His class and class B also haven't submitted their participation tables as well, as a part of the act that they only started to train now.

When Shinji thought that he was finally ready for the sports festival, he received a call from Kikyo

"Why are you calling me on the phone? You can simply come to meet me"

"It's because I just met with Ryuen. He called me out of nowhere and wanted to meet. He said that you know about our relationship, but it won't matter for what he wants me to do. Then, he said that he knows that our class are training together with class B, and he wants me to send him a picture of both of the classes' participation tables"

Hearing that, Shinji smirked widely, as he thought of an idea in his mind

"I didn't expect him to do that, but it's even better for us. Originally, I planned to get our class to the first place among our year, but the problem was class B, as they have the biggest amount of athletic students in our year, and I didn't want to directly hurt them, and I thought that if I'll participate in all of the competitions, I'll get our class to the first place.

However, this gives us the perfect opportunity to secure our victory. We can have you send a picture of the participation tables to Ryuen, since ours isn't the real one anyway, and by doing that, it'll hurt class B, without us being accused of it.

After the sports festival, it also will give you the perfect chance to cut ties with Ryuen, since both classes will be looking for the traitor, and you'll say that it's too dangerous, and cut ties with him.

However, the main suspect will be a student from class B, since their class's participation table will be the only one who wouldn't change, which I hope that this will be enough to start hurting the unity their class have, which will allow me to try something that I wanted to do for a while"

"What is it?"

"To get Honami to our class"

"What do you mean?" asked a puzzled Kikyo

"Honami is a very intelligent and capable person, which can be very useful for our class, and my plans. For that, I'll have to break down the unity their class have completely, and then to come as a hero, who Honami has strong feelings for, and "save" Honami from her class, successfully getting her to our class"

"Even if you manage to break their unity, how are you going to get her to our class? Is it even possible?"

"It is. Everything can be bought with points in this school, and while it's very expensive, it's possible to buy the right to transfer to any class you want. I received information from an upperclassmen, saying that the cost for it is 20,000,000pp"

"20,000,000pp!? Where will you get that kind of amount!? Is it worth it only to get Ichinose-San to our class?"

"The amount of points doesn't matter to me anymore"

"Why is that?"

"Because recently, I finally managed to hack into the S-System"

"What do you mean!? Does it mean you can get an infinite amount of points!? But isn't it against the rules?"

"It is, but as long as they can't prove that I violated the rules, they can't do anything to me. And even if they'll want to, they can't do anything to me, as I have someone within the school staff, who works for me. Though I still rather legally gain my points, so as long I won't absolutely have to, I won't add any unnecessary points to me. There's no reason to take unnecessary risks. However, the worth of Honami is high enough to take that risk"

"If you say so... You said that someone works for you within the school staff, right? Who is it?"

"The School Chairman, Kaito Sakayanagi"


~~~ With Kaito ~~~

Kaito Sakayanagi was a busy man. Being the chairman of the most famous school in Japan was a lot of work.

However, instead of heading home after a long workday, Kaito was heading to the hospital. His wife had a rare disease without any known cure. She had it for 9 years now. However, she wasn't supposed to survive that long. It was all thanks to him. All thanks to THAT day


~~~ Flashback ~~~

Kaito was heading to the hospital after he finished with his work at the school. However, something seemed weird to him, when he got to the floor where her room was, he couldn't see any of the hospital employees. No doctor or nurse was seen on the floor. But, despite it seemed weird to him, he needed to visit his wife. The doctor recently informed him that his wife only has 2-4 weeks to live, so he had to spend as much time with her as he could.

However, when he entered the room, he was very alarmed and shocked at what he saw. He saw none other than the "dead" Shinji Amasawa, who looked around the age of 13, sitting next to his wife, who was currently sleeping.

Kaito knew Shinji from the times when he met with Shinji's father at their home. A year before Shinji's father died, he told Kaito that he may be able to get a cure from an unknown source. But Shinji's father didn't want to give it for free, and he asked Kaito to do a few things for him. Only after he had done some of the things he was asked for, he discovered that they were illegal and that the cure was from an illegal laboratory, but he didn't confront him about it. He was desperate to get the cure. But, before he could give him the cure, Shinji's father died, and Kaito couldn't get the cure.

"Hello, Mr. Sakayanagi. It has been a while, hasn't it? The last time we met was back at my home, 4 years ago. It has certainly been a while..."

"How are you alive?" asked the shocked Kaito

"It doesn't matter now. What matters is what I've come here for. You see, I recently discovered about the state of your wife, and also about the little deal you and my father had. You've done some very bad things to get this little thing, haven't you?" Shinji said and took a vial out of a briefcase. Inside the vial, was a green liquid, which made Kaito's eyes widen at the sight of it.

"Is this..."

"Yes, it is the cure to your wife's disease. My father tricked you, as he had the cure from the very start. Not only that, only after he was going to give you the cure, he would reveal to you that the cure will only stop the disease from killing your wife, and has to be taken repeatedly, or else the disease WILL kill your wife. In other words, once you realized it, he would've made you do a bunch of illegal acts for another vial of the cure" Shinji said and returned the vial into the briefcase

"And like your father, you want something for the cure, don't you?"

"Indeed I am. You're a smart person, Mr. Sakayanagi, but you're also very unlucky. Your wife has a rare deadly disease, and your daughter suffered from an accident when she was young, and she can't walk around without a medical stick to help her walk.

I feel pity for you, and because I do, I want to help you, but my help has a cost. I want you to work for me. Unlike my father, I'm willing to deliver you a weekly supply of the cure every week, without you need to do anything. The only thing you'll have to do is to be loyal to me, and once I DO ask for your help, you'll help, and since I love being independent, I won't ask for it when I don't need it.

Of course, if you refuse, not only I'll publish everything you did for my father, but..." Shinji said and then moved his gaze to Kaito's wife, making it clear exactly what his intention is.

"So? What do you say?" Shinji said and reached out to Kaito, who was narrowing his eyes at him. Eventually, Kaito shook Shinji's hand, and Shinji smirked widely.

"I'm glad to have you on board, Mr. Sakayanagi. I believe this is yours" Shinji said and gave him the briefcase. Kaito looked inside the briefcase and saw seven vials, all with the same green liquid inside of them.

"She has to take a vial once a day. You'll meet someone I'll send to give you the weekly supply here, at the start of every week. Once he confirms that you're still loyal to me, he'll give you the supply and leave. However, if he finds out that you betrayed me... well, I don't think I need to tell you what will happen. And now, I'll give you your first mission"

"What is it?" Kaito asked

"I read in one of my father's files, that the two of you are familiar with someone who is called Professor Ayanokoji, and that he runs a special institution to create what my father called "artificial geniuses". What I want you to do, is to make Professor Ayanokoji accept me into the institution" Shinji said with a wide smirk

~~~ End Flashback ~~~


As Kaito entered his wife's room, he saw Akira, who is the one who is tasked with deliver the supply to him. His wife was asleep since Shinji didn't want her to know about their deal, so every time before Kaito arrived, they would already give her sleeping pills.

"You know the drill" Akira said, and Kaito gave him his phone and laptop. After Akira checked the phone and laptop, he returned them, and then he did a body search on him. Once he finished, he gave him the briefcase with the vials.

Then, Akira said:

"I have a mission for you. Nii-San wants you to help with the enrollment of Ichika and me next year, the same you did with Nii-San's and Kiyotaka-San's enrollment"

"I'll only be able to do it once we'll get closer to the new school year..." Kaito said

"I know. I'll remind you when the time comes. I'll take my leave now. I'll see you next week" Akira said and left the room, leaving Kaito and his wife alone.