Chapter 97: Shimizu Yuto, Sakura Airi, Koenji Rokusuke!
"Make Class D become Class A... What does that mean?!"
The students of Class D looked at one another. They could not understand Yuto's words.
Yuto looked at the cold homeroom teacher standing with her arms crossed.
"Chabashira-sensei, I once heard from outside that class order is related to class points."
"If Class D has 500 class points, we become Class C, while Class C, with 430 class points, becomes Class D."
"That's right," Chabashira Sae admitted cleanly.
"The four classes' class points do not only affect monthly personal points. They also directly reflect the class order."
"If you don't want to be looked down on as garbage, then climb upward with everything you have."
"Make your class points surpass Class C, Class B, and Class A. In the end, become Class A!"
Although Chabashira's tone was cold, it carried a certain tempting force.
The students of Class D felt their blood heat up as they listened, as if they had already seen their future as Class A.
"I'll add one more thing."
Chabashira chose this moment to reveal the cruelest fact.
"As everyone knows, this school advertises a one hundred percent advancement and employment rate."
"The reason you chose this school was because of that promise, right?"
"That's right!"
"I heard that as long as you graduate from this school, you can easily enter places that are normally hard to get into!"
"Right, right! I also heard you can even be recommended to Japan's top-level Tokyo University!"
Sakura Airi, who was quietly reducing her presence out of habit, blinked.
She had not chosen this school because of that.
She had chosen it because Yuto planned to attend this school, so Airi had come with him.
It was not for the one hundred percent advancement rate, nor for the one hundred percent employment rate.
"The one hundred percent advancement and employment rate does exist."
Chabashira showed a cold, demon-like smile. "But let me tell you a cruel fact."
"Only students who graduate from Class A can receive the preferential treatment this school advertises."
"As for the other classes—Class B, Class C, and Class D—don't even dream about it."
Chabashira's words swept through Class D like a cold wind.
The students were all stunned.
Except for Yuto and Airi.
Yuto was yawning.
Airi was watching Yuto yawn.
The cruel information Chabashira had just revealed was even harder for them to accept than Class D being the bad class.
"How could this be... I've never heard of that! Is this school committing false advertising?!"
"There is no false advertising."
"Students who graduate from Class A do indeed have a one hundred percent employment and advancement rate," Chabashira answered.
"Or do you think students who are late and leave early every day are qualified to receive such treatment from this school? Wake up."
Ike Kanji and the other poor students, who had grown used to being late and leaving early, showed ashamed and embarrassed expressions.
They had all held the fantasy that "as long as I graduate from this school, I can go wherever I want."
That was why they had lived so recklessly on campus.
Yet now they realized this school was extremely cruel.
Not only would they be expelled if they failed exams, only students who graduated from Class A had the one hundred percent employment and advancement rate.
Too cruel!
Too hateful!
"I see. I see."
Koenji Rokusuke had both feet on his desk and was filing his nails with a nail clipper.
With interest, he said, "I used to think this school was foolish for giving preferential treatment to so many students."
"Unexpectedly, only those who graduate from Class A receive that treatment."
Aside from Yuto and Airi, Koenji was probably the person who cared the least about whether Class D was the bad class, or whether only Class A graduates received special treatment.
Because Koenji was the child of the Koenji Conglomerate.
One day, he would inherit the Koenji Conglomerate.
So he could basically say he did not care about this school's preferential treatment at all.
[Shimizu Yuto] Someone confident in himself.
[Sakura Airi] Someone who already had a goal.
[Koenji Rokusuke] Someone whose future was guaranteed.
These three did not care about the school's preferential treatment at all, so they would not be affected by the school's rules and conditions.
Chabashira looked at the pale-faced Class D students below.
"It seems you've realized the cruelty of this school and how dangerous your position is."
"Then I'll remind you here. There are three weeks left until the midterm exam."
"Think carefully, and avoid expulsion."
The students who had scored below thirty-two on the quiz showed faint despair.
They had spent almost all of last month doing whatever they wanted. They had not studied at all.
With only three weeks left until the midterm, how were they supposed to raise their scores?
And the midterm did not test only one subject.
It covered Japanese, math, chemistry, social studies, and English.
Five subjects in total!
"I believe you will find a way to avoid failing and survive the exam. So do your best," Chabashira rarely offered encouragement.
However, the students of Class D only treated those words as pity and comfort from their homeroom teacher.
But...
Those words hid an incredible piece of information.
Chabashira's wording was, "You will find a way to avoid failing."
It was not, "You have the ability to avoid failing."
Therefore, Chabashira's hidden meaning was...
In this school, there was a certain method to avoid failing and survive exams without needing to study!
Chabashira-sensei sat on the chair behind the podium, and hidden from view, she crossed her alluring legs clad in black stockings.
"The regular homeroom ends here. Begin self-study."
"Anyway, your class points are already zero, so even if you talk freely, it won't be a problem."
Chabashira's words were teasing and mocking.
However, her purpose in saying that was to let the Class D students discuss freely, then use the chance to see what they would talk about.
Unfortunately, Chabashira was destined to be disappointed.
After looking at one another, the students of Class D maintained a deathly silence.
They showed no intention of whispering during class.
Chabashira clicked her tongue inwardly.
If you people had been this obedient last month, would your class points have been completely deducted?
Then Chabashira continued, "In fact, the monthly regular homeroom is free conversation time between the homeroom teacher and the students."
"No matter what you do during it, class points will not be affected."
After hearing that, the Class D students finally began whispering.
Most of what they discussed was their despair and helplessness over their current situation, as well as dissatisfaction and complaints toward poor students like Ike.
Seeing everyone start whispering, Kei's courage grew.
She wrote something with a ballpoint pen, then passed the note to Yuto in the seat behind her.
This time, Yuto did not press Kei's note under a textbook.
He read it directly.
[Yuto, why did you give me a note and ask me to question Chabashira-sensei?]
Yuto casually wrote a line, then handed the note back to Kei in front.
[Nothing special. I just wanted to help you raise your prestige in class. If you have prestige, people won't dare bully you, right?]
Kei looked at the words Yuto had written on the note.
She blinked her lively eyes, which had grown faintly misty.
Warmth and joy quietly rose in her heart.
That warmth spread from her head to her toes, warming Kei's entire body.
At that moment, just because of Yuto's words, Kei felt the happiness of being cherished and protected.
If it were not class time, Kei would definitely have thrown herself into Yuto's arms.
Moved, Kei carefully folded the note.
She wanted to hide this note and show it to her and Yuto's children in the future.
She would tell their children that this was a love letter their father wrote to their mother!
Yuto had no idea Kei was already planning to categorize that note as a love letter.
He had only asked Kei to stand and question Chabashira to raise her prestige in Class D.
After all, Yuto was already famous and had become Class D's uncrowned king.
He did not need to increase his prestige to lead Class D well, so he let Kei speak instead.
Horikita Suzune, who had been sitting silently, suddenly froze.
She stared blankly at the note that had been tossed onto her desk.
Then Suzune glared fiercely at the smiling Yuto with her charming fox-like eyes.
Why was this guy passing her a note?
If anyone else had thrown her a note, Suzune would have ignored it directly.
But the person who had thrown the note was Yuto...
Suzune withdrew her glare from Yuto.
She pursed her thin lips, then gently unfolded the note he had tossed over.
[Horikita, is there anything else you want to know about class points now?]
Suzune was silent for a while.
This guy Shimizu had thrown her a note at a time like this just to ask about that?
As for class points, Chabashira had already explained them clearly.
Even if Chabashira had not explained how to increase class points, Kikyo would ask upperclassmen about it later.
So regarding class points, Suzune truly had no questions left.
However, Suzune now had another question.
She picked up the fountain pen she had bought and wrote her neat, delicate words on Yuto's note.
After writing a paragraph, Suzune extended her slightly trembling arm and quickly tossed the note onto Yuto's desk.
'Speaking of which, this is my first time passing notes with someone during class...'
Thinking that, Suzune silently looked at her fingers.
She had actually learned bad habits...
No, that was wrong!
It was that guy Shimizu who had corrupted her!
After pushing the blame onto Yuto, Suzune's guilt over passing notes during class faded considerably.
[I no longer have any questions about class points. However, I now want to know whether you already knew about class points at the start of school.]
[Yes.]
[Then how did you learn so much information about class points when everyone else kept their mouths shut?]
[I spent 150,000 points and bought it from Chabashira-sensei.]
Seeing Yuto's reply, Suzune's pretty face showed a slight daze.
[You actually spent that many points to buy it? Or should I be surprised that points can buy that kind of information?]
[On the first day of school, didn't Chabashira-sensei tell us? Points in this school can buy anything within the school.]
[So information about this school can also be purchased with points.]
Looking at Yuto's reply, Suzune began recalling the first day of school.
Then...
Had Chabashira-sensei said something like that?
A month had already passed.
And at the time, Suzune had not seriously memorized every word Chabashira said, so she did not remember clearly.
However, Suzune felt Yuto was not lying to her.
It seemed points really could buy anything in this school.
Suzune also clearly remembered that when her brother Horikita Manabu faced Yuto's threat of expulsion before, Manabu had planned to gather twenty million points to remove her expulsion crisis.
Huh?
Why was this tsundere snow fox glaring at him again?
Yuto looked in confusion at Suzune, who had inexplicably glared at him once more.
Suzune withdrew her sharp gaze from Yuto.
She planned to continue passing notes with him, but unexpectedly discovered that the note had no space left to write.
Suzune could only open her notebook.
Just as she was about to tear out a sheet of paper, she paused.
Then she glanced at the notebook on Yuto's desk.
After thinking for a moment, Suzune leaned toward Yuto with an unchanged expression.
She took his notebook from his desk and tore a sheet of paper from it.
"..."
Yuto looked at Suzune's behavior, unsure whether to laugh or cry.
No way.
Horikita Suzune, you can't even bear to tear one sheet from your own notebook?
That was not the reason.
Suzune only felt that tearing paper from Yuto's notebook could count as a small act of revenge.
Who told Yuto to bully her brother before?
But to be honest, after tearing out a sheet from Yuto's notebook, Suzune really did feel a little more comfortable.
With her eyebrows slightly raised, Suzune wrote her words on the sheet of paper.
Then she naturally tossed the note to Yuto.
At first, Suzune had felt guilty about passing notes.
But now, she seemed to have grown used to it.
Passing notes with Yuto no longer made Suzune feel guilty at all.
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