The detailed map of the school, even a navigation function, was available on the phone issued by the school.
With the navigation, Bai Lan quickly found the locations of the other three classes, A, B, and C.
Although they were all first-year classes, Classes A, B, C, and D were not concentrated in the same area.
All four classes were on the same floor.
Though they were on the same floor, they were actually quite far apart.
There was some distance between each classroom.
On top of that, the classrooms seemed to have been specially reinforced for soundproofing.
As a result, even if someone spoke loudly in one class, it would not disturb another. If their voice was even slightly softer, it could not be heard over there at all.
From Bai Lan's observations, aside from a very few exceptions, nearly everyone in Class D was a "defective product." The remaining few might not be "defective products," but they probably had some odd traits like Bai Lan did, which was why they had been assigned to Class D.
Such an extreme distribution clearly was not random. It was some kind of "classification"—a classification based on birds of a feather flocking together.
Class D consisted of defective products, and it was also at the very bottom of the ranking among the four classes, A through D.
It was hard not to connect the classes' "order" with the students' "quality"...
According to this pattern,
if Class D consisted of defective products,
then Class C, being the closest to Class D, was probably made up of slightly better defective products.
Class B consisted of quality products.
And Class A, the farthest from Class D, was made up of premium products?
Otherwise, were they supposed to tell him that he had it backward—that Class D was actually the best, Class D consisted of defective products, and the other three classes consisted of even worse defective products?
Or were they all defective products?
That would be ridiculous.
8. Meeting Sakayanagi Arisu for the First Time, Trading with Class A
Although Class C was closest to Class D, Bai Lan had sought out Class A first.
Based on the overall intelligence displayed by Class D, he guessed that the information he was selling would probably retain its value quite well with Class C.
But that might not be the case with Class A.
What if they had already figured it out, or had directly bought the information from a teacher? Then the information in his hands would not sell for much!
On his way to Class A's classroom,
Bai Lan recalled the information about the penalties for being late, leaving early, and skipping class that he had bought for 50,000 points just now.
The reason he had clicked his tongue at the time was that after reading the information he had bought, he realized he had lost one of his dropout plans on the spot...
The information Chabashira had sent him stated:
Unlike other schools, at this school, no matter how many times a student skipped class, left early, or arrived late, it would not directly result in the student's expulsion.
That was because the punishment would not be imposed on the individual, but would instead be counted against the entire class. (That was how it had been in the original setting.)
Perhaps because of certain restrictions, the information did not explain the specific nature of the punishment.
But it was easy enough to guess. Since it was imposed on the class, it would amount to nothing more than deducting points, deducting points, and deducting more points...
That was of no use for getting expelled.
It would only hurt others without benefiting himself.
After learning that being late, leaving early, and skipping class could not get him expelled at all,
Bai Lan silently deleted the battle plan from his notebook that involved accumulating disciplinary penalties through lateness, leaving early, and truancy, ultimately completing his expulsion.
Although he could not use lateness or truancy to get expelled, he still needed three disciplinary violations.
Three violations concentrated together would be enough to attract sufficient hatred toward Bai Lan.
Three should be about right. More than that would not be good.
There were too many brainless and impulsive people in the class. In order to protect their money, they might resort to extreme measures if pushed too far...
Bai Lan was only provoking their hatred because he did not want to be shackled by classmate relationships. He was not trying to force them to risk their lives against him.
Besides, although Bai Lan had angered the entire class today through provocation and disciplinary violations, making it seem as though everyone in the class had suffered a huge loss,
they had actually made a huge profit!
Bai Lan had exposed the school's sweet trap, allowing them to prepare themselves and learn how to protect their living expenses.
Compared with the points the class had preserved because of this, the points deducted for Bai Lan's three violations were merely a drop in the bucket.
They had gained far more than they had lost.
Without Bai Lan's move, they would probably have to eat dirt next month!
They should just enjoy their good fortune in secret.
There was nothing he could do. Bai Lan was simply that kindhearted.
Soon, Bai Lan arrived outside Class A's classroom.
As he drew closer and closer to Class A's door, he vaguely heard the following conversation through it.
"Teacher Mashima, you said that as long as we have points, we can buy anything at this school, right? Then how many points would it take to obtain information about the criteria the school uses to evaluate us?"
It was a gentle and elegant female voice.
A deep and resolute male voice then answered:
"1,000,000."
"Then..."
Upon hearing that, Bai Lan immediately quickened his pace and even activated the active effect of Overlord.
Before the girl could give her answer, Bai Lan rushed to Class A's door and rapidly knocked on it.
Bang—!
The loud sound forcibly interrupted what the girl was about to say.
Immediately afterward, Bai Lan shouted from outside the door, "Buy mine! I only want 900,000!"
The people in Class A: ???
Soon, the classroom door of Class A opened.
Bai Lan saw a tall adult man wearing a suit.
He was probably Class A's homeroom teacher.
Mashima looked at Bai Lan with a stern expression. "What class are you from? What do you want? If you have nothing to say, don't come disturb our class's opening guidance meeting!"
"Good morning, Teacher!" Bai Lan raised a hand in greeting. "Teacher, I'm here to steal your business!"
"What?"
"Wasn't someone just trying to buy information from you with points? I'm here to compete with you for the business. No, wait, those points probably wouldn't end up in your pocket anyway, so to be precise, I'm here to compete with the school for its business."
That was what Bai Lan said.
"Oh? Are you saying that you know the information about the criteria this school uses to evaluate classes and individuals?" the gentle and elegant female voice asked again.
With the door no longer blocking the way, Bai Lan finally saw the owner of the voice.
She had beautiful silver-white straight hair, delicate features, and a petite, adorable figure. White stockings hugged her calves... Both hands rested on a cane, making her look extremely fragile, but her slightly raised chin and curled lips...
Although she was small and looked as though a single shove would knock her over, her pride 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 were not competitors.
No, to be precise, it should be said that Class D, the class he belonged to, was not even a match for Class A.
As long as Class A learned a little about Class D, it would not view Class D as a threat.
Bai Lan noticed that the girl seemed somewhat surprised.
Perhaps she was surprised that someone had obtained the information she wanted even earlier than she had, and had then turned around to sell it to her?
In the girl's view, anyone capable of obtaining this information so early had to be an extraordinary person.
Someone so capable and so proactive must surely have ambitions.
Normally, an ambitious person should hide this information and quietly make a fortune by exploiting the information gap. They should not share it with anyone, right?
At that moment, Bai Lan replied, "That's right. I have the information. I obtained it at 'a very great cost.' Thanks to this information, I'm currently the poorest person in the entire year. I'm looking for someone to split the cost with me."
He made himself sound pitiful, but in reality, everyone's points had only just been credited, and they had not had time to spend them.
At a time like this, even if Bai Lan had spent only one point, he would still be the poorest person.
The petite girl placed her left hand against her chest and slightly dipped her chin. "Nice to meet you. I'm Sakayanagi Arisu from Class A..."
The petite girl—Sakayanagi Arisu—did not immediately respond to Bai Lan. Instead, she first introduced herself.
Bai Lan understood what she meant and replied, "Bai Lan, an international student from Huaguo. I'm from D, D, D—Class D."
Bai Lan knew that the focus of her question was on "Class D."
After hearing Bai Lan's class, Sakayanagi wore a look of sudden realization.
She understood instantly.
That made sense. No matter how capable someone in Class D was, they probably could not carry the class by themselves.
Rather than improving the class's evaluation, it would be better to save up more points so that they could live comfortably over the next three years—or use them for something else.
However.
No.
"Would someone from Class D really be willing to pool together 1,000,000 points to buy information?" Sakayanagi asked, her face full of doubt.
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