There were not many people in the bar. Given the age of many high school students on the ship, they should be full of curiosity and desire to explore the adult society.
Hello, is this bar not open to students?
As soon as this thought popped up in his mind, and just when Wu Yi was about to go out the door to take a closer look at the sign above, a bar waiter came towards them and asked politely.
"Excuse me, are you Yukinoshita-san and Goe-san from Class 1-B?"
"Yes."
Yukinoshita Haruno responded with a smile, not at all surprised.
The waiter immediately showed a look of understanding and gestured for guests to come in.
"Teacher Chabashira is already waiting. Please follow me."
Chabashira Sae? Why is she involved?
Wu Yi raised his eyebrows imperceptibly and cast a questioning look at the girl beside him.
But Yukinoshita Haruno did not answer, but just responded with a perfect smile.
Not long after, the waiter led the two through the hall, turned a corner and came to a secluded corner by the window.
In the booth, a female teacher wearing a black OL uniform that was no different from the one she wore during class had been waiting quietly, holding a glass of unknown whiskey in her hand. When she saw someone coming, she just nodded slightly and moved her body to the side to make some space.
"Order whatever you want to drink... Of course, it can't contain alcohol. Minors are not allowed to drink."
"Coming to the bar to drink non-alcoholic drinks, is this the so-called drunkard's purpose other than drinking?"
Wu Yi sneered and raised his hand.
"One glass of Ovaltine, please."
"Then I'll have a cup of hot chocolate."
Yukinoshita Haruno followed closely behind.
The waiter took note of it carefully, and within five minutes, their drinks were served.
“Students are never entertained alone here.”
Chabashira Sae took a sip of the amber liquid in the whiskey glass with ice cubes.
"So, if you have anything you want to talk about, you can feel free to talk about it here."
"In that case, I'll get straight to the point." Yukinoshita Haruno spoke first, "Regarding the results of this special exam, I want to know what Wu Yi thinks?"
"Ah ha? Why are you still bringing review papers after the exam is over?"
Wu Yi was happy.
"But if I really have to put it into words, it can probably be described in eight words - unexpected, but reasonable."
"'Unexpected, but reasonable'? That's a very good saying. To be honest, I feel the same way."
Yukinoshita Haruno actually clapped her hands gently.
"But why do I feel that for you, Wu Yi, there may not be any so-called 'unexpected', only the latter 'reasonable'?"
"Will it?" Wu Yi did not comment.
"Don't worry, I will explain it to you slowly. This is also the result of my review throughout the day today."
Yukinoshita Haruno took a sip of hot chocolate, put down the cup in her hand and spoke slowly.
"According to my calculations, our class spent a total of 220 test points on this special exam. Taking into account the 250 points lost due to Kouenji's withdrawal from the exam, the total is points. In other words, if we don't get any bonus points, then the remaining points should be points."
"As for bonus points, since the exam starts on the morning of the first day and ends on the morning of the seventh day, it should actually be a full six-day exam."
"Based on checking in once every eight hours, we can get eighteen bonus points in our own camp in six days. In addition, you, Wu Yi, earned points by changing your bracelets and checking in during the first three days. The total is thirty-six points. Add the remaining fifty points and the total is eighty-six points."
"When I was guessing the leaders of other classes, I wrote Totsuka Yahiko in the A-class column and Ryuen Sho in the D-class column, but the final result was that I didn't add or subtract a single point."
"According to what Mr. Majima said on the first day, if you guess correctly, you will get 50 points, and if you guess incorrectly, you will lose 50 points. In other words, one of the two answers I filled in is correct and the other is wrong. Only in this way will there be no points added or lost."
"At first I thought it was my fault because I didn't see Ryuen's name written on the D class key card, but then I thought about it and decided that wasn't the case."
"Ryuen-san is undoubtedly the leader of Class D, and Totsuka-san was indeed the leader of Class A at the beginning. I saw it with my own eyes, but things changed afterwards."
"As for when, I think it should be the third day or after the third day."
"The reason is that after the third day, you, Wu Yi, did not ask Horikita for the key card again because you knew that the leader of Class A had been replaced and the key card had been reissued, so the previous operation could no longer be used."
Having said that, Yukinoshita Haruno raised her head slightly and looked into her eyes.
"Am I right, Wu Yi?"
"Um……"
Faced with the girl's almost interrogative words, Wu Yi thought for a moment and organized his words, finally raising his glass.
"Look, this guy can figure it out. He's not stupid."
Volume 108: Chapter I Don't Need Any Allies
Not stupid...
This was probably the only time that Yukinoshita Haruno had received such an evaluation since she was born.
This is not to say that she was considered a stupid girl since she was a child.
On the contrary, as the eldest daughter of the Yukinoshita family, a family of Chiba County councilors, Yukinoshita Haruno has been crowned with various halos and titles since she was a child, and everyone has only the utmost praise for her.
In school, she is a perfect student in the eyes of her teachers.
She is perfect in sports, study and moral character. No matter what subject she takes, she is always the top student in the grade.
Including activities similar to cultural festivals that the school requires students to organize on their own, Yukinoshita Haruno was able to mobilize the enthusiasm of everyone and organize the activities in an orderly manner, which received rave reviews and was even unprecedented in history.
But a school is just a school after all. Even though there are dark sides such as campus bullying, when looking at the entire society, it is still a pure and flawless ivory tower.
For ordinary people, the above honors may be enough to brag about for a lifetime, but for Yukinoshita Haruno, the only standard she sets for herself in this environment is "perfection."
Only perfection is considered qualified, anything else is considered unqualified.
After all, if one cannot be perfect in such a simple environment as school, let alone inheriting the Yukinoshita family and stepping into the dark and quagmire political arena in the future.
Even if one rises to a high position right from the start by relying on generations of family accumulation, being suppressed is only a matter of time.
In fact, if you really want to talk about it, the style of the Yukinoshita family is actually a bit similar to the Gattuso family in a certain novel. Both are blue-blooded aristocratic styles.
The so-called blue-blooded aristocrats never emphasize their acquired efforts. In their view, no matter how impressive the acquired efforts are, they are just nouveau riche. Only innate achievements are truly awesome.
So no matter how hard or tired he is in private, he always appears calm and elegant in front of outsiders.
Yukinoshita Haruno is no exception. Growing up in such a family, she has at least heard a little about the filthiness of the political world since she was a child, if not seen it all.
No matter how firmly and confidently she expresses in front of outsiders that she will support the Yukinoshita family in the future, to put it bluntly, she is just a teenage girl who just graduated from junior high school. It is absolutely impossible for her to be truly confident that she can defeat everything in the future.
That's why she made an almost impossible bet with her mother and came to this school, a school that claims to train young people who can shoulder the future of Japan.
Although the content taught in school is somewhat weird, especially the extremely fierce competition between classes in the same grade, and it is also full of all kinds of shitty and despicable means.
To put it bluntly, we try to win over those who can be won over, and suppress those who cannot be won over as much as possible.
But you have to be good at these tricks if you want to make it in politics.
During this semester, Yukinoshita Haruno has been almost broken by worrying about the class.
From integrating interpersonal relationships to improving the class average, she put in a lot of effort at every step to finally get to this point.
Of course, this is not a problem of Yukinoshita Haruno's ability, but because she chose the hard difficulty at the beginning.
But she didn't know that if it weren't for Wu Yi's two attacks in the first semester... a fight with Sudo and an exam on an uninhabited island, the difficulty would not only be hard, but would most likely become hellish.
"Student Wu Yi, I sincerely hope to establish a cooperative relationship with you..."
Yukinoshita Haruno used an unprecedented sincere tone.
However, before she could finish her words, she was interrupted by Wu Yi who was sitting opposite her.
"Cooperation? Why should we cooperate? What's the point of cooperation?"
These three questions stumped Yukinoshita Haruno, not because the questions were complicated and difficult to answer, but because they were too simple and easy to answer.
But Wu Yi obviously didn't think so, he spoke to himself.
"Although I don't know why you come to this school, there is no doubt that you come here with ambitions... By the way, have you seen Jujutsu Kaisen?"
“…I’ve seen a little bit.”
Although she didn't know why the other party suddenly made such a sudden change, Yukinoshita Haruno still answered truthfully.
"It doesn't matter if you haven't read it." Wu Yi shrugged. "There's a line in it that I particularly like. Do you know which line it is?"
"……do not know."
"Well, I don't really remember the original words, because I only read it once."
Having said this, Wu Yi took a deep breath, and suddenly began to speak word by word, as if he was chanting some Buddhist mantra.
"The general idea is - no matter how powerful a sorcerer is, he will eventually die alone."
"I think this statement makes a lot of sense. As the saying goes, life is unpredictable and one's heart is tied to another's. In this illogical world where people's hearts are separated from their stomachs, allies and partners are actually the most unreliable things."
"After all, if someone wants to deal with you from the bottom of his heart, he will definitely consider how to deal with the people around you. He doesn't even need to fight, just a little handle or weakness. And your partners and allies are not your close-fitting little cotton jackets that can stick to you seamlessly 24 hours a day."
"Besides, even if it's a cotton-padded jacket, there's a time to take it off and wash it, and it gets hot when summer comes. It's easy to dodge an obvious attack, but hard to guard against an invisible one. As long as you're careful enough, you can always find a loophole."
"There is no unbreakable city in the world, nor is there an absolutely safe vault. Even the most powerful and influential boss with his own private army may be assassinated one day."
"Why did this happen? Isn't it because there is nothing absolutely reliable in this world?"
Wu Yi raised his eyes slightly and pointed to his temple.
"When the time comes for a real crisis, the only person you can rely on is yourself."
"Since we know from the beginning that we can't count on it 100%, it's better not to count on it 100% from the beginning."
"Besides, I remember Kouenji mentioned that your family is a county council member. To be honest, if you can't even do these things, then don't expect to be a council member. You can't beat their old tricks."
"That's all I have to say. I'm leaving now."
After drinking all the remaining Ovaltine in the glass, Wu Yi stood up and left.
It wasn't until the bar door opened and closed that Chabashira Sae glanced at the slightly silent girl sitting next to him.
"It looks like the negotiations have broken down."
"Yes……"
Yukinoshita Haruno sighed softly, barely noticeable, then quickly calmed herself down and put on a perfect smile like a mask.
"I'm sorry to trouble you, teacher. It's almost time for me to leave now."
"Ah."
Chabashira Sae had no intention of trying to keep him.
Watching another student from her class leave the bar, the female teacher slowly finished the whiskey in her hand, took out her cell phone and made a call.
"Ayanokouji, if you are still awake, come to the bar on the fourth floor of the cruise ship. I'll be waiting for you there."
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Chabashira Sae: Ayanokouji! It's time to get to work!
Everyone, come
Volume 109: Chapter The Second Special Exam
Three days have passed since the end of the uninhabited island exam. During these three days, all 160 first-grade students stayed on this luxury cruise ship, as if drifting aimlessly on the vast ocean.
To be honest, considering the fast pace of today's tour groups, which can cover all the attractions in a city in three days, it is really boring to let a group of students stay on a cruise ship for three days.
After all, there is absolutely no comparison in terms of explorable area.
However, I don’t know if it’s because of the so-called “high-class life” filter, but at least so far no student has ever said, “Ah, I’m tired of this cruise ship.”
It was six fifty in the morning. When the bright sunlight shone on the sea and refracted through the waves into the half-floor-to-ceiling window of the chairman's exclusive bedroom on the cruise ship, Wu Yi, who was lying on the full-size bed in the middle of the room, turned over 180 degrees with his eyes closed... along with a certain white-haired loli curled up in his arms.
ding dong~
What forced him to turn over was the sound of a cell phone ringing from the bed behind him.
"Uh……"
Although he was born into the Wu clan and had lived an unusual life since childhood, Wu Yi still hated behaviors like disturbing people's sleep. This was the instinct of living things and there was no way to change it with any acquired training.
