The Teacher's Meritocracy Classroom Chapter 5

He opened his phone and took a picture.

It wasn't that he liked doing such things, but he wanted to send a photo to his sister, Komachi.

To let her know he had settled in, and also to brag a little about how good his living conditions were.

However.

[Message failed to send].

???

Hachiman then walked over to the balcony and held up his phone.

Then he checked his phone screen again.

[Message failed to send].

"Beep!"

And Hachiman walked outside his room.

[Message failed to send]

"..."

Alright.

He understood.

So this was what full boarding meant.

Not only were students required to board for all three years, but contact with the outside world was also cut off.

However, besides the student ID that Chabashira-sensei had used as an example, another function pre-installed on the school's original software was the school forum.

It was managed by the student council.

Hachiman opened the school forum and found that he needed to log in with his ID.

It seemed to require real names.

However, the content on it was a bit messy.

[The new students have arrived this year, and the shop where I work part-time is overwhelmed.] This was from someone who seemed to be a shop employee.

[Sigh, these few days every year are especially tough. I really want a holiday, but I still have 4 years left on my contract.] This was also from a shop employee.

It could be confirmed that the shop employees were also unable to leave the school freely and seemed to be required to complete a certain number of years of service.

[Please use the internet civilly. The internet connects you and me, and civilized health depends on everyone.] This was likely a declaration from the student council.

[The Art Club is recruiting members. Students who pass and whose works are excellent can receive point rewards.] This was from a senior student.

The conditions seemed good.

And it was also a way to earn points.

However.

Hachiman scrolled down the forum interface and suddenly stopped.

A new post had caught his attention.

[Chess Tournament, entry fee 100,000, best of three, but challengers who win even one match will receive a prize of 1,000,000 points.] This was from an ordinary student.

However, the title was quite bold.

1,000,000 points, what kind of rich woman was this?

Hachiman clicked on it.

He found that the poster also used their real name.

And her name was Arisu Sakayanagi.

The pronunciation of the name was probably Alice, Alice, hmm... the name sounded nice.

However, Hachiman wasn't someone who cared much about looks or voices.

He thought girls who were petite were also very cute.

And when he clicked on this post, he found that some students had replied, saying the other party was too proud and ostentatious.

And that the other party was just a freshman.

So, could he check her class?

Hachiman then clicked on the information for [Arisu Sakayanagi], who had a chess piece as her profile picture.

[ID14520, Real name verified, Identity: Class A, First Year, Arisu Sakayanagi]

Class A, First Year?

So she was also a freshman.

Did the points that students in Class A had initially differ from those in Class D?

Hachiman replied, "[Are your starting points also 100,000?]"

But after waiting for two minutes, he received no reply.

At this point, it seemed someone had started to make a move.

They began asking about the challenge location, preparing to give this overconfident freshman a taste of the upperclassmen's power.

However, the reply they received was to head to the Chess Club.

The venue there could be used at any time.

This was because the challenger had already completed a "kicking out" of the school's Chess Club.

That's pretty impressive, huh?

I kind of want to watch the show.

It was just that...

Hachiman continued to gather information.

"[The free mountain vegetable set at the fifth window in the cafeteria doesn't seem that bad]" These were for the regular students.

And after clicking on the post, someone immediately replied.

"Are you sure? The mountain vegetable set I ate from window 9 today was disgustingly bad."

"Help me queue up, I'm going to get a portion too."

"Is there still food there? Help me get a portion too."

"..."

And when checking the information of the students who replied.

It was discovered that they were from Class D, Second Year; Class C, Third Year; and Class D, Third Year.

This is making me a little uneasy.

Because while anyone could take free things...

There was now a scramble for them.

Are these upperclassmen from the second and third years... living that miserably?

Ten minutes later.

Hachiman quickly finished reading the first two pages of the forum.

Then he quietly analyzed the situation.

It seemed that not only students, but also the student council and people from the shopping street could log in.

Information could be collected from here.

However, the collected information was messy and needed to be organized.

Speaking of collecting information, Hachiman didn't directly go to the shopping street to check if the points in everyone's student IDs could be directly used as money.

This was because students in the class group had already verified it.

A student had gone to the shopping street and directly purchased an item.

Payment using their student ID was successful.

And there was no limit on large purchases; buying a game console for 50,000 points was also possible.

This is truly wonderful.

Or rather, it's a little bit terrible.

Why would someone directly spend 50,000 points to buy a game console?

Don't they have any sense of security or crisis awareness?

If they looked at the forum a bit more, they would see the senior students from Class D eating disgusting set meals. Why had they fallen to the point of eating bad food?

However, Hachiman's luck was still quite good.

He noticed that the students in this class group seemed to be incomplete.

When Hirata invited him to join, the interface at the top of the group showed 25 members, meaning only 25 students had joined so far.

But then again, it had only been half a day since school started, and 25 students had already joined, which meant that people who were good at socializing were truly amazing.

After familiarizing himself with the dormitory again, Hachiman also prepared to go out shopping.

On one hand, he learned that the points looked like a lot, but judging from the behavior of the seniors, it seemed that the situations for Class C and Class D would generally become very bad.

So perhaps he needed to be frugal.

In that case, he also needed to start working on the tasks assigned by Chabashira-sensei.

The 200,000 reward for completing her mission was quite tempting.

It was just that.

Hachiman stood by the elevator doors, waiting. The elevator, descending from above, automatically opened.

He found a girl already inside.

She had short, golden hair, moist, wine-red pupils, and a smooth face.

Her lips also had a dewy sheen.

She was a rather cute girl.

Hachiman recognized this girl because she was the second person to stand up and introduce herself during Hirata's self-introduction event.

And Hachiman remembered what she had said.

Her name was Kikyo Kushida, and she seemed to want to be friends with everyone.

If it wasn't ambition, then she must have strong social skills.

"You are..." The girl seemed to find Hachiman familiar.

But Hachiman was thinking about how his own self-introduction had been interrupted.

So it was normal for him not to be known.

"You're Hikigaya Hachiman, aren't you?" the girl said instead. "Chabashira-sensei came in then, and you didn't finish your introduction, but I remember you saying you were from Chiba."

"Chiba, my friend's hometown is also in Chiba. The scenery in Chiba is very beautiful, and many TV dramas are filmed around Makuhari Seaside." This Kushida girl seemed quite talkative.

Eh!

Did that mean she remembered his incomplete self-introduction?

"Hey, Hikigaya-kun, can you tell me about Chiba in the future?" Kushida asked, looking at him with her cute, moist eyes.