Study Session

Mu Tianchen picked up his phone and entered the transfer ID Takagahara had sent him.

[Transfer 250,000 points to this account?]

[Yes]

[Transfer successful. Point balance: 1,242,000 points]

The school was considerate enough not to display the recipient's account name or ID when making a transfer.

Looks like Ryuen Kakeru would just have to swallow his grievance this time.

[Beep. Your personal account has received 250,000 points.]

The sound came from Beauty Bro's phone. Apparently, he hadn't turned off the system notifications.

Fortunately, there weren't many people around, so it didn't attract much unnecessary attention.

Takagahara heard the notification and nodded with satisfaction. "Since you were so quick about it, I'll give you another piece of information for free."

"There's nothing at this school that points can't buy. You can even buy a Class Transfer Right."

"You can buy a Class Transfer Right too? Doesn't that mean that as long as you save enough points, you can jump straight into Class A near the end of your third year, just before graduation, and graduate from Class A?"

"Of course."

So that was how it worked. Mu Tianchen now had a rough idea of what Miyabi Nagumo meant by putting individual ability above all else.

He was using the vast resources of the entire year to provide students with strong individual abilities with opportunities to transfer classes.

That way, he could put individual ability first without violating the school's rules.

But the purchase price for a Class Transfer Right must be exorbitant. Nagumo's efforts to gather the points would probably lower the standard of living for the entire second year. Those students must be having a rough time.

"How much does a Class Transfer Right cost?"

"Twenty million."

As expected, it was an amount no one could save up through frugality alone, even over three years. The only way to get one was to pool points across an entire year, like Miyabi Nagumo was doing.

Or to earn points from other people, like Mu Tianchen. Of course, gathering that many would be extremely difficult.

Speaking of which, could Takagahara be planning to use this method too?

Maybe Mu Tianchen had misjudged him. Points could be exchanged for yen, and yen could be exchanged for points as well.

With the Koenji Conglomerate backing him, he could buy points from third-year graduates at a price higher than the school's. That would indeed let him gather twenty million points.

Of course, that was only in theory. Based on what Mu Tianchen knew about the school so far, if Takagahara really used this method to gather points and buy his way into Class A,

it would clearly be cheating. Mu Tianchen didn't believe the school would allow it, and he doubted it would care about offending the conglomerates.

The school had been built with government funding and had been around for many years. If it were really afraid of the conglomerates, why hadn't it put a conglomerate heir like Takagahara in Class A from the start? Why put him in Class D instead?

"All right, I'm leaving. The girls are waiting to have lunch with me. As for the past exam papers, I'll find a time tomorrow when no one's around and put them in your desk."

Seeing Mu Tianchen still lost in thought, Takagahara checked his watch. He really couldn't wait any longer, so he interrupted Mu Tianchen's train of thought.

"Okay." Mu Tianchen came back to his senses and replied.

Takagahara promptly stood up and left the teahouse.

At noon the next day, Mu Tianchen found the past exam papers Takagahara had given him in his desk.

There was also a copy of the last quiz attached.

What could he say... Takagahara had thought of every detail.

Mu Tianchen still couldn't help picking up the quiz and flipping through it.

As expected, it was exactly the same as the upcoming quiz, right down to the order of the questions...

That meant the Midterm Exam would be the same too.

That made things much easier. They only had to memorize the answers; there was no need for much thinking. It was a real blessing for Class D.

As for passing the information along, he'd leave that to Kushida.

She still owed Mu Tianchen a favor from last time. Besides, given her personality, he didn't think she would turn anyone down.

With that in mind, Mu Tianchen picked up his phone and sent Kushida a message.

He waited a long time, but Kushida still didn't reply. The message was still marked unread.

She was probably busy right now...

Kushida had spent the previous night contacting Sudo, Yamauchi, and the others to get them to attend Horikita's study session. Exhausted, she only remembered the next day that she had forgotten to charge her phone.

Her phone was now switched off, lying quietly in her backpack.

"Everyone, I brought them along~"

Kushida spoke to Horikita and Ayanokouji, who had arrived at the library early.

Ayanokouji was as expressionless as ever, while Horikita's face darkened the moment she saw Kushida. She wore a distinctly displeased expression.

"We heard little Kushida was holding a study session here, so we came along. We all want to avoid getting expelled, so please take care of us."

Ike, standing behind Kushida, spoke up first. Sudo and Yamauchi stood beside him, along with another boy named Okiya.

Although Okiya hadn't failed the last quiz, his score had been right on the passing line.

Kushida had noticed he wasn't attending Hirata's study group, so she had invited him along too.

"Is it all right if Okiya joins us?"

Since Ayanokouji had only asked her the previous night to invite the trio of Sudo and his friends, Okiya had been her own decision. So she still asked just to be sure.

"If you're here because you're worried about failing and want to study, I don't mind. But if you're here, you have to study seriously."

"Thank you. I'll study hard."

Seeing that Horikita didn't object, Okiya happily went and sat in a nearby empty seat.

Kushida, Sudo, and the others also took seats beside Okiya.

When Horikita saw Kushida sit down too, her expression grew even more sour. "Kushida, didn't Ayanokouji tell you yesterday? What are you doing here?"

Ayanokouji had indeed told her the previous night that Horikita didn't want her at the study session. But Kushida had insisted on coming, saying she wanted to be friends with Horikita, and Ayanokouji hadn't been able to do anything about it.

"Um... I'm worried I might fail the Midterm Exam and get expelled too, you know?"

"If I remember correctly, you did very well on the last quiz."

Horikita replied coldly. She didn't believe Kushida was worried about failing at all. She must have had some other reason for coming.

Although Kushida always acted as if she wanted to be friends with her, Horikita could sense that Kushida seemed to hate her. She'd felt that way more than once.

So naturally, Horikita disliked her too. Horikita wasn't the type to hide her true feelings, and her emotions showed easily on her face.

"Um... I was just lucky. There were a lot of multiple-choice questions on the last test, weren't there? I guessed a lot of them correctly."

Kushida put on a cute smile and lightly scratched her cheek.

Seeing her like that, Ike and the others beside her had eyes that had practically turned into hearts.

"Do you think I'll believe that?"

That trick didn't work on Horikita. If anything, it only annoyed her more. But Kushida wouldn't have acted like that for no reason.

"Horikita, what's that supposed to mean!"