The moment after he had declared that victory was assured, his phone suddenly chimed with a new message. Ryuen opened the email, and his face immediately fell.
"Who sent you that message? It made you look like that in an instant."
"...It's a payment reminder from Aragaki Shun. After the Midterm Exam, we confirmed that the Past Exam Papers were useful, so I have to transfer him the 200,000 this month."
"Oh. Well, take your time discussing it with the class. I'm going to work."
Hearing Ryuen's gloomy words, Sakagami Kazuma turned and hurried off without a moment's hesitation.
There was no helping it. Besides the contract with all of Class C, Ryuen Kakeru personally owed Aragaki Shun 200,000 every month.
Everyone in Class C had only 23,000 Private Points to spend freely this month. Ryuen had taken the extra 3,000 from each of his classmates, collecting a pitiful total of only 140,000 Private Points—still far short of 200,000.
But there was no more money to squeeze out of Class C. So where was he supposed to get the Private Points to pay Aragaki Shun?
Of course, he'd borrowed them from Sakagami!
Apparently inspired by Aragaki Shun, Ryuen had started eyeing the teachers' wallets, too.
But Sakagami Kazuma insisted that he really didn't have any Private Points to spare!
As a teacher in charge of Class C at Kodo Ikusei Senior High School, his monthly salary was indeed quite good. However, the other bonuses, allowances, and subsidies provided by the school were paid directly in yen. Only half of his base salary was in yen, with the other half paid in Private Points.
After Aragaki Shun had squeezed him dry, he had little in the way of Private Points left each month. He was in no position to support Ryuen's