After deciding to give up, I became popular

That's what he said, but the angel seemed timid and not very happy.

"Did Shiina do something to make me angry?"

"Eh?! Why are you asking that all of a sudden!" Shiina Mahiru covered her mouth, looking incredulous.

"Well... maybe because I understand Shiina pretty well? Like, you can't hide your emotions..." Kawa Kanade reminded her.

Ever since he came into the house, the little expressions on the angel's face hadn't stopped, and her delicate body looked very stiff, not like she was relaxing at home...

Of course, maybe he was misjudging, but if he didn't say it, he would always be a little concerned about it.

"Shiina, don't be nervous, I'm just asking casually, you don't have to say if it's inconvenient."

"It's not that, it's just that if I say it... I'm not sure if Kanade will be angry." The angel glanced at him weakly.

"Of course not, you can rest assured about that." Kawa Kanade comforted her.

He had definitely never lost his temper with Shiina Mahiru, even when he was rejected, he just felt that he hadn't done enough and wasn't suitable. If there was anyone around who could make him angry... at least Shiina shouldn't be able to.

"That... when I went out to play with Katou-san, she shared some photos of Kanade with me..."

"Photos..." Kawa Kanade raised an eyebrow, it shouldn't be anything if it's just looking at photos...

"May I ask what kind of photos?"

"Swimsuits, drama costumes, etc..."

"..."

Kawa Kanade immediately thought it was impossible, how could Katou take such photos of him, but when he thought about it carefully, when he participated in the club activities, he did take various photos as material...

But the problem is, you two went out to play, what's the deal with looking at his photos?

"Can I see them?" Kawa Kanade asked.

The angel hesitated for a while, but nodded lightly and handed over her phone.

"..." Kawa Kanade swiped through them one by one, and the more he looked, the more unnatural he became.

They were indeed photos taken during club activities, and they weren't strange photos, just him wearing specific clothes in specific scenes and making specific movements. At most, they were a little bit embarrassing...

"Can you delete them?"

"Eh! Kanade said you wouldn't be angry!"

"No, I'm really not angry..." He just felt like he was going to lose face.

Many people should have had this experience, the experiences of bear children being photographed and shown to their friends, or the appearance of being photographed and commemorated during the second year of middle school. At first, they definitely didn't think anything of it, but when they looked back on it later...

The embarrassment exploded.

Kawa Kanade is feeling this way now.

It's even more embarrassing than being stripped naked and admired, it's not a physiological unacceptability, but a pure psychological feeling of being unable to bear it.

Katou and the parties involved are fine, at least they understand what's going on, but if you show it to Shiina, it's hard not to be considered someone with strange hobbies.

"These were all taken as material photos at the time... um, for making games, it's definitely not that I have any strange hobbies, can you understand..." Kawa Kanade sighed and then asked, "So you really can't delete them?"

"Guu... If Kanade doesn't like it..." The angel looked very disappointed.

Actually, if it were Kawa Kanade himself, he would feel very reluctant, after all, if there were a few funny or embarrassing pictures of his friends in his phone, he wouldn't want to delete them, he would definitely keep them as a lifetime souvenir.

But Shiina looks really pitiful, the slightly drooping eyelashes, the raised lower lip, the lightly puffed cheeks, all telling her inner reluctance.

Just looking at this scene, even Kawa Kanade himself would feel a little cruel.

"..." Kawa Kanade quietly returned the phone, staring at the TV program, pretending not to care, "Don't show it to others, okay."

"Hmm?" Shiina Mahiru was slightly stunned, but quickly reacted and gave him a sweet smile.

"Hmm! Of course not!"

"..."

Kawa Kanade stopped talking, thinking about minimizing his presence as much as possible, and he wouldn't be so embarrassed after Shiina's excitement passed.

But what he didn't expect was that the angel actually moved over quietly, sat closer to him, and leaned her head on his shoulder, flipping through the photos on her phone in front of him.

"..."

She's a fallen angel, right?! Too despicable, Miss Shiina! I didn't expect you to have such bad intentions!

Nothing was said all night.

The happy weekend passed quickly, and it was time for hard work again.

On Monday, Kawa Kanade got up early and first went to the agreed place to gather with the "former" student council members before leaving together to the school auditorium.

Along the way, they attracted the attention and pointing of many students, and when they cast their eyes over, the other party immediately fell silent, so they had a feeling of "everyone is a villain".

In fact, this is indeed the case. The fierce-eyed Shirogane, the gloomy-faced Ishigami, the cold Kaguya Shinomiya, plus the unsmiling Kawa Kanade, if you remove the hippy-smiling mascot Fujiwara Chika, it is not bad to say that it is a combination of delinquents.

Then, their group ran into Iroha Isshiki and her behind-the-scenes team, who also came to participate in the election—

The Service Club members.

072. Election

The two teams broke out into a fierce fight. From personal appearance to the core of the members, as long as it could be used to attack, all means were used without exception. This battle was so noisy that even the senior leaders were alarmed and had to intervene to stop it.

Historically known as the "Shuchiin Academy First Disturbance Event"—

Such a thing is impossible.

Meeting, then nodding in greeting, that was all. The two sides didn't even exchange a word, they just met and walked into the waiting room separately.

In fact, there were only 10 minutes left before the election started. They didn't have any extra time to do meaningless things. At this moment, the only thing they should do is to make the final mental adjustment before the speech.

According to the order of the draw, the first to speak was Iroha Isshiki, then Iino Miko, who was also a first-year student, and finally Kawa Kanade. Thus, he occupied all the right time, right place, and right people.

After a while, the official election began. First up was the support speech, and the person sent by Iroha Isshiki's side...

Yukino Yukinoshita.

Unsurprisingly the choice.

From the moment he saw their team, Kawa Kanade understood some things—

First of all, the most important thing is why Iroha Isshiki became a candidate.

Leaving aside the low probability of self-action, the greater possibility is that the other party has provoked a small group in the class or something, so they were jointly recommended as a candidate, hoping that she would fail miserably and become a laughing stock. Unwilling to do so, Iroha Isshiki went to the Service Club for help.

From the fact that Iroha Isshiki pestered him to learn "how to be a good student council president" before, it can be seen that in the face of this almost bullying action, the other party did not choose to apply to the school for withdrawal from the election, but decided to resist and act seriously for the election.

But whether it was her own intention or Yukinoshita and the others were planning behind the scenes, in short, things became like this.

The only thing that can be confirmed is that their publicity plan in the past few weeks was definitely participated by the Service Club members.

In other words, that idiot Hachiman didn't tell him, his friend, when such a major event happened, which made him suspicious and thought that the group of staunch pure academy members were playing tricks behind the scenes...

It's decided, after the election is over, he must extort him, at least make him spit out all of this week's pocket money.

Yukino Yukinoshita's speech ended quickly. In Kawa Kanade's opinion, it was a mediocre performance. Whether it was appeal or anything else, if it was placed in other schools, it would probably be unanimously praised.

But this is Shuchiin Academy.

After that, it was Iino Miko's turn. Her supporter was Obutsu Kobachi. The content of the speech was very ordinary and not worth mentioning.

Then it was Kaguya Shinomiya.

"President, can you give me a blessing?" Kaguya Shinomiya, who was supposed to go on stage directly, suddenly looked at him with a hopeful expression, which surprised Kawa Kanade.

"Of course, good luck, Shinomiya."

"Yes, I'm very honored."

Thus, his supporter—Kaguya Shinomiya—went on stage.

After the previous uneventful speeches, more and more people in the venue became drowsy, and all of this could not affect Kaguya Shinomiya's mentality.

"Ding—"

Along with the loud sound of tapping the microphone, the attention of the entire venue was focused on Kaguya Shinomiya. At this moment, she also showed a smile that was usually never seen.

"Good morning, everyone. I am Kaguya Shinomiya, who is responsible for giving a support speech for President Candidate Kawa Kanade..."

What happened after that was very clear. Kaguya Shinomiya, who already had a large number of supporters, almost formed a dimensionality reduction blow to the first two supporters after seizing everyone's attention.

Different from Obutsu Kobachi's empty talk speech, completely suppressing Yukinoshita's high-performance explanation, Kaguya completely displayed the results he had achieved in the past few months in a screen manner—at this point, the victory was set.

After all the support speeches were over, it was time for the candidates themselves to speak.

Iroha Isshiki is worthy of being someone who can get 30% of the support. Even if her results should have been completed with the assistance of Yukinoshita and the others, she herself is indeed capable. After studying these days, she has learned a lot of the essence—the so-called playing to her strengths and avoiding her weaknesses. Her speech at this moment fully demonstrated her energetic personality.

Even after Kaguya Shinomiya's powerful speech to solicit votes, she still attracted a lot of attention and support.

Then it was Iino Miko...

Contrary to expectations, when everyone's performance was very normal, this first-year junior suddenly became abnormal—

She had stage fright.

In this auditorium, when facing the gaze of most of the students in this school, she couldn't say a word, she clenched the speech in her hand tightly, but couldn't open her mouth.

Even if there was sparse laughter from under the podium, she was still like this, without any action...

"It still happened..."

"Ishigami... what's going on?" Kawa Kanade looked at Ishigami Yu, who suddenly spoke, and asked him.

"Iino Miko... is not used to speaking in front of people, it's always been like this, especially after each election.

It's funny, right? The little straight-laced person who is number one in the grade and doesn't know how to adapt, usually points fingers at others in an arrogant manner, and now her eyesores can also make her look bad like this. Those who usually don't like her will have a hard time not laughing at this moment.

I'm certainly a little dissatisfied with her too, but... people who work hard are ridiculed..." Ishigami's eyes were a little gloomy.

The next moment, Kawa Kanade patted him on the shoulder: "I understand, leave it to me."

"Just win the election in a way that doesn't let her be ridiculed, right?"

Maybe it was because of overflowing sympathy, or maybe it was because he wanted to help because he saw Ishigami caring, or maybe...

He remembered when his efforts were denied by others.

It's just that the number of people the other party faces will be larger, so the damage suffered will be greater.

Maybe he misunderstood, maybe the other party is naturally excellent and didn't use much effort, but just being able to achieve "first in the grade every year" in Shuchiin Academy, where geniuses gather, shows that the effort she put in is by no means comparable to ordinary people. He himself has a deep understanding of this, not to mention her carefully made leaflets and her efforts during publicity.

After all, she is a student in the academy, and he has seen her publicizing in the academy many times, but at that time, he never imagined her as an opponent, at most, he was a little wary of her alliance with Iroha Isshiki.

An opponent who is afraid of the battle is by no means a strong enemy, Kawa Kanade believes.

Therefore, he can help her, help her out of this predicament, then it is not simply giving resources to the enemy, but improving his own evaluation and allowing her to complete her speech perfectly, and even, maybe he can pull down Iroha Isshiki's support rate in one fell swoop.

So, Kawa Kanade walked onto the stage, picked up the microphone and said in a deep voice:

"Silence!"

So, all the noise below disappeared, and everyone looked at him.

"Everyone, you are all students of Shuchiin Academy, proud students of this academy, and you should know what 'respect' is."

"You can have ideas, you can have opinions, but those words should all be turned into the votes in your hands, speak with facts, instead of disrupting the speaker's thoughts when the speech has not yet ended."

Then, he looked at Iino Miko again.

"There are 15 minutes left for the speech, but in my opinion... maybe it's a waste of time?"

He has already created the complete atmosphere, but he can't just let it go, because such a scene will not give the other party more courage and confidence.

"Forcibly shaving heads, not allowing strange costumes... do you really think such a stupid covenant can get you votes?"

He wanted to make eye contact with the other party, but this student Iino completely dared not raise her head, not only dared not look at the crowd under the stage, but even couldn't look directly at him, her eyes always stayed on her feet.

"So... stupid...?"

Isn't that stupid? Forcing people to shave their heads in this day and age, everyone's going to hate it, right? Or... don't you think so?

Of course! Of course I don't...