Classroom of the Elite: I Can Add Points Without Limit - Chapter 253

In their eyes, this might be a test of Aragaki Shun's obedience, to see who dares to try to be clever at this stage and refuse to obey orders.

Thinking of this, the ordinary students in Class D immediately reacted and responded loudly, giving the impression that each one was more loyal than the last.

Meanwhile, in the adjacent classroom, Class C was visited by Himeno Yuki and Ichinose Honami, and all the slips of paper were successfully distributed.

Soon, the three first-year classes under the Leader of Class A received their respective tasks and began to conduct Class Vote according to Aragaki Shun's instructions.

Meanwhile, in the classroom of Class 1-B, the remaining 37 students looked at an empty seat with somewhat complicated and indescribable expressions on their faces.

"Shiraishi-kun..."

A boy named Yoshida Kenta murmured the name of the person who sat there, his head resting on the table as if he had lost all his strength.

He had a strong liking for Shiraishi Asuka, but he didn't dare to confess his feelings. He just kept watching her from the sidelines.

Unexpectedly, the other party accepted Class A's invitation for some reason, and left the classroom without even saying goodbye.

That way, he'll never have the chance to secretly observe the other person during class again, right?

Aside from Yoshida, many in Class B felt regretful about Shiraishi Asuka's transfer, but more than that, they felt a sense of bewilderment and loss, as if their teammates had been poached before the battle even began.

Their class had already lost key members such as Sakayanagi Arisu, Kamuro Masumi, and Yamamura Miki in succession. It was only with the addition of Koenji Rokusuke, Ryuen Kakeru, and Ayanokoji Kiyotaka that they were able to barely make up for some of their losses.

Now another student has been poached, and with Hashimoto Masayoshi about to be expelled... it's only the end of the first year! By graduation, won't the entire Class B fall apart?

"There's even worse news," Ayanokoji Kiyotaka suddenly said expressionlessly, "Aragaki Shun can use the praise votes from other classes to designate the top student in our class. At that time, the other party only needs to spend Twenty Million Personal Points to break the contract and use the Permanent Transfer Quota to poach another combatant from our class."

In other words, barring any unforeseen circumstances, Class B may lose three members in this Class Vote, immediately reducing the number of students from 38 to 35.

"What--!!!"

These words caused an uproar throughout Class B, who found it hard to accept.

"Who is it? Besides Shiraishi, who else is betraying the class?!"

Totsuka Yahiko slammed his fist on the desk, his gaze sweeping fiercely over the students around him, as if they all harbored suspicions of betrayal.

After all, while the Koenji Conglomerate's guarantee is decent, it still can't compare to the combined benefits of Class A — Advanced Nurturing recommendation, the friendship of the Aragaki Family heir, and the connections of Kanzaki Heavy Industries.

More importantly, as young people, they don't really have a real sense of how much power the upper class wields.

Ordinary high school students strive to compete on campus, all they want is to stand out and live a good life.

Simply put, it means hoping to earn enough money in the future to buy whatever I want.

Therefore, whether it's tycoons or powerful figures, once they reach a certain level, young people without a background naturally can't distinguish between them.

On the contrary, the students in Class B have repeatedly experienced the helplessness and disorientation they felt after failing the Special Exam since entering the Advanced Nurturing.

Young people, full of passion and vigor, would much rather be victors and enjoy boundless glory with their companions than constantly struggling as losers.

This sense of honor is something that Class B, who have suffered repeated defeats and can only be bound together by interests and contracts, can neither hope for nor reach.

Therefore, if given the opportunity to switch sides without paying a heavy price, most people in this classroom would likely not refuse the chance to transfer to Class A.

Of course, the students in Class B are all shrewd and wouldn't be so easily frightened as to jump out immediately just because of Totsuka Yahiko's threat.

Needless to say, at this point, what's the point of forcing the other side to reveal themselves?

"Aragaki Shun has at least 119, maybe even 120, praise votes from other classes. Even if we find the top student in Class B he chose and everyone casts their Criticism Vote at that person, we still can't stop that person from taking the Permanent Transfer Quota."

Katsuragi Kohei sighed, looking rather dejected.

Now he can only guarantee that he will not let down Koenji Rokusuke's promise. As for the choices of the other classmates... people strive for better things, and water flows downhill, so there's nothing to criticize.

"And there's not enough time..."

With only half an hour left before the exam officially starts, even if they manage to force out a hidden, predetermined first-place winner, under the classroom's surveillance cameras, can they really beat them up?

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The students in Class B aren't like the hooligans in Class C, Mashima Tomoya is even less likely to openly condone violence like Sakagami Kazuma. Plus, with Aragaki Shun, the Student Council President who manages school disputes, backing them up... if they were to do something like that, the entire Class B would be punished, and their Class Evaluation Points could very well be reset to zero.

Hearing Katsuragi's explanation, the students present who knew they weren't that person were somewhat unwilling, and they all looked at the silent Koenji Rokusuke on the podium.

"Stop fantasizing and get ready to vote."

Under the watchful eyes of everyone in the classroom, Beautiful Brother tossed her hair and gave the order:

"Proceed with the original plan and use conservative tactics!"

336. An unprecedented miracle; to kill someone is to destroy their spirit.

It was exactly 9:00 AM.

As the exam bell rang, Chie Hoshinomiya walked into the classroom with her usual childlike smile.

"Next is Class Vote. Students whose names are called, please move to the voting room in order, and please be quiet."

Obviously, in order to ensure the effectiveness of anonymous voting, the school does not intend to allow students to vote simultaneously in their respective classrooms.

Perhaps they were worried that each other might interfere with the exam process through small actions such as peeking or making gestures.

Immediately afterwards, the class teacher of Class A picked up the attendance list and began calling out names one by one.

Because each person only received three votes for praise, three Criticism Vote, and one vote for praise from another class, the voting process proceeded quite quickly, and soon it was Aragaki Shun's turn...

The entire Class Vote took less than two hours from start to finish.

By around 11 a. m., the school had finished counting all the votes and instructed each class teacher to announce the exam results that day.

Class 1-A.

Chie Hoshinomiya stood on the podium and looked around at all the students below.

"Now I'll begin announcing the results of the Additional Special Exam. First up is the first place winner, Shiraishi Asuka, who received 48 votes."

"Congratulations! According to the exam rules, you can now choose between Protection Point or Permanent Transfer Quota. However, once you've made your choice, you can't change it."

This was a predetermined result, and there were no surprises. Therefore, Shiraishi simply stood up with a smile and decisively chose the Permanent Transfer Quota.

In this way, from now on, as long as she is not expelled from school, she will participate in class competitions as a member of Class A at Advanced Nurturing until she completes her studies and graduates from the school.

"Then, from second place to second to last, it's amazing that all these students got 0 votes—no extra praise votes and no extra Criticism Vote."

When Hoshinomiya announced the result, his expression was quite strange, while everyone else in the classroom turned their attention to their class monitor.

It's obvious that this was a result deliberately arranged by Aragaki Shun.

The specific implementation is also very simple.

Because of Shiraishi Asuka's transfer to another class, there are now 49 students in Class A. The exam rules state that students cannot vote for themselves, so the first place needs to be determined first, and the remaining 48 students will all give her a vote of praise. Meanwhile, the last place will receive 48 Criticism Vote.

Since each person has three praise votes and three Criticism Vote, the remaining praise and Criticism Vote of the other students are cast for Ichinose Honami and Kanzaki Ryuji, respectively.

48 praise votes and 48 Criticism Vote cancel each other out, reducing the total to zero.

In this way, all the other votes were cast, leaving only the first place winner, Ichinose, and Kanzaki with one praise vote Ichinose, and the last place winner, Ichinose, and Kanzaki with one Criticism Vote each.

These votes can all be cast for Shiranami Chihiro, then the pool will be reset to zero, resulting in the final voting result.

The first-place student, Shiraishi Asuka, received 48 votes of praise, the last-place student received 48 Criticism Vote, and all the other students received 0 votes.

In this situation, Class 1-B that only has 37 votes from other classes, cannot change the current rankings even if they cast all their votes for any one person in Class A, let alone affect the first and last place.

Perhaps because Koenji and Ayanokoji also knew this, they didn't waste their efforts in Class A, resulting in the class vote proceeding exactly as Aragaki Shun had originally planned, without any unexpected events.

"Next up is the last one, Aragaki -san, who received 48 Criticism Vote."

Hoshinomiya put down the document recording the exam results, smiled at all the students below the stage, and mischievously made a flustered and funny gesture.

"Oh dear, oh dear, I never expected our class monitor to be facing the risk of dropping out of school. What should we do?"

"It's simple, I'll just provide the Private Points!"

Somewhat bored, Aragaki Shun rested his chin on his hand, took out his phone, and transferred 20 million yen directly to the school's account.

The kickbacks he received from Tsukishiro Tsunenari were easily spent, but including the 9.76 million contract funds he collected from the first and second year students in March, his Private Points in his account still exceeded a small goal, reaching 108.8 million.

"That should be fine. The school probably isn't planning on pulling any more tricks, right?"

"Of course, while the school may sometimes act inhumanely, it's simply outrageous to change the rules after all the exam results are out."

Hoshinomiya made an "OK" sign, and seeing the eager expressions on the faces of the students below the stage, he clapped his hands in congratulations:

"Congratulations! Class A has once again passed the Special Exam with all members intact. Not a single one of you is missing."

It should be said that there is now one more member in the classroom, and once the results for other classes are announced, there may be two or even three more transfer students.

This year's students have truly created an unprecedented miracle!

"Oh--!!!"

In an instant, the entire classroom erupted in cheers.

For the students in Class A, victory was never a rare thing, but they were still inevitably a little nervous when faced with the school's malicious withdrawal exam.

Now that the results are in, and none of the students in the class were hurt, that's wonderful!

Aragaki Shun was also caught up in the atmosphere and a smile involuntarily appeared on his face. But when he looked around, he suddenly met the gaze of Shiraishi Asuka, who was quietly observing the new environment. Only then did he remember that the contract on the other person's body had not been completely torn off.

So the Leader of Class A simply summoned his personal class fund administrator and went straight to the point, asking, "How much is left in the class account? Is it enough to help Shiraishi and another student from Class B redeem themselves?"

It sounds strange, but in a sense, breaking the subsidiary contract with Twenty Million Personal Points is actually quite similar to "redeeming oneself".

These kinds of class rules and supplementary contracts were originally created by Aragaki Shun to deal with Transfer Ticket.

Students who voluntarily sign such contracts may have their original classmates transfer to other classes if they later leave their original class. In such cases, the students in the original class have the right to apply to the school for arbitration regarding their withdrawal from school.

Such a severe punishment would definitely be enough to deter the vast majority of ordinary students, but for cheaters who have accumulated a huge amount of Private Points, it would simply increase the cost of transferring classes from 20 million to 40 million.

Having secured Permanent Transfer Quota, there's no need to pay a transfer fee. The 20 million redemption fee used to break the contract can offset the expulsion penalty and allow the transfer to proceed.

In other words, to win over Shiraishi Asuka and the top-ranked student in Class B's praise votes, Class A would have to pay the school a total of 40 million Private Points.

He estimated that the funds in the class account alone seemed insufficient.

And that was indeed the case. Kanzaki Ryuji, as the class fund administrator, opened the corresponding interface on his phone and showed Aragaki Shun a seemingly meager number—28.7 million.

"Paying in installments using Transfer Ticket would be fine, but coming up with 40 million at once would be difficult. We might need to collect some Private Points from classmates to make up the shortfall."

As the person in charge of the class's finances, Kanzaki felt immense pressure, since every time Aragaki Shun launched a talent poaching strategy, it cost at least 20 million yen.

With such extravagant spending, even if Class A is wealthy, it will soon be difficult to support itself solely through class funds.

"There's still 28.7 million? That's more than I estimated."

Aragaki Shun nodded. He had another set of accounts in his mind and didn't think there was anything wrong with the balance.

After all, eight students had transferred into Class A before today.

The expenses for Shiina Hiyori and Yamamura Miki were covered by Aragaki Shun, Sakayanagi Arisu paid out of her own pocket, and Horikita Suzune also had help from her older brother in Class A of the Third Year. Their respective 20 million yen expenses have all been settled.

But the remaining four students, namely Wang Meiyu, Kamuro Masumi, Morishita Ai, and Kito Hayato, were able to stay in this classroom only thanks to Transfer Ticket paid from class funds.

In other words, starting from September of last year, Class A has had to spend 8 million Private Points every month, in installments over 10 months, until the transfer of the four students will be completed by June of this year.

Fortunately, Class A's evaluation score was high enough, reaching 2822 points before the Mixed Training Camp Exam. With 48 students gathered together, the monthly class fund income was 6.77 million, which prevented the class fund savings from declining too quickly.

After the Mixed Training Camp, the Class Evaluation Points further increased to 3418 points, and the monthly class fees surged again, reaching a total of 8.2 million.

It's important to know that before June of this year, Class A's fixed expenses that required the use of class funds were only 8 million Transfer Ticket per month, 200,000 management fees, and a few miscellaneous expenses... If they hadn't continued poaching students, the class account should have been balanced by now. Once June is over and they no longer need to maintain the Transfer Ticket, they will immediately enter an era of financial surplus.

But this sudden expenditure of 40 million is indeed necessary, which is a real headache.

"Since last September, I've been watching the class fund savings keep decreasing. I thought I wouldn't have to worry about the balance anymore after the Mixed Training Camp's income came in, but Aragaki you've made two large expenditures."

Kanzaki Ryuji shrugged weakly, indicating that he had really tried his best. "After learning about your plan, I even went to see Morishita Ai and Kito Hayato and collected one million yen from each of them. That's probably why the class fund balance differs from your estimate."

So that's how it is. After factoring in this extra income, the remaining class funds are almost the same as what Aragaki Shun estimated.

He had been wondering why Shiraishi Asuka needed to use a Transfer Ticket to become the top vote-getter in Class A, which made the boy's estimate two million less than he had.

As for Kanzaki specifically seeking out Morishita Ai and Kito Hayato to collect Private Points... that's actually quite normal.

Of the eight students who transferred to Class A, the four who paid in full did not have their payments covered by the class, while the other four who used Transfer Ticket had different circumstances.

Wang Meiyu made significant contributions to the Special Exam, and Kamuro Masumi also served as Aragaki Shun's representative in Class B. The transfer fees for both of them were entirely covered by Class A.

Only Morishita Ai and Kito Hayato were lucky enough to catch the wave of Class A's talent recruitment strategy, and thus managed to get on board, but in reality, they didn't contribute much to the class.

Therefore, according to the rules and regulations, the two of them need to make up for the corresponding contributions or Private Points in the future.

It's worth mentioning that after this Special Exam, Shiraishi Asuka and the person who received the most praise votes in Class B received the same treatment. After all, as purely lucky ones, it was they who wanted to transfer to Class A, not the Class A around.