COTE: A Man On A Mission || Love is War?

For girls, this is a polite refusal.

But Hachiman felt that he should have left just now, because this was not right to kill time after eating, because he was just being given a hairpin.

“I don’t have any other ideas towards yo----”

“Hey!”

“Besides, you shouldn’t always think I will be impressed by yo----”

“T-That’s very rude of Senp--!”

“No, you listen to me first. Also, this school is very special. The experience gained here is much better than in the outside world. So I suggest even though you are only a freshman, you should not spend your time on unreliable relationships. Instead, study hard and gain experience in dealing with society. Then, your class had better give up on the idea of winning.” Hikigaya-senpai even gave lectures based on his experience because he felt like he couldn’t deal with her in a normal way.

“Eh? Why?” Isshiki blinked gently, even though she was just hurt a few moments ago.

There are now two classes targeting the first to fourth place in sales at cultural festival, one is the Ryuen and the other is Sakayanagi.

Plus.

Although Isshiki’s current class is B of the first grade, she climbed up from C, and there are very few outstanding students in class.

There is not much capital reserve.

Therefore, it is simply a dream to want to get into top four with only two spots left.

xxxxxx

When school was over in the afternoon, Hachiman arrived at student council.

The high-class beauty with straight black hair has already appeared at the workplace.

This is Yukinoshita Yukino.

Assist him in his work.

But she is very aloof and only does her own share.

But now, his assistant, Secretary Yukinoshita, used her power for personal gain and said, “Amasawa-san said that our class should get 300 points in cultural festival. So, we must take up one of top four spots.”

Is that so? That’s all he knew.

This time cultural festival is a joint exam for entire grade.

Ichika Amasawa wants to get a class evaluation score of 300 points.

“So, what is your winning plan, Yukinoshita?”

Actually, it is very rude to say this, because this is a unified exam.

Even your class teacher, Mr. Sakagami, also said that his class’s project needs to be kept confidential, and there will be problems if it is leaked and imitated by others.

“About this.” However, Yukinoshita seemed to not care at all, so to speak, “Hikigaya-senpai, do you still remember the promise you made on cruise ship?”

Um? Guarantee?

Hachiman suddenly recalled that he heard Sakayanagi-san playing Für Elise on the ship, and saw her shining face.

It was also because of this opportunity that he came up with the idea of learning piano.

But Sakayanagi-san is in poor health, and he has no basic skills, so it would be very difficult for her to ask him to teach her.

That’s why, Hachiman chose Yukinoshita, a junior who looked like she could play the piano and was very good at it.

At that time, Yukinoshita agreed, but the price was that he would assist her in future exams that required cross-grade collaboration.

“You mean....” Hachiman paused even though he knew his collar was grabbed by other party.

He now realised she was not doing it for just a help towards her senpai in good faith, but made it into real transaction.

“I will ask our homeroom teacher. If we can apply for external aid for this exam, and it’s not someone from our class, I hope Vice President Hikigaya can keep his promise.”

Just now he was Hikigaya-senpai, but now he has changed his name to Vice-president Hikigaya.

This means that you hope Hikigaya-senpai will keep his promise, even if it’s made on the ship on a whim....

“...So, what kind of assistance do you require?”

Although promises are important, some things cannot be done.

It’s like he thinks Karuizawa is very obedient and can complete the orders given to her, but he will definitely not give her, “I ask you to solve this math problem, because everything else may be deceiving, but studying, math will not lie.”

If you say you can’t do it, then you can’t do it.

“Don’t worry. The cultural festival project of our class is a performance. We will rent a gymnasium as a stall area and then hold performances.”

In cultural festival, it costs money to come in and watch the show, so they can charge for tickets, or even hype up the popularity of show, and then sell some tickets to scalpers, or temporarily increase price.

It is indeed a good proposal for harvesting points.

Moreover, compared with other conventional projects such as various coffee shops, tea houses, fried noodles and haunted houses, this one is more upscale.

Hachiman asked Mr. Sakagami, but there was no cultural festival last year, or even the year before.

In other words, this was a sudden proposal made by school.

For students who were confined to the school and staff who had been staying in shopping district, this cultural festival was very new.

So basically everyone is keen to participate, which means their desire to consume is very high.

Then having a performance concert with a certain threshold can indeed make a lot of money.

At the same time, for off-campus visitors, there is a performance program allows them to better understand school.

The desire to participate and willingness to spend money are also high.

It’s a must-win project.

“I’ll make it clear in advance.” Hikigaya-senpai said quickly to defend his voice, “I’m not very good at singing.”

“I didn’t ask you to sing.” But Yukino’s attitude was still pretty cold, and she gave him a gaze as if looking at an idiot who misunderstood, or have quick brainy thoughts, “I just arranged for you to go on stage as an accompaniment.”

No.

Even though he was only on stage as an accompaniment, if he wanted to hold a concert and collect ticket sales, then his accompaniment would definitely be more than just one song.

Isn’t this too much for a beginner who has only learned piano for less than 10 days?

“Yukinoshita...” Hachiman said after thinking, using his most heavy voice, as if he felt disappointed too, “I think this request is...”

“It was suggested by Amasawa-san. She will guide you. Her ability is higher than mine, and she can train you into a useful person more quickly.”

Ah....It’s Amasawa coming over.

Hachiman nodded. Since little genius is the teacher, he can indeed learn faster.

This doesn’t seem right.

“...Huh? Are you saying this was proposed by Amasawa Ichika?!”

“Yes, this proposal was made by her. She often saw your location on the ship, and then checked mine, and knew I was guiding you to do piano, but Amasawa-san seemed to be omnipotent and could do it.”

So that’s it.

But why does junior often check his location information?

xxxxx

In this way.

Even though it was only the first day of August, was destined to be a terrible and difficult month for Hikigaya-senpai.

Probably because they had finalized the training plan after cooperation, Hachiman remained quiet.

Although Yukino still needs to ask the homeroom teacher if she can choose students from other classes or even seniors to assist, Hachiman feels that the possibility of being allowed is very high.

Because rules of cultural festival do not state that we cannot seek outside help.

According to practice of this school, anything that is not written in rules will be allowed.

Therefore, every time Chairman Sakayanagi gives a question, he will check the test question carefully, unlike Mr. Tsukishiro who thinks it is okay to do it this way and then does it.

“Um…..”

“Hikigaya-kun, is president here?”

Just as Hachiman finished talking with Yukinoshita and began to deal with their own work, there was a knock on door of student council.

Then a girl with beautiful long orange hair walked in.

She was wearing same school uniform as other girls, with snow-white legs under the white pleated skirt.

But it gives people feeling this should be atmosphere of an older senior schoolmate.

Other party was indeed a senior.

It’s Asahina from Class 3A.

“If you are looking for President Sakayanagi, but she is not here most of the time.”

Sakayanagi is not in good health.

That girl even hired Amasawa as a tool recently, of course she does not come to the office even more!

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