Chapter 017: First-year Class C Zero Points? No, You Wrote it Wrong!
Despite her lofty attitude, Sakayanagi Arisu still confirmed what her little puppy was thinking.
"In other words, while you were queuing at the cafeteria for a takeout, you encountered a boy named Hikigaya Hachiman from First-year Class B, and you noticed that the points on his student ID amounted to as much as 1.5 million.
At the same time, you actually heard his inner voice, and from those thoughts, it can be confirmed that he knows everything about you," Sakayanagi Arisu said.
"Yes. If it were truly my imagination, then I'd have nothing to say, but I confirmed it—he didn't open his mouth at all, yet I heard his inner voice, and he completely caught me!" Kamuro still felt it was terrifying.
"Is that so?" Sakayanagi Arisu pondered.
While she felt it was unlikely for Kamuro-san to be the heroine of this world, judging by the other's tense and worried expression, this wasn't an act.
Then perhaps she really had encountered some supernatural phenomenon?
Yet her own puppy could encounter it while she couldn't? Was she actually not the heroine of this new world?
This left her somewhat dissatisfied, yet she also felt that if such a thing were true, it would become quite interesting.
Because... this was exactly the kind of interesting school life she was looking forward to, wasn't it?
"Then I will go meet him later," Sakayanagi said.
"You're going to see him?"
"It seems my previous deduction was correct; Class B has indeed realized the special nature of this school," Sakayanagi Arisu said.
"And I suspect Class B has replaced their class representative because of it. So this Hikitani... no, the name is a bit of a tongue-twister, Hikigaya-kun, should be someone recognized by Ichinose. Since he could accumulate so many points all at once and already holds such a large amount, he will definitely make a move. Therefore, we may need to update our evaluation of Class B."
Kamuro: "…"
"Let us wait and see." Sakayanagi Arisu gripped the black cane leaning beside her and slowly stood up. "I hope he can make school life a bit more interesting. After all, if the opponent performs excellently, I'll have even more fighting spirit."
Tch!
Kamuro was somewhat dissatisfied. If her weakness hadn't been caught by Sakayanagi, she would definitely support the Katsuragi Faction.
The Katsuragi Faction was at least steady, and their goal was to maintain Class A's status until graduation. That way, even if she was a poor student, she could still be a part of Class A and enter her desired university without exams or fees.
But Sakayanagi was different.
This person Sakayanagi didn't have much ambition for class competition. She said things like, "I came to this school in pursuit of excitement.
I hope the school life here can bring me pleasure."
Even now, she felt that Class B might have produced a powerful opponent; if the other party could demonstrate their strength, then she would be interested in battling them.
So Sakayanagi was completely playing around!
Since the leader's goal wasn't to maintain the status of Class A, Kamuro felt she couldn't be very loyal.
.
.
.
Kamuro couldn't be loyal, but Hikigaya was quite the man of action.
Time quickly arrived at the next morning.
Twenty minutes before the homeroom period.
Hikigaya arrived at the classroom early. Many students in Class B were "good kids," and now that they knew the truth of the school and that they were being tested on their code of conduct this month, they were naturally being very well-behaved; they had to eliminate any tardiness.
However...
"What are these scores?"
Ichinose noticed Hikigaya had written down some numbers for several classes in a small notebook on his desk.
First-year Class A: 940 points First-year Class B: 650 points First-year Class C: 490 points First-year Class D: 0 points
"Without any special external manipulation, these might be the evaluation scores for our four classes after this month ends—well, this can be changed—"
Hikigaya then made a modification to the 650 points for First-year Class B, adding 200 points to make it 850.
But feeling a bit overconfident afterward, he crossed out 40 points, leaving it at 810.
"To think the results would be like this... Class A is indeed formidable," Ichinose said.
"To have 940 points."
Since they already knew everyone's base points were 1,000, and Class A still had 940 at the end of the month, it meant they only lost 60 points—that was truly impressive.
"Yes. I learned yesterday that they pooled their money on the first day to buy information from their homeroom teacher and found out the contents of the exam. But even knowing the contents, they'll still lose some points."
That was the reason why Hikigaya subtracted another 40 points even though Class B also knew about the exam.
Knowing the items for which points are deducted allowed them to turn the tide and avoid losing 200 points, but since every student in the class was included in the scope of the inspection, some lapses would surely occur. Thus, a margin of 20 points every 10 days was necessary.
So if they did nothing and just followed the current pace, the conduct exam for the month would end with Class A at 940, Class B at 810, Class C at 490, and Class D at 0.
However...
Under Ichinose's puzzled gaze, Hikigaya changed the numbers again.
He crossed out the 490 points for First-year Class C.
He wrote down 0.
But...
0
Eh?
Class D gets 0 points, and Class C should get 0 points too?
"Since the students in the class believe in me and gave me their living expenses," Hikigaya said, "I have to perform some operations."
In the original story, Class C was an underestimated class.
Under the leadership of the Class C tyrant Ryuen Kakeru, if they hadn't encountered the protagonist Ayanokouji, they would definitely have been the most prominent group among the freshmen and the class with the best hope of reaching Class A.
But unfortunately, he did encounter him—and now, there was also his own existence.
Hikigaya didn't like doing risky things. Since Class C was very strong under Ryuen's control, he would first drag their lower limit down to 0.
Therefore.
For a risky class like Class C, it's best if they are cleared out along with Class D in the first month.