Temperature Control in Academy City

There were no guests around their seats, so they didn't have to worry about their conversation being eavesdropped on. When Senior Sister Yunchuan arrived at this French restaurant, she had already booked all the seats around it.

"Hey, that Director Okinawan Monaka, I seem to have heard of him somewhere."

Raising her eyebrows slightly, Natsume Sonoko began to search for the other person's existence in her memory.

Most of the directors of Academy City are very mysterious, and not many of them are willing to communicate with students. However, this Oyafune Monaka is an exception. Even Natsume Sonoko has some impression of her.

"It's about student voting rights. The director's speech is very famous on the Internet."

"In order to allow students, who make up 80% of the population, to live better in Academy City, the director felt it was necessary to reform the election process of the General Council so that students could better participate."

"That's a naive idea. Just like the idea of ​​easing the situation, it doesn't seem like someone who lives in Academy City. If the students were really allowed to get involved, the directors would probably have to be replaced by people with superpowers or other influential students. At that time, it might not be the Unified Board of Directors, but the Unified Student Council."

There was a smile on Kumokawa Senya's face, but no one knew what she was laughing at.

This is an obvious thing. If students, who make up the majority of the population, were given the right to vote, how could they possibly have any favorable impressions on adults whom they never see on a regular basis?

Instead, some popular students who are commonly seen in daily life got a big advantage.

For example, a strong-willed young man who often hangs out on the streets may become a hot favorite in future elections, and the queen of the Shokuhou faction can attract a large group of people with just a flick of her finger.

Even Natsume Sonoko has a considerable advantage. She has recently risen to fifth place on the popularity lists of various urban legend websites, second only to Aleister, Ghoul, Accelerator, and Quata.

Unless restrictions are placed on the right to vote, granting only the right to vote but not the right to be elected, the final situation will basically be like this, with the General Council completely becoming an oversized student union.

By the way, Kumokawa Seria is also one of the anonymous supporters of this pro-funaka director.

After all, such things that are beneficial to students will definitely benefit Kumokawa Qinya herself, and will be far more reliable and stable than her current position in the board of directors.

But these are just some empty ideals after all.

Putting aside the adults' deep-rooted power within Academy City, even how to deal with the outside world has become unpredictable.

Kumokawa Seriya has reservations about whether the students can handle the various industry sectors with intertwined interests, the complicated interpersonal relationships, and the various military agencies of Academy City simply by relying on elections.

"To oversee the student council, that sounds like a good idea."

As soon as Senior Yunchuan finished speaking, the eyes of a girl with a bun haircut who was sitting in her seat and listening obediently suddenly lit up.

It turned out to be that person. Natsume Sonoko finally remembered the person named Shinfune Monaka. She had also seen some of his speech materials on the Internet.

This is somewhat similar to some of Natsume Sonoko's ideas, but there seem to be some differences.

"Hmm... Actually, I think it's not a good idea to turn the unified board of directors into the unified student union. It would be better if the board of directors and the student union existed together, just like in a normal school."

"It might be a good idea to let adults take care of adult matters, and students take care of student matters."

Natsume Sonoko held her head with one hand and began to think wildly.

As he spoke, he stirred the parfait several times with a spoon and became inexplicably distressed.

After experiencing the second absolute ability user evolution experiment and the upcoming student council election at Tokiwadai School, Natsume Sonoko has actually thought about some things seriously.

The lack of an institution in Academy City that can communicate directly with adults has led to an endless stream of experiments that disregard the health of students.

However, it seems unrealistic to directly replace adults.

It is impossible for students to directly manage adults, so it is a problem that teachers alone cannot solve.

Moreover, everyone will grow up, and the students of Academy City will become adults one day, so it is not enough to just let the students manage Academy City. It is important to pay attention to the sense of boundaries.

"Natsume-san, do you think we should set up a separate unified student union? This would avoid a lot of trouble."

"But in that case, the pressure of managing the student union will be very great. At least a level 6 president who can comprehend the will of heaven and master huge military power is needed. If we only rely on level 5, even if all of them are added together, they may not be able to defeat a suppression weapon."

Kumokawa Seriya said while thinking subconsciously.

Before they knew it, the topic had strayed off track, but Senior Sister Yunchuan suddenly became interested.

She didn't expect that Natsume would have such idealistic ideas. What an interesting child.

Chapter 708: The smell of medicine, Hisako and the desire to execute

The importance of mastering military power in Academy City is unquestionable.

Even without considering the various terrible weapons possessed by adults, even students are a dangerous group who have received ability development and have certain combat capabilities. People who become paranoid and impulsive under the influence of personal reality can be found everywhere.

If you want to establish a large student organization in a place like this, whether you have the specific ability to do things is actually secondary. The most important thing is whether you have enough power to suppress trouble.

In this way, even if such a possible organization emerges in the future, the first president will most likely not be the smartest and most capable student.

It doesn't matter if you're a little dumb or lazy, or if you don't do anything all day, or if you look silly, that's fine, as long as you look like a good fighter. Just like the god of fortune hanging at the gate, it's enough to make the demons and monsters retreat on their own initiative.

Like a certain golden girl, Kumokawa Seriya pursues a very realistic idea.

If you want to maintain a superficial balance with the adults, then restraint in the use of force is crucial.

At the same time, she also felt that the idea of ​​delegating voting rights to the pro-funenmonaka was almost impossible to achieve, because there was no one among the students who could directly check and balance the adults, and it was impossible for them to do such a thing that would destroy themselves.

As for Natsume Sonoko's idea, it is feasible to a certain extent. There is no need for the so-called unified student union to hold too much power in the city. As long as they can express their opinions on some important matters, they may be able to contain some of the dark side of Academy City.

But just like she said before, an empty shell of the Student Union is meaningless, and level 6 is the minimum condition for dialogue.

Because Academy City has already mastered the technology to produce super-powered people on a certain scale, the biggest disadvantage is that the products produced are not so controllable.

"Hey, it looks like a lot of trouble."

"And if there is at least one level 6 student among them, this goal is really scary."

Natsume Sonoko's bun shook slightly and she spoke hesitantly.

Natsume Sonoko is very clear how difficult it is to become level 6.

Even the one with white hair would normally take two hundred years to reach level 6, and anyone with common sense would know that humans cannot live past two hundred years old... probably.

In other words, if you want to include college students before finishing high school, you have to become an absolute ability user in your twenties.

This goal is too ambitious.

Even a person with super powers like Natsume Sonoko finds it unlikely.

As it stands now, it would be far more realistic to support their own Shokuhou-senpai to become the student council president of Tokiwadai, and first solve the problem of Tokiwadai students being able to wear whatever they want outside of school.

Having to wear school uniform outside of school was a nightmare, and she occasionally wanted to buy new clothes.

And the box under Natsume Sonoko's bed is filled with a bunch of clothes from elementary school. If she doesn't wear them now, she will grow taller and won't be able to wear them anymore...

"Actually, not necessarily."

"It is indeed very difficult to set up a unified student union, but if we break it down, for example, to set up a discipline committee department, it will be much easier. Since the scale is much smaller, the resistance will be much less."

Senior sister Yunchuan said with a smile, and seriously talked about this inexplicable topic with the junior sister she met for the second time.

The Discipline Committee is actually a severely weakened student department, whose law enforcement scope is almost limited to the vicinity of the school, and they serve as a supplement to the security guards.

But in reality, if these discipline committee members were equipped with fully armed weapons and combined with the abilities of the ability users themselves, they would not be inferior to normal security forces.

"Besides the Discipline Committee, the one that's closest to overseeing the Student Council is probably Shokuhou Misaki's faction."

"Including the Shokuhou faction within Tokiwadai, that guy has also planted people in every school in Academy City. According to his recorded behavior, there are probably nearly two thousand chess pieces with buried abilities in Academy City."

Kumokawa Qinia also relaxed a little, with one hand hanging on the table, muttering about a golden girl with some concern.

People with super powers are not as important as imagined, especially those who are ranked at the bottom and lack research value. Of course, the seventh and eighth places may be different.

Furthermore, Shokuhou Misaki's chance of losing in this match against the Unified Council is 99.53 percent.

Just because Shokuhou Misaki didn't do anything excessive, most of the directors tacitly agreed to do a favor for Director Yakumi Hisako, who was behind Tokiwadai.

Sometimes, Kumokawa Seriya wondered how Academy City could tolerate such a person to live until now.

If she were put in the shoes of these directors, even if they didn't execute her directly, they would at least find a way to control her. The exchange of interests among the adults was really too dirty.

"Eh."

Slightly stunned, Natsume Sonoko didn't know what to say for a moment.

Shokuhou-senpai has done so many things in secret, which is indeed her usual style, but it seems that even her past has been discovered by others.

However, Natsume Sonoko also knew that this was definitely not all of Shokuhou-senpai's secrets. She had hidden it very well before, when she was in the artificial room's exterior brain project, until it was broken through by Kihara Gensei not long ago.

"I understand. What you mean by that is to take it step by step. If you want to build a super-large student organization, you have to start from small things."

Natsume Sonoko blushed slightly before continuing.

She seemed to understand something, but also seemed to understand nothing.

Before they knew it, their topic had completely turned to how to establish an oversized student union.

Natsume Sonoko was also very interested in this, and it was obvious at a glance that she had had this idea for a long time.

"No, I mean if you can't overcome the difficulties in front of you, you can either do nothing or just do some trivial things that don't matter."

"Unless certain conditions are met, adults' tolerance is limited."

Senior sister Yunchuan shook her head and said in a nonchalant tone.

She didn't expect that Natsume Sonoko in front of her could really do something. This was just some casual talk. The other person's thoughts were too easy to figure out.

The General Council has hundreds of report documents on Natsume Sonoko's psychological profile, which describe in detail her possible actions in various situations.

As a result, Kumokawa Seria cares more about Shokuhou Misaki, who recommended the eighth person.

This could probably be seen as an active communication between Shokuhou Misaki and herself, except that the eighth person was used as a middleman.

Not only his attitude towards the 'recycling movement', but also the matter that he was about to ask the eighth person to do, could let Shokuhou Misaki know some of his thoughts.

Chapter 709: Tokiwadai Student Council and Communication Qualifications

Although she didn't know why Shokuhou Misaki suddenly thought of her, Kumokawa Seria still knew the other party's general idea.

The woman planned to use her power in the governing council to help suppress the radical faction in the 'recycling movement' to prevent unnecessary casualties among parents.

Originally, Senior Yunchuan was intentionally or unintentionally trying to prevent this plan of attacking parents.

Speaking objectively, it was quite beneficial for her that Shokuhou Misaki and the others came to her at this time.

However, this is also equivalent to an act of tying herself together with Shokuhou Misaki and the others. There are definitely risks involved, and it is very likely to cause collective resentment among some directors, which may not be beneficial to her.

Fortunately, everything seemed to be perfect. The eighth one seemed to have some unspeakable special value and was actually endorsed by the chairman.

As long as it is stated in advance that this is the request of the Chairman, Kumokawa Qinia can completely eliminate the risk part and instead think about how to get more benefits from it.

In this unified council full of radicals, it is great to be able to use the chairman's skin. At least it will not be easy to be sucked into the vortex.

“Eh, is that so?”

A certain bun-haired guy was still thinking about the student union's affairs, muttering thoughtfully.

She felt that Senior Yunchuan's words were a bit too pessimistic, but the reality seemed to be similar.

The adults in Academy City don't seem to approve of students doing anything other than studying and developing their abilities, and even Mr. Yomikawa and the others are the same.

The same goes for the dormitory supervisors. Even though everyone is used to getting up on time, they still have to check on the students every morning. It seems that the supervisors will never feel at ease letting the students do things on their own.

To establish a truly super-sized student union, we need not only the support of students, but also more understanding from adults.

But then again, Senior Yunchuan obviously didn’t mean this, but the result is similar.

Whether it is the bigwigs who are high up in the world or the ordinary adults who care about the students, these are the problems that need to be experienced in establishing an oversized student union.

And there is probably a very important issue here, which is who will do this.

Although a certain bun-haired girl chatted with Senior Kumokawa for a long time with great interest, it was obvious that she was a mascot character who could do nothing else except giving first-rate advice.

Not only did he not form his own faction in school, he also usually hung out with second-year seniors, making even his classmate Chongfu feel a little disappointed with him.

Shigefuku hopes that Natsume Sonoko can become 'Eitai-hime', and his dream is still in the dreaming stage.

"If we can only work on small things, then the only thing we can think of right now is to make Shokuhou-senpai the student council president of Tokiwadai."

Her face immediately became serious and Natsume Sonoko couldn't help muttering.

The gap between fantasy and reality is often greater than the gap between a bicycle and a cleaning robot.

What he wanted was a unified student union, but in the end he could only participate in elections at Tokiwadai Junior High School.

"Let that Shokuhou Misaki become the president of the Tokiwadai Student Council?"

An expression of interest suddenly appeared on Kumokawa Seriya's face.

She suddenly thought of Shokuhou Misaki bossing around the Tokiwadai directors and asking for various activity funds, or taking out the remote control and asking the directors to sign various terms one by one.

If such a person becomes the student council president of Tokiwadai, the adults who have invested in Tokiwadai will probably have to bleed heavily. It is really bad luck.