Classroom of the Elite: Houtarou Oreki

Unfortunately.

Once he discovered that Class D had students like Yamauchi—and not just one of them—

Just thinking about it made him want to give up.

How was anyone supposed to lead a class like that?

If he went there, he would probably have no choice but to drop out or save up 20 million points and escape.

Kamuro, who was beside him, also understood why Oreki was accumulating points.

But.

Which class would buy him?

No student in all these years had ever gathered 20 million points.

Did he really need to worry about that?

Still, his ability to make money was truly impressive.

Kamuro regretted things a little now.

If her habit had not been exposed yesterday afternoon and Sakayanagi Arisu had not discovered her weakness, she could have kept working with Oreki.

Did that mean she had missed a huge opportunity?

Because of that.

Even though the food on the table was deliciously prepared, Kamuro no longer found it appealing.

Oreki also checked the person who had transferred points to him.

Several possibly related people flashed through his mind.

From Manabu Horikita to Horikita Suzune.

But.

The sender was someone not on that list.

It was Kei Karuizawa.

After he had finished selling information in Class D, she had directly hugged him. It seemed she knew him unilaterally.

Oreki suspected she might be connected to his psychic ability.

But.

Karuizawa's affection for him was maxed out.

Because.

There was a message attached to her transfer.

[I only learned the school's rules this morning. Kushida and Hirata explained them during homeroom.]

[Then I thought, if you came to sell information, does that mean you're short on money?]

[I spent some yesterday, but I scraped together 80,000 points. If you need points, I've transferred them to you first.] — Kei Karuizawa

So those 80,000 points had come from her.

And she had scraped them together.

Knowing that Class D would have a difficult time, she had still given him nearly all her points.

It felt incredibly heavy.

After thinking it over briefly.

Oreki selected her number and prepared to enter 80,000... no, he changed the number to 30,000.

"Transfer 30,000 points to Kei Karuizawa?"

Yes!

Seeing the prompt on his phone, Oreki did not hesitate.

A normal student's basic living expenses after enrollment would definitely cost over 10,000 points at the start, since they had to live in the dorms.

And Kei Karuizawa had only learned the school rules this morning, so she had spent some points yesterday as well.

In other words.

She might have had fewer than 3,000 points left.

Yet she had given him all the rest.

That was too much to bear.

But returning everything would be a little too cold.

So after considering it.

Oreki returned 30,000 points.

He would return the remaining 50,000 in another way over the next week.

He was undertaking the massive task of gathering 20 million points, but he had not reached the point where he needed a girl to provide for him.

"Looks like you've decided to take the route of gathering 20 million points," Sakayanagi Arisu said. "That will make life at this school much harder."

"After all, it would be an unprecedented achievement in this school's history."

"An achievement?" Oreki said. "Indeed."

"And I thought of a proposal."

"If 20 million points can be used to buy a student, then could we also buy the Student Council President?"

"Or, once we gather 20 million points, could we directly transfer to the upper grades and ride along with Class 3-A, where the Student Council President is, when they graduate?"

"Oho—"

Sakayanagi lightly clapped her hands.

"I knew this school became more interesting because Oreki joined it."

"Aren't your ideas quite interesting?"

"Kamuro." Sakayanagi Arisu then looked at Masumi Kamuro.

??

But Kamuro seemed utterly confused as she looked back.

She appeared not to understand what was meant.

"She probably hasn't understood yet. I'll go ask about the feasibility of these proposals," Sakayanagi Arisu said with what seemed like a soft sigh. "I originally thought this school was rather boring."

"But Oreki, you've brought something interesting to this school."

Sakayanagi's expression suddenly became adorable.

But that made Oreki push his chair back ten centimeters.

Because.

Classmate Sakayanagi.

What terrifying thing were you thinking about?

Why couldn't you put that intelligence into class competition and maintaining Class A's position?

Oreki thought to himself.

After finishing lunch, he opened his phone and looked for the GPS function.

Every phone had GPS. It seemed that after adding someone as a friend, he could also confirm their location.

And there was only one person Oreki was looking for...

A top-tier beauty with long, straight black hair—Horikita Suzune.

The huge task of gathering 20 million points had to begin.

The Scapegoat, Horikita Suzune—You Seem to Have a Talent for This Kind of Thing!

Horikita was quite beautiful and carried an inherently dignified air.

But perhaps that dignified aura made people afraid to approach her.

The cafeteria was somewhat crowded, yet the area around her was completely empty.

How solitary, Horikita.

Also.

Her brother, Manabu Horikita, had transferred another 100,000 points to her, yet her current meal set cost only 600 points.

She was very frugal.

Easy to support.

From that perspective, Horikita also possessed an appealing quality.

However, Oreki did not think school was a place for dating or looking for a future wife, so he walked straight toward Horikita Suzune.

Horikita Suzune was someone who studied very seriously.

Although she had already gotten her meal, she did not start eating immediately.

Instead, she sat to one side and took out a vocabulary book, memorizing thirty words first.

"Do you remember me, Horikita?" Oreki walked up to her.

"You are... Houtarou Oreki." Of course Horikita Suzune could not have forgotten.

After all, the student before her was from Class A.

He had come to Class D the previous day to sell information, and she alone had paid 100,000 points.

Yesterday, he had also protected her from her brother.

Though she had been taught a deeply discouraging lesson.

The Oreki before her was a strong person who could even take points from her brother.

In her opinion, if there had not been some mistake in the class assignments, she should have been placed in Class A as well.

But her brother had denied that she was a seed candidate.

In other words, in her brother's eyes, she was weak.

As a result, Horikita Suzune's dignified bearing seemed to soften somewhat.

This drew the quiet attention of a short-haired blonde girl sitting not far away, one who looked like a little angel.

"That's me."

"It's time to fulfill your brother's request."

"I'll make my move after school today."

"We'll be in touch," Oreki informed her.

"Is that so..." Horikita Suzune had no objections. Her brother had already advanced 500,000 points to Oreki for this.

She also hoped to improve herself.

"Just asking, how is Class D doing today?" Oreki asked.

"Class D? If you mean during lessons, then according to Teacher Majima from your Class A, we've already lost 20 points today," Horikita Suzune said. "The school rules were explained this morning, but some students didn't believe them, while others simply couldn't control themselves."

"There were quite a few doing little things in class, like playing on their phones or reading manga."

"I see."

"Then you may have to assist me even more seriously," Oreki said.