After leaving, Ayanokouji Kiyohira received a call from Yumemi.
She told Ayanokouji Kiyohira to wait for her in the backstage dressing room, as she was currently holding a handshake event with her teammates.
Holding handshake events after concerts is an established custom for Japanese idols.
To get closer to their idols, many fans travel long distances to attend and purchase handshake tickets.
To allow more audience members into the concert venue, Yumemi used the method of bundling handshake tickets with concert tickets.
Although not many people were enticed by this strategy, Tanaka Yuzuna was one of them; for handshake tickets, he even bought over thirty tickets, which can only be described as being immensely wealthy.
After receiving the call, Ayanokouji Kiyohira bid farewell to Meari and the others, citing a sudden engagement.
To avoid their suspicion, he arranged to have dinner together in the evening.
After reassuring them, Ayanokoji left them.
In the backstage dressing room, a staff member was waiting.
After confirming Ayanokoji's name, she led Ayanokoji into the room and then left directly.
This was an ordinary dressing room.
Ayanokouji Kiyohira cautiously inspected it, and after confirming that there were no cameras or listening devices in the room, he sat on the sofa to wait for Yumemi to return.
While waiting, he also checked the system.
In this match, Ayanokouji Kiyohira had activated "guaranteed win," so he was originally assured of victory.
The system had already activated "locked health" for him, so theoretically, he couldn't lose the match; he deliberately sneezed himself to defeat.
The system will create the conditions for you to win; as long as you follow the system's operations, victory is absolutely "guaranteed."
But if you actively want to lose, the system will not stop you; it will only remind you of the consequences of doing so.
The moment Ayanokouji Kiyohira's thought of deliberately losing the match emerged, the system warned him in his mind, cautioning him that doing so would result in losing the match, and he would be responsible for the consequences of winning or losing, as the system would not bear any responsibility.
Ayanokouji Kiyohira went his own way, ignoring the system's reminders and insisting on losing the game on his own accord.
It's like when you're playing a MOBA game, and your team has already pushed to the enemy's high ground, dancing in their fountain, but you insist on clicking 'exit game,' ignoring the system's five-second warning, and stubbornly leaving.
As punishment, you won't get any experience or drops from this match, as if you played a game for nothing.
Ayanokouji Kiyohira was like that, actively choosing to "disconnect" in an advantageous situation, getting nothing from this gacha pull, and wasting his guaranteed pull opportunity.
However, thankfully, the punishment was only that, with no additional penalties. Ayanokouji Kiyohira only needed to accumulate ten more gambling opportunities to get another guaranteed pull.
Ayanokouji Kiyohira didn't feel it was a pity.
The guaranteed pull mechanism was originally meant for him to win the gamble and thus take the opponent's stakes.
And now, even if he lost the gamble, he could still get the stakes, and the reward was even more generous, so why not?
The only thing to care about now was whether Yumemi would keep her promise.
...
After Ayanokouji Kiyohira waited for half an hour, Yumemi finally returned.
As soon as Yumemi returned to the room, without greeting Ayanokouji Kiyohira, she disgustedly threw away her white leather gloves and walked straight to the sink, lathering up soap and washing her hands over and over again.
She complained while washing her hands: "It's really annoying. Even with gloves, I still don't want to shake hands with them.
It's one thing for those with idiotic smiles, but why do some people not even wash their hands and come over to shake hands with sweaty hands? What if others think my hands are that dirty? I wasted a whole pack of wet wipes and disinfectant..."
"Thankfully, many people didn't care about the handshake tickets and didn't come to the handshake event; otherwise, it would have taken me even longer to get back."
Most people attended the concert just to observe what kind of trouble Yumemi, the new Student Council member, would cause. They weren't interested in handshakes; they left after the concert ended and were too lazy to queue up for a long time to shake her hand.
Meari and the others were the same; although they got handshake tickets, none of them used them.
Someone actually came to shake hands with sweaty hands...
Seeing Yumemi's anger, Ayanokoji couldn't help but ask curiously, "Who are you talking about? Most of the students in this school should be quite polite, right? After all, this is a noble high school; no one should come to a handshake event with dirty hands..."
Yumemi didn't hide it from Ayanokoji, saying indignantly, "Of course, it's that fat guy in the front row at the concert! That guy doesn't look good, hasn't managed his body, and his greasy, disgusting smile is one thing, but why were his hands full of sweat when he shook my hand?!
At least consider other people's feelings! Who would want to shake hands with an idol with sweaty hands? What if it affects my reputation!"
...It seems the person Yumemi was talking about should be Tanaka Yuzuna.
Ayanokouji Kiyohira cleared his throat: "The person you're talking about spent more than thirty tickets for you, contributing one-tenth of the profit from this concert. He probably didn't do it on purpose; maybe he was just too excited, nervous, and queued for a long time, which is why his hands were sweaty..."
Yumemi snorted: "Of course, I know that guy spent a lot of money; he came over with thirty handshake tickets! Luckily, I changed my mind at the last minute and said that each person could only use one handshake ticket; otherwise, I would have wasted so much time on him!"
I didn't expect Yumemi to change the rules temporarily, allowing only one handshake ticket per person... Ayanokouji Kiyohira mourned for Tanaka Yuzuna, who spent a lot of money but didn't get the corresponding service.
"He's your'sugar daddy,' is there any need for such an unpleasant attitude?"
Yumemi snorted: "Do you think idols like those kinds of guys? Quite the opposite, okay?! That guy probably thinks he's superior because he spent a lot of money and can enjoy better service, and thinks he can get close to an idol and get a glimpse of her beauty.
That's completely impossible, okay! I'm an idol. If I got closer to whoever paid more, what kind of idol would I be? I might as well be a streamer, only needing to please those sugar daddies who pay!"
Yumemi seemed to have resented people like Tanaka Yuzuna for a long time and sat down to open up.
"I hate these kinds of people the most. For an idol like me, fans are supposed to be equal, but suddenly, someone, because they spent a fortune, naturally gets praised by other 'poor guys' and becomes the leader of the support club and the spokesperson for the fan group."
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