"Fuka, you're here too, I thought you had already gone back."
Amane, who was being affectionate with Sakayanagi, looked up and saw Kiryuin, who was still a bit confused.
Before the latter could speak, Amane pounced on Kiryuin as well, tackling her to the ground.
"Get off me! You're so heavy!"
"I'm not heavy! This is clearly a normal weight for a girl!"
Amane retorted loudly.
What she got in return was Kiryuin's eye roll.
"Normal? Amane, do you have some misunderstanding about what's normal? Wait, let's talk properly, why are you unbuttoning my clothes?"
Seeing that Amane seemed to be trying to take off her clothes,
Kiryuin, startled, quickly clasped her hands over her chest to try and prevent Amane from succeeding.
"Tsk, look how stingy you are. Touching won't make you pregnant. It's precisely because you're so stingy, Fuka, that you're so small."
Amane's contemptuous expression successfully drew hostility.
Kiryuin gritted her teeth, glaring at Amane, wishing she could punch her annoying face directly.
However, while punching her might be easy, Amane wouldn't go easy on her if she started to bully her.
Just as Kiryuin was somewhat unwillingly searching for a way to retaliate against Amane,
Her gaze fell upon Sakayanagi, who was still staring blankly at the starry sky nearby.
"What about Arisu then?"
"Arisu still needs development, unlike you; you no longer have room for growth."
Crunch, crunch.
Kiryuin made a grinding sound with her teeth.
Amane quickly distanced herself. If she angered Kiryuin and Kiryuin actually bit her, that would be a huge loss.
She couldn't possibly bite back... though biting back didn't seem like a bad idea.
"Ehhehe..."
Kiryuin sighed deeply, looking at Amane, who was suddenly giggling foolishly in place.
This girl was probably thinking strange things again.
"Can't you two bicker without involving me?"
Sakayanagi sat up, tidied her attire slightly, her gaze full of confusion and helplessness.
The confusion was because, in her eyes, the current Amane only resembled Amane in appearance.
Her inner self had transformed into an improper, idiotic girl.
She and Amane hadn't seen each other for only a few months. A few months ago, Amane was perfectly fine, so why did she change so much upon arriving here?
The helplessness was... to get revenge for Amane's prank of scaring her to tears on Halloween.
Sakayanagi had spent several months meticulously planning this bizarre trap, after numerous rounds of screening.
However, Amane didn't play by the rules.
Not only did Amane not get scared, but Sakayanagi even lost her first kiss... and!!!
She had just seen a tooth mark on a certain tender part.
This was what made her feel most ashamed.
She didn't even know when Amane had left it there.
Sakayanagi clutched her chest tightly.
Touching that spot would remind her of that tooth mark... she wouldn't be able to face anyone again!!!
"Huh? You have the nerve to say that? Wasn't this whole plan overseen by you? Now you've lost both the wife and the army."
Kiryuin's words made Sakayanagi Arisu's small face flush crimson.
"Who would have known Amane would be like this now? Besides, my trap didn't even get a chance to be used before it ended. I guarantee those props would have been effective."
Sakayanagi wasn't the type to be a sore loser, but she didn't want to lose in front of Amane.
Because Amane had been her "natural enemy" since childhood.
There was a man who fantasized about cultivating ordinary people into "geniuses."
Such an idea was ridiculous, but after seeing those terrifying training methods, Sakayanagi had to admit that such hellish cultivation could indeed create individuals who were not inferior to geniuses, and even surpassed them in some aspects.
Yet, deep down, she was filled with contempt for these people.
To surpass a genius through acquired effort was simply like a fool's dream.
However, calling them the natural enemies of a genius like Sakayanagi was an overstatement.
Because they didn't have that qualification.
As a born genius, she greatly looked down on these man-made, fake geniuses, believing that even if the best among them could become excellent individuals, they would not be her match.
Therefore, her feelings towards these people were more of pity than hostility.
She pitied them for losing their parents' care from birth, enduring inhumane torment here, and eventually becoming neither human nor ghost.
Amane, however, was different from these people.
As a natural darling like Sakayanagi, Amane's talent was even far superior to Sakayanagi Arisu's.
And it wasn't just intellectual talent; it was more about an innate athletic talent that Sakayanagi Arisu could never hope to match.
So much so that from a very young age, she heard her father mention Amane more than once.
Since Amane was a "genius," Sakayanagi was naturally interested in competing with her.
After all, there were differences even among geniuses.
Her wish was quickly granted.
The first time she met Amane was when she was seven years old.
It was purely by chance when her father visited a friend.
She still remembered it was a snowy winter day.
Her father stood at the door for a full hour before being invited inside.
As soon as they entered, her father bent at the waist, following behind a butler-like figure, constantly moving through the corridors.
When had the Sakayanagi family, a prominent name in the education world, ever been so obsequious?
Sakayanagi Arisu was displeased with her father's attitude, but she also knew that her father had met his own father, and was now asking for a favor.
So, even if the other party asked her father to kneel at the door, he would probably agree to such a condition.
Because his father was facing a life-or-death threat.
She naturally couldn't interject in adult conversations.
While waiting in the courtyard, she met Amane.
She was clearly a cute girl, yet she stood alone, coldly, in the courtyard. The swirling snowflakes were blocked outside; inside, all she felt was a constant temperature and the fragrant scent of flowers and plants.
Before coming, she had inquired about Amane's situation.
She herself was already in elementary school, but Amane was still receiving elite education arranged by her father at home.
Amane's father was collaborating with that man with the sinister eyes whom she deeply disliked.
That man wanted to turn ordinary people into geniuses, or even surpass them, through acquired education.
Amane's father, on the other hand, wanted to use acquired effort to make geniuses into beings who transcended mortals.
To put it simply.
Her incompetent father hoped that his daughter could become an omnipotent "god" admired by all.
It sounded completely like an unrealistic pipe dream.
But Amane's father regarded this as his lifelong pursuit.
Even Sakayanagi's father couldn't help but sigh over such a tragic matter.
Ordinary people could become geniuses through elite education.
Then what about geniuses?
What would a genius become after receiving so-called elite education?
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