People at the practical education center only want to drop out.

The news spread very quickly.

By the time school was about to end, almost everyone in the class who considered themselves "Kushida's friend" knew about it.

Before school ended, Kushida received several emails inviting her out to be her sparring partner.

Most of them were girls, but there were also a few boys trying to take advantage of the situation.

These boys thought about it privately.

To be Kushida's sparring partner, only Kushida needs to practice with him; in other words, one sparring partner is enough.

One-on-one practice.

Rounding it up, that's basically a date!

Furthermore, when practicing witty comebacks, one usually finds a quiet place that won't disturb others...

After realizing what was happening, the boys who were interested in Kushida and hoped to develop a closer relationship with her immediately invited her to spar with them.

Meanwhile, the boys who had come to their senses expressed envy, jealousy, and resentment towards Shirai, who had taken advantage of practice opportunities to "date" Kushida countless times over the past two weeks.

After school, Kushida reluctantly and happily declined most of the invitations.

Although roasting people can relieve stress and make her happy, she wouldn't dare to casually show off her roasting skills in front of others.

Although these people had become friends with Kushida, most of them were just "superficial friends." Knowing these people as she did, Kushida didn't dare to entrust them with her trust at all.

The advantage of her confronting Horikita in class is that everyone in the class can witness what she did and said. With such easy-to-find witnesses, it's difficult to distort the facts.

If they film or record me practicing my comebacks in private, and then maliciously edit it, it could be used to spread all sorts of rumors, which would be a real problem.

Not to mention, there were even guys here who wanted to ask her out alone?

Putting aside the unreliability of practicing arguing in front of someone you don't trust, the very act of being asked out alone by a guy is problematic.

In the end, Kushida only accepted invitations from girls he got along well with and who he felt he could trust, and he didn't just meet them one-on-one; he would invite at least two at a time.

That way, if any misunderstandings arise, at least there will be a third party as a witness.

In response, Kushida told her friends, "If the person arguing or the person being argued with accidentally gets carried away and takes it seriously, those who weren't participating in the practice at the time can help pull them apart and mediate."

After accepting the invitation, Kushida had to squeeze out time from her already packed social schedule for the next week to arrange these sparring partners.

Making friends isn't something you can just forget about once you've made them. You need to regularly spend time interacting with them to maintain the friendship. Otherwise, over time, the feelings will fade, and the friends will become strangers.

The more friends you have, the higher the proportion of your day you spend maintaining those friendships.

After maintaining the friendship, Kushida still had to make time to make new friends.

For those she had to refuse, Kushida couldn't be perfunctory. For each invitation, she would find a suitable reason that wouldn't make the other person feel rejected, based on their personality and situation, and then reply seriously.

Even though Kushida is a seasoned time management master, she couldn't help but feel a little overwhelmed.

But seeing that she was still so popular, even more popular, after revealing her true colors, moved and delighted her.

Kushida is experiencing both pain and pleasure.

.......

After school that afternoon, Shirai remembered that Ibuki had planned to challenge Ryuen to a fight.

Out of curiosity, he asked Ibuki about the location and time of the duel she had written in her challenge letter.

Knowing the location and time, Bai Lan initiated stealth, hiding near the place where Yi Bu and the others were supposed to fight ten minutes in advance, playing on her phone while keeping watch.

As a result, after playing on her phone for a while, Bai Lan came to her senses, checked the time, and found that several minutes had passed since the agreed time, and Ibuki and Ryuen still hadn't shown up.

Bai Lan called Ibuki, puzzled, and asked, "Where are you all?"

Ibuki replied, "Ryuen did not accept my challenge."

Bai Lan: "???"

78. Kushida, a master of spending money, has mastered the [Dark Harvest] technique?

“Ryuen did not accept my challenge.” That’s what Ibuki told Shirai.

Bai Lan asked, "Did he just reject you?"

Ibuki: "No, it happened this morning. I had just put the challenge letter in his shoe cabinet when he found it. He opened and read the letter on the spot and rejected it immediately. He said there was no point in accepting my challenge."

First, someone will get injured, which will affect the exams at the end of the month;

Secondly, regardless of winning or losing, I will ultimately have to listen to him, since I don't know how to lead Class C either;

Finally, fighting, especially between men and women, could easily leave evidence against Class C, which would be detrimental to them.

In short, fighting won't bring any benefits to the class; it will only bring harm. It's a thankless task, so we might as well not fight.

Bai Lan barely listened to what Ibuki was saying.

Bai Lan only noticed this sentence: "The letter was opened and read on the spot, and the rejection was made on the spot."

???

"I... You've already been rejected, so just tell me you were rejected. Why did you have to tell me the time and place of your fight?" Bai Lan said, completely puzzled.

Ibuki: "Didn't you only ask me about the time and place in the challenge letter? You asked, so I just answered like that?"

Oh! So, you want to see me duel with Ryuen, is that it?

If you want to watch it, just say you want to watch it. How am I supposed to know if you don't make it clear?

Once you've explained things clearly, I'll know what you want to see, and then I'll explain to you why the duel is impossible.

If you hadn't said anything, I would have thought you were interested in the contents of my challenge letter.

Bai Lan: "......."

Bai Lan: "If a normal person heard me ask this, they would generally think that I was actually asking about the challenge itself, rather than the content of the challenge letter, right?"

Ibuki: "Because I thought the time and place I chose were also highlights, and I thought you might be interested."

"No, not at all interested."

"Oh, that's how it is."

"Please, be more specific next time."

"You should ask more clearly. I'll answer whatever you ask. I don't like doing unnecessary things."

"No, your challenge to Dragon Garden is completely unnecessary."

"What did you say...?"

"duo~"

Before Ibuki could finish speaking, Bai Lan hung up the phone.

Bai Lan finally knows what a "master of throwing money around" really means today.

.......

Because Kushida has to attend classes and has appointments after school, her daily schedule is very packed in order to make friends.

Therefore, Kushida could only process these invitations in his spare time.

It wasn't until 8 or 9 p.m. that Kushida finished processing all the sparring requests.

After finishing her business, Kushida felt extremely exhausted and couldn't help but write an email to the only person who knew the whole truth to share her complicated feelings.

After writing and sending the email.

Suddenly, Kushida had a flash of inspiration and seemed to have grasped something.

"You can gain favor with others by relying on your dark side... Isn't that what I've been pursuing and what I've always wanted to learn from Bai Lan?"

Bai Lan kept saying that he didn't know how to do this kind of thing.

As it turned out, I actually managed to make it work by sheer accident!

and many more!

wrong!

This was not a 'lucky accident'!

Give me advice, and I'll tell you that the person from Horikita is Shirai.

In order to take the blame and maintain my public image, Bai Lan confronted Horikita in front of everyone in the class!

The person who 'harmed' me by revealing my true colors during private practice in front of the whole class was Bai Lan!

Ultimately, the whole thing was almost entirely driven by Bai Lan!

Although Haruka and Yuu were involved in the end...

However, this may not be outside of Bai Lan's calculations!

You should know that Haruka has been sitting behind me since we enrolled.

He must have observed Poruka.

Moreover, Haruka herself is... to put it nicely, 'innocent'; to put it bluntly, 'lacking in guile'. Her emotions and personality are all written on her face, and she likes straightforward people.

He probably saw through Haruka and figured out that, given Haruka's personality, she might be interested in my affairs in this regard.

As for Xiaoyu... Bai Lan often hears me complain about Xiaoyu, and knows that Xiaoyu likes to rely on me.

Therefore, what happened today is what we are in now.

Even if I hadn't blocked his way today, he would have found a chance to expose our true relationship in front of our classmates!

It was all Bai Lan's scheme!

snort!

So you don't know the 'dark side favor-harvesting technique'?!

I understand!

It wasn't that Bai Lan didn't want to teach me, but rather that these things are better understood intuitively than explained in words.

Or perhaps he felt I wasn't qualified enough, fearing I wouldn't be able to learn and proactively set up a scheme, so instead of teaching me directly, he simply set up a scheme himself, making me his pawn, and having me follow his script to ultimately achieve his goal of 'harvesting favor through the dark side'!

In this way, I can personally experience the 'Dark Side Favor Harvesting Technique' in the game!

As for how much I can gain, that depends on my own understanding!