Chapter 226

"Why did he did so suddenly?"

This thought kept lingering in his mind. He couldn't stop thinking about why his employee died so abruptly and whether he had overlooked something.

Lost in his thoughts, he went home, ate, slept, and then got up to go to school.

Even at school and in the student council, he kept replaying his experience in the game.

"I must have missed something..."

As he was mulling over this, Shinomiya Kaguya stood beside Shirogane Miyuki with a pile of documents and called out, "President, President!"

Shinomiya Kaguya stood there nervously.

'What should I do? What should I do? What is the president thinking about? Is he thinking about confessing?'

Her mind raced, imagining Shirogane Miyuki holding her hand and confessing. Her face turned completely red as she thought about how she would respond if Shirogane Miyuki actually confessed.

Just as her thoughts were spinning, Shirogane Miyuki suddenly looked at her.

"Shinomiya?"

"Yes?"

"I was thinking about something. If I..."

"No, it's not impossible, it's just..."

Shinomiya Kaguya's hasty response left Shirogane Miyuki momentarily speechless. He continued, "I was thinking about something. If I were a manager, and I had to ask my subordinates to do dangerous tasks, how could I ensure their absolute safety?"

"Huh?"

Shinomiya Kaguya was stunned. The reality was far from what she had imagined. She thought Shirogane Miyuki was going to talk about student council matters, but how had the conversation suddenly shifted to management—specifically, risk management?

"Could it be…?"

Her brain immediately concocted a new scenario. In her mind, Shirogane Miyuki had realized the gap between their social statuses and wanted to start from the bottom, working his way up step by step, eventually leading to a confession!

In that moment, Shinomiya Kaguya clenched her fists. No matter what, she was determined to support Shirogane Miyuki's ambitions.

Taking a deep breath, she began explaining to Shirogane Miyuki what a manager should do. As a member of the prestigious Shinomiya family, she had received extensive education in management since childhood.

"If it's a dangerous task, you must first understand the nature of the danger..."

Shinomiya Kaguya provided examples from what she knew about common hazardous jobs in the market, even mentioning her knowledge of foreign mercenary systems. She discussed how to establish oversight, take control, and went into great detail about it all.

At the end, she took a sip of water and asked, "Is there anything else you're unsure about?"

"The only thing left to understand is how it works in practice..."

Shirogane Miyuki was still thinking about his next move in the game. Shinomiya Kaguya's advice was very helpful: assess the risk first, then send people in after fully understanding the dangers involved.

During execution, prioritize safety, exchange time for security, and complete the task while ensuring everyone's safety to the greatest extent.

"By the way, President, what kind of work are you doing?"

"Me? I'm a temporary director of a company… and a student of Mr. Yuri."

He didn't dare admit that he was spending time at an internet cafe playing games. But on second thought, even though the things in the internet cafe were called games, they felt like real life—especially Yuri and Angela, who served as life mentors, more reliable than many people in reality.

"What!"

Kaguya had been closely observing Shirogane Miyuki when she noticed something off.

His gaze wasn't on her; it was more like he was thinking about another girl. Or maybe a very beautiful girl?

The expression on her face stiffened.

No! I can't let it end like this; I have to change the subject.

Whether it's true or not, I need to shift the conversation. But what should I talk about? Student council matters? There's not much going on with the student council lately.

Studies?

She envisioned that if the conversation turned to studying, their interaction might become…

"I will definitely win next time!"

"I will definitely win!"

She shook her head vigorously, trying to dispel these thoughts. But seeing Shirogane Miyuki's expression, she couldn't help but ask, "President, if you met a wealthy girl who was rich but powerless, how would you help her?"

"Help her? What's the situation?"

"Well, her family is very wealthy, and her brothers are fighting for the family fortune while also guarding against her. In this case, how can this girl gain her freedom?"

"Hey? Why do you ask?"

Shinomiya Kaguya replied nonchalantly, "I have a friend in this situation, and she's really troubled by it. I couldn't come up with a good solution, so I wanted to see if a third party might have any advice."

Upon hearing this, Shirogane Miyuki's mind shifted from his own thoughts to Yuri's teachings. In that moment, he became Yuri's most diligent student.

"Freedom? She needs to fight for it herself. She could appear weak, then use her family's influence to gain support from various companies. Use smaller companies to influence larger ones, win over local forces—after all, a strong dragon can't suppress a local snake. Once she secures local support, she can infiltrate and take control. If she's a woman, people will generally underestimate her. She should take advantage of that and develop her power in secret, eventually taking over completely. She must be ruthless. If possible, it's best to eliminate all threats..."

"And there's another way. The major Japanese conglomerates might seem powerful, but in my view, only the SPW can…"

This was a strategy Yuri had shared when playing Red Alert. It's often easier to make people surrender than to send a large army to the border, but it's also a tactic that heretics might use.

Fortunately, Yuri wasn't like Yuri in every game, or he might have questioned this Yuri's training methods. Why do Proselytes either lack human thoughts or obsess over world destruction—or even love?

Hearing Shirogane Miyuki's words, Shinomiya Kaguya fell silent.

"What's wrong, Shinomiya? Was it too simplistic? I admit, I haven't encountered more complex scenarios. I'll study more about it tomorrow. Hey, what's wrong? Is my idea not reliable?"

After all, the idea was inspired by Yuri's guidance in the game, so it might be unreliable.

In his view, Shinomiya Kaguya's expression appeared somewhat gloomy.

In reality, though, Shinomiya Kaguya was crying out excitedly in her heart.

It wasn't that his idea was unfeasible—it was too feasible!

She had thought of similar strategies before, but because she wasn't truly interested in power, they had remained mere thoughts.

What she didn't expect was that Shirogane Miyuki's ambitions were so grand that the Japanese consortium couldn't satisfy him—he was even setting his sights on SPW, a well-established American conglomerate?

Perhaps it was the lens of affection that magnified his qualities, but Shinomiya Kaguya began to see Shirogane Miyuki's ambition in a new light. She felt as though she didn't know him at all anymore. At that moment, a sense of crisis welled up inside her.

On the other hand, Shirogane Miyuki remained oblivious to the fact that Shinomiya Kaguya's "I have a friend" was actually about herself. He was still naively thinking about how to help this "friend" of hers to gain some practical experience.