Chapter 96: The Sadistic Beauty of a Homeroom Teacher!
That was right!
If class points could be deducted, then there should also be a way to increase them!
Chabashira Sae looked at Karuizawa Kei in slight surprise.
According to Kei's student file, she was not especially perceptive. She should not have noticed that point on her own.
"There are indeed ways to increase class points," Chabashira said slowly.
"What are they?!"
The students of Class D looked at Chabashira with hope and desperation.
Last month, they had comfortably spent one hundred thousand points. They truly did not want to live a miserable life without points from now on.
"According to school regulations, I cannot tell you."
Chabashira answered coldly, "It is like when you enter society and apply for a job. The HR staff conducting the interview will not tell you the detailed review system or requirements."
Unable to get a clear answer from Chabashira, the students of Class D deflated.
Chabashira showed a mocking smile. "While I'm at it, I'll tell you one of the few good things."
Good thing?
"Your class points are already zero anyway."
"So no matter how late you arrive, how early you leave, how much class you skip, or how much you sleep, there are no class points left to deduct."
"In other words, no matter what you do, you won't affect your class points."
Horikita Suzune immediately frowned.
Chabashira's words would only make the Class D students give up even harder and stop following discipline.
But since their class points were already zero, whether the students of Class D followed discipline or not no longer mattered.
Yuto laughed softly.
From an ordinary person's perspective, Chabashira's words sounded like she was encouraging Class D to rot.
But Yuto understood another meaning.
Those with nothing to lose feared nothing.
Having zero class points was certainly despairing. But if used properly, it could instead become a weapon for Class D.
For example, Class D had no class points left to lose.
They could disrupt other classes during lessons and force those classes to transfer class points or personal points.
As long as the school ignored it, Class D, with zero class points, could use such despicable methods to obtain benefits from other classes.
However, Yuto did not intend to say such a vile method out loud.
He had not fallen that low.
Besides, the students of Class D probably did not have the courage or shamelessness to do such a thing.
If it were Class C's delinquent, Ryuen Kakeru, he might actually do it.
After all, he was an unruly delinquent.
While the students of Class D were disappointed and discouraged by Chabashira's answer, Kei shook her shining honey-colored hair and spoke loudly.
"Everyone, don't lose heart!"
"Even if Chabashira-sensei can't tell us how to increase class points, we can ask the upperclassmen!"
That was right!
They could ask the upperclassmen!
How had they forgotten that good method Yuto had mentioned?
The second- and third-years had already spent two or three years in this school.
They must know a lot of information related to class points.
So even if Chabashira could not reveal anything because of school rules, they could obtain information from the seniors.
Kikyo naturally knew how to seize a chance to show her presence.
She stood up and promised everyone with full energy.
Her mature, well-developed figure was on full display as she beamed with energy.
"Leave this to me. I don't know many upperclassmen, but I get along well with the ones I do know."
"So I'll definitely find out how to increase class points from them!"
"As expected of Kikyo-chan! You're so reliable!"
"Then we'll leave it to you, Kikyo!"
"Mm. Everyone, please don't worry!"
Kei looked unhappily at Kikyo, who was smiling cheerfully.
As expected, she really disliked this love rival.
This was clearly the opportunity Yuto had given her to stand out.
"We don't need to ask the upperclassmen, right?"
"Yuto already said it at the start of last month. This school measures students by ability."
"So as long as we follow discipline, study properly, and do well on exams, our class points should increase!"
Yuto looked helplessly at Kei's back.
The note he gave her had never mentioned "studying properly and doing well on exams will increase class points."
Right now, Kei's dissatisfaction and jealousy toward Kikyo, plus her desire to let everyone know how amazing Yuto was, had temporarily knocked her reason offline.
Although Kei's words were somewhat disrupting Yuto's plan, he still accepted the feelings behind them.
"Kei, what I said last month was only my own guess."
"I don't know the exact details of class points, so we still need Kikyo to ask around," Yuto said.
"Guh..."
Kei let out a small whimper.
"Hehe."
Kikyo gave Yuto a bright smile from behind.
Yuto also returned a smile to this reliable helper.
"Are you all planning to earn class points through exams?" Chabashira Sae asked. "While that is indeed one way to increase them..."
Her words made good students like Yukimura Teruhiko look delighted.
Studying and exams were exactly what they were good at!
A contemptuous look appeared on Chabashira's mature face.
"However, I have no choice but to pour cold water on you."
Yuto had never seen this expression from Chabashira before.
That contemptuous, sadistic look was strangely alluring.
A few students found themselves inexplicably wishing they could be trampled under the boots of such a stunning teacher...
Chabashira turned around and posted one of the papers she had brought onto the blackboard, securing it with magnets.
The paper listed every student in Class D.
Beside each student's name was a number.
After posting the paper, Chabashira turned to face the students again.
Still wearing that contemptuous expression, she said, "These are the results of the last quiz. Look carefully and see how many fools are in this class."
"With results like these, you still want to earn class points through exams?"
Ranked first on the paper was Shimizu Yuto, with a perfect score of one hundred.
Second was Horikita Suzune.
Third was Yukimura Teruhiko.
What surprised Yuto most was fourth place.
Koenji Rokusuke was actually fourth.
His quiz score was even higher than Hirata Yosuke's.
Most of the students after that had scores around sixty.
Then came poor students like Ike Kanji and the others.
Sotomura Hideo, thirty-two points.
Ike Kanji, twenty-four points.
Yamauchi Haruki, twenty-one points.
And last was Sudo Ken, with an unbelievable fourteen points.
Although the quiz contained fifteen extremely difficult questions, the other questions were very simple.
More than half were multiple-choice.
Yet Sudo, that red-haired gorilla, had only scored this little.
Even random guessing should have earned more than fourteen points, right?
"After seeing these scores, do you still want to earn class points through exams?"
Chabashira looked coldly down at the students below.
"You should be thankful this was only a quiz, not a midterm or final."
"Otherwise, seven of you would have been expelled by the school."
Chabashira's words were like a bomb, directly blasting the Class D students into a daze.
"E-Expelled?! Chabashira-sensei, what does that mean?!"
"Oh, because of the school's rules and restrictions, there were some things I couldn't tell you before."
"Now that it's the second month, I can tell you about this school's cruelty."
"This school's rule is simple."
"If you fail even one subject on the midterm or final exam, you will be expelled."
"And each subject has a different passing score, because the passing line is fifty percent of the class's average score for that subject."
As she explained, Chabashira added up all the students' scores from this quiz, averaged them, and then divided the result by two.
The number she got was thirty-two.
"For this quiz, every student below thirty-two points would be a target for expulsion."
"Hah. To score so badly on such an easy quiz... You really are foolish," Chabashira mocked with full firepower.
Facing Chabashira's sarcasm, students with good scores like Yuto showed no particular reaction.
However, every student below thirty-two points turned pale.
A guilty look appeared on Kei's pretty face.
Her score was just above the thirty-two-point passing line.
She had almost become one of the failing idiots Chabashira mentioned.
'I'm glad I listened to Yuto and paid attention in class for a few days. Otherwise, I definitely would've failed this quiz...'
Kei thought with relief.
In the dead silence, Chabashira looked at Suzune.
"Horikita, before yesterday's quiz, didn't you ask me what I meant by 'for future reference'?"
"Yes."
Suzune said slowly, "Now I know what you meant. You were referring to this school's expulsion rule, weren't you?"
"That's right."
Chabashira nodded approvingly.
With her arms crossed, she said coldly, "Judging from the results of this simple quiz, you should understand why you were selected for Class D now, right?"
"The reason we were selected for Class D? Wasn't it random?" Yukimura asked in shock.
"Right. Class assignments are usually random, aren't they?"
"Schools outside may assign classes casually, but this school assigns classes according to student excellence."
"The most outstanding students go to Class A. Useless students are placed in Class D."
"To put it simply..." Chabashira said mercilessly, "Class D is where countless failures gather. All of you are the worst defective products."
Many students froze because they could not accept that fact.
Suzune clenched her teeth.
Last month, she had already learned from her brother, Horikita Manabu, that class assignments were not random.
They were most likely based on the conditions of each student.
At the same time, because Manabu had revealed that information to her without permission, he had transferred more than five million points to Yuto.
Although Suzune had always wanted to gather five million points and return them to her brother, she had no way to earn that many points.
Yuto looked subtly at Suzune, who had fiercely glared at him.
For no reason at all, why was this snow fox glaring at him?
"Assigning excellent students to Class A and stuffing every problem student into Class D. That is how this school divides classes," Chabashira said coldly.
Kei could not help objecting.
"That's wrong, Chabashira-sensei!"
"Yuto is very outstanding. Whether it's grades or anything else, even the club seniors have never beaten him!"
"According to what you just said, why would Yuto, who is better than anyone else, be assigned to Class D?"
Yuto's mouth twitched.
He had thought Kei would complain for herself.
He did not expect her to say something like that.
It was a little embarrassing.
"Exactly! Karuizawa-san is right!"
"So Class D isn't the worst class, and the students of Class D aren't the worst students!"
The students of Class D loudly agreed with Kei.
On one hand, they believed Yuto truly was so outstanding that no one could beat him.
On the other hand, they did not want to accept that they were defective products, useless students, and dead-last failures.
Amid the noisy objections from Class D, Chabashira looked at Yuto, who wore a troubled and helpless expression.
Her lips curved slightly.
That was right.
Why had such an outstanding brat been assigned to Class D?
Even now, Chabashira could not figure it out.
"Shimizu! Aren't you going to say something?"
Yukimura shouted at the calmly seated Yuto.
"You should also be angry about Class D being called the worst class, right?"
Yukimura was a good student who excelled at studying, and he took pride in his grades.
So he absolutely could not accept Class D being called the worst class.
He also could not accept the fact that he had been assigned to the worst class.
"Sigh."
Yuto stood up helplessly.
Perhaps because they realized Yuto was about to speak, the noisy Class D students immediately closed their mouths.
In the blink of an eye, the entire classroom became quiet.
Chabashira looked at Yuto with bright eyes.
This troublesome brat's prestige in the class really was terrifying.
He did not even need to speak.
The students would unconsciously quiet down and wait for him to talk.
"In truth, I am indeed dissatisfied with the school's evaluation of Class D."
"But no matter how dissatisfied we are, we cannot change the school's evaluation of Class D."
"So I plan to make Class D become Class A."
"I'll show the school that their evaluation of us was wrong, and that none of us should have been assigned to the bad class they imagined!"
Yuto declared it firmly.
Chabashira's lips curved.
This troublesome brat had begun guiding the Class D students toward aiming for Class A.
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