Gacha game, school inquiry, suspected fraud?

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Looking at the popularity count on the system panel, Dokuho Kouya smiled with satisfaction.

It was worth the bold claim he had just made in front of Ayanokouji.

Having established a powerful image in the eyes of Ayanokouji and the audience, his popularity would remain high even if he didn't participate in the so-called special exams.

"By the way, if I do something that damages my image, will my popularity decrease?" Dokuho Kouya asked the system.

[Popularity comes from the audience's affection for you. If you do things that the audience dislikes, your popularity will not decrease, but the difficulty of increasing it will become greater.]

The system's voice echoed in Dokuho Kouya's mind.

In other words, the audience could only increase his popularity; they would not decrease it.

However, if Dokuho Kouya were to perform poorly and get on the audience's nerves, those viewers might stop providing him with popularity points.

"It seems I still need to be careful." In Dokuho Kouya's mind, he was about to do something that no student at Advanced Nurturing had ever done before.

Perhaps, he could collect 20 million private points within the first month.

But this endeavor carried a deceptive nature, and the ones being deceived weren't the students at the school, but the audience watching the animation.

If he didn't play his cards right and suffered a backlash, it would be troublesome.

"If I participate with the mindset of a troll, there shouldn't be any problems."

As long as he didn't do anything truly heinous, the audience's tolerance for a troll was quite high.

After a moment of thought, Dokuho Kouya decided to give his idea a try.

Thus, Dokuho Kouya asked those around him, "Have you guys ever played gacha mobile games?"

"Huh?" Mako Amikura was stunned for a moment, then smiled and said, "Of course I have. I even accidentally spent real money on them back then."

Norihito Watanabe nodded in agreement, "Most anime-style mobile games these days are gacha-based, so it's easy to come across them."

Sayo Ando shook her head, "I don't really play games. I feel like scrolling through forums and short videos is more interesting."

In this day and age, there are many ways to find entertainment; games, novels, and short videos can all provide emotional value, so it's perfectly normal for some people not to play games.

But Norihito Watanabe's words indicated that gacha mobile games were still one of the current trends, and many people were willing to accept this format.

Even though most of the time it was equivalent to directly paying money to buy a character.

It was precisely because of those rare moments of getting lucky that people kept pouring money into them.

"Kouya-kun, have you played gacha games too?" Tetsuya Hamaguchi asked curiously.

Thanks for the invite, I'm a level 60 veteran player of Genshin Impact.

Dokuho Kouya paused, then a smile appeared on his face, "I just thought of something interesting, and it happens to be related to gacha."

The next day at noon.

Dokuho Kouya arrived at the teachers' office.

"Oh? Why has little Kouya come here?"

A lively and cute female voice rang out.

Chie Hoshinomiya, the homeroom teacher for Class 1-B, blinked her beautiful eyes, looking over with a curious expression on her pretty face.

"There are some things I hope Hoshinomiya-sensei can help me with." Dokuho Kouya held a contract in his hand, wanting to hand it over for the teacher to review.

"My, children these days are really proactive, actually calling a teacher by their first name."

Chie Hoshinomiya patted her cheeks, acting as if she hadn't heard what the student said, "Little Kouya is so handsome; if you had appeared during my student days, I definitely would have snatched you up."

Heh, and then dump me once you got bored, right?

Dokuho Kouya felt nothing but disdain for the teacher's words in his heart.

In his impression, this teacher of his looked approachable on the surface, but in reality, she was a bad woman.

She changed boyfriends almost every week, wanting to move on as soon as the romance started to heat up.

If one were to be swayed by her few words, they would surely be deceived quite miserably in the future.

"Hoshinomiya-sensei, about my matter..."

"I know little Kouya has something to ask me, but I want to ask little Kouya a few questions first."

Chie Hoshinomiya's beautiful eyes looked over with curiosity, "How does little Kouya know so much information?"

"Even Horikita-san from Class 3-A and Nagumo-kun from Class 2-A, the two most outstanding students in the school for decades, wouldn't be able to grasp the school's intelligence to this extent on the second day of school."

As the homeroom teacher for Class 1-B, Chie Hoshinomiya naturally knew what was happening in her class.

Upon learning that it was Dokuho Kouya who had discovered the secret, she developed a keen interest in him.

Originally, she had intended to use her authority as a teacher to summon him, but she hadn't expected him to come to her on his own initiative.

"Does the teacher know about this because the school is aware, or did you hear it from the students in the class?" Dokuho Kouya asked.

He had explained these things in the classroom at the time and had not avoided the school's surveillance.

The school must have realized long ago that a freshman had investigated the school's rules in such detail by the second day.

They must be very curious right now about exactly how Dokuho Kouya found out about these things.

Perhaps, Chie Hoshinomiya was representing the school to question him.

"Actually, I only found out because Honami and the others asked me," Chie Hoshinomiya said, her lips curling slightly. "Although the school administration was surprised by the speed at which you obtained information, they don't have any issues with you."

"They are also curious whether Class A will be able to surpass Class B over the next three years after losing their advantage in the aptitude assessment."

After saying this, Chie Hoshinomiya paused for a moment, then lightly tapped the boy's abdomen with her small fist, puffing out her cheeks as she said, "Geez, I was the one who asked the question first, yet it ended up with me answering yours instead."

"Little Kouya, can you tell your teacher how you knew?" Chie Hoshinomiya widened her beautiful eyes, looking genuinely curious.

"I asked someone."

By normal human logic, for Dokuho Kouya to know things so clearly, he must have asked someone else.

"Who did you ask?" Chie Hoshinomiya continued to ask.

"That, I cannot say." Dokuho Kouya shook his head.

This kind of behavior was also seen as perfectly normal in the eyes of others.

The school had issued a gag order to the upperclassmen and teachers.

If they were to tell these things to a freshman and were caught, they would certainly face severe punishment.

The school must also know that Dokuho Kouya learned such detailed information from someone else, but they simply couldn't find out who had leaked it.

Fortunately, in order to simulate a social environment, this school did not install cameras in many places and even actively provided means to evade school surveillance.

Even if the school ended up investigating nothing, they would surely assume that Dokuho Kouya and the student who leaked the information had made good use of the blind spots without surveillance, thus leaving no evidence behind.

"Teacher Hoshinomiya, now it's time to talk about my business." Dokuho Kouya handed the contract he had written to the teacher.

"Little Kouya, guys who make women do their work won't be able to become good husbands, you know." Chie Hoshinomiya puffed out her cheeks before looking over the contract.

Upon seeing the contents of the contract, Hoshinomiya widened her eyes and said in surprise, "Little Kouya, are you trying to commit fraud?!"