You Are the Constant Moment in a Changing Era

"After all, the one leading a pack of useless dogs is still a dog himself."

"They succeeded... that's what you call unworthy of their position."

Character cards and today's leave slip

A list of all the items Kitagawa Ryo possessed before enrolling in school:

Talent:

[Eidetic Memory (Gold), Unforgettable (Gold), Childhood Sweetheart from Heaven (Gold), Family and Relatives (Gold), Perseverance (Gold), Grand Master (Gold), The Fraudster (Gold), The God of God of Cooking (Gold), Peerless (Gold), Super Detective (Gold), Thespian (Gold), Firefly (Gold), Heir of the Wealthy Family (Gold)]

[Strength to Carry a Tripod (purple), Hawkeye (purple), Orator (purple), Awe-Inspiring (purple), Martial Artist (purple), Photographer (purple), Pianist (purple)]

[Well-Read (blue), Modest Assets (blue), Kindred Spirits (blue)]

Items: [Blessing of Ichinose Honami, Ichinose Honami 'Self of Ichinose Honami, White Rose of Karuizawa Kei, Self of Karuizawa Kei, Self of Horikita Suzune, Marriage Contract (One-time Use Item), One Ring, Two Million Private Points (One-time Use Item)]

[Blessing of Ichinose Honami: You will never obtain a white talent when drawing initial talents]

[Self of Ichinose Honami: Before each simulation begins, randomly upgrades three of her qualities (gold talents cannot be upgraded further, including initial and fixed talents)]

[Marriage Contract: A one-time use item that allows you to enter into Marriage Contract with any character]

[White Rose of Karuizawa Kei: Wearing this grants the blue talent "Florist"]

[Self of Karuizawa Kei: Before each simulation begins, randomly upgrade one talent to the highest gold level]

[Self of Horikita Suzune: Before each simulation begins, she can actively choose one talent and upgrade its level to gold.]

[Two Million Private Points: A one-time use item that grants two million Private Points through legitimate means upon use.]

[A ring: It should be a pair, but you don't know who has the other one right now.]

I stayed up all night at an esports hotel with a friend last night, and I haven't been in the right frame of mind all day. My head is spinning, so I'm taking a day off to rest. Happy National Day everyone!

Chapter Thirty-Eight: You are the unchanging moment in a changing era.

"Our homeroom teacher is taking forever to arrive; the bell has been ringing for over ten minutes already."

"A homeroom teacher who's late on the first day of school just feels a little unreliable."

"Maybe the homeroom teacher is busy with something, everyone please keep quiet."

Unlike the situation in Class 1-D, the students in Class 1-B waited obediently for more than ten minutes without seeing their homeroom teacher. Many students began to whisper among themselves, and the students sitting by the window craned their necks and kept looking out.

"The teacher is here!"

With a boy's exclamation, the commotion in the class instantly subsided. Everyone sat upright, staring intently at the closed classroom door, wondering what kind of person their homeroom teacher would be.

"Good morning, everyone! Haha, sorry I'm late."

The woman who walked into the classroom was not very old. Her cute clothes and baby face gave her a first impression that was definitely not that of a class teacher. Her tired face and unclear speech made many students frown.

I accidentally overslept today, please forgive me.

Rubbing her temples, Hoshinomiya Chie staggered to the podium, propped her chin on her right hand, rested her elbow on the podium, and dazedly scanned the class.

"Looks like everyone's here. Let's distribute the student IDs and cell phones first."

Hoshinomiya Chie opened the sealed box on the podium, counted the number of people in each row, and passed it down from front to back.

When Karuizawa Kei was sitting in the first row, received something from Hoshinomiya Chie, she smelled a rather strong odor of alcohol.

She was previously assigned to Class 1-D, so she didn't know much about Hoshinomiya Chie of Class 1-B. She only knew that she and Chabashira Sae seemed to have a good relationship, and that she often saw the two of them together on campus.

Karuizawa Kei had previously heard Ichinose Honami say that their homeroom teacher had a rather easygoing personality, but overall was very responsible towards the class.

Ichinose Honami wouldn't lie. If she was this hungover on the first day of school, it seemed that her homeroom teacher must have gone through something bad, as she was completely out of sorts.

Karuizawa Kei's constant staring at Hoshinomiya's movements caught her attention. Hoshinomiya Chie, thinking that Hoshinomiya had noticed the smell of alcohol on her, quickly spoke up:

"Everyone, take another look at the information you have now. I'll be out for a bit."

Looks like she went to the bathroom to wash her face.

Watching Hoshinomiya Chie as she left the classroom, Karuizawa Kei sighed.

At Tokyo Advanced Nurturing High School, the role of the homeroom teacher depends on the initiative of the students, but the teacher's own personality is also very important. Kitagawa Ryo was able to command a large following in Class 1-C, which was naturally due in no small part to the strong support of Class C's Sakagami Kazuma.

However, Hoshinomiya Chie did not make a good first impression on Karuizawa Kei, which made her somewhat worried about what would happen next. As Class D student who had been tricked by Chabashira Sae, she knew that there was an inequality in information and a slight difference in status between the homeroom teacher and the students.

Moreover, the freshmen still retain some awe and blind obedience to their homeroom teachers. Just like the incident of marking exam sites, the students simply did not question what their homeroom teachers said.

Therefore, I still hope that Hoshinomiya Chie is truly a responsible person for the class, just as Ichinose Honami said.

Just as Karuizawa Kei was pondering, Hoshinomiya Chie returned to the classroom. She looked much refreshed after washing her face, and her tone was no longer as listless as before.

"Hello everyone in Class B, I'm Hoshinomiya Chie for Class 1-B. I'll be growing and progressing together with you for the next three years."

After a brief self-introduction, Hoshinomiya Chie began explaining the school's rules, including the use of points and some important school regulations. Perhaps due to a hangover, Karuizawa Kei muttered under her breath, "How disgusting," when she heard that there were four classes (A, B, C, and D) in a grade.

However, most of the students in the class were shocked by the school's enormous generosity of 100,000 points per month, so hardly anyone noticed this detail.

Hoshinomiya Chie looked around at the students in Class B with a bored expression. Overall, they were quite up to Class B's standards. Even after hearing the news about the 100,000 points per month, there was no chaos. Most of the students remained quite restrained, their eyes sparkling with excitement, but they still waited obediently for the homeroom teacher's next speech.

Class B, being the closest to Class A, actually has a decent student body. However, since the school's founding, there have been very few instances of Class B surpassing Class A. Among the current second and third-year students, only Class 2-B has accomplished this feat. However, for Hoshinomiya Chie in the past, she actually valued the lower-level classes more than advancing to Class A.

Or rather, Hoshinomiya Chie, only cared about Class D, led by Chabashira Sae.

As classmates with Chabashira Sae, their Class B was only 100 points behind Class A. However, at the crucial moment of catching up, the entire class wasted a lot of Class Points due to Chabashira Sae's wrong decision, and thus completely lost the opportunity to advance.

The events of that year left both of them with an indelible obsession. Chabashira Sae wanted to get into Class A to prove herself, while Hoshinomiya Chie wanted to keep Chabashira Sae firmly outside the door of Class A.

Therefore, the position of class advisor for Class B is the best choice. If it were Class A or Class C, they would be viewed with suspicion as the final rival and the first rival, respectively. But Class B would not be. It is the last line of defense in front of Class A and a natural ally of Class D.

Hoshinomiya Chie and Chabashira Sae are very close.

Because she simply wanted to stand in the closest possible position to hate the other person.

This Malice may continue until Chabashira Sae resigns from her teaching career. In fact, Hoshinomiya Chie already feels that she is close to this goal. After failing in the first two Class D, Chabashira Sae's ambition and spirit have already plummeted. The Class D will only get worse and worse in the future, and it will never be able to advance to Class A.

This is how it should be.

Hoshinomiya Chie lowered her eyes; even now, she still couldn't accept reality.

Accept the reality that Chabashira Sae has become the homeroom teacher of Class A.

It was so abrupt, as if it negated all the efforts of everyone in the class back then, and so simplistic, as if all the struggles and choices at that time were a joke.

The throbbing pain from the hangover was relentlessly stimulating her nerves. As a nurse in the infirmary, Hoshinomiya Chie was well aware of the dangers of excessive drinking, but apart from getting herself drunk, she couldn't find any other way to vent her frustrations.

Class advisor for Class 1-A: Chabashira Sae.

Tsk.

It's simply unbearable.

"Hoshinomiya-sensei, may I ask you a question?"

The girl in the front row raised her hand. She had a very delicate face, and her long honey-colored hair was simply tied into a big ponytail with a hair tie. She had a very pleasant voice and was the kind of girl who could make an impression on people at first glance.

"Um."

Holding her head Hoshinomiya Chie gave a faint reply. She really wasn't in the mood right now; her mind was filled with images of Chabashira Sae.

"Regarding the points, there's no such thing as a free lunch. I don't think the school would be so generous as to give every student 100,000 yuan a month."

"The teacher just mentioned that points can be used to buy anything at this school, so I'd like to get specific information about points."

"This should be within the scope of purchase, right?"

Hoshinomiya Chie looked up and smiled at Karuizawa Kei:

"Sure."

The moment she heard Karuizawa Kei speak, she knew that she was probably the most promising student she had ever encountered in her teaching career.

Most promising--

Help her to bring Chabashira Sae back down from Class D.

"Hello everyone, I'm Chabashira Sae, the homeroom teacher of Class 1-A. It's an honor to be your homeroom teacher for the next three years. Please continue to support me in the future."

Chabashira Sae took a deep breath and looked at the Class A students below the podium. Suddenly, she felt a long-lost sense of high spirits.

Unlike the previous two Class D, you can feel the atmosphere of Class A as soon as you enter the door. It seems that even the air in the classroom is sweeter than outside.

This is the difference between a top student and a defective product.

After distributing the materials and cell phones and explaining the rules in detail, Chabashira Sae looked at the students in the class with some anticipation.

After reviewing the information, Ayanokoji Kiyotaka looked up and was met with a fixed gaze from Chabashira Sae. He knew that she was the homeroom teacher of Class D, and considering that the homeroom teacher's strength was probably related to the strength of the class, he immediately felt that she seemed a little dim-witted.

Is she expecting something?

Ayanokoji Kiyotaka scratched his head. He didn't intend to become the core of the class on the first day. Ayanokoji Kiyotaka didn't consider himself good at communicating with others, so his first priority was to win the support of the other central figures in the class and then use them to control the remaining students.

After all, he doesn't have the same interpersonal skills as Kushida Kikyo in his class. If he were to chat with girls, he might only be able to come up with dirty jokes after a long time. Although White Room deliberately added some emotional training programs for him a year ago, being able to let the right person do the right thing is also an essential ability for Leader.

Aside from Koenji Rokusuke, whose motives and methods of action were completely unknown, Ayanokoji Kiyotaka was fairly satisfied with the overall quality of Class 1-A. In his mind, he had already built a simple system of a small group with Katsuragi Kohei as the apparent Leader, Hirata Yosuke as the deputy, Kushida Kikyo as the glue that held them together.

Chabashira Sae waited and waited, but no one raised any questions about the points. Most people just quietly accepted the reality. Some even started reading and doing their homework after seeing that Chabashira Sae had nothing to announce. The scene was so quiet that it made Chabashira Sae a little embarrassed.

However, after recalling that Class A had consistently maintained over 900 Class Points in the first month's disciplinary review exam in previous years, Chabashira Sae calmed down. Even if no one noticed the problem now, it wouldn't be too late to announce it a month later, since Class A would have already widened the gap with the other three classes by then.

This sense of relief from worry softened even Chabashira Sae's facial expression.

"Everyone, take a break for a while. Remember to go to the stadium for the entrance ceremony in half an hour."

Chabashira Sae had been awakened by nightmares countless nights, but now she firmly believed that she would never have that nightmare again.

As she walked out of the classroom, she looked up at the nameplate on the door:

[Class 1-A]

The goal that was once within reach but vanished in an instant, like the past ten years or so, slipped through my fingers like sand.

But now, she finally stands here.

Class 1-C.

"Ryuen, if there's nothing else, I need to leave now."

After hearing those casual words, every student huddled at the back of the classroom cast shocked glances at the figure standing in front of them.

The neatly arranged desks and chairs had been scattered and rolled to the sides, leaving a large empty space in the middle. The man with medium-length purple hair was pulling his fist away from the face of the person he had pinned down. He himself was bruised and swollen, with a few streaks of blood at the corner of his mouth, and his face was frighteningly ferocious. The three or four other boys lying on the ground around him groaning only added to his violent appearance.

From any perspective, this is not a situation where "nothing else is happening."

In this situation, the other students were all trembling and hiding in the back, afraid of being caught in the crossfire, but the other person seemed to not care at all, as relaxed and carefree as when they told their family "I'm going to school."

Ryuen Kakeru hesitated for a moment, not because the girl standing there was quite beautiful, after all, he never cared about such things.

What he was wary of was the cell phone that Shiina Hiyori was holding.

The classroom's surveillance cameras had been blocked beforehand by the homeroom teacher Sakagami Kazuma, but in the chaos just now, the other party seemed to still have the energy to record part of his fight with someone on his phone.

The calmness he displayed during the recording, and the composure he exuded now standing before him, made Ryuen Kakeru narrow his eyes.

How would I know if you went to report this place to the outside world?

"Because I don't care about these things."

Shiina Hiyori tilted her head and looked directly into Ryuen Kakeru's eyes, saying:

"It doesn't matter who 'Leader; I just need to leave."

"All right."

He neatly cleared the way for Shiina Hiyori to leave the classroom. Ryuen Kakeru was certain from her eyes that she wasn't lying, and he trusted his intuition.

If I am determined to control the class, then the other person is the complete opposite extreme.

With this in mind, Ryuen Kakeru agreed to Shiina Hiyori's request, thinking that he might need her cooperation in managing the class in the future.

After watching Shiina Hiyori leave, Ryuen Kakeru cast a threatening glance at the remaining students in the class, then sat on the podium with his legs crossed like a victor.

All the defiant delinquents in Class 1-C were now lying on the ground, and the remaining students huddled in the last row of the classroom, basking in their fearful gazes.