Houtarou Oreki's Classroom of the Elite

After all.

Ryuen is currently using violent methods to force people to submit to him.

And most people are unhappy about it.

After all, the students who end up in Class C are, in some respects... a gathering of somewhat similar types.

And these similar types are akin to delinquents, or poor students, or those with some sort of flaw.

And these people are the ones who dislike being disciplined the most.

So Ishizaki and the others, who were delinquents in the past, feel they cannot tolerate it; even if Albert Yamada is about to be subdued by Ryuen, they still feel they must resist.

"In any case, the conditions have been given to you," Oreki said. "If you have any intention of cooperating, you can contact me again."

"We need to discuss this," Ishizaki said, glancing at Manabe.

Because in his view, Manabe seemed ready to sign up immediately.

However, he thought of an effective plan.

Ryuen is very annoying, and if Albert Yamada is subdued, he might be at a disadvantage if he leads people to confront Ryuen.

So, must he submit to Ryuen?

He doesn't want to.

But, this shop-opening idea from Oreki can be utilized.

If enough people are gathered to open a shop together, having a store or something in the future would surely grant them a voice.

They could gather more people to confront Ryuen.

Thus.

Having roughly formed an idea, Ishizaki and the students from Class C left in a hurry.

"How many students from Class C do you think will join?"

Kikyou Kushida, who had been acting as a background presence, suddenly spoke up.

She has seen Oreki's pitch many times over the past two days.

So she just needs to wait on the sidelines.

It all depends on how many people participate.

Oreki is giving her a 5% commission on the points he earns, so the more students who participate, the more compensation she can receive.

The three of them sat down.

However, they didn't order milk tea.

Over the past two days, they had ordered quite a lot of milk tea to promote the shop, to the point where they were almost sick of it.

However.

"I would like a cup of coffee," Horikita Suzune still has the habit of studying every day.

So she needs coffee to stay refreshed.

Perhaps it is because there are two cute girls by his side.

The booth area even feels fragrant.

"Probably more than half the class," Oreki said. "Everyone in Class C seems to hate Ryuen, so perhaps they will unite because of that."

"Is that so?" Kikyou Kushida blinked gently.

Because it is rare for so many people to do the same thing just because they hate one person.

Then, at 9:00 PM that night, Kikyou Kushida was proven wrong.

In the milk tea shop opened by the second-years, apart from a boy with golden hair who was still in the shop, a large number of students suddenly flooded in.

And these were members of first-year Class C.

Counting them, there were both boys and girls.

A full 36 students.

"Are you all certain?"

Considering that Ishizaki and the others had revealed their hatred for Ryuen, Oreki hadn't returned to the dormitory to use teleportation to go home yet.

After all.

The school has a campus network.

And there is also signal shielding.

If he were to take his phone out of the school, the school might notice because they wouldn't be able to receive his information, and then they might pay attention to him.

That would not be a good thing.

Since he had left his phone in the dormitory, he had no way to receive information immediately.

Therefore, he had lingered for quite a long time today, and as it turned out, Ishizaki and the others did not let his waiting go to waste.

They had dragged a whole group of Class C students over.

"It's confirmed," Ishizaki said. "We've signed the second profit-sharing agreement."

Houtarou Oreki looked toward the other Class C students.

The students had no objections.

So, he arranged for Kikyou Kushida to get busy.

The 30 contracts he had asked Kikyou Kushida to prepare earlier had been too conservative.

Now that there were 6 additional students, he would have to trouble her to make another trip.

At the same time, Houtarou Oreki was quite generous, treating all the Class C students to milk tea.

"I didn't expect 36 students to actually show up." Because the contracts had been signed, Kikyou Kushida also began to take charge of collecting points from the Class C students.

This gave Houtarou Oreki time to strike up a conversation with Manabe, the girl who had blushed at him earlier.

"Because everyone hates Ryuuen."

"Of course, aside from Ryuuen and Albert Yamada, there are also 2 other people who didn't participate."

"Those two couldn't be swayed," Manabe said. "One is Ibuki; her reasoning is that she doesn't believe such a good deal exists."

"As for Shiina Hiyori, she doesn't seem to like mixing with us, but I did notify her."

"She didn't want to join. She even seemed to hope that I wouldn't join either. However, after she realized everyone else had joined, she gave up."

"Um..."

"Houtarou Oreki, could I exchange phone numbers with you?" After saying this, Manabe seemed a bit embarrassed.

This was the typical behavior of a girl facing a handsome guy, hoping to obtain his contact information.

In other words, the reason Manabe was talking to him was indeed because of his appearance.

Houtarou Oreki was feeling a bit conflicted.

Because.

In his grand mission to earn 20 million points, the penalty was being confessed to by 2 girls every week for three years.

And now.

It seemed that even if he didn't fail the mission, he was destined to encounter "woman trouble."

Although he wasn't being narcissistic, he had a feeling that this girl asking for his number might end up confessing to him.

However, Manabe had also contributed information about Class C.

Ibuki from Class C was an honest person.

She didn't believe that pies would fall from the sky.

And Shiina Hiyori was likely the one in Class C who possessed wisdom.

She had seen through the fact that this shop opening was merely a scam.

That was why she not only refused to participate herself but also tried to stop Manabe; then, upon discovering that everyone else had joined, she chose to remain silent.

She didn't want to provoke the public anger.

So, she was a smart person who knew how to protect herself.

Nagumo Miyabi appears, thank you, Houtarou Oreki!

The Class C students seemed quite satisfied after finishing their milk tea.

And Houtarou Oreki had also obtained their points.

Although they were using a profit-sharing shareholder model, they were still required to pay points to Houtarou Oreki every month for a total of 12 months.

At the same time, the first month's payment was 50,000 points.

5X36=1.8 million.

"1.8 million points have been deposited into your account."

After collecting the points, Kikyou Kushida immediately transferred them to Houtarou Oreki.

And Houtarou Oreki saw his account balance.

However.

"I'm transferring 2 million points to you," Houtarou Oreki said.

The points on his student ID were not entirely his own.

2 million of them belonged to Kikyou Kushida. To be precise, it was money she had borrowed.

Because.

Only he and Horikita Suzune knew that his points were composed of a sponsorship from Horikita's Brother.

And Horikita is currently being dragged along, looking quite pitiful.

Then, the two of them are set to begin the opening move: collecting the entrance Points currently held by the students of Class B and Class C.

Therefore, they are the ones behind the scenes.

As for Kikyou Kushida, she has been kept in the dark regarding some of the information.

Just by looking at Oreki's student ID, she assumes that the students in Oreki's class are also participating in opening the shop.

So, if anything were to happen, the students in Oreki's class would certainly be dissatisfied.

That is why she has become at ease.

As for why he didn't pull the students of Class D into participating, she understands.

Next month, everyone's Points will likely be running low, so they wouldn't even be able to scrape together the 30,000 Points required for the second month of Oreki's shop-opening plan.

Thus, Class D is basically excluded from the shop-opening venture.

However.

The main point is that Points can be collected from the students of Class B and Class C.

So, some packaging is also important.

And so.

Kikyou Kushida used her influence to borrow Points from the students in her class, disguising them to make it look like the students of Class D were also participating.

"Well," Kikyou Kushida says with a cute smile, "there's no need to be in such a rush."

"Then, let's stop here for today," Oreki says, not refusing. "You can try contacting the students from Class B again."

"But if you can't reach them, don't force it."

"And the deadline can be within this week."