The Great Teacher's Skill-First Classroom

So, Hachiman held the phone and pressed the reject button.

Then he continued to press the button, and the other party continued to call. Then he continued to press the button.

"..."

Hiyori, who had been keeping an eye on him, looked puzzled.

"This person is very troublesome," Hachiman said. "Not only does his phone number not show up, but he's also constantly harassing me."

"If the harassment was to get things done, then that would be fine, but the other party transferred money to me three times, each time for 3 points."

"I'm not interested in doing things involving small amounts of points," said Hikigaya.

Aren't you interested in such a small amount?

Indeed.

Because this is Hikigaya-san.

He's grown up enough to spend 2000 million points to support a female classmate. So a mere 3 is really nothing.

Hiyori-san understands.

just.

It seems that Hikigaya-san has received the same request.

"Actually," Shiina explained her purpose, "Ryuuen also received the same transfer and phone call."

"Oh?" Hikigaya-san looked over.

"Ryuen-san didn't refuse the 1 points."

"But what interested him was the other party's actions. Since they could even hide their number, they must be interesting. So it was necessary to press the reject button a few times to test their patience. So Long Yuan rejected the other party's calls more than a dozen times before finally answering."

"After the call was connected, the other party didn't say anything. But he sent a message very quickly."

Hiyori said.

"The message says that the first-year students will have an in-class voting to drop out, and each class will be forced to have one student drop out. But the opinions of students from other classes can also influence the dropouts. Each student from other classes has one vote of praise and one vote of criticism, and he hopes to cast all the votes of criticism on a student in your class named Ayanokouji Kiyotaka." said Shiina.

"And one ticket costs 1 points."

"He wanted to buy 40 criticism tickets from my class."

"If you agree, he'll first transfer the 10 points as a deposit," Shiina said. "The balance will be paid after the exams are over."

Oh.

That's it.

Hikigaya-san understood.

Ayanokouji Kiyotaka, also known as Ayanokouji-san.

It is indeed so.

He remembered that Ayanokouji had a terrible father who wanted him to drop out of school.

Remember it’s the 31st now.

There is still one day left until the content and rules of the special exam will be announced on the 1st.

Ordinary students are not allowed to know.

In other words, the person who transferred the money and made the harassing phone calls may be a school staff member.

But Hachiman doesn't think so.

Because the school staff also have some points on them, after all, it is their salary.

So it is impossible to be so stingy, just taking out 10,000 or 20,000 points.

In other words, even though the number was unknown, the person calling was most likely a student, and not one that was very popular.

"Did Ryuuen agree?" Hachiman asked.

"I agreed," Shiina said. "I blocked him after receiving 10 points."

"..."

As expected of Ryuuen.

I knew that this kind of transaction was shady, and the transaction between students started at several million. A mere 40 was meaningless, so I blocked the other party after defrauding him of 11.

However, the soldier's money can be cheated, but the other party failed to harass him and instead harassed Long Yuan, which also shows that there must be something wrong with this special exam.

In other words.

Unfortunately, it came true.

I didn't see Chairman Sakayanagi eating on the third floor yesterday or during lunch break today. Something must have happened.

……

And very quickly.

After separating from Shiina, Hachiman received a file from his classmate Ayanokouji.

The other party said that he also received a harassing call.

The other party's number is unknown.

It’s just that the students’ cell phones have been specially modified so they can’t call people outside the local area, and people from outside can’t call in either. In other words, the person who just called him was from the school.

Hachiman clicked on the audio message sent by Ayanokouji.

There are only five simple words in it.

[Ayanokouji Kiyotaka]

Judging from the other person's voice, he sounds a bit young, so the probability of him being a student is very high.

Need to investigate.

In the evening, Hachiman came to the girls' dormitory.

Since Horikita went shopping, Hachiman had to go to Kushida's room.

"Hikigaya-san, is something wrong?"

Kushida, who opened the door, was like an angel. Boys are allowed to go into girls' rooms, but they generally don't unless there's something special going on. And they leave around 8:00 to avoid suspicion.

And now it is already 8:07.

It's obviously timed out.

But Kushida-san is still like an angel.

"Well, there's something. It's about Horikita. I hope to talk to you." I noticed a girl passing by with a kettle of water and looking over here. Maybe she thought Hikigaya-san was usually with Horikita, and was curious about someone else today. "Look, it's great that no one dropped out of the supplementary lessons this time. Horikita saw the effect of the supplementary lessons from me, and I hope the lessons can continue. Blah blah blah——"

Hachiman's words were ambiguous but sounded serious, which made the girl, who was originally curious about why Hachiman and Kushida met so late, lose interest immediately after hearing them and even left quickly.

This is a girl in the class.

At the same time, his face looked gloomy.

Since the exam has just ended, why do we need to continue taking extra classes?

Besides, Hikigaya must have studied for 10 hours every day to get high scores, but who wants to study for 10 hours every day?

No, no.

Only then was Hachiman able to officially enter Kushida's room.

"So what's going on so late?"

As a person with high emotional intelligence, the little angel Kushida understood that what Hachiman said just now was meaningless.

He must have come here for a purpose.

Actually, Kushida is feeling a little uneasy right now.

After learning that Ichinose-san had signed the same agreement as her, she wondered if she had become a meal replacement.

because.

I thought seriously about whether there was any aspect in which I could surpass Ichinose, but I found nothing.

Isn’t this too much?

Doesn't that mean that I might be abandoned by Hikigaya-san at any time?

So even if he didn't come to see her, she would still consider having a good talk with him.

"So, what's going on?"

Kushida repeated it again.

"I took on a mission, like after-sales service," Hachiman said. "Remember when I asked Ayanokouji-san to participate in the sports meet?"

Ayanokouji?

The sense of presence is very low.

But she is quite good looking.

It's just that Kushida feels that the other person is an autistic child who is not good at expressing himself.

However, he did not expect that the opponent's physical fitness would be so good that he became the most handsome guy in the sports meet, crushing Sudo.

"He had a unique background and his father was very powerful. He wanted him to drop out of school, but he didn't want to."

"But his father has connections at school who want him to drop out," Hachiman said.

"Oh." Kushida nodded calmly.

then.

Look at him.

"Aren't you very interested in other people's secrets?" Hachiman looked at Kushida strangely.

Because what he just said was revealing Ayanokouji-san's secret.

But Kushida-san didn't show any expression.

"You said his father is powerful, so he's a troublemaker. So why should I care?" Kushida said. "Or maybe I should just avoid him. I want to gather a lot of information about people, but I don't want to crash all at once."

"You're quite smart." Hachiman discovered that Kushida-san also had his shining points.

"Then now is the time to put your skills to use," Hachiman said. "He received a call from someone who didn't display their name."

"That's impossible."

Kushida blinked. As a social expert, she had called many people and received a lot of calls every day. The school forced them to enable caller ID on their mobile phones, so even if they didn't want to know, the other party's phone number would be displayed directly when they answered the call.

It's different if the name is not displayed.

"That's the truth." Hachiman handed Kushida his own phone.

“I also received unknown calls.”

Kushida opened her student ID card and looked at the 400 million figure with disgust. With another 2 million, Hikigaya could support two girls in Class A. Then she checked the received calls display.

The numbers in a row are all in the same state.

It displays symbols like ???.

It's an unknown number.

"Maybe it's a special treatment that you paid points for," Kushida said, "just like how a mailbox can be anonymous."

Ordinary email addresses come with mobile phones and are bound to the phone. You cannot apply for a new anonymous email address on your own, but you can spend some points to purchase a related email address from the teacher. The same applies to phone numbers.

"That's what I guessed too." Hachiman nodded.

"Then it could be a prank by a second- or third-year senior?" Kushida asked again.

"It shouldn't be a prank, because this call was also made to Ryuen, and Ryuen points were paid. The request was to help Ayanokouji drop out of school."

"So even though I didn't answer, the other party probably meant the same thing and wanted to drop out of school, Ayanokouji."

"But the reward was very low," Hachiman said. "He transferred money to me three times, each time for 1 points."

Oh.

3 million.