23. A Harvest of Ten Million Points!
Kouenji Rokusuke naturally didn't need to care about the benefits of graduating from Class A.
After all, most students after graduating from Class A, even with the help of Advanced Nurturing High School, would probably just end up as high-level employees for these conglomerates and famous enterprises.
However, while Class A benefits meant nothing to him, not being able to graduate from Class A was, for Kouenji, not beautiful at all.
This not only stained his personal aesthetics, but could also affect his elders' evaluation of him.
After all, the heir of a dignified conglomerate, in a high school competition, actually couldn't compare to a group of ordinary students... it really didn't sound good.
If some unexpected situation were to further arise, leading to him being expelled and returning home in disgrace, that scene would be even more explosive.
Since ancient times, power has never been something you naturally possess just by sitting in that position.
Even the emperors of ancient times, who claimed to be Sons of Heaven and possessed innate legitimacy and divinity, were still sometimes controlled or even deposed by powerful ministers.
To issue orders, the prerequisite was that one's orders were listened to, and that the second-in-command, third-in-command, and so on, who were second only to oneself in status, would not deliberately cause trouble.
Therefore, after bidding farewell to Kouenji, although Aragaki Shun hadn't made more deals with him, he at least understood that the other party still had some thoughts about Class A.
It was impossible to expect Kouenji Rokusuke to expend too much energy participating in class competition, but if he could accumulate a large number of personal points conveniently, he wouldn't mind moving around a bit.
Finally, there was a bottom line: he couldn't be dragged down and expelled by that group of defective products in Class D, otherwise it would definitely become an unforgettable dark history in his life.
However, this point was also the same for Aragaki Shun himself.
Graduating from Class A didn't add points, not graduating from Class A would deduct points.
If he were expelled by someone, it would cause a huge stir in his circle of acquaintances.
He didn't know how many people would secretly mutter, even if they didn't say it outwardly.
"Is there anything else we need to do now?"
At the restaurant entrance, watching Kouenji's departing figure, Kanzaki Ryuuji asked Aragaki Shun with some uncertainty.
Just now, Aragaki Shun and Kouenji Rokusuke had already contacted their respective connections in the Advanced Nurturing High board of directors by phone.
He was the only one left who hadn't done anything.
"If there's something to do, then do it. If there's nothing, then naturally, go back to the dormitory and rest."
Aragaki Shun said nonchalantly: "The board of directors needs to negotiate with Chairman Sakayanagi, it will always take some time. After they make a decision, then it will be your turn to communicate with the chairman."
So the young man patted Kanzaki's shoulder.
Seeing there was still some time after dinner, he went to the library to supplement his knowledge.
His golden finger's application required understanding the principles of more things to save Source Power.
So, the second day of school passed just like that.
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Starting from the third day of school, the school's management remained as lenient as ever, and teachers never dragged out their classes.
In the eyes of the Class C and Class D students who didn't know the truth, this place was no different from a dream paradise.
It seemed that for this first month, apart from the code of conduct examination, the school would not arrange any other special operations.
Therefore, Aragaki Shun temporarily stopped causing trouble.
After entrusting the class discipline management to Kanzaki Ryuuji and Ichinose Honami, the young man's school life gradually became regular.
Every day's life began with an early morning run, followed by a day of disciplined classes.
After school dismissed at 3 PM, he would randomly pull a few classmates who were free from the class to boost his presence, and then it was time to go to the club building to challenge various clubs.
Baseball club, soccer club, tennis club, judo club, archery club... as long as it was a club suitable for competitive gambling, the young man, who had already made a name for himself among the senior students, wouldn't mind going to test their mettle.
And as Aragaki Shun challenged more and more clubs, and each time won a great victory, the later clubs gradually learned: Year 1 Class B had produced a very arrogant but indeed exceptionally capable new student.
Gambling with him had a high probability of losing in one's own area of expertise.
However, although they had learned this from familiar classmates, there were always students who didn't believe in heresy, feeling that they had to teach such an arrogant junior a lesson.
Otherwise, if they didn't even dare to accept a challenge when someone came to their club, the seniors' prestige would surely be completely lost.
The subsequent results were obvious.
Although the seniors' strength wasn't particularly strong, the personal points they had accumulated for at least a year, or at most two years, were still quite abundant.
Especially a certain confident blond who wanted to stand up for his underlings, directly threw three million personal points on the track and field, wanting to win back all the points taken from the second-year seniors in one go.
Aragaki Shun, while lamenting the blond senior's generosity, unceremoniously added one point each to strength, constitution, and agility, and joyfully accepted this gift from nature.
Unfortunately, the number of clubs at Advanced Nurturing High School suitable for challenging was ultimately limited.
These days of easily earning points quickly came to an end.
After sweeping through all the seniors willing to gamble with him, Aragaki Shun had to change his daily routine again, dedicating more of his after-school time to expanding his knowledge base in the library.
In this regular school life, Aragaki Shun, by stepping on numerous clubs to rise, spread his fame throughout the entire school, known by all teachers and students, in the quickest way possible.
Time quickly arrived at Tuesday night of the second week of school.
On this day, the young man had just returned from the library.
After playing on his phone for a while and preparing to rest, a long-awaited phone call finally brought the news he wanted.
Aragaki Shun's lips curled up, and he decisively answered the call from the number noted as [Director Kanda] on his phone.
"Good evening, Director Kanda. I wonder if you have good news for me today?"
"Hahaha, Shun-kun, you've caused quite a stir on school these past few days. Even we members of the board of directors have heard about someone winning nearly ten million personal points from clubs in the first month of school."
"It's alright. As an ordinary Class B student, I always have to save some personal points for myself. Otherwise, it will be difficult to resist the pressure from Class A later on."
"Cough~ Cough cough~ I don't think anyone in this year's Class A has the strength to pressure you."
"Oh, really not?"
Aragaki Shun asked back.
Clearly, the other party also knew what he meant, so he directly made a guarantee—
"At least after tonight, definitely not!"
"The board of directors is also somewhat dissatisfied with Chairman Sakayanagi's actions. However, the class assignments have already been completed and cannot be adjusted further."
"After discussion by the board of directors, the following resolutions are now made..."
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