Horikita Suzune's doubt, Kouya Dokuboku's surprise, you haven't done anything this month?

"Spent 20 million to help someone transfer classes?"

Yuki Himeno gasped, doubting she had heard correctly.

At the start of the school year, she had heard that Dokuho Kouya wanted to pursue a path to reach Class A on his own.

However, transferring to Class A required a staggering 20 million private points.

Even if the entire Class A pooled their points together, it would still take five months to accumulate that amount.

Therefore, even though everyone knew Dokuho Kouya was incredibly capable, his classmates hadn't taken it seriously, deep down not believing he could actually pull it off.

Yuki Himeno was no exception.

But now, hearing the words of the Student Council president, she knew she had been wrong.

The boy who had just been praising her for being kind had, behind everyone's backs, already amassed that massive sum of points.

And the time it took him was a mere single month!

"Kouya-kun, is this true?"

Yuki Himeno looked at the boy beside her in disbelief, hoping to hear a denial from his own lips.

"The Student Council president is correct."

Dokuho Kouya nodded and said slowly, "This afternoon, I found a senior from Class C of the Third Year and gave him 20 million private points to help him transfer to Class A of the Third Year."

Dokuho Kouya's tone was calm, as if he were speaking of something trivial.

But upon hearing this, the girl felt her heart grow incredibly heavy; her pretty face lowered, and her gaze dimmed.

She had been wrong.

When they were talking on the way back to the dorms and she heard Dokuho Kouya suggest she give advice to Ichinose, she had assumed he was concerned for the class and still wanted to stand with them.

But now she realized she was wrong.

He didn't need the strength of the class at all to graduate as a student of Class A.

The things he had said to her weren't because the class's situation affected his own interests, but likely out of something akin to "pity."

"Why would you do that?"

While Yuki Himeno remained silent, the voice of another girl present rang out, filled with confusion.

Horikita Suzune did not show the weakness she displayed before her brother; her eyes were firm and her attitude sharp as she said, "If you had 20 million private points, why wouldn't you save them to promote yourself to Class A, instead of giving them to a senior?"

She did not doubt Dokuho Kouya's words.

Or rather, she did not doubt her brother, Manabu Horikita.

Since Manabu Horikita said Kouya had 20 million points, then Kouya certainly had 20 million points.

But it was precisely because she believed this that she found it so inconceivable.

How could someone be foolish enough to just give their points away to someone else?

It was just like that idiot on the bus before school started who paid someone to give up their seat.

Wait.

It seemed that was the same person, wasn't it?

Realizing this, the expression on Horikita Suzune's face became somewhat strange.

Could the person in front of her be a fool?

Although Horikita Suzune didn't say it, anyone could read that meaning on her face.

"Suzune-san, I need to remind you of one thing." Dokuho Kouya's lips curled slightly, a faint smile on his face. "I am already a student of Class A."

Horikita Suzune was slightly stunned.

That's right.

When they met at the convenience store last month, Kouya was still a student in Class B.

But after the special exams concluded, Class B had staged a comeback and become Class A.

So, Dokuho Kouya, who was originally in Class B, was already a student of Class A.

"Did you make Class B become Class A as well?" Horikita Suzune's eyes narrowed, her ruby-like pupils staring intently at him.

In terms of looks, he was certainly the most handsome she had seen in years.

But she never would have guessed that the person opposite her was such a capable man.

Not only was he able to collect 20 million private points himself, but he had also led his own class to Class A.

Even though Horikita Suzune had great confidence in her own abilities, after seeing what Dokuho Kouya had accomplished, she had to admit that he was a formidable opponent.

Hearing the dark-haired girl's question, Dokuho Kouya's eyes brightened, and he felt a small surge of excitement inside.

Heh.

That's a great question.

I was just worrying about not having a chance to tell the audience about these things.

"I didn't expect Horikita-san to have such a poor memory."

Dokuho Kouya looked at the girl with a calm expression, "We met at the convenience store on the very first day of school, and I told you about the school's hidden rules then."

"On the second day, I shared the hidden rules I knew with my class. Once they learned the truth, everyone became good students who followed the rules and studied hard, which is why we were able to obtain 980 class points."

"To be honest, I was a bit surprised myself."

Dokuho Kouya crossed his arms, wearing a puzzled expression, "I had clearly warned you that the school had hidden rules, yet Class D's score ended up being zero."

"Horikita-san, did you not tell the people in your class about these things?"

"If everyone in Class D had realized that the school wasn't as simple as it appeared on the surface, they would have restrained their behavior at least a little, and they wouldn't have ended up with zero points."

Upon hearing this, Horikita Suzune's face darkened, and she said with dissatisfaction, "Why should I tell the others in my class about these things? Whatever happens to the class points is their own fault; it has absolutely nothing to do with me."

She had used her own ability to figure out that the school might have hidden rules, so why should she share that information with anyone else?

"That's insane."

"Didn't you just tell your brother you could reach Class A? If you don't share important information with your classmates, how do you expect to reach Class A?"

"Little Horikita is stupidly cute."

"Money Brother is so black-hearted. It was clearly him who caused Class D's points to drop to zero, yet he's dumping all the blame on Horikita."

"Horikita is at fault too. Since she isn't good at gathering information, she should have just asked others in the class to do it."

"She knew the news on the first day of school, but didn't take any action for the whole month. She's no better than the other students in Class D."

"Even Money Brother can't hold it in anymore."

The viewers, upon hearing Horikita Suzune's statement, began to voice their criticisms one after another.

Dokuho Kouya did indeed curl the corners of his mouth, wanting to laugh on the spot.

However, he only wanted to laugh because he saw the comments the netizens were posting.

He was not amused by Horikita Suzune's statement.

But Horikita Suzune did not think so.

"What are you laughing at?"

The black-haired girl knitted her beautiful brows, glaring at Dokuho Kouya with a face full of anger.

"Suzune, stop embarrassing yourself here."

Manabu Horikita sighed before telling his younger sister to quiet down.

"Brother, I..."

Horikita Suzune wanted to retort, but after meeting her brother's gaze, she lowered her head in grievance and truly stopped speaking.

Seeing his sister finally quiet down, Manabu Horikita let out a breath of relief, then continued his conversation with the first-year boy, "Kouya-kun, could you explain the reason for doing this?"