A Person in J High Just Wants to Drop Out Section 7

The school-issued phones came with detailed maps of the school, even featuring a navigation function.

Using the navigation, Bai Lan quickly found the locations of the other Classes A, B, and C.

Even though they were all first-years, the four classes—A, B, C, and D—weren't concentrated in one area.

All four classes were on the same floor.

While on the same floor, they weren't actually close to each other.

There was a distance between each class.

On top of that, the classrooms seemed to have superior soundproofing.

This way, even if someone in one class spoke loudly, it wouldn't disturb another class; if the sound was a bit quieter, the other side wouldn't hear it at all.

From Bai Lan's observation, aside from a very few exceptions, most of Class D were basically "defective goods." The remaining few, while not "defective," were probably like Bai Lan, possessing certain oddities that led to their assignment to Class D.

This kind of extreme distribution definitely wasn't random; it was some kind of "classification," a sorting by like attracts like.

Class D was the defective one, and simultaneously the lowest ranked among the four classes A, B, C, and D.

It was hard not to associate the "order" of the classes with the "quality" of the students...

Following this pattern.

Since Class D was the defective one.

Class C was the closest to Class D, so it was probably just slightly better defective goods.

Class B was good quality.

Class A, being the furthest from Class D, was the premium selection?

Otherwise, he couldn't possibly be told that it was the other way around, that Class D was the best, Class D were the defective ones, and the other three classes were even worse defective goods.

Or perhaps, they were all defective goods?

That would be absurd.

8. First Meeting with Sakayanagi Arisu, and a Transaction with Class A

Although Class C was the closest to Class D, Bai Lan approached Class A first.

Based on the overall intelligence displayed by Class D, he speculated that the information he was selling would be highly valuable in Class C.

But in Class A, that wasn't a certainty.

What if they cracked it beforehand, or bought the information directly from a teacher? Then the information he held wouldn't sell for much!

On the way to the Class A classroom.

Bai Lan recalled the information he had just bought for 50,000 points regarding the penalties for tardiness, early departures, and absences.

The reason he had clicked his tongue at the time was that after reading the purchased information, he realized he had immediately lost one of his expulsion plans...

The intelligence sent by Teacher Chazhu told him:

Unlike other schools, at this school, behaviors like skipping class, leaving early, and being late, no matter how much they accumulated, would not directly lead to a student's expulsion.

This was because the punishment wouldn't fall directly on the individual but would be counted against the entire class. (This was the original setting.)

Perhaps due to some restrictions, the intelligence didn't detail the content of the punishment.

But he could roughly guess that since it fell on the class, it would inevitably be point deductions, point deductions, and more point deductions...

Useless for expulsion.

Purely detrimental to others and not beneficial to oneself.

Knowing that tardiness, early departures, and absences couldn't cause his expulsion, Bai Lan silently deleted the plan from his little notebook to accumulate demerits through tardiness, early departures, and absences, ultimately achieving expulsion.

Although he couldn't use tardiness and absences for expulsion, three violations were still necessary.

Three, and concentrated together, would attract enough hatred towards Bai Lan.

Three was about right; more wouldn't be good.

There were too many brainless and impulsive guys in the class; if pushed too hard, they might resort to some drastic measures to protect their money...

Bai Lan was drawing hatred to avoid being bound by camaraderie, not to provoke them into a fight to the death.

Moreover, despite Bai Lan angering the entire class today with his provocations and violations, it seemed like the class was at a disadvantage.

In reality, they had profited greatly!

Bai Lan had exposed the school's sweet trap, giving them a heads-up and teaching them how to protect their living expenses.

Compared to the points the class saved because of this, the points deducted from Bai Lan's three violations were merely a fraction.

They gained far more than they lost.

Without Bai Lan's move, they would likely be eating dirt next month!

They should be secretly rejoicing.

It couldn't be helped; Bai Lan was just that kind-hearted.

Soon, Bai Lan arrived outside the Class A classroom.

As he got closer to the Class A door, he could faintly hear a conversation through it.

"Teacher Majima, you said that as long as you have points in this school, you can buy anything, right? Then, how many points would it take to get information about the criteria the school uses to evaluate us?"

It was a soft and elegant female voice.

A deep, firm male voice replied:

"One million."

"Then..."

Hearing this, Bai Lan immediately quickened his pace, even activating the active effect of [Overlord].

Before the female voice could finish speaking, Bai Lan rushed to the Class A door and quickly knocked.

Bang—!

The loud noise forcibly interrupted what the girl was about to say.

Immediately after, Bai Lan said loudly from outside the door, "I'll sell it to you for only 900,000!"

Everyone in Class A: ???

Soon, the door to the Class A classroom opened.

Bai Lan saw a tall adult man in a suit.

He figured this must be Class A's homeroom teacher.

Teacher Majima looked at Bai Lan with a stern face, "Which class are you from? What business do you have? Don't disturb our class's opening guidance session if you don't have any!"

"Hello, teacher!" Bai Lan greeted with a raised hand. "Teacher, I'm here to steal your business!"

"What?"

"Didn't someone just want to buy information from you with points? I'm here to steal your business, no, those points probably won't enter your pocket, so, to be precise, I'm here to steal the school's business."

Bai Lan said.

"Oh? You mean you have information about the school's evaluation criteria for classes and individuals?" The soft and elegant female voice sounded again.

With the door gone, Bai Lan could finally see the owner of the voice.

She had beautiful, straight silver-white hair, delicate features, a petite and cute figure, and wore white stockings that hugged her calves... She leaned on a cane, appearing very frail, but her slightly raised chin and the curve of her lips...

Though small and easily pushed over, her spirit seemed to reach several stories high.

Someone like this was probably the type who would rather suffer a loss than let a "competitor" gain an advantage.

Fortunately, they weren't rivals.

Or rather, it should be said—his Class D was no match for Class A at all.

Class A wouldn't consider Class D a threat if they knew even a little about them.

Bai Lan noticed that the girl's face seemed a bit surprised.

Perhaps she was surprised that someone had obtained the information she wanted even earlier than her, and was now turning around to sell it to her?

In the girl's opinion, anyone who could obtain this information so early must be a very capable person.

So capable and so proactive, they must have ambition.

People with ambition, logically speaking, should hoard this information, profit quietly through information asymmetry, and not share it with others?

At this moment, Bai Lan replied, "That's right, I have the information. I obtained it at a 'great cost,' and because of it, I'm the poorest person in the entire year. I'm looking for someone to share this cost with."

Though he sounded pitiful, in reality, everyone's points had just been credited, and no one had had a chance to spend them yet.

At this point, even if Bai Lan had only spent 1 point, he would have been the poorest.

The petite girl placed her left hand on her chest and nodded slightly, "Nice to meet you, I'm Sakayanagi Arisu from Class A..."

The petite girl—Sakayanagi Arisu didn't immediately respond to Bai Lan but introduced herself first.

Bai Lan understood her intention and replied, "Bai Lan, an international student from China, from Class D, D, D—."

Bai Lan knew that the focus of her inquiry was "Class D."

Upon hearing Bai Lan's class, Sakayanagi's eyes showed "realization."

She instantly understood.

Indeed, being in Class D, even the most capable person probably couldn't carry the class. It was better to save up more points to make their next three years more comfortable, or to use them for something else, rather than trying to improve the class's evaluation.

However.

No.

"Would someone from Class D be willing to pool a million points to buy information?" Sakayanagi asked with a face full of doubt.