The mere thought of Sae Chabashira, the homeroom teacher of Class D, filled Chie Hoshinomiya's heart with an unstoppable irritation and anger.
Chie Hoshinomiya and Sae Chabashira had once been students at the Advanced Nurturing High School. Thirteen terms ago, they too belonged to Year 1, Class D. After three years of hard work, they had successfully climbed from Year 1, Class D to Year 3, Class B.
They were only a single step away from Year 1, Class A.
At the time, they only needed to make one correct choice to successfully lead their entire class to become Year 1, Class A, creating a legend that had never been achieved since the school's founding.
But in the end, due to Sae Chabashira's indecisiveness, their efforts ended in failure.
For so many years, Chie Hoshinomiya had held a grudge over this matter. As Sae Chabashira's 'best friend,' upon learning that Chabashira had come to work at this academy, she had immediately followed suit.
Chie Hoshinomiya knew what Sae Chabashira was thinking. Therefore, Chie Hoshinomiya wanted Sae Chabashira to stay put in her position in Year 1, Class D forever!
Because Sae Chabashira deserved to be trash from Class D!
"However, you'll have to discuss the contents of the agreement yourselves, okay?"
"By the way, which class is this student who wants to sign an agreement with our Little Honami from?"
Chie Hoshinomiya's inner turmoil did not cause any cracks in her expression management.
Looking at the three people before her, Chie Hoshinomiya's attention fell on Natsuki Subaru. She had no impression of him; he wasn't one of the more outstanding students among this year's first-years.
"Natsuki Subaru, Year 1, Class D."
'She's the same type as Kikyō Kushida.'
Natsuki Subaru looked at Chie Hoshinomiya and gave a faint smile.
Although there were some specific differences, the feeling Chie Hoshinomiya was currently giving off was not much different from Kikyō Kushida's.
"Ehhh~~~~"
"You're actually from Year 1, Class D?"
After hearing Natsuki Subaru's reply, Chie Hoshinomiya's pupils contracted sharply.
Compared to the previous two years, Chie Hoshinomiya was paying much more attention to this year's cohort, because she knew something: Sae Chabashira had secretly pulled some strings for this year's Year 1, Class D.
Was this Natsuki Subaru before her the person who had caused Sae Chabashira to change?
Looking at Natsuki Subaru, Chie Hoshinomiya's thoughts raced wildly.
"It seems Natsuki Subaru-kun is truly and unexpectedly quite excellent, isn't he?"
"Well then, Little Honami, what kind of agreement are you planning to sign? You can show it to your teacher now."
The smile on Chie Hoshinomiya's face did not change in the slightest.
"Can it really be done like this?"
Honami Ichinose looked a little surprised, then simply explained her earlier conversation with Natsuki Subaru to Chie Hoshinomiya.
She also took out the agreement she had printed on the way.
On the way there, Honami Ichinose had already discussed the matter with her classmates via the student terminal. No one had any objections to the five hundred thousand points Natsuki Subaru had mentioned.
As long as it was confirmed that what Natsuki Subaru said was true and that he could be held responsible for his words, five hundred thousand points was nothing. It would only require each person to contribute twelve thousand five hundred points.
Unlike Class D, who had already spent most of their personal points by the second day of school, having to fork over another twelve thousand five hundred points would be the death of them.
Class B, on the other hand, had barely touched their personal points.
"You've even prepared the agreement already?"
"Willing to disclose our school's 'truth' for a mere five hundred thousand personal points."
Chie Hoshinomiya looked at the contents of the agreement, her thoughts churning wildly.
Without a doubt, if before she had only suspected Natsuki Subaru, now, after seeing the specific contents of the agreement, Chie Hoshinomiya believed without a shadow of a doubt that Natsuki Subaru was the greatest trump card for this year's Class D, for her good 'best friend' Sae Chabashira!
Although she didn't know why Natsuki Subaru would trade away such an important discovery, Chie Hoshinomiya thought this was a great thing. It meant that Natsuki Subaru's position was not firm!
"What a bargain."
Chie Hoshinomiya did her best to use words like 'mere' and 'bargain' to frantically signal Honami Ichinose and Ryūji Kanzaki, hinting for them to sign the agreement as soon as possible.
Aside from targeting Sae Chabashira, Chie Hoshinomiya herself was not without the desire to lead Class B in a counterattack to become Class A.
Sae Chabashira's students had ended up as Class D for two consecutive years. Hadn't Chie Hoshinomiya also been the homeroom teacher for Class B for two years with nothing to show for it?
If possible, Chie Hoshinomiya also wanted to lead the little darlings of Class B to become Class A.
"I see."
"Since there's no problem with the agreement, then, Natsuki-kun, let's sign it directly with Hoshinomiya-sensei as our witness."
Honami Ichinose understood the meaning Chie Hoshinomiya was conveying.
Just now, all the students of Year 1, Class B had transferred fifty thousand personal points each to Honami Ichinose. Adding that to the two hundred thousand in class funds already collected, Honami Ichinose now possessed over two million two hundred thousand personal points.
Everyone trusted Honami Ichinose, letting her act freely.
No one was a fool, except for that Class D of the first years, which was teeming with prodigies.
Normally, even if the subsequent transaction failed, once Year 1, Class B became aware of the keywords Natsuki Subaru had mentioned—'meritocracy'—and then sent someone to observe carefully for a few days, they would be able to figure out most of it.
After learning what Honami Ichinose had told them, the students of Year 1, Class B quickly realized one thing: weren't each class's personal points also a part of their 'strength'?
And so, each person had transferred another fifty thousand points to Honami Ichinose.
Since they had decided to trust Honami Ichinose, they would naturally give her their greatest support without hesitation.
The rest, naturally, became simple.
Natsuki Subaru and Honami Ichinose signed the agreement under Chie Hoshinomiya's witness and he told Honami Ichinose the information and analysis he knew.
The point rankings in the second and third-year areas, as well as the fact that some classes had fewer than 40 students, and so on.
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