Classroom of the Elite, I Can Add Points Infinitely Chapter 29

"Hello everyone. You've all worked hard over the past month. Now that the Behavioral Standards Exam has come to an end, I'm sure you've all been looking forward to the results for a long time, right?"

As soon as these words fell, the students of Class B could no longer contain themselves.

"Chie Hoshinomiya-sensei, please announce them! I've been obsessing over this since this morning."

"Me too! Me too!"

"Hurry! Hurry! Did we actually surpass Class A? Please, Chie Hoshinomiya-sensei, stop keeping us in suspense!"

"Hahaha, it seems everyone is truly impatient. Then, let me congratulate you all—every bit of effort has finally borne fruit!"

As she spoke, Chie Hoshinomiya walked to the podium, unrolled a sheet of white paper, and taped it to the blackboard.

First-Year Class Point Rankings--

Class A: 850 points.

Class B: 1060 points.

Class C: 330 points.

Class D: 310 points.

62. The school's face is practically swollen from the slap

When the class points for all four first-year classes were revealed, the students of Class B checked them repeatedly, finally confirming that their class evaluation score was indeed in first place, and a full 210 points ahead of the original Class A.

The students of Class B—oh, no, now the students of Class A—erupted into excited cheers in an instant.

This meant that from today on, they were officially and rightfully students of Class A.

As long as they could maintain this ranking until graduation, they would have their pick of top universities and prestigious companies.

"Ohhhhhhh!!!!!"

"We've promoted to Class A!!!"

The original Class B classroom was instantly filled with cheers and screams. Students hugged each other in excitement, their eyes sparkling with joy.

At this moment, all their hard work and dedication had been rewarded.

Chie Hoshinomiya stood on the podium, watching the excited students below, a gratified smile appearing on her face.

She gave a light cough, signaling everyone to quiet down.

"Everyone, look outside." The homeroom teacher pointed toward the hallway, where specialized staff could be seen approaching. They removed the sign that read [First-Year Class B] and replaced it with [First-Year Class A].

"The classroom is still the same, but the class sign has been changed. From now on, we are officially First-Year Class A to the outside world."

"I am very happy that you all achieved these results in the first month. This is an unprecedented record for Kodo Ikusei Senior High School. You must continue to work hard and strive to keep this position until the very end."

Chie Hoshinomiya stood on the podium, watching the students of the former Class B cheering and jumping for joy, the corners of her mouth curling up involuntarily into a pleased smile.

After all, when she was a student at Kodo Ikusei Senior High School, she had once been just one step away from Class A, only to fail at the critical moment.

Now that the class under her guidance had fulfilled the regret she once held, even she couldn't help but feel a sense of gratification in her heart.

Of course, the most important thing was that when she went to corner Sae Chabashira with this news this morning, the look on the other woman's face—clearly caring deeply but forced to feign indifference—was simply too amusing. That alone would keep her high for an entire year.

A wave of enthusiastic cheering erupted in the classroom once more. Over the past month, the nerves of the original Class B students had been stretched tight like bowstrings, never daring to relax. Now that they had finally reaped their due rewards, they couldn't help but vent the emotions they had been holding inside.

"It's great! I knew it—as long as we have Shun Aragaki, our class would definitely be the strongest."

Chihiro Shiranami turned around, her eyes shining as she looked at Shun Aragaki, her body practically leaning over the desk to get closer to him.

"Hahaha, that's right! Our big hero, Shun Aragaki, aren't you going to say something at a time like this?"

Sou Shibata laughed heartily, teasing Shun Aragaki, who was now the center of the entire class's attention.

Shun Aragaki shrugged, replying nonchalantly: "What's there to say? Isn't this just a matter of course?"

"Besides, it's only the second month of school. There are still three years left for the other classes to catch up. We're only leading for now; let's not pop the champagne halfway through and end up getting overtaken."

"Shun Aragaki is right, we cannot be arrogant or complacent." Honami Ichinose stood up, a brilliant smile on her face: "But this exam was indeed our victory, and it's worth celebrating. I believe that as long as we stand united, nothing is impossible!"

"That's right!" Sou Shibata took the lead in cheering, loudly venting the joy in his heart, "Our Class B—oh, no, Class A—is the best!"

Warm applause rang out in the classroom again. All the original Class B students followed Sou Shibata in shouting, and even Shun Aragaki wore a smile, choosing not to pour cold water on the mood at this moment.

Everyone's month of hard work had finally paid off, and it was fine to let loose a little for now. Besides, it was homeroom, so the discipline wasn't as strictly enforced as it would be during formal classes.

Just like that, the members of the Aragaki class cheered for several minutes, expressing their joy in various ways, until Chie Hoshinomiya saw that the time was right and took the initiative to stop them.

"Ahem, that's enough cheering for now."

"If you feel it's not enough, you can hold a celebration party after school. For now, you should have plenty of questions for your teacher, right?"

As if he had been waiting for a long time, the moment Chie Hoshinomiya indicated she would take questions, Ryuji Kanzaki stood up directly: "Chie Hoshinomiya-sensei, I would like to ask, why is our class evaluation score 1060 points? Didn't the school only give each class 1000 class points in the first month?"

"About that, actually, 100 of those points are both a reward and a form of compensation."

Seeing the entire class's attention fixed on her, Chie Hoshinomiya didn't keep them in suspense and gave the school's explanation directly:

"The school is very satisfied with our class's proactive actions over this past month. Furthermore, even without these 100 points, we are the first class in the history of Kodo Ikusei Senior High School to complete a promotion during the first exam. The school believes that such an achievement deserves a corresponding reward."

"As for the compensation, it is because we defeated the original Class A before the school had publicly clarified the rules. This proves that the school made a mistake when initially assigning the classes. Therefore, the school combined the reward and decided to issue us an additional 100 class points."

Chie Hoshinomiya announced the news she had received from the school to everyone in Class B.

She accepted this explanation with surprising ease.

After all, if the school hadn't made a mistake when assigning classes, how could aces like Aragaki Shun, Kanzaki Ryuji, and Ichinose Honami have been relegated to Class B?

However, as their homeroom teacher, she held the basic information on all Class B students provided by the school, which clearly stated the reasons why the school had initially placed each student into Class B.

Therefore, from a procedural standpoint, the school's distribution of students into classes was entirely logical; at most, the interviewers had failed to account for the sheer strength of Aragaki Shun and his peers, leading to the school's assessment of their abilities being overturned within the very first month of school.

It is worth noting that during that first month, before the homeroom teachers of each class had disclosed the various hidden rules of Kodo Ikusei Senior High School, the school's faculty had basically left the four classes to their own devices.

In other words, all actions taken by the students during this month were based on their own initiative, and the strength they displayed during this period was their pre-enrollment capability, completely unaffected by the school.

Under these circumstances, the students assigned to Class B by the school had actually defeated the original Class A, which the school had deemed the most excellent...

One could only say that the school's face had been slapped quite hard!

63. Chie Hoshinomiya, Who Dropped Gold Coins

In truth, neither the members of Class B nor Chie Hoshinomiya were aware that as the Behavioral Standards Exam drew to a close, many high-ranking school officials had proposed lowering Class B's evaluation scores after predicting the impending shift in class rankings.

After all, according to the school's own narrative, Kodo Ikusei Senior High School assigned classes based on the students' level of excellence: the most excellent students went to Class A, while the flawed "defective products" were sent to Class D.

As it turned out, just as the first month's Behavioral Standards Exam ended—before the various competitive rules of Kodo Ikusei Senior High School had even been made public—the ABCD ranking was about to change. How could this make the other students trust the school's class assignments?

If only they had waited until the next exam, after the rules were disclosed, for the class rankings to shift... Then everyone could have understood it as Class B's strength being only slightly inferior to Class A's, and that after a period of cultivation by Kodo Ikusei Senior High School, Class B had managed to pull off an upset in a special exam.

But since the truth about class competition hadn't even been revealed, and all the teachers were indifferent during classes, only a fool would believe that this wasn't a mistake in the school's assignment process, but rather the result of the school's nurturing.

It was just a pity that even without adding the 100-point bonus, the original Class B's evaluation score was 960, a full 110 points higher than the original Class A's 850.

In this situation, if the school wanted to deliberately lower the original Class B's score, they would have to use a magnifying glass to pick bones out of an egg, searching through their daily performance to find 110 points worth of errors.

Considering the impact such a drastic move would have on future class competition, and the fact that the students of the original Class B were not all without connections, the school's top brass ultimately decided to maintain basic fairness.

In any case, the school's evaluation of each student's strength was a comprehensive assessment of intelligence, physical ability, judgment, teamwork, and past experience. Under such complex criteria, it was normal for interviewers to have one or two lapses in judgment regarding so many students.

Therefore, the school simply admitted that there had been an error in this year's class assignments and provided the original Class B with 100 class points as compensation. This satisfied the original Class B; the original Class A had been given a chance but failed to seize it, so they had no right to speak; and Class C and Class D were completely unrelated to the matter, so the problem was resolved.

Incidentally, this also set a new record for the school, providing a precedent to follow should similar situations occur in the future.

"So, we aren't staging an upset, but rather helping the school correct its mistakes?"

Aragaki Shun teased with interest; a class evaluation score of 960 was within his own estimates.

He had specifically planted a genius from Class D into the original Class A; if, even after that, the original Class B couldn't surpass the original Class A in evaluation points, he would have had to seriously reconsider what the higher-ups at Kodo Ikusei were actually thinking!

But looking at it now, these rule-makers were at least currently fair.

"Very well. We are becoming Class A because, according to the principle of meritocracy, we were always meant to be Class A. Now, we are simply returning to the position where we belong."

"In the future, if you encounter people from the original Class A showing you hostility, just respond to them directly like this."

"Pfft~" The class couldn't help but burst into laughter. "I hope they don't die of anger. Being knocked down to a lower class in the very first month of school—they can be considered to have set the record for the fastest fall from Class A, right?"

"That's just because their own strength was lacking. The school gave them the highest evaluation from the start, but now it's proven that the consequence of being in a position you aren't qualified for is a very painful fall!"

Kanzaki Ryuji curved his lips into a smile. He had no complaints about being assigned to the original Class B.

It was precisely because of this that he was able to meet these united and friendly friends in his class. If he had been assigned to the original Class A from the start, he might have been suffering from a headache right now, trying to deal with the three-faction split in that class.

But now, being able to ascend to Class A with everyone in the class, proving that they were the most excellent, was nothing short of perfect.

In Kanzaki's eyes, everyone in the original Class B was absolutely not inferior to the original Class A. Now, under Aragaki's leadership, they were simply reclaiming the treatment that had belonged to them all along.

"Hahaha, exactly! We were always meant to be Class A. In the future, if that group from the original Class A dares to act arrogant toward us, I'll just use the record they set for the fastest fall to shut them up."

"That's right, we are the most excellent. The original Class A looks like nothing, and Class C and Class D go without saying."

After Aragaki Shun defined this reversal of the Class A and Class B rankings as a correction of errors, everyone in the original Class B began to brim with confidence.

When they first learned that the school assigned classes based on the students' level of excellence, they had felt significant pressure when facing students from the original Class A, but now, that was completely gone.

Facts had proven that they were the most excellent all along; the initial class assignment was merely a slip-up on the school's part.

Only Chie Hoshinomiya knew that the school's assignment rules were generally correct. Previous classes of Class B had always been of this type, simply because the school had always intentionally assigned students who were highly obedient but lacked independent thought and personality—those who were well-rounded but not outstanding—to Class B.

After every previous Behavioral Standards Exam, the rankings of each class had remained unchanged, which proved that the school's assignment of the four classes was basically error-free.

After all, the Behavioral Standards Exam mainly tested the students' self-discipline, and in this regard, the school could fully confirm that the four classes were ranked from strong to weak in the order of ABCD. You could say it was like shooting an arrow and then drawing the target around it.

The reason for this unexpected situation this time might truly be a flaw in the school's assignment rules, but it was absolutely impossible that the evaluations for every single student in the original Class B were wrong.

In fact, the only people in this class whose strength was truly misjudged from start to finish should have been the few, or perhaps just one, in the management layer.

However, Chie Hoshinomiya was naturally happy to see this!

After all, if it weren't for the interviewer's mistake, how could she have easily been promoted to the homeroom teacher of Class A after the first month?

Thinking of the luck in picking up this windfall, the smile on Chie Hoshinomiya's face became even brighter. She clapped her hands to get everyone's attention. "I'm also very happy to be able to move up to Class A with everyone. The treatment for a Class A homeroom teacher is a huge step up from the other classes. This time, I was only able to be promoted thanks to you all."

"So, I've decided: from now on, leave the 400,000-point monthly tutoring fees to me. Consider this my support for you all as a member of this class."

Chie Hoshinomiya chuckled, not even blinking as she took full responsibility for the monthly expenses the class spent on tutoring.

After all, at Kodo Ikusei Senior High School, the principle of meritocracy also applied to the teachers.

As the homeroom teacher of Class A, her treatment in all aspects—whether it be salary, bonuses, seniority calculations, or school authority—far exceeded that of the other three classes.

With that foundation, as long as she could hold onto the Class A position, she felt it was worth it, even if she had to pay out of her own pocket for the entire class's tutoring.

At worst, I can just rack my brain to find a reason and have the school reimburse a portion of it every month.

63+1. The 1.6 million monthly debt owed by three classes.

As soon as this decision by Chie Hoshinomiya was announced, it immediately caused a sensation among everyone in the class.

"Hoshinomiya-sensei, is this really okay?"

Ichinose Honami stood up and asked with some confusion, "Isn't there a school regulation stating that teachers are not allowed to be deeply involved in class competition?"

"That is true, I suppose." Chie Hoshinomiya put her hands on her hips and struck a proud pose, "But that mainly restricts us from leaking exam content or making decisions on behalf of students. However, a homeroom teacher using some of their own personal points to support students' progress is perfectly fine."

After all, the homeroom teacher and the students of their respective classes are bound by a relationship where they share in each other's success or failure.

Once the class they teach rises in rank during a special exam, the homeroom teacher effectively advances in their own position as well. Under such circumstances, it is naturally impossible for them to let the students fight for everything on their own while the teacher simply sits back and reaps the rewards.

Therefore, as long as there is a reasonable justification and the school's rules are not violated, homeroom teachers can provide a certain degree of support to their classes.

However, under normal circumstances, even if a homeroom teacher has a strong desire to advance their class, they would at most offer hints regarding exam rules, provide assistance during student competitions, or even help cover up non-compliant actions for students they approve of. It rarely escalates to the point of directly taking out a large amount of personal points to provide support.

After all, in this school, personal points are completely equivalent to cold, hard cash!

Most of the time, when homeroom teachers are willing to help their students compete for Class A, it is because they hope to use this to get a promotion and a raise. If they had to pay out of their own pockets to support the students, wouldn't that be completely putting the cart before the horse?

The students of the former Class B also thought of this, so someone embarrassedly raised their concern, "Isn't this bad? Teacher, you also need money for your own living expenses. Why don't we just pay for these tutoring fees out of our own class funds?"

The average monthly income for an ordinary working-class person in Sakurajima is between 300,000 and 400,000 yen.

For Hoshinomiya-sensei to just casually offer to cover the class's monthly tutoring fees of 400,000 yen is simply too generous. Won't it really affect her own daily life?

"It's fine, really!" Chie Hoshinomiya waved her hand dismissively, not caring at all, "The salary Kodo Ikusei Senior High School provides us homeroom teachers is quite high. Even for the Class D homeroom teacher, who has the lowest compensation, her monthly salary and various benefits combined are much higher than that of an average working-class person."

"Now that I've been promoted to the Class A homeroom teacher, my monthly base salary has increased by nearly 400,000. Other bonuses, allowances, overtime pay, and various subsidies have also increased significantly. Even after covering your monthly tutoring fees, the benefits I enjoy will still be much higher than before my promotion."

And that's not even counting some of the special privileges exclusive to the Class A homeroom teacher. For instance, if all four classes take an exam together, the regulations dictate that the Class A homeroom teacher must explain the rules to everyone. Or, if they feel that a special exam arranged by the school is unreasonable, the Class A homeroom teacher has the right to voice their opinions to the school administration.

In short, just as only students who graduate from Class A can receive the future promised by the school, the status of the Class A homeroom teacher at Kodo Ikusei Senior High School is far superior to that of the homeroom teachers of the other three classes.

Since she has sat in this position, she has no intention of stepping down. At the very least, she wants to enjoy it for three years!