Chapter 4: School Rules / One Hundred Thousand / Ally or Competitor?

"Ahem, good morning new students. My name is Chabashira Sae and I am in charge of your class this year. I teach Japanese History. This school doesn't rearrange the classes every year, so over the next three years, I hope I get to know all of you. Best regards. Although the entrance ceremony will be one hour from now in the gym, I will now distribute the list of special rules of this school and the matriculation guide. These have already been sent to you all, but in case you haven't read through it, please do so in your own time."

On the podium, Chabashira-sensei was talking while handing out the materials

These materials had been given to the students before enrollment.

Ying Ye Zhenshi also took a look at what he was given, but it was all things he had seen before.

Why couldn't they leave school for three years?

During this same time period, unless there were special circumstances involved, all external contact was prohibited.

Even if the person one wished to contact was a family member, no contact was allowed without the permission of the school.

Of course, leaving school grounds without permission was also strictly prohibited.

On the other hand, in order to prevent the students from missing the amenities of the outside world, there were many facilities on the school grounds such as karaoke, movie theatres, cafés, clothing stores, etc., that could be said to have formed a small business district of sorts.

The school, located in the middle of the capital city, was situated in a spacious exclusive area of more than 600,000 square meters.

As for how the students could go about using such amenities, there would naturally be the school's own system.

This special feature of the school was called the S system, where all students would receive points distributed by the school.

"I will now hand out student ID cards. With this card, you can buy anything from any of the shops and facilities around campus. It works like a credit card. However, be careful of how many points you use. There's nothing you can't buy at school. If there's something on school grounds, it's purchasable."

Ying Ye Zhenshi also received his student ID card, entered his student ID number into the mobile phone distributed by the school, and then set a password to use it.

"Student cards can be used by swiping them on the machines. Using the machines is really easy, so you won't have any trouble with them. The points will be automatically credited on the first day of the month. Everyone should already have 100,000 points on their card. Also, 1 point is worth 1 yen. Any further explanation is unnecessary."

As Chanashora continued to lay out the mechanics of the school, the classroom began to get rowdy, as the number of points they were handed dawned on the students.

In other words, they had just received an allowance of 100,000 yen from the school just after entering.

That was a pretty hefty amount of money to give to high school students.

Even Ying Ye Zhenshi felt the situation was quite surreal.

'One hundred thousand yen… Is this really pocket money that students will be able to handle responsibly? Isn't the school going to have to close down due to bankruptcy? Is this truly a fair distribution of 100,000 points, because I find it hard to believe that there is really fairness in this world. What is this school doing?'

In an instant, Ying Ye Zhenshi came up with some conjectures and conspiracy theories.

What Chabashira sensei said next proved his conjectures even more.

"Were you guys surprised by the amount of points given? This school measures the abilities of students. Everyone here, who passed the entrance exam, has shown some level of merit and worth. The amount of money is a reflection of your skills. Use without holding back. After graduation, however, all the points will be taken back. Since it's impossible to change these points into cash, there's no point in saving up the points. How the points are used is up to you. Use it on things you like or need. If you feel that there is no use for some of your points, you can always transfer them to someone else. However, bullying other people for points is prohibited. The school is very strict on matters concerning bullying."

In the classroom that was full of confused students, Chabashira looked around at the students.

'Using strength as the standard to measure students, do the number of points we receive represent our evaluations? That is to say, as long as they feel that the student's strength is not worthy of the 100,000 points, then will they not be issued? It should be like this, right? But why not make it clearer? What is the purpose of this teacher's play on words? Isn't this completely leaving my classmates in the dark? Or is there a special situation I am not aware of? It's not the behaviour of a good teacher to fool a group of young people who have no experience in the world and to convince them to spend recklessly. Is this some sort of special test? She also specifically reminded us that violence or intimidation could not be used… Do they know who I am? Was that a special warning? Or is it just the school rule? Then why would they even allow me to join? Is there a secret behind all this? That ambiguous statement of hers… was she saying that as long as we are not discovered, violence is allowed? Since school points can buy everything, if bullying was discovered, could I use my points to cancel the punishment?'

Based on his teacher's words, Ying Ye Zhenshi's thoughts on such matters became clearer.

But what was not clear right now was whether the play on words was the teacher's personal actions or the school's directive.

Honestly, he had a lot of questions in his mind with which he could write a book of 100,000 'why's.

Chabashira-sensei on the podium didn't care about the students' confusion at all.

In this chaotic atmosphere, the students had not recovered just yet.

After scanning the students in the class, she continued with her announcement.

"It seems like no one has any questions. Well then, please lead a good student life."

"Don't forget to go to the gymnasium for the opening ceremony. After the opening ceremony, you will be free for the day. You can do whatever you want."

After leaving those words, Chabashira left the class on her own, which seemed a bit irresponsible of her.

She left the students who were still a little confused to work things out themselves.

'It seems that not everyone has recovered from the huge amount of 100,000 points. They are probably already fantasising about a better life in the future, and they didn't even pay attention to what Teacher Chabashira was saying. Or did they already sense something was off, and they were just hiding their thoughts? Or are they waiting for someone else to ask?'

Watching his teacher leave, Ying Ye Zhenshi observed the situation of the students in the classroom and gave up his idea of asking.

Regarding the situation of this school, he would learn what he needed secretly.

He didn't know what role the students in his class would play at this school.

'Will they be my allies? Or my competitors?'

Ying Ye Zhenshi stared blankly at his mobile phone, which already had 100,000 points deposited into it, and his eyes became a little empty.

His attention was already directed toward the conversations of his classmates.

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