In fact, I can add unlimited points

In their eyes, this might be a test of Aragaki Shun's obedience, to see who dares to play tricks and refuse to obey orders at this stage.

Thinking of this, the ordinary students in Class D immediately reacted and responded loudly, giving the impression that each one was more loyal than the last.

Meanwhile, in the adjacent classroom, Class C was visited by Himeno Yuki and Ichinose Honami, and all the slips of paper were successfully distributed.

Soon, the three first-year classes that belonged to the leader of Class A received their respective tasks and began to conduct class voting according to Aragaki Shun's instructions.

.........

Meanwhile, in the classroom of Class B, Grade 1, the remaining 37 students looked at an empty seat with somewhat complicated and indescribable expressions on their faces.

"Shiraishi-kun..."

A boy named Kenta Yoshida murmured the name of the person who sat there, as if he had lost all his strength, letting his head rest on the table.

He had a strong liking for Shiraishi Asuka, but he didn't dare to confess his feelings. He just kept watching her from the sidelines.

Unexpectedly, the other party accepted Class A's invitation for some reason, and left the classroom without even saying goodbye.

In that case, he would never have the chance to silently observe the other person during class again, right?

Aside from Yoshida, many in Class B felt regretful about Shiraishi Asuka's transfer, but more than that, they felt a sense of bewilderment and loss, as if their teammates had been poached before the war even began.

Their class had already lost key members such as Sakayanagi Arisu, Kamuro Masumi, and Yamamura Miki in succession. It was only with the addition of Koenji Rokusuke, Ryuen Sho, and Ayanokoji Kiyotaka that they were able to barely make up for some of their losses.

Now another student has been poached, and with Hashimoto Masayoshi about to be expelled... it's only the end of the first year, what if the whole Class B falls apart by graduation?

“There’s even worse news,” Kiyotaka Ayanokouji suddenly said expressionlessly, “Shun Aragaki can use the praise votes from other classes to designate the number one in our class. At that time, the other party only needs to spend 20 million personal points to break the contract and use the permanent transfer slot to poach another combatant from our class.”

In other words, barring any unforeseen circumstances, Class B may lose three members in this class vote, immediately reducing the number of students from 38 to 35.

"What--!!!"

These words caused an uproar throughout Class B, who found it hard to accept.

"Who is it? Besides Shiraishi, who else is betraying the class?!"

Totsuka Yahiko slammed his fist on the desk, his gaze sweeping fiercely over the students around him, as if they all harbored suspicions of betrayal.

After all, while the Koenji Zaibatsu's guarantee is decent, it still can't compare to the combined benefits of Class A—a highly skilled training recommendation, the friendship of the Aragaki family heir, and the connections of Kanzaki Heavy Industries.

More importantly, as young people, they don't really have a real sense of how much power the upper class wields.

Ordinary high school students strive to compete on campus, all they want is to stand out and live a good life.

Simply put, it means hoping to earn enough money in the future to buy whatever I want.

Therefore, whether it's a tycoon or a powerful figure, once they reach a certain level, young people without a background naturally can't distinguish between them.

On the contrary, the students in Class B have experienced many times the feeling of helplessness and disorientation from their repeated failures in special exams since entering the Advanced Education Program.

Young people are full of passion and enthusiasm. Rather than struggling humbly as losers every time, they would naturally prefer to be winners and enjoy boundless glory with their companions.

This sense of honor is something that Class B, who have suffered repeated defeats and can only be bound together by interests and contracts, can neither hope for nor reach.

Therefore, if given the opportunity to switch sides without paying a heavy price, most people in this classroom would probably not refuse the chance to transfer to Class A.

Of course, the students in Class B are all shrewd and wouldn't be so easily frightened as to jump out immediately just because of Totsuka Yahiko's threat.

Needless to say, at this point, what's the point of forcing the other side out?

“Shun Aragaki has at least 119, maybe even 120, praise votes from other classes. Even if we find the first place in Class B that he chose, and everyone casts their criticism votes for that person, we still can’t stop that person from taking the permanent transfer spot.”

Katsuragi Kohei sighed, looking rather dejected.

Now he can only guarantee that he will not let down Rokusuke Koenji. As for the choices of the other classmates... people strive for higher positions, and water flows downhill, so there's nothing to criticize.

"And there's not enough time..."

With only half an hour left before the exam officially begins, even if they manage to force out a hidden, predetermined first-place candidate, under the surveillance in the classroom, can they really beat the other person up?

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The students in Class B aren't like the hooligans in Class C, and Majima Tomoya is even less likely to openly condone violence like Sakagami Kazuma. Plus, with Aragaki Shun, the student council president who manages school disputes, backing them up... if they were to do something like that, the entire Class B would be punished, and their class evaluation score could very well be reset to zero.

Hearing Katsuragi's explanation, the students present who knew they weren't that person were somewhat unwilling, and all looked at the silent Koenji Rokusuke on the podium.

"Give up fantasy and get ready to vote."

Under the watchful eyes of everyone in the classroom, Meili tossed her hair and gave the order:

"Proceed with the original plan and use conservative tactics!"

336. An unprecedented miracle; to kill someone is to destroy their spirit.

It was exactly 9:00 AM.

As the exam bell rang, Hoshinomiya Chie walked into the classroom with her usual childlike smile.

"Next is class voting time. Students whose names are called, please move to the voting room in order and please be quiet."

Obviously, in order to ensure the effectiveness of anonymous voting, the school does not intend to allow students to vote simultaneously in their respective classrooms.

Perhaps they were worried that each other would interfere with the exam process by peeking or making gestures.

Immediately afterwards, the class teacher of Class A picked up the attendance book and began calling out names one by one.

Because each person only received three votes for praise, three votes for criticism, and one vote for praise from another class, the voting process proceeded quite quickly, and soon it was Aragaki Shun's turn...

.........

The entire class vote took less than two hours from start to finish.

By around 11 a.m., the school had finished counting all the votes and instructed each class teacher to announce the exam results that day.

Grade 1, Class A.

Hoshinomiya Chie stood on the podium and looked around at all the students below.

"Now I'm going to announce the results of the supplementary special exam. First up is the first place winner, Shiraishi Asuka, who received 48 votes."

"Congratulations! According to the exam rules, you can now choose between protecting your points or having a permanent transfer slot. However, once you make a choice, you cannot change it."

This was a predetermined result, and there were no surprises. Therefore, Shiraishi simply stood up with a smile and decisively chose the permanent transfer spot.

In this way, from now on, as long as she is not expelled from school, she will participate in class competitions as a member of Class A at Advanced Education until she completes her studies and leaves the campus.

"Then, from second place to second to last place, it's amazing that all these students got 0 votes. There were no extra votes for praise or criticism."

When Hoshinomiya announced the result, his expression was very strange, and everyone else in the classroom turned their attention to their class monitor.

It's obvious that this was a result deliberately arranged by Shun Aragaki.

The specific implementation is also very simple—

Because of Shiraishi Asuka's transfer to another class, there are now 49 students in Class A. The exam rules state that students cannot vote for themselves, so the first place needs to be determined first, and the remaining 48 students will all give her a vote of praise. Meanwhile, the last place will receive 48 votes of criticism.

Since each person has three praise votes and three criticism votes, the remaining praise and criticism votes of the other students are cast for Ichinose Honami and Kanzaki Ryuji, respectively.

48 praise votes and 48 criticism votes cancel each other out, and the result is zero.

In this way, all the other votes were cast, leaving only the first place winner, Ichinose, and Kanzaki with one praise vote each, and the last place winner, Ichinose, and Kanzaki with one criticism vote each.

These votes can all be cast for Chihiro Shiranami, then the pool will be reset to zero, resulting in the final voting result.

The first place winner, Shiraishi Asuka, received 48 praise votes, the last place winner received 48 criticism votes, and all the other students received 0 votes.

In this situation, even if Class B of the first grade, which only has 37 votes from other classes, cast all their votes for any one person in Class A, they cannot change the current ranking, let alone affect the first and last place.

Perhaps because Koenji and Ayanokouji also knew this, they did not waste their efforts in Class A, resulting in the class vote proceeding exactly as Aragaki Shun had originally planned, without any unexpected events.

"Next up is the last one, Aragaki-san, who received 48 critical votes."

Hoshinomiya put down the document recording the exam results, smiled at all the students below the stage, and mischievously made a flustered and funny gesture.

"Oh dear, oh dear, I never expected our class monitor to be facing the risk of dropping out of school. What should we do?"

"It's simple, I'll just provide some points!"

Somewhat bored, Shun Aragaki rested his chin on his hand, took out his phone, and transferred 20 million yen directly to the school's account.

The kickbacks he received from Yuecheng Changcheng were easily spent, but including the 976 million contract funds he collected from the first and second year students in March, his personal points in his account still exceeded a small goal, reaching 10880 million.

"That should be fine. The school probably isn't planning on pulling any more tricks, right?"

"Of course, the school may sometimes act inhumanely, but it would be too outrageous to change the rules after the exam results are already out."

Hoshinomiya made an "OK" sign, and seeing the eager expressions on the faces of the students below the stage, he clapped his hands in congratulations:

"Congratulations! Class A has once again passed the special test with all members intact. Not a single one of you is missing."

It should be said that there is now one more member in the classroom, and once the results for other classes are announced, there may be two or even three more transfer students.

This year's students have truly created an unprecedented miracle!

"oh--!!!"

In an instant, the entire classroom was filled with cheers.

For the students in Class A, victory is nothing new, but they are still inevitably a little nervous in the face of the school's malicious withdrawal exam.

Now that the results are in, and none of the students in the class were hurt, that's wonderful!

Shunya Aragaki was also caught up in the atmosphere and a smile involuntarily appeared on his face. But when he looked around, he suddenly met the gaze of Asuka Shiraishi, who was quietly observing the new environment. Only then did he remember that the contract on the other person's body had not been completely torn off.

So the leader of Class A simply summoned his personal class fund administrator and went straight to the point, asking, "How much balance is left in the class account? Is it enough to help Shiraishi and another student from Class B redeem themselves?"

It sounds strange, but in a sense, breaking the subsidiary contract with 20 million personal points is actually quite similar to "redeeming oneself".

These kinds of class rules and supplementary contracts were originally created by Shun Aragaki to deal with transfer tickets.

If a student who voluntarily signs such a contract later leaves the original group and transfers to another class, the students in the original class have the right to apply to the school for arbitration regarding withdrawal.

Such a severe punishment would definitely be enough to deter the vast majority of ordinary students, but for cheaters who have accumulated a huge amount of personal points, it would simply increase the cost of transferring classes from 20 million to 40 million.

Having secured a permanent transfer slot, there's no need to pay a transfer fee. Just consider the 20 million redemption fee used to break the contract, and you can offset the expulsion penalty and continue the transfer.

In other words, to win over Shiraishi Asuka and the top-ranked student in Class B's praise votes, Class A would have to pay the school a total of 40 million personal points.

He estimated that the savings in the class account alone seemed insufficient.

And that was indeed the case. Ryuji Kanzaki, as the class fund administrator, opened the corresponding interface on his phone and showed Shun Aragaki a seemingly meager number—2870 million.

"If it's paid in installments using class transfer vouchers, that would be fine, but it's a bit difficult to come up with 40 million at once. Perhaps we'll need to collect some personal points from classmates to make up the shortfall."

As the person in charge of the class's finances, Kanzaki felt immense pressure, since every time Aragaki Shun launched a talent poaching strategy, it cost at least 20 million yen.

With such extravagant spending, even if Class A is wealthy, it will soon be difficult to support itself solely through class funds.

"There's still 2870 million? That's more than I estimated."

Shun Aragaki nodded. He had another set of accounts in his mind and didn't think there was anything wrong with the balance.

After all, eight students had transferred into Class A before today.

The expenses for Shiina Hiyori and Yamamura Miki were covered by Aragaki Shun, Sakayanagi Arisu paid out of her own pocket, and Horikita Suzune also had help from her older brother in Class 3-A. Their respective 20 million yen expenses have all been settled.

But the remaining four students, namely Wang Meiyu, Kamuro Masumi, Morishita Ai, and Kito Hayato, were able to stay in this classroom only because of transfer vouchers paid from class funds.

In other words, starting from September last year, Class A had to spend 800 million personal points every month, in installments over 10 months, until the transfer of the four students was finally completed in June this year.

Fortunately, Class A's evaluation score was high enough, reaching 2822 points before the mixed-study exam. With 48 students gathered together, the monthly class fee was 677 million, which prevented the class fee savings from declining too quickly.

After the mixed training camp, the class evaluation score increased to 3418 points, and the monthly class fees surged again, reaching a total of 820 million.

It's important to know that before June of this year, Class A's fixed expenses that required the use of class funds were only 800 million transfer vouchers per month, 20 management fees, and a few miscellaneous expenses... If they hadn't continued to poach students, the class account should have been balanced by now. Once June was over and they no longer needed to maintain the transfer vouchers, they would immediately enter an era of financial surplus.

But this sudden expenditure of 40 million is indeed necessary, which is a real headache.

“Since last September, I’ve been watching the class fund savings keep decreasing. I thought I wouldn’t have to worry about the balance anymore once the mixed training camp income came in. But now, Aragaki, you’ve made two more large expenditures.”

Ryuji Kanzaki shrugged weakly, indicating that he had really done his best. "After learning about your plan, I even went to see Ai Morishita and Hayato Kito and collected one million yen from each of them. That's probably why the class fund balance is different from your estimate."

So that's how it is. After factoring in this extra income, the remaining class funds are almost the same as what Shun Aragaki estimated.

He had been wondering why Shiraishi Asuka needed to use a transfer ticket to become the top vote-getter in Class A, which made the boy's estimate two million less.

As for Kanzaki specifically seeking out Morishita Ai and Kito Hayato to collect personal points... that's actually quite normal.

Of the eight students who have transferred to Class A, the four who paid in full were not paid for by the class, while the other four who used transfer vouchers had different circumstances—

Wang Meiyu made significant contributions to the special exam, and Kamuro Masumi also served as Aragaki Shun's representative in Class B. The transfer fees for both of them were entirely covered by Class A.

Only Morishita Ai and Kito Hayato were lucky enough to catch the wave of Class A's talent recruitment strategy, and thus managed to get on board, but in reality, they didn't contribute much to the class.

Therefore, according to the rules and regulations, the two of them need to make up for the corresponding contributions or personal points in the future.

It's worth mentioning that after this special exam, Shiraishi Asuka and the person who received the most praise votes in Class B received the same treatment. After all, as purely lucky ones, it was they who wanted to transfer to Class A, not Class A that needed them.