Classroom of the Elite: Houtarou Oreki

Classmate Oreki... had obtained a massive amount of points.

Everyone now understood where Classmate Oreki's enormous fortune in points had come from.

He had harvested Class C like a crop of leeks.

And the school allowed something like this?

Could things be handled so flexibly?

The Class A students were shocked, and at the same time realized that perhaps they did not understand this school well enough.

Meanwhile, Sakayanagi's little princess from the other faction did not approach Oreki.

However, she held her phone.

Because her little dog was asking her.

When Oreki declared that he would gather 20 million points, she—

Kamuro: Opening a store—is that the store you mentioned before?

Sakayanagi Arisu: That should be it.

Sakayanagi Arisu: That is why I said it would have been better if we had cooperated with him earlier.

Kamuro: ...

Kamuro: But the store never opened. So isn't that disappointing?

Sakayanagi Arisu: Classmate Kamuro, it seems today's tutoring session will have to be even stricter.

Sakayanagi Arisu: You still have not read enough books, have you?

Kamuro: ...

Classmate Kamuro had actually already realized that although Sakayanagi Arisu liked to use honorifics when speaking to people, it was not all out of politeness.

When she looked down on someone or despised them, she would also keep calling them "you" in that formal manner.

So.

Was she mocking her?

Sakayanagi Arisu: You still do not understand your former master. He dislikes troublesome things, and opening a store is an extremely troublesome process, so I concluded from the beginning that he was not planning to open one.

Sakayanagi Arisu: Therefore, the key was collecting points.

Sakayanagi Arisu: And has he not already done that?

Sakayanagi Arisu: As expected of Classmate Oreki. When it comes to efficiently collecting points, he truly is exceptionally outstanding.

Oh.

So that was how it was.

But.

Could she stop calling him her former master, or master, or whatever?

She was clearly their classmate too, yet neither Classmate Oreki nor Sakayanagi Arisu treated her like a person.

That was really irritating.

And.

Sakayanagi Arisu, do not act as though you understand Oreki so well. Were you not also a first-year student, just like her?

As she thought that.

Sakayanagi Arisu: Classmate Kamuro, your job has arrived.

"How?"

Sakayanagi Arisu: I believe Classmate Oreki will likely press his advantage. Opening a store did not work, but he has thought of another way to make money. Please follow him again.

Oh.

Was that so?

So then.

Why?

Could he keep making money? And make even more?

Classmate Sakayanagi, What Kind of Person Do You Think the Chairman Is!

During Lunch Break, Classmate Oreki headed toward the Student Council.

Ryuuen had come quickly and left quickly.

However, the task of collecting Class C's points had been completely finished.

Class B had not reacted yet, but whether they reacted or not was no longer important.

There were fifteen Class B students involved in opening the store. If they came to their senses and terminated the agreement, Oreki could still get 150,000 points. If they did not terminate it, then next month each of them would have to pay another 30,000 points.

As long as they handed over points, the system would count them as task progress.

So from any perspective, the Class B students were angels delivering themselves to him.

Oreki did not contact them again.

Instead, he pulled up the system.

[Main Quest—20 Million Points Operation]

[Quest Requirement: Gather 20 million points within three months.]

[Time Remaining: 78/90 days]

[Quest Reward: Supernatural Physique (Complete Physical Overhaul)]

[Current Progress: 4,231,100 points/20,000,000 points]

[Note: All points earned by the host may be entrusted to Manabu Horikita, a third-year student about to graduate, who can absolutely guarantee their conversion into cash.]

The progress was 25 percent complete, and the reward was a supernatural physique.

Hmm.

Oreki had already obtained Teleportation and Precognitive Dream.

Precognitive Dream had made him question his life a little.

He had never imagined that he would have a future with such a rich love life.

However, things beyond the ordinary were also convenient. Naturally, he would not be willing to ignore them entirely.

In other words.

He needed to continue completing the main quest.

His plan to squeeze points out of the first-year students had been completed. It was time to keep working.

The freshmen did not have much money.

However, because Vice President Nagumo's second-year classes had gone overboard with their class evaluation scores, even Class 2-D had received 900 class evaluation points as long as they listened to him. That was equivalent to each person receiving 90,000 points in living expenses from the school.

So the second-years could barely count as fat sheep.

He could collect points from them.

As for the third-years who had been at the school for two years, Class D was beyond saving, but collecting 50,000 points each from the students of Class 3-A, Class B, and Class C would be easy enough.

Therefore, Oreki had already drafted a plan in his mind.

Nagumo's store had originally not been allowed, but he had used points to purchase the right and buy it out.

The school had agreed.

That showed that points could be used to accomplish things that were normally prohibited, as long as one followed the rules.

However, what concerned him was what the school wanted.

Opening a store was one thing, but after Nagumo controlled the entire grade and manipulated the exams, he would essentially be farming the school like a fat sheep.

Would the school still allow that?

Because then the second-years would no longer think for themselves, and in the end, the only thing that would improve would be their acting skills.

Or was Manabu Horikita dangling bait before him and trying to lure him into the Student Council to oppose Nagumo, while in some sense that was also the school's intention?

The school acknowledged Nagumo's ability, but could not tolerate him completely.

So where was the school's bottom line?

Because what he wanted to do would also impact the school's system of controlling its students.

In other words, he needed to confirm the attitude of the school's upper management.

So, after leaving the classroom and discovering a little tail following behind him, Oreki sent a message to Sakayanagi's little princess.

[This school gives students considerable authority. It seems that—

But what kind of person do you think the school's upper management, such as the Chairman, is, Classmate Sakayanagi?] —Houtarou Oreki.

"..."

Sakayanagi Arisu.

During Lunch Break, after Classmate Sakayanagi noticed Oreki leaving, she immediately arranged for her two dogs to begin moving.

Yet just after she had assigned Masumi Kamuro to follow him, she was immediately discovered.

Then.

Classmate Sakayanagi once again checked the message Oreki had sent.

She stared at the words "Chairman," followed by "Classmate Sakayanagi."

This made Classmate Sakayanagi instinctively suspect that her identity had been exposed.

Yet she still responded.

〔Based on the situation with the second-years, I would guess he is someone tolerant, someone who grants students the greatest possible autonomy. However, he will also try to guide them.〕

In other words, he was a Chairman with tolerance, but also with boundaries.

Then she could try.

Thus, Oreki put away his phone and headed toward the Student Council.

Meanwhile, Sakayanagi Arisu looked at the cane beside the desk.

She had obtained Masumi Kamuro from Classmate Oreki.

By tutoring the other party, she had gained a certain degree of authority to use her.

After all, her own health was poor, while Classmate Kamuro had excellent physical fitness and athletic ability. She was practically a perfect match for her.

So she had not refused.

Then, unexpectedly, she discovered Masumi Kamuro's weakness. Once exposed, it would become a disaster for Class A and invite attacks from the other classes.

The same applied to her.

If her relationship with the Chairman were exposed, it could also be used to attack Class A.

For example, Ryuuen from Class C, who had come to their classroom today.

The fact that he could react so quickly and terminate the contract as decisively as cutting off his own arm showed that Class C wanted to climb upward.

The school had initially divided classes according to a set evaluation standard, so in the eyes of the public, Class C's student composition was not outstanding.

In other words, if Ryuuen wanted to rise, he would use dishonorable methods.

So her identity might become a weapon for attacking Class A.

Had Classmate Oreki already thought of that and given her a warning?

Still, Ryuuen.

Was he worthy?