I Just Want to Drop Out of Advanced Nurturing High School Section 8

Bai Lan: "Don't worry about that. Just tell me if you want it or not."

Sakayanagi: "How can you guarantee your information is true?"

Bai Lan: "Any information I give you can be verified by the rules Teacher mentioned. As an elite of Class A, surely you have the ability to 'check your work' against the answers and discern truth from falsehood?"

"If your information is sufficient."

"It must be sufficient. Pay up, and it will be sufficient and necessary. At worst, if you find my information is wrong afterward, I'll pay you back."

"Alright."

9. If one day you offend me greatly, would you use your family's power to expel me?

After reaching a preliminary agreement.

The two sides began to discuss the price.

Bai Lan: "Do you have 900,000?"

Sakayanagi: "I was just chosen as Class A's representative, and everyone in Class A is willing to split 500,000 with me."

"That works too. I'll go sell 500,000 to Class B later."

"If you can guarantee that your classmates won't leak the information to Class B, then I'll buy the Class B portion too, for a total of 1 million."

"I know how loose their lips are, but for the sake of profit, they'll tighten up a bit. At least they won't reveal it in the short term, which should be enough for you to widen the gap."

Bai Lan had specifically mentioned the possibility of "class rankings" being related to living expenses in his class. This was to shut up those guys in Class D.

When rankings are tied to living expenses, those in Class D would view other classes as rivals and wouldn't casually share this important information, thus allowing opponents to prepare. If they were particularly malicious, they might even deliberately mislead other classes into making mistakes, leading to point deductions.

Of course, given their nature, with their hands, mouths, and minds all acting independently.

While they wouldn't leak it "casually," it's highly possible they might "inadvertently" leak it. But it should still hold for a few days, right?

"Short term... then I can only offer 400,000 per class."

"What about Class C? Class C people don't play by the rules. They might resell it to Class B, letting Class A and Class B fight like dogs, so they can pick at the dog meat afterward."

"How do you speak? What do you mean 'fight like dogs'?" Seeing his class being compared to dogs, a bald man couldn't help but stand up.

"Bai-kun, your analogy is indeed a bit excessive~"

Bai Lan quickly apologized to everyone in Class A with a contrite expression: "I'm sorry, I've only been studying abroad in Japan for less than half a year, and my Japanese isn't very good. If you're not satisfied, come hit me! Besides, this is the additional service for information worth 400,000~"

Class A instantly erupted.

"I..."

"You..."

"Bai-kun, please stop toying with them. I want your information, of course, provided it's truly worth the price."

"What about Class C?"

"Same 400,000, let's shave off a zero and make it 1 million, how about that?"

"Shaving off that zero, you're basically saying Class C is half price? Fine~ After all, it's competing with the official business. Deal!"

"Teacher, please notarize this. Anyone who violates the agreement will have to pay back double what they took~"

Soon, Bai Lan received a message on his phone: "1,000,000 received."

After receiving the money, Bai Lan revealed the confirmed information.

It was basically what he had said in Class D before, just in a "sanitized" version.

In addition, he had extended some points based on the potential "ambitions" of the Class A elites.

After Bai Lan finished speaking.

Sakayanagi organized her thoughts and summarized: "So, the evaluation of each class will be quantified and represented by points. The school will deduct or add points based on students' usual performance and exam results. Besides the class points representing living expenses, their ranking is also important, with significant rewards for first place. The initial score is uncertain, it could be 100, or 1000, or 10000... This information is too vague! The reward for first place and the specific score are not confirmed. I demand a refund."

Bai Lan: "None of that is important. The things I've told you are already sufficient reasons for you to plan the future direction of your class, right? Does the maximum score being 100, 1000, or 10000 matter? As long as you don't lose points! What else could the grand prize for first place be? Just assume the school's promotional material contains the content of your grand prize. It's not like you'll do your best and still not get the best reward, right? If that's the case, even better! You can sue Advanced Nurturing High School for false advertising. With irrefutable evidence, the compensation would be enough for you to live on for a lifetime! Conversely, classes other than first place are in danger. At least, I don't think the school would guarantee everyone in Class D a spot at Todai University... If they did, the Todai alumni would go crazy. The 99% university admission and employment rate is the upper limit; the lower limit could be anything."

Even if something like that happened, the school would definitely find a way to ensure that all those deemed 'unqualified' would fail to graduate at the latest by the time they were nearing graduation. If they couldn't graduate, they might even be expelled, thus avoiding the need to fulfill their promises from their propaganda...

I've seen this trick before. It's nothing new.

To boost competitiveness and prevent anyone from thinking 'second place is good enough' and slacking off, the rewards between rankings must be astronomically different.

It's even possible that a 'winner-take-all, loser-eats-dirt' situation could occur."

"See? You've added a lot of valuable information. Also..." Sakayanagi said, forcing a stiff, polite smile, "You do tell jokes~ How could Advanced Nurturing High School possibly engage in false advertising? This is an experimental super high school with official backing and investment from major corporations. Those rewards are just a drop in the bucket."

"Protecting it so much? Anyone who didn't know better would think the school was yours."

"..."

"Hmm? No way, right? No way it's actually yours? If I offend you someday, will you use your family's power to expel me?"

An unexpected gain~

For a moment, Bai Lan silently added another potentially viable expulsion strategy to his little notebook: antagonizing Sakayanagi.

Sakayanagi's eyebrows twitched, but she maintained her smile. "Alright, alright. The opening ceremony is about to begin, and we need to prepare. Please, make yourself at home."

The Class A representative had just issued Bai Lan a polite eviction notice.

After Bai Lan walked away.

Sakayanagi then said to Teacher Majima, "Teacher Majima, you're aware of the known information. Could you please supplement the details that student Bai didn't mention?"

Majima: "Please wait a moment."

Majima made a phone call.

A short while later.

"500,000."

"Understood." Sakayanagi prepared to collect "class fees" from her class once more.

Someone was displeased and raised an objection:

"Sakayanagi! What are you doing? Why didn't you just pay Teacher Majima 100 points from the start to buy the information? Why did you have to buy it from that D-class student? You wasted so many points for no reason!"

Sakayanagi shook her head. "Honestly, Katsuragi, please manage your own pet. ~"

"Sakayanagi, you!"

"First of all, he's my friend, not a dog. And second, Yahiko, sit down. Sakayanagi must have her reasons for doing this..."

Katsuragi, who sported a conspicuous bald head, said, "Sakayanagi, I think I understand your approach, but many people might not. Could you explain it?"

Sakayanagi: "Since you've asked, I'll show you a little."

"I did this for two reasons: first, to probe Class D's situation and understand the abilities and methods of that student named Bai Lan, and second, for a gag order..."

10. Class B's Little Angels, the Archangel Honami Ichinose

"I did this for two reasons: first, to probe Class D's situation and understand the abilities and methods of that student named Bai Lan, and second, for a gag order..."

Sakayanagi continued her explanation:

"Through this test, we can see that Class D does not have an organization capable of quickly accumulating a large number of points to purchase information as quickly as we do.

The information was entirely obtained through student Bai's personal abilities.

However, Bai Lan did not use this information to maximize his class's benefits; instead, he sold it for points.

Therefore, we can conclude that Class D is not a significant threat.

But Bai Lan is very capable. Fortunately, he's greedy and can be bought with points. In the future, we can use points to recruit him to work for us.

Don't dwell too much on the gains and losses of this transaction. Consider it an expression of sincerity to facilitate future cooperation.

As for the gag order.

Only Class B, with whom we share similar overall qualities and who is qualified to challenge us, poses a threat. Classes C and D are not a concern. If Class B remains unaware of this information, we can create a chasm of difference with them through an information gap.

Once the information is leaked to Class B, the intelligence we hold will devalue.

To maintain its value, we must spend more points to increase its worth, maximizing its value and creating the largest information gap with Class B.

All of this is meaningful!"

Sakayanagi actually had more to say. She had already deduced most of the information Bai Lan had provided, though there were some discrepancies.

However, she still insisted on spending "unnecessary money" to buy information from Teacher Majima. Her goal was to use the official channel to make those who harbored any illusions, who thought 'second place was good enough' and desired a 'happy education,' give up—and resolutely throw themselves into this brutal class war!

Bai Lan left Class A and then went to Class B.

The information he had already sold to Class A could not be resold due to the contract.

However, what he sold to Class A was merely the "basis for the school's evaluation of classes and individuals." He still had plenty of other, unrelated but equally important information to sell.

For example: "Points can buy anything, including information."

(Bai Lan: The information that was bought out was sold to them by the school, not by me.)