"Teacher Chie, that's a pretty harsh way to put it."
Hearing the teacher call his plan a scam, Dokuho Kouya smiled helplessly. "At most, you could call it gambling."
The young-minded female teacher lowered her brows, looking conflicted. "Can Little Kouya's plan really succeed?"
The idea was to get the third-years to pool 20 million Personal Points, then randomly select one student to receive them.
At Advanced Nurturing, it took 20 million Personal Points to transfer to Class A.
In other words, if you joined the plan and were lucky enough to be selected, you could rise straight to Class A.
"The hard part is getting the third-years' points and earning their trust," Dokuho Kouya said with a smile. "With a teacher vouching for me, earning their trust shouldn't be a problem. The key is figuring out how to get the third-years' points."
Personal Points were extremely useful.
They could be used not only for everyday expenses, but could also play a crucial role in Special Exams.
There was no doubt that the third-years had accumulated plenty of Personal Points, but getting them to hand those points over would certainly be no easy task.
"If 100 people joined the plan, each person would only need to contribute 200,000 Personal Points to reach 20 million."
Chie Hoshinomiya reasoned, "If I were a third-year about to graduate, I might really join in after hearing about this plan, just to try for one last chance to make it to Class A."
"Then, has anyone tried this before?" Dokuho Kouya asked.
"Nope." Chie Hoshinomiya shook her head. "I can't tell Little Kouya the exact reason."
"Because shortly before graduation, the school lets graduating students exchange their Personal Points for cash, right?"
"Oh my, Little Kouya even knows about that? You've been a great help." Chie Hoshinomiya nodded with a smile.
That was right.
Before Dokuho Kouya, others had thought of using this method to make it to Class A.
But the school had opened a channel for exchanging Personal Points for cash at a rate of 1:0.8.
One option was a lottery where you put in everything you had, only to have a high chance of making someone else's dreams come true.
The other was cold, hard cash.
Quite a few students chose to convert their Personal Points into cash at the very end, leaving them with none to put toward the lottery.
And gathering 20 million Personal Points was already difficult. Without the support of most of the students, the plan to switch classes by lottery naturally couldn't be carried out.
"I heard Little Kouya plans to rise to Class A on his own," Chie Hoshinomiya said with an amused smile. "That won't be easy."
If even the third-years, who had plenty of Personal Points, struggled to pool 20 million to transfer classes, there was no way Dokuho Kouya, who had only just enrolled, could manage it.
What Chie Hoshinomiya meant was that he shouldn't dream of rising on his own. He should just work hard alongside everyone in his class.
"Teacher Chie, hearing you say that makes me think now is the perfect time to launch the plan," Dokuho Kouya said with a smile.
The older students hadn't managed to pull it off mainly because the cash exchange had distracted them, leaving them unable to gather the 20 million needed to transfer classes.
So he would launch the plan now, while the third-years still couldn't exchange their points for cash, and collect the points in advance.
"Honestly..."
The female teacher, Chie Hoshinomiya, sighed. "Why are you so determined to put this plan forward, Little Kouya? You don't benefit from it at all."
She had just looked over the contract carefully and found no way for Little Kouya to profit from it.
If that was the case, why was he so keen on helping the third-years pool their points?
"I just want to give everyone a surprise," Dokuho Kouya said with a smile.
Only, the surprise wasn't for his classmates. It was for the viewers watching the anime later.
It was like writing a résumé.
Once Dokuho Kouya completed the plan, his résumé would include helping the third-years transfer classes with 20 million Personal Points.
That would earn him a huge wave of popularity points.
"Little Kouya, you really are a little schemer." Hoshinomiya picked up a pen and signed her name on the contract. "All right, I'll vouch for you. Once you're done playing around, you have to help the class."
"I've already done more than enough for the class."
After school.
"Dokuho, Sayo, want to go to the shopping center together?"
A girl with purple hair tied in a ponytail hurried over, addressing the two of them excitedly.
"Sorry, I still have volleyball practice later. I probably won't have time to hang out with you anymore." Sayo Ando apologized.
"I have to go to a club, too," Dokuho Kouya said, turning down the invitation.
"Huh? Didn't you join a club, Dokuho?" Mako Amikura asked in confusion. Then she realized. "Oh, you're going to tutor the seniors in the Shogi Club."
"Wouldn't you call that teaching?" Dokuho Kouya said with a helpless smile.
"You could call it that, too."
Mako Amikura waved her little hand with a smile. "Then let's hang out another time. Bye!"
After saying that, the purple-haired girl ran over to the other girls in the class. After chatting with them for a while, she arranged to go shopping at the shopping center.
The girls going with her seemed to be Yume Kobashi and Yuki Himeno, whom they had run into at the club fair yesterday.
Outgoing people were never short of friends.
Even if their old friends turned them down, they could be off having fun with new ones in the blink of an eye.
Volleyball practice was held in the gymnasium, which was a long way from the Club Activity Building.
After saying goodbye to Sayo Ando, Dokuho Kouya headed to the Club Activity Building. But instead of going to the Shogi Club, he went to the Chess Club.
His agreement with the Shogi Club wasn't to teach them every day, but two or three times a week.
First, that would give Dokuho Kouya more time to do other things.
Second, it would give the Shogi Club members time to review, so they wouldn't have to passively absorb everything Dokuho Kouya taught them.
What Dokuho Kouya wanted to do at the Chess Club was still the same: charge tuition to teach people.
Although the Chess Club seniors hadn't played against Dokuho Kouya, they had seen his match against Sakayanagi Arisu and knew he was strong.
Since they had a chance of becoming professional players, the four Chess Club members agreed to pay 50,000 points upfront for a one-month trial.
As a result, Dokuho Kouya received another 200,000 Personal Points.
After finishing his lesson with the Chess Club seniors, Dokuho Kouya found an opportunity to say, "Senpai, could I trouble you to get in touch with your class leader?"
"There's something I'd like to discuss with them."
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