Katsuragi Can't Make Sense of It-Is There Something Wrong with This School?

Name:

Party A:

Party B: Kijima Tsukur

After carefully scanning every word, Hirata Yosuke pressed his lips together.

"Hirata, let me see."

Horikita Suzune hurried over from beside him. She looked at the contract in his hands and furrowed her brow too.

There wasn't the slightest bit of wordplay. Kijima Tsukur had only the right to make proposals; even the authority to make the final decision was left to their Class D homeroom teacher.

And that wasn't all.

Kijima Tsukur had even added extra rewards.

These contracts would rob Yamauchi Haruki and the others of their motivation to reach Class A, but they wouldn't make them give up entirely...

In other words, they still had a chance of reaching Class A...

This...

Horikita Suzune and Hirata Yosuke looked up at the man before them.

What was he thinking?

"Hirata." Sato Maya, standing nearby, looked puzzled. "What do you think? Can we sign it? He probably isn't lying to us, right?"

"Hmm..."

Hirata hesitated.

No matter how appealing the contract sounded,

signing it would almost completely extinguish Class D's drive to work hard.

But after a moment's thought,

Hirata nodded and smiled:

"If you don't mind getting only thirty thousand personal points each month, I think we can sign..."

"Why should we mind? We don't have a single point left right now."

At that,

everyone laughed as they took the contract and signed their names.

Who cared about the future when they couldn't even get by in the present?

And reaching Class A?

That had never been something people like them could even consider.

Yamauchi Haruki, Sudo Ken, Kanji Ike, Sato Maya, Sakura Airi, Shinohara Satsuki, Inogashira Kokoro, Maezono, Sotomura Hideo, and others.

Before long, all eighteen names had been filled in.

Some had hesitated and failed to sign right away, and now regretted it, hoping Class A would offer more spots!

Kijima Tsukur only said he would do his best to persuade his classmates.

Meanwhile,

Kiyotaka Ayanokoji had already found out.

It was over~

With just this one blow,

Class D had practically been ruined for good.

There was no way

they could ever turn things around.

Horikita Suzune turned and walked away. No wonder they were a bunch of defective products. Even after having the pros and cons spelled out for them, they still didn't get it.

In that case,

she'd be better off relying on her own abilities and preparing to gather Twenty Million Personal Points to transfer classes. That would be far more reliable.

From the very beginning,

she shouldn't have placed her hopes in a class like this.

A trash class, not worth mentioning!

Chapter 46: Katsuragi Can't Make Sense of It—Is There Something Wrong with This School?

After leaving Class D,

Kijima Tsukur tucked the neatly folded contracts away.

The contract's only flaw was that he himself was Party B. Its greatest advantage was also that he himself was Party B.

As long as someone cut off Class A's funding, the contract would become void on the spot.

Fortunately,

the people providing the funds were mostly members of the Katsuragi Faction.

As long as they kept the faith, the funds would remain secure until they failed a Special Exam.

What he wanted wasn't personal points.

It was the authority to allocate resources.

The homeroom teacher of Class D, a woman named Chabashira Sae, would make the final decisions, while Kijima Tsukur had only the right to make proposals. That was already enough.

Once he controlled the allocation of resources, power would naturally follow.

When they truly had to make a choice,

Yamauchi Haruki and the others would finally feel just how frightening power could be.

Even though they knew Chabashira Sae would more likely side with them, they would still feel a sense of awe.

Yamauchi Haruki and the others were a secondary concern.

The person Kijima Tsukur truly found abnormal was Hirata Yosuke.

Normally,

anyone with common sense, like Horikita Suzune, should have been able to see the drawbacks of the contract, unless they were fools like Yamauchi Haruki.

This had practically sealed Class D's defeat!

From now on, some of the students in Class D would probably have no choice but to follow his orders.

As Class D's representative, Hirata Yosuke couldn't possibly have failed to see that. And yet, after only a moment's hesitation, he had agreed to the contract.

At least, as far as Kijima Tsukur could tell,

Hirata Yosuke had a lot of influence in Class D.

If he hadn't spoken up,

those girls like Sato Maya might not have signed.

That was no different from abandoning his classmates and giving up on the possibility of uniting the class to reach Class A.

Compared to graduating from Class A, there was something Hirata Yosuke cared about more. That was why he'd made a choice that amounted to surrender.

"Kijima, what do you think is going on with Hirata?"

Walking behind them, Katsuragi asked with a frown.

Clearly,

he had noticed that something was off about Hirata Yosuke's behavior too.

It was one thing for Class D to have an idiot like Yamauchi Haruki, but it also had a freak like Hirata Yosuke.

It was ridiculous...

That was right. Hirata Yosuke was even more ridiculous than Yamauchi Haruki...

This was completely beyond Katsuragi's expectations. He hadn't imagined something like this could happen.

The class leader had led the betrayal of his own class.

This was just...

"Your Majesty, why have you rebelled?"

He was just like Kijima Tsukur...

Kijima Tsukur, Hirata Yosuke, Ryuen Kakeru, and even Sakayanagi Arisu.

Katsuragi Kohei even wondered if something was wrong with his understanding of the world. Was it true that only people who didn't care about their class could become leaders?

"Don't worry about it. It's a good thing for us, anyway."

With his hands in his pockets, Kijima Tsukur headed toward the exit of the school building.

It was just that he was their friend, reliable, eager to avoid conflict, and too much of a nice guy to turn people down, or something along those lines.

As far as Kijima Tsukur was concerned,

whatever Hirata Yosuke's reasons for acting that way,

there were only benefits and no drawbacks!

"True enough..."

Katsuragi fell silent for a moment, then nodded.

He felt like the leaders of Classes A, C, and D were all traitors.

Still, Kijima Tsukur remained calm and composed, which made it clear that things hadn't gone beyond his expectations.

Class A's average ability was the best among the four classes.

There was no need to rush.

"Kijima."

At that moment, Kamuro Masumi, walking beside them, was concerned about something else.

"You seem pretty good at socializing too. You're so friendly in front of outsiders, so why are you so arrogant in class?"

Kamuro Masumi's tone was sarcastic.

Those girls from earlier, like Sato Maya, had practically been drooling as they looked at Kijima Tsukur.

That was only natural.

Even she had to admit it.

Kijima Tsukur was very handsome.

As long as he spoke to them normally, girls would surely like him. It was just his arrogant attitude in Class A that had nearly wiped out all that goodwill.

But in Class D,

his friendly appearance was naturally popular with the girls.

He was all fists and fury with his own people, but timid and submissive with outsiders.

Kamuro Masumi could understand why, but she was still a little puzzled. Couldn't he act normal in class?

"That's different. Pretending to be someone else all the time is exhausting. In the end, you might even stop believing you're yourself."

Kijima Tsukur glanced at her. "No matter how friendly I am to outsiders, they're still people I can sacrifice at any moment. But you're my subordinates, so I wouldn't abandon you so easily. Of course I'm stricter with you."

Even when they shared the same goal,

people still had different levels of closeness. Class A was his true foundation.

"Tch~"

Kamuro Masumi clicked her tongue, exasperated.

"Who's your subordinate? Aside from Morishita and Yamamura, nobody really acknowledges you. There's no need to mention Sakayanagi and the others, and Katsuragi's only trying to get into Class A. Don't get too confident."