Classroom of the Elite, Starting with a Zero, I'm Just Going to Lay Flat Since I Know the Plot

"However, you two are lucky. Generally speaking, the school does not allow upperclassmen to voluntarily disclose this information to you," Nagumo Miyabi said.

"I see," Nakano Yuu nodded. "Then, if an upperclassman were to voluntarily disclose it, what kind of punishment would they face?"

"..." Nagumo.

Nagumo Miyabi's brow twitched slightly; he almost felt a sense of wariness.

But then he reminded himself that he was the Vice President of the Student Council, so it was perfectly normal for a junior to consult him. After all, earlier, the other party had even mentioned wanting to find the President to return the test papers to the upperclassmen in front of him.

"As for the punishment, it ranges from the confiscation of private points to, in serious cases, the deduction of class evaluation points," Nagumo Miyabi said.

"I see," Nakano Yuu nodded. "Looking at it that way, this school is quite strict."

"Mm."

Nagumo nodded, acknowledging the point.

"Then, is the second year being tested the same way?" the junior continued to ask.

"I asked the third-year seniors; they didn't take the comprehensive exam with us," Nakano Yuu said. "But as for the second years..."

He trailed off, leaving the sentence unfinished.

Nagumo laughed.

"You guessed right. We second years have the same assessment method. We are being tested on old questions."

"And you want to buy the test papers for this period from the second years for next year, right?" Senior Nagumo looked quite amiable.

"You're not a bad guy. After the exam is over, I can send the papers directly to you," Nagumo Miyabi said. "I won't charge you."

There was actually such a good deal?

Seeing that this second-year senior was not only answering questions personally but also offering to give away the papers, even Nakano Yuu gave him a second look.

However, Nagumo quickly skipped over the topic of the exam.

Because his gaze had already begun to drift.

"What about this student?" Senior Nagumo asked about Horikita.

Horikita's brow furrowed slightly, and she did not respond.

"Oh, she is my girlfriend, Suzune," Nakano-kun answered for her directly. Because Nagumo was the Vice President, he would be sensitive if he heard Horikita's surname, and Nakano-kun didn't feel there was any need for Horikita to interact with a Vice President like this.

After all, this Senior Nagumo had only one value: to serve as a wallet.

Nagumo Miyabi, in the original story, was a second-year senior who even succeeded Horikita Manabu as Student Council President after the latter graduated.

Once Nagumo became Student Council President, he launched a policy of absolute meritocracy, advocating for individual ability over class strength. He even united the entire second year, ruling the grade single-handedly. He not only extorted points from all the second-year students but also turned the school's monthly special exams into an occasion for their grade to divide up the school's rewards.

The distribution plan was also very simple.

Representatives from all four classes would sit down, the school would provide the exam questions, and Nagumo would choose how to respond—it was effectively an open-book exam.

Thus, the competition that should have existed between the four classes turned into a performance under his direction, with arrangements made for who should take first place and who should take second, maximizing the rewards they could claim from every special exam.

In a way, he treated the school's special exams as a welfare distribution event.

Naturally, such reckless behavior would only lead to ruin, and he himself was forced to resign from the position of Student Council President after the end of the first semester of his third year due to warnings from the school.

In other words.

Senior Nagumo and Ryuuen were, to some extent, the same type of person.

Ryuuen extorted points from the students in his own class, but Nagumo was even worse; he extorted points from the students of the entire grade, forcing all students to hand over 30% to 50% of the living expenses they received from the school, and even forbidding any student from holding more than 500,000 points.

Once they exceeded that amount, they had to turn over the excess to him.

Furthermore, to unify the entire grade, he forced all students who opposed him to drop out.

He was a very tyrannical dictator.

And besides being a dictator, this guy was also a very capricious person who wanted to create a Student Council consisting entirely of beautiful girls, with the exception of himself.

In other words, he had a rare obsession with beautiful girls.

And right now.

He was here, and the waiter had already packed several milk teas, all in flavors that girls liked.

Clearly, they were for the girls.

"Suzune, what a lovely name," Senior Nagumo's tone was a bit frivolous. He seemed to notice that Horikita didn't want to deal with him, so he immediately added, "However, your performance still surprised me quite a bit."

"As a second-year senior, I can offer you some help."

"Let's exchange contact information now. If you encounter any problems, you can consult me."

As he said this, he took out his phone, pulled up his contact info, and looked at Nakano Yuu.

In other words, he was giving permission for Nakano Yuu to add him.

He looked very easygoing.

But was he really just willing to assist Nakano Yuu?

Clearly not. He probably wanted to add Horikita, but since she ignored him, he chose a roundabout strategy.

Just.

Even though Nakano Yuu had framed it as if Horikita already had a boyfriend, Nagumo Miyabi still didn't give up at all, did he?

But the move to add him as a friend was still a good one.

Because, as long as they were friends, they could use the GPS function to confirm Nagumo's location at any time.

ps: Today's update.

ps: Please, I need data, I need data, I need data, I need data. I'm completely tapped out.

The original plan was 4,000 words today, but it ended up being 5,300 words; I went over the limit again.

Chapter 034: A Smooth Sailing! But Chabashira!

Nakano Yuu added Nagumo Miyabi as a friend, and then, with his milk tea already fully packed, Nagumo left the shop looking quite dashing.

Meanwhile, Nakano Yuu and Horikita remained in the shop.

I saw Horikita Suzune with her knees pressed together and her hands resting on them. Based on what I've learned about her during this time, Nakano Yuu felt that she seemed somewhat restless inside.

And as for Horikita right now.

"..." Horikita.

"I didn't really like that senior's gaze or the atmosphere he gave off," she said.

Hmm.

It should be said that Horikita-imouto still has her strengths. Although she looks relatively naive and is easily deceived, her sixth sense is truly sharp.

Even though Nagumo Miyabi presented himself with the attributes of a "kind," "gentle," and "helpful" senior, she saw through his true nature at a single glance.

"Nagumo-senpai is indeed not a good person."

"And he was likely trying to make contact with you just now."

"After all, you are very beautiful," Nakano Yuu said.

As he said this, he noticed that Horikita Suzune had already looked up. The gaze within her beautiful fox-like eyes was becoming sharp.

Hmm.

That's right.

She must have remembered.

She remembered that when Nakano Yuu introduced her to Nagumo-senpai, he had used the line, [This is my girlfriend, Suzune].

And she had never given him permission to say that.

However, Horikita-san is not difficult to deal with.

"I knew in advance what kind of person Nagumo-senpai was, so I took the liberty of introducing you as my girlfriend just now," Nakano-kun said. "But I didn't expect it to be ineffective."

"And yet, you still added him as a friend." Horikita-imouto's momentum began to wane again.

She realized that she had seemingly been protected by Nakano-kun just now.

Realizing this, she naturally lost a bit of her assertiveness.

"Being able to confirm the other party's location after adding them as a friend—doesn't that make one feel a bit more at ease?" Nakano Yuu said.

In other words, he added Nagumo as a friend in order to... protect her?

This was likely the first time Horikita had experienced something like this, and her heart subconsciously wavered.

Because in the past, she had always been a weak little sister chasing after her super-excellent brother, and she had come to this school chasing that brother, with the original goal of showing him that she was no longer as weak as she used to be.

But now, she was actually being sheltered by Nakano-kun.

As expected, she really hasn't made any progress at all.

With that thought, Horikita Suzune's hands, which had been resting on her knees, now felt vaguely unsteady.

She prepared to lift her head, but when she opened her mouth, she found she didn't know what to say.

But soon, she heard Nakano-kun's voice.

"You are my partner, so naturally, I will protect you," Nakano Yuu said. "Besides, this Nagumo-senpai is a target I've already selected for attack."

"Due to the school's rules, the primary way students can reasonably obtain points is through the monthly special exams. We first-years are very poor, but the upperclassmen are different; they have already gone through many special exams and have accumulated a certain amount."

"I don't have any ideas for the third-years yet, but for the second-years, I have some thoughts."

"That Nagumo-senpai from just now isn't just a simple class representative for Class A of the second year. He has actually unified the entire grade; the students of all four second-year classes listen to him, and they are also required to hand over a large amount of points to him."

"I think he's probably about to reach 20 million, and even if he doesn't have 20 million, he should have a net worth of 5 to 10 million," Nakano Yuu said.

"He's actually that impressive..." Horikita seemed somewhat surprised.

"In terms of seizing opportunities, he is indeed quite capable," Nakano Yuu didn't completely dismiss Nagumo. "His move to successfully promote his class was recognized by your brother, which led to him being pulled into the student council and becoming the vice president. You know the nature of this school—it's a meritocracy among students, and the student council is the pinnacle. So, once he entered that place, he could immediately obtain the corresponding resources."

"At the same time, his status as vice president made him invincible within the second year."

"So, it wasn't difficult for him to seize that opportunity and consolidate the entire grade," Nakano Yuu explained Nagumo's performance.

"So, having heard all this, what are your thoughts?" Nakano Yuu said, looking at Horikita Suzune.

"..." Horikita. "Probably..."

She seemed to be on the verge of speaking, then stopped, only to be on the verge of speaking again, "Probably because he feels the other party is very strong."

"..." Nakano Yuu.

6

Nakano felt like he had wasted his breath.

"It seems you still don't understand me, Horikita-san." Nakano placed both hands on Horikita's shoulders. The gesture was somewhat abrupt, but Horikita knew this was his way of showing he was engaged in a serious conversation, and Nakano indeed said earnestly, "You need to know my goal. I don't like doing things outside of completing my tasks, so the experience you get from hearing my explanation shouldn't be 'this Nagumo-senpai is very rich,' right?"

"He actually funneled the resources of the entire second year onto himself, and as a result, his assets have skyrocketed," Nakano said. "And while using other methods to harvest might violate school rules, there's absolutely no need to worry about that when harvesting Nagumo-senpai, is there?"

"I see." Horikita finally nodded.

She had finally found the reason why Nakano had told her those fake things about working for Class D back at the milk tea shop.

He was indeed setting a trap.

In fact, he had probably already marked Nagumo Miyabi as a target to be slaughtered even before the senior had approached him.

"Then the things you deliberately said to me earlier were probably to attract Nagumo-senpai's attention," Horikita Suzune's thinking also began to clear up.

"That's right," Nakano said. "And as for the result, it's not bad."

As he said this, Nakano took his phone out of his other pocket and placed it on the table. However, Horikita still noticed that there was something off about the phone.

To be precise, it was actually in recording mode.

The length of the recording was also quite concerning, exceeding 20 minutes.

And those 20 minutes basically covered his conversation with Nagumo-senpai just now, and possibly his conversation with her as well.

"Could it be..." Horikita Suzune had an idea.