Chapter 181: June 1st Is Here!
"Shimizu, the announcement told me to go to the student council. Are you coming too?" Suzune asked.
"I'm not going. They didn't call me." Yuto grinned. "Or are you too scared to face your student council president brother alone, so you want me to come with you?"
"As if!"
Suzune glared at him, then the tsundere snow fox left the classroom by herself and headed toward the student council.
Kei looked at Yuto. "Why did the student council call them over?"
"What else would it be? Work. They probably want the three of them to put up the announcement about joining the student council on the bulletin board."
Posting notices was one of the jobs handled by general affairs staff, so Suzune and the others had most likely been summoned simply to work.
Yuto was starting to feel fortunate that he hadn't begun in general affairs himself.
Otherwise, he would have been the one constantly running around doing trivial errands.
...
Before long, June 1st arrived.
Today was the day the school deposited personal points into every student's account.
Lying in bed, Yuto gently moved Airi's arm away from his neck, turned slightly, and reached toward the bedside table for his phone.
He checked his transaction history.
At exactly midnight, 12,200 personal points had been deposited into his student ID.
Class C currently had 122 class points, so every student received one hundred times that amount in personal points—12,200.
"That really is pitifully low."
After making that observation, Yuto got out of bed, changed into his running clothes, and headed out for his morning run.
Even after transferring 1.33 million points to Chabashira for the class scholarship fund, Yuto still had more than twenty million personal points.
Whether the school deposited a hundred thousand or barely ten thousand made absolutely no difference to him.
Neither amount was enough to interest him anymore.
When Yuto arrived at the track, Suzune was nowhere to be seen.
Instead, he spotted Kiryuin Fuka, who radiated her usual overwhelming presence.
Her silver hair was tied into a ponytail, making her look particularly heroic and energetic.
The moment she noticed Yuto, she ran toward him like a lioness spotting interesting prey.
"Morning, Kiryuin-senpai."
"It's been a few days, Shimizu. Want to make a deal? Just casually hand me a hundred or two hundred thousand points."
"What kind of ridiculous opening is that?" Yuto complained. "I can never understand how your mind works."
"The truth is, I'm the type who spends everything I get every month, so I'm always short on points," Kiryuin answered cheerfully. "I thought I might exchange some information with you for spending money."
"But today is only the first. Didn't the school just deposit points into everyone's accounts?"
"That's exactly why I thought of trading with you. I wasn't satisfied with what the school gave me."
"I understand that part. What I don't understand is why you thought I would agree to trade with you."
"Because everyone in the second year knows about the trouble between you and Nagumo. So I figured you'd be interested in information related to him."
Yuto's interest immediately rose slightly when she mentioned Nagumo.
"Then tell me what you've got."
"You know Kiriyama Ikuto from the student council, right? He's in my class. Lately, it seems like he's gotten involved with Nagumo."
"Tch. Kiriyama?" Yuto clicked his tongue. "Don't tell me he's going to become another Nagumo lackey."
"It's certainly possible. Nagumo used to have Mizowaki and Tonokawa inside the student council, but you drove both of them out. So naturally, he'd have to approach someone who still remains there."
Nagumo wanted to return to the student council badly enough that bribing Kiriyama was entirely believable.
"Do you know what the two of them have been discussing?"
"Nope. I only know they've started associating with each other. So? That should be worth at least a hundred or two hundred thousand points, right?"
"How could it possibly be worth that much?"
In the end, Yuto transferred fifty thousand points to Kiryuin.
Partly to thank her for the information about Nagumo and Kiriyama.
And partly because he wanted to hire her as an informant.
Nagumo and Kiriyama were both second-years, while Yuto was only a first-year. There was no way for him to directly know everything happening among the second-years.
Kikyo, his little-devil girlfriend, was excellent at gathering information, but even she couldn't magically establish a reliable network throughout the second year.
Kiryuin, who already disliked Nagumo, was perfectly suited to serving as Yuto's informant there.
So Yuto asked her to keep an eye on the second-years.
Watching Kiryuin happily run off after receiving her points, Yuto sighed helplessly.
"Hopefully she'll actually be useful..."
Kiryuin's personality was similar to Koenji's—completely free-spirited and doing whatever she pleased.
So Yuto wasn't entirely sure whether she would be a competent informant.
...
After finishing his run, Yuto returned to the detached apartment, ate breakfast with Airi, and went to class with her.
The classroom atmosphere was considerably more lively than usual today.
The obvious reason was that everyone had received personal points from the school.
As always, Kei carried her chair over and sat beside Yuto. Holding his arm happily, she said, "Yuto, we got personal points from the school today. Where should we go to celebrate?"
"It's barely over ten thousand points. Is that really worth celebrating?"
That small amount would disappear after only four or five ordinary meals in the student cafeteria.
"It might only be a little over ten thousand, but it's still points we received from the school. I think that's worth celebrating," Kei replied seriously.
"Fine. How do you want to celebrate?"
"Maybe go sit at a café? I found a pretty nice one with Chiaki and the others yesterday. Their drinks and cakes are really good."
"Sure. You decide. I'll contact you after I finish my student council work."
"Then it's a promise~"
Smiling sweetly, Kei extended her slender pinky.
Yuto smiled and hooked his own pinky around hers.
"Kei, before I came to class, did you chat with everyone?"
"Yeah. Why?"
"I want to know what everyone thinks about the points they received today. Did you discuss it?"
"We actually did. Everyone was happy that the school gave us points, but quite a few people complained that the amount was too low. They weren't very satisfied."
The students of Class C were happy today.
Just not entirely happy.
The amount deposited by the school was simply too small.
Some students inevitably compared the roughly twelve thousand points they had received today with the hundred thousand points they had been given immediately after enrollment.
That comparison only made today's amount feel even worse.
"So everyone's dissatisfied with this month's personal points."
A slight smile appeared on Yuto's face.
Kei gave him a strange look. "Is it just me, or do you look pretty happy about that?"
"I am~"
Yuto began idly playing with her soft hand.
"The final exam is in July, right? I'm planning to contribute 1.33 million points and create a scholarship system for the class to encourage everyone to study."
"So the more dissatisfied they are with today's points, the better. They'll work harder because they want the scholarship."
Kei nodded.
She had already overheard Yuto discussing the scholarship with Chabashira before.
At the time, Kei had confidently declared that she would win the scholarship herself and earn back all 1.33 million points he had contributed.
Yuto was very satisfied that everyone disliked the amount of personal points they had received in June.
Dissatisfaction meant they wanted more class points and more personal points.
The worst possible outcome would have been for everyone to become content, give up, and stop actively competing for class points.
The bell rang.
Chabashira entered the classroom with her teaching materials, her long legs clad in alluring black stockings.
She looked down at the students with a faint smile on her mature face.
"Today is June 1st, so first period will be a free-form homeroom. You may speak freely, and you won't lose points for minor breaches of classroom discipline."
She paused.
"You should also have received your personal points from the school based on your class-point total."
"Even though we got points from the school, Chabashira-sensei, it was only a little over ten thousand. That's so little."
"Exactly..."
"Stop complaining. Your monthly personal points are determined by multiplying your class points by one hundred. Take a look at the current class-point totals."
Chabashira turned around and used magnets to attach a sheet from her teaching materials to the blackboard.
First-year Class A — 1,110 points.
First-year Class B — 990 points.
First-year Class C — 122 points.
First-year Class D — 61 points.
"Our Class C has 122 class points, so each of you received 12,200 personal points this month. If you want more next month, work harder to maintain and earn additional class points."
After saying that, Chabashira looked toward Yuto sitting in the corner and slightly raised her pointed chin.
"Shimizu, come up here. It's time for you to announce the scholarship."
"Yeah, yeah."
Yuto stood and walked toward the front of the classroom.
The other students stared at him in surprise, immediately whispering among themselves about the word "scholarship."
None of them had heard anything about a scholarship before.
Kei rested her cheek on one hand and watched Yuto with a sweet expression.
As far as she knew, she was the only one who already knew what he was planning.
'Am I really the only one who knows about the scholarship? Or does she know too?'
Kei turned slightly and glanced toward Airi on the right side of the classroom.
Airi was watching Yuto quietly, just like everyone else.
If Kei hadn't coincidentally seen Airi with Yuto at Keyaki Mall on Saturday, she would never have suspected that the nearly invisible Sakura Airi had any connection to him at all.
But now...
Kei believed Airi was probably the girlfriend Yuto had mentioned back when Kei confessed to him on the rooftop.
'Sakura Airi is probably Yuto's actual girlfriend, and I'm the one who came between them... But why doesn't she object?'
Kei simply couldn't understand it.
She was constantly clinging intimately to Yuto right in front of everyone.
If Airi really was his girlfriend, why had she never reacted?
Kei didn't understand.
But she also didn't want to understand.
Because maintaining the current situation was best.
She didn't want to leave Yuto.
Even if that meant shamelessly remaining the third person in the relationship, Kei still wanted to stay beside him.
It was precisely because Kei thought this way that Yuto's girlfriends had formed such a strange balance.
Airi knew that both Kei and Kikyo were Yuto's girlfriends.
Kikyo knew that Kei was Yuto's girlfriend.
Kei now believed that Airi was Yuto's girlfriend.
Yet none of the three wanted to change the situation or drive the others away.
They simply wanted to preserve the delicate arrangement exactly as it was.
And naturally, the person who benefited most from that was Yuto.
As long as nothing changed, he could continue having three obedient and beautiful girlfriends.
...
Yuto reached the podium and stood beside Chabashira, facing the entire class.
"Everyone probably knows that I won quite a lot of points by making wagers with upperclassmen from the clubs, right?"
"Mm..."
The students showed all kinds of expressions.
Some envied the enormous number of points Yuto possessed.
Others were jealous.
But Yuto's reputation and influence within the class had already become overwhelming.
Even those who were envious or jealous didn't dare openly show it.
"So I've decided to transfer 1.33 million points to Chabashira-sensei and establish a scholarship system for our class."
"W-What?! 1.33 million points?!"
The entire class stared at him with wide eyes.
When they first enrolled, they had received one hundred thousand points and already considered that a fortune.
Now Yuto was casually putting 1.33 million points into a class scholarship.
That was far too generous!
For students whose balances had barely ever exceeded one hundred thousand points, 1.33 million was practically an astronomical sum.
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