Class Reunion

An Xiao did not refuse after hearing this. After all, he had intended to squeeze a bit more information about the rules out of the upperclassmen later anyway; getting it directly from Chie Hoshinomiya now was even better.

He took his phone out of his pocket, opened the audio recording from yesterday, and played the entire clip for Chie Hoshinomiya.

As she listened, Chie Hoshinomiya couldn't help but click her tongue in amazement.

"I didn't expect you to be less honest than you look, kid. You really had that Class D student wrapped around your finger."

Listening to the information An Xiao had coaxed out of the student in the recording, Chie Hoshinomiya asked with genuine curiosity.

"You were quite lucky this time to run into a third-year senior. If you had run into a second-year..."

"Then we wouldn't have been able to keep talking from the very beginning," An Xiao said, rolling his eyes. "At the very least, I would have had to pay a certain price to get this information."

"Like spending points to buy it from them, for instance."

"Not bad, not bad, you're quite clever," Chie Hoshinomiya said, nodding with satisfaction after hearing An Xiao's reply.

Just then, the audio reached its end, and Chie Hoshinomiya felt quite moved after realizing the extent of the information An Xiao had grasped.

It was truly impressive that the kid in front of her could extract so much information. If it had been anyone from another class—even a student from Class C—they would have realized something was wrong after being asked about so many past events.

But as for the person in the recording...

One could only say that it was truly worthy of a Class D student!

"I have a general understanding of the situation now. Although it was a bit fragmented, the rules that student mentioned are mostly accurate."

"This makes it easier for me to fill in the gaps."

Chie Hoshinomiya tapped her fingers on the desk, thought for a moment, and then said, "Generally speaking, there aren't any other rules, but among these, there are two points that need to be emphasized."

As she spoke, Chie Hoshinomiya held up two fingers and waved them in front of An Xiao.

"First, you might want to rethink the school's positioning of each class; that will be of great help to you in the early stages."

"Second, this school is literally point-supremacy in the truest sense. Points are omnipotent here, provided you know how to use them."

"Aside from the previously mentioned class transfers and exemption from expulsion, they can accomplish many things—they can even help you achieve a certain degree of 'cheating'."

"That part is for you to figure out yourself."

As she said this, Chie Hoshinomiya's tone became quite intriguing.

"Come to think of it, I'm quite curious about how you'll use these points in the future."

"Omnipotent, huh..."

An Xiao muttered to himself, but then, thinking of something, he suddenly looked up, staring intently at Chie Hoshinomiya, and asked.

"Then can I skip class?"

"...You've got quite the imagination, but that's obviously impossible," Chie Hoshinomiya said, annoyed. "No matter what, this is a school, and your status is that of a student. The school would certainly never agree to that on the record."

"Tsk."

"Alright, alright, let's leave it at that for today. It's getting late."

After finishing the briefing, Chie Hoshinomiya intended to send him off, but before An Xiao left, she asked with a hint of curiosity.

"By the way, An Xiao, are you carrying other things in your pocket? They feel lumpy, and there are quite a few of them."

"Oh, this?" An Xiao reached into his left pocket and handed a small, candy-wrapped item to Chie Hoshinomiya.

"These are candies I made myself. I occasionally suffer from low blood sugar, so I always keep some in my pocket."

"There are all sorts of flavors. Would you like to try one, teacher?"

"Then I'll accept it," Chie Hoshinomiya said with a grin, taking the candy from An Xiao's hand and watching him leave.

Once An Xiao was gone, Chie Hoshinomiya carefully examined the candy he had just handed her, rolling it between her fingers.

"I never expected him to be able to make candy. He really knows how to do quite a lot."

Chie Hoshinomiya muttered to herself, then peeled off the wrapper and popped the candy into her mouth, but her face immediately scrunched up.

"Hiss~ so sour."

"So the one I gave the teacher was the concentrated lemon flavor. What a pity, that flavor is actually quite refreshing."

Meanwhile, in the hallway, An Xiao was sorting through his remaining candies while checking the two new notifications he had just received.

One was the transfer notification for twenty thousand points he already knew about.

And the other was...

An Xiao opened Line and saw a message pop up in his chat with Honami Ichinose.

[Honami Ichinose: An Xiao, I've been thinking about what you told me earlier, and I think you're absolutely right.]

[Honami Ichinose: If we want to reach that goal, the whole class working together is the best way.]

[Honami Ichinose: So, I'd like to organize a meeting tonight to gather everyone and tell them about these things. Do you think that's okay?]

Seeing this string of messages, An Xiao raised an eyebrow in surprise, but he agreed without much hesitation.

In any case, the sooner they knew about these things, the better, to avoid the class points dropping too much over the month due to various incidents.

Those were all points, after all!!

Not long after An Xiao finished replying, Ichinose sent another message.

It was an address—the KTV at Birch Shopping Center—and a time: five o'clock in the afternoon.

So this is... the time and place for the gathering decided?

An Xiao scrolled up and down on his phone screen, discovering that less than ten minutes had passed since the message he had just sent to Ichinose.

This efficiency... is a bit ridiculously high, isn't it!??