As I sat there waiting for Minji to finish her preparations for the visual aids, I drank my second glass of whiskey and still had the same thought.
'This thing tastes good, unlike what me and Ozzy always drank back then.'
Since my body is special, I have a really high tolerance with alcohol to avoid being intoxicated during some certain missions. The same goes for Ichika, who experienced the same procedures.
I asked Kyle if he wanted some too, but he kindly rejected it. So I passed it to Ichika and was not surprised that she actually liked it.
Having a special body immune system makes us both miss out on the pleasure that alcohol could bring, so finding an actual liquor that actually affects us, brings satisfaction for us.
After a little more squabble, Minji started the briefing as we drank.
"The pointing system is something that the past student council came up with. It was to categorize the requests based on the difficulties. As you all know, completing 20 sets of requests would give as a very high academic incentives that amounts to a full semestral pass. And there are requests that amounts to 2, depending on the difficulty."
Minji paused and showed the board to us before continuing
"There are 3 types of request ranks. Namely, A, B, and C. C being the easiest ones, like trimming the whole football field with a lawn mower. C ranks only amounts to 1 point. Then comes B, which amounts to 2 points and are slightly difficult to complete, its usually the weird ones too. Like helping the engineering club build a bipedal robot, teaching the dance clubs some new moves that should satisfy them, and finding useful informations on the enemy teams of the volleyball club."
She paused once again as she poured a full glass of whiskey and drank it before passing it back to Darren and ordering him to drink again.
Kyle asked her "what about the A rank requests?"
"Calm your tits princey, I'm getting to that. Ehem. Rank A's are worth 3 points, and are the types of requests that either takes a lot of time to complete, or just plainly very hard. The first A rank request that was completed this year, was done by me and Joseph. We taught a whole class of 1st years on the first month about biology. Apparently, their teacher was being a dickhead and refuses to teach them until the first examination. And since we've already took the test last year, Joseph suggested for them to submit a request to us as substitute teachers. The conditions against us were really harsh though. We had to teach them only during the time of their jerk teacher for a whole week, so we both missed our own classes. We also have to make sure that nobody fails the test, or the whole thing will not count. And boy if you only knew how much I wanted to strangle the sluts that were sitting on the front row."
Minji paused again and took the bottle from Darren after he downed another shot. She drank directly from the bottle and passed it back to Darren. The whiskey was halfway done already, but Minji still forced Darren to drink another shot for the 3rd consecutive time saying "One more, show us you're not a pussy!"
After hesitatingly drinking another shot, Darren visibly turned from tipsy to straight drunk. His whole face was very red, and his arms wobbled as he passed the bottle to me while whispering "save me" closely to my face.
I took it from him and he laid back relaxedly in his chair. Then Minji asked us as she continued the briefing.
"Are there any questions? Yes, Kyle. Why the fuck are you raising your hand like a kindergarten? Just ask away."
"Oh sorry about that. I wanted to ask if there had been cases where a request was categorized as higher than A rank."
"Good question. There is one request that is labeled as Rank S by the council. In fact, its still currently posted in the board outside. Its contents are to win the yearly coliseum battle tournament, and pass all the sponsorships and cash prize that will be provided by the school for the winning club, to the client. Which was the boxing club."
It seems that everyone takes this tournament very seriously, as it could open up many opportunities and benefits for the winning club. And I heard from Darren that there's a bunch of great fighters all around the school, who came from either some military families or battle hardened gangs. So the request was fairly suited to be an S rank.
Minji then continued
"Of course you guys could take the request. But the condition was that you would have to repeat another year if you failed to win the tournament. This S rank amounts to 20 points after all, so the council made it sufficiently hard for us. You guys could try it if you want though. You just need to submit it to the student council and they would validate it. Which brings me to the next topic; how to validate requests and how to make a request? Simple, you just go to the student council and they'll do all the work for you."
Minji exclaimed "Hah! Suckers." after explaining about the work of the student council. Then she grabbed the bottle from Ichika, and drank the remaining whiskey before continuing to talk with a tipsy expression
"No questions? Then to conclude this. You guys should learn from the 2 outside, and do actual gardening stuffs when you guys have free time. You're in Gardening club for fuck sake. Now scram and start working. If you need me I'll be in the backroom counting some sheeps."
Minji then stood up and started yawning as she walks towards a small room in the back of the club house, while the rest of us heard her snoring loudly as we were still sitting.
Then Kyle stood up and was the first one to break the ice.
"Well. I'll be going then, I'll choose an easy task for the 1st day." He then exited the club house and stood in front of the request board.
Ichika followed soon and also left the clubhouse after excusing herself.
I was also about to stand up and leave to check the request board. But Darren tapped my shoulder and said.
"You want to do some requests right? Then how about driving me home using my bike?"
"Why would I want to do that? Wait. Are you drunk?"
"What?! Me? Nope, psshh. I'm more sober than a hippie. So do you want to? Or nah? You're borrowing my bike tomorrow so we'll be even, if you drive me today."
I still had places to go after school. But I guess I could do it tomorrow.
"Sure. Give me the keys. Lets leave now before Minji wakes up and accuses us of slacking off."
"No. Wait. Let's wait for Ichika...and Kyle, to leave the area first."
"Why?"
"Just, because."
I got confused at his request, but I still agreed with it and waited for the 2, to leave first.
After Ichika and Kyle took a paper out of the request board and left, I supported Darren by putting his right arm on my shoulders as we left the place.
When we got to the clinic on the center of the intersection, I saw a large crowd on the path towards the sports club. I observed the situation some more and found out that theres a burning bull mascot suit on a large wooden cross, placed on the side of the path heading towards the sports clubs.
I got curious and wanted to delve deeper, but Darren was starting to attract some attention so I decided to quickly leave this place and went to the parking lot.
When we got to the parking lot and found Darren's bike, I used the keys and started it up before telling Darren to hop on. But he suddenly stopped on his tracks and started vomiting at the nearby dumpster.
He puked his guts out for a good 3 minutes before finally stopping. I then approached him and saw Ichika from the side.
Darren had a startled look when he realized that Ichika saw everything.
"Uhmm. I wanted to ask Darren, if he wanted to do this request together, but. Nevermind. I'll see you both tomorrow. Take care you two."
Ichika said before leaving while waving at us.
Then I heard Darren mumbling some inaudible words, so I asked him.
"What was that?"
"Ocho you sneaky cunt!"