Chapter 95: Yuto Steps Down, Chabashira Takes the Stage!
Yuto watched Kikyo's lively figure with an appreciative gaze.
Although he knew Kushida Kikyo was a little angel wearing a mask, her social network was unmatched. In many situations, it could be extremely useful.
Just now, for example, Kikyo had easily found out how many points the other classes had received from the school.
Most importantly, Kikyo listened to Yuto's instructions. She was a rare and useful helper for him as he took control of Class D.
Kei tugged at Yuto's hand and said sourly, "Why are you always asking Kushida for help? I can help you calm everyone down too."
"Then, Kei, can I ask you to help calm everyone down?" Yuto asked with a smile.
"Of course~ Watch me!"
Kei gave Yuto a bright smile, then quickly left the podium. She went to Shinohara Satsuki, Mori Nene, and her other friends, asking them to quiet down.
With Kikyo, Kei, and Hirata Yosuke persuading everyone, the Class D students gradually returned to their seats.
They finally stopped shouting accusations at Ike's group.
Outside the classroom, Chabashira Sae saw that things were almost settled. Her black-stockinged legs, encased in a professional OL suit, moved with a captivating grace.
She came to Yuto's side and praised him in a low voice. "You did well."
"After all, I already promised Sae-chan that I'd lead Class D," Yuto said with a smile.
Chabashira rolled her eyes at the brat who had called her Sae-chan again.
"All right, Shimizu. Return to your seat. It's time for homeroom."
"Mm."
Yuto left the podium and walked back to his seat.
On the way, he glanced at Ike's group.
They were huddled in their seats, trembling. The only one with some nerve, Sudo Ken, looked restless, like a beast forced into a corner.
That was only natural.
Since childhood, when had they ever been angrily blamed by so many people?
Just now, the four of them had been cursed and accused by the entire Class D. Of course they were nearly scared half to death.
Yuto felt no pity for Ike's group at all.
Instead, he wanted to give them two words.
'Serves you right.'
Chabashira placed the rolled papers in her hands on the podium.
With a cold expression, she looked around Class D and took in the ugly faces of every student.
'Looks like receiving no points has made their emotions fall apart a little.'
Chabashira silently thought that.
She was happy to see this situation.
Only students who had fallen all the way into hell would desire class points more, need them more, and cherish them more.
"Quiet. We're starting the monthly homeroom now."
Looking coldly down at the Class D students, Chabashira said calmly, "Before homeroom begins, do any of you have questions?"
"If there's anything you care about, raise your hand and ask now."
As soon as Chabashira finished speaking, Horikita Suzune, Hirata Yosuke, Kushida Kikyo, and Yukimura Teruhiko all raised their hands.
Chabashira looked over the students with raised hands.
In the end, her gaze stopped on Suzune, the student who was excellent in every area but had no talent for socializing.
"Horikita, you ask first."
Suzune stood up with a dignified air.
Her presence was somewhat similar to Chabashira's as she said, "Chabashira-sensei, you were standing outside the classroom just now. I assume you heard our conversation."
"That's right. And?"
"Then I want to confirm something. Did Class D truly receive no points this month?"
"Or were the points delayed? Did the school forget to deposit them?"
Although Yuto had explained it clearly from the podium, what he said was only speculation. There was no firm proof.
Chabashira was different.
She was Class D's homeroom teacher and a member of the school staff. Her answer carried the most authority.
The Class D students all looked at Chabashira with expectant eyes.
They wanted to hear that Class D's points had been delayed for some reason, or that the school had simply forgotten to deposit them.
However, Chabashira's lips curved slightly.
With a cruel smile, she revealed the harsh truth Class D found hard to accept.
"No."
"As I said on the first day of last month, every student's points are automatically deposited on the first day of each month."
"So without a doubt, your points have already been properly deposited by the school."
Since the points had already been deposited, that meant the personal points the students of Class D received this month were—
Zero!
After receiving a definite answer from Chabashira, the Class D students gritted their teeth.
They angrily looked toward Ike's group in the corner.
Ike and the others shrank back, avoiding everyone's furious gazes.
At the same time, they muttered resentfully in their hearts.
'We weren't the only ones who broke discipline. Other people did too, right?'
'Why are we the only ones being treated as the main culprits?'
That was not exactly wrong.
The students of Class D had all broken discipline to some degree, but Ike's group had done it the most openly and recklessly.
So naturally, the students of Class D placed this black pot firmly on their heads.
"Horikita, do you have any other questions?" Chabashira asked coldly.
"Yes. Chabashira-sensei, I want to know the exact reason our class did not receive points," Suzune quickly said.
"In fact, it isn't that your monthly personal points don't exist. It would be more accurate to say they were completely deducted."
"Completely deducted? What does that mean? Is it related to breaking discipline?"
"That's right."
Chabashira said calmly, "Class points. That is the system the school uses to calculate how many personal points each class receives every month."
"Each class point is multiplied by one hundred. The resulting number is the amount of personal points each student in that class receives for the month."
"And Class D's class points have already been deducted down to—zero."
Chabashira picked up the chalk and turned around.
Behind the line [Class D students received—] written on the blackboard, she drew a round circle.
Zero!
"Zero. That is Class D's current class points."
"Even elementary school students know that whether zero is multiplied by one hundred or one thousand, the result is still zero."
Suzune instantly frowned.
Through Chabashira's explanation, she could reverse-calculate the other classes' class points.
Class A students received 96,000 points. Divided by 100, that meant 960 class points.
Class B students received 87,000 points. Divided by 100, that meant 870 class points.
Class C students received 43,000 points. Divided by 100, that meant 430 class points.
Chabashira showed a mocking smile toward the pale-faced Class D students.
"Last month, your class was late or absent a total of seventy-four times."
"You privately chatted or used phones during class two hundred eighty-five times."
"There were also other actions that deducted class points, but I won't list them one by one."
"I have to say, you people are truly impressive."
"This is the first time I've seen a class lose all of its class points in the very first month."
"Even Shimizu had already reminded you so clearly to follow discipline."
"If you had listened and followed discipline, your class points would not have fallen to zero, would they?"
Shame and unease appeared on the faces of the Class D students.
That was right.
On the second day after school started, Shimizu Yuto had already stood on the podium and clearly told everyone that the school could not possibly deposit one hundred thousand points every month.
He had told them to follow discipline.
If they had followed discipline, their class points would not have been deducted down to zero.
Unfortunately, the students of Class D had not cared much about Yuto's warning. Almost all of them had forgotten it immediately.
By contrast, Classes B and A had only heard rumors about Yuto's warning to Class D.
Yet they had begun strictly following discipline, so those two classes retained 870 and 960 class points.
"Chabashira-sensei, why didn't you tell us about something as important as class points?!"
"If we had known in advance, we wouldn't have..."
Chabashira did not look at the complaining student.
She said coldly, "Simple. The school does not allow any information related to the S System to be revealed during the first month after freshmen enroll."
"So that's why the upperclassmen refused to say anything when I contacted them before!" Kikyo suddenly realized.
The students of Class D also remembered how vague and evasive those three seniors had been last month.
In other words, the students of Class D could not blame Chabashira for not warning them.
They could only blame the school for forbidding the information from being revealed.
But what was there to blame?
What right did students have to blame the school?
Following discipline and studying properly—was that not a student's basic duty?
If they could not even follow discipline, did they have the right to call themselves students?
Chabashira unrolled one of the papers and posted it on the blackboard.
She casually said, "At the beginning of enrollment, all four first-year classes had one thousand class points."
"Now that one month has passed, each class's class points are..."
Class A — 960 class points.
Class B — 870 class points.
Class C — 430 class points.
Class D — 0 class points.
The students of Class D looked at the huge gap between their class and the others.
They all went numb.
At that moment, Kei, who had been watching Chabashira, suddenly looked to her left.
Yuto was holding a slip of paper between two fingers.
'What?!'
'Yuto is passing me a note!'
Joy and excitement instantly rose in Kei's heart.
First, she rubbed her smooth cheek against Yuto's hand. Then she took the note from between his fingers.
As Yuto's seatmate, Suzune saw him pass a note to Kei.
She glared at him with her charming fox-like eyes and lowered her voice.
"Shimizu, you're violating discipline."
"What does it matter? Our class doesn't have any class points left to deduct anyway," Yuto answered with a smile.
"..."
Suzune's mouth twitched.
She actually had no way to refute that.
Kei, feeling happy and sweet, looked at Yuto's note.
Then she raised her hand without hesitation.
"Chabashira-sensei, may I ask a question?"
"You may."
"Now that our class points are already zero, does that mean the school will keep refusing to deposit points for us?"
"Let me correct you."
Chabashira said coldly, "It is not that the school will keep refusing to deposit points."
"Rather, the points deposited are your class points multiplied by one hundred."
Not depositing points and depositing points according to class points were fundamentally different.
"But sensei... I already used up all my points," Yamauchi Haruki said weakly.
"Don't worry."
Chabashira revealed a cold, cruel smile.
"The dorm rooms at this school are free. The student cafeteria also has free food, and the mall has free daily necessities."
"Even if you don't have a single point, you can still live at this school."
"No, anything but that! I'd rather die!"
A student who had tried the free mountain vegetable set out of curiosity let out a wail.
"I tried the free mountain vegetable set before! That thing is basically boiled wild vegetables!"
The expressions of many Class D students changed slightly, because they did not have many points left.
"Chabashira-sensei, high school lasts three years."
"No matter how much we save, our remaining points will run out one day, right?"
Kei asked according to the contents of Yuto's note.
"If they run out, they run out."
"Didn't I already say the school has free meals and daily necessities? You'll survive somehow," Chabashira answered coldly.
Kei and Chabashira's exchange instantly made the Class D students realize the desperate situation they had ignored.
That was right!
Even if their student IDs still had some points saved, they would be studying at this school for three years.
If zero points kept being deposited, then their remaining points would run out one day.
In the future, all three meals a day would become those boiled-wild-vegetable-like mountain vegetable sets!
Thinking of that, the Class D students' faces turned pale.
They began feeling as if they had stepped into hell.
Yuto observed the Class D students and slightly curved his lips.
'Good. Kei's question has made them realize the importance of points.'
Kei glanced at Yuto's note, then continued questioning the cold Chabashira forcefully.
"Chabashira-sensei, since class points can be deducted, there should also be ways to increase them, right?"
"I don't believe class points will stay the same forever after being deducted!"
Kei's words ignited hope and joy in the Class D students.
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