Student President Election Poll Status

1st – Antonio Alexandros 45.5%

2nd – Delfina Perdalos 39.7%

3rd – Ryan Sepia 7.2%

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8th – Iris Greite 0.4%

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After the results of the public opinion poll by the media club came out, the students’ mood was divided into two major categories.

Prince Antonio will be elected without incident in this election as well.

Or even if you cast a vote for Delphina, she might be elected.

For now, the mere fact that the second public opinion was circulating would have made Delfina’s election campaign considerably easier.

People almost always want to vote for an opponent who has a chance to win, because votes are not cast against those who are sure to lose.

Therefore, it was an unexpected feat to solidify the second place while widening the gap with the third place.

It was a bit of a problem that the reality that was more difficult than that blocked my eyes.

“45.5%? You already collected as much as I did?”

“Our Delphina juniors did a good job, too, but Prince Antonio’s momentum is unusual.”

“Well, it’s still not a majority, so wouldn’t it be possible to win somehow by collecting all the remaining votes?”

“No, it’s impossible that way.”

Stella brought up an optimistic story, but in a practically impossible way.

Because Prince Antonio’s approval rating is already high enough to look at the possibility of winning.

Even if it doesn’t have to exceed the majority of votes, there will be no problem in being elected student council president.

It was just a matter of getting first place in the votes among the candidates, and there was no cumbersome process like re-voting.

The kind of people who don’t give up until the end and resign their own little candidate, and the kind who don’t exercise their right to vote because they’re not interested in the election itself.

Taking these common variables into account, 45.5% was more than half of the valid votes.

In addition, since it was still a figure before the votes of the lower parties were absorbed, that figure would probably rise further if a full-fledged movement of votes appeared.

It will probably not be too long before we reach 50%.

“Well, then what should I do?”

“I have to take it from Prince Antonio.”

After making Prince Antonio and Ryan confront each other as usual. While the two candidates were stagnant, I was thinking of getting votes from other minor candidates.

Unexpectedly, Ryan Sepia was eliminated too quickly, so the method became unusable.

I never thought he would have used a strategy to change Ryan’s approval rating to his own as soon as his supporters dwindled.

As befits a skillful prince, he was a man who was good at improvising until the very end.

A way to stop Prince Antonio’s approval rating, a big event that will move the prince’s approval rating to Delfina’s approval rating.

Those two were the most needed moments.

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5th Prince Antonio, Antonio Alexandros.

Showing a relaxed attitude in everything, he was feeling a little bit uneasy, unlike usual.

Delfina Perdalos, the student council president candidate who has come up to the point of threatening herself.

The atmosphere was unusual for the momentum of a freshman who had just entered the school less than two months ago.

Moreover, the fact that most of the people supporting her were originally supposed to support her was also the reason that made Prince Antonio more concerned.

“… It has become a bit cumbersome.”

Originally, I didn’t plan to use my trump card to get votes from Ryan Sepia so quickly.

When the results of the polls were announced, it would be a two-way match between himself and Ryan, so he planned to hold the event after he absorbed enough of the remaining votes.

However, the speed at which he was moving in the direction of Delfina from his sphere of influence was unusual.

In the end, there was no choice but to explode the ‘Sepia Sangho Worker Reduction Case’ much faster than planned.

If it hadn’t been used, it would have been a three-way battle of confusion, and perhaps it would have ranked third in the poll results.

Even if that happened, it would be difficult to be certain of winning the election, even if it was the 5th prince.

I had to prevent such a situation from occurring, so it was a desperate measure to avoid a crisis.

Thanks to this, he stably maintained his first place in approval ratings and prevented a three-way battle, but in the end, Prince Antonio left a variable that he could not easily deal with until the end of the election.

Delfina Perdalos.

It wasn’t even calculated from the beginning that she would become such a formidable competitor.

Running for the academy’s student body president was a reckless move unless you had someone to support you.

With a letter of recommendation and a deposit of 20 gold coins, he couldn’t even step on the threshold of the Alexandros Academy student council room.

Rather, if the most standard way for a new freshman to become student president was to enter the election camp of the existing student president or former member of the student council.

Most of the students don’t like radical change, so there was a tendency to want the existing student council president or former student council member to become the next student council president.

The fastest and surest way to become student council president was to enter the cabinet of the next student council, observe the atmosphere for about a year, and then run for the next election.

In fact, when Antonio was elected last year’s student president election, he became student president using this classic method.

It was quite reckless and risky for a freshman to take on the challenge with his bare body as soon as he entered the school.

However, Delfina Perdalos proudly succeeded in the challenge, and soon she became Prince Antonio’s most threatening competitor.

Although the result worked out well, there were still many things in her behavior that the prince couldn’t understand.

“If becoming student president of the academy was my goal, I would have been better off joining my election camp this year.”

It would have been much more advantageous to aim for the next student council president, and above all, it was an opportunity to build a personal relationship with the prince himself.

She must have known that becoming student president was the quickest and safest path, with the support of herself stepping down from the frontlines the following year.

Even if there was no chance to contact himself, it wasn’t even that.

There was a dining table deliberately created to invite people with talent like Delphina to her surroundings, but she did not express her intention to attend, and she was absent from the appointment without permission.

It was common to send a letter in advance if you thought you would not be able to participate, but Saint Clare was the only one who sent a clear refusal to Prince Antonio.

Delfina Perdalos and Johnny Winte.

The fact that the two refused to eat without sending news of the rejection remained in Prince Antonio’s mind as a small question.

They probably knew best about what a political handshake it was to be absent from a meeting that included the prince without permission.

In particular, Delphina, who has been acting as the head of the Perdalos family for several years, must not have been unaware of this fact.

Antonio pondered over those unresolved questions as he thought about them.

Even if it was a viscount family in a remote area, it was quite difficult to lead a family from a young age.

I somehow heard the story of how her mother woke up from the hospital bed.

Because that couldn’t dim her efforts to lead the Perdalos family instead.

That’s why Prince Antonio intended to talk as much as possible with Delphina when the meeting room was ready.

He was even considering recruitment if he thought he could bring it in with his own power, but what came back was an unauthorized rejection and a confrontation as a candidate for student council president.

“Did I make a mistake… ?”

Even though he ruminated to see if he had done anything wrong to Delphina without even knowing it, there was nothing in his head that he could guess at all.

The only clue that could be said was the questionable conversation of the Marquis Hilla Warburg’s lady at the last dinner.

‘Miss Delphina… Did Viscount Delfina Perdalos not attend the dinner party?’

‘I guess so. If you haven’t shown your face so far, there’s probably a reason you can’t participate.’

‘is that so? I’m sure it couldn’t be… .’

A meaningful story with Lady Hilla floated through Antonio’s mind.

Was it just a meaningless murmur or was there some other truth she knew.

When the prince entered the election camp with such complicated thoughts in mind, there was a slightly different atmosphere than he expected.

“You edited this list, right?”

The first thing he saw was Ariel, who was the secretary of the student council last year.

With a cold gaze and voice, she was interrogating Vincent, who was Antonio’s closest aide and the vice president of the student council last year.

“Tsk. I would have hidden it somewhere out of sight, but why did it suddenly pop out… .”

Vincent looked at the papers that Ariel had brought in with an expression of displeasure, and licked his tongue.

A strange atmosphere was flowing between the two and the other members as well.

“What is going on? Vincent, Ariel.”

“… Are you here, Prince?”

“Prince Antonio, I have something to tell you.”

When the prince appeared, Ariel handed him the list she was holding as if everything went well.

“I found evidence that Mr. Vincent modified the list of participants participating in the meeting with the prince at will.”

“Is it really?”

“Yes, take a look here.”

The paper she handed to Antonio had the names of eight new students at the academy this year.

Of the ten freshmen representatives, exactly two are missing from the list.

Head of the Spear Department, Delfina Perdalos. Chief of the Department of Pensions, Johnny Winte.

Antonio’s eyes narrowed as he checked the list without those two people.

“This is the list used to check in and out of a dinner table with the freshman chief not too long ago.”

“… It seems so.”

“As you can see at a glance, Mr. Vincent deleted the list of the two at his own discretion.”

After hearing Ariel’s explanation, Antonio felt his head pounding.

I could never have imagined that the two of them, who are currently running for student president as their rivals, were retaliating for being omitted from the list for the dinner meeting with them.

It was a situation where he couldn’t say why he hadn’t joined his cabinet.

This was obviously because it had become the shape that he had thrown out first.

Antonio’s gaze moved to the person involved in the case.

“Is this true, Vincent?”

“… That’s right.”

“ha… .”

Finding out that the enemy was inside, not outside, Prince Antonio let out a low sigh.

Thanks to his status as a Confucius of the duke’s family, his ability to recruit talent itself was excellent, so I kept him by his side.

It was a completely unexpected disaster for the prince to revise his list of invited guests at will as he fell into the consciousness of the chosen people.

“Because of what you’ve done, Delphina Perdalos and Johnny Winte are now campaigning against me for student body president.”

“… … .”

“Lady Hilla, who had a personal relationship with Lady Delphina, also turned that way. Do you have something to say, Vincent?”

Vincent hesitated for a moment at Prince Antonio’s questioning, then swallowed other words through his throat and spat out a short word.

“There is not.”

“If we had been able to bring Delphine and Perdalos to our campaign, public opinion in the Ministry of Spears and the Ministry of Magic would not have changed in the opposite direction.”

“… … .”

“Your disposition will be postponed a little longer.

If, by any chance, you lose the election because of you, then be prepared.”

“… all right.”

“And make sure this is not disclosed to the outside world, just in case. Even if rumors circulate that I actually discriminated against lower nobles and commoners, then even I won’t be able to rectify it.”

“”””All right!””””

Finally, Prince Antonio, who had a complicated expression on his face, quietly returned to his seat and started working.

There was a slightly solemn atmosphere in the election camp that flowed into the same positive atmosphere as before.

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“Is this really what it is?”

Lulu, who came after finishing all the work, asked with a slightly questionable expression.

“Yes, Lulu, if you did it perfectly, then the election camp of Prince Antonio will surely start to creak from the inside.”

Enter Prince Antonio’s strictly locked election camp and find the list of the first year senior dinner meeting Vincent had hidden.

Putting it in a conspicuous place so that other members can easily find it, and then returning it without leaving a trace.

Lulu was the only person I knew who could do this.

“What if Prince Antonio was actually trying to exclude Delphina from the dinner party? If that’s the case, it’s going to be meaningless.”

“It can’t be. Prince Antonio is a meritocratic person, so he would never have thrown Delfina out just because she was a viscount daughter.”

“Well, if Conrad said so, then yes.”

As expected, Antonio’s election camp did not move as quickly as before after Lulu’s visit, but rather sluggishly.

Is it because of the conflict that the disagreement is not properly coordinated internally, or is it a little complacent thinking that it is okay as it is.

In any case, instead of trying to raise approval ratings any more, it seemed as if they were quietly waiting for election day to come, maintaining the status quo.

It wasn’t a bad operation.

Now that Prince Antonio’s victory is almost confirmed, there’s no need to scrape it to make a boil.

At this rate, Prince Antonio would be able to easily win the competition with Delfina, even if it wasn’t overwhelming.

If only it hadn’t been for my last resort in case things didn’t work out.