Kind-hearted Class B People

Finding the right moment after class, Mu Tianchen walked directly to Beauty Bro's seat.

"Takagodera, I've gathered the points you wanted to see."

Beauty Bro, as always, held a small mirror, admiring his "beauty." Without even turning his head at Mu Tianchen's approach, he said directly:

"You really are beautiful, Boy. Here's my contact info."

With that, he pulled a slip of paper with his contact information written on it from his drawer and tossed it out casually.

Mu Tianchen caught the note, confirmed the information, put it in his pocket, and pulled out his phone to remind him:

"Aren't you going to take a look at my points? Not afraid I'm bluffing you?"

"No need. I trust you completely," Takagodera replied calmly.

"Alright then."

Just as Mu Tianchen was about to return to his seat, Takagahara suddenly spoke up again:

"This Boy, having ability but being unwilling to use it—that's a very un-beautiful behavior."

Hearing this, Mu Tianchen was slightly startled. What did he mean by that?

Was he implying he should lead the class? Although he had experience with that before, until he understood why his father sent him here, he only wanted to be an ordinary student for now.

"I'll keep that in mind." Mu Tianchen replied calmly, then went straight to his seat.

He took out his phone, added Beauty Bro's contact based on the note, and casually copied the number to send to Kushida.

After receiving the message, Kushida, naturally, expressed her thanks to Mu Tianchen.

While looking at his phone, Mu Tianchen happened to notice today's date: April 30th.

Come to think of it, Teacher Chazhu had mentioned that points would be distributed on the first of every month, which would be tomorrow.

However, given Class D's recent performance, he didn't think they'd receive much...

The next morning, Mu Tianchen got up early as usual, planning to run a few laps on the track first.

But before that, he decided to check the points balance on his phone, since today was the day the school distributed points.

Opening his phone and scrolling, the displayed balance was:

1502000 points

Exactly the same as what he'd seen last night!

Not a single point had been distributed?

Although he'd anticipated this month's points would be few, receiving zero was still unexpected.

Mu Tianchen couldn't help but wonder if it was a system delay, or if they'd truly only received 0 points.

He decided to grab a student from another class to ask while running on the track later—he'd noticed a few first-years in the same uniform running there before.

Arriving at the track, since it was still early and no one else was around, Mu Tianchen planned to run a few laps first.

On his third lap, people began to show up, so he seized the opportunity to approach a slender, handsome guy with a nice face.

"Hello, I'm Mu Tianchen from Class D, first year. I wanted to ask—did you receive any points from the school today?"

"Points? Come to think of it, I haven't checked yet. Let me confirm." The handsome guy, upon being asked about points, immediately stopped running and pulled out his phone to scroll through it.

Was he lacking caution, or what? Either way, it was fine—at least he could confirm Class D's point situation.

"It says here I received 65,000 points from the school. But it feels a bit low—I remember Teacher Hoshinomiya said it was supposed to be 100,000 points." He rubbed his head awkwardly and continued, "Maybe it's because I left early for Soccer Club activities before, and they deducted some."

Hearing this, Mu Tianchen confirmed that Class D had indeed received 0 points. After all, they were all first-years—if everyone else got points, would they deliberately skip Class D? That seemed unlikely.

Still, receiving 65,000 points meant this class was doing quite well. The gap with Class D was obvious. Curious which class he was from, Mu Tianchen asked:

"Which class are you from, if you don't mind me asking?"

"Ah, I even forgot to introduce myself! Sorry about that, Mu Tianchen. I'm Shibata So from Class B, first year. Ichinose actually told me to be polite before." He seemed even more embarrassed, his face slightly reddening.

"It's fine, Shibata. I also forgot to explain why I was asking about points. It's because I found out today that Class D didn't receive any points at all, so I came to ask."

"Huh? Not a single point? Could the school have forgotten about you?" Shibata seemed a bit skeptical.

"Probably not—since you all received yours, there's no reason to skip our class. Besides, our class's performance has been pretty bad."

"I see. How about we exchange contact info? If you run out of points, I can lend you some. In this school, having no points is really tough." He switched his phone to the add-friend screen and continued, "I've also seen you on the track a few times. We could run together."

Why was this guy so kind? Mu Tianchen was almost touched, even though he didn't lack points himself.

"Of course. But can I ask you one more question, if it's not too rude?"

"No problem! I'll answer anything I can. Just don't ask me about studies—I'm a bit slow in the head, haha."

"It's not about studies. It's just—we're not in the same class. We might even be rivals later. Aren't you worried about leaking class information? And being this nice to someone from another class?"

"Of course not. Under Ichinose's leadership, everyone in our class is very friendly, and the class atmosphere is really harmonious—even toward students from other classes." Shibata So said proudly.

Ichinose again. That name had come out of his mouth more than once already. She was probably some kind of leader in Class B.

From his tone, this Ichinose seemed to have a very kind and upright personality.

Still, that kind of personality was fine in itself, but when it came to real competition with other classes, it would be a serious disadvantage—especially against a class like Ryuen's, which would stop at nothing to achieve its goals.

"I really envy your class."

"Haha, I often feel proud of my luck in being assigned to a class like Class B."

Mu Tianchen checked the time. It was about time to head to the classroom, so he exchanged contact info with him and left.

Before he left, Shibata called out to him: "If you run out of points, make sure to tell me, okay? Don't be shy. We're friends now. We can run together then."

"Alright, thank you." Mu Tianchen turned his head and replied.

This feeling was somehow familiar...