The strongest high school student in Japan

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Just during lunch break, a girl in school uniform walked into the building with small steps.

Led by the secretary, she walked to the door of the room where Takako Hyoudou was temporarily staying.

After standing for a moment, she took a deep breath, calmed her nervous mood, then raised her hand and knocked on the door gently.

Almost at the same time as the door rang, it opened instantly, and then two faces wearing sunglasses flashed in her eyes.

"Huh..." Sagihara Shion couldn't help but take a breath.

The tall man in a suit and sunglasses standing at the door gave her a great sense of oppression.

But soon, she gritted her teeth, did not show weakness, and walked straight in.

The person she wanted to see was sitting on the sofa, looking at her with interest.

Hyodo Takako had taken off her hat, and her long, thin dark orange hair fell behind her head like a waterfall. She crossed her legs, revealing a long section of her slender, white calves under her black skirt. The color contrast was extremely abrupt with her black high heels.

This was the reunion of the two after three years - unfortunately, Sagihara Shion never looked forward to seeing them again.

"How dare you come out and face me, junior sister." Hyoudou Takako looked at Sagihara Shion, with a smile that was either nostalgic or mocking on his face, "Isn't the memory of last time deep enough?"

"The chairman wanted me to be responsible for receiving you, so I came here, senior." Sagihara Shion replied in a low voice. "I hope I didn't disturb you."

Although she didn't say it explicitly, her subtext was naturally "I don't want to see you if I can help it."

"Well, I'm not disturbing you. On the contrary, it couldn't be better if it's you—" Hyoudou Takako was not angry because of Sagihara Shion's answer. Instead, she continued to look at her with a smile.

"I haven't seen you for a few years. You have grown a lot. Not only have you grown taller, but your temper has also improved a lot..."

Sagihara Shion bit her lip slightly. She didn't know whether the other party was truly praising her or was deliberately being sarcastic.

In short, just standing in front of her, I felt uncomfortable, as if I was suppressed by some ferocious beast.

But because of this, she was even more unwilling to make a fool of herself in front of the other party and make the other party laugh at her.

She recalled the image of a young man in her mind. If it was him, he would definitely not want to be despised...

The look in the eyes of the young man in her memory gave her an inexplicable courage.

"Thank you for the compliment, senior." Sagihara Shion raised her head and looked directly at Hyoudou Takako on the sofa. "In the past few years, I have been working hard, hoping that I can be worthy of the care given to me by the school, and worthy of... the care given to me by those who helped me. Although I am in a humble position compared to you, senior, I think as long as I work hard, I should be able to make you satisfied this time."

"Wow, you keep calling me senior, but it turns out I sound like a miko who is determined to fight monsters with all her might. Is that how I look to you..." There was a hint of coldness in Hyoudou Takako's smile. "You seem to have forgotten that I gave you money so that you could survive the crisis and stay in school?"

"...It's hard for me to thank someone after escaping death with great difficulty." Being looked at like this, Sagihara Shion felt a little scared, but she still managed to answer, "Please don't mention that anymore."

"Well, in that case, let's not talk about the past anymore." Hyodo Takako was unexpectedly easy to talk to, and she changed the subject directly. "Then let's talk about the present. I heard that your grades have remained good after I left school. Do you have a chance to get into the University of Tokyo?"

"My grades are okay, after all, I have nothing else now... If I don't study hard, I will never have a chance to get rid of the nightmare before." Sagihara Shion replied with a wry smile, "As for the University of Tokyo... That is indeed my ideal, but I can only do my best. If I fail, there is nothing I can do."

"If you have such ambition, there is no reason why you can't get into the University of Tokyo with your talent. The University of Tokyo is full of losers. It would be a shame for you if you can't beat them." Hyodo Takako replied coldly, "Don't forget, you are the only one in this school who has beaten me. Have more confidence in yourself."

Sagihara Shion looked at the other person in surprise and didn't know how to answer for a moment.

In her impression, Hyodo Takako was an extremely arrogant and sarcastic person who almost never took others seriously, let alone praised others in person. But now, he praised her, which was rare. Instead of feeling honored, she felt a little at a loss and didn't understand what the other party was trying to do.

"As a junior schoolmate with whom I have some acquaintance, I have prepared a gift for you when I came back this time..." Hyoudou Takako suddenly stood up from the sofa. She was wearing high heels and was about the same height as Mogami Jun. Therefore, she was a head taller than Sagihara Shion, which made Sagihara Shion feel even more oppressive. "Please accept it."

"A gift——?" Sagihara Shion was a little surprised, and then she immediately shook her head subconsciously and rejected it. "No, thank you for your kindness, but I don't need any gifts."

"When I give people gifts, I never consider the possibility of being rejected..." Hyoudou Takako ignored Sagihara Shion's rejection and just clapped her hands.

Then, two men in black suits and sunglasses came over carrying a large suitcase, which they had lifted from the trunk of the car.

Sagihara Shion looked at the suitcase in astonishment, then looked at Hyoudou Takako, having no idea what her intention was.

"What...what are you going to do?"

"You'll know after you see it," Hyoudou Takako moved his jaw slightly, signaling his followers to open the box.

The men in black quickly carried out the detailed operations, and then the box was opened.

"...Ah...!" After the box was opened, Sagihara Shion let out an uncontrollable scream.

There is clearly a person in the box!

In general, it was an adult who was tied up and seemed to have been beaten before. There were some bruises on his body and a rag was stuffed in his mouth. He looked really miserable.

"You...what are you doing?" Sagihara Shion looked at Hyoudou Takako in surprise.

"This is the gift I give you. You'll know if you take a look at it." Hyoudou Takako narrowed her eyes slightly and smiled with ill intent.

Sagihara Shion had a strange premonition in her heart, then she focused her eyes back on the person, and then she saw clearly.

Although the other party was in a very miserable state and his face was red and swollen, she still saw it clearly.

"Father……?"

Yes, the one who was beaten up and then tied up and dragged into the school was actually her father, Sagihara Masao.

Sagihara Shion looked at this scene, her mind went blank for a moment, she was completely speechless. Sagihara Masao on the ground, perhaps because he was given anesthesia, was still sleeping, unaware of everything around him.

"Are you surprised? This person... um... seems to be called Sagihara Masao?" Hyoudou Takako beside him explained slowly, "When I wanted to go back to school, this person happened to be sneaking around asking about you and had contact with some people from the underworld, so I ordered someone to tie him up. Because he resisted at the time, he became what he is now - you won't blame me, right?"

Sagihara Shion looked at her father on the ground, then looked at the smiling Hyoudou Takako, and for a moment she didn't know what to say.

"I also took the opportunity to learn about his affairs. He is a complete scumbag. I guess you are also worried about him, right?" Hyoudou Takako sneered as she walked to the side of Sagihara Masao. "You have been hiding in school recently just to avoid him?"

Sagihara Shion wanted to say something, but she didn't know how to say it, so she just nodded silently.

"Well, as a gift, what do you want me to do with him?" Hyoudou Takako continued to ask, "Should I send him to the dark underground to dig tunnels, or send him to a ship that doesn't dock for several months to catch squid, or... just send him to the Fukushima nuclear power plant to collect nuclear waste?"

"Are you...joking...?" Sagihara Shion finally reacted and asked in a trembling voice.

Given my father's age and physical condition, any of the three treatments mentioned above would quickly cost him his life.

Sagihara Shion doesn't like her father at all. She even hopes to never have any contact with her father again, but that is different from asking someone to kill her father.

"Do you think I'm joking?" Hyoudou Takako asked back.

Then, she gently lifted her foot and placed the heel of her high-heeled shoe on the forehead of the unconscious Sagihara Masao, "I... am... not... joking... ..."

The heel slowly penetrated into Sagihara Masao's skin, and a little bit of blood began to seep out around the heel. Then more and more blood oozed out, and even Sagihara Masao, who was in a coma, screamed.

"Enough... Stop it!" Amid the screams, Sagihara Shion finally spoke. "What's the point of torturing people like this?"

Although the relationship between father and daughter had long been severed, after all, Sagihara Shion had lived with her father for so many years. Now seeing her suffer such a fate, she still couldn't bear it, so she couldn't help but speak out to stop it.

"It's meaningless." Hyoudou Takako stopped, retracted his feet, and looked at Sagihara Shion with a smile again, "So, Sagihara Shion, are you satisfied with this gift?"

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"It's meaningless. So, Sagihara Shion, are you satisfied with this gift?"

There was not much warmth in Hyoudou Takako's smile, but instead it carried a chilling sense of oppression.

The black heels of her high heels were stained with blood, and the slowly flowing and spreading blood looked like struggling red ants crawling in the ink.

Sagihara Shion looked at her father who was still unconscious with blood on his forehead, then looked at the smiling Hyoudou Takako, and finally she simply closed her eyes.

"Since you know that it's meaningless to treat others like this, why do you still do it?! What do you want?"

"It's strange. I was obviously helping you, but you seemed to be quite disgusted with me--" Hyodo Takako still smiled, "Sagihara Shion, aren't you hiding in this academy to avoid him? Isn't he plotting to harm you? Don't you hope from the bottom of your heart that he will disappear forever and never bother you again? Now, the opportunity to solve all this is in front of you, but you accuse me of being cruel. Ha, I didn't expect that you are just a half-baked person..."

Under the ridicule of Hyoudou Takako, Sagihara Shion was suddenly speechless.

In a sense, she really hopes that her father will disappear and stop ruining her future life.

But... definitely not in this way!

There is a line in the middle that cannot be crossed, and Hyoudou Takako's actions have already exceeded this line.

She has been fighting all her life just to avoid becoming a person like her father, but if she follows the "solution" provided by the filial son, then what is the difference between her and a person like her father?

"Let him go." After a long time, she lowered her head and spoke softly, "Let him go. You have taught him a lesson. It is enough..."

"Is that enough? You really don't understand human nature at all." Hyoudou Takako interrupted her. "Many people will do anything and endure any hardship to achieve their goals. There are many precedents in history of people enduring humiliation and then making a comeback... Do you think that if you beat your father up, he will give up? Is this naive or arrogant?"

"Of course I know that if I let him go, I will still be in danger. My father is that kind of person - but even so, I can't watch you kill him. The law can punish him, and I don't need you to do it for me. You are not a judge in the world, and I don't need you to judge anyone!" Seeing that it has come to this, Sagihara Shion no longer flinched. She looked directly at the other party and refuted loudly, "I can handle my own affairs... Even if we encounter any difficulties and obstacles, Junjun and I will find a way to solve it. There is no need for you to interfere!"

Her attitude was dignified and confident, yet full of determination to never back down. The momentum that burst out at this moment left even Hyoudou Takako speechless.

After a moment, Hyoudou Takako frowned slightly.

"Chun-jun? Who is that?"

Oh no! Sagihara Shion froze in place.

When she was emotional, she mentioned Chun Jun casually, because in her subconscious, Chun Jun was indeed the person she could rely on the most and who could help her the most.

She realized she had said something out of turn, so she simply changed the subject, "You just said that you wanted to give him to me as a gift, right? As for a gift, the person who receives it has the right to dispose of it, right?"

"If you don't want to talk about it, forget it." Seeing that Sagihara Shion wanted to change the subject, Sagihara Shion just smiled and said, "It seems that you have grown more than just physically in the past few years."

Then she nodded again, "Yes, I'll give it to you, you can do with it as you see fit."

"Well, let him go and let him go back." Sagihara Shion immediately said, "Stop interfering in our affairs."

She is very conflicted now. Even though she knows that her father is bad for her, she cannot bear to let her father be tortured to death.

"If you want to deal with it this way, then it's up to you, Sagihara Shion. You really haven't reached that level yet." Hyoudou Takako didn't refute, but just shrugged, as if he was a little disappointed with Sagihara Shion. "However, this guy resisted us, and it would be embarrassing to let him go directly. We can let him go, but he must first serve two months of labor at the construction site of our subsidiary company to compensate for the losses he caused us. Then we will give him travel expenses and let him go on his own."

It was you who beat someone up, yet you still want others to do forced labor as "compensation"... This is too overbearing... Sagihara Shion couldn't help but complain in her heart.

However, this made Sagihara Shion feel relieved. Sagihara Masao would not die because of her, and he would not be able to disturb her for at least two months. This was simply the best solution.

Hyodou Takako agreed so readily, could it be that... she had already anticipated that I would do this beforehand?

She looked at Hyoudou Takako with some suspicion, not understanding what she was thinking.

Is she trying to please me? An incredible idea suddenly occurred to Shion Sagihara.

After a moment, she rejected this ridiculous idea. After all, she had no reason to please the other party.

But no matter what, after all, Hyodou Takako has helped me. Even if she has some purpose, this is a fact that cannot be changed.

"Thank you, Senior." She bowed slightly to the other party. "Then it's up to you."

"This is the attitude you should have." Hyoudou Takako just nodded slightly.

Then she waved her hand again, and the men in black standing at the door understood and stuffed the unconscious Sagihara Masao back into the box, and then carried the box out. Sagihara Shion watched the box leave, and she finally breathed a sigh of relief until it disappeared from her sight.

The scene just now had a huge psychological impact on her.

"I solved your problem, not just for your gratitude. Your gratitude is not that valuable." After the door was closed again, Hyoudou Takako spoke again, "I want you to show it with practical actions."

"What do you mean?" Sagihara Shion became nervous again.

"I just went to each first-year class and gathered the top-ranked students." Hyoudou Takako curled her lips in disdain. "It's disappointing to see a group of kids who have become stupid because of studying too much. There are not many outstanding ones. It's ridiculous to think that the future of Japan is in their hands. But no matter what, the only ones who can enter the University of Tokyo in the next few years from this school will be those among them."

"What do you want to do with them?" Sagihara Shion still didn't quite understand.

"Don't worry, I won't do anything to them. On the contrary, I will give them a reward." Hyoudou Takako smiled again, "The purpose of my return to school this time is to recruit them. It may be too late to recruit them after they are admitted to the University of Tokyo."

"Recruit..." Sagihara Shion repeated.

Could this be the club that Mr. Tonegawa had guessed about before? She wondered.

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"Yes, it's about recruiting." Hyodo Takako nodded, then explained in a low voice, "After I was admitted to the University of Tokyo, I did not follow my grandfather's wishes to choose an economics subject, but chose sociology, and studied under Professor Takashi, from whom I learned a lot. In addition, in order to further develop my own academic research, I founded a club in the University of Tokyo. Now that I am about to graduate, the maintenance of the club must be seriously considered. I hope that my club will be taken over by the younger generations of this school, so that our tradition can continue..."

As expected... Mr. Tonegawa really guessed it right! Sagihara Shion was very impressed with the middle-aged man.

As expected, he is the one who could climb to the top of the DiAi Group.

"The club is recruiting new members... so why are they looking for freshmen?" Sagihara Shion still didn't understand. "Logically, seniors should go to Tokyo University earlier."

"I don't need to do it that early." Hyoudou Takako replied with a smile, "Because I have already chosen the person who will take over my leadership of the club, and I don't want anyone in the club to compete with that person for qualifications, so I only need to pick from the first year students. By then, those people will be juniors and it will be easier to manage them... Do you understand now?"

Already confirmed?

Sagihara Shion was a little confused. After all, according to what Takako had said, the person who replaced her must be from the school, but she didn't see her specifically interacting with any senior students.

Forget it, I can’t care so much. Let her do whatever she wants, as long as she doesn’t cause any trouble in school.

"You...what do you want me to do now?" After thinking for a moment, Sagihara Shion asked again.

After all, no matter from which perspective, Hyodou Takako helped her (although not in the way she wanted). In life, one must clearly distinguish between gratitude and resentment. Sagihara Shion does not appreciate her kindness, nor does she want to owe her any favor, so if there is anything she can do, she does not mind repaying her.

"I have already told them that after school, they will all come to the auditorium. I will then explain the specifics of the club to them and give them gifts." Hyodo Takako sneered again, "Most people nowadays are very realistic. No one will obey if they are not given some benefits, right?"

Without waiting for Sagihara Shion to ask again, she stated her request to Sagihara Shion, "When the time comes, you can also come to the auditorium as a witness and help me maintain order. After all, you are here to entertain me on behalf of the school. It seems unreasonable not to attend such an occasion, right?"

Sagihara Shion thought about it and seemed unable to refute it. After all, she had a responsibility and she had to go and take a look.