I have a life simulator.

“I won’t restrict your stealing behavior, and if you really only get stimulation from stealing, what I’m making you do might satisfy you even more.”

Ayanokoji Kiyotaka took another step closer.

He could see that Kamuro Masumi had already shown signs of interest, and if he pressed her a little harder, Kamuro Masumi would become the first pawn he had placed in Class A.

Accomplices have always been the most stable relationship in the world.

"Thieves, and accomplices who harbor thieves."

Kiyotaka Ayanokouji's expression changed, and he quickly turned around, just in time to bump into Ryo Kitagawa, who was walking out of the nearby woods.

What sank him even further was that the other person was holding what looked like a brand-new digital camera.

In other words, all of his conversation with Masumi Kamuro had been heard and even recorded by her.

"It seems like there will be dropouts on the first day of school."

Kitagawa Ryo said with no small amount of sarcasm.

If Ichinose Honami had witnessed Kamuro Masumi's theft, she would have paid the full amount owed to Kamuro Masumi and then earnestly tried to dissuade her.

But Kiyotaka Ayanokoji would never do that.

Kitagawa Ryo knew the other party's personality very well. In fact, he had prepared to follow Kamuro Masumi for a long time. However, he did not expect to run into the scene he was looking forward to on the first day. As expected, Ayanokouji Kiyotaka wanted to use this as a threat to bring Kamuro Masumi into his toolbox.

"Ayanokouji Kiyotaka, don't worry too much. After all, covering up the theft certainly won't get you expelled."

"but--"

Kitagawa Ryo drew out his words, repeating Ayanokouji Kiyotaka's earlier statement:

"Even if I report it to the school, you probably won't suffer much harm. But even so, the fact that Ayanokouji Kiyotaka is the kind of person who protects thieves and whose first reaction upon discovering a theft is to threaten the thief will be exposed. In that case, Ayanokouji-kun's remaining three years at this school won't be easy, will it?"

Kitagawa Ryo smiled knowingly.

Chapter 40: The Advantages of Information Gap

Compared to Class A in the first year of memory, this time Class A has added four people from the original Class D: Kiyotaka Ayanokouji, Kikyo Kushida, Rokusuke Koenji, and Yosuke Hirata. Meanwhile, Arisu Sakayanagi has been moved to Class D by Ryo Kitagawa. This means that the confrontation between Sakayanagi and Katsuragi that occurred in the previous simulation will not happen.

Kiyotaka Ayanokouji's personality dictates that the other party will not choose to stand in the forefront from the beginning. Rokusuke Koenji looks down on the entire class and even the school. Kikyo Kushida and Yosuke Hirata will not take the initiative to become the class leader for their own reasons. Therefore, the first obvious leader of Class 1-A will eventually fall to Kohei Katsuragi.

After all, even in his confrontation with Sakayanagi Arisu, Katsuragi Kohei managed to become the temporary leader of the class in the two special exams during the summer vacation, thanks to Arisu's physical condition. Now that Sakayanagi Arisu is in Class D, Katsuragi Kohei should be able to build connections and win people over even faster.

If Katsuragi Kohei is playing the role of Hirata Yosuke from Class D, then Ayanokouji Kiyotaka should need an accomplice, just like he used Horikita Suzune to hide himself back then. This accomplice's ability cannot be too low, because he needs to enter the class's decision-making circle in his place, but it cannot be too high either, otherwise it will be easy to get out of control. It would be even better if the accomplice had a weakness in his personality.

Coincidentally, there was indeed such a person in Class A of the first year.

In fact, Kamuro Masumi's temperament is somewhat similar to Horikita Suzune's. Kitagawa Ryo's understanding of her mainly comes from his occasional chat with Sakayanagi Arisu during Karuizawa Megumi's second mock exam. At that time, he even took advantage of her kleptomania to design a scheme against Class 1-B.

Therefore, Kitagawa Ryo judged that Kamuro Masumi would eventually come into Ayanokoji Kiyotaka's sights, but he did not expect that he would get his wish on the first day of school.

"How about it?"

Kitagawa Ryo put the digital camera back into his bag. It had cost him a considerable amount of points, but he knew that a digital camera would definitely be useful at Tokyo Advanced Educational High School.

Kamuro Masumi looked at Kitagawa Ryo with some suspicion. Even though she was the student who had committed the theft, Kitagawa's words so far seemed to be directed at her classmate, Ayanokouji Kiyotaka.

"What are your terms?"

After a brief moment of surprise, Kiyotaka Ayanokouji quickly recovered. He knew very well that the recording, or even the possible video recording, would not cause him any real harm, because Masumi Kamuro was in Class 1-A, his classmate.

If public opinion is properly guided beforehand, Kiyotaka Ayanokouji could even establish himself as a protector of his classmates, and the things he said in the recording were simply his hope that the other person could enrich himself with more proper hobbies and help his classmate correct this bad habit.

However, Kiyotaka Ayanokoji was more concerned about Masumi Kamuro's punishment.

It wasn't that he had any feelings for Kamuro Masumi, whom he had just met, but rather that it was indeed difficult to find someone like her who suited his needs. If he were to drop out of school because of this, he would not only lose a pawn, but the entire Class A might also be implicated.

Kiyotaka Ayanokouji was aware of the existence of class points. Although he didn't know how many class points would be deducted for students dropping out of the class, he figured it wouldn't be a small amount.

Therefore, Kiyotaka Ayanokoji chose to negotiate with Ryo Kitagawa.

He believed the other person was also intelligent.

"My condition for not releasing this video and audio recording is that Ayanokouji-san can sign a contract with me."

"The contract will be guaranteed by the school's notary power. The content is that Ayanokouji must hand over all the personal points issued by the school to me on the first of each month."

"You shouldn't be short of 100,000."

Kitagawa Ryo simply smiled slightly, but did not offer a reply.

However, Kiyotaka Ayanokouji had already extracted two useful pieces of information from the other party's words:

First, the school's notarization power can be used to sign contracts with others to ensure subsequent execution. Second, in this school, personal points are indeed equivalent to money in terms of purchasing power, but this is only part of its value. There must be a deeper reason why Kitagawa Ryo values ​​personal points so much.

Of course, it cannot be ruled out that the other party is preparing for the future. After all, Ayanokoji Kiyotaka had already observed that the senior D-class students had such a shortage of personal points that they had to rely on free daily necessities from convenience stores and free meals from the cafeteria to survive.

Even if there are ten geniuses in Class D of the first year, there are still thirty idiots left. The most distinctive feature of idiots at this age is their extreme egocentrism and short-sightedness, which means they can only care about what is in front of them.

Therefore, Kiyotaka Ayanokouji didn't care about handing over his monthly personal points to Ryo Kitagawa. He himself didn't care much about food and lodging. On the contrary, he was already prepared to expose the information that Ryo Kitagawa had tens of thousands of personal points when the students of Class D were in a difficult situation.

"I can accept."

Ayanokouji Kiyotaka nodded, and as if to show his sincerity, he transferred all the remaining 90,000 points from his student ID to Kitagawa Ryo's account. After the two signed the contract, Kitagawa Ryo deleted the audio and video recordings in front of him, and even took out the memory card from the digital camera and handed it to Ayanokouji Kiyotaka.

After finishing all this, Kitagawa Ryo hurriedly left. Kamuro Masumi also glanced at Ayanokouji Kiyotaka with a complicated expression before saying goodbye. Ayanokouji Kiyotaka was carrying a large plastic bag, which was probably the only food he could eat this month besides the free meals in the school cafeteria.

Ayanokouji Kiyotaka, who was about to leave the convenience store after slightly shaking his head, heard a rough roar coming from not far away:

"Don't look down on me just because I'm a freshman, hey!"

Looking in the direction the sound came from, a tall, red-haired boy was confronting three older students. He was holding a half-eaten bucket of instant noodles, apparently having been sitting there eating.

"You really dare to talk back to us second-year students, huh? Hey. Aren't our luggage stored here?"

The second-year student defiantly slammed his luggage down on his seat with a loud bang, and then the group burst into laughter.

"Okay, our luggage is here, so can you get out of here now, first-year students?"

The other person's aggressive language further provoked the red-haired boy, who clenched his fists as if to punch someone.

"What audacity, you scoundrel!"

The red-haired boy didn't seem afraid of the numerical disadvantage, but judging from his physique, he might actually be able to take on three opponents at once.

"Oh—that's scary. Which class are you in? No, let me guess. You're in Class D, right?"

The second-grade students made exaggerated expressions and gestures, and they deliberately spoke in a sarcastic tone.

"so what!"

Upon hearing this reply, all the senior students immediately looked at each other as if they had heard the funniest joke. After a short while, they suddenly burst into loud laughter.

"Did you hear that? He actually admitted he was from Class D. He really showed his true colors."

"Arguing with these defective people makes me feel ashamed, so I'll just leave this place to these pathetic bastards for today."

"I'm really looking forward to seeing that hot-tempered D class student again next month."

"At that time, you'll have to recognize your true identity, after all, you're going to fall into hell."

Ayanokouji Kiyotaka watched as the boys walked away, mocking them. The red-haired man glared angrily at them, looking so angry that he didn't even want to finish his noodles. He casually threw the instant noodle cup into a nearby trash can and left with his hands in his pockets.

I felt a little more at ease.

Therefore, Kiyotaka Ayanokouji did not agree with the other party's move to choose Class D. As the student body with the lowest quality among the four classes (A, B, C, and D), this irritable red-haired man was a typical microcosm of the entire Class D.

Not enough to be afraid of.

Class D will be doomed on its own.

After making this decision, Kiyotaka Ayanokouji left the scene.

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Student Association Building, Student Union.

As a very important part of the entire Tokyo Advanced Educational High School, the student council actually has a small number of members. In addition, the previous third-year students have just graduated and left, and the recruitment of new first-year students has not yet begun. Therefore, the student council is even quieter, with only the vice president, Nangumo Masa, handling the materials related to the recruitment presentations of various clubs tomorrow.

The tradition of Tokyo Advanced Educational High School is to start recruiting new members for clubs on the second day of school, and the student council is no exception. However, the student council president, Horikita Manabu, will be present at the event.

While organizing the materials, Nan Yunya idly wondered if she could meet two pretty junior girls during this year's recruitment. As the leader who led Class B to Class A, the vice president of the student council, and with her rather handsome appearance, Nan Yunya was quite confident in herself.

Just as Nan Yunya was a little distracted, the door to the student council was suddenly pushed open. At first, he thought it was one of his colleagues from the student council, but after not hearing a greeting for a while, he looked up in confusion and found that a freshman who had just entered the student council had entered.

Although she didn't know how the other party found this place, Nan Yunya still politely said:

"What brings this junior to the student union? If he's interested in joining, he can wait for the various club presentations and recruitment events tomorrow."

"Of course something's wrong."

The boy approached and smiled slightly. What bothered Nan Yunya was that the other person was undoubtedly top-notch in both appearance and temperament. Perhaps because of this, she subconsciously felt a strange sense of disgust.

"I am Kitagawa Ryo from Class D, Grade 1."

"First year... Class D? Oh, right, junior, just say what's on your mind."

Nan Yunya naturally knew the truth about Class D, but he couldn't reveal the specific information about the class assignments at this time, since it was part of the first month's special exam.

After all, this information is linked to important data such as [Class Points] and [Graduation from Class A]. If the freshmen of the four classes find out in advance, the special exam in the first month will lose its meaning, and each class will do its best to abide by the rules.

Kitagawa Ryo handed the phone to Nagumo Masaru. The screen showed a video of three second-year students confronting a first-year student. You could almost feel the tension in the air through the screen.

After watching the entire video, Nan Yunya also made a show of anger:

"For students who bully younger students by taking advantage of their seniority, we will definitely strengthen relevant education to make them deeply realize their mistakes. We will also make the three victims apologize."

However, Nan Yunya received no response from Kitagawa Ryo. Kitagawa Ryo had his hands on the table, and his dark pupils looked deep and mysterious, like a bottomless abyss.

"It's not school bullying."

Kitagawa Ryo stared into Nanono Aya's eyes and spoke.

Nan Yunya felt a chill creep up his spine from the base of his spine.

"These three second-year students seem to have revealed something they shouldn't have said."

"After all, class assignments at school are randomized, so how can you mock the students in Class D as defective products?"

"Could it be that the division of classes into ABCD actually has another meaning?"

"For example, if we rank them according to overall strength? In that case, Class D is indeed the weakest, so it seems like being ridiculed isn't a big deal."

Nan Yunya took a deep breath, and just as he was about to speak, he was immediately interrupted by Kitagawa Ryo.

"I heard that you're really making waves lately, not just in your own class, but you seem to be dominating the entire second year."

On the very first day of school, how much did the other party actually know about the school's rules, and how much intelligence had they gathered?

Nan Yunya even felt that Kitagawa Ryo was putting more pressure on him than Horikita Manabu at this moment, and he cursed those three people as idiots in his heart.

Except for some special exams (such as the midterm exam in the first semester), the school strictly prohibits senior students from revealing information about ongoing or future exams. The three grades are also separated into three different teaching buildings for this reason.

But these three guys dared to mock the first-year students on their very first day of school, and to make matters worse, they even went so far as to say that Class D was a collection of defective products.

This is a slap in the face to the school. If this video is made public, the four first-year classes will receive the crucial information a month in advance that class assignments are not random but based on ability. In serious cases, the special exams in the first month will be disrupted as a result.

Logically speaking, Nan Yunya should have immediately intervened as the vice president of the student council to prevent the situation from escalating and quickly dealt with the three people who leaked the information, even if it meant expulsion, since these three guys were just second-year students in Class C after all.

However, Nan Yunya was stuck at the point where she was feeling most uncomfortable.

His control and conquest of the entire second year had only just come to an end. He had finally managed to coordinate the initial balance among the classes and distribute the benefits of the other three classes while maintaining the status of Class A. If these three students were expelled or punished at this time, causing Class C's class points to drop significantly, the hard-won balance of the second year would immediately collapse completely.

If second-grade students were to find out that this was still orchestrated by Nagumo Masa...

Then Nan Yunya's reputation among the second-year students will be irreparably affected, since the second-year students support Nan Yunya in the hope that she will fulfill her promise after becoming the student council president.

"I can give you one million personal points, and this video will be destroyed."

Nan Yunya stared intently into the other person's pupils and announced the first price.

"I don't need points."

Kitagawa Ryo shook his head and reached out to swipe open his account page on his phone.

More than 2.18 million personal points.

New students on their first day of school.

For the first time, Nan Yunya showed a look of shock, and just as his mind wavered, Kitagawa Ryo also made his request:

"Two student council slots."

"……it is good."

Exhaling a heavy breath, Nan Yunya nodded hesitantly.