8:30 PM.
Not far from the vending machine where he met the Horikita siblings yesterday, at the railing of the quiet Artificial Lake, a boy gently sighed.
Because he had plenty of time in the evening, he even took a shower before coming out.
It's just that some preparation is indeed necessary.
And this boy is Hikigaya Hachiman.
He is working hard for himself.
To be precise, to get more points.
Being assigned to Class D from the start, the plan to acquire points on a Class basis was basically hopeless, so going solo was the best option, but it was also confirmed that the Shopping Street does not allow part-time jobs or other ways for seemingly ordinary high School students to earn living expenses.
So he can only start from other methods.
And for him, it's relatively simple; when he enrolled, he made a deal with his Teacher, Chabashira, to help investigate a student's file for a reward of 200,000 points.
points can be used directly as money at the School, and they are also redeemed for cash by the School upon graduation, which is very generous.
Logically, it's a good job.
But from Horikita Manabu, he got bad information.
He suspects Teacher Chabashira has greater ambitions.
So he hopes to raise the price accordingly.
Thus, he is currently arranging to meet Teacher Chabashira, and this time the agreed meeting time is 9 o'clock.
He arrived at the scene early.
However, it's not about acting like a gentleman, but about making some preparations.
For example, getting some information about Teacher Chabashira.
And the first thing to get is... her salary.
The other party didn't reply to this before, but directly showed a huge sum of 6.02 million.
Then she also took out a point card.
Hachiman swiped the point card, and both cards Chabashira gave him had a limit of 200,000.
Fair and square.
She seemed rich and powerful.
But in the end, he still had to ask.
Normally, to get information, one can trade points, which is the most direct way, for example, Class A, where Sakayanagi is, directly used a high price of 2 million to get the true nature of this School from their Teacher.
As long as you can afford the price, there's nothing that can't be sold.
For example, being assigned to Class D at the beginning is not hopeless, because you can collect points and gather 20 million to directly fly to Class A.
Of course.
Hachiman doesn't have such great ambition; 20 million, for ordinary people, would take several years of work, or even ten years of work without eating or drinking if the salary is low.
Is it not a good thing to use it as collateral for 10 years of work?
Hachiman chose to take the money.
After all, this is more direct, because even if you get promoted to Class A and go to your desired university, is it guaranteed that you'll find a job after graduating from university?
Will the salary definitely be good?
Hard to say.
And instead of choosing to go to university, he chose to get a recommendation letter from the School to go directly to his desired company, but what if he encounters economic or efficiency problems and gets laid off?
These are all risks.
So compared to the imagined future, he chose cash, which is more reliable.
Just like the type of women he likes are also those who are rich from the start.
Compared to working hard together, it's better if the other party is already wealthy from the beginning.
Hmm.
These are all the thoughts of a househusband.
Hachiman is doing serious business.
After all, there isn't a reliable and suitable rich woman for him to cling to right now.
It's just that during the consultation process, he discovered some rather troublesome news.
Like this.
"By the way, Student Council President, is a Teacher's salary very high?" Hachiman typed into the chat box with Student Council President Horikita Manabu.
The Student Council President, Horikita Manabu, is known as the most outstanding Student Council President in history.
He is also the Class representative for Third Year A Class.
According to the scores of Class A, B, C, and D posted on the Floor of the Third Year academic building.
Hmm.
Now he knows that's called the Class evaluation score, which is the share obtained from the School on a Class basis.
The ranking of Class A, B, C, and D is fluid; whoever has a higher Class evaluation score is the higher-ranked Class.
So there's also pressure on the higher-ranked Class, worrying about being surpassed by the lower-ranked Class.
But.
Third Year A Class 2530 points
Third Year B Class 1300 points
Third-year C Class 300 points
Third-year D Class 20 points
Among them, Horikita Manabu's Third Year A Class is far ahead.
As the representative of the Class, Horikita Manabu's contribution is indispensable; he is indeed a formidable person.
He is also a very self-disciplined person; even though he was talking about the School's information with his sister alone, he could have not paid points according to the rules.
But he chose to enforce the law impartially, punishing himself by paying a cost of 1 million.
Of course, this could also be to let his sister experience the cruelty of this School, that one wrong step could directly lose 1 million.
So it's an older brother's earnest advice.
But his sister doesn't know at all.
From this point of view, Hachiman is in a very good mood.
Because his own sister doesn't need to be worried about so much; rather, he is worried about by his sister.
Worried that he doesn't fit in, worried that no one will want him, worried that he won't go to work in the future, and so on.
But.
Komachi, wait, Oni-chan is studying for free now, and he's also accumulating enough living expenses during his studies so he won't have to work in the future.
Hachiman felt full of motivation.
The only drawback was that he sent a message to President Horikita, but he didn't reply immediately.
Indeed.
According to the School's rules, anything can be bought with points.
So, does he have to transfer points to the Student Council President for him to answer?
Just as he was wondering how many points to transfer to buy this information, Horikita Manabu's reply came.
[Your Teacher's salary is probably around 200,000.] BY Horikita Manabu.
And his wording here is very precise; he said
your Teacher,
not the teachers' salaries.
In other words, it's possible that students' living expenses are related to the School's evaluation obtained through Class competition, and teachers' salaries may also be linked to the Class they lead.
But Teacher Chabashira's salary is only 200,000.
Then the 6.02 million in her private account on her phone...
"Do teachers have free accommodation and free meals as rewards? Or are there any extra bonuses?"
[...]
Horikita Manabu didn't reply with text this time, but sent three dots.
Yes, Hachiman's question is strange.
[Normally, teachers, like students, have free accommodation, but they have to solve their own meal problems.]
[But your Class's Teacher Chabashira is probably a very frugal person. Sometimes when I leave work late and go to the cafeteria, I see her queuing at the free window.]
[Sometimes I also see her going to get free daily necessities for relief.] Horikita Manabu probably thought Hachiman had something going on, so he provided more information.
Oh.
So that's how it is.
In other words, the Student Council's work is very hard, which is why President Horikita leaves work so late.
Just.
Teacher Chabashira also eats free meals.
So Teacher Chabashira is also very family-oriented... No way.
Even though she has a salary, why would she eat the wild vegetable set meal that upperclassmen found terribly unpalatable?
In other words.
Is this Teacher actually saving money?
Could it be that the huge sum of 6.02 million he saw was actually what she saved by being frugal in the past?
And she's so frugal, yet she gives him 200,000 just to investigate a student.
Teacher Chabashira.
Perhaps you don't just want to climb higher because teachers' salaries are linked to the Class they lead.
But there's something deeper.
In other words.
Just like the students, are those assigned to Class D, whether students or teachers, all problematic?
Receiving information that made him doubt life, Hachiman sat in a daze.
"Click, click, click——" At this moment, the sound of high heels echoed.
Chabashira Sae, the Teacher of Class D of Grade 1, had already arrived.
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