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The morning sunlight streamed into the classroom through the curtains. As Akira had just sat down at his desk, his retina promptly displayed today's information at exactly eight o'clock.
[1. Nagumo Miyabi is currently the student with the most private points in the entire school.]
[2. Kushida Kikyo and Horikita Suzune are classmates from the same junior high school.]
[3. Chabashira Sae was once a Class D student at Advanced Nurturing High School. Due to a special exam before high school graduation, she narrowly lost to Class A and ultimately graduated with a Class B record.]
Akira scrutinized each piece of information.
The first piece of information confirmed the previous hints from Chabashira and the reminder from the upperclassman Sato.
This second-year, Nagumo, could actually overwhelm all third-year students in private points. His money-making ability was truly astonishing.
Akira secretly estimated that he had at least fifty million points in his account, possibly even more.
This made him think of the current Student Council President, Horikita Manabu.
Sure enough, the president's points couldn't compare to Nagumo's.
He remembered that the last time the two of them cooperated, he proactively offered a thirty percent cut, but Horikita declined politely.
According to the upperclassman, President Horikita also frequently sponsored Class D students who had no points.
One could only say that the Student Council President's focus was not on points at all.
Akira's gaze moved back and forth between the second and third pieces of information, his brow unconsciously furrowing.
Kushida and Horikita were actually junior high classmates?
These two girls with vastly different personalities actually had such a connection? The information didn't specify they were in the same class, so it was very likely they were just in the same school but different classes.
In that case, it made sense that they didn't know each other.
To be precise! It's truly possible that Horikita didn't know Kushida.
As for whether Kushida knew Horikita, that still required a question mark.
However... if there was an opportunity, he could try to ask indirectly.
He just didn't know which junior high school they graduated from.
When his gaze swept to the third piece of information, Akira almost jumped out of his seat.
What? Chabashira was from Class D? And almost graduated from Class A?
He'd never imagined that the always-stern homeroom teacher was also a graduate of this school, nor did he expect her to have been so close to Class A.
In other words...
Akira quickly sorted out his thoughts.
She fell short in the final special exam of her third year?
This discovery gave him a new understanding of Chabashira.
He remembered that Hoshinomiya had inadvertently mentioned that she and Chabashira had been best friends since high school.
Now, she and Hoshinomiya, these two best friends, returned to their alma mater to teach after graduation, and both taught first-year classes—this behind-the-scenes situation was probably not as simple as mere coincidence.
'Everyone seems to have quite a lot of secrets! Could it be that they all have some unspeakable dark history?!'
Akira thought silently.
During the break of the third period in the morning, Akira's phone suddenly vibrated.
He pulled out his phone and saw two messages from Kamuro on the screen:
{Are my shoes with you?!}
{You didn't do anything weird, did you?!}
Akira stared at the screen, his mouth twitching involuntarily. He, of course, understood what she meant by "weird things."
"What does she take me for...?" he silently grumbled in his heart.
His fingers quickly tapped a reply on the screen:
{I didn't do anything! By the way, your shoes aren't with me anymore.}
As soon as the message was sent, she replied instantly:
{You didn't throw them away, did you?!}
Akira sighed and continued typing:
{No, I gave them to the female staff at the dorm front desk! Just give your name and pick them up then!}
Actually, after Kamuro left, he immediately carefully packed the handmade shoes into their box and handed them over to the dorm front desk, untouched.
A moment later, his phone vibrated again:
{Good, you know what's good for you... I'll go check after school.}
Kamuro's messages kept popping up:
{Last time, your unauthorized actions completely messed up the rhythm of my plan. I still hadn't finished what I wanted to say last time! Listen carefully.}
{In short, your primary goal right now is to diligently accumulate 20 million private points.}
Akira raised an eyebrow, his fingertips lightly tapping the screen.
Coincidentally, this was indeed his most important goal at the moment.
To some extent, they were on the same page.
{I understand.}
She quickly sent another long message:
{Of course, you definitely won't be able to accumulate 20 million by yourself! But, accumulate as much as you can! You must perform well in these next few months; Class A will be watching your activity. Maybe if you're lucky, other classes will value your abilities and be willing to buy you over with points!}
{Be prepared to endure a few more months! Such a good thing can't happen immediately. After all, 20 million is no small sum for any class.}
The last message carried a clear sense of urgency:
{Alright, I'm too lazy to explain more to you. In short, just do as I say and you won't go wrong.}
Akira looked at his phone screen, then thoughtfully put it away.
'So that's it! Is one of Class A's plans to use twenty million points to buy talents from other classes?'
He figured out the meaning behind her words almost instantly.
That sentence—your performance, Class A will be watching—actually already gave it away.
Twenty million points for an individual is undoubtedly a huge sum that's difficult to accumulate.
But for a class—especially the top Class A—it's not so tricky.
Even if they only take out two million each month, they can gather twenty million in ten months.
He hadn't expected that Class A, upon learning the news that "twenty million points can transfer classes," would actually come up with the idea of "buying people."
Upon closer examination, this idea indeed had room for operation: buying talents could both strengthen their own class's power and directly weaken the strength of other classes.
With this give and take, if they could poach key figures from other classes, the opposing class would essentially be directly crushed, with no competitiveness left.
If I can't beat you, can't I just buy you?
For example, if there were enough points, they could even spend eight hundred million points to "buy" an entire class—this would be tantamount to directly turning opponents into their own people.
'It's probably Katsuragi's idea.'
Akira didn't think this was a method Sakayanagi would come up with.
After all, her persona never included such a team-oriented thinking pattern.