Trouble

Just after An Xiao finished chatting briefly with Honami Ichinose, the school bell rang, and a woman wearing a pink short-sleeved shirt and carrying a black board walked into the classroom with a smile.

But for some reason, as An Xiao watched the smile on the woman's face, he couldn't help but shiver; he had a strange sense of déjà vu.

It was as if... the smile was exactly like the one his mother and older sister wore whenever they were about to play a prank on him at home.

An Xiao quickly shook his head, casting this terrifying thought out of his mind, and watched as the teacher wrote her name and contact information on the blackboard.

"Hello everyone, my name is Chie Hoshinomiya, and I will be your teacher and homeroom teacher for the next three years."

After the teacher named Chie Hoshinomiya finished writing her name on the board, she clapped her hands, turned around, and smiled as she introduced herself to everyone in Class B.

"Tell me, aren't you all happy to have such a cute teacher?"

She said this while making a cute expression, teasing the class.

This slightly narcissistic remark quickly helped her bridge the distance with the students, and a few boys even laughed and shouted that they were happy.

She is a teacher who is very good at socializing.

An Xiao evaluated her, though he didn't know why he felt that this new teacher's gaze kept drifting toward him from time to time.

He had a feeling this teacher was going to be a bit of a hassle.

Subconsciously, An Xiao shrank his body closer to the window.

Seeming to notice that her gaze had been a bit too obvious, Chie Hoshinomiya retracted her eyes naturally, as if nothing had happened, and then smiled to interrupt the noise from the students below before continuing.

"I assume that before enrolling, you all gained some understanding of our school through the enrollment guide provided or the opening ceremony just now, especially regarding the unique nature of our school."

Hearing Chie Hoshinomiya's words, the students below nodded in unison, and An Xiao was no exception.

To be honest, he was genuinely curious about how such a school could maintain a 100% advancement and employment rate while allowing students to freely choose their majors and career paths.

Are they really not afraid of riots from those students outside who study day and night?

And... recalling the large number of surveillance cameras he had noticed while wandering around the school earlier, An Xiao couldn't help but click his tongue.

He had a feeling he had accidentally stumbled into some strange social experiment.

Just as An Xiao's thoughts were wandering, Chie Hoshinomiya on the podium first gave a brief introduction to the school based on the materials distributed earlier, and then, after a pause in her tone, she took out the pre-prepared mobile phones from the drawer of the podium and began distributing them to the students in the front row.

As she handed them out, she continued to introduce them to the students.

"In addition to the rules mentioned earlier, the most special feature of our school is the mechanism I am about to describe, known as the S System."

Seeing that every student below now had a mobile phone in their hand, Chie Hoshinomiya took out one herself and explained to everyone: "Because your mobile phones were confiscated at the beginning of enrollment, this phone serves as a replacement while also acting as your student ID."

"You can use it for internal communication, but it is limited to within the school; all external contact will be blocked. At the same time, this is your only means of payment within the school."

Hearing this, An Xiao raised an eyebrow in surprise.

He didn't expect Japan to use mobile payments too; he had thought they would use something like a campus card, and he had been worried about losing it, but now he didn't have to worry.

"Everyone can make purchases using the personal points within the phone. As long as it is within the school, you can buy anything you want with points."

"Of course, provided that you have enough points."

"Everyone's points will be automatically deposited on the first of every month. Each point is equivalent to one yen, which serves as your living expenses. The points for this month have already been deposited into everyone's accounts."

"By the way, there are one hundred thousand points!"

As Chie Hoshinomiya finished her last sentence, the entire class fell into a silence, but after a few seconds, it erupted into a commotion.

"One hundred thousand points? According to what the teacher said earlier, doesn't that mean one hundred thousand yen?"

"One hundred thousand yen? That's almost my entire year's allowance!"

The entire class instantly boiled over.

However, this was normal; for a student who had just entered high school, one hundred thousand was still a bit too much.

An Xiao estimated in his heart, roughly converting it according to the recent yen exchange rate, it would be about 5,000 yuan in his home currency.

Thinking of this, the corners of An Xiao's mouth twitched. Looking at the bright "100,000" displayed on the logged-in student terminal, he felt not surprised, but rather complicated, and even more inclined to complain.

What kind of school doesn't charge any fees and actually gives money to students? And gives them so much at once?

You have to know that the monthly living expenses for a normal college student back home are only about two or three thousand; this is double that. Is this really appropriate?

It wasn't that An Xiao didn't want to believe it, but it was just too contrary to common sense.

He remembered that in middle school, his classmates would be busy dealing with exams and participating in various extracurricular activities just for a scholarship of one or two thousand per semester.

And now that the money given is doubled, surely the things we have to do won't be doubled as well, right?

Recalling the classmates he saw in middle school who were busy as dogs, An Xiao couldn't help but swallow, pressed his palm firmly against his chest a few times, and then let out a heavy sigh. While sighing, he comforted himself.

Perhaps he was just overthinking it?

Chie Hoshinomiya on the podium looked at the crowd below with interest, and only when everyone had finished their excitement did she speak: "Are there any parts of the school rules that you don't understand? I can try to help you answer them here."

An Xiao did have many questions he wanted to ask, and his hand, which had been resting on the desk, was about to go up, but recalling the eerie sense of unease he felt when he first saw this teacher, he ultimately swallowed all his questions.

He had a feeling that getting involved with this teacher would lead to a huge amount of trouble.

This was the intuition brought to him by his sixth sense.

Because of this, until the very end, no one raised any questions to Chie Hoshinomiya.