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

This made Ryuen Kakeru, who had just finished collecting protection money from his class, feel disgusted. He had always been the one collecting protection money, so why was it his turn to be asked to pay up?

"Don't make that face. You should know that even expiring information can be put to good use," Nakano Yuu added. "There are still over three days left for the Behavioral Norms Exam, and right now, your class is surely trailing Class A and Class B by a significant margin. After all, the students in Class A and Class B are such good children; they are the very definition of model students. But as long as the exam isn't over, there is still a chance for redemption."

A chance for redemption? Redemption my ass!

Ryuen had already realized that this guy Nakano Yuu was suggesting he use the Behavioral Norms Exam to target Class A and drag their scores down, which was the only way to create opportunities for lower-ranked classes like theirs.

After all, the comprehensive strength of the four classes was not equal.

Therefore, they could only start from these aspects.

And if he really went through with it, wouldn't he be falling entirely into Nakano Yuu's trap?

Class D might be headed for a score of zero, but by using Class C—also a lower-ranked class—to pull down the scores of Class A and Class B, even if Class D ended up with zero, they wouldn't be left too far behind.

At the same time.

Nakano Yuu saying this meant he wouldn't do it himself, so he was making Ryuen do it. And if Ryuen really did it, he would still have to prevent this guy from tipping off the students in Class A, so he had no choice but to pay the protection money.

"..." Ryuen.

He realized that he was the one being hunted.

"Why didn't you choose to trade with the students of Class A from the start?" Ryuen asked in a cold tone.

If Class D was beyond saving, then he could indeed act as a dog for Class A, or even collect protection money under the guise of not attacking them.

"I suppose there are people there I can't handle, and I don't want to have any more contact with them for the time being." Nakano-kun began to look melancholy.

From the fragments of his memory, he knew there was one hellish piece of news from the year he lost his memories: he had an ex-girlfriend.

And that girlfriend's name was Sakayanagi Arisu.

A silver-haired, sickly girl with a black cane and white thigh-high socks.

She was also at this school, a first-year student, and the class she belonged to was none other than Class A.

And this girlfriend was no kind soul; she had the personality of a little devil. If she found out, he feared that the moment he tried to sell off his expiring information, his source of income would be immediately cut off by her.

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Chapter 007: As Expected of Class D, Truly Outrageous!

After parting ways with the gloomy Ryuen-kun, Nakano-kun began to check the information on his student ID.

Name: Nakano Yuu
Student ID: ST1045666090
Class: First-Year Class D
Gender: Male
Private Points: 380,156 points.

It must be said that Ryuen-kun was indeed a straightforward person. He had a total of 326,000 points in his account, and after paying the 50,000 points, he transferred another 250,000 points over.

It was essentially protection money to ensure he wouldn't tip off Class A.

Although points were cold, the accumulation of them made one's heart slowly grow warm.

According to the normal cost of living at this school, one could live very well with over 60,000 points per month, and the points he had now were enough to last him half a month.

Thus, Nakano-kun immediately ordered a bottle of corn juice worth 500 points.

However, he still opened his phone to take a look.

Ryuen-kun hadn't even finished his meal before leaving; he was likely planning to use the expiring information to stir up trouble, wanting to take advantage of the ongoing Behavioral Norms Exam to get Class A students penalized.

This would lower Class A's starting score, which was good news for the lower-ranked classes.

But for Nakano-kun, who only wanted to soar on his own, it didn't really matter. However, the other person was unexpectedly stubborn.

Nakano Yuu had sent the pixelated images of the transfers between Horikita Suzune and himself to the Student Council President, but more than an hour had passed since he sent them, and absolutely nothing had happened.

In other words, was the number Chabashira-sensei gave him wrong?

Or was the Student Council President too busy to check his messages?

But.

[Read]

[Read]

The two photos he sent were marked as read, meaning the other party had already seen them.

Yet there was no reply, and even after sitting here for another half hour, he didn't feel like he was being watched.

Was he really that patient?

Thus, Nakano-kun clicked to add that contact information. This was a request to add a friend. According to the school's phone functions, once two people added each other as friends, they could check the other's GPS location. This GPS could directly pinpoint various facility areas within the school, which was extremely useful.

Whether it was finding someone or keeping tabs on them, it was top-tier.

Just as he was thinking this.

A notification suddenly popped up on his screen.

[The other party has added you as a friend. Would you like to set a nickname for them?]

"..." Nakano Yuu.

Good grief, he had just called the other party stubborn, yet they took the bait so quickly?

However, since the other party was being so proactive, Nakano Yuu could afford to let it sit for a while. After all, the school rules wouldn't be announced for another three days, and there were some things the other party wouldn't find easy to say out loud yet.

And so, the next morning at 8:00, Nakano Yuu arrived at the classroom right on time.

The period from 8:00 to 8:40 was designated for homeroom, but the homeroom teacher never enforced it strictly, so some students wouldn't arrive until the session was over.

Click.

Nakano Yuu pulled out his desk, located near the back door of the classroom, right by the window.

Looking out through the window, he truly felt as if the world was his.

"Swish—"

The sound of pages turning came from the desk next to him. This was Nakano Yuu's seatmate, the beautiful girl with straight black hair, Horikita Suzune.

He cast a brief glance toward Horikita, but she continued reading without changing her expression.

Horikita certainly looked cold and aloof.

But as long as her points made him feel warm, that was all that mattered.

With that, Nakano Yuu put down his school bag.

However, as more students arrived, they began to form their own small cliques.

For instance, three or four rows ahead of Nakano Yuu's desk, a few boys had gathered together.

They were actually discussing who in the class was the cutest.

Oh.

High schoolers at this age were indeed passionate about such topics. After nearly a month of contact and adapting to this school, they had managed to gather quite a bit of information.

Specifically, a boy nicknamed "the Professor" took out a notebook and opened a file, which listed the names of all the girls in the grade.

They had even started a betting pool on who was the cutest.

It seemed they had opened a voting page on the school forum, and every boy could participate.

The results were to be released in two days.

"A ranking of the girls we most want to date, huh—"

That was quite direct.

"Who cares about cute? I'd rather participate in a bust size ranking! Let's rank them, let's rank them!" At this moment, one boy immediately chimed in, "I think Hasebe would definitely win."

"..." Nakano Yuu, who had been paying attention, felt speechless.

Then, he heard someone mention Sakura Airi.

Sakura Airi.

She sat in the last row, right next to Horikita Suzune. Since Horikita radiated an aura of "don't come near me, I want to be alone," sensible people usually avoided sitting next to her. So, what kind of student would sit there?

Someone like him, who had ulterior motives, or... someone who had nowhere else to sit.

In other words, the introverted, lonely type.

And that person was Sakura Airi.

In the original story, she was a very cute girl. Although she looked dowdy, that was just a disguise; she worked as a gravure model and was afraid of being stared at with strange looks, so she disguised herself.

"Because we're men. Our heads are always full of that kind of stuff!" the boy who had mentioned Sakura earlier said.

Nakano Yuu disagreed with that sentiment.

Because he was different; he liked black stockings.

He disdained joining them.

"I'm in too." "Me too, me too."

The boys had gathered noisily, discussing the size of the girls' breasts with crude enthusiasm. Some of the girls in the classroom looked at them with even more contempt, as if they were looking at trash.

Regardless of how they performed in the future, it was likely they would never be able to win over any of the girls in the class.

Nakano Yuu made this judgment in his heart. At the same time, he felt lucky; although his contact list only contained one female teacher, he had managed to keep his distance well, rather than stooping to the level of these guys just to have "friends."

Just then, a boy squeezed over—a guy with a rather unkempt appearance who had once boasted about being good at table tennis. "I want to bet too. By the way, I'm betting on Sakura."

Yamauchi seemed to think of something and began to whisper.

"I'm only telling you guys this, but actually, Sakura confessed to me yesterday," Yamauchi said.

"What? Re-really?" The others, of course, didn't believe him.

Yamauchi seemed eager to prove himself. "Really, really. But keep it a secret! Although I turned that plain-looking girl down, of course. I saw what she looked like in casual clothes back then. But if it's not someone on the level of Kushida or Hasebe, I don't want it. I'm not interested in those dowdy-looking girls."

Yamauchi said proudly.

But that was probably only because Sakura hadn't arrived in the classroom yet, allowing him to run his mouth freely.

As for Kushida and Hasebe, whom he had mentioned, they were also girls with quite high attractiveness in the original work; Kushida was like a little angel or a white lotus, while Hasebe had a great figure and was also quite pretty.

They were the types that average boys yearned for.

But was that really the case?

Nakano Yuu had already noticed that Sakura Airi had arrived at the back door; she must have heard Yamauchi's nonsense, and now she was caught in a dilemma of whether to enter or retreat.

Her face was flushed red, though it was hard to tell if it was from anger.

She looked pitiful.

"..." Horikita didn't even spare the boys a glance, not even the look one would give trash, as she continued reading her book.

Right now, no one noticed Sakura's awkward predicament.

Nakano Yuu spread his hands and made a ╮(╯▽╰)╭ gesture.

Right, right, in a class like this, only the original protagonist would be forced to think about pulling them up, but as someone flying solo, there was probably only one thing he needed to do.

And that was.

Bang!

A loud noise suddenly erupted in the classroom, instantly attracting everyone's attention.

It turned out that a desk had been kicked over and was now lying right at Yamauchi's feet.