Classroom of the Elite, I Can Add Points Infinitely Chapter 15

He had no intention of telling Sakayanagi Arisu about this established and unchangeable fact directly.

In any case, it was just a game between children; as long as it didn't affect his daughter's health or mood, whether she won or lost was of no consequence in his eyes.

Arisu was nearly an adult, and he couldn't look after her forever. Having the opportunity to test her mettle against excellent peers within the small society of Kodo Ikusei Senior High School was a good thing, especially since it was all happening under his watchful eye.

He simply couldn't interfere with the first-year exams anymore, but he never said he couldn't send someone to look after Arisu's well-being. The people on the Board of Directors weren't so oblivious as to miss that.

"So, this is a move outside the chessboard that complies with school regulations?"

Sakayanagi Arisu pondered, "He has at least ten million Private Points on hand. Could it be that he exploited the fact that 'points can purchase anything in the school' to trade with the school for a way to legally earn Private Points from outside?"

The young girl secretly observed her father's expression, but seeing him smile without a word, she knew no more information could be dug out from here.

It didn't matter, though. A small amount of Private Points meant nothing to class leaders like them. Conversely, if a large amount of Private Points were being funneled in, it would be difficult for anyone to hide it easily. She just needed to have someone keep an eye on the actions of Class B in the first year.

Thinking of this, a strange glint flashed in Sakayanagi Arisu's eyes.

Previously, due to her failed match against Aragaki Shun, her approval rating in the class had plummeted, and even now, it was very difficult for her to contend with the other leader of Class A.

She had to find a way to seize complete control of Class A.

Otherwise, without enough pawns, it would be very difficult for her to compete with Aragaki Shun, who had completely unified Class B.

"Kanzaki, do you want to go audit the situation over at Class D with me?"

The morning after Director Kanda sent the notification, Aragaki Shun went downstairs for a morning jog, then came to knock on Kanzaki Ryuji's dormitory door with breakfast in hand.

After handing over the other person's breakfast, Aragaki Shun opened his phone to display the Transfer Tickets, Employment Tickets, and Auditing Tickets he had secured at the cost of ten million points, and asked if he was interested in going to see Class D together.

The reason for this was that although these special items were purchased with his ten million points, to ensure he could secure them, he had also consumed the compensation the school was supposed to have promised to Kanzaki Ryuji.

Unlike Koenji Rokusuke, who completely ignored the life or death of his classmates, Kanzaki had fully integrated into Class B over the past few days and was high-spirited, preparing to sprint toward Class A with his classmates.

Therefore, he had no intention of doing what Koenji Rokusuke did—exchanging for a large number of Private Points from upperclassmen through the school's tacit approval—but instead handed that compensation over to Aragaki Shun, hoping he would use it for class competition.

"I didn't expect the school to actually agree to this reckless trade of yours!"

Seeing the three types of special items Aragaki Shun displayed, Kanzaki Ryuji couldn't help but sigh, his understanding of the school rule that "points can buy anything in the school" deepening significantly.

He had originally thought that, out of consideration for class competition, the school would reject this trade.

After all, not to mention the Employment Tickets and Auditing Tickets, something like a Transfer Ticket was truly too overpowered.

Being able to temporarily join another class for a month meant that during this month, the user enjoyed all the rights of the joined class, including class points.

In other words, if one used a Transfer Ticket to join Class A, then for that month, the Private Points issued to the user would be the same as everyone else in Class A. At the same time, if the user violated rules or discipline, the deducted points would come from Class A's class score.

With such an exaggerated item appearing, Kanzaki Ryuji could think of dozens of ways to use it after just a little thought.

The simplest one: in this Behavioral Standards Exam, if Aragaki Shun were willing, he could completely use a Transfer Ticket to move a Class B student to Class A. Then, as long as that student arrived late and left early every day, or caused trouble in class, dragging Class A's class points down to zero after a month wouldn't be a problem at all.

"Why wouldn't they agree?"

Aragaki Shun first asked rhetorically, then explained on his own: "Whether it's the Transfer Ticket, Employment Ticket, or Auditing Ticket, they are all items restricted to use only within Kodo Ikusei Senior High School. Once they leave this school, they lose their effectiveness."

"If I used ten million Private Points to buy various daily necessities and real goods, they would be completely equivalent to ten million yen in the outside world."

"But now, I've just exchanged them for twenty-eight electronic tickets, and those ten million Private Points are gone."

"Do you think the school has lost anything?"

29. The School's Tolerant Attitude Toward Whimsical Ideas

In order to better regulate and guide students, Kodo Ikusei Senior High School designed an independent currency system within the school.

Here, all of a student's income and consumption revolve around the Private Points exclusive to Kodo Ikusei, rather than the money from the outside world.

But the reason this independent currency system can be accepted by all students is that Private Points can truly buy everything they want, just like money in the outside world.

In other words, every Private Point issued by the school must correspond to various supplies purchased from the outside.

Otherwise, if they only issued Private Points without reserving enough goods to maintain their value, the so-called points would just be a string of worthless numbers.

Therefore, even if Private Points are just numbers that the school can change at will, the school must strictly control them according to the budget range provided by various investors.

The school can only exchange for as many supplies from the outside as the budget it secures, and only then does it have the confidence to issue Private Points to all teachers and students.

This is the logic when all teachers and students use their Private Points for consumption.

But there is another special situation: the school directly recovers the Private Points in the students' hands without any extra consumption in between.

To give the simplest example, suppose a student who earned twenty million Private Points suddenly decides to run from Class B to Class D.

In this process, where did the school's budget corresponding to those twenty million Private Points go?

The student did indeed gain the opportunity to transfer classes, but transferring is nothing more than moving a desk and chair; there is no material consumption involved. Thus, in a sense, the school has gained an additional twenty million disposable Private Points.

"The school should really like this kind of trade where they can directly recover Private Points from students' hands."

Aragaki Shun said, "For both public and private reasons, I think they should thank me. After all, they can easily recover ten million or even more Private Points."

The Transfer Ticket, Employment Ticket, and Auditing Ticket—these three items seem to play an important role in class competition, but what does that have to do with the school, which sets the rules and acts as the referee?

Aragaki Shun was able to buy them, and it wasn't said that others couldn't. As for you not being able to afford them, isn't that your own problem?

In any case, the school made a huge profit!

These three types of electronic vouchers are merely qualifications for students to perform certain actions approved by the school; there is no actual consumption involved, allowing the school to reclaim ten million Private Points for nothing.

More importantly, now that Aragaki Shun has pioneered this type of transaction, once the effects spread, more students will surely attempt it, and the Private Points reclaimed will then flow in a constant stream.

If these reclaimed Private Points are used for public purposes, it is equivalent to the school recovering a massive amount of operating funds, providing the leeway to arrange more exams; if they aren't intended for student development, there are far too many loopholes to exploit.

"...So, is that actually how the school is considering it?"

Kanzaki Ryuji pressed both hands against his temples, looking as if he were at a loss for words.

As the heir to Kanzaki Heavy Industries, he could understand the logic in Aragaki Shun's words, but having the reality of the school administration so bloodily torn open by him simply shattered his illusions a bit too much.

"Hard to say."

However, to Kanzaki's surprise, despite Aragaki Shun having analyzed a whole heap of pros and cons from the school's perspective, he now gave such a response instead.

Kanzaki Ryuji: "..."

"I was just putting myself in their shoes and felt there was a possibility; as for what the school is actually thinking, who can be one hundred percent sure?"

Aragaki Shun smiled nonchalantly. "If we follow Director Kanda's previous statement, the school welcomes students to explore various uses for Private Points. As long as it complies with the rules of Kodo Ikusei Senior High School, the school will basically provide support and then observe the results before making adjustments."

"If I propose a transaction normally, the school will likely accept it, though it's hard to say exactly how many Private Points it would require."

According to Aragaki Shun's investigation, the school is quite tolerant of the various whimsical ideas among students. Even if they feel something is inappropriate, as long as the students act according to the rules, the school will not intervene like a deus ex machina.

Instead, they observe first, watch the subsequent developments, and only start patching the rules if they determine it truly undermines the school's objectives.

The most obvious example is Nagumo Miyabi from the second year.

It is rumored that this Student Council vice president is planning to control all students in the second year to turn the exams arranged by the school into a "wool-shearing" activity for everyone in the grade.

Even for this action, which clearly runs counter to the school's original intentions, isn't the school still maintaining a wait-and-see attitude?

Compared to Nagumo Miyabi's moves, Aragaki Shun is merely buying a few Transfer Tickets, which is entirely in line with the rules of Kodo Ikusei Senior High School.

When he originally applied to the school to purchase these three special items, the school only said they would consider it for a moment before agreeing directly.

The compensation from Kanzaki actually served to provide a discount.

These types of transactions used by the school to reclaim Private Points are essentially negotiable within a certain range, and the first person to propose a transaction, as a reward for providing the school with new ideas, can also receive a certain degree of discount.

According to the school, they had actually planned for things like Transfer Tickets long ago, but had never planned to implement them.

Even so, the school still gave him a rather cutthroat price.

Without the two discounts, the normal price for these three items would be twenty thousand per day for an Auditing Ticket, two hundred thousand per week for an Employment Ticket, and two million per month for a Transfer Ticket.

It was precisely because he knew this that Aragaki Shun spent all ten million points at once.

The initial discount was 25% off, and adding the 50% discount from the compensation, the two discounts combined saved him ten million points.

The school probably never imagined that someone could accumulate over ten million Private Points in the very first month.

But this is a manifestation of strength, and the school wouldn't say anything about it.

"Kanzaki, that compensation of yours allowed me to buy several extra tickets at once. I'll transfer one of each of these three electronic vouchers to you."

Facing this proposal from Aragaki Shun, Kanzaki Ryuji just waved his hand. "That's not necessary. These things were bought with your own Private Points. Even if I proposed the same to the school, I wouldn't have enough Private Points to buy even one Transfer Ticket or Employment Ticket."

The premise for the school providing compensation is that it must comply with the school rules; just like with Koenji Rokusuke, the school only tacitly allowed him to use the reputation of the Koenji Conglomerate to exchange for Private Points with upperclassmen, rather than directly stepping in to give him anything.

Kanzaki felt that unless he went to compete with Koenji, he couldn't think of what this compensation could possibly be used for.

"However, if you want me to go cause trouble in Class A, then giving me a Transfer Ticket is no problem."

30. The Danger of Using a Transfer Ticket; Himeno Yuki

Giving Kanzaki Ryuji a Transfer Ticket to let him cause trouble in Class A?

That is indeed a quite tempting suggestion.

However, after thinking about it for just a moment, Aragaki Shun shook his head and rejected Kanzaki's offer to volunteer.

"Better not. Rather than weakening others, it's better to strengthen oneself. Using a Transfer Ticket like that is a total waste, and it could also put you in danger. It would be bad if something actually went wrong."

The reason Aragaki Shun was able to proactively purchase Transfer Tickets and the school acknowledged the transaction without a care is naturally because this thing is not as simple as Kanzaki Ryuji imagines.

Otherwise, wouldn't it end up with every class buying a Transfer Ticket and then transferring to an enemy class to cause trouble, eventually leading to all four classes having their scores reduced to zero?

He wouldn't be so bored as to engage in such self-defeating behavior.

"Is there danger in using a Transfer Ticket?"

Kanzaki was surprised at first, then his eyes suddenly became sharp. He hadn't even considered what hidden dangers might exist before rushing to go cause trouble in Class A!

Sure enough, because he thought he could surpass Class A within a month, had his mood become restless?

"No matter how useful a Transfer Ticket is, it is ultimately just a special commodity. We can use it, and other classes can naturally buy and use it too. Have you thought about how you would handle it if another class used a Transfer Ticket to cause trouble in Class B just like you said?"

"This is the reason the school maintains a wait-and-see attitude. They are looking forward to seeing how the students of Kodo Ikusei Senior High School will respond when encountering various unexpected situations."

In Aragaki Shun's eyes, as long as you treat the competition between the four classes as corporate competition in society, then something like a Transfer Ticket is actually not hard to counter.

After all, once you use a Transfer Ticket, you have to stay in that class full of enemies for a month; it's hard to pull out early.

If Kanzaki really transferred into Class A so brazenly, it wouldn't be fun if he accidentally got expelled.

"Is this the danger in your eyes?" Kanzaki Ryuji's expression was conflicted. "You already know how to deal with spies using Transfer Tickets, so you think the same kind of people might exist in Class A?"

"What, do you take everyone in Class A for fools?"

Facing Aragaki Shun's question, Kanzaki actually wanted to say that even if those people weren't fools, they wouldn't necessarily be able to keep up with his line of thinking.

Just like right now, Kanzaki himself hadn't even figured out how to counter this thing yet.

"A situation that makes you feel dangerous definitely isn't just a deduction of Private Points or class points. Could it be suspension or even expulsion?"

Kanzaki felt like scratching his head in frustration, but he still couldn't figure out why transferring to another class to cause trouble would pose a risk of expulsion.

He knew the school would issue expulsion exams, but at least for this first month, wasn't the Behavioral Standards Exam the only assessment?

"Can't think of it? Then take your time!"

Aragaki Shun said with a mischievous glint in his eyes: "Come tell me once you have an idea, and we can compare our respective strategies then."

Having said that, the breakfast in both their hands was already finished. The young man checked the time and realized it was about right; if they delayed any longer and ended up late, it wouldn't be good to lose class points.

So, ignoring Kanzaki Ryuji's self-doubting expression, he extended an invitation once more: "Want to go audit Class D together?"

"...Forget it, give me an Auditing Ticket and let me go to Class C. If I go today, the effect of the Auditing Ticket should be known by the entire first year. If we want to gather intelligence on each class, observing three classes at once today should be the most effective."

Kanzaki helplessly suppressed the wild thoughts in his mind. Looking at the Auditing Ticket displayed on Aragaki Shun's phone screen, he thought for a moment and decided to go take a look as well.

However, his target wasn't Class D, but Class C.

Aragaki Shun didn't mind Kanzaki's choice at all. He was going to visit Class A and Class C later anyway; seeing things with his own eyes was always more reliable than information gathered by others.

"That works. Then who should go to Class A? We can't let Ichinose go; we need at least one core member with prestige to stay behind and watch over the class."

"Wait a second, I think I have a candidate. Sending her should be fine."

Kanzaki Ryuji was somewhat surprised by Aragaki Shun's sudden change of heart. "Who is this 'her' you're talking about? Is it inappropriate to send a girl to Class A alone? How about we switch to Shibata instead?"

"Shibata is too prone to trusting strangers. It's better not to have him do this kind of scouting work. I'll ask for her opinion first; if she doesn't agree, we'll change people."

Carrying his doubts, Kanzaki Ryuji followed Aragaki Shun toward the school building.

Entering the classroom, all the students of Class B were already seated in their respective places.