"Shiina and Kaneda are also stupid. Rather than saying your actions in this VIP Exam were stupid, it would be more accurate to say that your actions have made me feel they were stupid since the Uninhabited Island. Clearly, there was an optimal solution, yet you were fighting tooth and nail over those petty profits. Don't you find it ridiculous?"
Ryuuen's questioning made Amane narrow her eyes.
"Why do you come to me to say such things, instead of saying it to them just now?"
"Because perhaps only you can understand me. If I'm not mistaken, you are privately purchasing the personal points of the third and second years, right?"
Ryuuen directly exposed Amane's plan, which surprised Amane a little. However, thinking about it, there was actually nothing to be surprised about; after all, she had so many trading partners, and you couldn't expect everyone to keep it a secret.
"That's right, I am collecting personal points. Could it be that you are envious and also planning to get a share of the pie?"
Amane asked teasingly.
Ryuuen shook his head.
"It's already too late for me. I'm afraid the bulk of their personal points has already been cleanly harvested by you. Secondly, I don't have the capital to purchase points like you do; this path is not viable for me. How many points have you collected from the two grades? Is it one hundred million?"
Ryuuen first denied Amane's suggestion. The intelligence Ryuuen obtained was that Amane was actually exchanging money and personal points at a one-to-one ratio.
This was something that could only be done with economic conditions that Ryuuen had to look up to. Coupled with the fact that Amane had been purchasing for half a year, having almost squeezed the personal points of the second and third years dry, how could she possibly leave any opportunity for him?
Therefore, this path was completely unfeasible for him.
"How could there be that much? The expenses of students in other grades are also quite large, and their Class C and Class D are almost at their wits' end. Collecting a few tens of millions is already the limit. One hundred million points? In my opinion, it's only possible to collect that many points once we become third years."
Amane's answer was about what Ryuuen expected, but this also directly plunged his plan into a desperate situation. If even Amane, who was purchasing points on a large scale, couldn't even save up one hundred million personal points, could his plan for eight hundred million personal points really succeed?
"Then what are you collecting points for? If you want to protect yourself, then with your ability, twenty million is enough; there is absolutely no need to waste money. But if you want to take the entire Class D to Class A, what you need is over seven hundred million personal points. This should be a number that is almost impossible to earn normally. Then what is your purpose for purchasing so many personal points?"
Ryuuen was curious about the use of Amane's excessive collection of points.
With Amane's ability, unless school rules were to exclude Amane, it would be almost difficult to have Amane expelled.
Having one protection was more than enough, and one could even use these points to ascend to Class A on their own. Ryuuen could not imagine how a class with Sakayanagi plus Amane and Katsuragi could be broken.
In all likelihood, Amane would also graduate in Class A along with Sakayanagi and the others.
But Amane did not choose to ascend to the class alone, yet she was still continuously collecting points. Ryuuen initially thought that Amane, like his plan, wanted to take the entire class to Class A.
Later, he discovered that after Amane didn't care that much about Class D, he fell into confusion.
What was her purpose?
"Purpose? If I said I was collecting points to enjoy myself to the fullest, would you believe it?"
"Enjoy yourself to the fullest? That could also be considered a reason."
The reason Amane gave seemed absurd and ridiculous to a normal person, more like an excuse, but Ryuuen believed it because neither he nor Amane could be considered normal.
Powerful people always have thoughts that others cannot understand.
If Amane is just the type of person who wants to enjoy the material life brought by Advanced Nurturing High School, then there's nothing more to say.
"Since you want to enjoy yourself, shouldn't you be maximizing your benefits? As long as everyone on the Uninhabited Island joined forces, every class could have obtained hundreds of Class Points and millions of Private Points, yet you all chose to give up. And what was the result? You did get quite a few Class Points, but Class Points cannot be converted into cash immediately. When you need money, Class Points are nothing more than a string of numbers—completely worthless!!!"
Ryuuen's words had some merit. Are Class Points important? Of course they are; the higher the Class Points, the higher the Private Points that can be received each month.
This makes accumulating points very convenient, but as Ryuuen said, at critical moments, Class Points are just a string of numbers and cannot be traded or converted into cash. Ryuuen had already paid the price for private trading of Class Points before.
"Everyone's understanding of benefits is different. Not being able to see the correct answer is also... No, even if they discovered the correct answer, they would still have to weigh the pros and cons. Take Class A, for example. Why would Class A, with over a thousand Class Points, risk betrayal to cooperate with you? Each person there gets over a hundred thousand Private Points a month. If something really happened, they could actually scrape together twenty million points. So, from Katsuragi's perspective, his interest requirement is just to maintain stability. As long as he doesn't make mistakes, Sakayanagi won't have any say. Without any say, the leader of Class A remains him, Katsuragi Kohei. They have no need to take risks for some Class Points or Private Points; those have never been their requirements."
Ryuuen took a deep breath and then slowly exhaled, trying to calm his emotions. Admittedly, what Amane said was completely correct.
The reason Ryuuen was dissatisfied with this VIP Exam was that if all classes were willing to cooperate instead of being greedy for private gain, and all twelve groups ended the exam with Result 1, each class could have brought in eighteen million Private Points at once. Adding in the four-person groups, the holders of the ghost card, and the fact that the Private Points obtained by the favored person would double, if all these factors were combined, getting over twenty million points at once wouldn't be a problem.
But every class wanted to be the winner, and the result was that the rewards all classes received were insignificant compared to twenty million Private Points!
Take Class C, for example. This time they got 250 Class Points. Class C only gives 25,000 Private Points per person per month. Class C has a total of 39 people, which is 975,000 a month—it looks like a lot, that's true.
But to save up twenty million points would take a full twenty months! And that's assuming everyone hands them over and doesn't lose these Class Points.
Even in the most ideal state, it would take until near graduation to save up twenty million points. What use would they be then?
However, he didn't intend to say these things to Amane because, through probing, he discovered that Amane and he were not on the same path. They had different goals and could not work together. What he wanted to do was something unprecedented: save up eight hundred million points and take the whole class directly up to Class A.
But Amane only wanted to enjoy the material satisfaction brought by Private Points. Their methods of obtaining points were not completely the same, so it didn't count as a conflict of interest.
"If one day I used twenty million points to trade you into our class, would you come?"
"I refuse."
"The reason?"
"The only ones worth looking at in your Class C are Hiyori and Ibuki, right? There are only three or four girls above the average line. Why would I go to your class? Although Class D has a bunch of problems, there are tons of pretty girls there. Why would I be stupid enough not to enjoy myself in Class D?"
Amane's expression of disgust completely broke Ryuuen's composure.
He had long expected that Amane wouldn't agree to this request, but he never expected that the reason she refused to come to Class C was that she disliked the fact that there were few good-looking girls in Class C.
"Hmph, then we'll see. I'm a petty person. Everyone is racking their brains to become Class A, and you still want to enjoy yourself? No way. When the time comes, I'll use a little trick to make those people around you jealous, and let's see how you enjoy yourself then."
"Ryuuen Kakeru!!! Do you believe I'll kick you into the sea right now?"
"Hahahaha, did you forget I know how to swim? I admit I lost a few times before, but it doesn't matter. There will be plenty of opportunities to face off in the future. If you are careless... I don't mind making you spit out everything you got from me."
Ryuuen laughed loudly while quickly leaving the deck.
Hard-mouthed as he was, he didn't doubt for a second that Amane would actually kick him into the sea.
"Tch, he ran away pretty fast. If I had known, I should have given him a kick earlier."
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