Yumemi Yumemite had originally thought that acting as the host for this competition was merely a private request from Huangquan Luna, at most only increasing her favorability.
But unexpectedly, not only Huangquan Luna, but also Beautification Committee Chairperson Miharu Taki Sakura and Disciplinary Committee Member Sachiko Juraku successively arrived.
Sachiko Juraku even participated in the entire competition, even reaching the finals, and even invited the final champion to join the Student Council!
Why didn't such a good thing fall on her head!
Ayanokoji Kiyotaka still said he had no relation to the Student Council; only a ghost would believe him! If he had no relation, how could so many Student Council members come to show their support?
Now Yumemi Yumemite was determined to rely on Ayanokoji, hoping he would invite her to the next event.
If she got familiar here now, the chances of being invited by the Student Council would be even greater.
Ayanokoji Kiyotaka was unaware of Yumemi Yumemite's thoughts. After thanking Ikishima Midari and her members for their help and promising to treat them to a meal, Ayanokoji sent the few of them off.
Now, only Togakushi Yukimi, Hanatemari Kazura, Saotome Meari, and Kurume Laiwei, the four regular members, remained in front of Ayanokoji.
"Ayanokoji, this competition is over. Including the initial promotional activity costs and this championship prize money, a total of five million Japanese Yen has been spent. This doesn't even include the money you spent remodeling this Cooking Room… Spending so much money, was it just to promote 'Landlord'?"
Saotome Meari's heart still ached slightly when she saw the championship prize money taken by Shimotsuki Okuri. Watching the money slip through her fingers, she felt utterly helpless.
But she also admitted that she had done her best and was indeed outmatched, accepting defeat gracefully.
"Anyway, the boss is super rich, so he probably doesn't care if all this money goes down the drain," Kurume Laiwei, who understood Ayanokoji well, laughed carelessly, "Don't worry, the boss definitely won't do a losing business!"
"Is that really true?" Meari looked at Ayanokoji with anticipation.
"Sort of… In short, this competition concluded successfully. As an opening promotion event, it has completed its mission. To make money, we'll rely on the next ideas."
"What other ideas do you have? Hurry up and tell us, stop being a riddle person!" Meari asked impatiently.
Ayanokoji Kiyotaka smiled and did not hide his next plan.
"Promoting Landlord is just the superficial goal; the real goal…"
Ayanokoji placed the Dragonfly Captain Robot in the middle of everyone: "We are going to promote it."
...
Ayanokoji Kiyotaka held the Dou Di Zhu Competition on a weekend, when most students had left school to go home.
When they returned to school on Monday, they heard some surprising things from the students who participated in the competition.
This Dou Di Zhu Competition did not use a Dealer at all, but rather a high-tech intelligent referee robot called "Captain Dragonfly." This robot could clearly identify who was cheating, and in this competition, it successfully caught over twenty cheaters.
This Dou Di Zhu Competition even invited two Student Council members, Huangquan Luna and Miharu Taki Sakura, as guests.
Not only that, but Disciplinary Committee Chairman Sachiko Juraku even participated in the entire competition, advancing triumphantly and even reaching the finals.
Sachiko Juraku is a figure whose prestige in the school is second only to Student Council President Kirari Momobami.
She has been in this school for three years, and everyone has heard her name. To some extent, her reputation is more deeply ingrained than the current second-year Student Council President.
Her participation in this competition was even bigger news than Huangquan Luna and Miharu Taki Sakura, two Student Council members, serving as guests.
Moreover, there was an even more explosive piece of news.
It was said that in the finals of the Landlord competition, when only Sachiko Juraku and another contestant remained, Sachiko Juraku chose to forfeit, not vying for the final championship, and even extended an invitation to that contestant, inviting her to join the Student Council!
And, what was incomprehensible was that this champion even refused the invitation!
Joining the Student Council!
This was the wish of countless people.
One either had to pay a huge amount of tribute to the Student Council, or possess superb gambling skills to gain the Student Council's attention; besides these, there were no other channels to join the Student Council.
And this obscure Dou Di Zhu Competition had actually received such strong support from so many Student Council members, and even a personal invitation from Sachiko Juraku, which made many people envious.
What was this champion thinking? Why did she refuse? Didn't she know how many rights she would enjoy by joining the Student Council?
They all wanted to find this "champion" and ask her why she refused the invitation. Wasn't joining the Student Council great?
The only regrettable thing was that none of the circulating messages were about the final champion; it seemed no one knew who the person who ultimately won the championship was.
This was, of course, because all these messages were spread by Ayanokoji Kiyotaka, who once again entrusted members of the newspaper club to disseminate the information through their channels.
For this, Ayanokoji spent another few hundred thousand Japanese Yen.
You get what you pay for. These messages spread widely, and anyone in the entire school who wasn't overly reclusive and had some means of communication with the outside world, more or less learned about the details of this competition.
After this battle, the "official certification" of the Dou Di Zhu Competition was solidified.
Even if Ayanokoji Kiyotaka hadn't released the news, many people were privately spreading rumors that as long as one won the Dou Di Zhu Competition, they could receive an invitation from the Student Council and join the Student Council.
Although the first competition had just been held, many people were already looking forward to the second one, rolling up their sleeves and preparing for it.
The referee robot "Captain Dragonfly" became famous in one battle, and legends about Captain Dragonfly spread throughout the entire school.
An intelligent robot capable of catching others cheating, in this school where gambling was prevalent, was even more attractive than the interesting new game of "Landlord."
Ayanokoji and Meari had a small chat group, and Togakushi Yukimi even complained in the group that many friends were asking her about "Captain Dragonfly," wanting to know where it was bought.
Ayanokoji directly told her that it was an experimental product from the laboratory, currently only this one unit existed, and it was a non-sale item, so even if they wanted to buy it, they couldn't.
Togakushi Yukimi truthfully told this news to her friends. Although they were disappointed, they did not give up hope and still made an appointment with Togakushi Yukimi, saying they would find an opportunity to witness the splendor of "Captain Dragonfly."
Ayanokoji Kiyotaka didn't mind. According to the manual, the data of Captain Dragonfly's core chip could not be copied. So, if they wanted to visit, they could. The more people who came, the better, otherwise, how would he attract customers to the casino in the Cooking Room?
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