At nine in the evening, Hashima Hikaru opened the door to his dorm room.
Today had been another busy day. Despite some twists and turns, they had successfully recovered 1 million individual points from Class D. Ichinose now had over 2 million points. After finishing with Class C, this plan would finally come to an end.
Although it had only been eight days since school started, Hashima Hikaru felt that time had passed unusually slowly, not just for him, but likely for Ichinose Honami as well.
According to normal logic, the first month after starting school should be a time for all freshmen to familiarize themselves with the campus and their classmates. But this school was special, and the competition between classes had been predetermined from the moment school began.
"And the more troublesome issue is still Nagumo, I suppose?"
Hashima Hikaru leaned back in his chair, recalling the earlier conversation. As the leader of Class A and the student council vice president, Nagumo had completely controlled the entire second year.
If Horikita Manabu's information was accurate, it meant he possessed extremely terrifying resources, resources that could even control students' behavior. After all, no one could resist individual points.
The boy tapped his fingers lightly on the desk, deep in thought.
On the other hand, Hashima Hikaru was somewhat surprised by Horikita Manabu's attitude today. From their two meetings, he had felt that the other should be a deeply scheming and profound individual.
It was unexpected that he would reveal such crucial information to a freshman and even agree to his request to intervene in the student council.
"Because of Horikita Suzune?"
Hashima Hikaru rubbed his chin. He could tell that Horikita Manabu genuinely cared for his sister, as evidenced by his request to help her grow.
But why was his attitude towards Horikita Suzune so poor?
If he hadn't met him yesterday, would he really have slapped her?
Hashima Hikaru couldn't quite understand this, but the transaction was essentially complete. Aside from Horikita Suzune, the more important focus was on Nagumo.
The boy picked up his phone, which displayed Horikita Manabu's contact information. He smiled lightly, having already sorted out the other's general thoughts.
Horikita Manabu's goals were likely twofold: one was to inform him of Nagumo's future actions so he could prepare in advance, and the other was to ensure his sister's growth in the future.
"Helping Horikita Suzune grow is no big deal. She'll soon realize that Class D has no chance of rising, but I can use this opportunity to actively gather information from Horikita Manabu's network."
If they were to truly confront Nagumo, they couldn't do without the student council. That was the significance of the two spots.
And Horikita Suzune happened to be a stock character in the system. Although her initial stock price was 100 points, as long as they could gather some benefits from elsewhere, buying her stock would be no problem.
There was still the Kushida stock he had just acquired.
Thinking about their complicated relationship, using the money earned from Kushida to buy Horikita's stock, would she be upset?
As for the class competition, after these two rule sales, Hashima Hikaru speculated that the class rankings might change by the end of the first month.
After receiving the school's reward, Class B's evaluation score had increased by an additional 100 points. As long as they maintained strict control over class order during this period, perhaps by May 1st, the class rankings would be reshuffled.
"In any case, hurry up and go to Class C tomorrow. Recover the money as soon as possible, and then spend the remaining time uniting everyone to push towards Class A."
Hashima Hikaru opened his system panel. Currently, there were four stocks listed in the system.
They were Ichinose Honami Stock , Sae Stock , Horikita Suzune Stock , and Kushida Kikyō Stock .
And in the Stock Interface , he had purchased only two stocks.
Ichinose Honami Stock
Current Price: 150, Holdings: 3000
Kushida Kikyō Stock
Current Price: 10, Holdings: 5000
"I still need to brush up Kushida's favorability and build trust."
After all, Kushida Kikyō had invited him to dinner, which was a good opportunity.
After sitting in the chair and thinking for a while, Hashima Hikaru wrote down his various thoughts. He believed that a good memory was not as reliable as written notes, and writing them down would allow for better review.
Before going to bed, he sent a message to Ichinose Honami, asking her to be ready to go to Class C together tomorrow to sell the rules. He hadn't seen Ibuki in a while and wondered how she was doing in Class C.
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The next day, after completing his daily exercise routine, Hashima Hikaru entered Class B's classroom. Last night, before going to bed, the class group chat had been very active, with messages continuing until two in the morning.
On one hand, the classmates were praising Hashima Hikaru for successfully completing the second point recovery plan, and Class B had gained quite a few more points.
On the other hand, they were discussing whether, after recovering all the points from the three classes, they should have a group dinner, inviting all of Class B to celebrate their recent hard work.
Ichinose immediately replied in the group chat that it was fine, as spending time together as a group was very important to her. The classmates then started calling for Hashima Hikaru in the group chat, and only when the boy responded did they finally stop.
Currently, the classmates in Class B all knew that the class leader was Ichinose Honami, but when making decisions, if Hashima Hikaru didn't nod in agreement, everyone would feel uneasy. This was the consensus of the entire class.
"Good morning, Hashima-kun!"
"Morning, Hashima-kun."
As soon as he entered the classroom, the students inside began greeting Hashima Hikaru. Unconsciously, the boy had become the backbone of the class, trusted by both boys and girls alike.
"Good morning, everyone."
After smiling and responding to everyone, Hashima Hikaru returned to his seat. The pink-haired girl had naturally arrived early, but she seemed a bit tired, with dark circles under her beautiful eyes.
"Ichinose -san, did you stay up late yesterday?" Hashima asked gently.
"It's not exactly staying up late. I just got too caught up chatting with everyone and lost track of time..."
Ichinose Honami's pretty face showed a hint of embarrassment. Yesterday, seeing everyone praising Hashima Hikaru made her very happy, so she kept replying to everyone's messages in the group chat.
"You can't do that in the future, okay?" The boy looked at her expression and advised, "Otherwise, I'll have to ban everyone from speaking after a certain time at night."
"I understand. I'll be more careful."
Ichinose nodded. She was happy about Hashima Hikaru 's concern and immediately took out the notebook with the rules written on it that she hadn't used yesterday, handing it to him.
"Today, when we go to Class C to sell the rules, after collecting the points, we can just hand this notebook to them. That way, we won't have to trouble Hashima-kun with explaining the rules again."
"...Alright."
Hashima Hikaru didn't really care about this. Anyway, he was too lazy to explain to them, so after taking the money, he'd just hand over the notebook and leave.
"This time, I'll contact Ibuki-san first," Ichinose Honami held her phone. "I wonder what's going on in their class. It's a bit worrying."
"Indeed. After Ryūen and the other two were suspended, their class lost three troublemakers," Hashima Hikaru put his books away, his tone carrying a hint of anticipation. "Class C should have elected a new class leader by now. We'll find out when we go over later."