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Chapter 14: Monstrous Insight
[At that moment, waves stirred in Hikigaya's heart, and of course…]
[The Service Club was also thrown into an uproar.]
[Isshiki Iroha: "Senpai, quite the ladies' man, huh?"]
[Hikigaya: "Are you stupid? She's obviously playing me."]
[Yuigahama: "Hikki, really?"]
[Yukinoshita Yukino: "Since you've never held a girl's hand in your life, blushing and a racing heart are normal, right?"]
[Hikigaya: "Hey, Yukinoshita, can you not smile while stabbing me with words? Also, I have held a girl's hand before. When I was little, I held Komachi's hand all the time. I don't know why, but when she grew up, she stopped letting her onii-chan hold her hand. I was sad for a while, but I understand."]
[Miura Yumiko: "A sister complex, so scary."]
[Isshiki Iroha: "Poor senpai, doesn't even know he has been rejected by his own sister."]
[Hikigaya: "Rejected? What rejection? That's impossible!"]
[Yukinoshita Yukino: "Alright, alright, Hikigaya, if you keep spouting weird stuff, people will think you're a pervert."]
[Hikigaya fell silent once again.]
"Can you help me?"
"Well… I don't know how to help you."
"It… won't work?"
"I've never had friends since I was a kid, and I don't plan on making any. Even if I did, I wouldn't know what to talk about. So… you coming to me was a mistake."
The boy let go of the girl's hands, leaving her behind as he walked away, leaving Kushida Kikyo stunned in place.
[Ike: "This guy, he actually rejected Kushida!"]
[Yamauchi: "No way, that's impossible!"]
[The class looked at the boy in the video in disbelief. To them, Kushida was like an angel, and rejecting her request was sheer madness. At that moment, Kushida herself, like in the video, was completely stunned.]
After some time, a cold smile finally crept onto Kushida Kikyo's face.
The harder something was to obtain, the more she'd use every means to get it.
After lunch break, all the students returned to class.
Though it was called class, hardly anyone was actually listening.
Playing games, sleeping, chatting, reading manga, using phones—everyone was doing their own thing. Chabashira-sensei completely ignored the students' behavior, whether they left early, arrived late, or skipped class altogether. It made one seriously wonder.
Was this really a public school?
The 100,000 points, the class leaders of A, B, C, and D, the free daily necessities, the ubiquitous cameras, and the inability to contact the outside world all seemed to point to something off about this school.
If, as Chabashira-sensei said, everything here is evaluated through the S-Point evaluation system, with 100,000 points as the base amount, then…
Something terrifying seemed to dawn on Hikigaya's mind. He had been ignoring a crucial, pivotal point all along…
'Who said the base points couldn't be deducted? If someone violates school rules, their points might be reduced.'
'Though I can't be certain, with cameras everywhere, Sudo's kicking of the trash can was probably recorded.'
'…And the current classroom atmosphere—Chabashira-sensei doesn't care at all. Could it be… she doesn't need to care? If every violation of classroom discipline, like Sudo's trash can incident, results in deducted points, wouldn't they be treated the same?'
As Hikigaya thought this, everything began to connect like a thread. The leaders and strict discipline in other classes were likely to maintain class points.
And if individual actions affected the class… could it mean that every student who slacks off in class reduces the class's base points correspondingly?
The more Hikigaya thought about it, the more he realized how terrifying this school was.
Though the school's rules were never explicitly stated, every detail seemed to hint at them.
'Suppose each instance of slacking off deducts 100 points. With 25 students in a class, if one person violates discipline 10 times, that's 2,500 points deducted. Over a month… that would easily turn into a negative balance. Forget rewards—no one could afford games or even basic living. That explains the purpose of free supplies, doesn't it?'
'The so-called 100,000 points are just a facade, gradually decreasing over time. But thinking about it, even a public school couldn't sustain such resources.'
'As for the entertainment facilities, they're obviously for the rich—tools for the upper class to enjoy.'
No wonder each class had a leader.
The boy pieced together all the known information, forming his own intelligence network. In just a week at the school, he finally figured out what this place was hiding.
'The so-called A, B, C, D classes seem randomly assigned, but they're not…'
'All comprehensive abilities were allocated before school started, which explains why Classes A, B, and C don't face Class D's situation.'
'It also explains why someone like me could get into this school.'
[The boy's inner thoughts undoubtedly reached the ears of every viewer watching the video.]
[Ichinose: "How is this possible… To figure out the school's hidden rules in just a week through observation alone?"]
[Kanzaki Ryūji, equally incredulous, added: "What's even more terrifying is that someone like this is in Class D. How is that possible? Even if it's a video, this can't be a joke."]
[To them, this video was a special exam from the school, but they still couldn't believe a Class D student could analyze the school's hidden rules so quickly.]
[Horikita Manabu: "Truly… one can't help but admire him. This extraordinary insight and observation ability are enough to call him a monster."]
( End of this chapter)