Classroom of the Elite: The Reluctant Dropout
Chapter 44

I Only Want to Drop Out of Advanced Nurturing High School

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However, it was only the third day of school.

No matter how strong and assertive Karuizawa acted, she couldn't reveal much information.

From Kushida, Bai Lan had only managed to learn about Karuizawa's family situation, such as how many people were in her family, their income level, and her height, blood type, zodiac sign, birth date, and measurements.

It was all useless.

There was nothing Bai Lan cared about.

Bai Lan didn't care at all if Karuizawa had a "C".

Bai Lan just wanted to know if Karuizawa had anything she wanted, some "benefit" that could be used to make her cooperate? Or perhaps a leverage point that could be used to force her to play along with him?

As a result, after reviewing the information Kushida gave him, Bai Lan not only didn't solve the problem but also generated more questions.

Bai Lan couldn't help but text Kushida: "Kushida, why did you give me Karuizawa's measurements? What kind of image do you have of me? You couldn't find any explosive information, so you decided to mix in some scandalous gossip, right?"

Kushida quickly explained: she wasn't good at surveillance. The information she obtained was by talking and being friendly with other girls, including Karuizawa herself. They hadn't known each other for long, and even if she was good at building relationships, her connections with the other girls weren't strong enough to casually reveal "explosive" details.

However, Kushida added that if Bai Lan really needed it, she wasn't opposed to going all out and doing some surveillance, playing the role of an 'Undercover Investigator'.

She would emphasize her "loyalty"!

Bai Lan quickly replied: "No, no, no, it's not that serious!"

In Bai Lan's impression, Japanese female investigators often met unfortunate ends when carrying out undercover missions.

To prevent Kushida from getting into trouble by following someone to the restroom for investigation, then getting ambushed by the gyaru group, beaten up, and threatened with nude photos, he decided against it.

However, Bai Lan didn't intend to let Kushida off the hook easily.

Bai Lan planned to heavily exploit Kushida's labor before she saw through his malicious intentions, lost trust in him, and even turned against him.

Learning that Kushida was expanding her social circle to other classes, Bai Lan assigned her a new task: to inquire about the situation in other classes through their social media.

Bai Lan wanted to see how his 'Chaos Strike' strategy was developing.

Since Bai Lan had decided to give up causing trouble in Class D, he would try to achieve his goal of dropping out through the other three classes.

As for Karuizawa, he planned to handle it himself.

Bai Lan was quite skilled at surveillance.

He had honed these skills while tracking and hunting prey in the wild, as well as avoiding danger.

These skills were more than enough to track a mere high school girl.

After school, Bai Lan, who had been well-behaved in the classroom all day, finally started to stir.

Bai Lan began tailing Karuizawa.

To avoid alerting his target.

Bai Lan waited for a while after Karuizawa left the classroom before getting up to follow.

Bai Lan wasn't afraid of losing her.

Because Bai Lan had a tracker.

More precisely, Kushida had Karuizawa's location, and as long as Bai Lan asked, Kushida could take a screenshot of the location interface and send it to him in real-time.

Kushida had Karuizawa's location not because she had planted a tracking device on her.

It was actually a feature of the special phones provided by the school.

As long as they were added as friends, and unless the feature was actively turned off, it would be enabled by default, allowing one party to obtain the other's current location in real-time through the phone.

This was something Bai Lan had discovered earlier when he tried to use the phone's map function to record the school's "best crime spots."

Bai Lan had shared this discovery with Kushida.

Although Bai Lan had obtained Karuizawa's contact information from Kushida, he hadn't added her as a friend, so he couldn't track her.

But it didn't matter. Kushida had added Karuizawa as a friend, so Bai Lan could use Kushida to track Karuizawa's location.

With the location tracking, Bai Lan's surveillance became infinitely easier.

Karuizawa didn't join any clubs. Instead, she went shopping on the commercial street with some of her gyaru friends.

Although Advanced Nurturing High School was a closed campus, restricting students' entry and exit for three years, it was equipped with all sorts of entertainment facilities.

Otherwise, students would lose the motivation to earn points if they had a large sum of money but nowhere to spend it.

The school even had a comprehensive, albeit not massive, commercial street.

Movie theaters, KTVs, shopping malls, restaurants, dessert shops... most of the common entertainment venues accessible to students could be found there.

There were even some high-end goods and services available.

With so many facilities and service staff, the maintenance alone incurred significant costs.

Although these shops were not large, they were only meant to serve the school's over 300 students, plus some faculty and staff, and at most, the service staff themselves.

With such a small customer base.

It was clear that this commercial street was not commercially viable at all and was definitely operating at a loss.

After first learning about this situation.

Bai Lan couldn't help but think: The service industry has an oversupply of labor, and this idle workforce... it would be a waste not to deliver food!

In China, ordering takeout is as common as eating.

However, it's different in Japan.

Because Japan has a shortage of human resources and labor costs are extremely high, delivery and service fees for takeout are very expensive.

Those without financial means simply can't afford takeout.

In addition, there are various shortcomings, such as: a limited selection of dishes, short delivery distances, and slow delivery...

In short, the takeout industry in Japan has never really taken off.

The experience is extremely poor.

In China, ordering takeout is as common as eating.

However, it's different in Japan.

Because Japan has a shortage of human resources and labor costs are extremely high, delivery and service fees for takeout are very expensive.

Those without financial means simply can't afford takeout.

In addition, there are various shortcomings, such as: a limited selection of dishes, short delivery distances, and slow delivery...

In short, the takeout industry in Japan has never really taken off.

The experience is extremely poor.

However, this school claims that "points can buy anything," so it shouldn't be too much for him to order takeout with good service, right?

53. Chazhu's Mind is Blown

While Bai Lan was lost in thought, he hid out of Karuizawa's line of sight, observing her from afar.

He didn't follow too closely.

He just needed to glance at Karuizawa every five to ten seconds, and as soon as he did, he would actively break line of sight.

Since he had her location, Bai Lan wasn't afraid of losing her.

Whether Karuizawa was going to reveal her "desires" or stop someone to "borrow some points," these situations couldn't be concealed or concluded within the few seconds Bai Lan's vision was off her.

From the time school ended at 3 PM until 7 PM, Bai Lan had been following Karuizawa, until she and her group headed back to their dorms to wash up and sleep.

After a whole day, Bai Lan had found nothing.

Bai Lan discovered that apart from her assertive attitude in speech and body language, Karuizawa showed no signs of being a delinquent. She wasn't leading members of the Gyaru group in bullying classmates, nor did she exhibit any strong "ambitions."

However, Bai Lan didn't expect to achieve results immediately.

Patience is the most important thing when searching for prey.

He didn't feel impatient.

In fact, he was somewhat excited.

Although this was a school, being able to use skills from the wilderness again, and to re-experience the thrill of being cautious, afraid of startling the prey, brought back some of the fun of hunting in the wild.

That evening, Bai Lan rewarded himself handsomely.

After the idea of ordering takeout came to him, he specifically made time during his surveillance of Karuizawa to use points through Chazhu to purchase a "Delivery Menu" from the school.

This "Delivery Menu" included the phone numbers, business hours, and menus of all facilities within the school that offered delivery services.

Because Japan's delivery service fees were very expensive.

This made Bai Lan feel that ordering something too cheap might not be worth the delivery fee.

Therefore, Bai Lan splurged.

Points were easy to come by, so he didn't feel bad spending them.

He even still had a very valuable "item" that he hadn't sold yet.

Bai Lan ate to his heart's content that night by ordering takeout.

Meanwhile.

Time rewound to after school, during the period Bai Lan was following Karuizawa, after he had finished calling Chazhu to purchase the "Delivery Menu" from the school.

School building.

First-year faculty office.

When Chazhu learned that Bai Lan had called at noon just to get a "takeout phone directory," and had unhesitatingly accepted the school's offer of "10,000 points" for it.

Her native language became speechless.

Because of this guy Bai Lan, Chazhu's emotions had repeatedly gone through "sit-ups" in the span of just three days.

At first, she thought she had struck gold, but later realized she had encountered a ghost!

Bai Lan, right from the start, had seen through the "truth" of this school and its hidden special exams using the basic information she provided.

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