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Entering the classroom, was what people consider to be a conventionally attractive woman.

Her wavy light brown hair and her approachable aura made her seem very carefree in the eyes of Tsukihime.

"Hello everyone, it seems that everyone has settled in neatly and properly," She said, walking up to the podium and placing her folder down.

She picked up the chalk, balanced herself on one foot, clumsily writing down her name on the board.

Hoshinomiya Chie.

'That's unrealistic,' Tsukihime thought, watching the teacher doing the conventionally cute action.

'Or it could just be chalked up to the fact that I am in an alternate universe.'

"My name is Hoshinomiya Chie, feel free to call me by that. Don't forget it, but if you do I'll be very disappointed in you." She pouted, obviously ignoring the questioning look from a majority of the students.

"No need to worry, Sensei! I won't forget!" a few students yelled out, causing Hoshinomiya to smile at them.

"What nice students I have this year~"

Looking at the friendly scene, Tsukihime couldn't help but cringe inside.

'Will I have to get used to this?'

The teacher continued to have small talk with the students, before seemingly realizing why she was there in the first place.

"Ahem, sorry about that, ehe~" She knocked on her head with her tongue out, before opening up the cabinet in the podium and taking out a box of what looked to be phones.

"Please take one and pass the rest down,"

After receiving her phone, she turned on her phone to see 100,000 points.

"This is your Student ID and it is also very similar to a Cellular Device in its applications, but you are only allowed to communicate with other Student IDs and its network only allows you to look for information."

"Inside each ID, there should be 100,000 points, which is the main method of payment in this school, where the conversion rate is 1 point per 1 yen,"

A collective 'woah' was heard from the class, looking at the points with more vigor.

"In addition, points are added to your account every month so don't worry about it running out!"

"That's all!"

'Looking at this explanation, there is too little information to get anything from it,' Tsukihime thought before a hand was raised.

"Sensei!"

"Yes, Hanami-chan?"

"Don't you think that 100,000 yen is too much for high school students? It feels like the school would be spending too much money, even if it's for its students!"

'So this theory was already put out even before the first month, but even so, how did they lose 350 class points in the first month?' Tsukihime thought before listening to Hoshinomiya's response.

"You can decide that for yourselves~" Hoshinomiya responded.

'I see the issue now.' Tsukihime sighed.

"Sensei!" Ichinose had raised her hand again.

"Yes, Hanami-chan?"

"When you said that we get points every month, does that mean that we get 100,000 points every month?"

"Probably," Hoshinomiya vaguely responded.

'Similar to Chabashira, she probably has a limit on what she can say.' Tsukihime thought.

Realizing that Hoshinomiya probably wouldn't give any more useful information, Ichinose stopped her tirade of questions.

"If that's all, I will be seeing you all at the entrance ceremony that is going to be held in the next hour. Bye bye!" She waved, before leaving the class.

The class was silent for a few seconds before Ichinose took the lead again.

"Although we all have talked to each other, we probably don't know that much, so let's introduce ourselves, what do you guys think!"

"That's a great idea!" One of the girls said before expectantly looking at Ichinose.

'Yeah... no' Tsukihime thought, making her way out of the class.

While she was on her way out, she heard laughter and what seemed to the false theatrics, which caused her to look back to see that again, Ichinose was glancing at her.

Unlike last time, Ichinose quickly changed her attention to the person who was introducing herself.

'Was she looking at me... probably not. Let's make some quick bucks,' Tsukihime thought.

Walking into the class next door, which was Class C, she opened the door, to see no teacher and 3 beaten-up boys.

Looking at the camera in the corner, she saw that it was covered up with a school blazer, presumably one from one of the people who were beaten up.

She walked in getting the attention of everyone in the classroom, before one guy in particular who looked to be the leader walked up to her.

"What do you want?" he asked.

Scoffing inside about his attempt to look intimidating, she emotionlessly responded, "I have information about the points."

"Information?" He asked, curious about what she was talking about.

"I can give it. For a price."

"Hah?" Ryuen half-yelled, walking closer, casting a shadow onto Tsukihime's noticeably smaller figure.

"Important information." She repeated, her emotionless gaze looking into the man's scowl.

After a few seconds, Ryuen, seemingly having given up on intimidating her, took a step back.

"How much?"

"25,000 Private Points for the next 2 months."

*BAM*

"Hah? You can't be serious with that price!" Ryuen yelled, slamming his fist on the nearest table, causing a majority of the students to flinch.

"Take it or leave it. It determines how much money you get." She said, not giving enough information for it to be useful but tempting Ryuen into accepting the deal.

Observing the change in Ryuen's expression, and the subtle relaxing of his fists told her everything she needed to know.

"Fine. I'll take it."

"Come with me," Tsukihime said, walking outside the classroom, Ryuen obediently following along.

After telling Ryuen about the 2 different types of points, Class Points and Private Points, she decided that it was enough information, that Ryuen would probably be smart enough to extrapolate from there.

"Where did you hear this from?"

"A senior while walking around," Tsukihime responded.

'This is a flawless excuse, adding anonymity and giving the information more credibility.' Tsukihime thought.

Watching the gears turn in Ryuen's head, Tsukihime pulled out her phone to him.

"What's this for?"

"My points."

"Oh."

After exchanging contact information, Tsukihime waited until the points were added to her account, before walking away.

"Goodbye then,"

"Tsk," Ryuen clicked, before walking back into his classroom.

'Now how to give this information to Ichinose...' Tsukihime thought.

'Knowing Ryuen, the possibility that he would keep this information is extremely high, even without knowing the importance of Class Points.' Tsukihime concluded.

While thinking, Tsukihime made her way to Class D.

Looking through the door window, she could see that they were still introducing themselves.

'This would probably mean that Horikita has already left, and since the Entrance Ceremony was still mandatory, she is probably on the way there'

Looking at the amount of people who were fidgeting with the hem of their clothes Tsukihime calculated that around half of the people still hadn't finished introducing themselves, and adding on the guess that every person was introducing themselves in intervals of around 30 seconds including the clapping from extroverted minded individuals, she assumed that Horikita left during the period that she was in Class C.

'Seeing as I spent around 5 minutes in that class and walking at a brisk pace to the gymnasium with Horikita's estimated height was a 15-minute walk, I could catch up to her.'

Quickly sprinting in the direction of the gymnasium, she sees a young woman with long black hair.

'Bingo.'

She walked up to Horikita, before tapping her on the shoulder, which caused Horikita to involuntarily jump.

"Eep!"

She quickly looked behind her to see Tsukihime, before calming down and glaring at Tsukihime.

"What do you want."

Tsukihime could see the similarities between her and Ryuen.

"I have information."

"Information on what."

"Information on the points."

Listening to her response, Tsukihime detected a small widening of Horikita's eyes, before going back to normal.

'I already reeled her in.'

"From where?"

"Eavesdropped on a Senior."

Tsukihime had to take a different route on her excuse. 'Knowing her, asking every senior for free information is a possibility, so the source of unknowingly dropping into a conversation is more plausible to Horikita.' She thought.

"How much?"

"60,000 Points."

'Taking 25,000 from her for 2 months is inefficient, as her classmates probably wouldn't believe her information, leading to the inevitable drop in class points in the beginning.'

"That's too much!" Horikita exclaimed.

"I see, then," Tsukitime emotionlessly nodded at her, about to make her way to the gymnasium.

"W-Wait-!" Horikita stuttered, causing Tsukihime to look back.

'So the haggling begins.'

"45,000 Points I can't do any higher."

"55,000 Points, that's the most I can do."

"At least make it 50,000 Points."

After showing a fake thinking expression, she puts her phone out.

"Deal."

"What's this for?" Horikita asked, pointing at the phone.

"My points."

"O-Oh."

After exchanging contact information, Tsukihime waited until the points were added to her account, before giving her the information.

"There are Class Points and Private Points, and it seems like if you have more Class Points from a different class, you in a sense can 'overtake them'."

'This makes it seem like the 'senior' that I eavesdropped from was complaining about the points system.' Tsukihime thought, satisfied with her thought process.

After giving her the information, Tsukihime nodded to Horikita and walked away.

'100,000 points, could be enough for me to start a business.' Tsukihime thought, before making her way to a bathroom to stall for time to arrive at the Entrance Ceremony inconspicuously.

In the bathroom stall, she looked at her phone applications before thinking about her original plan of trying to create a drop shipping business to gain some cash but it felt too troublesome.

'Reselling as a side gig would be very much possible, especially if you get ahold of the entire stock that ANHS provides to the stores which is feasible, but it's a pain, so I won't do it.' Tsukihime thought.

'Even hiring students wouldn't work due to trust and the possible spill of information...'

After a few minutes of thinking up multiple ways to go through the loopholes of the school, she felt that most if not all of them require a lot of extra work which could be better spent doing something else.

Deciding that this would be around the time that everyone would already be at the entrance ceremony, she walked over to Class 1-B's line.

While listening to the principal say more uninteresting information regarding the school and its merits, Tsukihime looked around, hoping to see someone or something catch her eye.

Looking to her left, around 5 meters away, she saw a petite girl sitting down in a chair, with a cane in her hands.

'Sakayanagi is also here, interesting to know... not really it should be pretty obvious.' She thought, before looking in the other direction for something else.

'Who is that?' Sakayanagi thought looking at the person who from her periphery, glanced at her for a few seconds then looked away.

After observing her for a few seconds, watching Tsukihime mindlessly look around, she concluded that it wasn't anything important, just a bored airhead.

After the Entrance Ceremony ended, she looked around a bit more, before deciding to get some supplies for the next month.

Walking to the Keyaki Mall, she decided that going to a larger establishment could be cheaper when buying products.

Going over to what looked to be a general store, she walked in, saw something that caught her eye, and walked over to it.

[Free]

[Only 3 Products per Section are allowed per month]

'I guess this prevents one person from taking the entire stock and overpricing the shit out of it.' Tsukihime thought.

'Now that I look at it, this area is too conspicuous to be ignored, how did the Class D people just assume that they would get that much money every month, are they mentally addled?'

Looking at the products, and their labels, Tsukihime took out free shampoo, conditioner, and a free bar of soap.

'The quality of these is pretty decent, and they would probably last me around 3 months at the most, might be because of the sudden influx of new students.'

Going to the next section, which was menstrual products.

Living her new life as a woman, she was privy to her menstrual cycle, which while inconvenient, was heavily mitigated due to her good genetics perk.

'Of course, having blood flow from your crotch isn't ideal. Nor is it something to just ignore.' She thought.

'Seeing as even though this could be considered essential for women, the fact that it is barely touched can tell us about the supposed quality.' Tsukihime thought, moving on to the next section.

The last section had very out-of-style clothing, and even clothing that seemed too niche to be popular, probably to lessen the appeal of free clothing.

'Not that I care that much about what I wear, after all, it's probably mostly going to be the Distributed Uniform'

Picking up a set of comfortable-looking pajamas she put it in her basket before looking for the 'Women's Essential' section.

'An uncomfortable crotch is an uncomfortable me.' She preached in her head, closing her eyes to silently act out a prayer, before bumping into someone.

"Oh!"

"Oof-"

Looking at the person Tsukihime bumped into, she saw a familiar face.

"Ichinose-san?"

Rubbing her head, Ichinose looked up slightly at the person she bumped into, before apologizing.

"Ah, Nagano-san, sorry about that."

"Oh no, I should be the one apologizing, Ichinose-san,"

Tsukihime responded, genuinely sorry about the situation, after all, from her perspective, she probably wouldn't have bumped into her if she hadn't closed her eyes for so long, especially while walking.

Peering into Ichinose's basket, she saw what looked to be one of the more expensive shampoos.

'This is the perfect chance to give her some information,'

"Ichinose-san, pardon me for interrupting your shopping, but I overheard something earlier when I passed some seniors,"

"Oh? What was it?"

"I don't know if it was anything important but it was something about their Private Points being so low and how if they just increased their Class Points it wouldn't have been that way."

Looking at Ichinose to gauge her reaction, she looked at her register the information for a few seconds before looking as if she had figured something out.

"Maybe the Class Points have something to do with the monthly points, Nagano-san this is crucial information! I have to tell the others tomorrow, thanks for sharing this with us!" Ichinose happily said, smiling at Tsukihime.

"That makes so much sense, Ichinose-san, I was wondering how it could have been related to us, I only thought that they just overspent on their amenities!" Tsukihime enthusiastically said, grasping Ichinose's hand and looking at her in admiration.

"N-no problem, Nagano-san, it's all thanks to you," Ichinose responded, a bit flustered with the sudden contact.

"If it's not a bother, would you like to finish buying the amenities together?" Tsukihime nervously asked, as if expecting a rejection.

"Sure, Nagano-san, two minds are better than one after all," Ichinose politely responded, looking into Tsukihime's basket.

'Wow, I feel like a bitch.' Tsukihime thought, feeling a tad bit guilty about her acting.

"I saw free amenities over near the entrance, I got most of these products in bulk from there, maybe it would be helpful?"

"Y-yeah, it's better to save our money anyways," Ichinose added on, quickly putting back her pricy shampoo while Tsukihime wasn't looking.

Walking over to the free section, Tsukihime showed Ichinose the products she bought.

"I bought these because they had the same ingredients as the pricier ones over there, just that they smell different, and you can get these for free, isn't that perfect, Ichinose-san?" Tsukihime said, lifting the shampoo for Ichinose to see.

"I'll trust you on that Nagano-san, you must be pretty frugal if you pick up on that kind of thing," Ichinose responded.

After picking up more items and making some small talk, Ichinose and Tsukihime were walking back to the dorms, with decent-sized plastic bags in their hands.

Looking at Ichinose and how her expression was a little strained, Tsukihime could assume that the bags were a little bit too heavy for Ichinose.

"Do you need help, Ichinose-san?"

"It's fine Nagano-san, I wouldn't want to burden you,"

"Don't worry, I may not look like it, but I would say I'm pretty strong! Tsukihime jokingly said, exaggerating her movements while doing curls with all of her bags.

"Pfft... If you say so, Nagano-san," Ichinose said, handing over one of her bags.

"You know, I won't ask further, but why did you seem so distant earlier back in the classroom when you're bursting with energy right now?"

"Oh, I just automatically get nervous when around people in general," Tsukihime lied, not wanting Ichinose to all of a sudden introduce her to the entire class and try to urge her to make some friends.

"What about me?"

"I guess you're the exception, Ichinose-san" Tsukihime said, smiling at her.

All of a sudden, Ichinose stopped in her tracks, causing Tsukihime to look back.

"What's wrong, Ichinose-san?"

"N-nothing, I guess I just wanted a quick break," Ichinose squeaked.

"Oh, I guess walking non-stop does get pretty tiring," Tsukihime said, leading Ichinose over to a bench.

Sitting down, Tsukihime looked at the setting sun, Ichinose next to her.

"I guess we are stuck here for the next 3 years, Ichinose-san,"

"You don't have to call me by -san, Nagano-san." Ichinose softly said.

"O-oh, then you don't have to call me that either, Ichinose," Tsukihime responded.

'What the hell? Why is she so cute, this is unrealistic to the extreme,' Tsukihime thought.

After a few minutes of sitting down, Tsukihime started the conversation again.

"Should we start making our way back, Ichinose?"

"I guess we should."

On the way back, it was a little more small talk until they got into the elevator.

As they were in the same class, having the same floor was obvious, and they both got off.

"Where's your room, Ichinose, I'll carry the rest of the bags there,"

"Oh, I couldn't bother you,"

"Don't worry, I'm the strongest, after all," Tsukihime joked.

"Pft, okay, follow me, Nagano," Ichinose said, walking to a door that read: 807.

'Brother my room is 808, what the fuck kind of coincidence is this?'

Opening the door, Ichinose led her in, and Tsukihime set down Ichinose's stuff, before making her way out.

"You know, Ichinose, my last name by itself feels super masculine so I don't mind if you ever want to call me by my first name," Tsukihime said, opening the door.

"I don't mind either, Tsukihime-san," Ichinose said, waving at her.

"By the way, Honami-san, we're neighbors, so if you ever need anything, legitimately just to your left, funnily enough." Tsukihime ended, shutting the door.

Walking to her room, she couldn't help but overthink.

'What the hell was today? What the fuck happened to subtly tell Ichinose about the Class Points, now it seems like we're fucking soulmates with how fast this shit progressed. I don't even know if she likes women. I'm cooked.' Tsukihime thought, organizing her bought amenities before jumping face-first onto her bed.

With Ichinose, it was very much similar.

'Tsukihime-san, or rather Tsukihime was not what I was expecting at all... She's just too cute! Is there a possibility that I'm actually not straight?" Ichinose thought, laying on her back, gay panic in her mind.

'So what else is there in this story? Oh yeah, the fucking pedophile stalker. but that's far off in the future... I'll deal with that shit later' Tsukihime thought slowly closing her eyes to fall asleep thinking about all of the shit that happened today.