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Chapter 56: Has the Page Truly Turned? (Bonus)
🕑 Added 2025-12-08 21:02:25 +0000 UTCRegarding Haruki Yamauchi's behavior itself, Natsuki Subaru actually didn't have much feeling about it.
In front of Natsuki Subaru, Haruki Yamauchi had been unimportant from the very beginning. He didn't even generate any superfluous emotions. In fact, Natsuki Subaru could even understand Haruki Yamauchi's behavior.
After all, Haruki Yamauchi truly had no personal points left, yet he desperately wanted some to spend.
Natsuki Subaru understood these things perfectly well.
The reason he had killed Haruki Yamauchi four times in a row wasn't out of any disgust or hatred toward him. It was simply that a mosquito or fly was buzzing annoyingly right in front of him, so he swatted it away casually.
Ding!
Natsuki Subaru didn't alter his behavior due to this turn of events. He tossed the coin once more.
Under everyone's puzzled gazes, the coin finally landed on the back of Natsuki Subaru's hand.
“Five heads in a row.”
Looking at Haruki Yamauchi, who had collapsed limply to the ground, Natsuki Subaru smiled mildly.
“Yamauchi-kun, your luck is truly excellent.”
What followed was much the same as the previous times.
Kiyotaka Ayanokōji reacted instinctively the instant the coin was tossed. Rokusuke Kōenji's carefree expression turned grave. Suzune Horikita, with her sensitive senses, grew uneasy.
As for Haruki Yamauchi, Natsuki Subaru granted him a moment for last words as per the rules, and he slept very peacefully afterward.
However, even on the fifth time, Haruki Yamauchi hadn't managed a proper last word.
Sixth time: heads, Haruki Yamauchi dies.
Seventh time: heads. Eighth time: still heads. It wasn't until the ninth time that Natsuki Subaru finally tossed tails.
Who could say whether Haruki Yamauchi was lucky or unlucky? Natsuki Subaru hadn't manipulated the coin's outcome; each toss was casual, following his feel.
“What a pity, Yamauchi-kun.”
Natsuki Subaru looked at the somewhat baffled Haruki Yamauchi and smiled mildly.
“This time it's tails.”
With that, Natsuki Subaru even showed the tails side of the commemorative coin on the back of his hand to Haruki Yamauchi. Normally, at such times, the experienced nobles from his Purge King era in the other world would breathe a sigh of relief.
Because it meant the previous matter was settled.
As long as Natsuki Subaru's coin landed on the correct side, all prior displeasure was nullified.
Unless... they acted up again, prompting the Purge King to toss the coin once more.
And after Natsuki Subaru became the Purge King, almost no such people existed. Everyone trembled in fear before him, let alone prompting a second toss.
After surviving the first, they would never appear before him a second time in their lives.
“Huh?”
“Tails?”
Haruki Yamauchi stared at the commemorative coin on Natsuki Subaru's hand, perplexed.
After being roasted by Rokusuke Kōenji, Haruki Yamauchi had no desire to keep tangling with Natsuki Subaru. After all, everything had been laid bare like that.
Many things weigh nothing off the scale, but once weighed, even a thousand jin can't contain them.
Haruki Yamauchi's earlier behavior was exactly like that. If unspoken, even bullying goes unnoticed. But now, Rokusuke Kōenji had torn off the last fig leaf.
Thinking of this, Haruki Yamauchi grew irritated, filled with the shame of public execution. Glaring at the coin on Natsuki Subaru's hand, he said in an impatient tone,
“What does that mean?”
After speaking, Haruki Yamauchi felt a bit curious.
Because in the first few days of enrollment, Natsuki Subaru had asked him if he had any coins, which puzzled him then. Now... still puzzled.
From start to finish, Haruki Yamauchi always saw Natsuki Subaru as somewhat weird, not normal.
And precisely because Natsuki Subaru wasn't normal and somewhat aloof, Haruki Yamauchi had targeted him for bullying.
If it were Rokusuke Kōenji, Haruki Yamauchi wouldn't dare make a peep.
“Heh heh, it means exactly what it says.”
“Since it's tails, I'm just a little regretful.”
Natsuki Subaru looked at Haruki Yamauchi and chuckled happily.
“If it were heads, you'd know exactly what it means.”
“However, Yamauchi-kun, is it really okay to ask me for personal points at a time like this?”
Since it was tails, the matter was over.
Natsuki Subaru didn't dwell and returned to the original topic.
“What's wrong with that?”
Haruki Yamauchi, already feeling like a clown today, was even more enraged by Natsuki Subaru's attitude.
“Of course it's because... Yamauchi-kun is about to get expelled.”
Natsuki Subaru's smile didn't change as he chuckled lightly.
“Lending personal points to you right now would mean no return, wouldn't it?”
“An expelled Yamauchi-kun probably couldn't repay the personal points to me.”
Natsuki Subaru's straightforward words were like a bucket of ice water in winter, instantly dousing the anger in Haruki Yamauchi's heart.
Haruki Yamauchi's face gradually paled. If he could, he desperately wanted to retort Natsuki Subaru and loudly declare he'd pass the exam.
But those words stuck in his throat; not a single one emerged. Because deep down, Haruki Yamauchi knew Natsuki Subaru was stating plain fact.
A massive panic enveloped Haruki Yamauchi.
Don't think that eating the hard-to-swallow mountain vegetable set meal every day now was bad. Compared to life before this academy, it was still very good.
Fully furnished personal dorms, complete facilities—all without spending a dime.
Even the mountain vegetable set meal depends on comparison. Against Natsuki Subaru's daily meals, it was unpalatable. But considering it's free?
Outside, even the mountain vegetable set meal isn't cheap.
It might even be very expensive. In Japan, vegetables are truly pricey, while meat and some seafood are affordable. The mountain vegetable set meal is just unpalatable.
No other flaws besides taste; nutritious and rich.
Thinking this way, any halfway normal mind could accept it instantly.
Like Haruki Yamauchi now—he panicked intensely at the prospect of expulsion. Even daily unpalatable mountain vegetable set meals were preferable to leaving.
Even with zero personal points, the school's quality of life was very high.
