Bonus Chapter 10: Reasoning / Student Council

T/N: Bonus Chapter For Reaching 100 Power Stones Last Ranking Week!!

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The same was true of the blackboards in the third-year classroom.

Written on them were the points of the third-year students.

[A2290]

[B1800]

[C400]

[D200]

Taking out his phone to take pictures, Ying Ye Zhenshi had basically confirmed his conjectures about the school's evaluation system.

"The seniors in Class D of the third year are worse off than those in the second grade. Is the competition more intense in the second grade? 200 points… It looks like the free stuff is for them... Are all the students in my class also at this level?"

Since these seniors of his had such a low number of points, he reckoned it would be difficult for them to live at this school.

After glancing at the list of four classes in the third grade, Ying Ye Zhenshi found the third year's class D and walked in.

As soon as he walked through the door, he attracted the attention of the third-year students present.

After all, a stranger had entered their classroom.

"You are a freshman, right? What's the matter?"

Watching Ying Ye Zhenshi enter so boldly, an orange-haired senior from the third year stood up.

His tone was neither friendly nor rude.

"Can you tell me how many points you can get in a month? It shouldn't be 100,000 points, right senior sis?"

When someone approached, Ying Ye Zhenshi spoke frankly.

The familiar tone made some students uncomfortable.

"I can't."

It was a bit of an unexpected question to be asked by the first-year student, but her answer was straightforward.

The orange-haired female senior refused instantly.

Ying Ye Zhenshi didn't feel regret for having been rejected.

Instead, he talked alone of his own reasoning while staring at his senior's face the entire time.

"Since senior sis won't tell me anything, let me just take a guess. You should be receiving 20,000 yen a month. If you run out of points, you have to go to purchase the free things issued by the school, right? For girls, this must be a really embarrassing problem. For every 100 points, you gain an additional 10,000 S-points. The school would probably refrain from changing the conversion factor to avoid causing confusion, and because it doesn't make much sense to do so anyway. I reckon the school has the intention of allowing the freshmen to work out this info by themselves, so they have left the class point numbers on your blackboards year by year... Based on the scores of all classes in the second and third year, as well as the points obtained by us first years, it would be the most reasonable to say that they use a conversion factor of 100. Then, if we calculate it this way, we freshmen who have just entered the school have an initial 1000 points, so we received 100,000 private points. Whether we continue to receive 100,000 points every month going forward though depends on what our… class points are. Have I guessed it right?"

When he mentioned 20,000 yen, her facial expression had already become a little stiff, and she gave off the feeling that everything had been seen through.

But she still maintained her older-student attitude.

"That's an amazing deduction, but since I won't say anything, you'd better think for yourself. Is Kouhai-Chan from class A in the first year?" [T/N: Kouhai sounds better than saying 'Younger brother' because it sounds too Chinese.]

'Sure enough, there are monsters in every grade just like him. Every time he says something, I feel like my intelligence is being crushed, and it's making me very uncomfortable.'

The orange-haired female senior sighed.

Although she didn't want to outright admit it, her attitude made things pretty clear.

He also looked at the classroom monitor on the podium, and everything about their expression screamed that his deductions were correct.

"You can't talk about it, it seems. Thank you for all the advice anyway, Senior. Since this is info kept secret from the first-year students, this must be an exam that all of the grades sat. And so, whether it is a teacher or a senior who does it, as long as any info is leaked, the person or even the class may be punished. Is that the case?"

Ying Ye Zhenshi muttered to himself.

"Stop, stop! Kouhai-Chan, just stop talking. I didn't help you with anything. This was all your guesswork. So don't talk nonsense, and don't thank me!"

The orange-haired female senior couldn't stand his muttering and waved her hands again and again.

The other students in class D besides her were also a little annoyed.

It was too much for one to be so smart and come to such a conclusion.

"It seems like you might be punished by the class. If they find out you helped me, your entire class might be punished. That's why you didn't allow me to shift the help, and you are afraid of the punishment from all sides."

Ying Ye Zhenshi's words made his female senior cover her face as she proceeded to completely ignore him.

She found it really uncomfortable to have had everything laid out so clearly.

If he continued to talk, she truly wondered whether her underwear would be seen through.

"Leave if you're done. We don't have anything to tell you."

"Of course, I still have stuff to do here. I still have a lot of questions. Why don't I have senior sis enlighten me on my queries?"

It was already hard to survive with such meagre points, and yet he wanted to fleece them of the remainder of their wool.

The students in class D of the third year had already expressed that they didn't welcome him, and so they quickly approached to block him.

Then they drive him away directly.

"Kouhai, leave since we have nothing to help you with. We still have things to do in our class."

"This is not your class, so don't come back here. Just get out kid."

Even when the other students of Class D approached him and prevented him from learning more, Ying Ye Zhenshi still learned some important news from the way they spoke.

With how much he figured out, he decided to accede to their request.

In the end, he knew that there was no way to continue harvesting any more info, so he decided to leave.

"Thank you, seniors, for all of your helpful advice. I hope that you seniors can earn points in the next exam. If there is a chance to cooperate in the future, I will look for my helpful seniors."

Having perfected his skill of the "One Hundred Thousand Whys", Ying Ye Zhenshi gave his farewell and left under the watchful eyes of the third-year seniors of class D.

If one didn't look at the gazes of the group behind him who didn't welcome him, he would appear as though a cute elementary school boy who had come to visit their class.

"Stinky boy, don't come back again."

"I don't want to see you again, bastard first-year kid."

"Who wants to cooperate with you, you annoying brat?"

From such a short meeting, the students in class D of the third year already found that they hated this 'elementary' school student very much.

No one liked the feeling of having been seen through, especially when they expressed that they didn't want to talk, and yet the other party still desperately approached them and kept guessing.

Most importantly of all, he had guessed right.

The students in class D of the third year expressed their repulsion and resistance to their dear 'elementary' school Kouhai.

It wasn't unreasonable to believe that the lock on their door would be improved for the next time he came back.

If they saw him from a distance, they would probably close the door and weld it to death.

But for Ying Ye Zhenshi, who had already gained a lot out of the encounter, it didn't matter.

Upon leaving the classroom, he determined the direction of the student council room and then made his way there.

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