At the same time, in order to cultivate talent, the school would constantly hold exams and use points as rewards.
There were two types of points.
Class Evaluation Points and Private Points.
Class Evaluation Points, as the name implied, belonged to the class as a whole.
Private Points, on the other hand, could be used as money.
Every month, the school would deposit points equal to the Class Evaluation Points × 100 into the students' accounts, and those points could be used as living expenses.
At the same time, the freshmen assigned to Classes A, B, C, and D had initially been sorted according to a specialized set of evaluation standards.
In other words, there had been a gap in ability from the very beginning.
Class A consisted of the best students.
And this school really was making its students simulate survival in society.
Put more plainly, it was probably like this...
The outstanding students were gathered in Class A, the corporate drone level students were in Class B, the social gathering types were in Class C, and as for Class D, it was probably a garbage dump.
Heh heh...
He had already guessed as much.
But it really was cruel.
Still, the school was fairly gentle.
Even though the students' ability levels differed, all four classes had been given 1,000 Class Evaluation Points at the start.
1,000 Class Evaluation Points × 100 was exactly the 100,000 Private Points each student received as living expenses upon enrollment.
It looked perfectly reasonable.
However, this was only false kindness.
Since the students' qualities differed, the gap would probably soon widen because of these so-called exams.
Then what about the students in Class D?
If they had known from the start that this was hell, would they still have come?
They probably would have dropped out right at the beginning.
So the school had first handed them some candy. It gave them the same starting line.
At the same time, the school encouraged students to save up points, because here, as long as you had points, you could buy anything.
Including expulsion, and the price of one expulsion was 20 million points.
That was basically impossible.
But it was always good to have an ambition.
Still, this also showed that expulsion as a punishment in exams was quite common.
What a terrifying school!
"At the same time, the first month's assessment actually began the moment the students enrolled." The girl's cute voice rang out.
"It assesses the students' behavioral standards—in other words, whether they fall within the scope of being qualified students."
Sakayanagi Arisu seemed to have recovered somewhat from her sulking. She noticed that the exceedingly ill-intentioned Hachiman was using his memo pad to type out, character by character, the rules he needed to pay attention to, occasionally furrowing his brow.
Yet whenever the villainous Mr. Hachiman frowned, her mood improved.
Because...
"Hachiman, you're in hell right now." Perhaps because she wanted to gloat, Classmate Sakayanagi's voice suddenly became adorable.
She had even resumed using polite language.
"According to the school's initial class assignment standards, the Class D you belong to is the worst. So just how terrible will your class's exam results be after this month ends?"
"Let me think. The standards for a student should include being recorded during class, after class, during breaks, and even during rest periods after school."
"Our school has so many cameras, so there are plenty of opportunities to catch things."
"You can't relax for even a moment. Based on past practice, after one month, Class D will probably only have four or five hundred points left. In other words, your living expenses will be cut in half."
Sakayanagi Arisu said.
Her tone sounded remarkably lighthearted.
"..." Hachiman.
Okay, stop talking.
Today was the third day since enrollment.
And Hachiman was sure of it.
His class had probably already lost 200 points.
So, Classmate Sakayanagi, she had actually overestimated his class.
Four or five hundred points left? Hachiman did not doubt in the slightest that Class D could get deducted all the way to zero.
Because if the school really did use cameras to completely monitor the students' conduct...
Then things like Yamauchi and Ike making a beauty ranking in class yesterday, even adding criteria like huge breasts...
That kind of vulgar behavior had probably already cost them a huge number of points.
Looking at it that way...
It really was terrible.
But what did that have to do with Hachiman?
He had other ways of obtaining points.
But...
It was not as though it had nothing to do with him. After all, that wicked woman Chabashira-sensei might have ambitions of her own.
Ah.
His head was starting to hurt.
"Then."
Hachiman checked the time on his phone. There were thirty minutes until lunch break.
That was enough time to go eat at the cafeteria.
Hachiman looked at Sakayanagi Arisu.
"Do you want to go eat with me now?"
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Sakayanagi Arisu's clear eyes blinked.
Because what strange thing was this bad guy saying... Was he inviting her?
Suddenly being invited to lunch together, Classmate Sakayanagi seemed somewhat confused.
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"You can't move around by yourself, can you?" Hachiman said. "You said yourself that your health was poor, so you used Kamuro as a crutch. And I've already sent Kamuro away."
"Oh... I see." Sakayanagi Arisu looked over. "So Hachiman wants me to keep him and use him?"
"I'll pass on that." Hachiman said. "Your personality is awful. Keeping me would be a pretense; tossing me aside at any time would be the truth."
"And you might treat me excessively harshly," Hachiman added.
He knew that this Classmate Sakayanagi held grudges over every last detail.
And this time, he had made her lose information that would have cost two million points to obtain, so he had clearly been entered into her little notebook.
So...
If he voluntarily delivered himself to her doorstep, would that not just mean letting her punish him for free?
"Heh heh..." Arisu immediately revealed a cute smile.
That was indeed true.
If he was really willing to be her dog, then of course she would still give him points, but she would also properly treat him.
And once she had punished him, there would naturally be no need to keep paying him points.
That was why Hachiman was such an annoying person.
How could he think of her as being so awful?
"I've never had the experience of campus life before, so I hope to properly experience it this time," Sakayanagi Arisu said.
Hachiman already knew that.
And he had made her campus life not boring.
"However," Sakayanagi Arisu quickly added, "Hachiman has also taught me a lesson."
"Although my intelligence and decision-making ability are strong, I also have to account for the possibility that someone might not play fair."
"So it's best to prepare contingency plans in advance."
"From now on, I won't arrange for only Kamuro to travel with me." Sakayanagi said. "I'll pick two more attendants."
Was that so?
But in that case, she would look pretty damn imposing.
No matter where she went, people would be following her.
Still, she was so frail that a single push could knock her over, so it was good that she had become more cautious.
Hachiman was still a gentle person.
At the same time, he became more wary of her.
Because she had just said she would pick two more attendants.
In other words, this hateful wealthy little girl still treated people as tools.
Thus, the two of them left the rooftop together and headed downstairs.
According to Sakayanagi, if Kamuro had come to pick her up, she would have prepared a parasol as well.
The stretch of road from the school building to the cafeteria was outdoors, and she did not want her snow-white skin to be tanned by the sun.
In other words, she really had a lot of demands.
"Do you need me to carry you downstairs?" Hachiman asked.
"That won't be necessary," Sakayanagi said. "Although my body is frail, it isn't to that extent. I'm still allowed to move about normally with a cane, and maintaining a certain amount of walking every day is also good for me."
"Though it's a little regrettable that I'm too slow," Sakayanagi said with what seemed like a sigh.
Even though she gripped her cane and walked downstairs, she was much slower than an ordinary person.
"There's nothing to be done about that," Hachiman said. "Everyone has things they're good at and things they aren't."
"We still have plenty of time, so let's just take it slowly."
Hachiman said that and walked ahead.
"Oh."
Sakayanagi Arisu nodded.
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Hachiman felt that her attitude was strange.
"It's nothing. I just think that even bad guy Hachiman has a good side," Sakayanagi Arisu said.
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