Chapter 82
If a student's mistake seriously harms the interests of the class, and the student cannot personally compensate for it, or if more than half of the students believe that the student intentionally disrupted class order, the class leader has the right to pursue further accountability and even apply to the school for expulsion arbitration.
"Arisu don't you take a look? This thing is quite interesting. If you really join Class A, you won't be able to do whatever you want anymore."
Sakayanagi Arisu an eyebrow, silently scanned the entire document of the class rules, and after a long silence, finally raised a question:
"... So, can the mistakes made before joining Class A be included in point four?"
If we're going to count it, my actions of spreading rumors about the Leader of Class A can clearly be considered as deliberately disrupting class order.
Could it be that she just transferred to Class A, and now those people are going to use this as a reason to hold her accountable or even expel her?
After thinking for a moment, Sakayanagi Narimori calmly gave his answer, "Normally, these kinds of things are handled by the Student Council unless they escalate to the point where someone has to drop out. If someone does drop out, it will alert the school administration."
The problem is that Aragaki Shun is currently the Vice President of the Student Council and is very likely to become the Student Council President in the future.
After Sakayanagi Narimori, Director Kanda, the Acting Board Chairman, was also his backer.
In other words, if she becomes unruly after transferring to Class A, she could very well be expelled from Advanced Nurturing by everyone in Class A.
"Aragaki-kun really doesn't give us any chance at all..."
Sakayanagi Arisu sighed, realizing she had been forced into a situation where she had no choice but to act according to the other party's wishes, leaving her with only one path to take.
This is really not funny!
But inexplicably, she felt that this wasn't so bad after all.
At least the opponent defeated her with genuine strength.
She did lose, but she lost clearly and decisively. Although she was somewhat unwilling to accept it, she didn't feel that her opponent's victory was unfair.
Sure enough, I wasn't a "real genius" after all, and all the things I used to worry about seemed to have lost their meaning.
But after letting go of those attachments, what can I do in the short term?
The silver-haired girl was bewildered.
After saying goodbye to the Board Chairman, she returned to her dormitory somewhat dejectedly.
Genius... a fake genius... the real genius... Class A... Aragaki -kun...
Sigh~!!
She really needed to go check out Class A; she wanted to know what true geniuses were like on a daily basis.
The classroom of Class 1-A.
After receiving the Board Chairman's reply via email, Aragaki Shun immediately sent over the rules and regulations for Class A, and then decisively cast his vote for Option Two, thus ending this brief event.
Two or three minutes later, the voting interface showed that everything was over, and it seemed that Hoshinomiya-sensei had also received a notification from the school.
"OK, the school has been informed of the results of this activity. After a vote by all first-grade students and taking into full account all opinions, the school has decided to implement the second plan, adding 200 Class Evaluation Points to each of the four first-grade classes."
"Because today is only the second day of June, based on the Board Chairman's suggestion, the school has decided to give all first-year students an additional 20,000 Private Points for this month."
"Everyone cheer! You'll receive your points from the school by the end of the day at the latest. If you want to have a nice get-together, don't forget to invite your teachers!"
The students in Class A instinctively looked in Aragaki Shun's direction. After he smiled and nodded, the students, led by Shibata Sou, stood up and let out unrestrained, cheerful noises.
"Oh, oh, oh!!! Let's do as the teacher said, everyone get together for a meal this afternoon!"
"That's fantastic! We now have over 120,000 Private Points every month, more than we can use up, we simply can't use them all!"
Amidst cheers from her classmates, Hoshinomiya-sensei waved, signaling that everyone was free to do as they pleased, and then she herself left the classroom with her textbooks.
Just as Shiranami Chihiro at the table in front of him, was about to chat with Aragaki Shun, Kanzaki Ryuji walked over again. The girl pouted slightly, but obediently kept her presence to herself so as not to disturb their serious conversation.
"I really didn't expect the school to be so generous in making up for this month's Private Points."
"After all, the Board Chairman wants to resolve this matter perfectly, so naturally he won't be stingy with a little money."
Aragaki Shun chuckled as he fiddled with his phone, then looked at Kanzaki with some curiosity. "Is there something you need?"
"I'd like to ask, since the school has made up for the 20,000 points per person this month, then in June, each person in Class A will have received 126,000 Private Points, and each person should pay 63,000 class fees. Should I ask everyone to pay another 10,000 points?"
Aragaki Shun paused, looking at Kanzaki Ryuji's serious expression with a hint of speechlessness.
"Forget it, this 20,000 was an unexpected bonus. Since we already collected the class funds yesterday, let's not spoil everyone's fun today."
"It's not a bad thing to give everyone more Private Points to use as they please."
"Alright," Kanzaki Ryuji nodded, having no other thoughts on the matter, and then asked another question, "Are you really going to transfer Sakayanagi to Class A?"
"Why not?" Aragaki Shun asked with a smile.
"The Board Chairman himself has indeed been suspended, but Kodo Ikusei Senior High School is ultimately the home turf of the Sakayanagi Family. Many of their subordinates at the school, and even their allies in the Board of Directors, are still there."
The fact that Sakayanagi Narimori was able to occupy the position of Board Chairman of the Advanced Nurturing Council already indicated that the Sakayanagi Family was among the most powerful members of the Board of Directors.
Normally, the number of Board of Directors members at Sakurajima High School or University is between 5 and 18.
Even if the Board Chairman himself is suspended, he will still have allies within the Board of Directors.
In fact, putting aside others, just considering Director Kanda, who has always been on good terms with the Aragaki Family, his relationship with Sakayanagi Narimori must also be quite good.
Otherwise, there would have been no way that Sakayanagi Narimori would have appointed Director Kanda as the future Acting Board Chairman.
In any case, when facing external parties, all members of the Advanced Nurturing High School Council are a unified whole. No matter how much they disagree internally, they will maintain a state of struggle without breaking apart.
"After the Board Chairman leaves the school, the Sakayanagi Family's influence in the Advanced Nurturing may weaken considerably, but they are only temporarily lying low; it doesn't mean they've lost all their influence."
"Transfer Sakayanagi Arisu to Class A. As long as we curb her antics, even if the remaining power of the Sakayanagi Family wants to interfere in the first-year class competition, they will have no choice but to place their bets on us."
She used Sakayanagi to control the school administration.
Being in the same class, the Sakayanagi Family, representing the power of the council, and the Director Kanda member behind him have joined forces, giving them an overwhelming advantage over the other factions in the Board of Directors.
"I see," Kanzaki, completely understanding. "If we consider it from this perspective, then we should indeed take Sakayanagi into Class A; we can't let her end up in Class D."
After all, he knew about Koenji Rokusuke and Ayanokoji Kiyotaka from Class D. One of them was the heir to a conglomerate, and the other was the White Room's Masterpiece. If you also included the Sakayanagi Family's eldest daughter, a local bigwig, it would be too troublesome if these three parties joined forces.
However, if option one is chosen, Koenji will be transferred to Class C, making it unlikely that the three of them can work together. But the Sakayanagi Family and the White Room have a certain foundation to work together.
"Just to transfer Sakayanagi to Class A, we need to prepare Twenty Million Personal Points. The class funds are still a bit short right now. I don't know if we can raise enough in three months."
"Why use class funds?" Aragaki Shun asked, puzzled. "Why don't we just let Sakayanagi Arisu this ourselves, or let the Board Chairman take care of it?"
"If Koenji Rokusuke can use the name of the Koenji Conglomerate to exchange Private Points with upperclassmen, can't Sakayanagi Arisu, as the daughter of the Board Chairman, borrow 20 million yen from upperclassmen or even faculty members?"
"Ah?!"
Kanzaki Ryuji didn't react for a moment. "You mean you don't pay a single penny, and let Sakayanagi borrow money to transfer to Class A?"
Although he knew all along that if Sakayanagi fell into Aragaki's hands, he would definitely not fare well.
But to have to borrow money to pay for selling oneself is simply outrageous.
"It's alright, our young lady won't mind such a small amount of money."
147. Harvest Review; [Gluttony] upgraded to level 5.
He extended the invitation proactively, but he clearly had no intention of paying for Sakayanagi Arisu's meal.
Let the Board Chairman's daughter borrow 20 million to transfer to Class A.
Anyway, this wasn't a difficult task for her.
If there's really no other way, they can follow the path of Koenji Rokusuke and collect all the Private Points from the upperclassmen in advance.
No matter how you look at it, for those upperclassmen who have already given up hope of being promoted to Class A, it would be more worthwhile to directly befriend Sakayanagi Arisu Private Points rather than trade cash with Koenji Rokusuke.
After all, the Koenji Conglomerate is too far away, and Koenji Rokusuke will not graduate from school for another three years. As Advanced Nurturing local bigwig, Sakayanagi Arisu could easily buy their Private Points with cash.
Not to mention, if one could get in touch with the Board Chairman through this, even if one couldn't graduate from Class A, there might still be other guarantees.
This is the most appealing aspect for most students in the lower grades of the upper grades.
According to the school, after three years of competition, only students graduating from Class A will be guaranteed admission to prestigious universities and companies without taking the entrance exam. So what about the many more who fail?
What will happen to the more than one hundred students in the lower-ranked classes after they graduate?
All these years have passed, and the truth about Advanced Nurturing has never been revealed.
This proves that the school must have made certain arrangements for the destinations of all graduates, and only in this way could the confidentiality be maintained to this extent.
Most students in lower-ranked classes might not realize this, but they can certainly guess that the Board Chairman's perception of them could influence their future.
In this situation, is there really any need to hesitate about simply changing the recipient of cash for Private Points from Koenji Rokusuke to Sakayanagi Arisu?
Moreover, even if it doesn't work out with the students, it wouldn't be difficult for Sakayanagi, with his status, to extract 20 million yen from the faculty and staff.
This is a big boss's daughter asking you for a small favor; how many people would refuse such a good opportunity?
If you perform even slightly better, you might not get a promotion or a raise in the future, but at least you'll get a bigger bonus after the New Year.
Therefore, after Aragaki Shun sent over the rules and regulations for Class A, he didn't mention any further details about transferring classes, meaning he let them arrange it themselves.
In short, by not choosing option one and deliberately Sakayanagi Arisu to Class D, he had already accepted the ten million offered by the Board Chairman.
Whether Sakayanagi stays in Class B and is isolated by everyone, or transfers to Class A to try and improve his interpersonal relationships, is up to them to decide. Aragaki Shun only offered a suggestion.
"Let's Sakayanagi's matter at that for now. Anyway, even if she wants to transfer to Class A, we'll have to wait until her suspension ends next semester."
Aragaki Shun chuckled softly, then picked up a piece of paper and wrote down the changes in evaluation scores for the four first-grade classes.
Class A (Aragaki Class) 1060 points → 1260
Class B (Katsuragi Class): 850 points → 1050
Class C (Ryuen Class) 312 points → 512
Class D (Karuizawa Class) 303 points → 503 points
"Now that all four classes have been allocated 200 Class Evaluation Points, they will have significantly more Private Points left over each month."
"That won't do. We need to find a way to take all their Private Points beyond their living expenses."
In Aragaki Shun's plan, the lower-ranked classes only need to keep their Private Points below 20,000 per person per month; any more and they will start to think about challenging Class A.
"Let me do the math. The Katsuragi Class gives you 2.4 million yen a month, which is equivalent to 600 Class Evaluation Points. That means they still have 450 points left for themselves."
After only getting started, Kanzaki Ryuji's expression turned somewhat awkward, deeply feeling that his leader was being inhuman.
"Ryuen Class and Ryuen himself will give you 800,000 yuan every month, which is equivalent to 200 Class Evaluation Points. They will still have 312 points left for themselves."
"The Karuizawa Class gives you 600,000 yen a month, which is equivalent to 150 Class Evaluation Points. They still have 353 points left. The Class D actually has more Private Points that they can use each month than the Class C."
Aragaki Shun stroked his chin, nodded, and finally dropped a bombshell. "Anyway, we just need to find a way to take another 200 points from those three classes. After all, to some extent, these are spoils of war that I fought and snatched from Sakayanagi."
"Oh, by the way, the Katsuragi Class should take 300 points directly. They actually get 45,000 Private Points per person per month, which is a bit outstanding among the lower-ranked classes and not balanced enough."
Kanzaki Ryuji: "..."
Taking a deep breath, the class fund manager of Class A finally understood why Aragaki Shun's personal income could exceed the entire class's fund by so much.
His awareness is still insufficient!
"Don't look at me like that. Just get the 200 points the school gives you through the contract as soon as possible, so you don't have to worry about Special Exam where the first-year students lose points in the future."
Once the contract is signed, even if the Class Evaluation Points are deducted, the next class will still have to find a way to repay those debts.
Whether they can maintain their Class Evaluation Points is their own business, and Aragaki Shun won't care.
The contract is notarized by the school and must be enforced. If the Class Evaluation Points is insufficient, Private Points will be deducted directly. If Private Points are still insufficient, then we will need to negotiate further.
Well, it's unrealistic to expel an entire class under these circumstances, but charging a penalty interest on classes with overdue debts isn't unreasonable, is it?
"While your idea is good, Aragaki, Sakayanagi has already taken such a big fall. No wonder the other students in Class B, Class C, and Class D are unlikely to continue to take the initiative and give us any leverage."
Kanzaki Ryuji shook his head. He didn't think he could find another good opportunity to weaken the three lower-ranked classes in the short term.
This time, the fact that we were able to snatch 400 points from Class B so easily was really thanks to Sakayanagi Arisu's aggressive offensive. Otherwise, if Katsuragi had been in charge of the class, even if he couldn't have given Class B an advantage, we wouldn't have lost so badly.
Well, this is on the premise that there is no mole within Class B; otherwise, even if Katsuragi Kohei always adheres to a conservative and steady approach, it will be useless.
There's a saying that goes, "The strongest fortresses are often breached from within."
"I have Class D under control, Katsuragi from Class B won't act rashly. Barring any unforeseen circumstances, these two classes shouldn't make any further moves before summer vacation."
Aragaki Shun and easily brought up the most unruly student among the first-year students, "But isn't there also Ryuen Kakeru?"
"If he doesn't want the students in Class C to completely side with me, he'll have to find an opportunity to demonstrate his wisdom and ruthlessness in dealing with outsiders."
Even so, his target couldn't be Class A, much less you.
Kanzaki Ryuji was certain of this.