"Um, Kiyotaka-senpai? To be honest, I’d like to buy the past midterm exam questions... would that be alright?"

"Yeah... I don’t mind. How about 500,000 Private Points?"

"Understood! 500,000 Private Points it is! There! I’ve paid~!"

"Here are the past questions. Take them."

"Kiyotaka-senpai! Thank you very much!"

With the midterms approaching...

I negotiated with senpai to see if he would sell me past exam questions.

And surprisingly—or maybe unsurprisingly—the negotiation was settled immediately.

"...Wait! No, hold on a second! Why is Ayanokōji talking to a junior girl like it’s completely normal... and why is the girl casually trying to pay such a ridiculous amount?"

A senpai named Ike Kanji suddenly interrupted the conversation between Ichika-chan and Kiyotaka-senpai.

Aside from Horikita-senpai and Sudō-senpai, the other upperclassmen didn’t say anything...

But apparently they all felt the same way.

'I never thought just talking to a junior girl would get this kind of reaction from them...'

Well, I knew Kiyotaka-senpai tries to act like an inconspicuous, completely ordinary student unlike me.

But still...

I didn’t expect this level of reaction.

He even has the Ayanokōji Group, so I didn’t think it was that unusual for Kiyotaka-senpai to talk to girls.

"Ayanokōji! What kind of relationship do you have with that girl? Do you like younger girls or something?"

"Ike, calm down a little... she’s simply my junior from middle school. There’s no romantic relationship between us."

When Kiyotaka-senpai said that, several girls visibly looked relieved.

'Let’s see... if I remember correctly... Sakurai Airi-senpai... Satō Maya-senpai... Hasebe Haruka-senpai... and Kei Karuizawa-senpai!!!'

Satō-senpai and Hasebe-senpai only reacted that way because they were worried about their friends who liked Kiyotaka-senpai.

As for Sakurai-senpai...

Since she’s the lowest in OAA and basically incompetent, she can’t even be considered Ichika-chan’s rival.

If you asked ordinary men whether they would choose Sakurai-senpai or Ichika-chan as a girlfriend, some of them might choose Sakurai-senpai.

But Kiyotaka-senpai is different.

At this point in time, Kiyotaka-senpai doesn’t understand the emotion called love.

And the reason he started dating Karuizawa-senpai was simply to secure her loyalty as one of his pieces.

Therefore...

The criteria Kiyotaka-senpai uses to choose a girlfriend right now is how useful that person can be to him.

And if that’s the case...

There’s no way Sakurai-senpai, who ranks last in OAA, could beat Ichika-chan, whose abilities are among the top in OAA.

...Up to this point, everything is fine.

The real problem is the last person.

Kei Karuizawa...

In the previous world, she was the hateful woman who ended up with the Kiyotaka-senpai I worshipped.

Like I said earlier, Kiyotaka-senpai made Karuizawa-senpai his girlfriend partly to secure her loyalty as a piece.

But besides that...

Given Kiyotaka-senpai’s personality, I suspect he also saw Karuizawa-senpai as a kind of textbook for learning about the emotion called love.

"Amasawa-san, even if you possess 20 million points... don’t you think you should at least try negotiating the price down a little?"

With that one remark from Horikita-senpai, the unrest within Class 2-D—which had just started to calm down—began rising again.

"Um... you’re Amasawa Ichika, right? The 'real genius who saw through the S System on the first day and used it to obtain 20 million points faster than anyone in history'... Yagami-kun told me about you."

No no...

That title is exaggerated.

Besides, there’s actually a real genius who also saw through the S System on the first day right next to Kushida-senpai.

Yes...

The genuine masterpiece himself.

Kiyotaka Ayanokōji.

"Yes! That’s right!! I’m Amasawa Ichika! Kushida-senpai, right? I’ve heard about you from Yagami-kun too~!"

Seeing Kushida-senpai acting with her fake sweet personality again after so long...

Ichika-chan almost burst out laughing.

"If I remember correctly... Kushida-senpai and Yagami-kun attended the same middle school, right?"

"Yep! I remember him being a very smart junior!"

Honestly...

The fact that she can tell such blatant lies so easily makes her mental toughness almost worthy of admiration.

"Ayanokōji~! Even if you’re short on cash, it’s not very manly to squeeze money out of a junior! Why don’t you lower the price a bit?"

"Ah! Sudō-senpai! It’s totally fine! This exchange is possible because of the years of trust between Kiyotaka-senpai and me!"

Technically we’ve known each other for less than a month...

But if you include the time from the previous world, it adds up to several years of history between us.

So it still counts... probably.

'Karuizawa-senpai’s expression has been getting more and more irritated... my goal is accomplished, so maybe I should leave for today.'

I might not have the right to judge others...

But how jealous can Karuizawa-senpai be if she can’t even tolerate Kiyotaka-senpai getting close to another girl?

"Well then, Kiyotaka-senpai! Thank you very much~!"

"Yeah... good luck."

"Ah! One last thing before I go, if that’s okay?"

"...What is it?"

Karuizawa-senpai’s intense jealousy irritated me a little.

So as a bit of payback from the previous world—and making sure everyone around could hear—I added one final remark.

"I’m looking forward to our date, Kiyotaka-senpai~!"

After saying that...

I left Kiyotaka-senpai’s classroom without even looking at everyone’s reactions.

* * *

Later on...

Apparently Kiyotaka-senpai ended up being bombarded with intense questioning from everyone because of my final bombshell statement.