Class D in Chaos

"Teacher, please tell us what we can do to raise our Class Points."

Seeing the class in chaos, Hirata Yousuke stood up and asked Chabashira Sae, hoping to calm everyone down.

Chabashira Sae smiled. "There's still a chance."

"The midterm exams are at the end of this month. If everyone in the class passes, you'll gain 100 Class Points."

"But, heh..."

Chabashira Sae let out a derisive laugh. She unrolled the poster she'd brought earlier and pinned it to the blackboard.

"Based on your quiz results last month, seven people in this class will be expelled after the midterms."

The Class D students grew even more panicked.

They couldn't understand why failing an exam would get them expelled.

"Anyone who fails even one subject on a midterm or final exam will be expelled. That's the school's rule."

After explaining this, Chabashira Sae left the classroom without looking back.

Chihaya Rei noticed Horikita Suzune hurrying after her.

It looked like she was going to demand an explanation for why someone ranked third in her year had been placed in Class D.

He'd wanted to follow and see what happened.

But he couldn't bear to leave Class D just yet.

The way things were going, plenty of exciting things were bound to happen. There'd surely be a chance to grill some idiots in a little while.

Chihaya Rei quickly decided to put Horikita Suzune's business aside for now.

The battle in Class D was about to begin.

"This school's messed up. You can get expelled just for failing an exam? I've never heard of anything like that!"

"We don't have any points right now. How are we supposed to get by over the next month?"

"Well... the school cafeteria does have a free Mountain Vegetable Set Meal."

Someone said it quietly.

Another person immediately chimed in, "That stuff tastes awful. I ran out of points a couple of days ago, and I nearly threw up the first time I tried the Mountain Vegetable Set Meal."

"That's bad..."

"I'm so jealous of the other classes. They still have so many points."

"Does anyone have points to spare? Please lend me some. I'll pay you back once I get more."

Yamauchi Haruki suddenly raised his hand and shouted to the whole class.

He'd tried the Mountain Vegetable Set Meal, too.

At his words, those who still had points left quietly gripped their phones.

They had to make what little they had last an entire month.

They couldn't even be sure they'd receive any personal points next month. There was no way they'd lend their precious points to someone else now.

Especially not to someone like Yamauchi Haruki!

"We don't even have enough points for ourselves. How could we lend you any? Don't get your hopes up."

Someone couldn't help speaking up.

"Come on, don't be so stingy. We're all classmates."

Yamauchi Haruki smiled and tried to appeal to their friendship. Then he turned to his good buddy, Kanji Ike.

"What about you, Ike?"

Kanji Ike looked up at him and gave a wry laugh. "Do I look like I have any points left?"

"Fair enough."

At that, Kanji Ike pulled his game console out of his desk and shouted to the class:

"I bought this game console for 80,000 points. I'll sell it cheap now. Any good-hearted soul willing to take it off my hands?"

The result was obvious. No one in class paid the two of them any attention.

Hirata Yousuke tried to reason with them, looking helpless.

"Yamauchi, Ike, please keep your voices down. Nobody has many points left."

"What about you?"

Yamauchi Haruki asked.

Hirata Yousuke was about to answer when another voice interrupted them.

"I've had enough! I haven't done anything wrong, yet I have to suffer alongside you people who made the class lose all its points. How is that fair?"

Yukimura Teruhiko stood up in anger and slammed his fist on the desk, then remained hunched over.

His usually refined face was now filled with resentment and fury.

Chihaya Rei remembered him.

He was the textbook example of a good student who cared about nothing but studying.

He followed the rules in class and took his notes seriously. It was fair to say he hadn't done anything to make the class lose points.

The situation was a little unfair to Yukimura, but what could he do? He'd been placed in Class D.

"Hey, wasn't it those guys like Kanji Ike who made the class lose all its points?"

One of the girls started blaming Ike and the others.

"They're late practically every day, and they laugh while playing games in class."

Chihaya Rei couldn't help silently applauding.

A fight was brewing. Good. The more they argued, the livelier things would get.

Shinohara Satsuki looked disgusted. "Exactly. I don't want to be in the same class as a bunch of losers like them."

"What... What's that supposed to mean?"

Kanji Ike stood up, displeased, and retorted, "It's not all our fault!"

"As for playing games in class, fine, I'll apologize."

"What good is apologizing afterward? Our Class Points are already at zero."

Shinohara Satsuki snapped, glaring at Kanji Ike as she pressed him.

"I already apologized. What more do you want from me?"

"The thing I hate most is people apologizing afterward!"

"I can't apologize in advance!"

Their tempers flared as they argued.

Kanji Ike had apologized, yet the girl was still hounding him. That made him angry, too.

"You keep going on about me, but you girls aren't any better, are you?"

"Shinohara, can you guarantee you've never done anything that cost the class points?"

"Ike's right!"

Yamauchi Haruki jumped in to back up Kanji Ike, pointing at the girls.

"You girls use your phones and put on makeup in class, too. I bet you've cost the class plenty of points!"

"Why are you only blaming us?"

"You've made more mistakes, anyway."

Shinohara Satsuki said coldly, refusing to back down.

"Who says? What if putting on makeup costs more points than playing games?"

Yamauchi Haruki replied with complete confidence.

His words left Shinohara Satsuki speechless.

"You're shameless!"

Mori Nene stepped over beside Shinohara and voiced her displeasure.

"Not only that, you guys are always making comments about the girls' figures and looks in the classroom. Do you have any idea how awful that is?"

Many of the girls immediately backed her up.

"Nene's right. Yamauchi, you guys are the worst."

"Gross!"

When Kanji Ike and Yamauchi talked about the girls' figures in class, they never bothered to keep it quiet.

He and a few other boys had even made a ranking of the girls by bust size.

Plenty of girls in Class D had heard them loud and clear. They resented the boys for it, and their opinion of them couldn't have been worse.

They took this opportunity to let it all out.

The girls' words made Ike and the others feel guilty, but they still insisted the girls stop changing the subject. They were supposed to be talking about Class Points.

That only made the girls angrier, and the argument grew more heated. More people kept joining in.

The crowd pressed together, and in the jostling, Mori Nene accidentally fell to the floor.

Shinohara cursed, "Yamauchi, you actually shoved someone? That's going too far!"

"I didn't push her! She fell on her own."

Yamauchi immediately protested.

The conflict escalated again, and both sides looked ready to come to blows.

"Everyone, please calm down. Don't fight, and stop arguing..."

Hirata Yousuke had been trying to calm them down from the start. Now he stood between them, using his body to keep them apart in case they really started fighting.

But neither Kanji Ike's side nor Shinohara's side would listen. They kept shouting accusations at each other.

Chihaya Rei felt a little disappointed at the sight.

Then he stepped forward.

What a perfect chance to grill some idiots. How could he let it slip by?

He couldn't let Hirata steal the credit. Grilling idiots was his job.

"You idiots, all of you shut up!"

Chihaya Rei stepped up beside Hirata.

His sudden appearance and icy voice actually cowed the group.

Unlike Hirata's gentle approach, Chihaya Rei wasn't going to show these idiots any courtesy.