Tokyoites don't have martial virtue

"It's fine if you think that way, because I'm not giving you any room to refuse."

Karasuka Saki wiggled her red and white sneakers—kiss these boots now, like the Italian mafia's hand kiss—her deep eyes seemed to command.

Makoto Kyushu reached out and grabbed Karasukawa-senpai's ankle, his eyes filled with hesitation.

If he agrees to the senior's request, he can not only retrieve the "dangerous" photos and keep his secret, but also join the school's elite "News Department".

Seeing the other party's reaction, Karasu Saki's lips curled up to the extreme—using "news" as a weapon to constantly achieve goals, constantly conquer others, and become a powerful person who does whatever she wants—this is the path she has always followed. She enjoys this thrill of conquering everything, which makes her tremble with pleasure.

But the next moment, Kyushu Makoto grabbed her ankle and pulled her upwards. With a "bang," the senior student instantly lost her balance and fell off the chair.

"Ouch! That hurts!!" Karasukawa Sakifumi's head hit the floor, and she cried out in pain, all her previous bravado vanishing in an instant.

The recorder rushed forward to check on the minister's injuries.

Kyushu Makoto let out a long sigh and wiped his hands with his clothes: "Even if you're a woman, I still have to teach you a lesson."

"What...what are you doing?" Karasukawa Saki stood up, leaning on the table, and stared at Kyushu Makoto with a resentful look.

"Didn't your parents teach you not to kick people in the face when you're talking?" Kyushu Makoto's eyes and tone turned disgusted.

"Girls' feet can be very dirty too. They might have athlete's foot, which could lead to fungal lung infections in others?"

"You...you..." Karasu Saki felt as if he had been humiliated, but she was too speechless to refute him.

"Shut up, you brat! How dare you humiliate her like this!" The recorder, unable to bear it any longer, shouted angrily, "Our minister's feet are a priceless treasure! How could they possibly have athlete's foot?"

"...?" Upon hearing this, Kyushu Makoto's brain was overloaded for a while.

After a long pause, he frowned in disgust and asked with nausea, "You people in the news department... are you playing such fancy games?"

Karasukawa Saki straightened the wrinkles in her clothes and gave a displeased snort: "Kyushu-kun, can I take that as a rejection?"

"I cannot accept this invitation, which is half intimidation and half coercion." Kyushu Makoto shook his head slightly, his tone neither humble nor arrogant:

"Although I don't quite understand your thought process, if you want to get a dog, you should go to the 'feeding department,' not me."

"You...you actually dare to mock the minister!" The male recorder pointed at Kyushu Makoto, his eyes wide with anger.

"Alright, quiet down. A good reporter needs to control their temper," Karasu Saki stopped her angry colleague, then calmly put the photos back in her pocket.

"So, Kyushu, you are now the enemy of the 'News Department.' You will soon experience our methods and then regret it."

"Either subordinates or enemies... What an arrogant woman..."

Kyushu Makoto crossed his arms and asked in return:

"Your so-called tactic is to hand over the photos to the school and defame me for working at a PR shop?"

"Hehe~ Don't be in such a hurry, I've seen my share of tough guys before." Karasu Saki waved her hand, preparing to leave with her men.

"When you come begging to me again, it won't be so easy for you."

Just as Minister Karasawa was about to leave, Kyushu Makoto said in a deep voice, "Wait a minute!"

"What, are you going to back out?" Karasu Sakifumi laughed.

"I'm just a little concerned..." Kyushu Makoto looked at him coldly and pressed for an answer:

"Your methods of intimidating me are very practiced. I'm probably not the first student you've threatened like this, am I?"

"Guess~?" Karasu Sakifumi's eyes were deep, and she did not answer directly.

"I won't deny it..." Kyushu Makoto shook his head in distress: "Besides me, how many other students has your journalism club hurt in this way?"

"Guess what~?" Karasu Saki asked again.

"It seems your 'News Department' isn't as glamorous as it appears on the surface." Kyushu Makoto sighed softly, but smiled knowingly, a hint of aggression in his eyes.

"I recorded what we just said. Aren't you afraid I'll leak it?"

"Hey~ Audio can be faked with high precision, and besides, AI voice is all the rage these days, right?" Karasuka Saki chuckled lightly. "With your influence at school, do you think something like this can threaten our news club?"

“Is that so…” Kyushu Makoto clenched his fist and said:

"Since you're threatening me like this, I won't let you get away with it."

"Then let me see how long your backbone lasts, Kyushu-kun~"

The girl also left a threatening remark, and the two groups left the activity room one after the other.

26. The "News Queen" of Xiujin Academy

Leaving the activity room, Kyushu Makoto saw Mizuhashi Eiji and the three delinquents in a corner of the playground.

The three delinquents are helping their junior, Mizuhashi, with baseball training to enhance his "manliness."

The intensive training these past few days has already shown initial results. Mizuhashi can now hit the most basic slow straight shot with a 50% success rate, and Suzuki Yujin is trying to get him to receive high lobs.

"Hey, Kyushu-kun!" Tang Zegui waved and greeted him, "Where have you been? I can't find you anywhere!"

"I was interviewed by the news department; their minister came in person." Kyushu Makoto shrugged, looking displeased.

"Wait, you mean the news chief, Karakawa-senpai, personally interviewed you?" Suzuki Yuujin patted his shoulder in surprise, his mouth forming an "O" shape:

"Unbelievable! She's the 'News Queen' of Xiujin Academy! You really have some influence, Kyushu-kun!"

"The News Queen?" Wano Country loves giving people particularly childish nicknames, so Kyushu Makoto wasn't surprised and asked, "Do you know anything about her?"

"She's a big celebrity at Shujin Academy, how come Kyushu-kun doesn't know?" Suzuki Yuujin turned to ask, "Mizuhashi-kun should have heard of her, right?"

“Yes, she gave a speech at our freshman orientation ceremony.” Eiji Mizuhashi nodded, his eyes shining with longing.

"Senior Yakawa is a very impressive person. She is very beautiful and has a strong presence. When she gives a speech, she is confident and cool, just like a queen."

If I could become a woman as amazing as Karasawa-senpai, I wouldn't have to pretend to be a boy, I wouldn't have to worry about being bullied, and my seniors wouldn't have to waste time giving me special training... As she thought this, Mizuhashi Eiji suddenly had this fantasy, but it only made her feel depressed.

"Such high praise..." Kyushu Makoto exclaimed.

"Of course, she's been in the top five of the 'Showdown Super Popular Beauty Ranking' for three consecutive years!" Tang Zegui said excitedly, pulling out a notebook with a mysterious air.

"Not only does Senior Karasu have an outstanding temperament and an attractiveness that appeals to both men and women, but her style of doing things is also more domineering and forceful than many boys. It is said that since she joined the journalism club in her freshman year, she has attracted a large number of supporters with her own charm. By her sophomore year, most of the journalism club members were her supporters, and even the former president appreciated her abilities and strongly recommended her to become the president in her third year."

"But if we're talking about what's most captivating about Senior Karasu, it's her legs! They're said to be like museum-quality works of art, with a perfect ratio of muscle to fat, combining cuteness and sexiness while radiating youthful energy—truly top-tier model-level legs! Kyushu-kun will definitely fall in love with them after seeing them!"

Tang Zegui held the notebook and began to speak eloquently, his face beaming with excitement.

However, Makoto Kyushu only cared about the first half of the introduction and ignored the rest.

It seems that Senior Yagawa is indeed an extraordinary woman. She has a large number of supporters at school, which proves that she is skilled in social skills and has the ability to win people's hearts. Otherwise, no one would be willing to put her on the altar of the "Queen of News".

Moreover, her actions of investigating, secretly filming, and threatening Makoto Kyushu are not at all the kind of decisions an ordinary high school student would make.

Such terrifying scheming is beyond the reach of even some seasoned professionals, and Kyushu Makoto couldn't help but feel a chill run down his spine.

If Kyushu Makoto were an ordinary high school student, he would probably have been conquered by her charms and knelt at her feet long ago.

Thinking about it this way, Makoto Kyushu felt he was really unlucky.

He clearly only wanted to live a peaceful and carefree life, to conserve his energy until he graduated from university, and then prepare to continue his martial arts career.

But why do troubles keep coming one after another, keeping him from having any peace?

What did I do wrong to be targeted by such a terrifying senior, who even caught me in a fatal compromising situation?

But no matter what, he would never surrender.

If I were to bow down to my senior now, I might gain temporary peace, but that would only be a case of drinking poison to quench my thirst.

Having lived two lives, Kyushu Makoto possessed experience in judging character. He sensed the strong malice and controlling nature of this senior student; making him "act like a dog" was just the beginning. Afterward, she would continue to harass and frame him, exposing more of his secrets and vulnerabilities to her.

This is similar to a scene from a certain NTR story. The blond guy first seizes on a small weakness of the female protagonist, threatening her to let him grope her a few times; then he uses this weakness as leverage to threaten her into doing him a craft job; then he uses this craft job as leverage to threaten her into performing ventriloquism; then he uses the ventriloquism as leverage to threaten her into going to his meditation room for a philosophical discussion… In the end, the blond guy escalates his actions, accumulating more and more weaknesses. The female protagonist, on the other hand, is physically and mentally ruined, and can no longer live without him.

If Kyushu Makoto submits to her now, he will only become more and more passive in the future, and she may even uncover his secret that he is a transmigrator.

From the moment he stepped into the interview room, Makoto Kyushu had already become the prey of that "Queen of News," with no way out.

That senior wouldn't let him off so easily, but Kyushu Makoto was no saint either. The more he was pressured, the more he would resist. Even if the odds were against him, he would find a way to break through by any means necessary. If they continued to push him into a corner, he would fight to the bitter end, prepared to perish together with them.

I still don't know how the News Department plans to punish me, so I must be mentally prepared at all times... Kyushu Makoto sounded an alarm in his heart.

This is troublesome. It seems a tough battle is inevitable.

......

Despite knowing that he was being targeted by the news department, Makoto Kyushu still had to go to Kamurocho to work.

Even if there are problems with this job, his livelihood depends on it, and no one has the right to make him resign.

However, this time, Kyushu Makoto was more cautious.

On his way to Kamurocho, he indeed discovered that two students were following him.

The two men were dressed in plain clothes and acting suspiciously. One of them was holding a mobile phone at all times, seemingly looking for an opportunity to take a picture.

In his previous life, when Kyushu Makoto went to the local armed police academy for an exchange program with his master, he happened to learn some counter-surveillance techniques. As long as he was serious, he could still identify this kind of low-level tracking.

"Hmph, so it really is the news department?" Kyushu Makoto sneered.

It seems the news department plans to send someone to follow me and secretly film more evidence, making it impossible for me to speak out.

Although the news department is in the right, ostensibly investigating students working illegally, can this targeting of a poor, orphaned student truly be called "justice"?

Makoto Kyushu snorted and began circling around Kamurocho.

Having lived in Kamurocho for over half a year, the original owner of this body knew the area like the back of his hand. Kyushu Makoto simply wandered through a few alleys, leaving the two newspaper club members completely disoriented and unable to find their way.