You Went After His Little Sister-Now Get Ready for Her Big Brother! / Kid, You've Got Some Nerve!

Chapter 4: Mess With My Little Sister, and You'll Answer to Her Big Brother!

Horikita Suzune had only left home that morning and gone to the cafeteria for breakfast. By the time she came to her senses, the points on her Student ID Card had already been wiped out.

But Nakano wasn't exactly a demon, either.

"Thanks so much for your patronage, Horikita." Nakano Yuu had indeed received Horikita Suzune's 82,400 points.

"But since you're a girl, having not a single point to your name would be a real problem, so I transferred 2,400 points back to you," Nakano Yuu said.

"Hmph." Horikita Suzune merely snorted, but her phone had already notified her that 2,400 points had been deposited. So she still dutifully said, "Thank you."

She'd lost all her bite.

No, no. It's still your money. But you like me one point more now, don't you?

Nakano Yuu was surprised to find that Horikita, who seemed so difficult to win over, was actually kind of cute. She was way too easy to handle.

Anyway.

"Now for the bit of news I was originally going to give you as a bonus."

"The school encourages students to compete by class, which is why the class rankings are allowed to change."

"There might be a Special Exam every month. Excellent performance can earn points, and the students' allowances are tied to the class's evaluation score. The score multiplied by 100 is the monthly allowance. Since we received 100,000 points when we enrolled, we can conclude that all four classes started with an evaluation score of 1,000."

"And there's a Special Exam this month, too. The rules are pretty simple: it's just testing whether we can behave like exemplary high school students."

"If we do anything that violates those standards, points will be deducted," Nakano Yuu said.

"..." Horikita.

Didn't that mean Class D was completely doomed?

The test was about behaving like a good high school student. It sounded simple, like the sort of thing they were supposed to do anyway.

But.

Students in their class skipped class, read novels during lessons, played on their phones, read manga, and even held a beauty pageant in the classroom. All of that would cost them points.

"And there are a lot of cameras at this school, so it's not just during class. Even doing something excessive in your daily life or during your free time could get points deducted," Nakano Yuu added.

But Horikita's face turned even paler.

She suspected that, by the end of the month, she might be the only one in the class who'd managed to follow the standards for a good, ordinary high school student.

Still.

On that point, she asked hesitantly, "How many class evaluation points do you think we have left?"

Even though she'd heard all of this from Nakano Yuu and couldn't tell whether it was true, she knew there was a good chance it was.

According to Nakano, all four classes had started with the same number of points, even though they were ranked at different levels.

Despite her poor social skills, she'd confirmed that the first-year students in all four classes had received 100,000 points in living expenses at the start. That much was the same.

So, deep down, she still had a little hope.

She might have been placed in Class D and judged to be a piece of trash, but the school's rule of meritocracy could also mean that being in the lowest class wasn't the end. If she seized an opportunity to prove herself, she could climb the ranks.

If she could make it to Class A, maybe things wouldn't be so bad.

She didn't want to accept the fact that she'd been dealt a card that branded her as trash.

And according to Nakano Yuu, there was a Special Exam every month. They might lose points this first month, but as long as they didn't fall too far behind, maybe they could catch up in next month's exam—or the one after that.

As she thought this, she heard Nakano speak.

"You mean right now?" Nakano Yuu said. "There are just over three days left in the first month, but I think we're probably pretty much at zero."

"After all, you know what the students in our class are like."

"..." Horikita.

Of course she knew! Nakano Yuu himself sat beside her, but he spent practically every lesson asleep!

He was one of the reasons their class was losing points!

And she could get a sense of the whole class just by looking at the people around her.

"What about the students in the other classes—" Horikita realized their class was doomed, but if the other classes were just as bad, then perhaps they wouldn't fall too far behind.

"All the classes started with an evaluation score of 1,000. And since the first month's test is just about whether the new students behave like good high school students, do you think the students in Class A can't manage that?"

"You're doing fine. If not for your shortcomings costing you a lot of points, you could be in Class A. So do you really think the students in Class A can't follow the standards for good high school students?" Nakano Yuu explained.

Horikita Suzune fell silent again.

Just as she'd said before, even though she wasn't good with people, she still knew students from other classes.

The students in Class A really did give off an elite air.

Class B's students were friendly and warm.

Class C's atmosphere was pretty bad, while Class D had no discipline at all.

"..." Horikita Suzune.

Horikita Suzune was beginning to feel a little desperate.

"So when you said the news was about to expire, you meant—" Horikita Suzune continued to ask, her face pale.

"Of course. The news will be announced after this month ends."

"They have to hold class competitions and announce the Special Exams each month, so they'll have to pass all the information along to the students," Nakano Yuu said. "That means everyone will know about it very soon."

"..." Horikita Suzune was speechless.

He had a point. With only four days left, the news was about to expire, and there was basically nothing she could do about the situation.

But why had he told her about such a cruel reality now?

And her 80,000 points were gone, too.

At last, she also understood why Nakano Yuu had approached her to sell the information.

Since the news was about to expire, he was naturally making use of something that would soon be worthless.

"Then how did you know... No, when did you learn about this?" Horikita Suzune immediately asked.

"Two hours ago," Nakano Yuu said. "I figured we were beyond saving, and next month we wouldn't get any living expenses either, so I needed to make some plans."

So that was it.

He'd learned the news, realized there was no turning things around, and started preparing for next month.

If their class had hardly any points left, they wouldn't receive much in the way of living expenses, so he needed to make money.

Horikita Suzune confirmed once again that perhaps she hadn't been mistakenly assigned to Class D after all.

By now, Horikita Suzune had lost the cold, aloof air she'd had at first. After parting ways with Nakano Yuu, she looked dejected and timid.

After parting ways with Horikita, Nakano Yuu didn't leave. He still had other things to do.

For example, selling information.

The upperclassmen had already been told about it, but they probably couldn't directly inform the lowerclassmen, who were still new to the school.

So there was still an information gap.

Sure, once the first-year students all learned the news three days later, it would be worthless.

But they didn't know yet, did they?

That meant it was still worth selling.

It might not be much, but if there was something to be gained, he might as well take it.

Still, there was something else he needed to do.

Thinking this, Nakano Yuu opened his phone contacts. It saved the numbers of people he knew, but there was only one number in it.

His homeroom teacher, Chabashira Sae.

On the first day of school, their homeroom teacher had written her contact information on the blackboard.

But a whole month had passed, and he still hadn't saved a single number that could be called a friend's. That was a complicated feeling, to say the least.

Chapter 5: Kid, You've Got Some Guts!

The homeroom teacher of Class 1-D was Chabashira Sae, a young woman with stunning looks and a very curvy figure.

Her most striking feature was that she had an aura similar to Horikita Suzune's. Chabashira-sensei seemed like she could easily be what Horikita would look like when she grew up.

Nakano Yuu had managed to handle Horikita Suzune with ease, so in theory he wasn't intimidated by her type—not even by a grown-up version of Horikita Suzune.

But.

Nakano Yuu hadn't forgotten that the female teacher in Class D was dangerous.

The students competed by class, with strength reigning supreme, and the teachers were no different. Their pay, reputation, and other benefits were linked to their class rankings, too.

So the teachers all did everything they could to help their students climb the ranks.

But Class D's teacher was an exception.

She'd been a student at this school herself, but her failure to move up a class had become an obsession. So she'd stayed on to teach.

If she'd simply failed and regretted it, she should have taught with all her heart. But she hadn't. Instead, she'd completely let go and acted as if she couldn't care less, seeming utterly apathetic.

But people always hid their true selves.

In other words, this person only appeared to do nothing. In reality, she'd wanted to do something for a long time.

Wasn't it dangerous to get involved with this female teacher? If she found something she could use against him, he'd be in serious trouble.

But he shouldn't forget that the protagonist had been blackmailed. He had a weakness.

Nakano Yuu was different. He had no weakness, so what could she use against him? There was nothing to get him in trouble over!

And he wasn't contacting Chabashira to tip her off. He just wanted to get a phone number from her.

"You want the Student Council President's contact information?" Chabashira called him directly.

"I broke one of the cameras and think I'm going to get punished, but I don't have any points to pay for it. I was wondering if I could turn myself in and get the fee waived," Nakano Yuu said. "I asked the nearest janitor, and he said the Student Council handles that sort of thing."

"..." Chabashira.

Chabashira seemed to fall silent. She knew all the rules of the school, and she was well aware that the new students were being tested on their conduct during their first month. Even kicking over a trash can would cost them points. If Nakano Yuu had really broken a camera, he'd lose a lot more.

"I can send you the number, but I doubt it'll help. If you don't have enough points to pay, they'll still make you pay in installments," Chabashira said in a flat voice. She was beautiful, but her tone was ice-cold.

Nakano Yuu had just met her younger, less mature version, though, so the attitude didn't bother him.

"Then thank you, Chabashira-sensei," Nakano Yuu said.

"...Mm." Chabashira seemed ready to hang up.

Nakano Yuu could more or less understand how she felt. A student had suddenly messaged her to ask for the Student Council President's number. She'd probably thought it was strange and wanted to see if he was worth nurturing at all.

After all, the first-year students were taking a Special Exam on proper conduct during their first month. It was a small-scale trial run.

At the same time, the new students didn't know anything about the school during their first month. If one of them could discover something through their own investigation, that would make them a promising candidate for cultivation.

Instead, this guy had called to tell her about something else that would get him points deducted.

As the Class D homeroom teacher, she couldn't find out how many points the class had lost until the exam ended. That rule ensured fairness.

But.

Judging by what she'd seen in class, she suspected they were doing worse than any previous year.

She'd practically given up already. Then, rather than bringing good news, this call had only made matters worse, so of course she was in a bad mood.

"How many of your 100,000 living-expense points do you have left?" Chabashira suddenly asked, almost as if possessed.

"What? I've got 156 points left. I'm just waiting for next month's 100,000 points to bail me out, but I found out the school serves free meals, so I should be able to get by for a few days," Nakano Yuu said.