In fact, I can add unlimited points

As for the oldest third graders, their grades were even more dismal.

Because Class B and Class C of Grade 3 repeatedly violated the rules, these two classes were repeatedly disqualified from the exam. Only Class A and Class D of Grade 3 were still trying to score points, but they still could not get good rankings due to harassment from other classes.

As a result, the gap between the third grade and the first grade not only did not decrease, but instead widened further to over 1000 points.

"Brother~"

Horikita Suzune couldn't help but look at the third-year Class A team. Because she wasn't part of the class's decision-making body, she wasn't clear about Aragaki Shun's plans, so she couldn't help but feel a little anxious.

She could accept it without feeling guilty whether it was her own first year or her brother's third year winning, but now the second year was actually in the lead?

Why does that annoying blond guy who always uses a provocative tone to deliberately get his brother's attention have the right to do that?

After hesitating several times, she decided to go on to the second individual competition event, the hurdles race. There was still some time before it was her turn, so the girl with long, straight black hair quickly returned to Class 1-A and came panting to Aragaki Shun.

"Aragaki-kun, we're in a bit of trouble right now. The second-year students have specifically asked three other classes to help them score points."

"If this continues, our initial score will become ineffective after the next event, the hurdles, and we'll be completely overtaken. What should we do now?"

Seeing the girl's anxious expression, Shun Aragaki grabbed a bottle of mineral water from the side and tossed it to her, signaling her to calm down.

Horikita Suzune wanted to say something more, but faced with the calm and composed gaze of the leader of Class A, her mood was soothed.

She drank half a bottle of water as instructed, and as if influenced by the boy's confident aura, she released all the restlessness in her heart.

"I'm sorry, I'm still a bit immature."

"It's alright. What you're more worried about is Horikita Manabu's class, since they only have six months left before graduation."

Without mincing words, Shun Aragaki, with a thoughtful expression, also turned his gaze to the third-year students' area.

Horikita Academy has been operating at a highly developed level for two and a half years, but in the month since the school announced the rules for the sports festival, despite the influence of the school's self-proclaimed best student council president, they have only managed to defeat Class D of the third year.

This situation is truly unexpected.

Could it be that he was too kind in the past, causing Class B and Class C in the second year to not be afraid of each other and still hold out hope for Class A?

Or is it that Horikita Manabu's abilities truly stop there?

The term "most outstanding student council president in history" refers more to his administrative and operational abilities, praising his impartiality, efficiency, and ability to gain recognition from both students and faculty during his tenure.

Based on his experiences with his colleagues over the past six months, Shun Aragaki had a general idea of ​​what to do with himself.

"I..."

Horikita Suzune looked somewhat embarrassed after her thoughts were exposed.

Upon seeing this, Aragaki Shun said dismissively, "It's only natural for siblings to care for each other. The way you two get along is just too awkward."

"President, you know your sister's shortcomings, is it so hard to say that you want her to grow? You acted so coy, and I, an outsider, had to play the role of the middleman."

Shaking his head helplessly, the leader of Class A watched Horikita Suzune's flushed face with great interest, as if watching a spectacle.

The girl with long, straight black hair was embarrassed and annoyed by the man's teasing. If it had been any other classmate in front of her, she would have definitely breathed on him on the spot.

But right now, it's Shun Aragaki who's teasing her, the monster who makes her feel inferior and who has lost time and time again.

Faced with this person's remarks, the girl really didn't have much confidence to refute them, and could only mutter softly, "It's not my brother's fault, it's that I'm too useless and have embarrassed him."

"You have too much of a bias towards Chairman Horikita. I suggest you treat him like an ordinary older brother. That way, it will be much easier to get along with him."

With a soft click of his tongue, Shun Aragaki kindly offered a suggestion.

In his view, it was just like how Horikita Manabu had a strong bias towards his younger sister, believing that she had unlimited potential.

Horikita Suzune's perception of her brother was also influenced by too many biased perspectives. She fantasized that he was omnipotent, but instead, she blindly followed his example and ended up with a bizarre and unrecognizable mess.

"In reality, President Horikita is just a relatively mature ordinary high school student. He has already done his best to protect his classmates in Class 3-A from being expelled. It has been a very difficult journey for him."

"Perhaps that's why he never really distanced himself from Class B and Class C, which made it easy for Nan Yunya to win them over."

From this perspective, Horikita Manabu is more like an enhanced version of Horikita Suzune, possessing the qualities of Hirata Yosuke.

Like Hirata, he single-handedly carried the burden of the class, leading everyone in the class with all his heart and soul, hoping that everyone would graduate from Class A without missing a single one.

He is simply more capable than Hirata and has never made a mistake in class competitions.

However, through her outward behavior, one can see that this student council president is remarkably similar to Horikita Suzune in her inner self.

It's no wonder they're siblings; both are so self-disciplined, ambitious, and career-driven that they sometimes seem to lack emotional intelligence, resulting in very few people who can truly be called friends.

Of course, their inherent similarities do not affect the vastly different public perceptions of the two, which is also due to the difference in their abilities.

The difference between loneliness and aloofness is merely that one is a self-absorbed clown, while the other can rely on strong qualities to attract followers who will embellish and redeem their image.

In short, if you're not strong enough, don't act recklessly and cause trouble for others. Conversely, if you are strong enough, great scholars will naturally come to debate with you.

"Your brother has had a very difficult time protecting his comrades?"

Horikita Suzune was stunned; she never imagined she would hear such remarks from Aragaki Shun.

Is her brother, who seemed cold and tough in her eyes and looked down on everyone, actually someone who cherishes his companions?

really!

And saying that the brother got into trouble because of this...that's even more unbelievable!

"Isn't the truth right there on the field?"

Shun Aragaki pointed to the large central screen, where the scores of the third graders were showing an increasingly widening gap compared to the other two grades.

"Even the student council president couldn't change the increasingly dire situation in the third year."

"If nothing unexpected happens, Class 3-A, where the student council president is, will definitely suffer heavy losses after this sports festival, right?"

Seeing this, Horikita Suzune was unable to refute, and stared blankly in the direction where Horikita Manabu was, falling into a silent coma.

In the darkness, Shun Aragaki seemed to hear a sound like a mirror shattering.

259. Horikita's judgment was poor; Nagumo Masaru was powerless to reverse the situation.

He actually shattered the innocent girl's illusion, disillusioning her image of an omnipotent older brother. He was truly a sinner!

Seeing that Horikita Suzune couldn't accept reality and stood there in a daze, it seemed that she would not be able to wake up from her daze for more than half a day.

Shun Aragaki mentally criticized himself, quickly dismissing the non-existent guilt and deciding to keep trying.

"Compared to Nagumo Masaru, President Horikita is more upright, but also seems somewhat conventional."

"Furthermore, his judgment seems somewhat poor; he always seems to choose the wrong people to entrust with his affairs, which makes him difficult to evaluate..."

Initially, they believed that Nan Yunya was talented and recruited her into the student council to groom her as their successor. However, they were helpless to see her adopt leadership policies that were completely different from their own, which led to a series of unnecessary dropouts at Advanced Education.

After realizing this mistake, he wanted to find a helper who could keep the other side in check in the second year. After searching around, he finally settled on Kiriyama Ikuba, a fence-sitter.

All I can say is that it's perfectly normal for Horikita Manabu to always wear glasses. In some ways, he's really similar to Horikita Suzune—completely bad at recognizing and employing people.

Of course, this did not prevent him from handling various affairs well during his tenure as student council president.

Although his judgment was poor, Horikita Manabu was actually the kind of leader who did everything himself. He took on most of the complicated work and was willing to understand everything, big or small. Combined with his good abilities, he had never made any mistakes.

This can also be seen from Secretary Tachibana Akane. As the number two figure in Class 3-A, the bun-haired senior's overall qualities are truly amazing in Aragaki Shun's eyes.

It's not that this secretary is an incompetent pretty face; on the contrary, as long as she is given some clear instructions, Tachibana Akane can complete them very efficiently, making her a very good candidate for assistant.

The problem is that this petite, purple-haired senior student is really incapable of standing on her own.

She can only follow instructions and carry out specific tasks, but lacks the ability to make independent decisions and plans.

In other words, the girl is used to following orders from her superiors. Once she is in a predicament where no one is there to guide her and she has to make her own choices, she is easily at a loss and ends up crying alone.

If even Horikita Manabu's second-in-command has this style, then there's no need to say more about the other students in Class 3-A.

In short, Horikita Manabu is the kind of leader who likes to take on everything, plan everything clearly, and then have his subordinates execute according to detailed instructions.

Because he has the ability to handle all the tasks within his scope of responsibility well, over time he can earn the trust of everyone inside and outside the company through his achievements.

The only problem is that this approach can easily cause subordinates to lose their minds and become robots that dislike thinking and only know how to complete tasks.

After all, it's much easier this way, isn't it?

Horikita Suzune: "..."

Following the rules blindly, poor judgment, making mistakes in training successors, finding opportunistic helpers, and suppressing the independence of classmates by doing everything himself... Hearing Aragaki Shun point out a series of problems her brother encountered in advanced training, the long-haired girl felt dizzy.

How could Aragaki see her brother, who she considered perfect, as this?

She wanted to speak up and refute him on the spot, but then she suddenly remembered that the other person was recognized by her brother for his strength and was identified as the next student council president.

As a good-for-nothing younger sister, someone who is not even on the same level as them, does she really have the right to refute Aragaki's statement?

Is it possible that I don't really know my brother's true self, and have only ever been chasing after his shadow?

The Horikita Manabu she admired and imitated on her own never existed in her imagination.

Putting everything else aside, her brother was actually someone who valued his classmates and was willing to do everything in his power to lead the entire class to graduate from Class A... This was something she had never really considered.

In the eyes of the girl with long, straight black hair, Horikita Manabu should be a lone wolf who keeps everyone at arm's length and has an aloof personality.

Otherwise, she wouldn't have inexplicably transformed into an eccentric, self-assured, socially indifferent, and unsmiling ice queen through her imitations.

This development can only mean that this is how the younger sister perceived her brother.

"So, my brother doesn't actually refuse to walk alongside his companions?"

Muttering to herself, Horikita Suzune quickly realized an embarrassing reality: "But doesn't this mean that my brother only rejected me?"

After reaching this conclusion, the usually aloof girl with long, straight black hair was completely stunned and couldn't recover for a long time.

Shun Aragaki simply shrugged at this, saying, "I told you two siblings had an awkward way of getting along."

"They clearly care about each other, but neither of them is willing to sit down and have a serious heart-to-heart talk. They just stubbornly do what they think is right."

Horikita Suzune looked blank; she didn't know how to respond to the teasing in front of her.

While struggling with her decision, the girl once again saw the competition taking place in the center of the stadium. She quickly remembered that she had come because the first and third year students had lost in the 100-meter race and she wanted to find a way to fight back.

So she decided to suppress her chaotic thoughts for now and deal with the important matters first, and then consider these complicated family issues when she had time.

"Um, the 100-meter race seems to be over. If this continues, the second-year students' total score will catch up. We really don't need to..."

"Just watch quietly and participate in the competition as usual; everything else has been arranged."

With a wave of his hand, Shun Aragaki directly interrupted Suzune Horikita's doubts. He showed no concern for the situation at the sports festival, and anyone could see that he didn't take Masaru Nagumo's arrangements seriously at all.

"I've talked about so many of Chairman Horikita's problems in front of you before, but when it comes to basic abilities, your brother is indeed excellent enough. Those shortcomings are just a matter of no one being perfect, so there's no need to be too harsh on him."

"In comparison, Nan Yunya is much more ruthless. By expelling people from school time and time again, she easily established a huge prestige covering three grades. However, her arrogance and short-sightedness will eventually backfire."

Honest people are more likely to suffer losses, so at present, Nan Yunya has a clear advantage in the campus competition.

Even so, Shun Aragaki still favors Manabu Horikita, who doesn't abandon anyone in the class. After all, acting in the style of Masaru Nagumo is too risky, and once it erupts, it could lead to utter ruin.

To put it bluntly, Horikita Manabu could lead Class 3-A to lose once, twice, or even three times, as long as he kept working hard and persevering, he would always have people following him.

Nan Yunya, who rules over the second-year students, has also extended her influence to the first and third-year students. However, she can only win and cannot afford to lose, otherwise she may easily lose everything if she makes a careless move.

To follow the other's path, one must possess absolute strength. In modern society, unless one has a wealthy heir like Koenji Rokusuke, one will inevitably stumble one day.

Of course, if he also had a cheat code, allowing him to enter the extraordinary realm, then Aragaki Shun wouldn't have said anything.

"Just watch, the outcome of this sports festival was already decided before the competition even began."

Seeing that Horikita Suzune wanted to ask more questions, Aragaki Shun simply waved his hand, signaling her to quickly return to Class 1-D and prepare to participate in the next individual competition.

"It's about time. Take your time to observe and think things through. Don't just come to me for help every time you encounter a problem."

.........

After the first event, the 100-meter dash, ended, the announcer, on behalf of the school, informed everyone to take a 20-minute break until the new venue was inspected and ready for the next event, the hurdles race.

As planned, Class B of the second grade also officially launched the zero-score strategy, directly targeting Class A students with all their students to undermine their chances.

So when the broadcast started again—

[The hurdles race is about to begin. Participants, please take your positions.]

Everyone discovered that there were only 10 participants on the track at that moment, and the two students who should have competed in the first round according to the competition schedule were nowhere to be found.

"So you defeated the enemy in this way? Aragaki, you're much more interesting than I imagined!"

Shun Aragaki was still the first to go on stage representing Class A of the first year, but the student from Class B next to him had been replaced by Sho Ryuen.

The thug, with his roguish air, glanced at the empty seats in Class A and Class B of the second year, a malicious mocking expression on his face.

"I thought I was the only one who would like this efficient method, but it seems your despicableness surpasses mine."

Ignoring the dragon boy's ramblings, Shun Aragaki simply yawned and made a "what are you talking about?" expression.