"So I'm being treated hostilely because I embarrassed her brother?"
Horikita Manabu's speech has ended, and everyone is free to find a club of their interest to join, and Aragaki Shun just learned the name of the girl with long black hair from Ichinose Honami.
He didn't know Horikita Suzune, and the thing he had done before that might have caused the other party's hostility was just interrupting Horikita Manabu's spell.
Judging from their last names and their respective grades, the other person should be Horikita Manabu's sister, right?
"So why is the student council president's sister in Class D?"
Aragaki Shun was confused for a moment, then immediately put this unimportant matter behind him.
There are so many people who hold malice towards him. If the area where this malice originated was not Class D of the first grade, a class he had never come into contact with, he might not really care who else disliked him.
Now he has a basic understanding of the many clubs in the gymnasium, and he can easily find the target when he wants to challenge them later.
He looked at his phone again and saw that the time he had agreed to meet with someone was almost up.
So Aragaki Shun greeted Kanzaki and started saying goodbye to his classmates.
"Ichinose, I'll leave the class to you. Kanzaki and I will go deal with a hidden danger."
"I understand. If you have anything to do, please go ahead. Everyone in the class will take care of themselves."
After leaving the First Gymnasium with the silent Ryuji Kanzaki, the two headed towards a high-end restaurant in the commercial street with a clear goal. After explaining the situation to the waiter, the staff politely led them to a private room where someone was already waiting.
He was a burly blond man who exuded an air of freedom. Even when Shun Aragaki and Ryuji Kanzaki came in, he just looked up and then continued to comb his hair as if no one was around while admiring his appearance in the mirror.
"First time meeting you, the only son of the Koenji chaebol. So you have this kind of personality?"
Aragaki Shun looked at Kouenji Rokusuke with a strange expression. He has always been confident in his appearance, but he has never been like the other person who would take out a mirror to show off his looks in public.
"My beauty is unique in the world. If I don't take good care of it and let it get dusty, it will be an irreparable loss to the history of world art."
"Are you right, two respected Gentlemen?"
Koenji Rokusuke briefly showed a nobleman's smile. After seeing Aragaki Shun and Kanzaki Ryuji both sat down, he did not continue to be arrogant. Instead, he asked the waiter to bring the menu, indicating that they could order first.
"You're really narcissistic." Aragaki Shun didn't know how to describe the other person's personality.
But never mind, this kind of thing doesn't matter.
After taking the menu and ordering a few dishes at random, before the dishes were served, Aragaki Shun went straight to the point and stated the reason for inviting Koenji.
"Let's get down to business, Kouenji Rokusuke. I'm going to petition the Advanced Training Board to restrict Chairman Sakayanagi's authority over the first-year students. Could you please sign on?"
"Oh, what's the reason?" Kouenji Rokusuke was a little curious. "Why do you want to do such a thankless task? It's not fun to offend the chairman of High School."
The Koenji Zaibatsu is a powerful capital group that has a strong influence throughout Sakurajima and can monopolize a certain financial field.
For ordinary people, this is a behemoth that can send them to heaven or hell with just a slight movement of their fingers.
But on the one hand, Koenji Rokusuke now only has the qualifications to be the heir to the Koenji Zaibatsu, but does not truly control the Koenji Zaibatsu, and the zaibatsu resources he can mobilize are ultimately limited.
On the other hand, although Gaoduyucheng High School is just a school and seems inconspicuous, strictly speaking, the connections that have been gathered here over the years can be called the Gaoyu academic clique.
Every year, forty students from Class A are randomly selected from any prestigious universities and companies with government support. After more than ten years, these highly trained graduates have already covered all walks of life.
In addition, among the students who graduated from advanced training in the past, there are many people with strong backgrounds such as Shun Aragaki, Ryuji Kanzaki, and Rokusuke Koenji, such as the second-year eldest daughter of the Kiryuin family.
When this huge network of contacts is assembled, it is definitely not weaker than the financial tycoon power of Koenji Rokusuke's family.
If we take into account the political background behind Koukou Yucheng, which supports this school as a political achievement, a young man who has not yet inherited a chaebol may not necessarily attract the attention of the chairman of Koukou Yucheng.
Putting aside other things, just looking at the school's nonchalant throwing of Koenji Rokusuke into the D Class trash pile, you can tell that the group of people in the school responsible for assigning classes definitely did not consider Koenji Rokusuke's feelings.
"It's really a thankless task. If I had a choice, I wouldn't want to offend the highly nurtured chairman for no reason."
Aragaki Shun nodded. He actually just wanted to go to school peacefully. "But there's nothing we can do. The chairman took action for his daughter first. We can't just let him do whatever he wants, right?"
With Koenji Rokusuke looking somewhat confused, Aragaki Shun briefly explained the hidden rules such as class points, individual points, and Class A competition, as well as the information about Arisu Sakayanagi from the first-year Class A.
Given Koenji Rokusuke's identity, he wouldn't be able to keep this kind of thing a secret for long, and judging by his previously nonchalant demeanor, he didn't seem to care about the first-year students in Class D, so it wouldn't hurt to just tell them the information directly.
As expected, Koenji Rokusuke was just thinking about something the whole time and was not surprised by the truth about the school revealed by Aragaki Shun.
"The chairman's actions are truly unbeautiful. He doesn't recognize my beauty and throws me into a filthy garbage dump. He really needs to respond."
Koenji Rokusuke is a little dissatisfied!
He didn't care whether he was assigned to Class A or Class D. The future promised by the school had no appeal to the chaebol heir, and the interviewer's evaluation meant nothing to him.
But putting him in the mud full of idiots is a blasphemy to his beauty. If he has the chance, he doesn't mind repaying the chairman's arrangement.
"I checked the student list for next grade's Class C earlier, thinking I might find a surprise or two, but I didn't find any familiar names or surnames."
Aragaki Shun said with some regret.
If there were people in Class C with similar identities, then Aragaki Shun would be able to understand the school's arrangement. It was nothing more than letting these children of the powerful occupy their own side, and no one could use their identity to suppress anyone else.
It turned out not to be!
Then he could only suspect that Chairman Sakayanagi was secretly favoring his daughter.
It's impossible that the three of them have bigger flaws than Arisu Sakayanagi?
22. The reason why Kouenji was assigned to Class D
For the physical and mental health of his sick daughter, the chairman specially arranged Sakayanagi Arisu to the best first-grade class A.
He was also worried that other young people with extraordinary identities and backgrounds would not give his daughter face, so he sent Aragaki Shun, Kanzaki Ryuji, Koenji Rokusuke and others to other classes.
This is Shun Aragaki's secret speculation about Chairman Sakayanagi's psychology.
Although it sounds like a conspiracy theory, he has never had much trust in the character of such superiors.
What's more, he also heard that there was a senior in the second grade who was similar to Koenji Rokusuke in both personality and status. Her name was Kiryuin Kaede, and she was assigned to Class A when she entered school last year.
The two were in similar situations, but were assigned to Class A and Class D respectively. He couldn't help but suspect that the difference was that there was an additional daughter of the chairman in Class A of the first grade.
"Have you offended the chairman, Kouenji? I'll just assign you to Class D. Kanzaki and I will at least be able to stay in Class B."
Aragaki Shun looked at the blond man who claimed to be extremely beautiful with amusement, and was really curious about the reason why he was assigned to Class D.
To be able to become the heir to a chaebol, one must have basic abilities.
Otherwise, even if he is the only son of the chaebol leader, it is unlikely that he will be recognized as the heir.
After all, the chaebol itself is a monopoly capital group formed with a large family as the core and combining the same clan and close relatives.
Since it is a big family, there must be more people than just the head of the family. If the head of the family's only son is really a waste, then just replace him with a more suitable person in the family.
Even if the family is small, as long as there is a daughter, it is acceptable to select a son-in-law who is of suitable age and ability from the most promising senior managers of the company.
After all, many companies in Sakurajima agree with the idea that "it is better to pass the inheritance rights to outsiders than to pass them to one's own son with low abilities."
Some chaebol leaders even publicly stated that they would prefer daughters to sons.
Because he has a daughter, he can actively choose the son he wants.
“That’s really an ugly question.”
Koenji Rokusuke was obviously depressed by Aragaki Shun's teasing, but even so, he did not ignore the boy's questions directly, but forced himself to recall.
Although he always acts as he pleases to the outside world, he is still willing to be a little polite when interacting with people of the same level.
"I don't think I've ever offended the chairman. If nothing unexpected happens, the person who assigned me to Class D should be the interviewer."
Kouenji just doesn't care about what others think, but he can easily observe other people's attitude towards him.
The interviewer's displeasure was extremely obvious at the time.
"What kind of interviewer is so confident?"
Not only was Aragaki Shun's curiosity not satisfied, it tended to intensify.
You know, he had asked Hoshinomiya Chie before, and since the establishment of High-Level Development High School, there has never been a record of Class D becoming Class A.
As for the other path of transferring to another class by collecting 20 million personal points through personal ability, it has only existed in theory so far.
In other words, based on past experience, in the eyes of that interviewer, Kouenji Rokusuke would definitely be stuck in Class D and would not be able to graduate from Class A.
Having offended a chaebol heir like this, isn't he afraid that Koenji Rokusuke will come out to take revenge on him in three years?
"..."
This time, Koenji ignored Aragaki Shun and just looked at himself in the mirror.
Well, it seems that the other party is either a highly trained tentacle sent by high-ranking government officials, or a close relative of Chairman Sakayanagi.
Since Koenji Rokusuke didn't want to say it, Aragaki Shun couldn't force him, so he changed the subject.
"After the board makes its decision, Kanzaki will discuss this with Chairman Sakayanagi. Do you need me to help you get reasonable compensation?"
Aragaki Shun pointed at Ryuji Kanzaki next to him, implying that the group he belonged to had a close connection with the Sakayanagi family, and that he could first discuss the compensation matter with Chairman Sakayanagi.
Koenji Rokusuke shook his golden hair that fell on his shoulders and wanted to refuse, but after thinking about it, he nodded and accepted the suggestion.
Although it is not necessary, owing a small favor to the adopted son of the Aragaki family and the heir of Kanzaki Heavy Industries is also a reasonable way to establish connections.
After all, although the power of the Koenji Zaibatsu in Sakurajima is considerable, it is far from unmatched.
There are many groups in this country that can be called chaebols, and there are more than a dozen well-known ones.
Add to that the many political parties, local tycoons, educational cliques, feudal remnants, and representatives of other powerful countries...when you put it all together, it's difficult for the Koenji Zaibatsu to maintain its position at the forefront of upper class society.
Of the two people in front of him, Ryuji Kanzaki is okay. In the field of financial capital, the Koenji Zaibatsu is much better than Kanzaki Heavy Industries.
However, the political power of the Aragaki family represented by Aragaki Shun is not comparable to that of the Koenji zaibatsu.
In other words, in this regard, they are not even as good as the Sakayanagi family who control a high level of training.
In any case, if the chaebols want to expand their influence and convert their huge wealth into corresponding status, they must unite with political forces.
Otherwise, just having money will make you a fat sheep to be slaughtered by government agencies that wield violence.
It won't hurt to make friends with the heir of the Aragaki family now.
"Then please report this to the chairman for me. The senior ladies and gentlemen may pay some points to admire my beauty."
After knowing the truth about this school, Koenji Rokusuke was no longer interested in the so-called class competition.
This was not only because he had personally experienced how rubbish Class D was in the past two days, which had immediately given up the idea of leading the class for fun.
This is also because before coming to school, he exposed his information on the official website of his family's company.
In this way, as long as you make a promise or two to the seniors who are about to graduate from the third year, you can easily trade a lot of personal points from them.
As long as he wanted, he could accumulate 20 million personal points in just a few days and pass through the school directly. It would be no challenge at all.
"Straightforwardly trade your personal points with cash to go solo? I'm a little curious about how amazing your D class is."
Shun Aragaki understood what Kouenji was thinking, but he just couldn't understand how bad the first-year Class D was that he had no idea at all.
As for whether the chairman will agree with Kouenji's approach, there is no need to worry.
Under normal circumstances, there is always a shortage of children of powerful families among the students admitted to Gaojiaoyucheng. This obvious loophole should have been plugged long ago, otherwise there would not be a single student who has successfully been promoted to a higher class by relying on 20 million personal points.
However, now that the chairman may be partial and has assigned the chaebol's only son to Class D, which he has never successfully competed for in the past, under this special circumstance, the school's top management should tacitly allow Koenji to use this loophole.
It's impossible to let the heir of the Koenji chaebol really get stuck in the quagmire of Class D, right?
23. Tens of millions of points
Kouenji Rokusuke naturally doesn't care about the treatment of Class A graduates.
After all, most of the students who graduate from Class A, even with the help of a high-level high school, will probably just end up becoming high-level employees under these chaebols and famous companies.
Although the treatment in Class A was meaningless to him, not being able to graduate from Class A was not a good thing for Kouenji.
This not only tarnishes his personal aesthetics, but is also likely to affect the evaluation of him by his family elders.
After all, it's really not nice that the heir to a chaebol can't compete with a group of ordinary students in a university...
If some unexpected situation arises further and the student is expelled from school and sent home in disgrace, the scene will be even more explosive.
Since ancient times, power has never been something you can take for granted just by sitting in that position.
Even the emperors in ancient times who were called the Son of Heaven and possessed natural legality and sacredness were sometimes sidelined or even deposed by powerful ministers.
If you want to give orders, the prerequisite is that someone will listen to your orders, and the second and third in command who are second only to you in status will not deliberately make trouble.
Therefore, after saying goodbye to Koenji, although Aragaki Shun did not reach any more deals with him, he at least learned that the other party still had some ideas about Class A.
It was impossible to get Kouenji Rokusuke to put too much energy into participating in class competition, but if he could easily accumulate a large number of personal points, he wouldn't mind doing a little bit of activity.
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