I was expelled from school at the beginning, but luckily I am the king of endurance.

"In short, we have determined Caesar's purpose. Their target is not the people of Abydos, but the land. Yesterday, the head of the discipline committee revealed to me a piece of information that the Caesar Group is planning something in the desert of Abydos." The teacher said, leaning on the table.

Now they are about to start a head-on confrontation with Caesars Group, the giant monopoly group that spans Kivotos... But the teacher is not without a trump card. If Caesars Group really wants to tear its face off and attack his students... The teacher subconsciously clutched the card in his pocket.

Then he wouldn't mind overturning the card table so that no one could play.

The Story of Abydos: Chapter 25: The Temptation of Black-Braised Eggs (Big Shh)

Caesar's plan in the desert?

Hearing the teacher say this, Ya remembered that she seemed to have not yet told the teacher about her escape from Caesar's military camp.

"Teacher, I might know what Caesar was doing in the Abydos Desert." Mei raised her hand and continued, "Kanna, Eri, and Futaba escaped from the military camp that Caesar built in the desert."

"Military camp? The Caesar Group has deployed troops in Abydos?!" Serika exclaimed in disbelief. Caesar actually dared to deploy troops directly into the college's self-governing area. This serious violation of the Federal Student Union's regulations was not punished by the Student Union. Serika now increasingly suspected that the Federal Student Union and Caesar were in cahoots.

Futaba leaned against the wall and explained, "The Caesar Group has been recruiting students who dropped out of school to form mercenary groups. Among them, the outstanding ones, such as Xiaoya, or the experienced ones, such as me, the Caesar Group will gather the top combat forces of these mercenary groups to form special combat teams.

"My squad was Squad 7, and our captain was Xiaoya. We were held in Caesar's Camp 9 for training. However, the officer in charge of the training seemed to be a crazy woman. I don't know why she blew up Camp 9 and framed us, so we escaped."

"Camp No. 9... That means Caesar has set up at least nine military camps in the desert?" The teacher put his hand on the table, tapping it with his index finger. He didn't believe that the Federal Student Union didn't know about such important information. Could there be a traitor in the student union?

The teacher came from outside Kivotos. In his world, collusion between officials and businessmen was not uncommon, and even some powerful capital groups controlling small countries was not uncommon. However, he did not want to use this way of thinking to consider the children of Kivotos.

Besides...the teacher looked at everyone present.

[There shouldn't be such a thing as killing each other among children, right?]

If she knew what the teacher was thinking, Ya would definitely laugh at him. The girl had not been in the black market for a long time, but she had seen a lot of the filthiness of the black market. The students of Kivotos were children, but they were also people in the social sense. They had all the necessary means, but because they were still children and lacked experience, their methods seemed immature.

In other words, the reason why Kivotos looks so beautiful and peaceful is that the students are protected by the halo, so no one will die.

"No, Caesar's land in the Abydos Desert seems to be legal according to the Federal Student Union's laws."

"How is that possible? That's our land!"

"But Serika-san, the Abydos Desert... has been bought by the Caesar Corporation."

Ya opened the Abydos land transaction documents that she and Ayane had sorted out last night. It clearly stated that the Abydos desert area was transferred from the Abydos Student Union to Caesar Construction Company.

Now the matter was at a stalemate again. No one knew why Caesar stationed troops in the desert, but since they had not paid off their debts and recovered the ownership of the land, they had no right to interfere with Caesar's actions.

Hoshino couldn't help but think of the conditions offered by the guy with the shaved egg head who called himself "Black Suit".

"Ms. Hoshino, I'm going to make you an offer you can't refuse." I remembered the braised, egg-headed man sitting in his executive chair, his arms crossed to support his leaning upper body, his cracked mouth spewing devilish words. "If you voluntarily leave Abydos and join our company, we'll forgive half of Abydos's debt. Hehehe... So, what's your answer? If you accept, just sign your name here."

Hoshino had never seen a "person" as strange as it in Kivotos. With uneasiness in her heart, she rejected the agreement, but from then on, the content of the agreement had been lingering in her mind.

[Half of the debt...more than 20 million...]

It was time to make a decision. Two years ago, people kept inviting her to leave Abydos, and this time the conditions were the most generous. For the sake of Abydos and the ideals of her predecessors, it seemed not difficult to exchange herself for a miracle. Besides, Abydos did not need her protection now, and she had found a trustworthy adult.

It is okay to entrust Abydos and the younger generations to the teacher.

With this thought, Hoshino had made a decision and she could now let go of the burden.

"Teacher, can you please talk to me alone?"

Bai Zi's voice brought the teacher back to reality from his thoughts. He really didn't have any good ideas to solve Caesar's problem now, so why not listen to what Bai Zi said?

Bai Zi took the teacher to the empty classroom next door. She took out a piece of paper from her black shoulder bag and handed it to the teacher.

"Teacher, I found this in Hoshino-senpai's bag while she was sleeping."

The teacher took the paper and saw the words "Withdrawal Application Form".

"This is?"

"That's what it says. I haven't shown it to anyone except the teacher... Hoshino-senpai probably doesn't know I went through her backpack yet."

"Why did Baizi go through Hoshino's backpack?" Putting aside why Hoshino applied to drop out of school, Baizi's rummaging through other people's backpacks for no reason seemed to be a problem. The teacher was a little worried that this straightforward girl would go to extremes.

"Hoshino-senpai has never been away for such a long time... And even when we were almost cornered by the Discipline Committee, he didn't show up. I couldn't figure it out, so I secretly searched his backpack... and found this."

So that's how it is. Nomiya's description of Hoshino, Mei's statement that Hoshino had a secret meeting with Black Egghead, and the application for withdrawal in front of him, all connected together, the teacher knew why Hoshino did this.

[It was that egg-head who made an offer that Hoshino couldn't refuse.]

Combined with Hoshino's attitude towards Abydos, it is not difficult for the teacher to guess that Heifu took advantage of Abydos's debt and reached some kind of deal with Hoshino. One of the terms of the deal should be to let Hoshino drop out of Abydos.

As the last member of the Abydos Student Union, Hoshino dropped out of school. Abydos lost its political entity and could be invaded by the Caesar Group at will.

It was a brilliant plan, but they hadn't anticipated the teacher's presence. After the club's application was approved last night, the management body of Abydos changed from the Student Union to the Strategies Committee. Even if Hoshino dropped out and the Abydos Student Union was completely dissolved, the Strategies Committee could still serve as the management body of Abydos and exercise the rights and interests of Abydos.

Now, the teacher who has figured out the key has to find a way to get Hoshino to come back and fight alongside everyone.

The Story of Abydos: Chapter 26: Heart-to-Heart

Having said that, when facing Hoshino, the teacher still didn't know where to start.

In the end, it was Xingye who spoke first: "Teacher, you want to ask about the black clothes, right?"

Black clothes? That black-marinated egg? But how did Xingye know that I knew about this?

The teacher did not hide his surprise. He wanted to hear how Hoshino would explain this matter to him.

"Teacher, are you curious about how I know this? Oh my! Little Sprout's hiding skills are pretty bad. When she was lying on the rooftop, her tail was dangling back and forth. It was really hard to ignore."

The teacher was a little amused and confused because of this exposure, but that was not the point.

"Hoshino, what's going on? What conditions did that black suit give you?"

The teacher took out the application for withdrawal from school. He could see the girl in front of him was surprised for a moment, but then she quickly covered it up.

"Teacher, did you get this too? Wow~ The power of adults is really terrifying~" Hoshino laughed as usual. She could probably guess that it was Baizi who rummaged through her bag, but now was not the time to worry about that.

The girl walked to the window of the empty classroom and with a little effort, opened the window that had not been used for a long time.

"Teacher, look, it's all sand outside." Hoshino leaned against the windowsill. The teacher looked in the direction she was looking and saw areas covered with yellow sand everywhere. Even though this was just a branch campus of Abydos before, the five of them were far from enough to handle the maintenance work here.

"Uncle, don't you feel regretful that the days I spent in Abydos were all the color of sand?"

Abydos's climate is harsh, and even a week there would be unbearable for teachers. However, Hoshino persevered for two years, enduring not only the harsh weather but also a mountain of debt that wasn't his own...

The teacher took a breath and ended up swallowing a mouthful of sand.

"Cough, cough, cough!"

Hoshino hurriedly closed the window. At this time, the wind started to blow again.

"Ahem... It seems that Hoshino likes Abydos very much." The teacher who finally spit out the last mouthful of sand commented like this. If it is not because of love, the teacher can hardly imagine what reason would make people persist in such a place.

Just like those citizens who refused to move to other college-governed areas, they also loved Abydos, so they would secretly donate money and maintain the streets on their own initiative. They supported Abydos in their own way.

"After hearing what you said just now, you still think so... Wow, the teacher is really a weirdo." Hoshino found a chair and sat down. It would be a lie to say that he didn't like it.

Even though she had never seen Abydos in its heyday, even though even the main building was buried in the sand when she arrived, even though she was burdened with a huge debt upon her arrival, even though...

But this is still her beloved Abydos!

Here she met her seniors, Nomiya and Shirako, and here she became someone's senior for the first time. Here she met her teacher...

How could she not love Abydos?

It was precisely because of her love that she became anxious when she saw her juniors wishing they could split her in two, that she became angry when she saw militants attacking the academy, and that...

So she now wants to carry out her passion, even if according to the agreement she can only work like a slave for Caesar in the future, she wants to reduce the burden on the younger generations, and she also wants to pull the academy back from the brink of closure.

"So, teacher, even if I'm gone, you will help me take care of my lovely juniors, right?"

After coming back to her senses, Hoshino confirmed with the teacher again. Once the teacher nodded, she would start to act. The teacher was just an ordinary person without any halo and could not stop her.

"Hoshino..." The teacher looked at the girl in front of him, tears streaming down her face. Of course, he would take care of the children of Abydos, but...

"But Hoshino, think about it carefully. Without you, is Abydos still Abydos?" The teacher reached out and stroked the girl's head. The latter did not avoid it like Mei. Perhaps she really needed some comfort now.

"The Countermeasures Committee isn't recognized by the Federation Student Union, right? Hoshino, you're the only member of the Abydos Student Union right now."

With these words, the teacher could clearly feel the girl stiffen. It seemed that she had not thought of this question.

After the teacher's reminder, Hoshino was able to figure out the next words on his own without anyone saying anything.

Having lost its only student council member, Abydos would undoubtedly be shut down by the Federal Student Union, claiming it no longer held administrative functions. With the school closed, the Countermeasures Committee's sole source of legitimacy would be gone, leaving the Caesar Group free to seize this "unowned" territory.

It seemed as if she had almost done something stupid.

"I got fooled by adults again." Xingye wiped away his tears, "I'm sorry, teacher, I made you worry. As for this..."

Hoshino took the withdrawal application, crumpled it up and threw it into a trash can.

"Let it stay in the right place. It's much more comfortable now."

The girl in front of him seemed to have regained her energy, and that familiar lazy tone made him feel at ease.

"Well, the countermeasures committee is a collective. If you have any problems in the future, please speak up and don't handle it alone, okay?" The teacher withdrew his hand, and in Hoshino's fleeting look of dissatisfaction, he took out the club application form from his suit.

"Yesterday I officially registered the 'Strategy Committee' with the Federal Student Union. From now on, the Strategy Committee will be the administrative body of Abydos."

After dealing with Hoshino's matter, the teacher's tense nerves finally relaxed. He had been led by the nose by the Caesar Group before, so why not give them a counter-attack this time?

The teacher looked at Hoshino who was carefully reading the club application form and immediately came up with an idea.

However, the soundproofing of the classroom was not very good, and Eri, who had just returned, saw the interaction between the teacher and Hoshino. When she saw the teacher was about to turn around and leave the classroom, she hurried away from the window and pretended that she had just arrived in the corridor.

"Eri? Is the reconstruction going well?"

"Yes, yes! The construction team has repaired the road. Except for Shibaguan Ramen, which is still short of funds, the impact of the battle has been minimized."

"Well, thank you for your hard work, Eri."

Eri finally felt relieved when she saw the teacher continue to walk into the activity room next door. The teacher didn't seem to notice her peeking.

[Captain Xiaoya, it seems you have a strong competitor.]

Glancing at Hoshino who was following behind the teacher, Eri couldn't help but feel worried.

The Story of Abydos: Chapter 27: The Mistake

"Teacher, do you really want to do this?"

Hoshino's voice was heard from the activity room.

After communicating with Hoshino, the teacher, who had already understood the intentions of the Caesar Group, proposed a plan, which was to let Hoshino pretend to agree to the black-suited proposal. After Hoshino arrived at Caesar's camp in the desert, they would work together inside and outside to thwart Caesar's plan in one fell swoop.

As for what the Federal Student Union said after Hoshino signed the black service agreement? That's simple, the teacher is there.

Although Kivotos did not have the concept of "teacher" before, it does now. The teacher can use his advantage in the dark to create an information gap with Caesar, that is, Hoshino's application for withdrawal was not approved by the teacher, so the contract between Hoshino and Caesar Group is an invalid contract and has no legal effect.

“It feels like it’s pretty unethical.”

Ayane complained after the teacher told everyone about his plan.

But whether it's unethical or not doesn't matter. As long as it can hit the Caesars Group, I'm in favor of it. Besides, it was Caesars who started it dirty, wasn't it?

The plan has been decided, now it's time to execute it.

The other members of the Countermeasures Committee and Mei and the others still had to deal with the aftermath of the Discipline Committee's attack, while Hoshino met with Heifu alone in a hidden office building as the teacher had instructed.

"A wise choice! Miss Hoshino, all your rights as a trainee have now been transferred to us. From this moment on, most of Abydos's debts will be borne by us."

Heifu was in the same posture as last time. After confirming with his own eyes that Hoshino signed his name on the contract, he stood up, picked up the contract with one hand, and nodded with satisfaction.

"A special car will come to pick you up later, Miss Hoshino. I look forward to our next meeting."

The plan went smoothly. At least Heifu didn't notice the tiny earphones in Hoshino's ears. This masterpiece from the Millennium Institute of Technology faithfully performed its task, and every word of Heifu was clearly transmitted to everyone's ears.

"Uh...it feels so weird." When Serika thought of the abstract egg head drawn by Hoshino combined with the sound in her headphones, she couldn't help but feel nauseous.

Everyone in Abydos couldn't help but worry about Hoshino, but Ya felt that it was unnecessary. In her understanding, Caesar simply wanted to take Hoshino to a camp to form a new special forces team. Judging from the strength shown by Hoshino, the troops of two more camps would not be enough for her to defeat.

After casually taking care of a thug who was robbing citizens, the voice of a robot soldier came from the headphones.

"Come, let's go to Jiuling and take Bayang's car for a walk."

Hoshino had no doubts and got into the armored vehicle as the robot soldier said.

[Next, just wait for the headset to send the coordinates.]

Ya thought so, but the subsequent development of the matter was beyond the expectations of her, her teacher and the people of Abydos.

Hoshino was sitting in the armored vehicle without any defense. If she wanted to, she could kick open the back door of the armored vehicle.