However, today was only the third day since enrollment.
No matter how forceful or flamboyant Karuizawa acted, she couldn't have revealed much information.
From Kushida, Bai Lan had barely learned about Karuizawa's family situation—things like how many people were in her family and their income level—along with her height, blood type, zodiac sign, date of birth, and measurements.
It was all useless.
There was nothing Bai Lan cared about.
Whether Karuizawa was a C-cup or not didn't matter to Bai Lan in the slightest.
Bai Lan only wanted to know whether Karuizawa wanted anything that could serve as a "benefit" to make her cooperate—or some leverage he could use to force her to act with him.
As a result, after Bai Lan finished reading the information Kushida had given him, not only had he failed to solve the problem, he had more questions instead.
Unable to hold back, Bai Lan messaged Kushida: "Kushida, why did you give me Karuizawa's measurements? What kind of person do you think I am? Don't tell me you really couldn't find any explosive information, so you decided to muddle through with some risqué gossip?"
Kushida hurriedly explained that she wasn't good at surveillance and investigation. She had obtained her information through conversation and friendliness, coaxing it out of other girls, including Karuizawa herself. Since they hadn't known one another for long, even if she was good at building relationships, she wasn't close enough to the other girls for them to casually reveal anything "explosive."
However, Kushida said that if Bai Lan needed it, she wasn't incapable of throwing caution to the wind and conducting surveillance, even COSing as an 'Undercover Investigator.'
It would demonstrate one thing above all: "loyalty"!
Bai Lan hurriedly replied, "That's not necessary, not necessary, not necessary!"
In Bai Lan's impression, female investigators in Japan seemed to meet some very unfortunate fates whenever they carried out undercover investigations.
To avoid the possibility of Kushida stalking someone to the bathroom while investigating her, only to be ambushed by the Gyaru group, kicked around, photographed naked, and threatened or something, he decided to forget about surveillance.
However, Bai Lan had no intention of letting Kushida off easily.
Before Kushida saw through his sinister intentions, lost trust in him, and even became his enemy, Bai Lan planned to squeeze a good deal of labor out of her.
Bai Lan learned that Kushida had recently been expanding her circle of friends in the other classes, so he assigned her a new task: use that circle to find out about the other classes' circumstances.
Bai Lan wanted to see how his "Chaos Strike" strategy was developing.
Since Bai Lan planned to stop stirring up trouble in Class D, he had to find a way to achieve his goal of dropping out through the other three classes.
As for Karuizawa, he planned to handle her personally.
Bai Lan was quite skilled at surveillance.
He had honed those skills while searching for and pursuing prey in the wilderness, as well as avoiding danger.
Using those skills to investigate a mere high school girl was no challenge at all.
After school, Bai Lan, who had behaved himself in the classroom all day, finally began to act up.
Bai Lan started tailing Karuizawa.
To avoid alerting his target,
Bai Lan waited for quite a while after Karuizawa left the classroom before getting up and following her.
Bai Lan wasn't worried about losing her.
Because he had tracking.
More precisely, Kushida had Karuizawa's location. Whenever Bai Lan needed it, Kushida could take a screenshot of the live location screen and send it to him.
The reason Kushida had Karuizawa's location wasn't because she had installed a tracker on Karuizawa or anything like that.
It was actually a built-in function of the specialized phones issued by the school.
As long as two people added each other as friends, this function would remain enabled by default unless it was actively turned off. One person could use the phone's function to obtain the other person's current location in real time.
Bai Lan had discovered this earlier when he tried to use the phone's map function to record the school's "best crime scenes."
Bai Lan shared this discovery with Kushida.
Although Bai Lan had learned Karuizawa's contact information from Kushida, he hadn't added Karuizawa as a friend, so he couldn't locate her.
But it didn't matter. Kushida had added Karuizawa as a friend, so Bai Lan could track Karuizawa through Kushida.
With location tracking, following Karuizawa became countless times easier for Bai Lan.
Karuizawa didn't go to any club activities. Instead, she went shopping along the commercial street with several sisters from the Gyaru group.
Although Advanced Nurturing High School was a closed school that restricted students from leaving during their three years there, it had all kinds of recreational and entertainment facilities.
Otherwise, students would have plenty of points but nowhere to spend them, and they would lose the motivation to earn more.
The school even had a well-equipped, fairly large commercial street.
There were movie theaters, karaoke establishments, shopping malls, restaurants, dessert shops... Most common entertainment venues that students could visit could be found there.
Some high-end goods and services were available as well.
Maintaining so many facilities and service workers alone required enormous costs.
Although none of these shops were very large, they only served the school's more than three hundred students, some faculty members, and at most the service workers themselves.
With such a small amount of traffic,
it was obvious that this commercial street wasn't commercial at all. It was definitely operating at a loss.
When he first learned about this situation,
Bai Lan couldn't help thinking: With the service industry oversupplied and all this idle manpower... It would be a waste not to use them for delivery!
In China, ordering takeout was nothing unusual.
However, Japan was different.
Because Japan lacked manpower and labor costs were extremely high, delivery and service fees were very expensive.
People without some financial means couldn't afford takeout at all.
There were other shortcomings as well, such as limited menu choices, delivery distances that couldn't be too far, and slow delivery...
In short, Japan's takeout industry had never managed to develop.
The experience was terrible.
In China, ordering takeout was nothing unusual.
However, Japan was different.
Because Japan lacked manpower and labor costs were extremely high, delivery and service fees were very expensive.
People without some financial means couldn't afford takeout at all.
There were other shortcomings as well, such as limited menu choices, delivery distances that couldn't be too far, and slow delivery...
In short, Japan's takeout industry had never managed to develop.
The experience was terrible.
However, since this school claimed that "points could buy anything," ordering takeout with decent service shouldn't be too much to ask, right?
53. Chabashira's Mental Breakdown
While letting his thoughts run wild, Bai Lan hid outside Karuizawa's field of vision and observed her in secret.
He didn't follow too closely.
He only needed to glance at Karuizawa every five to ten seconds, then immediately break line of sight on purpose.
With location tracking, Bai Lan wasn't afraid of losing her anyway.
Whether Karuizawa was about to reveal what she "wanted" or stop someone to "borrow a few coins," neither situation could be contained or concluded within the few seconds she was outside Bai Lan's view.
After school at three in the afternoon, Bai Lan began following Karuizawa. He continued until seven in the evening, when Karuizawa and her group returned to their dormitory to wash up and sleep.
After an entire day, Bai Lan had gained nothing.
Bai Lan discovered that aside from having a somewhat forceful attitude in her speech and body language, Karuizawa had nothing in common with a delinquent girl. She hadn't taken the Gyaru group members along to bully anyone, nor had she displayed any strong "ambition."
However, Bai Lan had never expected to achieve results the moment he made his move.
The most important thing when searching for prey was patience.
He didn't feel impatient.
In fact, he was rather intrigued.
Although this was a school, being able to use the skills he had developed in the wilderness once again—and experience that cautious thrill of fearing he might startle his prey—allowed him to relive some of the fun of hunting in the wild.
That night, Bai Lan rewarded himself handsomely.
After getting the idea of ordering takeout, he had deliberately made time while following Karuizawa to purchase a "Delivery Menu" from the school through Chabashira, using points.
This "Delivery Menu" included the phone numbers, business hours, and menus of every facility in the school that offered delivery services.
Because delivery fees in Japan were so expensive,
Bai Lan felt that ordering something too cheap might be letting the delivery fee go to waste.
Therefore, Bai Lan went all out.
Points came easily to him anyway, so he didn't feel bad spending them.
Besides, he still had some very valuable "merchandise" on hand that he hadn't sold yet.
That night, Bai Lan ordered takeout and ate to his heart's content.
Meanwhile.
Rewinding to after school, while Bai Lan was following Karuizawa, he had finished purchasing the "Delivery Menu" from the school by calling Chabashira.
Teaching building.
First-year teachers' office.
When Chabashira learned that Bai Lan had called in the middle of the day merely to request a "complete delivery phone directory," and had even accepted the school's quoted price of "10,000 points" without hesitation,
she was rendered speechless.
Because of Bai Lan, Chabashira's state of mind had gone through multiple rounds of emotional "sit-ups" in just three days.
At first, she had thought she had found a treasure. Later, she discovered that she had actually encountered a ghost!
Bai Lan had immediately seen through the "truth" of the school and its hidden special examinations using only the basic information she had provided.
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