22. Kouenji's Reason for Being Assigned to Class D!
For the sake of his sickly daughter's physical and mental health, the chairman deliberately arranged Sakayanagi Arisu into the most excellent Class A of the first year.
Fearing that other young people with extraordinary backgrounds might not give his daughter face, he assigned Aragaki Shun, Kanzaki Ryuuji, and Kouenji Rokusuke to other classes.
This was Aragaki Shun's secret speculation about Chairman Sakayanagi's psychology.
Although it sounded a bit like a conspiracy theory, he had never trusted the character of such upper-class people much.
Moreover, he had also heard that there was a senior in the second year whose personality and background were similar to Kouenji Rokusuke's.
Her name was Kiryuuin Fuuka, and she was assigned to Class A when she enrolled last year.
Their situations were similar, yet they were assigned to Class A and Class D respectively.
He couldn't help but suspect that the difference lay in the chairman's daughter being in Year 1 Class A.
"Kouenji, did you offend the chairman? He directly assigned you to Class D. Kanzaki and I at least got to stay in Class B."
Aragaki Shun playfully looked at the blond-haired man who prided himself on his unparalleled beauty, genuinely curious about the reason he was assigned to Class D.
To become the heir of a conglomerate, one must definitely possess basic abilities.
Otherwise, even if he were the only son of the conglomerate's head, it would be unlikely for him to be recognized as the heir.
After all, a conglomerate itself was a monopolistic capital group formed with a large family at its core, combined with relatives and close kin.
Since it was a large family, there were definitely more members than just the head's lineage.
If the head's only son were truly useless, then they could just replace him with a more suitable person from the family.
Even if the entire family had few descendants, as long as there was still a daughter, it was acceptable to select a capable young manager of appropriate age from the enterprise's most promising executives to be an adopted son-in-law.
After all, many enterprises in Japan endorsed the philosophy of "rather pass the inheritance to an outsider than to an incompetent biological son."
Some conglomerate heads even publicly stated they preferred daughters over sons.
Because with a daughter, he could proactively choose the son he wanted.
"That's truly an unbeautiful question."
Kouenji Rokusuke was clearly vexed by Aragaki Shun's teasing.
However, even so, he didn't directly ignore the young man's question, but forced himself to recall.
Although he always acted self-willed externally, when interacting with people of the same level, he was still willing to be somewhat polite.
"I don't think I've offended that chairman at any time. If there were no accidents, it should have been that interviewer back then who assigned me to Class D."
Kouenji only didn't care about outside opinions, but he could still easily observe what attitude others had towards him.
Back then, that interviewer's displeasure was particularly obvious.
"What kind of interviewer has such confidence?"
Aragaki Shun's curiosity, far from being satisfied, intensified.
One must know, he had previously inquired with Hoshinomiya Chie.
Since the establishment of Advanced Nurturing High School, there had never been a record of Class D becoming Class A.
As for the other path of accumulating twenty million personal points through personal ability to transfer classes, it had so far only existed in theory.
In other words, according to past experience, in that interviewer's eyes, Kouenji Rokusuke was definitely destined to languish in Class D and could not graduate from Class A.
Offending a conglomerate heir like this, wasn't he afraid that three years later, Kouenji Rokusuke would come out and retaliate against him?
"..."
This time, Kouenji didn't pay any more attention to Aragaki Shun, just preoccupied himself with looking in the mirror.
Alright, it seemed the other party was either a tentacle sent by the government to Advanced Nurturing High, or a close relative of Chairman Sakayanagi.
Since Kouenji Rokusuke didn't want to say, Aragaki Shun couldn't force him, so he changed the subject.
"Later, after the board of directors makes a decision, Kanzaki will go and have a discussion with Chairman Sakayanagi. Do you need help getting reasonable compensation?"
Aragaki Shun pointed to Kanzaki Ryuuji beside him, hinting that the latter's group had deeper connections with the Sakayanagi family, and he could let him first communicate with Chairman Sakayanagi about compensation.
Kouenji Rokusuke flicked his shoulder-length golden hair.
He originally wanted to refuse, but after thinking about it, he still nodded and accepted this suggestion.
Although it wasn't necessary, owing a small favor to the adopted son of the Aragaki family and the heir of Kanzaki Heavy Industries here was also a reasonable way to establish connections.
After all, although the Kouenji conglomerate had considerable power in Japanese, it was far from being invincible.
There were quite a few groups in this country that could be called conglomerates, with more than a dozen well-known ones.
Adding to that the various political parties, local powerful families, educational cliques, feudal remnants, and representatives of other strong nations... all in all, the Kouenji conglomerate could hardly secure a top position in high society.
Among the two people in front of him, Kanzaki Ryuuji was alright.
In the field of financial capital, the Kouenji conglomerate surpassed Kanzaki Heavy Industries by a considerable margin.
But the Aragaki family, represented by Aragaki Shun, possessed political power that the Kouenji conglomerate could not compare to.
Or rather, in this aspect, they couldn't even compare to the Sakayanagi family that controlled Advanced Nurturing High.
In any case, if a conglomerate wanted to expand its influence and convert its vast wealth into corresponding status, it had to unite with political forces.
Otherwise, having only money, to the government agencies that controlled violence, was merely a fat sheep waiting to be slaughtered.
Befriending the heir of the Aragaki family now would certainly do no harm.
"Then please report to the chairman for me. Next, the Ladies and Gentlemen of the senior years might pay some points to admire my beauty."
After knowing the truth about this school, Kouenji Rokusuke was no longer interested in the so-called class competition.
This was not only because his personal experience in the past two days in Class D had been so terrible that he directly extinguished the idea of leading the class for fun.
It was also because before coming to school, he had already exposed his information on his family enterprise's official website.
This way, as long as he made some promises to the third-year seniors who were about to graduate, he could easily trade for a large number of personal points from them.
As long as he wanted, he could accumulate twenty million personal points in a few days and completely clear this school, with no challenge whatsoever.
"Using cash to directly trade for personal points to go solo? I'm now somewhat curious how magical your Class D is."
Aragaki Shun understood Kouenji's thoughts, but he just didn't understand how bad Year 1 Class D was that it would make him lose all ideas.
As for whether the chairman would agree to Kouenji's approach, that was not a concern.
Under normal circumstances, there was never a shortage of children from powerful families among the students enrolling in Advanced Nurturing High.
This obvious loophole should have been plugged long ago, otherwise, no student would have succeeded in advancing classes with twenty million personal points to date.
However, now because the chairman might be showing favoritism, and had assigned the conglomerate's only son to Class D, which had never successfully competed in the past, under these special circumstances, the school's senior management should tacitly allow Kouenji to use this loophole.
It couldn't be that they would really let the heir of the Kouenji conglomerate get stuck in that Class D cesspool, right?
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