Just Want to Be a Slacker

By this time, Ayanokoji Kiyonaka and Horikita Manabu had also caught up.

"Kamio?"

Hearing Ayanokoji's voice, Kamio Tatsuya stopped in his tracks, then halted. Following that, Horikita Manabu and Ayanokoji Kiyonaka also came to a stop.

There were only two or three meters between them.

"I'm warning you, don't try anything rough with me. This place is different from over there—it's right under the cameras."

Kamio Tatsuya's eyes were filled with vigilance.

Hearing Kamio Tatsuya's words, Horikita Manabu's eyebrow twitched, while Ayanokoji looked speechless.

"Let's sit down and talk."

Horikita Manabu adjusted his glasses, which had gone slightly askew from running, and pointed to the sofa in the dormitory lobby.

Kamio Tatsuya glanced over, then nodded.

"You saw what just happened, didn't you? What are you planning to do?"

"I'm not planning to do anything."

Kamio Tatsuya looked utterly bewildered.

"Then why did you run?"

"Because I never expected that the so-called most outstanding Student Council President would deliberately pick a spot with no cameras to assault his juniors." Kamio Tatsuya rolled his eyes. "And besides, I'm not Ayanokoji—I don't have that kind of skill. I can't dodge the President's attacks."

Ayanokoji instinctively opened his mouth to retort, but felt that speaking would only make things worse, so he immediately shut it again.

Though Horikita Manabu's face remained expressionless, being mocked so sarcastically by a First Year was still extremely unpleasant.

Moreover, he was now certain that the other party had deliberately lured him here for the sake of this negotiation opportunity.

"Oh, right, I just recorded a video. If Senior Nagumo finds out about this, he'll definitely be thrilled."

Damn it!

This guy actually knows Nagumo too?

Wait a minute, Nagumo did mention the name Kamio Tatsuya before. So that's it—he's that guy?

Horikita Manabu's poker face finally began to crack.

This guy isn't planning to blackmail me, is he?

"What exactly do you want? Points? As someone from Class D, you should be pretty short on points."

Hearing this, Kamio Tatsuya looked at Ayanokoji.

"Ayanokoji, please excuse us. I'd like to discuss something privately with the President. Don't let anyone disturb us."

Ayanokoji had no choice but to stand up and leave the area, walking to the dormitory entrance.

"President, do you know the method for transferring classes?"

After Ayanokoji left, Kamio Tatsuya cut straight to the chase.

"Are you planning to abandon Class D?"

"What if I am?"

"Are you intending to rise to Class A alone?"

"I have no interest in Class A. I just don't want to stay in Class D anymore."

Horikita Manabu stared at Kamio Tatsuya for about ten seconds before speaking flatly: "Twenty million Private Points. If you have twenty million Private Points, you can go to whatever class you want."

"And you, President..."

"Don't even think about it. Even if you really recorded that video, even if you actually hand it over to Nagumo, don't expect to extort that many points from me.

But I can tell you one thing—you'll soon encounter an opportunity to earn a large number of points. If you seize that chance, it's not impossible to obtain enough points to transfer classes."

Kamio Tatsuya hadn't even finished his question before Horikita Manabu cut him off.

In truth, what had just happened would have some impact on Horikita Manabu, but it wasn't that serious. Even if it were exposed, it wouldn't matter much. As long as Ayanokoji, the victim, didn't file a complaint, Horikita Manabu would be completely fine.

And judging from the situation just now, Ayanokoji didn't seem intent on blowing things up.

So the worst-case scenario was that Nagumo would use it to damage his reputation, and he'd lose his position as Student Council President.

But twenty million Private Points—that huge sum—was far more important than the Student Council President position. It even affected whether Class 3-A could ultimately graduate from Class A.

The two weren't comparable.

"Alright, I understand."

Now that he knew there would be a chance to earn a large number of points later, Kamio Tatsuya didn't press further.

And since Horikita Manabu had brought up this high-point exam at this moment, it meant the exam was definitely capable of yielding close to twenty million, or even more than twenty million Private Points.

"Then I'll change my request. Our First Year's Midterm Exam this time uses the same test papers as the First Year's first semester midterms from previous years, right?"

Hearing this, Horikita Manabu shot Kamio Tatsuya a surprised look. He even knew that—this kid was definitely no ordinary person.

But if he was this sharp, how did he end up openly assaulting a classmate under the cameras at the start of the school year?

"That's right, you want the previous exam paper? I can give it to you."

"No, I want to invalidate this exam paper. Is there a way to do that?"

Invalidate?

Horikita Manabu was taken aback.

"As far as I know, Class D has quite a few students whose academic ability doesn't meet the standard."

"What's that got to do with me? If they're to blame, it's for not studying seriously."

Watching Kamio Tatsuya's calm and indifferent demeanor, Horikita Manabu felt a chill run down his spine.

This guy was different from Nagumo.

Nagumo expelled people to maintain his own rule, but what about this Kamio Tatsuya in front of him? He probably just wanted to expel the people he disliked.

Because he'd just clearly stated he wanted to leave Class D, which suggested he might hate some student in Class D. Combined with his request just now, it was likely that the person he hated had low academic ability...

Chapter 51: Sakayanagi: This Must Be Someone's Trap

Seeing Horikita Manabu deep in thought, Kamio Tatsuya couldn't help but ask again.

"So? Is there a way?"

After thinking for a moment, Horikita Manabu nodded.

"No problem."

That straightforward?

Kamio Tatsuya looked at Horikita Manabu with some suspicion. "You're not messing with me, are you?"

Horikita Manabu glanced at Kamio Tatsuya. "You can choose not to believe me."

Kamio Tatsuya thought it over, then pulled out his phone and, right in front of the other, deleted the previous recording completely.

"Want to check?"

"No need. As expected of someone Nagumo has his eye on. Interested in joining the Student Council?"

Tch!

First the vice president, now the president wants to recruit me into the Student Council? And Nagumo told him about me?

"I'm not interested in that."

"Is that so? Well then, I'll be going."

Horikita Manabu hurried off to prepare for changing this Midterm Exam paper. Getting that guy to delete the video so easily was a huge win.

Changing the Midterm Exam paper was both difficult and simple, depending on how you looked at it.

The most direct method was to spend Points.

There was no way Kamio Tatsuya would pay that, so in the end, it would have to come from Horikita Manabu. Of course, Horikita Manabu wasn't willing to spend those Points either.

So he chose a simpler method, one only he, as Student Council President, could pull off.

All he had to do was spread the rumor that the Midterm Exam questions were recycled from old tests, then use his authority as Student Council President to maneuver things. Changing the exam paper wouldn't be that hard.

Hmph, still too green, Junior Kamio!

Watching Horikita Manabu's retreating figure, Kamio Tatsuya didn't leave immediately. Instead, he sat on the sofa, thinking about what to do next to thoroughly spite that homeroom teacher.

Not long after he started thinking, two people appeared in front of him.

"What exactly did you talk about with my brother?"

"If you want to know, why don't you ask your brother? You're siblings, aren't you?"

Kamio Tatsuya glanced at Horikita Suzune and said curiously.

"I..."

"Ahem, actually, Horikita's relationship with her brother isn't very good..."

Before Ayanokoji could finish, he received an elbow strike from Horikita.

Kamio Tatsuya flinched at the sight. Why did girls all love elbow strikes? Horikita was like that, Kamuro was too—weren't they afraid of rupturing someone's kidney?

"Anyway, I'm not telling. If there's nothing else, I'm heading back."

The next day, Kamio Tatsuya noticed something strange. Horikita Suzune walked over to Kushida Kikyo and invited her to lunch, and Kushida cheerfully agreed.

Kamio Tatsuya's expression was a bit incredulous. Kushida really knew how to put on an act.

Because Kushida Kikyo clearly hated Horikita Suzune.

That was obvious from the conflict between Horikita and Sudo the day before yesterday.

Normally, when trouble broke out in class, Kushida would immediately rush in to mediate—like that time Kamio Tatsuya was about to punch Yamauchi Haruki.

The moment he made a move, Kushida acted right away, getting the people around to pull them apart.

But the day before yesterday in the library, she deliberately waited until things were about to spiral out of control before stepping in to stop Sudo.

Horikita Suzune's intentions weren't hard for Kamio Tatsuya to guess.

It was nothing more than the matter with Sudo and the others. After she fell out with them the day before yesterday, the study group was as good as dead.

But now, for whatever reason, Horikita was thinking of reorganizing the study group?

In that case, let me just fan the flames for them.

Kamio Tatsuya pulled out his phone, logged into an anonymous account, and prepared to post the past exam papers he'd obtained yesterday directly on the forum, along with the information that last year's and the year before's quizzes were identical to this year's quiz papers.

But just as he was about to do it, he saw that some anonymous user had already beaten him to it.

This... wasn't me, was it?

Still, it didn't take him long to figure it out—this was Horikita Manabu's doing.

Damn, so the solution was really that simple?

He felt like the request he'd made yesterday was a loss. He'd have been better off asking for points instead!!!

I see!

No wonder he left so fast yesterday!

MD, what a loss!

Kamio Tatsuya felt a sharp pang in his heart.

In reality, it was only because Horikita Manabu was willing to help. If Kamio Tatsuya had done the same thing, it would have been basically useless.

"Past exam papers?"

Looking at the content of the post, Sakayanagi Arisu was somewhat surprised.

She had long since concluded that the anonymous account stirring up trouble on the forum belonged to Kamio Tatsuya, so seeing his post now left her a bit puzzled.

Generally speaking, once you'd guessed the midterm exam questions, shouldn't you secretly tell your own class's students and use the chance to catch up on some Class Points?