Classroom of the Elite: Starting from Airi, Unlocking Countless Skills

Kōdo Ikusei Senior High School. A 'paradise' surrounded by three-meter-high walls, completely isolated from the outside world. Each month, students receive personal points equivalent to 100,000 yen, the campus facilities are luxurious to the extreme, and nearly 100% of graduates find employment. But beneath this glossy surface lies a set of cold, ruthless rules. Class battles, point competition—the victors ascend to Class A, while the losers fall into the abyss. Every student has a price tag.

Kanzaki Tōru, a new student in Class D. Average grades, ordinary physical ability, his only strength is a keener insight into people's hearts than his peers. On the first day of school, on the bus. He met a girl desperately pulling down her cap, hiding herself in a corner—Sakura Airi. Quiet, with a faint presence, as if deliberately erasing herself from the crowd. But deep in her eyes, Kanzaki Tōru saw something very familiar to him: anxiety about this world, and a stubborn determination to survive. At that moment, he reached out his hand to her.

From the truth behind the Sudō fight incident, to the secret battle of the Benefactor Exam, to the strategy on the deserted island—one specially designed exam after another pushed Class D to the edge of the cliff time and again. Conspiracies and calculations, betrayals and alliances. In this school where strength is everything, there are no absolute enemies, nor eternal friends. And the only thing Kanzaki Tōru is certain of is this—he will protect those worth protecting, and then, climb up over the corpses of his opponents. Starting from Sakura Airi. And then, he will have more companions.