Chapter 208
In other words, Class B's financial resources are running a deficit of about 3 million yen every month. This is why, even though Ayanokoji and Ryuen Kakeru each brought in 10 million yen, the class account balance is still decreasing so quickly.
Koenji's permanent transfer will require five installments, while the other two will need six. Without other sources of income, they likely won't be able to hold out until then.
Does this mean that in the end, we'll have to abandon one of them?
Katsuragi absolutely did not want things to develop to that point, but if something were to happen, then sacrifice would be the only option...
Shifting the focus to Class D, Matsushita Chiaki's ranking suddenly rose to the top three in the class, unsurprisingly attracting the attention of everyone in the class.
However, after Yamauchi and the others dropped out, the atmosphere in Class D was not as bad as it had been at the beginning. With Karuizawa Kei's help, no one openly questioned her.
The girl breathed a sigh of relief, but soon listlessly rested her chin on the table, looking somewhat dejected.
Matsushita Chiaki realized a major problem: he had indeed been hiding his strength, but not much, and even if he gave it his all this time, it seemed to be just so-so.
While I was playing sexy games with my friends and going shopping and having fun every day, the students in Class A were working hard to improve, but my ranking wasn't as high as I had imagined.
When she first entered school, she could certainly secure a place in the top 10% of her grade, but now, it seems... she probably can't?
Wow~ I think I'm really going to be useless!
And what's the deal with Ayanokoji Kiyotaka?
Aren't you the same type as me?
How did he suddenly become a monster with perfect scores in all subjects!
Could it be that I'm the only one who actually turned out to be a pig after pretending to be one...?
284. Student Council Election; The Fate Arranged for Miyabi Nagumo
Regardless of what the other three classes think, Class A, as is customary, will hold a celebration banquet after winning the Special Exam.
With a wave of his hand, Aragaki Shun led the class in karaoke for several hours, a good example of balancing work and rest, especially since they had just finished a month of intense studying.
Then, as the party was about to end, Manabu Horikita suddenly sent him an email asking him to come to the Student Council Office the next day.
Barring any unforeseen circumstances, the rules and timing for the Student Council's re-election should be finalized by now.
It's important to note that today is December 9th, and PaperShuffle is like the Final Exam for the first year. Therefore, the second semester's closing ceremony will be held on December 22nd, which is only two weeks away.
As is customary at the Advanced Nurturing, the Student Council President, along with all Third Year Student Council Member, steps down at this time of year.
With only one semester left in Third Year, all attention needs to be focused on the final sprint.
On the other hand, it is also to allow the new leadership team of the Student Council union to take office as soon as possible and adapt to various tasks as quickly as possible. If any mistakes are made along the way, the more experienced Student Council Member have not yet graduated can help out.
In short, the requirement of Advanced Nurturing is that a new Student Council President must be elected before December 20th, and the only candidates are Aragaki Shun Miyabi Nagumo, the two Vice President.
However, compared to the Student Council President position that was practically his for the taking, Aragaki Shun was more concerned about whether he could use this opportunity to kick Nagumo out of Advanced Nurturing.
This person seems like a mad dog; once someone targets them, they'll cause all sorts of trouble.
Once Manabu Horikita graduates, Nagumo's primary target for persistent pursuit will inevitably become Aragaki Shun himself. Rather than worrying about it then, it's better to just drop him out of school now.
While plotting a plan that had already taken shape in his mind, the Leader of Class A unknowingly approached Kanzaki Ryuji and asked him about the Private Points accumulated in the class account.
Yes, logistics are the best indicator of success in war; that's an absolute truth.
"Running for Student Council President with Miyabi Nagumo?"
Kanzaki seemed puzzled upon hearing this news. Wasn't the second-year Yellow-haired Senior, already beaten half to death?
Given all this, where does the other side get the courage to continue competing with Aragaki?
To be honest, Vice President Nagumo's courage is truly astonishing!
After mentally grumbling for a moment, Kanzaki shook his head, indicating his confusion but acceptance. He then took out his phone, swiped to bring up the class account interface, and casually displayed the income and expenditure details below.
At first glance, Aragaki Shun saw that 30.2 million Private Points were prominently displayed in the most conspicuous position.
Not a lot, but not a small amount either.
According to the detailed billing records below, after the summer vacation's VIP Exam, Class A's class fees once reached 38.95 million.
However, at the beginning of the second semester, seven students transferred to our class.
Sakayanagi Arisu paid for her own expenses, Horikita Suzune's brother paid for her 20 million yen, and Aragaki Shun paid for Yamamura Miki's transfer fee out of his own pocket.
Even so, four people remain: Wang Meiyu, Kamuro Masumi, Morishita Ai, and Kito Hayato, who need to use class funds to buy Transfer Ticket.
In other words, starting in September, Class A will have to spend 8 million every month until June of next year.
However, this wasn't an unbearable financial burden for the students in Class A.
In September and October, their Class Evaluation Points was 2122. There were 48 students in the class, and the total class fees they paid each month amounted to 5.09 million yuan.
After the Sports Festival, the Class Evaluation Points in November and December further increased to 2722, and the monthly class fund income was 6.53 million yen.
In this way, after four months of installment payments, deducting the monthly management salary of 200,000 and some miscellaneous expenses such as celebration banquets, plus the 1.2 million transferred from Class B, the final balance of Class A's class funds is 30.2 million.
Well, the total loss over the four months was only a little over 8 million. There's no need to worry about the remaining six months. After all, after this special exam, Class A plundered 100 evaluation points from Class B, and the amount of class fees to be submitted will increase in the future.
"It seems the class is financially well-off; inviting a few more students to transfer wouldn't be a problem, but there aren't any suitable candidates at the moment."
Aragaki Shun nodded, handing the phone back to Kanzaki. He then opened his personal account, which showed Private Points balance of 103 million, already exceeding his "small goal" of 100 million.
After helping Yamamura Miki complete her class transfer in September, he still had 66.4 million yen left.
Then came the adjustments made during the Sports Festival. Karuizawa Class needed to transfer 1.2 million yen to him every month, Ibuki Class's monthly debt rose to 2 million yen, while Katsuragi Class remained at 3.4 million yen.
Add to that Sakagami Kazuma's monthly income of 200,000, his class salary of 100,000, his royalty exchange limit of 560,000, and deduct the monthly apartment rent of 100,000... Since October, his fixed income has soared to 7.36 million Private Points per month.
After three months, with the 15 million yen transferred to him by Miyabi Nagumo, and after deducting some miscellaneous expenses, Aragaki Shun's total personal points reserves have reached 103 million yen.
In other words, even without using the class's resources, he could easily transfer five students to other classes based solely on his own assets, and then add another transfer spot every three months.
There are still 27 months until this year's students graduate. Given the current situation, even without more income in the future, he and the class funds should be able to raise enough money to fill 20 transfer slots.
Including the eight students who transferred classes previously, and if everyone in the class contributes their savings, the final number of transfer slots could potentially reach a terrifying 40—that is, using 800 million Private Points to allow another class to join Class A completely.
"That's really a bit of an exaggeration!"
Kanzaki Ryuji rubbed his temples, horrified by this idea. "I wonder if Advanced Nurturing has considered this possibility. If so many people were to graduate from Class A, could they still guarantee the conditions they promised?"
Hmm, it should be fine. After all, it's a record set under Prime Minister of Sakurajima. It's unlikely that it would be so bad that it couldn't handle doubling the number of seats.
More than such unfounded worries, Kanzaki was curious whether the class funds he managed would ever catch up with Aragaki Shun's personal assets.
Even though he's said it many times, he still has to say it's outrageous that he single-handedly suppressed the total class funds collected from all 48 students... Aragaki, just how much blood did you suck from the other three classes?!
The next morning, Aragaki Shun arrived early at the Student Council Activity Classroom and met Manabu Horikita and Kiriyama Ikuto there.
Incidentally, the results of the Special Exam for second graders were also released yesterday. According to Aragaki Shun's arrangement, Kiriyama's class, in exchange for giving up the top two spots in this competition, joined forces with the original Class C and Class D of the second graders to further reduce Nagumo's class to last place.
According to the school's rules, the first to fourth place winners in this special exam would receive 400, 300, 200, and 100 points respectively, resulting in another significant change in the evaluation scores of the four second-grade classes.
Class 2-A (formerly Class C) 99 points → 499 points
Class 2-B (formerly Class D): 72 points → 372
Class 2-C (Nagumo Class): 56 points → 156 points
Class 2-D (Kiriyama Class): 0 points → 200
That's right, after this Special Exam, Miyabi Nagumo's class was demoted to Class 2-D, becoming the lowest in the school's hierarchy of contempt.
This is truly a cause for celebration!
"Hey~ look at Kiriyama, your smug grin is way too obvious, isn't it?"
Sitting opposite Manabu Horikita, Aragaki Shun glanced at Kiriyama Ikuto, who seemed to be gloating over his success, and made a sarcastic remark in a playful tone.
"Aragaki-kaicho is right..."
Responding with a hint of flattery, Kiriyama tried to suppress the elation in his heart and keep a serious expression on his face.
But that's simply impossible!
The thought that everyone in Miyabi Nagumo's class had become members of Class D made him feel incredibly excited, as if he were wearing new underwear to welcome the New Year's morning.
Hahaha~ I'm dying of laughter! Someone as arrogant as Miyabi Nagumo was actually forced to be labeled as a defective product from Class D!
Thinking back to the gloomy look on his face when they met today, Kiriyama Ikuto felt that the joy at this moment surpassed all her past memories.
Hold on! Hold on... but I really can't hold back! Hahaha--!!!
Aragaki Shun and Manabu Horikita exchanged a glance, then shook their heads helplessly, deciding to simply ignore this idiot who had been grinning like a fool since yesterday.
"President, have the rules and schedule for the Student Council election been finalized?"
"Naturally, because of your request, the rules for this general election haven't changed much; all students in the school still vote together, so the relevant matters were resolved quickly."
Pushing up his glasses, Manabu Horikita gave Aragaki Shun a meaningful look and scrutinized him for two seconds.
Logically speaking, he should be able to amend the election rules to favor Aragaki Shun.
They suddenly said it wasn't necessary, so they changed the voting format, leaving everything else unchanged. I don't know what they're up to.
"The date is set for December 20th. Before 10:00 AM, the school will send an email to all students in all three grades containing the names of you Nagumo, the two candidates. The person with the most votes will be elected as the Student Council President."
"The day after the results are released, a handover ceremony will be held, where both Student Council President will give Speech. The graduation ceremony will be on December 22nd, officially ending the second semester..."
After explaining the simple rules, Manabu Horikita handed over the documents, still unable to figure out what the other party wanted to do with this Student Council general election.
Compared to previous years' elections, this year's election rules have not changed much; the only difference is that the anonymous voting system across the entire school has been replaced with mail-in voting.
In other words, as long as they have enough Private Points and are willing to spend money, Aragaki Shun Miyabi Nagumo can easily find out the source of all the votes from the school.
But what's the point of this?
Manabu Horikita has been thinking about this for a long time, but he still can't figure it out.
If it were truly just for the Student Council President position, there would be no need to expend so much effort.
The two of them working together could completely sway the rules, putting Nagumo in a position of being a mere participant from the very beginning.
But for Aragaki Shun, if he didn't give his Yellow-haired Senior even a glimmer of hope for a comeback, how could the other guy be willing to gamble everything for that one slim chance of victory?
"Isn't it great that all the students in the 12 classes across three grades voted together via email? It's fair, just, and transparent."
The boy's lips curled up slightly, as if in pleasure or anticipation.
"I currently have the votes for Class A, Class C, and Class D in the first grade. Kiriyama's class will definitely vote for me too. And if I include the student council president's Class A of the Third Year, I only have the votes of five classes in hand. It still seems a bit short."
Kiriyama Ikuto: "..."
Manabu Horikita: "..."
Both people present were speechless. Out of 12 classes in the whole school, you've already decided on five of them in advance. How can you talk about fairness and impartiality like that?
Needless to say, Class 1-A has 48 students, Class C has 38 students, Class D has 32 students, Kiriyama Class has 35 students, Class A of the Third Year has 40 students... The two Class A have the first and second largest number of students in the whole school, respectively, and Class 1-C is also able to rank third. Only Class 1-B can tie with them.
In this situation, Aragaki Shun, who has already gained the support of five classes, is not far from having half the total number of students in the school.
It's fair to say that if he could win over just one more class, whichever one it is, he could immediately decide the outcome of this Student Council election.
Conversely, if Miyabi Nagumo wants to turn the tide in this situation, the only thing she can do is to gather all the votes from the remaining seven classes.
There is no other choice!
Thinking of this, Manabu Horikita felt a shiver run down his spine, instinctively feeling immense dread about such methods.
Although he still didn't know what Aragaki's hidden goal was, he knew one thing—when all that's left in front of you is the path chosen for you by your enemy, everything is already beyond redemption.
After silently mourning for Miyabi Nagumo for half a second, the outgoing Student Council President gave a deep look at the junior opposite him, but couldn't help feeling much more relaxed.
There's only one semester left in the Third Year, but the gap between Class A and Class B isn't that big. If Nagumo is allowed to remain as Student Council President, the other side will definitely unite with the second and Third Year students to target their class in order to compete with him.
But now he finally doesn't have to worry about that problem anymore!
Faced with Aragaki Shun's scheme, Nagumo was barely able to protect himself, so he had no time to continue targeting Class A of the Third Year.
I hope something happens to him...
285. Miyabi Nagumo's arduous struggle; cruel reality and determination.
After the Final Exam, there are less than two weeks left until winter break.
Many people feel that the semester is coming to a smooth end and are starting to prepare for Christmas Eve, Christmas Day, and the New Year.
But at this moment, the school suddenly announced that the Student Council would be holding elections, with two candidates to vote for the next Student Council President.
The students, who had initially thought nothing more would happen, were suddenly agitated, and the atmosphere on the Advanced Nurturing campus instantly became lively.