11. Everyone's Background is Not Ordinary!
Reality is a trash game!
Therefore, it inevitably adheres to rules such as: common players cannot defeat paying players, unlucky players and lucky players have different experiences, hardworking technical players cannot stop the deus ex machina of cheaters...
But everyone understood that regardless of how these people fought chaotically, there was still a type of existence that truly transcended all players—that was the permission dog with an official game background!
The family members of the officials who set the game rules personally entered the game.
It was one thing for them to be able to preview game information in advance, but they also frequently used administrator privileges to modify their own data.
Even if a cheater with heaven-defying skills and luck, despite a pile of debuffs, managed to defeat the opponent, you still had to worry if the opponent would become angry from embarrassment and directly call upon official power to ban your account.
Undoubtedly, in Aragaki Shun's eyes, Sakayanagi Arisu was this kind of troublesome permission dog.
The most troublesome thing was, she happened to be a student in the same grade as Aragaki Shun.
Even if he wanted to pretend not to see her and ignore her, it was impossible.
Moreover...
Aragaki Shun looked at several new messages on his personal panel—
[Achievement Unlocked: Single-handedly defeated four Advanced Nurturing High School clubs, Source Power +1.]
[Achievement Unlocked: Shattered Sakayanagi Arisu's genius fantasy, Source Power +1.]
[Source Power: 10→12 (Current efficiency: 3 wisps per month.)]
One could only say that there were truly many mines to dig on Sakayanagi Arisu.
Just breaking her defense once yielded a harvest comparable to the total influence gained from defeating the table tennis club, judo club, shogi club, and chess club combined.
This phenomenon wasn't particularly surprising in Aragaki Shun's eyes.
On one hand, as the daughter of the Advanced Nurturing High School chairman, the resources she could mobilize were indeed more than what the four clubs combined could muster.
On the other hand, the world was just that unfair.
Some people were born carrying far more Source Power than others; there was no use in being unconvinced.
Over these years, through Aragaki Shun's continuous attempts, although he hadn't fully understood the essence of Source Power, he could roughly determine that this thing was essentially a special origin widely present in all living beings.
It was related to the acquired influence of living beings, so those with higher status, more wealth, and greater fame carried more Source Power.
But this was only the normal pattern.
There was no shortage of examples in the world where people of humble status carried a large amount of Source Power.
However, these people often possessed certain special characteristics: either they were beautiful or handsome, had distinct personalities, experienced unfortunate fates, or had encountered various novel things that ordinary people wouldn't.
The commonalities among such people were hard to find.
Therefore, Aragaki Shun could only assume they possessed luck, could attract more attention from the world, and thus, even if their acquired influence was insufficient, they still had a vast amount of innate Source Power.
Aragaki Shun wasn't envious of this at all.
Luck wasn't necessarily good fortune, and even less so, good luck.
The world's attention wasn't necessarily a good thing; perhaps it just wanted to see how much more miserable their tragic lives could be.
In fact, since enrolling, Aragaki Shun had discovered that the Source Power carried by students at Advanced Nurturing High School was considerably higher than the average level outside.
But most of the students here were just ordinary, normal people.
Therefore, the extra Source Power they possessed should have come from changes in luck.
But this still didn't change the predicament of students in Classes C and D of each grade having insufficient points each month and often having to enjoy free set meals.
Aragaki Shun didn't need to worry about falling into such a situation.
But if he wanted to collect the abundant Source Power in Advanced Nurturing High, then leading Year 1 Class B to advance to Class A was a path worth trying.
After all, this school's grade competition revolved around Class A treatment.
And at such time, Sakayanagi Arisu, who was assigned to Year 1 Class A as the school's strongest connection, appeared quite an eyesore.
Of course, the trouble wasn't Sakayanagi Arisu, but the chairman behind her.
"...Limit the chairman's power? Do you think this is a simple matter?"
Compared to Shibata Sō, who was dumbstruck and speechless after Aragaki Shun proposed this suggestion, Kanzaki Ryuuji merely frowned in thought for a moment before looking at Aragaki Shun with some curiosity.
"Just limiting his power to interfere with the first-year exams, not replacing the chairman. What difficulty is there in that?"
Aragaki Shun nonchalantly said words that would be considered dream talk by most people in this school.
However, Kanzaki Ryuuji didn't think he was bragging, but rather thoughtfully raised a question:
"Aragaki family, so it's the former Aragaki councilor, current Aragaki legislator's family?"
"Then Kanzaki, your surname is the Kanzaki of Kanzaki Heavy Industries?"
Aragaki Shun directly asked back.
Then the two looked at each other, each confirming the guess in their hearts.
"Before enrolling, my foster father introduced me to a director of the Advanced Nurturing High board of directors, and also gave me a list of the school's senior management, which included the contact information of the chairman, principal, and many directors."
To study at a closed school for three years, unable to communicate with family for three years, if there wasn't someone in the school to look after him, Aragaki Shun's foster parents would never have agreed to this.
Japan's population of over one hundred million sounded like a lot, but the upper echelons' circle was just that small.
Even if people hadn't met, they must have heard of each other.
If they wanted to find someone, they could definitely find a connection through their network.
Aragaki Shun hadn't started taking over the family business yet, so there was no need to inherit the previous generation's connections now.
Therefore, his knowledge of the Sakayanagi family, which established Advanced Nurturing High, and the Kanzaki family of Kanzaki Heavy Industries, was limited to having heard of them but not knowing them.
But just because he didn't know the Sakayanagi family didn't mean he couldn't interfere with Chairman Sakayanagi.
After all, the chairman was originally just a representative elected by the board of directors.
His power exceeded that of other directors, but if he performed poorly, he could also be impeached by the board.
Furthermore, Advanced Nurturing High was already special.
It was essentially a social experimental school created by certain people in Japan's upper echelons, equivalent to a political achievement specifically for show.
Therefore, the school was also under strong government supervision, and it wasn't a place where the chairman could do whatever he wanted.
Or rather, the various positions in this school were themselves equivalent to government official positions.
The Sakayanagi family could inherit the position of chairman by virtue of seniority, but other positions were also extensions of government functions and could not be arbitrarily controlled by the Sakayanagi family.
After all, due to its special nature, Advanced Nurturing High often had various children of dignitaries and tycoons attending.
To protect their own juniors' safety, everyone would definitely get involved.
In this situation, the chairman had to maintain a neutral, objective, and fair attitude.
His current blatant favoritism was, frankly, quite surprising.
Among the students he knew who had enrolled in Advanced Nurturing High so far, he and Kanzaki Ryuuji had extraordinary backgrounds, and he had also heard that the only son of the Kouenji conglomerate was here as well.
Chairman Sakayanagi's actions, was he trying to make everyone be study companions for the little princess of the Sakayanagi family?
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