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

"So, that's basically it. Katsuragi, your position as secretary of the student council is secure."

Vice President Nagumo said.

"Thank you, Nagumo-senpai."

Katsuragi, the junior, remained quite composed. He was well aware that he now owed Nagumo Miyabi 600,000 points.

As they spoke, Katsuragi felt his phone vibrate. It turned out to be Nakano Yuu transferring back the extra 100,000 points he had collected from Nagumo Miyabi.

Nakano Yuu's speed is truly impressive.

Katsuragi thought to himself.

Nakano Yuu's speed was, of course, impressive.

That was because the amount of points he had earned today was quite substantial.

First, the 500,000 points Katsuragi owed had been returned, and then he had received a 200,000-point breakup fee plus a 1,000,000-point hush money payment from Nagumo Miyabi's personal account. That meant he had earned 1.2 million points in just half an hour at the student council office!

An hourly rate of over 1.2 million.

I doubt even my old man's hospital could make that much money.

After filtering out the troublesome 100,000 points from Katsuragi, the remaining points were all his.

Name: Nakano Yuu.
Student ID: ST1045666090.
Class: First-year Class D.
Gender: Male.
Personal Account Balance: 3,389,080 points.

His personal account had directly broken through the 3 million point mark!

At this moment, inside the school building.

Two girls met.

Both were highly attractive, but their personalities and styles were completely different.

One was a gyaru who looked difficult to get along with, while the other was a cold, aloof beauty.

Both came from the beauty-filled Class D of the first year.

They were Karuizawa Kei and Horikita Suzune, respectively.

Because there was a special exam this month—a written one—and no one in the gyaru group that Karuizawa belonged to was good at studying, they had no choice but to honestly come for tutoring.

Compared to Sudo and Yamauchi, who thought they could just cram at the last minute, they were more compliant. After all, they all knew how terrible their grades were; if they didn't work hard, they would basically fail and be expelled.

Horikita's teaching style was also harsh. She would say things like, "Why can't you even solve a problem like this?" "You only hope to pass the exam? You should be able to pass just by listening in class; failing is simply baffling," or "You don't even know the equations?" Such words made one feel like the friendship was about to end right now.

However, they weren't friends with Horikita, so they didn't have to worry about that.

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Chapter 46: Borrowing Flowers to Offer to Buddha! One Scheme Moves Two Hearts!

As for the gyaru group, there was no concern about ending a friendship with Horikita.

And Horikita's stance was very direct.

"If you don't want to study, leave. I won't stop you."

Consequently, everyone had no choice but to stay honestly. Because they had just arrived at this school, even though they had no living expenses this month, no one wanted to be expelled just like that.

Moreover, no one could deny that Horikita Suzune had a knack for studying.

After discovering that their academic ability was very low, Horikita actually began to tutor them on middle school material, and the notebooks she brought out contained key knowledge points she had compiled herself.

But everyone had been told upon enrollment that they were not allowed to bring personal items, so the content in Horikita's notebooks was something she had created after re-reading middle school textbooks over the past few days.

And this kind of thing offered absolutely no benefit to Horikita.

At least, they had heard what Yukimura said back in class when he acted as the top student.

Normally, a top student teaching a bottom-tier student could be understood as reviewing the old to learn the new, but that depended on the level of the bottom-tier student. The students in this class were at a very low level, so they still couldn't keep up with the current class material, and since the exams covered the current material, Horikita tutoring them on middle school content was a thankless task.

Both Karuizawa and Sato felt this way.

Therefore, although Horikita's attitude felt cold, they generally identified with her in their hearts. They felt that Horikita was just bad with words, probably had no friends, and simply didn't consider things like atmosphere.

"Um, Horikita-san, you called me out alone—is there something up?"

Although she felt she had figured out what kind of person Horikita was over these past few days, Karuizawa still felt a lot of pressure when facing her alone.

"Nakano Yuu asked me to pass a message to you."

Horikita said.

"He said there is no need for you to keep up the fake relationship with Hirata. He will handle your problem properly."

"..."

Karuizawa?

No.

Karuizawa's pupils dilated sharply.

What a terrifying thing to say so suddenly.

Or rather, if Horikita was just relaying a message, then just how terrifying must Nakano Yuu be to have her do it?

How on earth did he know what she had been thinking these past few days?

"He knows everything about you."

Horikita Suzune recalled the words Nakano Yuu had sent her and relayed them.

"He said you don't need to be so nervous, and in exchange, as long as you assist him in the upcoming special exam, it will be a win-win situation for everyone."

Although she said that, Horikita still wanted to add that the win-win was for them, and it had nothing to do with her.

For instance, right now, Nakano Yuu told her to continue arranging the study groups, while his own study group took the day off. Clearly, he was off to make money again, and he hadn't even brought her along.

"No."

Karuizawa shook her head.

"Horikita-san, I don't understand a word you're saying."

"Whether you're lying or just don't understand, I've delivered the message he asked me to."

"Besides, he said he would help you deal with some problems."

Horikita said.

Clearly, she was acting as nothing more than a heartless messenger tool right now.

She felt that Nakano Yuu could have handled this himself.

However, Horikita didn't have Karuizawa's contact information either.

Unless she used the class group chat to send Karuizawa a private message, but that kind of private messaging felt rather embarrassing.

"Wait."

Seeing that Horikita really looked ready to leave, Karuizawa hurriedly blocked her path.

She more or less understood these messages now.

Horikita was just Nakano's tool, and Nakano seemed to want to use this method to get her to assist him in the special exam.

But.

Why?

She had no idea she held such value; she had to keep in mind that her own academic ability was terrible right now.

"Nakano Yuu intends to collect 20 million points, and since the class evaluation points have dropped to zero and there is no living allowance, he has chosen to seize every opportunity in the monthly special exams to earn points."

Horikita said to Karuizawa, who was blocking her.

"And my goal is the same as his."

"So, you two aren't actually dating?"

Yet, what Horikita received in return was a curious question from Karuizawa.

Strange.

Horikita felt she couldn't understand the other girl's train of thought.

Wasn't the point of her words that her goal and Nakano's were aligned, making them allies working hard together for those 20 million points?

Why, then, was there such a misunderstanding?

Did the people around her have absolutely no emotional intelligence?

At the very least, Horikita herself felt that Nakano Yuu's preferred type was definitely not someone like her, and that he only interacted with her because they were allies.

However.

Horikita suddenly remembered that Nakano Yuu had intentionally held her hand; if other students had seen that, they might have misunderstood.

But.

Horikita also felt that something was wrong somewhere.

While others might easily misunderstand, it was problematic if they kept misunderstanding like this.

Could it be that Nakano Yuu was lying to her? That he didn't view her as a collaborator, but as a backup option in a dating game?

"Horikita-san?"

After Karuizawa asked that instinctively, she noticed Horikita Suzune had gone blank, so she hurriedly called out to her.

"..."

Horikita.

"I've basically conveyed what I needed to say, and he mentioned that in order to get you to assist him in future special exams, he's going to do a few things now to build up your favorability."

No.

That statement of yours is incredibly baffling.

Karuizawa frowned.

Because generally, saying things like "building up favorability" with another girl right in front of a girl meant that she had actually misunderstood; Horikita and Nakano were not actually in a relationship.

But she knew her own situation best.

Karuizawa knew that her current appearance as a gal, and even her overbearing personality, were all just an act—a fake persona she had adopted that resembled the very thing she used to hate the most.

And in order to avoid being bullied like she was in middle school, she had no choice but to keep it up.

But the problem was, the people currently gathered around her were all actual gals.

Although Sato, Shinohara Satsuki, and Matsushita didn't seem like the malicious, nasty women she had encountered in the past, she knew very well that she was just faking it.

She was just a fake gal, while everyone around her was the real deal.

In other words, she felt like a husky that had wandered into a pack of wolves, only to be struck by a belated sense of panic.

So, during this time, she had been considering doing something to maintain her status, or at least to ensure that the gals around her wouldn't bully her.

As she was thinking this.

Beep.

Karuizawa noticed she had received a message.

[Congratulations, Kei Karuizawa of Class D, first year. Your application to join the Student Council has been approved, and you have become one of the members of the Disciplinary Committee.]

The sender was a string of numbers she didn't recognize.

However, below the number was a verification tag: [Student Council].