Admittedly, if one had to say it, Soubu High, as the host of the joint exam, had too many advantages it could use. But didn't Yozora-kun also get first place in the joint exam held at Shuchiin Academy last time?

This time, he's simply continuing his previous record.

The second-year students of Private Toyosaki Academy actually knew that they were just going through the motions. Among their classmates, who could compete with a guy like that?

Since they didn't plan to compete for first place and knew they couldn't, they didn't have any special reactions. They just felt that Yozora-kun from Soubu High was a monster-level academic god and couldn't help but sigh.

And what about Shuchiin Academy?

They just felt it was a pity. After all, everyone saw Shirogane Miyuki studying whether he was walking around campus or eating lunch. In the end, he still couldn't defeat Yozora, which was indeed a shame.

As for Shirogane Miyuki himself, although he also felt some regret, he was different from the original Shinomiya Kaguya. He studied hard and achieved excellent results just to get into a prestigious university and change his poor family situation through his own efforts.

Although he challenged Yozora under the drive of competitiveness, losing was just losing. It wasn't a big deal. Being able to stand on the same stage as such a genius with his own efforts was already a victory over himself.

Among all the people present, only one person couldn't accept or believe this result.

"How could this happen..."

Shijo Maki's cute and charming face had completely lost its radiance at this moment. Even her eyes had become dim as she muttered to herself, as if she couldn't believe everything she was experiencing.

She had thought that she might lose, but she never thought that she would lose so miserably.

Full marks?

Shijo Maki knew that she could never get full marks. Even if she answered every question correctly, the score would only account for about 70% of the total score. Moreover... with such difficult questions and such a high mental load, it was impossible for her to answer every question correctly. A 90% accuracy rate would be considered very good.

This unimaginable gap between her and Yozora was the real reason that crushed Shijo Maki.

Shinomiya Kaguya, who was sitting next to her, noticed her expression of losing her radiance, as if she was about to collapse in the next second. She looked at Yozora, who was walking to the podium to prepare to make another victory speech, and said softly with her red eyes flickering.

"It's normal that you can't beat him. There's no need to feel sorry for yourself. A mere exam score is just an extremely small, even insignificant, highlight on him."

Speaking of this, Shinomiya Kaguya paused for a moment, then changed the subject.

"Maki, there's something important I want to discuss with you."

Shijo Maki reluctantly shifted her attention from her painful failure and replied weakly.

"What's the matter? Aunt?"

This time, Shinomiya Kaguya did not correct Shijo Maki's address, but said in a flat tone.

"I'm about to become the head of the Shinomiya family, that is, the heir of this generation."

Suddenly hearing such explosive and top-secret news, Shijo Maki was stunned for a moment. After a few seconds, she shook her head slightly nervously.

"This... is it okay for you to tell me this kind of thing...? After all, our two families..."

"Are relatives and competitors."

Shinomiya Kaguya didn't have too many concerns and just said her true thoughts. Without waiting for Shijo Maki to reply, she immediately changed the subject.

"However, I don't want and won't allow this kind of open and secret competition to continue. Because of some important reasons that I can't tell you now, I must firmly grasp the Shinomiya Group in my own hands. To achieve this goal, the Shijo family cannot hinder me, especially when I first take over. I'm talking to you about this now in the hope that we can restore the relationship between the Shijo and Shinomiya families to the alliance they had before."

For some reason, Shijo Maki felt that Shinomiya Kaguya's words, although without any explicit threats, had an invisible, condescending sense of oppression, as if if she didn't agree to the other party's proposal at this time, the Shijo family would face some extremely terrible fate in the future.

"Okay... I understand..."

In fact, what Shinomiya Kaguya said was exactly what Shijo Maki was thinking.

They were clearly connected by blood, and although they were distant relatives, they could still be considered relatives. Why did they have to fight openly and secretly?

It's just...

Shijo Maki didn't understand where Shinomiya Kaguya's confidence came from.

If the people of the Shijo family knew that the heir of this generation of the Shinomiya family was Shinomiya Kaguya, not to mention stopping those small actions, there would only be four words.

Increase the intensity.

After all, no matter how excellent Shinomiya Kaguya was, she was just a high school student. How could the deep-thinking Shinomiya Yanan make such a decision to make such a young girl the heir of this generation?

Moreover, Shinomiya Kaguya also plans to actively expose this matter to the Shijo family, which is a competitor?

What is she thinking?

Shijo Maki didn't understand, let alone understand.

She only knew...

Thinking of this, Shijo Maki looked at Yozora, who was standing on the stage, took out an extremely long list, and was reading the list of thanks under the admiring gaze of the boys in the audience. She sighed heavily and muttered to herself.

"In the end... I still lost..."

...

After Yozora's impassioned speech brought a small shock to the boys of Private Toyosaki Academy, Hiratsuka Shizuka continued to announce the following exam rankings, of course, not everyone, only the top 20.

Second place in the joint exam, Shijo Maki.

Third place in the joint exam, Shirogane Miyuki.

Private Toyosaki Academy didn't get a single spot, but they were just here to play and increase the exchange between the three schools, so it didn't matter.

Unexpectedly, there were only two things.

One was that Yukinoshita Yukino had made progress this time and actually got ninth place, which once again surprised the students of Shuchiin Academy. After all, the gap in educational resources between the two schools was obvious to everyone.

The other was that Shinomiya Kaguya, who had always been at the top and took second place in the last joint exam, didn't even make it into the top 20 this time, which also surprised everyone.

Of course, Shinomiya Kaguya herself didn't care.

She no longer had the obsession to win, and her grades were not bad. It was just that her energy had been diverted by the affairs of the Shinomiya family and the intensity of improving her spiritual power, so she had declined.

To be honest, compared to saving the world... what's the big deal about a high school exam?

After the exam officially ended, Hiratsuka Shizuka came to the Over-Limit Club's activity room and raised a very important question.

"Everyone, everyone, where do you want to go for this year's school trip?"

Seeing Hiratsuka Shizuka's expectant expression, Yozora smiled and asked.

"What, judging from your appearance, do you have a proposal?"

“Of course.”

Shizuka Hiratsuka, looking eager, bluntly stated her thoughts.

“How about going to Okinawa? The ocean, the beach, the sun, and luxurious seaside hotels, it all sounds like so much fun!”

“Okinawa, huh…”

Yui Yuigahama listened to the words Hiratsuka-sensei used to describe it, imagining the scene.

Although she had just been to Nito Island during the winter break not long ago, she still wanted to experience that kind of time again, and immediately nodded in agreement.

“Yeah, yeah, I want to go too!”

Just then, a calm voice came from the corner.

“I object, what’s so fun about the beach anyway…”

Everyone turned to look, only to see Yukino Yukinoshita tucking her long hair behind her ear, pretending to be calm and very objective.

“Besides, it’s best if we don’t leave Kyoto too far.

Going to the beach in Okinawa during the summer, with such strong sunlight, what if someone gets sunburned again… how would that be okay…”

“Heh heh.”

Just as Yukino Yukinoshita was giving her seemingly objective analysis, Yae casually chuckled twice, and exposed her thoughts in one sentence.

“It’s because Xiaohua and the others are there, so…”

“You feel ashamed of your own underdeveloped size, and don’t want to wear a swimsuit, right?”

Chapter 477: Beach Trip Plans, The Question Yukino Wants to Know

“You, you, you…”

Yukino Yukinoshita’s little thoughts were exposed by Yae, and she instantly panicked, but still tried to maintain a calm appearance.

Even though her voice had already begun to tremble, she continued to stubbornly argue.

“I just think that if we’re not here, the safety of Kyoto…”

“No need to worry.”

Yae waved his hand, and said carelessly.

“Nachi Hizuru and Amane Suzuha are both here, and there are also those elite police officers from Director Yagami’s Special Operations Unit.

Besides, I emphasized from the beginning that we can go to save the world, but don’t let your own wishes become shackles on yourself.

We haven’t been to Okinawa yet, so in addition to traveling and relaxing, we can also see if there are any powerful evil spirits there.

After all, Kyoto’s evil spirit ecosystem hasn’t recovered since our last sweep, so going to find powerful evil spirits to devour can also be considered a club activity.”

Hearing the last sentence, Miko Yotsuya couldn’t help but roll her eyes.

“You’re just simply being greedy, right…”

“What, can’t I be a little greedy?”

Yae frowned slightly, and retorted with confidence.

“Do you know how long it’s been since I’ve had a good meal? That BYD God of Death was so disgusting, it was like Tuanzi’s cooking.

If it wasn’t to torture Him, I wouldn’t have been able to swallow it at all.

I’ve made such a big sacrifice, can’t I eat something good?”

“Speaking of which…”

Yui Yuigahama looked aggrieved, daring to be angry but not daring to speak, and muttered in a low voice.

“Why did you have to specifically mention me? My cooking isn’t that bad, right…”

“You should know a little bit in your heart.”

Yukino Yukinoshita first refuted Yui Yuigahama, then looked at Yae sitting there, rubbed her forehead and sighed slightly, her pretty face flushed.

“In that case, going to Okinawa is fine, but you have to promise that when the time comes… you’re not allowed to laugh.”

“Don’t worry.”

Yae’s eyes were very sincere and firm, as if he was making an oath, and he slowly spoke.

“I will definitely laugh.”

After school that day, inside the Kyoto Metropolitan Police Department building.

Soichiro Yagami, who was working on sorting out the documents, felt a breeze in the room, and knew who it was without even raising his head.

He just raised his hand and rubbed his brow, before sighing heavily.

“I find that every time I see you in this image, coming to me privately, I feel uneasy, worried that there’s some big problem.”

“How could that be.”

Yae, transformed into the image of "Mask," swaggered over to sit on the sofa, crossing his legs, as relaxed as if he were at home.

“This time I’m looking for you not because there’s anything special, it’s just that we’re going on a school trip on Wednesday, and we won’t be back until next Monday, so I wanted to ask if there’s anything here that needs to be dealt with.

If there is, we’ll take care of it as soon as possible, so we don’t have to run back and forth, it’s too much trouble.”

“There is, but…”

Soichiro Yagami kept rubbing his brow, his expression looking a little heavy.

“They are all problems that are inconvenient for you to come forward with in your identities.

For example, the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department has recently had some subtle opinions about ‘Kira.’

A considerable number of police officers already believe that his blatant vigilante behavior is shaking the foundation of the police department’s public support from the root.

Like last time, after Suka Natsumi reported the list of people involved in the Atsuta Shrine incident, the police department didn’t even have time to set up a special task force to investigate, and ‘Kira’ had already killed all the suspects.

The shift in public opinion is not a good thing…”

Speaking of this, Soichiro Yagami paused, looking at Yae sitting there, his expression looking a little complicated, as if he wanted to say something but stopped, and finally took back the question that was on the tip of his tongue.

‘Kira’s’ true identity…

Soichiro Yagami, as an experienced detective… no, as long as he’s a normal person with logical thinking ability, knowing ‘Mask’s’ true identity, combined with the people Yae usually contacts, he can think of this level.

‘Kira’s’ activity range is mostly in Tokyo.

And among Yae’s friends, there is also someone in Tokyo.

Isn’t the answer obvious?

Because of this, Soichiro Yagami was caught in a dilemma, not knowing what to do now.

‘Kira’s’ scale of action seems to be not as good as ‘Mask’s,’ and his influence is not as great, but in fact, ‘Kira’s’ style of doing things is more extreme, and… more likely to cause controversy.

All of his actions are hinting at a concept.

People who commit serious crimes do not deserve a second chance.

Repeat offenders, suspects who have just been arrested and have not had time to go through trial, and criminals who have committed crimes in secret and have not been caught…

These are all ‘Kira’s’ hunting targets.

In comparison, ‘Mask’s’ style is just too extreme when acting, but the actions he has taken are undoubtedly justifiable, killing those who are committing crimes, those criminals who would take the lives of innocent people if he didn’t act at the time.

Does the police department have any objections to this?

Of course there are, but this voice is completely overwhelmed by the voice supporting ‘Mask,’ and can’t cause any waves at all.

Even if the remarks are too extreme, they will be ostracized by the other police officers.

After all, no one knows whether they will encounter criminals with special powers the next time they act.

At that time, who else can they count on besides ‘Mask’ to save themselves?

“I see.”

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