Swimming class.
Takada Hikaru was wearing swimming trunks, rinsing his body in the shower room.
Watanabe Norihito, who was showering in the adjacent stall, found it peculiar. "It's rare to have a swimming class at this ti of year. Normally, shouldn't swimming classes be held later, when sumr arrives?"
Although spring was warm, there was still a slight chill in the air at tis. If swimming classes were held in the sumr, students would feel hot just standing under the sun and would be desperate to jump into the pool imdiately. In terms of motivation, it is indeed better to hold swimming classes in the sumr.
"If this were an ordinary school, I might be able to dismiss it."
Just then, Kanzaki Ryūji's serious and calm voice rang out from another shower stall.
"But at Advanced Nurturing High School, it's hard not to read into it."
Ever since he heard Takada Hikaru talk about the school's hidden rules, Kanzaki Ryūji had begun observing the events happening within the school. He then discovered that there were hints everywhere in the school.
The school provided free als and daily necessities to students, Class A students were generally confident and excellent, while Class D was a pile of trash...
After learning the truth about the school, Kanzaki Ryūji felt that the school was hinting at things in many aspects. But if Takada Hikaru hadn't told them about it beforehand, he wouldn't have been able to make those connections.
Now, seeing that the school had chosen to hold swimming classes at this ti, Kanzaki Ryūji subconsciously believed that the school must have so deeper aning.
"Takada-san, what do you think the school is trying to tell us?" Kanzaki Ryūji asked.
"Ryūji-san, I believe I've already said that I'm not interested in these matters." Takada Hikaru replied.
The school's decision to hold swimming classes at this ti was very likely related to the Uninhabited Island Exam during the sumr vacation.
In Hikaru's impression, there was a river on the uninhabited island used for the exam, but the river was not deep—it probably didn't even reach an adult's knees. As long as you stood up, you wouldn't drown.
But just in case, the school still held swimming classes in advance to ensure students learned to swim before the sumr vacation, so they wouldn't drown in that small river.
"I didn't expect you to be genuinely committed to pursuing the individual promotion route."
Hearing that Takada Hikaru didn't want to participate in the class discussion, Kanzaki Ryūji felt a bit frustrated, then asked, "It's fine if you don't want to say it, but is the progress on your end going smoothly?"
During this ti, he had also thought about how to increase his private points. But after so investigation, he only knew that he could obtain points by achieving good results in clubs. But with the points provided by clubs, there was no way to save up 20 million before graduation, no matter how he thought about it.
"If I'm lucky, I'll be able to save up 20 million by next month." Takada Hikaru said with a smile.
With the help of the leader of Class 3-C, students from the Third Year had been transferring points to his personal account one after another.
So far, 16 people had transferred 250,000 points to him. 13 of them were students from Class C, and 3 were students from Class B.
As for the students in Class 3-D, there wasn't a single one. This was hardly surprising. For Class D, the living expenses they received each month were barely enough, or perhaps not even enough, requiring them to rely on free goods provided by the school to get by. They couldn't even afford their daily expenses, let alone save up points to participate in the lottery.
The situation with Class 3-B was also easy to understand. Presumably, since the new school year had just begun, they felt they still had a chance to compete for Class A, so they weren't very anxious, only 3 students participated in the lottery.
However, once they were beaten up by Class A again in the next special exam, it was estimated that many students would transfer their points over.
Class C had the highest number of students participating in the plan. This was not only because Takada Hikaru had approached the leader of Class 3-C to talk about it, but also partly because Class C's position was too awkward. There was basically no possibility of competing for Class A, yet they had money in their pockets.
250,000 personal points were a lot, but only relative to students. In the future, if they went out to work in society, they could earn more than 250,000 a month in any ordinary job. Using less than a month's salary to gamble on luck was an acceptable thing for students in Class C.
It was possible that, in the end, the entire Class 3-C might participate in this plan.
Hearing Takada Hikaru's words, Kanzaki Ryūji was stunned for a mont, then imdiately asked, "Can you tell exactly how many points?"
"5.94 million."
Takada Hikaru had received 100,000 from the school on the first day of school, earned 1.5 million from the Shogi Club and Sakayanagi Arisu, and then collected 350,000 in coaching fees from the Shogi Club and the Chess Club.
Then, there were the points transferred by the Third Year students to participate in the lottery. Currently, 16 people were participating, each transferring 250,000 points, totaling 4 million.
Takada Hikaru's inco for this month up to now was 5.95 million points, and he had spent a few thousand points on food and buying things, so 5.94 million points remained.
"That much?!"
The shocked voice of a young man rang out from the adjacent shower stall.
The one who made this sound was not Kanzaki Ryūji, but the bright and cheerful boy in the class, Shibata Sō. He was a mber of the school's soccer club, had decent athletic ability, but was a bit worrying when it ca to academic grades. However, his personality was lively and cheerful, and he was very popular in class, belonging to the classic sunshine boy type.
"Takada-san, did you really collect that many points?" Shibata Sō ran out of the shower stall, looking astonished.
"If you don't believe , I can show you the points when the swimming class ends." Takada Hikaru said.
He happened to need soone to spread this news throughout the entire first year. The matter of the lottery needed to be kept secret, but the fact that he had obtained a huge amount of points did not.
Shibata Sō scratched his hair. "Ah, this... never mind then. I actually wasn't doubting you. I was just too shocked, that's all."
Everyone was currently still spending the 100,000 points provided by the school at the beginning, yet their friend was about to collect 6 million. Anyone would be shocked if it happened to them.
Kanzaki Ryūji also walked out of the shower stall. "Takada-san, I didn't an to doubt you either. Ever since the day you spoke about the school's hidden rules, everyone in the class knew you were a person of great ability."
"Although we don't know how you did it, if it's you, it is indeed possible to collect nearly 6 million points in less than half a month. And you have no need to deceive us."
After a mont of silence, Kanzaki Ryūji said slowly, "…Also, you can just call Ryūji from now on."
It felt quite strange to use a first na but still add "san" afterward. It would be better to just use the na directly.
"I understand, Ryūji." Takada Hikaru nodded slightly.
The reaction of the people in Class B was similar to Kanzaki Ryūji's. They all felt that Takada Hikaru's way of addressing them was a bit awkward, so they told him to just call them by their na directly.
Perhaps this was similar to the door-in-the-face technique. If you first suggest opening a window, everyone is reluctant, but if you suggest taking the roof off, they agree to opening the window.
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