After breaking up, my ex asked me to win her back

Chapter 158 Election Day

The weekend zipped by in a blink.

Monday, the day school resumed, was also the day the final voting for the Student Council elections commenced.

On this day, the campaigning efforts of all the candidates reached their zenith.

"Please support President Kiryu Hina's re-election! We're counting on you!"

"Ayakoji Chiyoko will lead us to a world with freedom in love! Please be sure to cast your vote for her!"

In the courtyard walkways, there were dozens of students shouting slogans and handing out flyers, urging their peers to support the Student Council President candidate they endorsed.

From the school gate all the way to the teaching building, Kagura Hikaru received more than ten flyers, with the majority of them—over eighty percent—being from either Ayakoji Chiyoko or Kiryu Hina.

Merely stepping into the school, one could feel the air thick with tension.

The decisive moment to determine the ownership of the Student Council President position was drawing near.

When Kagura Hikaru reached the corridor of the second-year classrooms, he found a conspicuous QR code displayed on the bulletin board at the corridor's edge. Scanning it led directly to Uka School's official voting web page, where one could cast their vote for one of the five electoral candidates.

He casually pulled out his phone, scanned the code, and clicked on Ayakoji Chiyoko's portrait to vote for her.

There were quite a few students like him, standing in front of the bulletin board, scanning the code.

The fervent participation in the Student Council elections, an event largely irrelevant to most students, was partly because of the voting itself, they reasoned.

This illusion of having a candidate's future in one's hands propelled them into action.

Sometimes, even somber thoughts can be a source of motivation.

Arriving in the classroom, although it was still early, Ayakoji Chiyoko was already at her desk, talking to a few Discipline Committee members seated behind her.

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After Kagura Hikaru took his place beside her, she turned her head, "Good morning, Kagura."

"Hmm, good morning."

"How's it looking outside?"

"It's bustling."

"I thought as much," Ayakoji Chiyoko glanced around, "Strange, you didn't come with your little girlfriend today?"

"Because I got up early."

"Hmph, is that so?"

Ayakoji Chiyoko didn't really care, or maybe she had other things on her mind that were distracting her.

She tapped on the desk, her peripheral vision locked on the seat in front, which belonged to Kiryu Hina and yet was empty.

She felt a bit concerned.

"This person, she hasn't put up a decent fight up until now. Is the pressure from Kohinata Motoyo really that great?"

In the final stretch of the Student Council elections, Kiryu Hina seemed almost resigned, continuously losing ground to Ayakoji Chiyoko.

Though her regular campaign activities were ongoing, they were too conventional, unlike her.

In Ayakoji Chiyoko's mind, Kiryu Hina was a woman capable of cunning and underhanded tactics.

Sneak attacks, sudden assaults, and unorthodox strategies—she was never stingy about employing anything effective.

Yet, such an unscrupulous person suddenly turned surprisingly tame after the arrival of Kohinata Motoyo at Uka, which was uncomfortable even to think about.

Did they have some sort of restraining effect on one another?

However, this only worked out in her favor.

With Kiryu Hina, the biggest obstacle in the election, becoming complacent, Ayakoji Chiyoko wouldn't, like a Justice Warrior in the movies, slow down out of concern for the state of her arch-rival and wait for her. If Kiryu Hina didn't care, she wouldn't hesitate to snatch away the Student Council President position.

The campaign on her end was going smoothly; so far, there wasn't anything that could be criticized.

The problem now turned to Kagura Hikaru.

"Have you thought about how you're going to deal with Kohinata Suse?" Ayakoji Chiyoko asked him with a serious expression, "Surely you don't plan to continue dating her after the voting is over, right?"

"Don't talk as if I'm using her," Kagura Hikaru said.

"But that's the truth, isn't it."

"Indeed, you're not wrong... She has something she wants to gain from me, and I have something I want to gain from her."

Kagura Hikaru's only request to Kohinata Suse was to participate in the election and help Ayakoji Chiyoko seize the position of Student Council President, to be precise, to topple Kiryu Hina.

He didn't even need to hint or scheme to coax her; Kohinata Suse acted on her own accord as if she saw straight through his intentions.

Now, the final voting for the Student Council election had begun, and in three days the results would be out, determining this year's Student Council President at Yuqiu High School.

Using a girl to achieve one's goal sounds just like a villain, doesn't it?

But the truth is, these were mere sideshows.

If possible, Kagura Hikaru would prefer that she didn't help, didn't come near him, and didn't even appear in this school.

After all, compared to the demands he made of Suse, her demands of him were heavier and harder to fulfill.

What she wanted was love, to pick up where their abnormal romance in middle school left off.

This was unacceptable to Kagura Hikaru.

But fortunately, Ai Cheng Hua Lian was there.

After the chance encounter with her after school that day, Kagura Hikaru was inspired by their conversation.

He also understood how to beat Suse.

Perhaps 'beat' is somewhat ambiguous.

'Beat' isn't appropriate; she wasn't his enemy or opponent, but rather the exact opposite.

Maybe the word 'reject' is more accurate.

He knew how to reject Suse.

He would reject her in a way that would only hurt Suse and no one else.

"Don't worry, I have a plan in mind. Leave the rest to me and don't interfere," Kagura Hikaru told Ayakoji Chiyoko.

"You sound pretty cool, but I wonder if you can be trusted," Ayakoji Chiyoko sized up his profile and hummed lightly, "I understand, I'll leave everything to you."

"Yes, I will do as I've planned," he nodded.

Just then, a commotion came from outside the classroom door.

Two girls in Yuqiu summer school uniforms, which were blue and white sailor outfits, walked in surrounded by a group of students.

Incredibly, it was Kohinata Suse and Kiryu Hina.

They greeted the surrounding people with identical smiles and expressions, as if they were a pair of close sisters, not just in demeanor, but their height was also strikingly similar.

If their faces were identical too, it would be quite hard to tell them apart.

"Ah, Kagura," as soon as Kohinata Suse saw Kagura Hikaru, her smile brightened a few degrees, and after apologizing to the surrounding people, she quickly walked over, "Why did you go to school today without waiting for me?"

"I woke up early and with nothing to do, I set out early," he replied.

"Really, remember to wait for me next time, or else call me. No matter how early it is, I'll hurry over!" she said.

"That won't be necessary."

"Why be so formal? We're lovers, aren't we?" Kohinata Suse winked playfully and took Kagura Hikaru's hand that was laid on the table, "Going to school together as boyfriend and girlfriend, that's what youth is all about."

"Your idea of youth is too narrow..." Kagura Hikaru extricated himself without leaving a trace and changed the subject, "Speaking of which, why did you come with Hina? Did you run into each other on the way?"