The Otherworld Card Collector

Kurumizaka Ruri nodded.

This concerns the play time at the school festival, so naturally everyone is competing against each other and refusing to give in.

But then again, it seems like our class is the only one that is so conflicted?

Kurumizaka Ruri is quite popular in school. If she remembered correctly, there seemed to be only one or two other undecided students in all grades of the school, except their class.

But then again.

"Why is it a tie?"

"Yeah, why is it a tie?"

Setsuna Sasaki also frowned.

"If I remember correctly, there should be..."

"Thirty-nine people."

The Kurumizaka Ruri trio couldn't help but look at Kuroda Hikaru.

Kuroda Mitsuru, who was reading a comic book and was not interested in the class meeting, continued indifferently.

"Aside from Sawano Taisuke who has already dropped out, there are still thirty-nine people in our class."

Then the problem is coming.

"Who didn't vote, Guang?"

Nishizono Ria asked curiously.

However, the moment she asked this question, not only Kuroda Hikaru, but also Kurumizaka Ruri and others couldn't help but look at the man sitting by the window in the back row.

The five people's attention immediately shifted to Matou Shirou.

Shirou Matou, who was originally looking out the window as if nothing had to do with him, immediately turned around and glanced at the five people who were looking at him. He immediately had a bad feeling in his heart.

There is a psychology called herd mentality.

To put it simply, five people suddenly looked at him, Shirou Matou. Such an action would naturally be seen by the class monitor on the podium.

When she saw this, she immediately followed the gaze of the five people and looked at Shirou Matou, so the other students who were already staring at the class monitor couldn't help but look over here in the direction she was looking.

Well, now everyone's attention is on him.

The squad leader also reacted suddenly.

"Matou-san, you haven't voted yet, right?"

A stone stirred up a thousand waves.

The moment the monitor finished speaking, the whole class was in an uproar.

However, the boiling point is mainly divided into two sides.

Boys' side:

"Matou, choose the maid cafe! If we want to win the award for the best class at the school festival, we must take advantage of our class's strengths!"

As for what the strengths of our class are;

Very simple.

"The girls in our class are super cute. Both the quality and quantity are far superior to other classes. If we open a maid cafe, we'll definitely have a lot of customers!"

"And then again, Matou, you don't want to be a host and entertain guests in class, do you?"

Your last sentence really hit the nail on the head.

Matou Shirou really didn't care about maids, male hosts, or anything like that, but he really didn't want to be trapped in the classroom during the school festival—

He lacked a certain team spirit, but Shirou Matou never denied that.

Even in previous class activities, he was basically on the margins.

It’s a pity that his vote has now become the decisive one.

So not only the boys are fighting hard for it, the girls are also not far behind.

"Matou-san, you know the boys in our class are mixed."

"To be more specific, except for you, Matou-san, everyone else is a complete wretch."

"Yes, and Matou-kun, if you are willing to vote for us, we will definitely not let you take part in the male host matter. You can do what you want~"

There is no solution for the ultimate kill!

It has to be Kurumizaka Ruri who understands Matou Shirou's psychology better than the girls in the class.

The moment she said this, the boys couldn't help but widen their eyes.

Oh my god, you are cheating!

They originally wanted to be reserved, but they didn't expect the girls to be so shameless and actually bribed them by name.

Oh my god.

The boys suddenly became nervous.

They knew that Shirou Matou didn't care much about reading the air. After all, his entire approach was to just be happy as long as he didn't do anything bad, and this kind of voting was definitely not a bad thing!

Could it be that...

Are we going to be male hosts at the school festival and entertain guests all day long?

"Why not have a 'palace banquet'?"

Matou Shirou's words made everyone in the class stunned.

It was the squad leader who reacted first, and asked with some surprise and confusion.

"Matou-san, what do you mean?"

"If you want to win the 'Best Class' award, then either a maid cafe or a host milk tea shop is too simple."

Shirou Matou looked at him like this, and continued to explain to his classmates who were looking at him without changing his expression.

"Then why not just open a European-style restaurant, and then naturally pick almost the same number of men and women to serve as French maids and British butlers."

"And there should be someone in our class who can cook, right?"

Shirou Matou looked around, and the moment his eyes met Kuroda Hikaru's, Kuroda Hikaru raised his hand without hesitation.

When she raised her hand, two or three people who were confident in their cooking skills also raised their hands.

Matou Shirou then continued.

"Since there are four chefs who have volunteered, we will divide them into two teams, one for the morning and one for the afternoon."

"In exchange, you don't have to do the preparation work. However, the four of you need to discuss privately what kind of food to make and what ingredients are needed. Then, submit it to the squad leader, who will determine the required squad funds for the supplies."

"OK?"

"Ah."

The four nodded.

Shirou Matou looked at the others again.

"As I said, since the chefs are divided into morning and afternoon teams, the students who serve as butlers and maids can naturally be divided into morning and afternoon teams as well, so that everyone can enjoy the life of the school festival."

Matou Shirou paused for a moment, then raised two fingers.

"Of course, there are also two options."

"First, the male and female parties must submit four men and four women. The eight selected will not be required to participate in the preliminary preparations for the school festival. The price they pay is that they can only enjoy the school festival life for half a day."

"Secondly, everyone except the four chefs can participate. This way, we can divide them into eight or even more teams. This means that everyone will most likely only have to work for an hour, and then they can enjoy the school festival life for the rest of the time."

"Of course, if we do that, we'll have to prepare costumes for everyone, and that might put a strain on our class funds."

"But if we do this, it's like using class fees to buy everyone a cosplay costume. After the school festival, we can take it home as a souvenir or wear it ourselves if we want. It's not a problem."

Matou Shirou spread out his left hand.

"I'm almost done. Who's in favor, and who's against?"

But no one spoke.

Everyone was stunned. They didn't expect Shirou Matou to come up with a third idea.

However, how to say it, seeing Shirou Matou speaking so many words in one breath today, both boys and girls subconsciously felt that Shirou Matou spoke quite well.

Although it seems that neither side wants to offend, this solution is indeed very good.

What's more, this is the solution proposed by Shirou Matou!

"Matou-kun, you are amazing."

Kurumizaka Ruri gave a thumbs up.

"So, Matou-kun, can I see you in your butler's attire?"

"Are you kidding me?"

Matou Shirou raised an eyebrow.

What a righteous look he had. When Kurumizaka Ruri saw it, she stuck out her tongue in embarrassment.

She shouldn't have asked.

How could Matou-chan waste his time on something like this?

But even so;

"It was my idea to choose Matou Shirou. He is the one that everyone wants!"

As soon as these words were spoken, Hamasaki Reina and Sasaki Setsuna also raised their hands without hesitation.

"So are we!"

Oh, since all three of you have chosen, we must not show weakness.

"I choose too!"

Nishizono Ria and Kuroda Hikaru also raised their hands.

When the people in the Xiyuan small group saw it, the eldest sister and the second sister both agreed. How could they not agree since they were in the same small group?

You must take me one.

When the others saw this, they thought, hey, the girls all agreed, so as a boy, I have no choice but to express my opinion at this time.

So is Shirou Matou’s suggestion good? It’s definitely better than the girls’.

When both sides were deadlocked, the idea proposed by Shirou Matou was a good one.

You feel hot and want to open the window, but you are not allowed, so you decide to just push the door open, and they will then be willing to let you open the door.

People around the world are mostly willing to compromise.

So there were no surprises.

"I also choose Matou's proposal!"

The remaining wavering people saw this and thought, wow, so many people are willing to do this, so if we don’t agree, will we be considered as being unsociable?

So they also raised their hands and chose to support Shirou Matou.

"Well, then our class's school festival has decided to be held in a 'palace banquet' style restaurant."

So, based on what Shirou Matou had suggested earlier, I continued to think about this topic and soon determined the specific situation.

First, the chef remained the same and did as Matou Shirou said;

As for the waiters, eight people were decided. Firstly, the class funds could not afford the hassle, and secondly, some people really did not like to do the hard or dirty work in preparation for the school festival. But you still have to do something, and that is to be a waiter.

As for Shirou Matou?

Hey, this project was proposed by Matou, so how can it be considered that I didn’t contribute?

It's obvious that he put in a lot of effort!