7.2 Million Private Points

In the dining hall, the five of them were still continuing their girlfriend topic.

Ike, full of passion, initiated a competition toward the other four, looking at them expectantly as he said: "Hey, Qiuyue, Ayanokoji, Sudo, Yamauchi, let's see who gets a girlfriend first, how about it?"

"That's definitely me." Yamauchi said without hesitation.

"I... Horikita... a bit..." "I know, Sudo, Horikita's too hard to crack. I can only wish you luck. So, what about Qiuyue and Ayanokoji?"

"I don't mind either way." Ayanokoji said that, then looked at Qiuyue. Ike quickly took over the conversation.

"Qiuyue, you'll join in, right? Don't worry, if I find a girlfriend, I definitely won't forget you." "...Forget it, it's getting late. I'm heading back first. There's still no news on the witness, don't forget about that." Qiuyue directly answered off-topic, preparing to leave, and casually picked up a torch to light a fire.

"Hey, right, damn it. Who the hell is the witness? Still hasn't shown up. Since they saw it, why don't they come forward? I'm about to get suspended here." Sudo slammed the table in complaint.

Qiuyue: (No one has an obligation to save you either. Not getting involved is the right choice.)

Room 415

Qiuyue was quickly tapping on his phone playing a game, with another phone set aside, as if waiting for someone's message.

After a long while, the phone rang. Qiuyue put down the phone in his hand and picked up the other one.

[How did you record the audio? You recorded video too, right? X.] [That's none of your business. And what's with X?] [Of course it's a name for you, you sneaky rat hiding your head and tail. I'll find you out, X.]

"X it is. Three months, with Class C's class points, half each month, he should have around 500k pr by now." [Less talk, 500k pr.] [I happen to have just over 500k pr. Did you calculate that? X.]

In reality, Ryuen had collected two-thirds of the class's points, so he had over 670k pr.

[In this recording, your Class C student actively provoked a Class D student into a fight. If I sell it to Class D, and have the Class D student deny he threw the first punch—claiming Class C provoked him and then self-harmed—even if Class D doesn't win the case, they'll be found not guilty. Because Class C has no evidence, and Class D might even counter-sue for slander.] [I know you definitely recorded video too. Then you should know the Class D student really did throw a punch.] [Who knows? You Class C don't have evidence either, do you?] [Sell me the recording and video together. I'll give you 200k pr.]

"Only 200k pr? Ryuen's so stingy. Can't sell the video yet. If Ryuen got the video, he could edit it, cut out the part where Class C struck first, and leave only Sudo hitting Class C. Class C would win outright. I need to wait a bit longer." [I don't know what you're talking about. I only have audio, no video.]

Ryuen: (Does he really not have video?) [50k pr. Give me the audio file.] [50k pr isn't enough. 300k pr.] [Not afraid of choking on that much? I'll give you 100k pr at most.] [Class D's class fund is also around 100k pr. I think Class D would be far more interested in this recording than you. What do you think?] [X, fine. You're good! I'll find you out! 200k pr!] [Thanks for your patronage.]

Qiuyue looked at the string of points on his phone, beaming with a smile. 7200000

"I only spent a little over 7k pr in three months. I guess I'm pretty frugal." With that, Qiuyue picked up his other phone and looked at the points on it. 63020

Just as Qiuyue was about to open his Head-Patting Village mobile game again, a message appeared at the top of his phone.

Kushida Devil

[Qiuyue-kun, could you come to Ayanokoji-kun's room? We're discussing Sudo-kun's matter together.]

"Sigh, just about to warm up the villagers online, and something else comes knocking." [Coming now.]

Qiuyue arrived at Ayanokoji's room to join the discussion, but no one had gotten any leads on the witness. Qiuyue started playing games with the Idiot Trio.

Until someone knocked on the door. Ayanokoji went to answer it but didn't come back for a long time.

Kushida went to check and found Horikita. They talked outside the door for a while, and Horikita, who had originally planned to leave, was persuaded to stay.

When Sudo saw Horikita arrive, he was so happy he put down his game controller and went to greet her, directly reducing the number of people playing games with Qiuyue by one.

After Qiuyue and Ike finished their game, they joined the discussion with Horikita. Of course, they lost the game without any surprises.

During the game, Horikita brought information about the witness. After some discussion, they learned that the witness Horikita had identified was Airi Sakura from their class.

Sudo was very moved. He was probably happy that the Horikita he liked hadn't given up on him.

Although the Idiot Trio didn't quite understand why it was Sakura, they knew Horikita wouldn't bring up baseless information for no reason.

And Qiuyue also knew Horikita's guess was correct—the witness was Sakura.

So Kushida, the Idiot Trio, and Ayanokoji all agreed to approach Sakura tomorrow. Qiuyue expressed that he wasn't very good with words and politely declined. Horikita left after sharing the witness information.

After deciding, everyone dispersed. Back in his room, Qiuyue pondered his strategy.

"Tomorrow, if they approach Sakura according to the plot, Sakura should run away because of her social anxiety, right."

"Then Ayanokoji saves Sakura, successfully getting her to come forward and help. But even without Ayanokoji's help, Sakura might still help anyway."

"Sakura... could it be that because of my butterfly effect, she won't be saved by Ayanokoji?"

"Tch... as expected, I'm still a hypocrite. If it were something like expulsion or suspension, I probably wouldn't have this impulse to act."

"Perverts really are troublesome. Whatever, thinking too much is useless. There are still a few days left. I'll take it slow."

Qiuyue realized he couldn't make this decision anytime soon, so he opened his Head-Patting Village mobile game and continued his climb to 2600 points.

Throughout the night, his face changed countless times, often turning bright red with rage.