Chapter 94

In this peaceful atmosphere of studying, apart from the news of Aragaki Shun and Shiranami Chihiro dating, which once caused a sensation throughout the School Forum, the only hot news for the first-year students was Sakayanagi Arisu's whereabouts after her suspension from school.

The source of the news is unknown, but what is certain is that when the news spread that Sakayanagi Arisu was going to transfer to Class A, all four first-year classes were in an uproar.

Especially the members of Class B, among whom Hashimoto Masayoshi was the one who most wanted to curse.

So, all you big shots fought like that, and in the end only we underlings got hurt?

Little princess, aren't you actually a spy? You've already conspired with the Leader of Class A, just waiting to swindle 400 points from Class B before running away?

Sakayanagi Arisu did not comment on this, but the day after the news broke, she decisively applied to the school to change dormitories.

Normally, students need to move dormitories after changing classes.

After all, to facilitate interaction among students, student dormitories are assigned to the same area according to each class.

You can't possibly transfer to Class A but still stay in Class B's dorm area, right? That would be so embarrassing to be stared at like a traitor by a bunch of Class B students every time you go back to your dorm.

Of course, Sakayanagi Arisu will not be able to officially join Class A until next semester, after her suspension ends.

At least for now, she is not eligible to move her dormitory to the Class A area ahead of schedule.

But this didn't stump her at all. Knowing that Aragaki Shun and Shiranami Chihiro had specifically rented a two-person apartment, she for some reason had her luggage moved here as well. The apartment was conveniently located on the same floor as Aragaki Shun's, separated only by an empty apartment.

As a result, every time Aragaki Shun and Shiro-nami stayed at the apartment for one night, Sakayanagi Arisu a smile the next morning.

According to the girl, she wanted to know how true geniuses live and grow up in their daily lives...

Never mind, as long as she doesn't cause trouble, this situation is insignificant.

The morning of July 1st.

After getting up and going for a run, I returned to my apartment with breakfast and saw Sakayanagi Arisu walking out with a cane once again. Aragaki Shun simply nodded calmly to her.

But just as he was about to pass the other person and head to his room, he was suddenly interrupted by Sakayanagi speaking:

"Good day, Aragaki. A new month has arrived, it seems we'll soon be classmates and attending school in the same classroom."

"What, you've already raised twenty million?" Aragaki Shun was slightly surprised. "Is it possible to move that fast?"

"Hehe~ After all, I'm still on leave from school, and I don't have much to do on weekdays, so I can only make the most of my time to connect with the upperclassmen."

Sakayanagi Arisu smiled; judging from her appearance alone, she was indeed very cute at that moment.

"Unfortunately, due to the new school rules issued by Vice President Nagumo in the second year, the support I received from my seniors was far less than I had imagined."

"In the end, a few teachers took pity on me and offered their help. Otherwise, I might have had to stay in Class B for a longer period of time to raise the 20 million needed to transfer to Class A."

At this point, Sakayanagi Arisu's gaze towards Aragaki Shun became exceptionally complex.

Because of the strategic failure, the class lost 400 evaluation points at once, and the girl's appeal in Class B naturally plummeted.

During the subsequent two-choice vote, under the leadership of Katsuragi Kohei, the entire Class B attempted to abandon Sakayanagi and exchange him for Aragaki Shun's transfer to Class B.

After this series of events, it was clear that Sakayanagi Arisu could no longer stay in Class B.

After all, her classmates might not dare to do anything to her because of her status, but as long as they isolate her as if she doesn't exist, they can prevent her from doing anything.

Being ignored by everyone in Class B, there was no point in her staying in the dormitory area corresponding to Class B, so she thought about moving out as soon as possible and changing her living environment.

As for the rent issue... is that something that the daughter of the Board Chairman the Advanced Nurturing Council would care about?

"It seems Nagumo is quite quick on his feet." Ignoring Sakayanagi's deliberately resentful look, Aragaki Shun nodded, then asked with a hint of curiosity, "Since you've been dealing with upperclassmen these days, you should know a lot about Koenji Rokusuke's situation, right?"

"According to my intelligence, the reason why Miyabi Nagumo introduced the new rules, specifically restricting senior students from exchanging Private Points for cash, is mainly targeting Koenji."

"I first plundered Private Points held by the upperclassmen through clubs at the beginning of the semester, and now you've borrowed some of them. There are still three second-year classes to supply Miyabi Nagumo... Under these circumstances, Koenji's plan to exchange cash for Private Points should have completely failed."

"That certainly seems to be the case," Sakayanagi Arisu thought for Aragaki Shun's statement, then shaking her head to indicate uncertainty, "But the upperclassmen are still willing to use points to support each other's daily lives, not to mention that Katsuragi and the others seem to have designs on Koenji recently."

"Katsuragi ..." A subtle expression appeared on Aragaki Shun's face, "Ever since he failed to get me voted into Class B last time, he seems to have a new idea and has started targeting Class C and Class D."

Even someone as isolated as Sakayanagi, who was ostracized by everyone in Class B, had ways to find out about Katsuragi's whereabouts, so it was impossible for Aragaki Shun not to know about the other party's actions.

Moreover, when he chatted with Shiina Hiyori at the library before, she had told him about Katsuragi's invitation.

It can only be said that gold shines wherever it is. Katsuragi, like him, also recognized that Shiina was one of the few talented people in Class C, so he wanted to recruit him to his class.

"As expected, Class B still has too many Private Points left to use!"

Having come to this conclusion, Aragaki Shun pondered that he still needed to find a way to get their savings back from Katsuragi.

"If nothing unexpected happens, they decided to convert these Private Points into an increase in Class B's strength as soon as possible precisely because they were worried about your intervention."

Because of her suspension from school, Sakayanagi has been spending her days alone, bored and having nothing to do. But from an outsider's perspective, she has a clearer understanding of the situation of each class in the first grade than before.

"Unlike the students in Class C and Class D who have to scrimp and save even for a normal life, even though Class B has been suppressed by you several times and has been severely weakened because of me, they still haven't used up all their remaining Private Points."

Even if the entire class combined their savings, they couldn't possibly save up 20 million to help one person permanently transfer to another class.

"But if it's just a matter of paying two million for a one-time Transfer Ticket, Class B's current financial resources are sufficient."

At the beginning of the school year in April, the school distributed 1,000 Class Evaluation Points to each of the four first-grade classes. Aragaki Shun used his Transfer Ticket to take 200 points from the score, leaving Class B with 800 points still available.

In May, due to Yamauchi Haruki's influence, Class B's score dropped to 850 points. Even after losing 200 points, they still had 650 points.

By June, due to Sakayanagi Arisu's strategic mistake, Aragaki Shun's score from Class B suddenly rose to 600 points.

However, after the voting, the school gave each of the four classes 200 points, so Class B now had 450 points at their disposal.

"I remember when school first started, I used Transfer Ticket to send Yamauchi Haruki to Class B to cause trouble. You guys pooled together 1 million Private Points to send him back to Class D, right?"

Aragaki Shun suddenly remembered this and asked with some suspicion, "Under these circumstances, how could Class B have accumulated more than 2 million Private Points over these three months?"

With 800 points in April, 650 points in May, and 450 points in June, after three months in Class B, if everyone didn't spend a single point of their Private Points, the total would only be 7.6 million. Subtracting 1 million would leave only 6.6 million.

It seems like a lot, but they need to live in Advanced Nurturing environment, so even with free items, it's impossible for them to live without spending a single penny.

Moreover, when everyone first moves into the dorms at the start of the semester, they all need to buy a lot of daily necessities, which all cost money.

To save 2 million from 6.6 million over three months, the 40 students in Class B would need to limit their monthly living expenses to less than 38,000.

If everyone in Class B had this awareness when the semester started, then their self-discipline is indeed quite good.

"It may seem unbelievable, but the reason why everyone in Class B is so frugal is mainly thanks to Aragaki -kun."

Sakayanagi Arisu glanced at Aragaki Shun. If Yamauchi Haruki at them right at the start of the semester, forcing Class B to sign that Private Points transfer contract, the rest of Class B wouldn't have realized the importance of Private Points in this school.

"If I remember correctly, before July arrives, the Private Points that everyone in Class B should have accumulated should be around 3 million."

"This isn't even the worst-case scenario. Just like the conditions Katsuragi offered when he invited you to transfer classes, if it really comes to it, the people in Class B can easily keep their monthly living expenses below 10,000 yen, and then hand over any excess to the class leader who can guide them forward."

"When it comes to being pragmatic, the students in Class B are definitely the best at it among the four classes."

Without a doubt, Sakayanagi Arisu deeply understood this.

Unfortunately, because they were too pragmatic, they were quick to discard useless leaders without hesitation or mercy.

Ignoring Sakayanagi's sentiments, Aragaki Shun merely narrowed his eyes and deduced Katsuragi's thoughts.

"Shiina is unlikely to go to Class B, but it's hard to say about Koenji."

"But Class B only has so much savings. If they were to buy a one-time Transfer Ticket, they would only use it for Special Exam."

"It seems he's planning to catch me off guard during the summer vacation."

163. Sakayanagi learned useless knowledge; Chihiro tried to drag her friend down with her.

Katsuragi has a new idea: does he want to invite Koenji Rokusuke to Class B?

Aragaki Shun had no other thoughts about this news.

After all, that chaebol's only son has always been independent and has made it clear that he will not come to Class A and be subordinate to others, so no matter what he does, it will not be surprising.

In fact, when Aragaki Shun first formulated his strategy of recruiting talent from outside, he had already considered the existence of Koenji Rokusuke. Both in terms of strength and status, Rokusuke was qualified to be invited to Class A.

Unfortunately, yet not so much, Koenji simply declined his invitation.

This was entirely expected.

Aragaki Shun needs Class A that completely obeys his will; he can't possibly find a powerful figure to take him in. Meanwhile, Koenji Rokusuke doesn't like to be bossed around and prefers to pursue his own aesthetics as he pleases. It's normal that the two couldn't agree on their terms.

Moreover, ever since they met, Koenji had been eager to have a match with him, but since the other party didn't have enough bargaining chips, Aragaki Shun was too lazy to respond to such a thankless challenge, which is why they remained at peace with each other.

Now that Katsuragi Kohei has taken the initiative to approach him, given Koenji Rokusuke's personality, it would be perfectly normal for him to accept or refuse.

Ultimately, although Class B is currently severely weakened, in terms of the overall quality of all students in the class, they are still not much weaker than Class A.

Since the route of exchanging cash for Private Points has been blocked, transferring to Class B to integrate them and then challenging Aragaki Shun seems like a good option.

"Actually, I was a little surprised that Katsuragi would make this choice."

Sakayanagi Arisu maintained her reserved and elegant expression. "When we were vying for leadership of Class B, he refused to budge an inch. Now that he's driven me out, is he going to push that power away again?"

Putting aside strength for now, just looking at personality, did Katsuragi Kohei really think that Koenji Rokusuke was easier to get along with than her?

"To be honest, with your personality, not many people would dare to bet on you."

Aragaki Shun sneered mercilessly, "He doesn't even draw a picture of the future, yet he takes it for granted that others should follow his instructions."

"Not to mention, you're clearly here to have fun. You might drop out at any time, leaving a mess behind, and run away. In that case, those shrewd kids in Class B will naturally want to leave themselves some options."

At the beginning of the school year, Katsuragi was able to pull together a group of supporters in Sakayanagi's home turf to rival him.

Aside from Katsuragi's personal charisma, the bigger problem lies in the fact that Sakayanagi Arisu's unapproachable public persona makes it difficult for most of Class B to trust her.

Those willing to follow her were basically opportunists, represented by Hashimoto Masayoshi.

The faction Katsuragi Faction preferred to tear apart Class B rather than submit to Sakayanagi, which shows that they genuinely did not approve of Sakayanagi controlling Class B.

However, Katsuragi Kohei was not a power-hungry person. If there were a more suitable candidate, he would not mind handing over the leadership and stepping down to become the right-hand man of the more powerful person.

For example, during the previous voting event, the other party sincerely invited Aragaki Shun to join Class B. For this, he was willing to completely transfer leadership. In fact, all the members of Class B agreed that they only needed to keep the basic living expenses each month, and he could do whatever he wanted with the extra Private Points.

However, if it were Koenji Rokusuke, Class B wouldn't be able to give away all their chips at once.

After all, Koenji has not yet proven his strength in the class competition. The first-year students only know that he has good grades and physical abilities and is the only son of a conglomerate. Apart from that, no one knows whether he really has the ability to lead Class B forward.

"Forget it, it's not worth worrying about."

Aragaki Shun shook his head, putting the news out of his mind for the time being. "Whether Koenji joins Class B or not, he can't shake the momentum of Class A anyway, so let's leave it at that."

Let alone just Koenji Rokusuke, even if the remaining three lower-ranked classes united as one, what could they possibly achieve?

Katsuragi, Ryuen, Koenji, and Ayanokoji are all quite talented individuals, but among the current first-year students, Aragaki Shun and Class A are the dominant force. Even if they conspire together, they are powerless to reverse the snowball effect that has already begun.

Nodding to Sakayanagi, Aragaki Shun turned and left, entering his apartment.

Sakayanagi Arisu silently watched the boy's disappearing figure, feeling somewhat bored as she felt the cool breeze blowing in her face.

Because of the suspension from school, she had nothing to do during this time, and spent her days either reading or spacing out near her apartment.

The reason she specifically moved next door to Aragaki Shun was simply to learn more about his daily life, since this was the first time in her life she had lost so badly.

What slightly annoyed her was that Aragaki Shun seemed to only see this apartment as a place to be intimate with his girlfriend and to escape to some peace and quiet.

According to the pattern she noted down, for the first few days, the other party would bring Shiranami Chihiro from Class A over every evening, and every morning they would go for a run and bring back some food.

If nothing unexpected happens, these meals were probably brought specifically for Shiranami Chihiro.

Since arriving here, she seemed to have never seen Shiranami Chihiro get up early. She would only see the two of them go out to the teaching building together after Aragaki Shun had finished his morning run and eaten breakfast.

If it was a weekend and there were no classes, the girl named Shiranami Chihiro would be nowhere to be seen all morning. It wouldn't be until lunchtime that she would be dragged out of the room by Aragaki Shun, still half asleep.

In the days that followed, the frequency with which the two stayed at this apartment gradually decreased for some reason. At first, they came every day, then it became once every two days, and now it's once every three days.

However, their daily routines remained unchanged. Apart from Aragaki Shun greeting her when he returned from his morning run, Sakayanagi Arisu noticed nothing unusual about his daily life.

Her impression of Shiranami Chihiro was still that of a lazy bum who slept in every day and needed Aragaki Shun to bring her breakfast before she could get up.

Sakayanagi Arisu couldn't understand it at all. As a true genius in her eyes, why would Aragaki Shun accept the pursuit of an ordinary girl?

Even if there's sexual dissatisfaction and a desire to find someone to help satisfy that need, the other person doesn't seem like someone who can fulfill the responsibilities of a girlfriend at all.

If we disregard other factors and only consider physical fitness, Kamuro Masumi from Class B, Ibuki Mio from Class C, and Horikita Suzune from Class D would all be more suitable choices.

If it were them, they probably wouldn't be so exhausted every night that they couldn't get up the next day, right?

Smack!

Sakayanagi, whose thoughts had wandered off somewhere, suddenly slapped himself in the face.

The girl looked around nervously, and only after confirming that no one was around did she breathe a sigh of relief and hurried back to her apartment.

I never thought I'd be thinking such meaningless things.

Is it because you've had nothing to do lately and are just too bored?