In practice, I can issue tasks to my master.

"..."

Honami Ichinose gave a slightly resentful look.

That being said, intuitively, she was quite certain, even nine-tenths certain, that Nangong Cheng actually wanted to call her "Mom."

Seriously... how can there be such a person!

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"Is Nangong not saying one thing and meaning another?"

"Isn't it true that you say no, but deep down you're hoping they'll agree to your malicious conditions?"

The girl put her hands on her hips to give herself some confidence, and even made a deliberately fierce expression.

But Nangong Cheng only felt that it was cute.

"How can you say it's malicious?"

"Ichinose-san, don't you know? Because humans always crave what they don't have, is there anything wrong with me wanting a woman who can be my mother?"

"..."

Honami Ichinose sighed helplessly.

She's already said everything she wanted to say, what else can she say?

"So, Nangong, what are you really thinking? Even if I agree to you calling me that, you don't actually plan to call me that in front of other people, do you?"

"Hmm...we'll talk about that when the time comes."

Nangong Cheng stroked his chin.

While he didn't mind showing off his XP, Wa's version was still too advanced for the current timeline of this world.

Let's put this aside for now.

"So, Ichinose-san, you agree?"

"I... well, if you really want to call me that, Nangong, then there's nothing I can do to stop you from saying it, is there?"

Honami Ichinose turned her head away, leaving only a slightly flushed profile of Makoto Nangong.

Since we can't resist, we should accept it.

Yes, yes, she just couldn't resist, she definitely didn't really want to accept it!

Moreover, "left" and "right" are just titles.

As long as it's not called that in public, but rather in private, it's about satisfying Nangong Cheng's peculiar fetish...

[Task Completed]

[Mission Reward: Host receives 2000 points]

Actually, it's not too bad.

She didn't suffer any loss.

Even though Nangong Cheng had called her "Mom" for three years, the two thousand points she received were a real material reward that could be exchanged for two million yen.

If there is any loss, at most she might have lost something intangible like a little bit of integrity or shame.

The ratio of effort to reward is outrageous.

It's utterly corrupting people's hearts and moral compass.

Although Honami Ichinose wanted to say that she would definitely be able to resist such temptations next time, to be honest, she didn't have absolute confidence.

Because when it comes to interests, even dignity can be weighed.

Even a hair clip priced at 10,000 yen but actually worth only 1,000 yen required her to kneel down to pay off the debt.

Not to mention the task rewards that start at hundreds of thousands.

She's unwilling to do it, but plenty of others are.

Reality is both real and ironic.

"So I'm asking for your opinion, Ichinose-san? And I won't call you 'Mom' in front of others."

Nangong Cheng was naturally unaware of Ichinose Honami's thoughts; otherwise, he would have seriously told her a lesson.

This world is a delicate gray; there is no absolute good or bad, or right or wrong.

A wise person judges by actions, not intentions; if we judge by intentions, no one in the world is perfect.

Honami Ichinose did indeed commit the act of stealing the hair clip, which is "bad and evil" as defined by morality and law.

But she has always done all sorts of good deeds, big and small. She is a good child, a good friend, and a good student in the eyes of her family, classmates, friends, and teachers. She is a synonym for "goodness and kindness".

Human beings are inherently a collection of contradictions.

All behaviors should not be defined in a simplistic and hasty manner, but rather we should look at why they are doing such a thing.

"So you mean when no one's around, you're planning to keep calling Ichinose 'Mom'?"

"As expected, he really has a wicked heart!"

Honami Ichinose stopped her chaotic thoughts.

Regardless, she is now full of expectations and hope for the future.

While the tasks issued by the system may seem tricky in a certain sense, and the punishments may be quite "excessive," they are not the kind of tasks that are deliberately designed to make them absolutely impossible to complete.

In short, everything is visibly getting better.

Therefore, she can't be too greedy.

"This is a right I earned by using my student council seat. Even if you say that to me, Ichinose-mama, I won't change my mind."

Nangong Cheng was naturally very satisfied at this moment.

Regardless of whether he has become Wa's junior, he has at least successfully established a unique and intimate relationship with Ichinose Honami.

As long as this relationship exists, both the subsequent improvement of favorability and the release of various interesting tasks will benefit him, the mastermind behind the scenes.

For example, another thing he's going to do next.

"Ichinose's mother, I might need your help with something next."

"You won't refuse me, right?"

Honami Ichinose rolled her eyes cutely.

She did want to refuse.

However, she knew she had gotten a great deal from Nangong Cheng regarding the student council spot, and she was naturally willing to help if it would reduce her psychological burden.

"Only if it's something within my capabilities, okay? Otherwise, I can't help you."

"Don't worry, it's a very simple matter."

Nangong Cheng smiled mysteriously, then gestured to Ichinose Honami to follow him.

Volume 1: 27. If you were a dragon, that would be fine too.

About ten minutes later.

Nangong Cheng brought Ichinose to the monitoring room.

"Hello, may I check the surveillance footage?"

"Which day? Specific time? Location?"

The staff on duty were very concise.

"It's troublesome to go to the supermarket or convenience store around 6 pm after school on the first day of school."

The surveillance video was quickly retrieved.

Nangong Cheng quickly found the clip he wanted to see and asked the staff to help him extract and zoom in on it.

"Can this section be sold?"

"10W points."

It's so dark.

However, considering the "value" of the video, Nangong Cheng readily paid the money.

"Ichinose-san, did you understand?"

Honami Ichinose nodded.

This is not difficult to understand.

"According to what you mentioned in your intelligence report, senior students are not allowed to reveal school matters to first-year students, but what they said in the video is considered a violation."

"Although it's not serious, because the person involved didn't realize it at all, and even now that everyone knows about these things, the school may not actually do anything about it."

"But if you choose to treat it as a serious matter, then the nature of the situation might be different."

It seems there will be more victims.

Honami Ichinose silently mourned for him for a second.

"Yes."

Nangong Cheng nodded.

That must be taken seriously!

Wouldn't it be foolish to refuse money that's given away for free?

"And I can tell you that the reason I was able to get a spot in the student council was actually related to this video."

"Ok?"

Honami Ichinose became curious again.

Is there more to the story?

Nangong Cheng gestured to Ichinose Honami to leave the monitoring room with him first, and then he opened the system shop at the same time.

【Finding Cane: Stand it up and it will tell you the direction of the person or item you are looking for, with a 70% success rate. Required points: 500】

From Ichinose Honami's perspective, Nangong Makoto pulled a cane out of his clothes as if by magic and then gestured at it for a long time.

Is this some kind of divination procedure?

How strange.

"This is a little trick passed down from my ancestors, please don't be offended... I'll explain to you what I'm going to do in a moment."

While leading the way with his search cane, Nangong Cheng turned his head to explain to Ichinose Honami.

"Based on what I've learned from the first day of school until now, the second grade is currently dominated by a student in Class A named Nan Yunya."

"Why use the word 'rule' to describe it? Because he can now make the vast majority of second-year students obey him alone. Who knows, maybe he will collect personal points from them every month as his private property?"

"In addition, he has another identity—the vice president of the student council."

Seeing Ichinose Honami deep in thought, Nangong Cheng concluded his explanation.

"Now, Ichinose-mama, you should understand what I want to do next, right?"

"...Yeah, I didn't expect it to be like this."

Nangong Cheng's explanation was not complicated, and Ichinose Honami could easily understand why he made a special trip to the monitoring room first.

Because the information that has been made public so far states that all upperclassmen and faculty members are prohibited from disclosing information involving school secrets to first-year students before the end of the first month.

However, the older students in the surveillance video made suggestive remarks such as "defective product" and "hell".

This is exactly the kind of thing that only a bad teammate would do to drag things down.

So this student council vice president named Nan Yunya is really in big trouble. She is 100% or even 90% sure that Nangong Cheng will ask for an exorbitant amount.

It's truly a case of sitting at home and getting blamed out of nowhere.

The two chatted as they walked, and soon found the two senior students from the video in the cafeteria.

Nangong Cheng gestured to Ichinose Honami to simply observe before stepping forward to launch his attack.

"Hello, seniors. Excuse me for bothering you."