Classroom of the Elite, I Can Add Points Infinitely Chapter 31

Under such meager conditions, how could they possibly defeat Aragaki Shun, who was capable of continuously bleeding three classes dry?

67. The Phantom of Civil War is About to Go Online

One step slow, every step slow.

After having everyone in the class transfer 20,000 Private Points to him, and then sending the total of 800,000 to Aragaki Shun.

Katsuragi Kohei looked at the meager amount of Private Points left in his pocket—barely over 100,000—and a sense of powerlessness that made it hard to muster any fighting spirit suddenly welled up from the depths of his being.

He truly found it difficult to understand; they were all first-year students who had just enrolled not long ago, so how on earth did the other party manage to scrape together so many Private Points in just one month to purchase a Transfer Ticket?

That was an expensive commodity that cost two million to buy.

Even if Class A went without eating or drinking for the entire month, and everyone pooled together the 100,000 Private Points issued at the start of the semester, the total assets of their entire class would only be enough to buy two Transfer Tickets.

He had indeed looked into the intelligence that the other party had swept through all the competitive clubs at Kodo Ikusei Senior High School over the past month, winning a large number of Private Points from the second and third-year seniors.

But given such an exaggerated figure, what could the school possibly have been considering when they initially assigned him to Class B of the first year?

Could it be that they felt the intensity of the competition in the first year wasn't enough, so they had to assign the strongest student in the grade to a lower-ranked class to provide them, the members of Class A, with the motivation to improve?

That would truly be absurd!

He had heard that the current second year was also a comeback story from the original Class B, and the leader who led the second-year Class B to achieve this feat was also the recognized leader of the second year.

Looking at it this way, could the school really have established a hidden rule to demote the strongest student of each grade to Class B?

But wasn't the recognized strongest student of the third year the leader of Class 3-A, who also served as the Student Council President, Manabu Horikita?

"Katsuragi-kun, you wouldn't be losing heart just like this, would you?"

Sakayanagi Arisu watched the colors change on Katsuragi Kohei's face, and after roughly observing his psychological state, she offered a suggestion that seemed well-intentioned, "If that's the case, why don't you hand over the decision-making power of the class to me right now, Katsuragi-kun? I've been looking for a chance to play a proper game with that man."

"If you truly had the class at heart, I wouldn't have stepped up from the very beginning."

Collecting his complex thoughts, Katsuragi returned to his usual steady and reliable self.

He looked at the ever-indifferent Sakayanagi Arisu, and even though he knew that this was not the time for internal strife within the class, he still had no intention of simply surrendering to her.

One could tell from Sakayanagi's various daily actions that this young lady, with her wealthy background and prestigious status, didn't hold the students of Class A in any regard at all.

Her desire for control over the class was merely to use Class A as a toy, manipulating it at will to satisfy her fleeting interests and desires.

If he were to back down here, the entire Class A would immediately become a pawn in her hands, to be controlled according to her whims at any time.

If Sakayanagi Arisu had a sense of responsibility toward the class, it would be one thing—a pawn is a pawn.

As long as the leader was capable enough and willing to lead them to victory, the members of Class A wouldn't mind acting as pawns and following her instructions completely.

The problem was that while Sakayanagi Arisu's demeanor appeared elegant and proper on the surface, and she was polite to everyone, most people in the class could see that she didn't actually care about the interests of the students.

This was also normal; she was the daughter of the Board Chairman of Kodo Ikusei Senior High School, so graduating from Class A meant nothing to her. She hadn't even hidden the fact that she came to school just to find some amusement.

Coupled with the issues regarding her health, it wouldn't be surprising if she simply chose to drop out after a year or two once she lost interest.

This was the reason why more people in the class supported him.

After all, most of the students in Class A came from ordinary working-class families. The school's promise of advancement and employment recommendations was, to them, a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to change their future destiny, and no one was willing to give that up easily.

As for those in the Sakayanagi Faction... they probably felt that no matter how little Sakayanagi Arisu cared about the class, her status was there, and there would always be some benefits to following her.

"That is truly an undisguised prejudice, Katsuragi-kun."

Sakayanagi Arisu covered her mouth and chuckled, though she secretly made up her mind to find a way to get Katsuragi Kohei out of the picture later.

Otherwise, with such a prestigious stumbling block in the class, it would be difficult for her to turn this class into a tool that she could use with complete ease.

"This is not prejudice..."

Katsuragi Kohei shook his head, opening his mouth as if to say something, but ultimately did not continue.

The two of them had grown up in different environments; no matter how much he emphasized the importance of graduating from Class A to everyone, in Sakayanagi Arisu's eyes, these were just the thoughts of mediocre people.

After all, the finish line that they struggled their whole lives to reach was, to the young lady, merely a piece of junk to be discarded at will. How could she possibly care about the things that these people were chasing?

"It seems that conflict between you and me is unavoidable."

Sakayanagi Arisu ignored Katsuragi's hesitant expression; it was nothing more than those boring things anyway.

While she planned in her heart how to deal with him, she took the initiative to propose a suggestion to temporarily halt the infighting.

"But the current Class A cannot afford the cost of internal strife, so let's take turns leading the class in exams, and then let the students judge who is the most suitable class leader based on the results of the exams... What do you think of this plan?"

"That is naturally no problem."

Although Katsuragi was somewhat surprised that someone with Sakayanagi's personality would offer such a fair competition, he had absolutely no reason to refuse.

"However, the midterm exams are coming up next..."

"Since Katsuragi-kun has ideas, then let Katsuragi-kun take the lead. During the period of dealing with the midterm exams, all matters in the class, including all members of the Sakayanagi Faction, will be decided by you. How does that sound, Katsuragi-kun?"

--I feel like this is not a decision you would make at all.

Although he really wanted to say that, and he was aware that given her personality, she might be pulling some strings behind the scenes, but since there was a glimmer of hope for peacefully integrating the power of Class A, Katsuragi naturally couldn't destroy this hope just because of his own suspicions.

At worst, he would just pay more attention to the various behaviors of the members of the Sakayanagi Faction later.

"I understand. I will do my best to help the students in the class get through these midterm exams in the best possible state."

Katsuragi Kohei was not worried that anyone in Class A would be expelled for failing.

He was simply uncertain whether the overall grades of Class A could surpass those of Class B.

Unfortunately, the financial situation of his class was truly dire; if they were to follow Class B's lead and have every student spend 10,000 Private Points each month to enroll in tutoring sessions, the funds their class could reserve for special exams would be even scarcer.

If only Kodo Ikusei Senior High School had suitable part-time job opportunities.

However, although the school did not have explicit rules forbidding part-time work, the problem was that the three grade levels of the school combined only had about four hundred students. Even if one were to include the faculty and the shop staff, it was uncertain if the total foot traffic of the entire school could even reach one thousand.

With such a small number of people consuming goods, and most students needing to save money to cope with exams, those shops likely survived only through school subsidies; why would they ever think of hiring students for part-time work?

Author's Note

The editor has notified me that this book will officially go live tomorrow.

This is the third book I have launched, and I hope the performance will be decent.

Because of the Lunar New Year and the Spring Festival, there have been a ton of things to handle at home, so I haven't been able to stockpile any chapters. I will try my best to post 8,000 words tomorrow; please forgive me for the relatively small burst of updates.

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68. The Tyrant of Class C wants to make money; The chaos in Class D

While Katsuragi Kohei felt distressed over the scarcity of Private Points in the original Class A, the other two classes, which had simply fallen to the brink of poverty, were in an absolute uproar.

Class C, first year.

A sturdy man with a highly aggressive look in his eyes was gritting his teeth as he ordered everyone in the class to hand over their Private Points.

He was the leader of Class C, Ryuen Kakeru, a tyrant who ruled Class C through violence and intellect.

And while the current situation in Class C looked like a delinquent boss collecting protection money... in reality, it was not!

Although Ryuen Kakeru did indeed have a plan to collect a large amount of Private Points, the problem was that the Private Points he was currently making everyone in the class hand over would not stay in his hands at all; they had to be transferred to a certain bastard from the original Class B.

Thanks to someone's maneuvering, the Ryuen class now only had 330 Class Points. After Aragaki Shun took away the Private Points corresponding to 100 of those points, the amount of Private Points left in the hands of each person in Class C this month was only 23,000.

With Private Points as low as this, they couldn't even guarantee their meals for the month, and there was a good chance they would have to try the free Mountain Vegetable Set Meal during the last few days of the month.

Under these circumstances, no matter how much Ryuen Kakeru threatened or coerced them, how much oil could he really squeeze out of Class C?

However, in order to maintain the authority he had established through violence, he still forced everyone in the class to hand over the 3,000 Private Points that served as the remainder. Any more than that, and these guys in Class C who were already struggling to eat might actually explode on him.

It should be known that the reason he could become the leader of Class C through violence was actually due to the laissez-faire attitude of the Class C homeroom teacher, Sakagami Kazuma.

If it weren't for the fact that the other party actively helped him cover up various rule-breaking behaviors and even informed him about the restless students, it would have been truly difficult for Ryuen Kakeru to get this group of people in the class to behave obediently within a month.

However, Sakagami Kazuma had also told Ryuen Kakeru that while he could help cover things up within the class, if too many people in the class took matters directly to the Student Council, the situation would no longer be under his control.

After all, the school's publicly stated rules had zero tolerance for bullying and violent behavior. Some things could be done secretly in the dark and ignored if not discovered, but they absolutely could not be brought out into the open.

Under these circumstances, Ryuen Kakeru could not exploit Class C too severely; he still had to paint a big picture for them and give them the hope of chasing after Class A in order to squeeze a bit of profit out of the already scarce Private Points of the Class C crowd.

But looking at the 400,000 Private Points he had just transferred to Aragaki Shun, and then looking at the 120,000 he had just collected on his personal page... no matter how Ryuen Kakeru looked at it, it felt mocking, and he somewhat regretted collecting those 120,000.

Of course, the most hateful thing was that bastard who had snatched away one-third of their class's Private Points in one go!

That was all his money! His money!!

Ryuen Kakeru gritted his teeth in his heart, yet he didn't dare to directly tear up the contract or ignore the debt collection text messages from the other party.

According to what Sakagami Kazuma had told him, a contract witnessed by the school was mandatory.

In a situation where an entire class owed a large amount of points to a certain person, the standard procedure was for the class leader to collect them from all students first and then transfer them to the other party in a lump sum.

As long as there were no errors in this process, the school would not personally intervene.

But once the debtor class refused to cooperate in fulfilling the contract, the debt collector could fully apply to the school for mandatory enforcement.

When that time came, the school would directly deduct the repayment amount from the Private Points issued to the debtor class each month, and the class would also be punished by the school for violating the contract.

In more serious cases, the student who signed as the class leader could even be directly expelled by the school.

Although Ryuen Kakeru was annoyed that he had been extorted for so much money by Aragaki Shun, it didn't stop him from thinking that the rules of this school were truly interesting.

If this were a normal school, given his below-average academic ability and terrible interpersonal relationships, he had enough self-awareness to know whether he could ever get ahead in the future.

Now that there was such a special school that allowed him to exert himself to his heart's content, he naturally didn't want to leave in such a dejected manner.

If he didn't turn the entire Kodo Ikusei upside down and knock those heaven-favored children to the ground, how could he prove that he had ever been here!

"What should we do, Ryuen? Only 20,000 Private Points is really not enough to get through the month. Are we really going to be like those upperclassmen, eating the Mountain Vegetable Set Meal for over a dozen days every month?"

"I don't want that! I've tried that stuff, it's really disgusting. It's like eating trash! Did the school intentionally hire a dark-cuisine chef?"

Just as Ryuen Kakeru was secretly fuming in his heart, the complaints from his classmates brought him back to reality from his reverie.

Ryuen Kakeru: "..."

Because he had just collected 120,000 from the class, he now had a total of 140,000 Private Points in his hands. If he were just using it to eat and live, it would certainly be enough...

Enough my ass, what the hell is the use of such a small amount of money!

Last month, when he painted over the surveillance cameras in the classroom, the school fined him several tens of thousands in one go.

With only 140,000 Private Points, if he wanted to test the various bottom lines of the school, this amount of money wouldn't even cover a few fines.

Thinking of this, Ryuen Kakeru felt his teeth itch again, and all the thoughts in his heart were replaced by the urge to make money.

Make money! I must make money! Nothing can be done without money!

"Ryuen, say something! Aren't you supposed to be leading us to reach Class A? Now we don't even have enough for living expenses. Is this really the extent of your ability?"

As the voices of doubt rose within the class, Ryuen Kakeru first glared fiercely at everyone in Class C. Only when the classroom had fallen completely silent did he reveal an expression of absolute confidence.

"To think that my subordinates would get so worked up over living expenses—it's utterly disgraceful!"

After sternly rebuking those restless individuals, Ryuen Kakeru knew that no matter how dire the situation became, he had to maintain a strong front so that these people wouldn't dare pull any tricks behind his back.

That bastard from the former Class B actually still had seven Transfer Tickets left; he was a total animal.

Back when that guy used those Transfer Tickets to threaten him into signing the contract, he had wanted to just drag Class C into a mutual destruction with Class B and let everyone wallow in the mud together.

But then that bastard had said—

"Even if the evaluation points for all four classes drop to zero, I still have millions of Private Points in my hands. It wouldn't be a problem to give each of the 39 people in Class C tens of thousands."

"And then, I'll use a Transfer Ticket to join Class C and take charge myself. I wonder, by then, will Class C listen to me, their benefactor who gives them money, or to you, their enemy who uses violence against them and has drained them of all their living expenses?"

Recalling that scene, Ryuen Kakeru subconsciously shook his arm, as if he could still feel faint traces of pain radiating from somewhere unknown.

Without a doubt, he had attacked him right then and there.

Unfortunately, he couldn't beat him in a one-on-one fight at all.

Not only that, but that bastard had definitely undergone specialized training.

A single casual counterattack had nearly made him cry out in pain, yet when he went to the infirmary for a check-up, the doctor found absolutely no injuries on his arm, inside or out.

It made it impossible for him to even try to frame him for extortion to get some Private Points.

"Ryuen, you talk so boldly, but isn't that just because you took 3,000 Private Points from each of us?"

A student with an orange ponytail and long sideburns stood up.

Nishino Takeko, the female student, was clearly unhappy with Ryuen Kakeru's rebuke and confronted him directly, "If you have a plan, just spit it out. Don't think for a second that everyone is afraid of you. If you can't even guarantee our living expenses, then you should step down as the class leader and let someone more capable take over!"

"What a joke!" Ryuen Kakeru cast a cruel gaze toward her, but Nishino Takeko glared right back without the slightest hesitation, "Make me step down? Go ahead and tell those cowards to step up and try!"