Classroom of the Elite: Houtarou Oreki Chapter 11

Especially Ichinose, who was like a little angel and could hold the class tightly together.

Hoshinomiya Chie walked to Chabashira's left, wearing a cute expression.

"Sazae, when the Chairman just said that Class A's students had learned the exam rules on their first day and received an exemption, your expression changed a little."

"Before coming to hear the Chairman's announcement, I checked the camera footage from your class."

"A Class A student went to your class to sell information."

"So it's such a pity. Your Class D students also learned the school's rules. Otherwise, they could have received an exemption too. Maybe they would have shot straight up to Class B." Hoshinomiya Chie said it as if she were joking.

But Chabashira knew that her friend had probably been nervous just now.

Was she worried about being overtaken by the Class D she was in charge of?

Indeed.

If the Chairman had also granted Class D an exemption, Class A's score would have remained far above the rest, impossible to catch up to.

But—

Class D had encountered a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.

Because Oreki from Class A had come to Class D to sell information.

So Class D had also learned the school's rules on their first day of enrollment.

Then, according to the Student Council Board's reward, they could receive an exemption and skip this Behavioral Standards Exam.

And then—

Although points had been deducted today, if they were exempt for the following month, their score would definitely exceed 900 points after one month.

But as for Class C and Class B, setting aside when they would realize the true nature of this school and begin the Behavioral Standards Exam—

Based on past experience, their class evaluation points would definitely lose more than 300 points over the course of a month.

Therefore, if Class D received an exemption and stopped losing points, then... they would have nearly seized the chance to soar.

But—

They did not.

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But the Student Council Board changed the reward again.

Class A's reward became an additional 200 class evaluation points.

As for Class D...

Well.

The school had presumably also seen through the cameras that Class D had obtained the school's rules, but it did not place its attention on Class D.

And she understood the reason why.

"Chie, there's no point in being wary of me," Chabashira said. "And I don't actually have any hopes for this year's students."

That was right.

She had no hopes.

Because—

Oreki Houtarou from Class A had come to Class D's classroom to sell information.

For Class D, it had been a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.

An opportunity to close the gap.

An opportunity to climb up and touch Class B's ass.

But—

There were thirty-three students in Class 1-D.

Each student only needed to pay 10,000 Points to obtain the school's rules.

In the end, only eleven students were willing to spend the money and stay to hear the rules.

The result was obvious.

Even if they had gotten the rules and turned a closed-book exam into an open-book exam, would there really be only eleven people—or even fewer—who could pass the Behavioral Standards Exam?

So—

Out of forty students, at least twenty-nine were deadweight or worthless teammates.

Could they really charge upward?

So—

The Chairman had merely glanced their way before looking away.

He had not even mentioned that Class D also knew the exam rules.

Because—

There was no need to expect anything. They only had to wait and see. Even if they knew the rules, after one month, Class D might deduct away all of its remaining 900-plus class evaluation points by itself.

So—

It was disappointing.

Granted, her class was somewhat different from previous Class Ds, with rather more problem students.

But with so many useless teammates...

Could her long-cherished wish truly still be realized?

She had nearly become excited, only to be knocked painfully back down.

Not to mention that this year's Class A was outstanding.

And what were those outstanding Class A students doing?

Take Oreki, for example.

He had slept deeply for the entire afternoon.

Still lying in bed with sleepy eyes, he saw a little orange cat curled up on his blanket, weighing less than ten pounds.

It was his cat.

Its name was Hayate.

Previously, since he had expected to board at school, he had entrusted the cat to a close friend. But now that he could travel back and forth between school and home, there was no need to leave the cat behind.

So he had brought the cat back.

As a result, he had slept away the whole afternoon.

His own bed really was more comfortable.

High School of Advanced Education was a closed school, requiring students to remain on campus for three years.

And—

Oreki had discovered that at school, he could not access anything beyond the school intranet, such as its forums and message boards.

He could not even call family members outside the school.

In other words, the school restricted the network and blocked signals from outside the campus.

"..." Oreki.

But if that was the case, did that not mean people at school would also be unable to contact him when he was outside the campus?

That seemed rather troublesome.

Oh.

Oreki remembered.

He had also asked Masumi Kamuro to investigate the places on campus without surveillance cameras.

So he felt he should return to school.

And—

He opened the refrigerator at home.

Since he had been told that he would be boarding at school, he had emptied the refrigerator from the very beginning.

It was still completely empty.

There was only half a lemon inside to remove odors.

Oreki could now turn his fully boarded, closed-campus life into one where he could freely commute.

So he needed to replenish his daily necessities.

Although his parents regularly sent living expenses to the house, since the school had issued Points, there was no reason not to use them.

Besides, his account already held a full 250,000 Points, equivalent to 250,000 yen.

His parents had not even given him that much.

So Oreki planned to make a free haul at High School of Advanced Education's Shopping District.

[Would you like to use Teleportation now?]

"Yes!"

[Beep! You have 2 Teleportation uses remaining for today. The daily allowance resets at midnight.]

Oh.

Oreki nodded, and the scene before his eyes had already changed.

His gaze fell upon the twelve-square-meter Little Sparrow Apartments.

The fluorescent light was not on either.

This was his room in Room 303.

He was back at High School of Advanced Education.

There were also two new messages on his phone.

[I spent the afternoon investigating. The teaching buildings, Shopping District, and basically all other school facilities have surveillance cameras. There are only five places without them.]

Then she sent detailed markings.

1. The first floor of the Special Building, where various experimental materials were stored, had no surveillance cameras.

2. The stairwells of every teaching building had no surveillance cameras.

3. There were many surveillance cameras around the Shopping District, but inside the shops, apart from electronics stores and a few other stores with valuable goods, there were basically no surveillance cameras.

4. There were no surveillance cameras by the railings near the edge of the Artificial Island. She had also found the environment there pleasant and quiet, with hardly anyone going there.

5. There were no surveillance cameras near the vending machines by the Student Dormitory.

Oh.

Kamuro, you worked so hard. You spent the entire afternoon investigating.

After thinking for a moment, Oreki opened the transfer page on his phone.

A message popped up.

"Transfer 50,000 Points to Masumi Kamuro?"

Yes!

Oreki selected Masumi Kamuro's number.