Classroom of the Elite: I Can Add Points Without Limit, Chapter 177

The red-haired man frowned, his fingers clenching into a fist under the table before quickly relaxing.

If he weren't currently enduring humiliation, he would have exploded on the spot upon hearing the disgusting name "Ryuen-boy".

"That's right, Ryuen." Katsuragi Kohei expressed his attitude with unwavering seriousness.

"Your strength is indeed among the top tier of first-year students, but judging from your past competitive methods, you always favor violence and have repeatedly used some underhanded and dirty tricks, yet you have rarely achieved results."

"Based solely on performance, Class B has no reason to cover your transfer fees."

In short, the class's current financial situation isn't good, and Katsuragi doesn't think Ryuen Kakeru is worth their Twenty Million Personal Points.

Even if they use Transfer Ticket to pay in ten monthly installments, it is still a considerable burden for the impoverished Class B.

After all, Ayanokoji Kiyotaka joined with his own assets, so it's fine to ignore him for now. However, the transfer fee for Koenji Rokusuke still needs to be shared by everyone in the class.

"But if you want to fight against Aragaki Shun, you have to take me in, don't you?"

With his arms crossed, Ryuen Kakeru calmed himself down and spoke in a tone so calm it was almost completely flat, making his own conclusions.

Before Katsuragi and the others could refute, this delinquent went further and pointed out the gap between the two classes—

"Let's start with the top-tier combat power. Aragaki Shun alone can suppress the entire grade. As for the middle-tier classes, on one side is Class B, which almost became an empty shell after losing five talented students, and on the other side is Class A, which is inclusive and brings together the elites of the grade. Finally, let's look at the number of students and their average level... How do you think Class B can win right now?"

Even so, this is only a one-on-one match between Class A and Class B. If Class C and Class D are also included, it will be even less motivating.

"Now that the other three classes have been brought under Aragaki Shun's control, I'm the only one who would defy the odds and join Class B. Are you sure you want to shut me out for some ridiculous reason?"

Upon hearing this question, Katsuragi Kohei frowned. He had to admit that there was some truth to what the other party said.

Since Sakayanagi Arisu, Kamuro Masumi, Yamamura Miki, and others transferred to Class A, their class suddenly lost five key and even top-tier fighters.

Even with the addition of Koenji Rokusuke and Ayanokoji Kiyotaka, the class size only increased to 37, which was 3 fewer students than when school started in April.

Regardless of Ryuen's character, he once led a class to challenge Aragaki Shun, so his strength is guaranteed. Adding him to Class B would at least provide a core member of the team.

In this way, the class size will be restored to 38, which is closer to Class A's 48 students... Although there is still a huge gap, it is indeed another step closer.

"If there's an opportunity, it would be better to let Ryuen join the class."

Before anyone else could figure it out, Ayanokoji Kiyotaka suddenly spoke up, "This Sports Festival shows that some Special Exam have implicit requirements on the number of students in the four classes, and Class B's current shortage of students hasn't been filled yet."

This is a cruel reality that we cannot ignore.

According to the rules of this Sports Festival, whether it is a large group based on grade level or one of the four classes within a grade, the final ranking is determined by the total score within the group.

On the other hand, those individual competitive events that require the participation of all participants stipulate that each class must send someone to compete round by round, with a total of 40 rounds.

The problem is that their class only has 37 students, not even enough to fill all the rounds, meaning they automatically lose the points for the corresponding rounds before the game even starts.

From this perspective, Ryuen's addition is a positive development for Class B, not to mention that his overall strength is already quite good, enough to surpass most of the students in the class.

"I understand your thoughts, Ayanokoji, but the class's financial situation..."

Katsuragi wanted to explain further, but then he saw Koenji Rokusuke put down the mirror in his hand and slowly look at the red-haired delinquent.

"In principle, I, the beautiful one, do not object to Ryuen-boy's self-recommendation, but you are also aware of the current situation in the class. Ayanokoji Boy's transfer funds were all prepared by himself. I wonder if Ryuen-boy has any thoughts on this?"

Ryuen Kakeru's lips twitched. This bastard's meaning was clear: the other party agreed to let him join Class B, but was unwilling to pay for it, and told him to figure it out himself.

Don't you think you've gone too far?

"But you can definitely do it, can't you?" the blond burly man said casually while combing his hair. "Don't tell me that the five million that Aragaki Shun took from you actually fell from the sky?"

"To be able to escape the Student Council unscathed, I suspect you, Ryuen-boy, have already made contact with the second-year Vice President and obtained financial support from him."

You're describing losing five million Private Points as a complete escape?

Ryuen Kakeru's smile was forced and somewhat creepy. "Your brain is pretty good, but it's not hard to guess. After all, if the person being targeted were Ayanokoji, she would probably be expelled from school immediately after this move, right?"

It's a very simple logic. Miyabi Nagumo was willing to protect Ryuen Kakeru, but because of the pool peeping incident, if it were Ayanokoji Kiyotaka instead, it would be strange if he weren't kicked while he was down.

I'm afraid even Manabu Horikita won't say much about this outcome; at most, he'll turn a blind eye, and it would be a sign of his high moral character if he didn't take drastic measures.

Knowing that the Student Council disliked him, and when he discovered that the students in Class D were subtly trying to make him a scapegoat, Ayanokoji immediately switched classes and ran away.

Otherwise, the combined backstabbing from the entire Class D and the targeting by the Student Council would definitely have been enough to trip him up.

Therefore, in the face of Ryuen's sarcasm, Ayanokoji simply remained silent, maintaining his usual expressionless face, and said nothing else.

A mysterious smile appeared on Koenji's face.

Ryuen's response can be seen as an implicit acceptance of Miyabi Nagumo's support.

Class B is currently facing difficulties, so it's rare to encounter such a generous and lucrative target.

248. Second-grade dropout situation; Class B's chosen strategy

"I'm curious, just how much is that second-year Vice President willing to sacrifice for victory in this Sports Festival?"

Having confirmed that Miyabi Nagumo was a rare and lucrative target, Koenji Rokusuke no longer hesitated and directly pointed out Ryuen Kakeru's other purpose for coming.

"He invested so many Private Points in Ryuen-boy, he couldn't possibly just be doing a good deed without making any demands, right?"

"If I'm not mistaken, Ryuen-boy is currently one of the Vice President's people planted in the first year, and he needs to help the vice president spread his influence to the first year."

"In that case, it's probably Miyabi Nagumo's intention to have you join Class B. After all, this is the only first-year class that she can still influence."

Upon hearing such remarks, the former tyrant's expression immediately darkened, and his sharp gaze met that of Koenji Rokusuke, as sharp as a sword.

Lies don't hurt, but the truth is the sharpest knife.

Set up by Aragaki Shun and Class C, they must raise five million Private Points as compensation within three days. This is no easy task for Ryuen, who is now alone and has no other source of income.

Before this, Miyabi Nagumo had only given him a deposit of four million, which he hadn't even had a chance to enjoy before he was still one million short.

As for the promise of an additional six million after the matter was completed... due to poor performance, the remaining reward naturally disappeared.

Faced with this near-desperate situation, he had no choice but to agree to Miyabi Nagumo's demands and sign an unequal contract.

Although there were sunk costs involved, Nagumo didn't intend to give up Ryuen just like that. However, the former clearly had doubts about the latter's capabilities and was therefore not prepared to be a sucker and pay money for it for no reason.

These five million Private Points were actually borrowed by Ryuen Kakeru from Miyabi Nagumo.

Until this debt is fully repaid, he can only obey the other party's orders and act as their pawn in interfering with the first year. Otherwise, with the principal and interest added up, plus the consequences of a second breach of contract, the other party could easily force him to drop out of school.

Being so controlled by others was simply unbearable for a former tyrant, which explains why he became so gloomy after hearing Koenji wounds.

"... That's right. Miyabi Nagumo asked me to bring a collaboration to Class 1-B. He wants to defeat Aragaki Shun and Manabu Horikita of the Third Year in this Sports Festival, and he also believes that Class B can take this opportunity to close the gap with Class A."

He confronted Koenji with a fierce look for a long time, but the latter maintained his cynical, narcissistic, and arrogant attitude. In the end, Ryuen Kakeru, who didn't have many bargaining chips, spoke first.

Thus, in the eyes of everyone present, he reluctantly acknowledged Miyabi Nagumo's identity as a chess piece.

That was indeed the case, but the man, who considered himself a viper, certainly wouldn't give in.

It's just a debt of five million Private Points; do you really think you can control him forever?

Even Aragaki Shun hadn't thought of it that way; he'd only threatened to expel him to keep him in line. Where did that blond idiot get the courage to look down on him like that?

As the saying goes, death absolves all debts. He wanted to see if that blond-haired idiot could maintain his arrogant attitude after being expelled from school.

However, for the time being, that blond guy has a lot of Private Points, the power of the Student Council, and the support of most of the second-year students. On the surface, his strength is enough to rival Aragaki Shun.

Since the other party wants to take the lead, the right choice is to continue to feign compliance with them, profit from the gaps in their confrontation, and thus strengthen himself.

Anyway, he didn't think Nagumo could defeat Aragaki Shun. As long as the opponent was at a disadvantage, he would definitely increase his support for him.

Once he has squeezed all the value out of it, he should have gathered enough chips to make a comeback. At that time, he can find a way to drive it out of Advanced Nurturing and make the so-called contract invalid.

"Cooperation?" A playful smile appeared on Koenji's lips. "He wants Class B to deliberately drag the first-year students down so that the second-year students can win the prize in the winning group?"

"That's right. As long as Class B agrees, Nagumo is confident that he can make the first-year students the losers. At that time, Class B, as the last-placed class in the losers' group, will be able to close the gap of 300 Class Evaluation Points with Class A..."

At this moment, Ryuen transformed into an emotionless messenger, relaying Miyabi Nagumo's words one by one.

According to the rules of the Sports Festival, the three grades will be divided into a winning group, a middle group, and a losing group based on their final scores.

At the same time, rankings need to be determined within each of the three grades. The first to fourth place in each grade need to allocate Class Evaluation Points either plunders or is plundered, according to a ratio of 4:3:2:1.

If Class 1-B deliberately causes trouble, it could turn the entire Grade 1 into a losing group, and they will ultimately lose 1,000 Class Evaluation Points.

However, according to the allocation method, Class A, as the first place in the losing group, will lose 400 points, while Class B, which is in last place, will only lose 100 points, with a difference of exactly 300 points.

It's worth noting that Aragaki Class currently has Class Evaluation Points of 2122, while Katsuragi Class has 1658, a difference of only 464 points on the surface.

If this plan is successfully implemented, the gap between the two classes will be reduced to less than 200 points. With the support of the entire second grade, they may only need to go through one more Special Exam to regain their position as Class A.

Faced with this idea, aside from Koenji Rokusuke and Ayanokoji Kiyotaka, at least Katsuragi Kohei was genuinely interested.

No matter how you look at it, given the current state of Class 1-B, they definitely have no chance of competing with Aragaki Class for first place in the winning group.

Given this, directly locking in the last place in the losing group would be a prudent choice.

This would not only narrow the gap between the two classes, but also weaken Class C and Class D, who are subordinate to Aragaki Shun. The actual loss for all three classes combined could be as high as 900 Class Evaluation Points.

To achieve such results by simply sacrificing 100 points is a huge win.

"It sounds like a great plan, but to admit defeat without even trying is a cowardly act that doesn't suit the beautiful me."

With one hand supporting his chin, unlike Katsuragi's change of heart, Koenji remained as self-important as ever, leaving no doubt that he would abandon the theoretically most suitable strategy for aesthetic reasons.

Or rather, the impression this person left on all his classmates was that he was arrogant and would never compromise for something as insignificant as the win rate.

The pros and cons that a normal class leader would consider might really be nothing more than useless discarding material when applied to this capricious individual.

Ryuen Kakeru realized this, his eyes narrowed slightly, and an interested smile appeared on his face.

"So you want to go head-to-head with Class A? You don't actually think you can snatch first place from Aragaki Shun in the victory group while being attacked by three classes, do you?"

If they can really achieve this, then it will indeed be a victory for Class 1-B.

But is this really possible?

Even someone as beautiful as me wouldn't dare claim victory so easily in front of that man.

On this point alone, Koenji did not maintain his usual arrogant attitude.

After all, he had sparred with Aragaki Shun many times, and those repeated defeats were undeniable.

"But as long as Class B doesn't cause trouble and fully commits to this Sports Festival, with the strength of the first-year students, defeating the other two grades and becoming the winning team is almost a certainty."

"What do you think, Ryuen-boy? I haven't seen many talented students in second and Third Year."

The red-haired man remained silent, only now realizing that the heir to the Koenji Conglomerate in front of him seemed to have been hanging out with many upperclassmen since the beginning of the semester, enjoying their rotating support.

Therefore, it's understandable that the other party had some knowledge of the situation in the eight upper-grade classes.

As for Ryuen Kakeru himself, as a former tyrant who had prepared a plan to accumulate 800 million Private Points from the very beginning, he naturally wouldn't set his sights on the first-year students.

He also spent time investigating the abilities of the second and Third Year.

Putting everything else aside, just looking at the number of students on the surface, both the second and Third Year are far smaller than the first grade.

After a whole semester of adjustment in first grade, only those four idiots in Class D were forcibly expelled for peeping into the girls' changing room.

The Third Year had already spent two and a half years in Advanced Nurturing. After a series of Special Exam, nearly twenty students who couldn't keep up left the program.

However, this should be considered normal data, as most of the dropouts came from Class C and Class D.

What's special is the second-year students under Miyabi Nagumo's command. They entered school a year later than the Third Year, but the number of students who have been expelled has already exceeded twenty.

More importantly, most of these dropout incidents are related to Miyabi Nagumo.

The opposing side likes to use this method to eliminate dissidents, thereby intimidating the remaining students in the same grade, and then using the promise of graduating from Class A as an incentive to gain control of the grade's overall situation.

In this situation, those who are expelled in the second year are either those who have the ability but failed in their resistance against Miyabi Nagumo's rule, or those who are not strong enough and are caught in the crossfire of the Special Exam.

This has created a very strange situation: the number of students dropping out of Class 2-A and Class B in the second year is no less than that of Class C and Class D, and there are hardly any students in the entire grade who can be called top-level fighters.

"Without a doubt, if we're talking about raw strength, the second-year students, whose edges have been smoothed out, are probably the weakest of the three grades."

With a cold smile, Ryuen Kakeru made this judgment directly.

This was not only because the number of second-year students was the smallest, but more importantly, because many class leaders and core fighters whose strength was only slightly inferior to Nagumo's had been expelled by him.

It's worth noting that even in Nagumo's own Class 2-A, there were competitors who could threaten his position. He ruthlessly expelled them from Advanced Nurturing, specifically to make an example of them.

This clearly shows that, among the three grades, the second grade is undoubtedly at the bottom in terms of both the number and quality of students.

"If no special deals were made and everyone in the school chose to fight head-on, wouldn't the outcome of the Sports Festival have been predetermined long ago?"

Ayanokoji Kiyotaka suddenly spoke up, "The first-year students are the winning group, the Third Year will be the middle group, and the losing group will inevitably be the second-year students."

"The only way for that person to change this outcome is to try and win over the first- and Third Year students, causing chaos within their ranks."

Among the first-year students, only Class B could be won over by him.

From this perspective, Miyabi Nagumo's desire for Class B is far greater than Class B's need for Miyabi Nagumo.