Classroom of the Elite, I Can Add Points Infinitely Chapter 19

Aragaki Shun was not surprised by this answer, but on the surface, he still shook his head and sighed, "I cannot understand this, but I can respect your choice."

To be able to endure such humiliation and still maintain her usual kind image—even if it was faked—in Aragaki Shun's eyes, the girl was no different from a deity.

He had to admit that this was something he absolutely could not do!

It was just that Kushida Kikyo did not seem very happy facing this respect from him.

Seeing the strange look in Aragaki Shun's eyes, the girl's delicate face almost twisted. If not for the acting skills she had honed for years, she would have really wanted to curse out loud at this moment!

What on earth are you thinking? I don't need this kind of respect from you!!!

At the same time, Aragaki Shun raised an eyebrow slightly. His talent Danger Sense triggered once again. His intuition told him that the girl before him must have been cursing him to high heaven in her heart, yet no inconsistency could be seen on her face.

Aragaki Shun could roughly guess why Kushida Kikyo was the same as Chie Hoshinomiya, acting one way on the surface and another in private. Being able to endure to this extent without exploding, just bottling it up inside, was a skill in itself.

He just didn't understand, what was the point of this?

Besides making herself feel uncomfortable, what could she possibly gain from doing this?

Shaking his head, Aragaki Shun decided not to think about such abnormal thought processes anymore; what if his own logic got contaminated?

Just then, the bell for class rang again. The person who walked in was the homeroom teacher for Class D, Chabashira Sae. She took a deep look at Aragaki Shun, who was surrounded by the students of Class D, with unknown emotions hidden beneath her heavy, listless expression.

However, she quickly suppressed these complex feelings, slammed her book onto the podium a few times, and made a loud noise.

"The bell has already rung. Those who want to listen to the lecture, take out your books and turn to the content we covered last time."

Clearly, among those surrounding Aragaki Shun, few were thinking about studying seriously.

But he did not want the class points to drop because of this group from Class D, so after waving his hand to signal them to return to their seats, he also resumed a serious posture for class.

It was just that Class D was so bizarre that Aragaki Shun had already begun to consider whether he should change his strategy toward them.

At the very least, don't let them actually drive the class points down to zero!

38. Cannot Let Class D Fall into the Zero-Point Hell

As the saying goes, "The barefoot are not afraid of those wearing shoes."

With forty people in a class, if they were completely free from the constraints of class points, Aragaki Shun couldn't even imagine what they would be capable of.

Because apart from suspension or expulsion, there were no other punishments in this school that they would care about.

When a class still had one or two hundred points, it was a gathering place for defective goods that the other three classes could look down upon.

But when this class completely fell into the zero-point hell, the ones who should feel terrified would become the other three classes.

Who knew when this group of people would self-destruct and drag the other classes down to zero as well!

A group of desperate people who could completely ignore the increase or decrease of class points and only cared about the bottom line of expulsion—these were dangerous individuals who could be called bugs. As long as Aragaki Shun turned his brain a little, he could think of dozens of ways to drag other classes down with them.

Thus, in the following classes, while Aragaki Shun observed various intelligence on all of Class D, he was simultaneously thinking urgently about how to shift his strategy toward them.

After a day of classes, he had completely lost hope that Class D could rely on themselves to retain even fifty or sixty class points.

He even suspected that with the quality of this group in Class D, who treated the classroom like a vegetable market, it was only the second week, and they still had the ability to deduct Class D's points to below five hundred.

If they were really allowed to be unrestrained for a month, let alone the one thousand class points issued at the start of the semester, even if the school gave them another thousand, it would never be enough for them to squander!

After reaching this conclusion, Aragaki Shun felt inexplicably tired. He never imagined that there would come a day when he would have to step in to provide a safety net for his opponents just because they were too stupid.

Although, if he didn't step in, once Class D fell into the zero-point hell, using personal points to buy them off as mercenaries was also a strategy.

But after thinking about it for a moment, Aragaki Shun rejected this idea. He still had use for Class B's personal points; there was no need to waste them here.

Moreover, if he could buy them, other classes could naturally buy them too. If several classes competed in this aspect, the only ones to benefit would be these unstable factors in Class D.

So, it was better to let them preserve the remaining class points themselves, and while he was at it, he could impose a leash on all of Class D to strengthen his control over them.

Thus, Aragaki Shun made his decision.

When all the classes for the day ended, he did not return to Class B as originally planned, but walked directly onto the podium of Class D.

"Everyone in Class D, could you please wait a few minutes? We in Class B have some truth regarding the personal points the school will issue later that we need to discuss with you all."

Due to his reputation in the school and the support of the girls in Class D, no one had any objections when Aragaki Shun signaled for the group to stay behind.

Some of them probably had their own doubts and wanted to hear what he had to say; others might have had objections, but dared not stand up to oppose him.

Only Koenji Rokusuke glanced at him with interest before lowering his head to groom his hair on his own.

"Is there something important that Aragaki-kun wants to tell us?"

Yosuke Hirata stood up and asked the question on everyone's mind on behalf of Class D, "What do you mean by the truth about the personal points the school will issue later? Isn't it that the school issues one hundred thousand personal points every month?"

"Hasn't anyone among you doubted this? I'll be blunt: based on your performance today, by next month, the school will absolutely not issue even a single personal point!"

Aragaki Shun's words fell like a thunderclap, and in an instant, the entire Class D exploded.

"That's impossible. Are you saying the school is lying to us?"

"That's fake, right? How are we supposed to live without personal points? Is the school going to starve us to death?"

"Impossible, absolutely impossible! Chabashira-sensei said at the start of the semester that there are one hundred thousand personal points every month!"

Aragaki Shun ignored the clamoring bunch and just said coldly, "Whether you believe it or not is up to you. If you want to live a life where you can only eat the free set meals from now on, then leaving now is fine too."

An inexplicable pressure filled the entire classroom once again. All the noisy sounds suddenly vanished, as if someone had used a silence spell.

"There are free goods in the supermarket and windows in the cafeteria serving free meals. Inferring from these anomalies, there must be a group of people in this school who will fall into the predicament of having no points to spend."

"Aragaki-kun," a slender figure stood up from her seat, her gaze cold as she stared directly at the boy on the podium, "let's be direct. What exactly is your goal?"

"Oh? It seems Class D still has some smart people after all. At least not everyone is completely ignorant of their own situation."

Shun Aragaki looked at the younger sister of the student council president with some surprise; her observational skills were quite sharp.

However, since she had already discovered the anomalies in the school, why hadn't she dug deeper to get to the bottom of it, or discussed these findings with everyone in the class?

"Horikita-san?"

Seeing Horikita Suzune's reaction, Kikyo Kushida also stood up, wearing her usual enthusiastic expression, "Did you discover something? Can you tell everyone? If everyone in the class can't get points and can only eat free meals, that would be too pitiful."

"Yes! Yes! I don't want to eat vegetable meals every day. I tried it out of curiosity before, and it tasted awful."

"I still need to buy more cosmetics! What will I do if I don't have points?"

Guided by Kikyo Kushida, everyone in Class D cast their gazes toward Horikita Suzune. However, the girl remained unmoved by the noise, merely sweeping a cold, impatient glance over the classmates she deemed too rowdy, before turning her eyes back to Shun Aragaki.

She had absolutely no favorable impression of the person who had openly embarrassed the student council president at the club orientation.

But thanks to the girls in her class who chatted about gossip all day, she had learned of his feat of challenging various clubs, and it seemed the difficulty of trying to teach him a lesson was a bit too high.

"You took the initiative to bring this up, so you're probably not trying to be a good Samaritan. Get to the point, state your terms, and I'll decide whether to agree based on the situation!"

Shun Aragaki: "..."

"...So, Horikita-san is actually the leader of Class D? You can make decisions for everyone in Class D?"

"This is a transaction between you and me. What does it have to do with the others in Class D?"

Looking at the righteous Horikita Suzune, Shun Aragaki roughly guessed why she had been assigned to Class D.

"Forget it. I'll call Chie Hoshinomiya over and have the school notarize the contract!"

"I will tell you all the truth about the school, and in exchange, each of you will pay 5,000 personal points to Class B every month."

39. Class D learns the truth about the school

Shun Aragaki had once asked Chie Hoshinomiya how many personal points it would cost to purchase the school's various hidden rules directly from a teacher.

Her response was two million.

And just like Shun Aragaki, investigating information directly from upperclassmen was naturally an option.

Although the school had strictly controlled contact between upperclassmen and first-years during this first month, as long as one paid enough personal points, there were naturally plenty of seniors willing to take the risk and trade in secret.

It was just a pity that it had been a week, and no one in Class D had thought to look for upperclassmen to gather information. It was unclear if the whole class lacked this awareness, or if those who had the idea lacked the negotiation skills.

Take Horikita Suzune, for example; she was definitely the type who could perceive anomalies but lacked the negotiation skills to find channels for gathering information.

Therefore, when Chie Hoshinomiya arrived and she asked the teacher about the two-million-point price tag, even though she was unwilling, she still agreed to the deal.

As for the others, there was no shortage of people who wanted to slack off and didn't want to pay any price. However, Shun Aragaki only said: "Suit yourselves. In any case, so many people have already dropped out in the second and third years; the first years will follow sooner or later. I just don't know which class will be the unlucky one."

Just like that, Yosuke Hirata became inexplicably agitated. Under his persuasion, along with that of Kikyo Kushida and others worried about dropping out and losing points, most of Class D finally signed their names on the contract.

Shun Aragaki watched coldly as the group argued and made a ruckus for a long time before reaching a decision, making him, the beneficiary, seem indifferent to this deal that would bring in 200,000 personal points every month.

In fact, he had been prepared for the deal to fall through.

Unfortunately, until everyone in Class D except Rokusuke Koenji had signed the contract, he didn't see anyone unexpected jump out to point out a new path for Class D.

"Hoshinomiya-sensei, the contract is missing Rokusuke Koenji's name. Can I sign on his behalf?"

Yosuke Hirata handed the contract, which emphasized the responsibilities and confidentiality agreements of both parties, to Chie Hoshinomiya with some embarrassment. He took the initiative to offer to pay 5,000 personal points for Rokusuke Koenji every month, and he didn't seem reluctant at all.

"No need. For a contract based on a class, it only needs the consent of more than 90 percent of the class to pass. This is already enough."

Chie Hoshinomiya smiled with an eerie expression.

When she heard that Shun Aragaki wanted to sell the school's hidden rules to Class D, she had originally wanted to lose her temper, but after hearing his explanation, she didn't know what kind of expression to show.

As expected of a student in Sae Chabashira's class, right?

She really wanted to let them become the first class in the history of Advanced Nurturing High School to have their class points drop to zero after the first month!

But she couldn't!

What if this was Sae Chabashira's scheme to force them into hell and then ignite their motivation?

The zero-point tactic, finding life in death... Sae Chabashira had indeed always been trying to find ways to commit insubordination; she couldn't let her plan succeed.

"Is that so?" Yosuke Hirata didn't look happy, but instead apologized to Rokusuke Koenji: "I'm sorry, Koenji. I will transfer the corresponding points to you every month."

"No need, Hirata-boy. Save that effort for those who need it. For me, who is destined to shoulder the entire Sakurajima society, these points have no value at all."

Rokusuke Koenji didn't even look up, "However, the school is really not beautiful, actually binding me to this class without permission!"

Shun Aragaki took the contract from Chie Hoshinomiya and discovered another undisclosed hidden rule of the school.

However, it wouldn't be accurate to call it a new discovery. From the fact that the school evaluated everyone in a class based on class points, it could be inferred that the school preferred to have classes compete as a whole unit, so it was reasonable for contracts based on classes to exist.

Compared to this discovery, he was actually more amazed by the shortsightedness of the people in Class D.

If he had asked them to pay two million directly to buy information from the school, or for each person to pay 50,000 at once, they wouldn't have agreed.

But by asking them to pay 5,000 each per month for three years, they accepted it immediately.

Could it be that after only one week, this group of people has already nearly exhausted their private points?

Or do they simply feel that compared to the fifty thousand private points they currently hold, the five thousand they will receive each month in the future is not much?

"Don't waste time. Tell me everything you know right now; I want to know what the true face of this school really is!"

Perhaps feeling that she had already paid, Horikita Suzune made her demand to Aragaki without any politeness.

The boy, however, was not angry; he was looking forward to seeing what kind of expression this seemingly arrogant person would have once she heard that the school evaluated her as a defective product.

"Then you had better listen carefully, as I may not have the patience to repeat myself."

With the mindset of someone watching a show, Aragaki Shun laid out all the agreed-upon information: the ranking rules for Classes A, B, C, and D from best to worst, the situation regarding the Behavioral Standards Exam, the relationship between class points and private points, and the news about the twenty million points required to transfer classes.

As expected, the students of Class D, who still viewed the school as a paradise where they could take whatever they wanted, erupted in the classroom upon hearing the truth about the Advanced Nurturing High School.

"How is that possible? Class D is actually the worst of the four classes?"

"The guarantee for further education and employment is a lie? Only Class A gets to enjoy that? This school is running a false advertisement, it's a scam!"

"Lateness, leaving early, talking in class, littering—all of these deduct class points? What are we supposed to do? How many class points do we even have left? It would be a disaster if we don't have enough private points to spend next month."

"And there are special exams that could actually lead to expulsion..."

"..."

Aragaki Shun leisurely observed the various reactions of the Class D students, only clapping his hands once he had seen enough, drawing everyone's attention to him.

"That covers all the hidden rules agreed upon in our contract. Hoshinomiya-sensei, as the representative of the school, you should be able to confirm that I have fulfilled the conditions of the contract, right?"

"That's right," Hoshinomiya said, her face flushed; it seemed that watching the panic of the Class D students was quite satisfying for her as well. "Little Aragaki has finished the work he was supposed to do, so it's time to head back to Class B."

"Wait a moment!"

This was Horikita Suzune, her face still showing traces of anger and disbelief. "Did the school really make a mistake? I believe that my academic and physical abilities are among the best in this year's cohort. How could I possibly be placed in Class D with this bunch of people?"

40. Send Yamauchi and Ike to Class A and Class C

Horikita Suzune seemed particularly dissatisfied with being placed in Class D.