Chapter 333

Asakusa Toru intends to accelerate this process.

The method is to openly and honestly explain the rules of the game.

After all, if the students in Class A don't understand the importance of 'evaluation,' they won't be able to put class evaluation on the scales in the game.

How can one truly understand the anxiety of a declining evaluation and a bleak future without weighing class evaluations against personal experience?

The first thing to be announced is the 'evaluation'.

"Alright everyone, those of you with seats, please take your seats and stop blocking the classroom door." After exchanging glances with Asakusa Toru for a moment, Sakayanagi Arisu smile, "Those of you without seats, please wait a bit and seize the opportunity to get your chairs back."

"After all, class starts soon."

"If you stand up and disrupt the class, you will be penalized."

Faced with Sakayanagi Arisu's words, some of the students whose seats had not been taken by the Class D students hesitated for a moment before returning to their own seats in a disorderly manner.

She's right, class is about to start, there's no point in blocking the door any longer.

Although I don't know what these people are here for, it's good that they didn't take my place.

If they don't go back to their seats, and someone plops down in their spot, they might not know what to do.

However, with the seats in Class A now filled again, students without seats are finding it difficult to move around.

... This guy, if I remember correctly, is called Sakayanagi.

She looked quite stunning and possessed a unique charm, but she didn't like to talk much. As soon as she entered the classroom, she had a sour face and kept her distance from others, keeping everyone at arm's length. The only person she seemed to be close to was a female classmate named Kamuro Masumi. She was holding a cane and looked unwell.

Now he's suddenly speaking up, and he's saying all this.

What does it mean?

What points will be deducted?

However, what they cared about more than those things was the 'division' mentioned in Sakayanagi Arisu's words.

This is something the homeroom teacher didn't explain.

It's not hard to understand, though.

"Behavioral conduct points?" Sakayanagi Arisu smiled. "You're all students now, right? You know the basic rules students should follow, right? Not paying attention in class will result in deductions for behavioral conduct points."

"This kind of thing—" came the instinctive rebuttal, followed by a pause upon realizing the legitimacy of the words, before abruptly shifting the topic. "So tell me, how are we supposed to get back to our seats now?!"

Shift of responsibility.

Although this matter seems to Sakayanagi Arisu, since she spoke up, they would naturally subconsciously choose this way of speaking that seems to place the responsibility on the other party.

Fortunately, Sakayanagi Arisu no morals.

"That's something you need to consider." Sakayanagi Arisu spread her hands helplessly. "I'm just giving you a little reminder of what you should do. How to solve the current problem is not a problem for a delicate, pitiful girl like me who suffers from heart disease."

It's hard not to feel a bit sarcastic when someone calls themselves a beautiful girl, but there's no denying that Sakayanagi Arisu is undeniably a beautiful girl.

"It seems like everyone's a bit confused." Finally, after Sakayanagi Arisu reminded him of the existence of the behavior score, Asakusa Toru spoke up, "While figuring out the specific rules in a game is part of the fun, games that are too difficult to get started with without a tutorial definitely have a certain learning curve."

"What I want is for everyone to have fun playing the game together, so there's no need for any barriers to entry."

"Therefore, I feel it is necessary to openly explain the 'game' in front of us."

Asakusa Toru propped his head up with one hand and spoke to the Class A students at the door.

It's clear that there were more than just a few people in Class A, and it's impossible that only a few of them were making noise.

A dispute is bound to arise between the original owner of the seat and the Class D student who took it.

The conflict Yamauchi Haruki and Katsuragi Kohei, which just happened, was relatively minor because it was only just beginning.

The conflict will escalate and intensify as the students in Class D refuse to move their chairs no matter what.

"So why are you taking my spot?!"

"Get up!"

"What are you doing?"

A questioning voice, a response.

"I'm just sitting in my seat, there are so many seats around, you can just find any one."

"Hehehe."

"You've got it wrong, this is my seat."

But remarkably uniformly, the moment Asakusa Toru opened his mouth, the students of Class D all shut their mouths and suspended their argument with the original owners of the seats.

"Let's treat it as Special Exam," Asakusa Toru said. "The Special Exam, led by Class D, will begin today."

"The game is called 'Musical Chairs,' a very simple and straightforward game. Everyone needs to grab a chair as quickly as possible and hold it for as long as possible. Although there's no mandatory departure mechanism, luckily everyone has physiological needs."

"Yes, that's right." Asakusa Toru snapped his fingers, revealing a devilish smile, "Everyone's bladder isn't infinite; everyone will need to relieve themselves."

"Because you don't have the nerve to remain calm even if you urinate in public, even though you know perfectly well that once you leave this seat you will hardly be able to get it back, you still have no choice but to go to the restroom."

"This is a problem for you, and it's a problem for everyone in Class D as well."

"So, let's just consider this a mechanism in the game that forces players to switch phases and leave the game."

After he finished speaking, an eerie silence fell over Class A's classroom.

The students in Class A looked at each other, clearly unable to understand why Class D would suddenly do something so incomprehensible, calling it a 'Special Exam game'.

What is Special Exam? Why is it a game like this? And why were these targets chosen?

I can't understand it, I can't understand it, I can't understand it.

"Are you all insane?" Totsuka Yahiko asked in disbelief, "What good does doing this do you?!"

This is a completely self-defeating act.

Let's just think of it as schools having a system of conduct points.

They went to all that trouble to play a game like musical chairs, just to deduct a few points from Class A's conduct record?

What's the point? If they lose points, won't Class D also lose points?

They can still listen to the lesson in the classroom, but since Class D has all moved to Class A's classroom, isn't Class D' s classroom completely empty now?

Hashimoto Masayoshi: "..."

As Totsuka Yahiko's incredulous question rang in his ears, Hashimoto Masayoshi suddenly seemed to understand why Class D had all missed the opening ceremony.

They were prepared for this from the very beginning.

Although it doesn't seem like all the students in Class D are here right now, it's easy to imagine where the rest of the students will go.

... Class B and Class C.

They want to deduct as many points as possible from the behavior rules of all classes.

But why?

There has to be a reason, right?

Everyone was a first-year student, and on the very first day of school, they immediately set their sights on Class A.

It's practically like... a competition.

Yes, competition, confrontation, struggle.

Any word will do, anything will do, but the most striking thing about Class D' s behavior is that they treat all other classes in the same grade as enemies.

ABCD...

Ultimately, why is it ABCD?

Although they hadn't thought about it much before, at this moment, the vast majority of students in Class A suddenly began to consider this issue.

Because, frankly, Class D' s actions right now are far too bizarre.

Behavioral norms score, Special Exam games.

The suicide attack by Class D.

Class D viewed them all as enemies.

This means that Class D believes there is a competitive and adversarial relationship between them.

This is illogical; everyone should be able to get the recommendation they want simply by staying at this school until graduation.

But...

The homeroom teacher's recent remarks, the 100,000 points given out at the start of the school year, and the current performance of Class D— all these factors are relevant here.

How could that be?

I can't believe it.

Would the school really allow this?

Will the government accept this? Will society tolerate it? Won't the students protest?!

"Mashima said this morning, 'The points represent the school's evaluation of you.'" Taking a deep breath, Katsuragi Kohei spoke up, "I was thinking at the time that since it represents an evaluation, then this evaluation can't be fixed."

"There must be a testing standard; whether the evaluation rises or falls, it will be reflected in the results."

"Clearly, 100,000 is far too generous a treatment for students. There are 160 students in the first year alone, and 480 in the three grades. The monthly expenditure is equivalent to 48 million. Even if the Advanced Nurturing has a government background, I still think such treatment is too generous."

"But it's understandable considering that the evaluation is linked to points."

"Their goal is clear: to lower our evaluation by deducting points from our conduct score," said Katsuragi Kohei. "And the root cause is probably only one."

"The final nomination."

After a brief pause, Katsuragi Kohei continued:

"Don't you all find it strange? Every year, 160 students enroll and 160 students graduate, and the school recommends 160 students to other schools every year, but the actual number we see is far less than that."

"Besides, there's practically no more dubious guarantee than simply enrolling in school to ensure one's future."

Therefore, there is only one answer.

"Only students with high 'evaluations' can receive recommendations."

Katsuragi Kohei voice.

Side Story: Classroom of the Elite Everyone Scores Zero (The End)

Only in this way can the current behavior of Class D be explained.

It lowered everyone's opinion of it.

... Isn't this fucking self-destruction?

A whole class of suicide cars exploding is just disgusting!

I feel like throwing up.

Katsuragi Kohei's reasoning is both reasonable and correct.

There was only one thing that was overlooked.

'The class is a whole.'

This is a point that the class advisor doesn't need to mention, but it's precisely this discrepancy that led him to misjudge the current behavior of Class D.

Therefore, unity will be erased, and an era of going it alone will arrive.

Because if Katsuragi Kohei's deduction is correct, then if other classes are enemies, then his own classmates will also be enemies.

As for other people's evaluations, the lower the better, of course.

In the other world, there's a saying, "A one-point improvement can wipe out a thousand people." In Advanced Nurturing, isn't it only natural that "wiping out a thousand people can improve one point"?

Of course, there aren't as many Advanced Nurturing as there are in the thousands, so the reverse would be more efficient.

Thus, what might have been a united front between classes, and what should have been a confrontation between classes, turned into a standoff.

It quietly dissolved at that moment, leaving only one concept in everyone's mind.

Going it alone.

The person who manages to retain the most behavioral conduct points will be the one to win in the end.

In that case, everyone around us is an enemy.