COTE: Horikita Is My Childhood Sweetheart

Chapter 21: Horikita, You Don't Understand

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Horikita Suzune was walking side by side with Rin Matsuoka. She noticed his gaze, shot him a fierce look, and spoke in a low voice.

"Rin, where are you looking?"

Of course, I'm looking at black stockings!

"Horikita, you just don't understand," Rin replied in a low voice, pretending to be profound.

"...What do you mean?"

"You're not a guy my age. You don't know how attractive a beautiful female teacher is to us boys."

Especially one wearing shiny black stockings!

They're practically life-enlightenment teachers for boys!

"I really don't know, and I don't want to know," Horikita Suzune's face grew colder and colder, her fox-like eyes filled with a chill sharp enough to cut.

"But I do know that if you keep looking, I'll tell Chabashira-sensei."

"Tsk, fine. If you don't want to look, then don't look," Rin muttered, reluctantly turning his gaze away from Chabashira Sae's slender legs.

This ice queen's complaining about me looking at someone else's legs, not even hers, and still has something to say about it.

Why do you care so much?

At that moment, the voice of the narration system sounded in Rin's mind.

[Host, a mission has been communicated.]

[In this school, personal points are equivalent to money, and the importance of money is self-evident, so please find a way to earn 100,000 personal points.]

[Complete the task to receive 'Intermediate Language Guidance.']

Rin was slightly stunned, then a happy expression spread across his face. Ever since he awakened the narration system two years ago, he had only gained four abilities through its tasks.

This showed just how rare it was to get a task that rewarded an ability.

Since the task of acquiring an ability had been triggered, Rin wasn't going to miss it.

But earning 100,000 personal points seemed like an impossible feat…

Rin now felt like the narration system was encouraging him to hack into the school's network and adjust his personal points.

Otherwise, how could he get that many points?

'Luckily, this mission doesn't have a time limit, and I don't necessarily have to resort to hacking. Maybe there are other ways... Yeah, I've got an idea.'

After thinking for just two seconds, Rin had already come up with a way to complete the task quickly without breaking any rules.

Rin turned to look at Horikita Suzune beside him and said, "Horikita, didn't Chabashira-sensei just say that students can freely transfer personal points to one another?"

Horikita Suzune, still irritated for some reason, glanced at Rin and responded coldly, "So what?"

"Let's do a practical test. Transfer all your personal points to me," Rin said with a smile.

"..." Horikita Suzune narrowed her cold, fox-like eyes.

Rin felt a little hurt by Horikita's disdainful look. "Horikita, don't you trust me? I'm not going to keep your personal points!"

"Oh."

Horikita Suzune sneered, "Who knows? Either way, you're a bad guy. I don't trust you."

"..." Rin sighed in defeat, "Alright, fine. Then how about I transfer all my personal points to you? Is that okay?"

??

Horikita Suzune looked at Rin suspiciously. Was he seriously going to transfer all his points to her?

Maybe she'd misjudged him earlier...

In the end, it didn't really matter who gave points to whom.

If Horikita Suzune transfers her 100,000 personal points to Rin Matsuoka, Rin would complete the narration task because of the 100,000 points.

If Rin transferred his 100,000 personal points to Horikita Suzune first, and then Horikita transferred the 100,000 personal points back to him, then it could be said that Rin had "earned" 100,000 personal points.

It's just that the personal points Rin "earned" originally belonged to him~

This was the method Rin came up with to complete the task within two seconds.

"Hey, Horikita, I'm going to transfer all my personal points to you, so don't you swallow them." Rin said seriously while holding the phone.

"I'm not you." Horikita Suzune glared at Rin, irritated by his lack of trust.

"It's because you're not me that I'm worried!"

"Snort."

She hummed coldly, her typical icy demeanor on full display.

Rin transferred all of his 100,000 personal points to Horikita Suzune through his mobile phone, and now she had 200,000 personal points.

However, Horikita Suzune didn't immediately return the 100,000 points to Rin. Instead, the corners of her lips curled up, revealing a cunning smile, almost like a fox.

Horikita Suzune seldom smiled, but when she did, she was stunning, like a snow lotus in full bloom. But Rin had a bad feeling about this.

"Horikita, what are you smiling about? Give me back my personal points."

"Don't worry."

This guy, Rin, had annoyed her several times since the morning. Now that she had 100,000 of his points in her hands, she could control him for once.

Rin glanced at Horikita Suzune, who wasn't immediately returning his points, but he didn't rush. Instead, he spoke nonchalantly, as if nothing was wrong.

"I'll go find your brother later and tell him that his dear sister cheated me out of 100,000 personal points."

Horikita Suzune's face darkened immediately, and she gritted her teeth before transferring the 100,000 points back to Rin.

This jerk only knew how to use her brother to threaten her!

[Congratulations, host, you have completed the task and obtained the ability of 'Intermediate Language Guidance.']

As Rin completed the task, the knowledge of 'Intermediate Language Guidance' surged into his mind.

In an instant, Rin mastered the ability of Intermediate Language Guidance.

This ability allowed Rin to subtly guide people through conversation, making them unknowingly reveal answers to his questions.

However, the success of this guidance wasn't guaranteed to be 100%. It depended on the situation, the other person's state of mind, and how well Rin crafted his words for the guidance.

The more Rin's words resonated with the other person's emotions, the higher the chance they would reveal the secrets he sought.

Conversely, if the other person was highly vigilant or cautious, even the best language guidance might not be effective.

Overall, Rin was quite satisfied with this new ability, which could be applied in many negotiation scenarios.

"If I combine this with a cocktail that I personally mix using my bartending skills and get the person a little drunk, I'll definitely be able to extract the information I want through language guidance."

While Rin was reveling in his clever plan, the narration's voice sounded again.

[I didn't expect the host to complete the task in this way…]

"What's the big deal? I'm a master at exploiting loopholes." Rin replied smugly to the narration system in his mind.