Hachiman's Meritocracy Classroom Chapter 45

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This casual mention brought both girls present into silence.

As the homeroom teacher, Sae Chabashira had access to the class's daily penalty points.

As for Suzune Horikita, she was probably the only person in the class who hadn't lost any points. Although she couldn't confirm the specific details or the amount of points deducted, she held no hope for the students in this class.

Initially, all four classes started with 1000 points, a勉强同一起跑点 (barely the same starting line).

However, if they managed to turn those 1000 points into 0 within a month.

Forget about rising to Class A; they probably wouldn't even surpass Class C.

"So, what are you planning to do next?" Chabashira-sensei looked at Horikita, then at Hachiman, saying, "I cannot provide you with any more assistance beyond my authority."

In other words, as long as it's within the scope of what you can say, you'll fully cooperate, right?

Hachiman thought to himself.

"On one hand, I'll report the progress of the task to you, letting you know that I'm diligently fulfilling the agreement," Hachiman said.

"Then you're quite the obedient one," Chabashira seemed to praise him.

But that's not it, Chabashira-sensei.

Hachiman chose to bring Horikita along to confirm with you that you truly stood on the side of advancing to the next class.

Once this common goal was confirmed, Horikita would likely be more willing to work with him and assist him.

Hachiman didn't believe he was strong enough to do everything alone, so having someone assist would significantly increase convenience and the success rate.

"Then what about the second aspect?" Chabashira asked.

"I suppose it's waiting for you to receive the school's notification," Hachiman said. "My actions have exposed the evaluation scores of the four classes prematurely, so the school will definitely take action."

"The action could be to terminate the first-month special exam for the first-year students early. In that case, Class D would secure those 480 points. That's the most desired outcome."

"Of course. The school might also continue the assessment. And that's where things get tricky. If it's the latter, and the exam is to continue, then some arrangements need to be made."

As he said this, Hachiman paused.

"After all, this exam is too much pressure for our class."

Uh.

Indeed.

None of the three had any objections to this point.

If they did nothing, the students of Class D would deduct all the points themselves.

It was too cruel.

And they started off nearly a thousand points behind Class A, who already knew the rules of the exam.

How were they supposed to catch up?

So, they needed to build a foundation.

If the school were to end this behavior regulation exam early, this goal could be achieved.

"Logically speaking, the current gap between the four classes is roughly the same as in previous years."

"The gap between Class A and Class B is over a hundred points, and the gap between Class C and Class D and the upper classes is three to four hundred points."

What Horikita Manabu announced were the real-time scores.

First Year Class A: 996 points

First Year Class B: 834 points

First Year Class C: 611 points

First Year Class D: 480 points

The distances between them were roughly in line with previous years.

"However," Chabashira added. "Class A this year is too outstanding."

Yeah.

Deducting only 4 points in 6 days, what a monster.

But everyone knew that Chabashira still had unsaid words.

That was that Class D was too far behind compared to previous years.

Because.

It was only the sixth day of enrollment, and Class D only had 480 points left. If they did nothing, the score for the first month for this batch of Class D would be 0 points.

Both Hachiman and Suzune Horikita were watching Chabashira-sensei.

At this moment, Chabashira felt the pressure herself.

Beep! Just then, Chabashira looked at her phone.

Her brow furrowed slightly.

"The school sent a message," Chabashira said.

"They've issued an order for the homeroom teachers of all four first-year classes to inform the students of the school's rules, but the behavioral assessment for this month will continue."

As she said this, Chabashira looked at Hachiman and Suzune.

"Unfortunately, our wishes have not been granted."

"The school is not satisfied with the current distribution of scores that has been revealed. Instead, they have decided to proceed with the first month's behavioral assessment as planned."

"In other words, even though your actions exposed the class evaluation scores early, the school is merely treating it as an unforeseen circumstance."

Chabashira said.

"And they have a very poor impression of Class D."

Indeed.

Class D students destroyed a camera and were subsequently deducted points by the student council.

It is the student council's duty to deduct points, and they then publicized the results.

Literally speaking, the school would not consider whether the student did this intentionally, whether they had already discovered the school's true nature, and acted proactively.

"Are there any other messages?" Hachiman asked.

"Yes," Chabashira said. "The behavioral assessment exam has also been allowed to be released."

"The school is permitting teachers to list the items for the assessment."

"However, they will not be listing the specific point deductions."

Oh.

I see.

So, the plan has only partially failed.

Hachiman hadn't expected the school to do them any favors, so it was within his expectations that they would continue with the assessment.

Otherwise, he wouldn't have specifically asked Kushida to spread rumors.

The goal was for the rumors to spread, and for it to be confirmed that the school was this harsh, thereby forcing students to self-regulate for their own benefit.

However.

This school is quite interesting.

It's quite humane.

The school might not have been willing to end an assessment that was supposed to take a month.

But they did release the content of the assessment.

In other words, even though it was an unforeseen circumstance, I'm dealing with it as an unforeseen circumstance, and I've given you an open-book test, so can you do it?

Therefore, Hachiman felt that the chairman of the school must be someone who truly wanted to be involved in education.

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Although they had never met, Hachiman had formed an impression of the school's chairman.

He thought the person was likely quite open-minded.

Previously, Chabashira-sensei had tried to trick him into a trade and went to purchase permission from the school to exchange points for cash in advance. The school later sent him a message granting this permission.

And they imposed some restrictions.

This demonstrated that points were supreme; as long as you had points, you could buy anything.

However, it couldn't be completely over the line.

The school had flexibility, but it also had its limits.

And this was now being demonstrated.

Since the first-year class evaluation scores were forcibly exposed, they simply revealed the exam questions, turning a closed-book exam into an open-book one.

What was the point of doing this?

There were several.

On one hand, the scores that had been revealed so far aligned with the potential disparities that could emerge among the four classes after enrollment.

But there were still over twenty days left in the month, so whether they could maintain their advantage or avoid further point deductions became important.

Thus, they could observe the students' reactions more closely.

Hachiman felt that if he were the chairman, he would likely adopt a similar plan.

This would allow for more content to be assessed.

However, such a scenario was too far-fetched.

Hachiman didn't know any chairmen.

And he didn't think he had any path to such a position. Coming from Class D, earning more money was the priority.

Promoting Class D to Class A once would earn him 10 million yen from Chabashira-sensei.

And if other points can be obtained during this process, we can try for those too.

"Well then, I'll be going ahead," Sae Chabashira said.

Although she had received a text message from the school, she also needed to attend a meeting.

In other words, they needed to get on the same page about what could be told to students and what still needed to be kept under wraps.

The teachers were working hard too.

After Chabashira-sensei left, Hachiman and Horikita didn't linger either.

However.

"The plan remains the same," Hachiman said to Suzune Horikita as they walked down from the rooftop.

"The school decided to reveal the content of the behavioral assessment. This saves us trouble, otherwise we would have had to summarize and fabricate the specific content of the behavioral assessment for the classmates to follow."

"It's best that it's an open-book test now."

"But there's still one issue that needs to be dealt with, or rather, a major problem exclusive to the lower-ranked classes," Hachiman said.

"What do you mean?"

"Once Chabashira-sensei announces the school's rules, the situation where our class is deducted 50 points because I destroyed the cameras will definitely lead to everyone ganging up on me," Hachiman said.

"A way to quickly unite a group is to have a common enemy, but I don't really want to play that role for this class."

"And then..."

Hachiman paused. "This is where you come in, Horikita."

"..." Suzune.