COTE: Horikita Is My Childhood Sweetheart

Chapter 165: Ways to earn points

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This time, while swimming, Koenji abandoned his bold and aggressive style. Instead, he adopted the standard freestyle crawl stroke, which offered less resistance, was more energy-efficient, and ensured the fastest speed.

Arata watched intently as the two boys raced through the water, their movements swift and precise.

Time seemed to pass in a flash, and amidst the girls' excited cheers, the two boys touched the swimming pool's timing pad one after the other.

Rin's time: 20.21 seconds

Gaoyuanji Rokusuke's time: 21.2 seconds

"As expected, Rin won!" Kei cheered, jumping up with excitement. Her honey-colored hair, dampened with water, fluttered as she moved.

Arata stood frozen in place for a moment before his face lit up with an expression of pure ecstasy.

Rin's achievement wasn't just incredible—it was historic. He had broken the world record!

If Arata's memory served him correctly, the current world record for the men's 50-meter freestyle was 20.24 seconds.

Now, this student, had clocked in at 20.21 seconds—0.03 seconds faster than the world record!

Of course, this situation wasn't entirely incomprehensible.

After all, Rin possessed a narration system, and all his physical qualities had been enhanced by it.

"If I hadn't seen this with my own eyes, I would never have believed that a high school freshman with no rigorous training could break the world record in the 50-meter freestyle," Arata muttered in amazement.

From Rin's arm movements and leg kicks, Arata could tell that Rim had never received professional training.

Suddenly, a wave of excitement washed over Arata as he realized something. Rin still had room for improvement!

If Rin were to receive professional swimming training, he could undoubtedly further shorten his time.

The thought filled Arata with a sense of urgency. He wanted to hand over the recorded footage from the surveillance cameras to the school's chairman immediately.

His plan was clear: convince the chairman to remove Nagumo, the vice president of the student council, and allow Rin to join the swimming club and receive professional coaching right away.

Would the chairman agree to such a proposal?

Of course, he would.

Any rational person would understand the importance of this decision.

After all, a vice president of the student council could easily be replaced by someone else with moderate ability.

But the only person who had broken the world record in the 50-meter freestyle was Rin!

He was irreplaceable.

Arata firmly believed the chairman wasn't foolish enough to prioritize a replaceable student council vice president over an extraordinary talent like Rin.

Perhaps Rin would soon hear the good news from Manabu that Nagumo had been removed from the student council.

After coming ashore, Rin immediately surrounded by the girls again. This time, they were even bolder. Not only did they take the opportunity to touch Rin's abdominal muscles, but they also dared to feel his pectoral muscles.

The enthusiasm of the adolescent girls made Rin break out in a cold sweat. Desperate to escape, he quickly called out to Koenji, "Koenji, you lost. Let's head outside to transfer the points."

"Alright," Koenji replied straightforwardly.

Although arrogant and self-centered, Koenji was someone who could accept defeat gracefully. A loss was a loss, and he had no intention of cheating or making excuses.

Using this as an excuse, Rin successfully escaped the clutches of the overly enthusiastic girls.

After he left, Karuizawa turned to glare at the other girls with annoyance.

These shameless girls are taking advantage of her (future) boyfriend!

She couldn't stand it!

However, despite her anger, Karuizawa knew she wasn't officially Rin's girlfriend yet. She had no right to stop the others from trying to take advantage of him.

The match between Rin and Koenji had concluded, and Rin left the pool area once more. With the main attraction gone, the girls dispersed into the swimming pool in groups of three or four, laughing and playing together.

Meanwhile, Arata turned off the surveillance cameras in the indoor swimming pool and extracted the video recording of the swimming competition between Rin and Koenji.

As soon as the class ended, Arata planned to head to the chairman's office and present the footage to Chairman Sakayanagi.

In truth, Arata didn't have a high opinion of Nagumo.

From what Rin had revealed earlier, it was clear to Arata that Rin had expelled all the boys from the swimming club solely to prevent his childhood friend from being stared at by them.

Such an abuse of power was the main reason Arata disliked Nagumo.

This was why he was more than willing to help Rin and work toward having Nagumo, who had misused his authority, removed from the student council.

Arata: The Light of Justice!

On the other side of the pool, Chiaki noticed Karuizawa looking upset and asked, "kei, what's wrong? Why do you look so down?"

"Hey, Chiaki, you saw everything earlier, didn't you? Rin is so popular with girls. I feel a lot of pressure…"

Chiaki blinked in surprise. Of course, she had noticed how popular Rin was. Not only that, but she had also taken the chance to touch his abs.

Well, it wasn't entirely her fault. The atmosphere among the girls had been so lively and playful earlier. With everyone laughing and teasing Rin, she had been unable to resist stretching out her hand.

It wasn't a betrayal of her friend—it was just the irresistible mood of the moment...

After leaving the indoor swimming pool, Rin and Koenji retrieved their phones from the lockers.

Koenji immediately transferred 80,000 personal points to Rin without hesitation. When Rin checked his own balance, he noticed that Koenji had only 1,200 personal points left.

"Uh, Koenji, how do you only have so few personal points left? Let me transfer 40,000 back to you," Rin said, feeling slightly awkward.

Koenji glanced at Rin and noticed his subtle expression. Realizing that Rin wasn't mocking him but genuinely offering to return 40,000 points, Koenji responded sharply, "boy, are you trying to insult me by doing that."

"…"

Rin was taken aback but quickly understood. To someone as proud and confident as Koenji, returning the points was indeed an insult.

"I have plenty of ways to earn personal points," Koenji declared with his usual arrogance, as though earning personal points was an effortless task for him.

Rin could only hope Koenji wasn't being overly stubborn and wouldn't end up eating the free mountain vegetable meals from the student cafeteria...

Koenji left the area and headed into the boys' locker room. It seemed he had no intention of continuing with the swimming lesson.

As Rin returned to the indoor swimming pool, he muttered, "Narrator, do you know how Koenji plans to earn more personal points?"

"I'd really like to know, so I can learn his method and figure out how to earn personal points myself."

Rin was acutely aware that Ike and Haruki had already begun skipping classes just two weeks into the school year. At this rate, it was only a matter of time before their 1,000 class points were deducted.

If all their class points were deducted, the monthly personal point allocations would drop to zero.

Determined to secure his personal point freedom, Rin was eager to uncover how Koenji earned his personal points and whether he could replicate the method for himself.