Classroom of the Elite: Houtarou Oreki

Like the first time, the system's mission updated.

[Main Quest—20 Million Points Operation]

[Mission Requirement: Collect 20 million Points within three months]

[Mission Deadline: Three months]

[Mission Reward: Supernatural Physique (major physical transformation)]

[Current Progress: 193,500 Points / 20 million]

[Note: All Points earned by the host may be entrusted to Manabu Horikita, who is about to graduate from the third year, and can be absolutely guaranteed to be exchanged for cash.]

Oh.

So Manabu Horikita was quite reliable.

Give him the Points, and he could exchange them for cash.

Thinking about it, that made sense.

Students earned Points through various exams at school, and by their third year, there would definitely be people who had accumulated some.

Then—

The school generously exchanged those Points for money.

This directly ensured the students' stability.

Even if students from Classes B, C, and D were sent off to graduate at other schools, the money would keep their mouths shut.

Thinking about it... earning Points at school, then cashing them out to spend in the outside world—wasn't that great?

And his academic ability was not bad. Based on his written-test skills, even if he could not graduate from Class A at this school, he could still get into whatever university he wanted through exams.

At the same time—

He could get 20 million in cash.

That was indeed a pretty good plan.

After graduating from college, he could still lie flat for another ten years without working.

That was very appealing to Oreki.

After all, who wouldn't want to stay home and rest instead of working after college graduation?

So, collect Points.

Thus, Oreki took out his phone.

Click, click, click—

Before Manabu Horikita could react, Oreki snapped eighteen photos of Manabu Horikita and Horikita Suzune in rapid succession.

Click!

The flash went off on Manabu Horikita.

That was a specialty of Japanese phones: the flash always went off when taking pictures, and there was also a shutter sound.

Manabu Horikita abruptly turned around. He seemed to have charged straight at Oreki.

But Oreki's body appeared more than ten meters away in less than a second.

Manabu Horikita could not catch him at all.

"..." Manabu Horikita.

Manabu Horikita seemed stunned for a moment.

Oreki kept a distance of ten meters from Manabu Horikita.

And that distance was already enough to operate a phone, such as sending the photos to someone else or uploading them to a group share.

In the end—

"...Come over here," Manabu Horikita said. "We won't resolve this with violence. I'll use Points to buy the photos from you."

Manabu Horikita: My Foolish Little Sister! I Spent 2.2 Million on You in Ten Minutes

With the Student Council President, who had revealed information, backing down, Oreki returned to the vending machines.

"Oreki from Class A..."

Only then did Horikita Suzune realize who had taken those pictures.

And she also realized the danger.

Her brother had just made it look as though he was going to hit her, but he had not.

However, once those photos were taken, they would only give her brother a negative image.

And her brother was still the Student Council President. Such a negative image was terrible.

"You know him?" Manabu Horikita looked at his sister.

"Yes. He came to our class this morning to sell information. There were thirty-three students in the class at the time, but in the end, only eleven chose to stay and hear the rules."

"But Oreki demanded a minimum of 200,000 Points. Among the remaining eleven students, each person only contributed 10,000 Points, which did not meet his requirement.

"So I made up the missing 90,000," Horikita Suzune said. "That was also how I learned this school's rules."

"..."

"..." Manabu Horikita.

Right.

The reason Manabu Horikita had come to see his sister was because he noticed that the Points in her account had... been completely cleared out.

Yes.

It had become zero.

That made him feel something was strange.

He had thought there might be a problem with the school's system.

So this was what had happened.

Indeed.

If it was the first day of school and she had already obtained the school rules, that was an incredible accomplishment.

But she had made up 90,000 Points by herself, which meant she now had zero Points.

How was she supposed to survive at this school?

By using the free meals and free daily necessities provided?

Indeed.

If someone had no Points, the school would provide relief.

But accepting all that was not excellence.

The correct approach would have been to unite the other ten students who had been willing to stay, negotiate the price down, or split the cost among them.

But now—

My foolish little sister.

You have zero Points, yet you still want to remain at this school. What exactly are you hoping for?

Or perhaps, after learning the school's rules, you had specifically sought him out.

Was it to prove that you were not useless?

And this proof was spending all your Points, yet still feeling proud of it?

"..." Manabu Horikita felt utterly defeated.

At the same time, he understood why Suzune considered herself a seed candidate.

After seeing that only eleven of thirty-three students had ultimately been willing to pay to hear the rules—

There were plenty of unreliable students in Class D.

So his sister believed she was surely different from those unreliable students.

Then she believed she was a seed candidate.

Indeed.

The notion that she was a seed candidate could not be entirely denied, but Class D could not possibly have such people.

It only had problem students.

Then—

Perhaps only after most of Class D's students had been expelled, leaving just a dozen or so behind, would they have a chance to stand shoulder to shoulder with the other classes.

And such an opportunity was difficult to come by.

Because even if a bunch of pig teammates were truly expelled, the obedient ones left behind would still be problem students. Were problem students really that easy to tame?

At the same time—

Due to the lack of numbers, they would only be at a disadvantage in exams and assessments requiring a certain number of people, or they would have to forfeit them.

Then they would lose Points for nothing.

So Class D was still not a class that could climb upward.

Manabu Horikita was the greatest Student Council President in history. In this short period of time, his mind had already gone through all of that.

Manabu Horikita checked Oreki's phone.

Then he clearly discovered that Oreki had placed the photo that seemed to show him hitting someone into a newly created group share.

And someone inside had already downloaded it once.

In other words, he had been caught by the handle.

Unless they reconciled and negotiated, there was no other choice.

"1 million Points. Resolve the matter of the photos," Manabu Horikita said decisively.

"No problem." Oreki nodded. "But you transfer the money first."

"..." Manabu Horikita.

"Your account has received 1 million Private Points."

"Current total: approximately 1.1935 million."

A notification appeared on Oreki's phone, and the sender was Student Council President Manabu Horikita. There was no falsity to it.

"Suzune—"

Horikita's Brother looked at his sister. "If you want to survive at this school, you must learn how to make deals, and you must understand that Points are supreme."

In other words, the reason he had transferred the Points so quickly was actually to teach his sister an expensive lesson.

And the lesson was that one careless action could be seized upon by someone else, forcing you to pay 1 million Points.

Looking at it that way, the reason Horikita's Brother appeared so harsh toward his sister was actually because he hoped she would retreat in the face of difficulty.

He believed this school was not suitable for his sister.

Just as Oreki was thinking this, Manabu Horikita suddenly moved.

A fist came at him in a surprise attack.

The punch tore through the air with a sharp whistle.

Manabu Horikita was fast.

But—

Oreki was now ten meters away.

"..." Manabu Horikita.