A Crossover: Becoming the Mastermind Behind the Scenes, Starting with Classroom of the Elite
Author: Elof
Synopsis:
After transmigrating into Classroom of the Elite, Su Wei awakened the Daily Random Item System.
The Devil Passport, the Time Pause Watch, the Memory Eraser Stick...
Just as Su Wei was getting ready to sit back and enjoy the vocational students' brawls as a form of relaxation, he rolled the "Gantz Black Sphere Core."
With a god's-eye view, he discovered the truth about the world:
Parasites lurked among the crowds, devouring brains. Ghouls hunted the living under cover of night. Evil Spirits roamed the Old School Building...
Watching the elite students scheme and bicker over a few tens of thousands of points,
Su Wei, the Black Sphere Administrator, wore a benevolent smile.
"If this is a place where ability reigns supreme, then let's make 'ability' live up to its name."
And so, the Black Sphere descended, and the game began.
Sakayanagi Arisu's eyes burned with fervor. "If clearing the game can cure my heart, then heh, I accept this game of chess called 'survival.'"
Ichinose Honami's hands trembled. "If we get 100 points, we can bring people back to life... For everyone's sake, I'll keep fighting!"
And Ayanokoji Kiyotaka, once again clad in a skintight suit, gazed at the Black Sphere, deep in thought.
"Earn enough points to buy my freedom? Surprisingly reasonable."
Su Wei smiled. Looks like I still came out on top.
[Mastermind + Worldview Reconstruction + Rulemaking + Item System]
Volume One
Chapter 1: The More, the Merrier
"Ding... Ding..."
The shrill end-of-class bell rang, but Chabashira Sae merely glanced at the motley collection of misfits in the back of the classroom before turning and leaving with her lesson plans tucked under her arm.
Advanced Nurturing High School, Class 1-D.
Woken by the bell, Su Wei didn't look up. He kept propping up his chin with one hand and yawning.
Then, a pale blue screen suddenly appeared across his vision.
[Today's random item has refreshed--] ["GANTZ · Black Sphere Core (Administrator Permissions)"] [Retrieve?]
Su Wei shifted into a more comfortable position and continued dozing.
Gantz...
Gantz?
The supposed pioneer of the infinite-flow genre, where the dead were selected as expendable pawns and forced into skintight suits to fight alien monsters amid bloodshed and despair?
He instinctively turned his head and glanced at the neighboring seat.
The chameleon-like boy named Ayanokoji Kiyotaka was staring blankly at the blackboard;
Horikita Suzune in the row ahead was planning something in her notebook;
Farther away, Karuizawa Kei was chatting excitedly with the girls about the latest nail art.
Su Wei sent his consciousness into the system inventory.
Looking at the sphere hovering silently in the list, its surface pitch-black and exuding an eerie, futuristic aura, he fell into thought.
"Giving me something like this..."
"Are you saying these elites have it too easy?"
Though the mind games in the original Classroom of the Elite could get a little ridiculous, he had to admit the school was an ivory tower.
Tuition-free, a living allowance, even single rooms with private bathrooms and kitchens—the facilities put countless neighboring universities to shame.
The only drawback was that students couldn't contact the outside world.
But having already landed in Classroom of the Elite, this was simply part of the deal.
Besides, as a transmigrator with a cheat, he didn't need to worry about it.
About three weeks ago, he had transmigrated into this world and drawn the Devil Passport on his very first day. It hadn't disappeared when a new item refreshed.
That was when he realized the make-believe games were over.
Who in this world could resist an absurdly overpowered combo like the Devil Passport and the Time Pause Watch?
If Su Wei wanted, he could turn Advanced Nurturing High School into Mizuryu Kei Land whenever he liked, and do whatever he pleased.
But just as Homelander didn't want to be a superhero so much as he wanted attention, or how some people sought a little spice in serious things and a little seriousness in their spice, the sense of control he could reach out and take without resistance quickly killed his appetite for revenge-fueled indulgence.
Things that came too easily were always boring.
Like playing GTA with cheat codes: after the initial rush, all that remained was emptiness.
Right now, he was simply a bored thrill-seeker looking for fun.
Since Gantz had shown up, and this was Classroom of the Elite, surely adding a few alien monsters as a "little test" wasn't asking too much.
Then again...
Were there vampires, Nurarihyon, or Buddha Aliens in this world for him to fight?
If they were all ordinary people who only knew how to study, dragging them into the Black Sphere Space to slaughter them would be pretty tasteless.
He was a thrill-seeker, not a murderer.
Unless... this world was already rotten to begin with.
As Su Wei furrowed his brow and pondered, a faint citrus scent wafted past his nose on the breeze.
"Um, Su Wei?"
Su Wei looked up and saw a pretty face beaming with a perfect smile.
Kushida Kikyo.
Class D's little angel, the popular girl who charmed both boys and girls—at least, that was the facade.
At that moment, she had her hands clasped behind her back and leaned forward slightly. Her white blouse outlined a stunning figure that was hard to conceal even beneath her loose uniform.
"Can I help you?"
Su Wei gave a slight nod, slipping back into his harmless, friendly demeanor.
"Oh, it's nothing important." Kushida blinked and pointed to the other side of the classroom. "You usually keep to yourself, Su Wei, so Hirata and I were talking about organizing a welcome dinner this weekend. We wanted to invite you along."
"We're all in Class D, so we should get along, right~?"
Looking at the girl before him, who seemed to radiate light, Su Wei fell into thought.
A class's social circles were usually established within the first week or two of school. When they first arrived, Kushida Kikyo had reached out to the "unsociable" Ayanokoji Kiyotaka because of Horikita Suzune.
With everyone's relationships more or less established, why had she gone out of her way to approach an invisible nobody like him?
Was it because he was especially good-looking—so handsome he could knock someone out?
Or was the combo of the Men in Black's Memory Eraser Stick and Doraemon's Time Furoshiki not convincing enough?
Had she somehow caught on?
Or was she simply being kind?
Given Kushida Kikyo's two-faced nature, Su Wei didn't think that was likely.
After a brief moment of thought, he stood up, slipped his phone back into his pocket, and politely declined.
"A dinner? Sorry, I have some personal business this weekend."
Ignoring the momentary stiffness in Kushida's smile, Su Wei headed straight for the back door of the classroom.
"I'm feeling a little stuffy. I'm going up to the roof."
Ten minutes later, on the rooftop of the school building.
Hardly anyone came here. Beyond the rusty wire fence stretched a clear blue sky and a panoramic view of the enormous cage known as Advanced Nurturing High School.
After making sure he was alone, Su Wei snapped his fingers.
"Come out."
The air rippled like water.
A pitch-black sphere, glowing with a cold light, materialized in front of him.
Su Wei placed his hand on its surface.
[Administrator identity confirmed.] [Linking to world information... ] [Scanning the current area for abnormal life-form activity... ]
With a crackle of static, a holographic map of the entire Academy Island appeared on the sphere's surface.
The map, which had previously shown only green dots, suddenly lit up with a dense mass of glaring red ones.
"What the..."
According to the map, inside a convenience store beneath the student dormitory, a green dot representing a human was rapidly disappearing.
In its place, a huge red dot was flashing.
Designation: [Ghoul · B-Rank].
Several red dots sat quietly around the supermarket, labeled [Parasite · Incubation Period] and [Evil Spirit · Unseen].
With the god's-eye view granted by the Black Sphere, he could clearly see the convenience store clerk who usually worked the register with a cheerful smile. Now, with his back to the security camera, the clerk's face had split open like a flower, and he swallowed a stray black cat whole.
Su Wei, who had been so nonchalant a moment earlier, raised an eyebrow.
"...Hah."
"So that's how it is."
"I knew there was no way they'd give me a cheat this powerful just to play house."
At that moment, any reservations about crossing a line vanished.
If this world's foundations were already rotten, then he could light the fuse with a clear conscience.
Su Wei patted the Black Sphere and looked down at the bustling campus below.
"The more, the merrier."
"Now this is a game worthy of 'ability reigns supreme'!"
"Right, let me make a small adjustment to the rules, then pick a few lucky contestants~"
Chapter 2: The Collapse of Everyday Life
"Bzz... Bzzzz..."
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