Classroom of the Elite, Starting with a Zero, Knowing the Plot I Just Lay Flat!

Classroom of the Elite: Starting with 0 Points, I'm Laying Flat Since I Know the Plot! Author: Youyouye

Nakano Yuu transmigrated into the world of Classroom of the Elite, becoming a freshman at Tokyo Metropolitan Advanced Nurturing High School.

Good news: It's an anime I've watched, my identity is a rich kid, and I even have an ex-girlfriend named Sakayanagi Arisu.

Bad news: I have five foster sisters at home, yet my father keeps me on a tight budget and demands I make something of myself in high school!

Assigned to Class D? And it's already the end of the first month, with the class evaluation score sitting at zero!

There's also a whole bunch of dead weight in the class.

So why bother working hard? Just lay flat!

Since I know the plot anyway, I'll just save up 20 million points and bolt!

However.

Sakayanagi Arisu: Ara, so he is at this school after all. In that case, campus life is still worth looking forward to.

Ichinose Honami: Nakano-kun seems to have forgotten me, but I will work hard!

Kushida Kikyou: You're saying I'll be fingerprinted by a guy named Nakano Yuu? And that he'll get me expelled? Impossible, that is absolutely impossible!

Amasawa Ichika: It's true, Senior Kushida. You'd better just accept your fate!

Horikita: How unjust. As soon as school started, I was swindled out of all my points by a guy in my class named Nakano Yuu.

Ryuuen: Retract that last part, let me speak. Nakano Yuu, give me back my thirty million! Thirty million!

Chapter 001: Class D at the End of the First Month? Then I'll Just Lay Flat!

Tokyo Metropolitan Advanced Nurturing High School is famous for its 100% college acceptance rate and 100% employment rate, making it a highly coveted institution in the eyes of all students.

Not only that, but tuition is free, and students are even provided with points equivalent to 100,000 yen in cash every month after enrollment for living expenses. Upon graduation, one can even choose to enter a desired university without an entrance exam or directly obtain a preferred job position; it is truly a dream-like school.

However, aside from the waived tuition, everything else comes with conditions.

The school adopts a system of class competition and fluid class rankings; only by graduating as Class A can one obtain all the rewards offered by the school.

Even living expenses are calculated on a class basis, relying on the evaluation scores of each class. If a class's evaluation score drops to zero, the living expenses for the entire class will also drop to zero.

It can be said that this is a scam school; the publicity is alluring, yet the reality is so cruel, with everything following the principle that strength is supreme.

It seems as though only excellent students can receive preferential treatment.

Even so, despite knowing the true nature of this school, no student is willing to voluntarily drop out.

After all, compared to external high schools, this school indeed possesses extremely strong advantages.

The teaching staff is top-tier, the teaching facilities are high-grade, tuition is waived for three years, and even the accommodation conditions are excellent, providing all students with individual dorm rooms—20 square meters per person—which is simply a luxurious treat.

And at this moment, in one of the freshman dorm rooms, a student suddenly opened his eyes.

What came into view was an unfamiliar ceiling.

Although he was a bit dazed for a moment, the boy felt that this scene was familiar, as if he had witnessed an unfamiliar ceiling once before.

And while he was still confused, a series of memory fragments flooded into his mind.

Good news: I transmigrated, becoming an ordinary rich kid named Nakano Yuu.

The family background is excellent; the family runs a private hospital, and my father, Nakano Maruo, is a director with superb medical skills. However, a year ago, my father adopted the five orphans of his mentor, so Nakano Yuu gained five twin foster sisters.

Wait a second?

Am I not in the world of Classroom of the Elite right now? Why are the Nakano sisters involved? Although it's quite reasonable for this to happen with this surname.

It's just that Nakano Yuu still sensed that something was wrong. For instance, from the memory fragments received, he could see everything from his childhood impressions to the present clearly, but he discovered there was absolutely no memory of this past year.

However, he still remembered why he had come to this Advanced Nurturing High School.

According to his father, "You are my son. Ichika, Nino, Miku, Yotsuba, and Itsuki might truly be idiots who can't get into college, but the family needs a pillar. I will eventually grow old, and we must have the strength of the younger generation. This burden will be carried by you."

And although this father only adopted the Nakano quintuplets last year, he likely knew their situation long ago and had laid out plans in advance.

Specifically, he had subjected his own biological son to elite education.

And thanks to an elite educational style similar to that of Shinomiya Kaguya, Nakano Yuu discovered that his physical fitness, athletic training, and even his academic ability were actually outstanding, far exceeding those of ordinary students.

This was truly an unexpected surprise.

And coming to Advanced Nurturing High School was simply because the school's reputation was good; graduating from here counts as a solid resume.

But one has to graduate from Class A for it to be considered an excellent resume.

As a transmigrator, Nakano Yuu had watched the Classroom of the Elite anime and was very clear that this was a scam school; only by graduating from Class A could one obtain all the rewards and prestige.

And organizing the memories in his mind, it wasn't hard to tell that although he had been assigned to Class D after enrollment, it was still the first month of school.

Following the school's custom, the school would conceal everything, letting the freshmen experience it for themselves, and only in the second month would they inform the students of the school's truth.

The first month was a routine test of behavioral norms. Although there was a gap in class distribution from the start—elites to Class A, excellent students to Class B, the bottom of society to Class C, and the trash heap to Class D—the base evaluation score given by the school to each freshman class was identical.

All were 1,000 points.

Afterward, a special exam would be held every month on a class basis, with points added or deducted based on the performance of the classes.

And this class evaluation score multiplied by 100 is the living expense for each student.

The level of this class evaluation score represents the class ranking.

It can be said to be extremely important.

Being assigned to Class D is not exactly a despair-inducing situation; anyone who has watched the anime knows this is the protagonist's class, and in volume 22 of the original work, they even successfully promoted to Class A. It counts as a successful counterattack from the bottom.

So, although he is a student in Class D now, it is still the first month. As long as he seizes the 1,000 base points from the start and minimizes deductions, he can have a greater advantage than in the original story.

Thinking this, Nakano Yuu took out the new white-cased smartphone placed at the head of his bed.

This is the school's exclusive smartphone, provided to students for free use. At the same time, the student ID inside contains living expenses, which can be used as a payment code.

With a flick of his finger, the phone screen lit up immediately.

The first thing displayed was 5:50.

Hmm, it's morning.

Then came the date in a smaller font.

April 26, Sunday.

According to this body's memories, he enrolled on April 1, and now it is the 26th. They are indeed in the first month of the behavioral standards period. The assessment for these standards is simple: it just requires students to behave like excellent high school students. If they perform poorly, points will be deducted.

However, for the students of Class D, this requirement is also difficult, so most of them have likely already had a pile of points deducted.

If it were the beginning of the month, or at worst the middle, there might still be a chance to save it by using his foresight to let the students in the class know about this exam in advance, thereby reducing deductions.

But it is already the end of the month; struggling seems to have become somewhat difficult.

Nakano Yuu seems to have already foreseen the situation from the original work where the month ends and the class score drops from 1,000 to 0.

If that is the case, when the sky falls, only the tall ones can hold it up.

In the original work, it relied on the protagonist Ayanokoji Kiyotaka, who single-handedly carried the class to take flight. He could be considered a monster.

Today is Sunday, so there are no classes. He might as well keep sleeping, Nakano Yuu yawned and prepared to lie back down.

Wait.

Ayanokoji?

Among the students in Class D, is there anyone named Ayanokoji? It seems no one is named Ayanokoji, and his own seat in the class happens to be right next to Horikita Suzune.

The back row by the window, the hometown of kings. The protagonist's exclusive seat.

No. Buddy!

Nakano Yuu's sleepiness vanished instantly.

Damn it, it seems like because of his enrollment, the original male lead didn't enroll! And if the other party didn't enroll, how is he supposed to lead the class!

Chapter 002 Ayanokoji Kiyotaka, did he not enroll?

April 26, Sunday.

Today is Sunday, so there are no classes.

But at 7:00 in the morning, Nakano Yuu appeared punctually in the Ikusei High School cafeteria. Breakfast was three pork and shiitake mushroom siu mai, three chestnut sweet potatoes, and a bottle of milk.

Looking ahead, he could see quite a few students coming to the cafeteria to forage for food, then taking their own trays to sit in the booths.

Facing the reality that Ayanokoji Kiyotaka, the male lead of the original work, had not enrolled, Nakano Yuu's sleepiness was completely gone.

It is now the 26th, and if there are no accidents, the class will be just like in the original work, with the class evaluation score dropping from 1,000 to 0 in one month.

The class evaluation score persists throughout the entire three years, and everything must be based on this value. So, to have it drop to 0 right at the start is truly heaven-defying. It is even impossible to understand whether it was because 1,000 points were deducted in a month or if it was the result of having too many points deducted.

What can be done with such a class? Can it be saved? It's hopeless.

Unless a monster descends from the heavens, but since the monster Ayanokoji didn't enroll, what is there left to play with?

Nakano Yuu directly chose to give up.

Because he is familiar with the plot, he also knows there is a special channel in the school that can guarantee his graduation from Class A, which is to collect 20 million points and then choose to promote the class.

As long as he produces this sum of points at graduation, he can apply to transfer classes.

At that time, it wouldn't matter which class was Class A; he would still graduate from Class A.

It can be said to be the most secure plan.

However, saving up 20 million points is not an easy task. At the very least, in the history of this school with so many batches of students, no one has ever been able to accomplish it.

The difficulty is extreme.

But don't forget, he has watched the Classroom of the Elite anime, and he can grasp several places to make money through his foresight of the plot.

For example, after the uninhabited island exam in the original work, Ryuuen from Class 1-C reached an agreement with Katsuragi from Class 1-A, eventually allowing him to get nearly 30 million points from Class A. So, as long as he waits for Ryuuen to complete this feat, he can find an opportunity to swindle the money from Ryuuen.

And in the VIP exam, if they choose result 1, the school needs to pay the students 80 million in fees. So if he can mediate well or be ruthless, he can quickly gather the 20 million.

Therefore, Nakano Yuu is actually not afraid.

It's just that while the ideals are grand, it takes time to make money, and currently, Nakano-kun is facing a situation where his living expenses are running out.

He took out his white-cased phone and tapped on the student ID information.

[Name: Nakano Yuu

Student ID: ST1045666090

Class: Class 1-D

Gender: Male

Private Point Balance: 156 points.]

The points in the private account are the living expenses provided to students by the school. Every new student receives 100,000 points upon enrollment, with 1 point equivalent to 1 yen, yet Nakano now has only 156 points remaining.

In other words, if he doesn't find a way to earn more private points after paying for this breakfast, Nakano will have to go hungry.

Of course, the school has considered the possibility of students running out of points.

After all, in a competitive environment, the strong live well while the weak become poorer; some students might not see their class evaluation score drop to zero, but they certainly won't have enough to live on.

However, they obviously can't let the students starve to death.

Therefore, the school provides humanitarian relief: the cafeteria offers free meals, and the supermarket provides free daily necessities.

Naturally, because it is relief aid, the quality of the free meals is low—they are completely devoid of oil or flavor, and are frankly terrible to eat—while the free items at the supermarket are either near their expiration date or are just cheap goods.

Furthermore, going to claim these items often means enduring the contemptuous gazes of surrounding students.

The core message is that if you want better treatment, you must perform well in the monthly special exams and raise your class's evaluation score.

However.

This is too high a requirement for Class D.

And if next month starts with a score of zero, no one will have any living expenses. Although the school arranges a special exam every month to create a competitive atmosphere, where excellent performance leads to rewards, Nakano does not hold out any hope for that.