COTE: Horikita Is My Childhood Sweetheart

Chapter 30 Asahina Nazuna: Beauty misleads me!

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Rin Matsuoka made senior Asahina Nazuna smile with his handsome face and sweet, endearing tone.

Horikita Suzune watched the scene silently. If she hadn't known that Rin and the senior student had just met, she might have mistaken them for old friends who had known each other for years...

They seemed to be having such a great time chatting!

Seeing that Asahina-senpai wasn't even eating her lunch and was instead focused solely on talking with him, Rin felt she had dropped her guard.

'It's time to get some information out of her.'

Rin continued using his conversational skills and asked with a smile, "Senpai, I noticed another senpai eating one of those meals that looked awful at first glance. Is he trying to save personal points?"

"Or does he actually like that kind of food?"

"Who would like to eat the wild vegetable set meal? It's so disgusting! Let me tell you, Kohai, that meal is not fit for human consumption," Asahina Nazuna complained.

Seeing her animated reaction, Rin wondered if she had tried the wild vegetable set meal herself.

As it turned out, she had. Like Rin, Asahina Nazuna was once young and curious, so when she saw the free wild vegetable set meal, she decided to try it.

But the difference between them was that Rin hadn't ordered it, while Asahina Nazuna had—and she ate it…

At that time, Asahina Nazuna took one look at the wild vegetable set and felt repulsed. She tried to eat it while pinching her nose but ended up spitting it out after a single bite.

Oh my god!

How could such disgusting food even exist in this world?

Eating that wild vegetable set meal was pure torture!

"If no one likes the wild vegetable set meal, why would he eat it? Is it just to save points?" Rin asked.

"That's impossible. Any student who knows how awful the wild vegetable set meal is would never eat it, no matter how much they want to save their personal points," Asahina Nazuna replied, waving her hands dismissively.

"I guess he ran out of points and had no choice but to eat it to fill his stomach."

"But that doesn't make sense. It's the first day of the month, right? Doesn't the school remit 100,000 personal points to all students on the first day? That's a lot of points, and it's only been half a day. How could this Senpai have spent all of them already?"

Rin used a puzzled tone, subtly guiding Asahina Nazuna to share the information he wanted to know.

Unaware that she was being led by Rin's questions, Asahina Nazuna casually replied, "It's true that 100,000 personal points wouldn't run out in half a day, but Kohai, who told you that the school gives 100,000 points to all students?"

"I heard about it," Rin answered with a blink.

As the saying goes, when lying, one doesn't blink. Rin blinked to suggest he wasn't lying.

And he wasn't lying—he had heard it from his homeroom teacher, Chabashira Sae.

"Don't believe those rumors you hear on the street," Asahina Nazuna continued. "The school does give us personal points, but the amount each student receives depends on the class's total 'class points' multiplied by 100."

Rin Matsuoka's expression changed slightly. His guess about his personal points was indeed correct.

The school did not remit 100,000 personal points to students every month. Instead, personal points were determined based on the class points.

"Even though I've already discovered this information, the narrator's task hasn't been completed. That means there's more I need to find out," Rin thought.

He realized that to complete the task, he had to clarify the meaning of the "class points" Asahina Nazuna had just mentioned.

At this moment, Asahina Nazuna had a guilty expression on her face because she realized she might have violated the school rules.

Just yesterday, the day before the new students entered the school, the students who had become sophomores and juniors were reminded and instructed by their class teachers.

The teachers warned them that during the first month of the freshmen's enrollment, they were not to disclose any information related to the S system.

The most critical piece of information, the 'class points,' was strictly off-limits!

If the seniors revealed details about the S system to the freshmen, the new students wouldn't be punished. But if the freshmen became aware of the S system, the seniors would face severe consequences from the school.

One of the harshest punishments was forced expulsion from school.

The school would indeed make students drop out for such seemingly trivial matters, so everyone had to take it seriously and keep their mouths shut.

"It's over. I got so distracted by this Kohai's good looks that I forgot about the school rules and the teacher's warnings!" Asahina Nazuna lamented in her heart.

At this point, she felt she had already let the cat out of the bag and didn't suspect that Rin, the handsome junior, was trying to trick her.

After all, the freshmen had just enrolled today and knew nothing about the school. How could they have realized the anomaly with their personal points so quickly and then specifically sought her out for information?

Impossible. Absolutely impossible.

"Senpai, if the personal points we receive from the school each month are related to the class points, then what exactly are these 'class points'?" Rin asked.

"Ahaha, Senpai doesn't know, so Kohai, don't ask," Asahina Nazuna laughed nervously, realizing she had already said too much.

Rin felt a bit frustrated. Even after using some intermediate-level conversational techniques to guide her, Asahina Nazuna still wouldn't divulge any information about the "class points."

*It seems she's become wary. Tsk, you've forced me to go this route!*

Rin smacked his lips internally, then looked at Asahina Nazuna with a serious and sincere expression, "Please, Senpai, tell me what the class points are."

"You wouldn't want me to end up like that Senpai over there, eating a horrible vegetable meal because I don't have enough personal points, right?"

"Hmm..."

Rin's pleading look was so pitiful that Asahina Nazuna couldn't help but feel sympathy. She couldn't bear the thought of such a handsome Kohai eating those dreadful wild vegetable sets!

Asahina Nazuna hesitated, and Rin knew right away that he was making progress. He immediately increased his efforts, showering her with flattering words and overwhelming her with a barrage of compliments.

Flustered and irritated, Asahina Nazuna couldn't endure Rin's relentless verbal onslaught any longer. She blushed and quickly said, "Alright, alright, Kohai, stop talking."

With a smile, she patted the empty seat next to her and said, "Come over here, Kohai. I'll tell you something in secret."

"Great!"

Having succeeded with his cunning plan, Rin quickly slipped over to Asahina Nazuna and sat down beside her.