I have a life simulator.

"In fact, I think that compared to the top students in the class who receive a lot of praise and criticism, it is more likely that the students in the lower ranks will be the ones who get hurt. Because we want to protect the elite students in the class, we should give them as many praise votes as possible and avoid giving them as many criticism votes as possible."

"But the three criticism votes within the class must be cast, so some students will inevitably end up with several criticism votes, while they won't get many praise votes. So their final scores will likely be lower than the top students who are being targeted. It's a very simple math problem."

After Horikita Suzune finished speaking, Kitagawa Ryo nodded in agreement:

"Indeed, it's very difficult to completely control all the votes of every student in the class, because everyone is afraid of becoming the student that Suzune mentioned who was accidentally hurt. It's more likely that small groups will form and protect each other in advance."

Kitagawa Ryo knew very well that although they had changed from Class D to Class A, many deeper or more general things could not be changed in just a few months. Just like other classes, there were various cliques among the boys and girls in Class A. The specific details could be seen from the selection of riders in the horseback riding competition during the sports festival. However, Kitagawa Ryo did not care much about it on a daily basis, and he was very popular among both boys and girls, so he did not feel it very obviously.

If it weren't for Horikita Suzune's outstanding contribution to the class at the school festival, Kitagawa Ryo would probably have suspected that she would have received quite a few criticisms from within the class. After all, Suzune's social circle in the class was so narrow that she was basically the only one left, and she couldn't compare to Ichinose Honami, Sakura Airi, or even Sakayanagi Arisu, who each had their own small groups.

Moreover, this is still an ideal situation. After all, under the premise of anonymity, when it comes to voting, many students are probably more driven by emotions than by rationally analyzing everyone's daily performance and voting cautiously. They will likely make an emotional choice based on the idea that "I know so-and-so is not very useful in class, but he is my good friend."

Thinking of this, Kitagawa Ryo even missed the group of six, including Yamauchi Haruki and Ike Kanji, who were expelled in the middle of the first semester. After all, it was really hard to find such a ready-made, easy-to-use, and stress-free defensive position.

"The deadline for voting is December 20th of next month. We hope everyone can be patient and wait a little longer. At least for the time being, please do not submit your voting results to the school."

While Kitagawa Ryo was still talking to Horikita Suzune, Ichinose Honami, who was sitting in the front row and was used to being the class's nominal commander, gently asked the whole class for a favor. She quickly received a response from the entire class, and in this respect, her words were almost more effective than Kitagawa Ryo herself.

However, Kitagawa Ryo didn't have any objections to this. After all, Ichinose Honami was indeed capable enough to be the leader of Class A at this stage. Her performances in the sports festival and cultural festival were both remarkable and even amazing, which alleviated the awkward situation where Kitagawa Ryo had to shoulder everything in the first semester of Class A.

"Besides the class competition model, there might also be a class cooperation model. Because Class C in the first year—no, now it's Class D—does have this need. After all, Class D suffered a lot in the sports festival and the cultural festival, and now it has fallen to the bottom."

After discussing the competitive model, Horikita Suzune began to methodically analyze the possibilities of cooperation. In her view, the key to breaking the deadlock was the situation of Class 1-D.

Although Ryuen Sho regained his leadership of the class after the sports festival by signing a debt contract with most of the class, he suffered another crushing defeat at the cultural festival. The class's points were surpassed by Class D, causing the class to drop in rank. The previously stable situation undoubtedly became restless again, especially with the special exam that offered the opportunity to eliminate students in the class through criticism votes.

"Yes, I think so too. If we really want to talk, it can only be up to Ryuuen Sho to take the initiative or make concessions. But it's hard to say right now. Let's ask Hiyori when we have lunch."

Kitagawa Ryo nodded in agreement and prepared to use his lunch break to go and check on Shiina Hiyori's current situation in Class D.

Mentioning Shiina Hiyori's name reminded Horikita Suzune of the confession incident at the school festival that had been trending on the school forum these past few days, so she casually asked:

"You two haven't finished that feeding game yet?"

"I feel like I haven't gotten tired of the days yet, so there's nothing I can do about it."

"I feel that Liang can't be kept and pampered like this forever, let alone for a lifetime. It feels too heavy."

"Indeed, but it's good to live each day peacefully and enjoy every moment. If you accumulate them day by day, they might last a lifetime."

“I don’t understand.”

"Hmm... let me think, how about this?"

As he spoke, Kitagawa Ryo casually took out his phone and tapped it a couple of times:

"If Lingyin is interested, she can join us. After all, I really enjoy Lingyin's cooking. Here, your food allowance has already been sent."

As he finished speaking, Horikita Suzune's phone pinged, and a large amount of personal points transferred from Kitagawa Ryo immediately appeared on the main screen.

"How about this? This should be enough for a while. Let me think, based on what Hiyori said to me back then, should I say 'Rinne, take care of me' now? Hmm, Rinne, take care of me! As for the time... how long do you think these personal points will last, Rinne?"

It turns out that humans are creatures who unconsciously apply double standards.

Faced with Kitagawa Ryo's combo attack, Horikita Suzune was stunned for a while before slightly averting her gaze and answering in a very soft voice:

"...the rest of my life."

Take a day off

Nannan is taking a day off today.

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Chapter 359: What if they actually find out something? (4k5)

"In our class... it seems that Longyuan's idea is that no one can vote without his consent before he has finalized the entire plan."

As soon as lunch break arrived, Shiina Hiyori had already made her way to Class 1-A's classroom. When Kitagawa Ryo asked about the current situation in their class, she paused in her action of opening her lunchbox, and while thinking, she recounted what had happened in Class D that morning.

"So, Longyuan is still planning to force all the students in the class to fill out the praise and criticism ballots according to his wishes this time."

"That should be it."

With that, Shiina Hiyori solemnly clasped her hands together in front of her chest, whispered, "I'll begin," and then picked up her chopsticks.

"After all, our class was at the bottom of the class at yesterday's cultural festival, and our class score was surpassed by Class D."

The class's drop in rank was indeed an obvious failure, and Long Yuanxiang, as the leader, was naturally to blame. After all, if he hadn't cheated and been exposed, Class D wouldn't have suffered such a crushing defeat yesterday.

In theory, Ryuu Yuen-sho still has room to shift the blame in this matter. After all, compared to the other three classes, the previous Class C and the current Class D received significantly less additional funding during the cultural festival preparation phase. Not to mention compared to a monster like Class A, even Class B and the previous Class D received twice as much. It can be said that they were at a disadvantage in terms of funding from the very beginning.

However, this has been one of the hidden dangers that Class D has had since enrollment. There are too many students in the class who are idle and just getting by. Not only are they consistently at the bottom in terms of academic performance, always barely passing with low scores, but they are also lacking in club activities. The reason why they received less additional funding in the past is also due to this. Class C, on the other hand, knows how to get two students into the student council.

"Speaking of which, as soon as get out of class ended today, some classmates came to find me. I knew it without them even saying anything. They just wanted me to lead a small group to vote for Longyuan. I'm not doing that."

After the sports festival, Hiyori Shiina had pretty much seen through the true nature of many of the students in her class. Rather than supporting her, they simply wanted to raise a flag against Ryuen Sho.

As I said before, the entire Class D has been deeply imprinted with Long Yuanxiang's personal mark since the beginning of the school year. As long as he is still in this class, a new leader will probably never be born.

From this perspective, Long Yuanxiang is probably the only leader of Class 1-D, but many students in the class are unwilling to admit this fact.

Just like now, when they talk about the special exam on the deserted island, they only blame it on Long Yuanxiang's absurd actions of being fickle, going about things haphazardly, and ultimately being sent to the school's headquarters. They never mention that after he was framed, most of the group in the class scattered like birds and beasts, a pure rabble.

To put it bluntly, if Long Yuanxiang hadn't drawn the revival card and taken the plunge into the punishment of being expelled from school for the last-place group, then their D class group would have been the most likely to end up in last place on the deserted island at that time.

Kitagawa Ryo had taught Class C for more than a semester in the simulation, so he knew these students' nature quite well. Otherwise, he and Ryuen Sho wouldn't have been the only ones to take the special exam on the deserted island during the simulation, while the others relaxed on the beach and went straight back to the cruise ship.

"Who's taking the lead?"

When Kitagawa Ryo asked him a question, Shiina Hiyori tilted her head up slightly and thought for a moment before giving a name that didn't surprise him.

"Manabe Shiho."

This is a heavyweight who was completely outmaneuvered by Nagumo Masaru and other second-year students during the sports festival and openly betrayed the class. Kitagawa Ryo remembers that it was Ryuen Sho who personally followed and taught him a lesson. It seems that Manabe still can't get over it to this day.

"If we don't consider the votes from other classes, Manabe still has a chance to vote out Ryuen."

Hiyori Shiina simply gave Ryo Kitagawa a math problem:

"Class D has a total of 39 people. If we divide them into small groups, there are about 10 people in Ryuen's group, about 7 or 8 people in my group, and the rest are likely to join Manabe's group."

"Indeed, you could tell at the sports festival."

Kitagawa Ryo nodded in agreement. He still had a deep impression of Class D's large-scale defection during the sports festival. Ryuen Sho's final solution was to use his personal points to collect the students' debt bills, directly strangling them economically. His carrot-and-stick approach to rewards and punishments was actually quite effective. Anyone who opposed him would have to live on campus with zero allowance, while anyone who made a contribution would pay back fewer personal points.

It's fair to say that if it weren't for the school's sudden addition of this special exam, Long Yuanxiang would have been able to bring the entire class under control again after some time. But plans can't keep up with changes, and the current situation is likely to give Long Yuanxiang a real headache for a while. After all, the voting period lasts for a whole month, and he can't possibly confiscate all the students' phones for that long.

At this very moment, sharing the same worry as Ryuen Sho is Karuizawa Megumi, the class representative of Class 1-B.

Firstly, Class B is undoubtedly the class that is least willing to accept the dropout at this stage. It's fortunate that the current rule is that the bottom three students in the grade drop out instead of one student from each class. Otherwise, their class would probably be fast-forwarding to how to raise 20 million rescue points.

Secondly, what's making Karuizawa Megumi even more upset right now is that she just unlocked the "night raid" gameplay mode from Amasawa Ichika yesterday, and her first attempt that night ended in failure, finding nothing in Kitagawa Ryo's room 408.

Although she quickly noticed the sheets and blankets temporarily hanging in the hallway and the bare bed with only the mattress remaining, and roughly understood the fact that Kitagawa Ryo hadn't slept in her room tonight, the question immediately followed: where had he gone?

As a result, Karuizawa Megumi's sleep quality last night was not very good either.

"In my opinion, if we want to ensure that no one in our Class B is expelled in this exam, it is far from enough for just our class to succeed. At least two classes need to work together."

But it doesn't matter, Ryuji Kanzaki will consistently provide the assists.

"Therefore, if possible, I hope Karuizawa can contact the leaders of other classes and try to come up with a solution that everyone can accept."

"Indeed, I went to find Liang after school."

Although it's unclear how the title "leader of other classes" in Kanzaki Ryuji's words came out as referring specifically to Kitagawa Ryo in Karuizawa Megumi's mouth, the students of Class 1-B tacitly pretended not to hear it, and could only assume that they did have a cooperative relationship with Class A before.

As for where this initial foundation of trust for cooperation came from, Ryuji Kanzaki only wanted to play a few clips from a certain couple's bible on the spot, and humbly stated that this matter was also recorded in search engines such as Yahoo and Sogou, as well as in encyclopedia entries.

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Unlike Class A and Class B, who are currently maintaining a calm demeanor, the atmosphere in Class C is closer to that of Class D, which they have just surpassed. Just as many students in Class D are eager to challenge Ryuen Sho, Class C's patience with Totsuka Yahiko has also reached its limit. However, proportionally speaking, there are probably more students in Class C who want him to drop out than those in Class D who want Ryuen Sho to drop out.

At this moment, even Totsuka Yahiko, a student in Class C of the first year with both low IQ and EQ, whose very existence seemed to be questioning the mysterious evaluation mechanism used by Tokyo Advanced Educational High School for class placement, felt a sense of panic. After all, since the special exam on the deserted island, the exclusion of him in the class had become increasingly obvious. Now, upon hearing that students could be expelled without losing class points in this exam, they all turned to look at him, making Totsuka Yahiko feel a chill down his spine.

Now that things have come to this, Totsuka Yahiko has no choice but to cling to Katsuragi Kohei, the only person he can rely on in the class. His anxious expression is reminiscent of the "Honey, say something!" moment in a certain short video, as if he's about to shout "Katsuragi-kun, say something!" at any second.

"I think there's a problem with how people are approaching this special exam."

In this situation, Katsuragi Kohei decided to try to help his underling. After all, the other party might be a bit stupid, but his attitude and loyalty to him were perfectly fine. Gin even knew to keep a vodka who could drive by his side.

"Although this special exam seems to be a way for the school to eliminate the bottom students through inter-class voting, it is also a great opportunity for us to target important people in other classes."

Just as Katsuragi Kohei opened his mouth to try and divert the students' dislike for Totsuka Yahiko, Kamuro Masumi, already somewhat impatiently resting her chin on her hand, retorted:

"But that doesn't conflict with us casting our vote for Totsuka, since votes from inside and outside the class are counted separately."

As she spoke, Masumi Kamuro waved her phone again, giving him a speechless look that said, "No, buddy."

"Anyway, I don't think it's necessary to keep a student who is at the bottom of the OAA rating. Your data is not even as good as many students in Class D."

Hearing Masumi Kamuro mention the OAA system, Kiyotaka Ayanokouji glanced thoughtfully at his phone. If the system had been launched in the first semester, he, who had been hiding his grades in all aspects, would probably have been on par with Yahiko Totsuka. However, after putting in a little effort during the special exam on the deserted island in the summer and the subsequent sports festival, his stats had risen to the upper-middle tier of the class, to the point where Yahiko Totsuka couldn't drag him down with him.

After Kamuro Masumi made the first move, many other students quietly added details about each other's 'glorious achievements' during special exams on deserted islands. The continuous mental blows made Totsuka Yahiko's face grow increasingly grim.

However, Totsuka Yahiko was indeed Totsuka Yahiko. He quickly employed the current version of the T0 strategy, launching an attack that, "Ignoring the facts, doesn't the other students bear any responsibility for how the class has become like this? Even if he is 99% at fault, doesn't everyone here bear 1% of the responsibility?" He then skillfully resorted to labeling, loudly accusing Kamuro Masumi of being the spy from another class that had been kept hidden, and claiming that these words were merely attempts to sow discord among the students and incite internal strife within the class.

"Everyone, please calm down."

With a slightly annoyed expression, Kohei Katsuragi touched his shiny bald head and had no choice but to step forward again to try and end the discussion, which was about to devolve into a war of words and one-sided attacks.

As the class leaders, Totsuka Yahiko and Kamuro Masumi were respectful enough to keep quiet, but the atmosphere remained very tense. It was clear to everyone that expelling Totsuka was not Kamuro's idea alone; in fact, most of the students had the same thought.

However, just as Katsuragi Kohei was pondering how to persuade her again, the quick-witted Totsuka Yahiko, having caught his breath, remembered another reliable person in the class and hurriedly spoke incoherently to Kushida Kikyo, who was pretending to be invisible in the front row of the classroom:

"Little Kikyo, you wouldn't want to expel me like they do, would you? You have the most friends in the class and grade, so please help me this time!"

Kikyo Kushida, who had never wanted to get involved in this mess from the start, cursed inwardly upon hearing this, but since the other party had already publicly called her by name, she risked ruining her image if she didn't respond. Therefore, she could only put on a standard business smile and respond to Yahiko Totsuka in a gentle tone:

"I think if Totsuka can work hard to show everyone the side of you that contributes to the class, then everyone will definitely not let you drop out."

Although it was just a polite remark without any promises, Kikyo Kushida pointed out the root of Totsuka Yahiko's current predicament. Apart from his personality being quite annoying, the main reason was that he had not made any outstanding contributions to the class or played any important role since entering the school.

These former Class A students are actually quite rational in their thinking. If Totsuka Yahiko is indeed a rare talent, then it doesn't matter if his personality is a little lacking. But unfortunately, he is also an absolute mediocre talent in terms of ability.

Seeing that Kikyo Kushida had thrown out this stepping stone, Kohei Katsuragi quickly caught it, cleared his throat, and continued:

"This voting period will last a full month, so everyone should not make decisions too early. We need to give Totsuka some time to prove himself..."

Before Katsuragi Kohei could finish speaking, Kamuro Masumi interrupted him again:

"How can you prove it? Can he find out the spy in the class or take down Kitagawa from Class A?"

Spurred on by Masumi Kamuro's words, Yahiko Totsuka immediately swore an oath:

"What's so difficult about that? If you ask me, I already have a few key suspects among the spies in the class. It's just that we're all classmates, so it's not easy to investigate. Especially you, Kamuro, you're a prime suspect."

After hearing Totsuka Yahiko's speech, Katsuragi Kohei sighed helplessly for the first time, after all, he had received a shocking secret from Ayanokoji Kiyotaka after the cultural festival.

The spy in Class 1-C was none other than their class advisor, Sae-chan himself.

To be honest, when he heard this information, Katsuragi Kohei almost fainted on the spot. If he hadn't had great confidence in Ayanokouji Kiyotaka's abilities, he probably would have thought it was a belated April Fool's joke. After all, the idea of ​​the homeroom teacher betraying the class was too bizarre. What was the point of all this?

In response to his question, Kiyotaka Ayanokouji simply replied, "Do you know how many girlfriends Kitagawa Ryo has?"

Katsuragi Kohei gasped in shock.

At this moment, all he wanted to say to Totsuka Yahiko was this:

...Maybe we shouldn't investigate anymore, in case we find something...

For example, the scandalous news about our beautiful class teacher?

Chapter 360: You're Really Hungry (4k5)

The day after the special exam rules were announced, some of the students from Class 1-A gathered together in a karaoke room at the Keyaki Shopping Center at the call of someone. By the time Sudo Ken, who had just finished his club activities, rushed over, the rest of the students had already arrived.

Looking around, the only boy besides him was Miyamoto Kuraji. This guy was a relatively marginal otaku in the class, but compared to the tech and electronics otaku Tomomura Hideo, he was a more pure anime otaku. Sudo Ken didn't interact with him much on a daily basis, since they weren't in the same circle.

The remaining students were all girls in the class: Shinohara Satsuki, Sato Maya, Wang Meiyu, Maezono Yoshiko, Onodera Kayano, and Hasebe Haruka. There were a total of eight students, both boys and girls, which was quite a large number in the 34-student Class 1-A.

In fact, when Sudo Takeru received the invitation from Maeda, he didn't expect that these students would be the ones to come. After all, the other party had said with certainty that it was an important discussion about the future of the class. However, when he looked at the list of attendees, he didn't see the names of Kitagawa Ryo, Ichinose Honami, and Sakayanagi Arisu at all. It was as if these main figures in the class had been deliberately excluded.

However, most of the eight people who were called over did not strongly resist the gathering itself. After all, Maezono herself had a good relationship with Matsushita Chiaki, and Matsushita Chiaki was very close to Sakayanagi Arisu. Perhaps it was Sakayanagi's idea to call them over.

Of course, some girls simply thought it was a normal gathering of classmates playing around. To be honest, they didn't really expect Qian Yuan to make any important decisions about the future of the class.

Just as Sudo Ken was beginning to think, Maezono, the initiator of the meeting, warmly invited him to sit down. So, with these doubts, he could only sit in a corner for the time being, ready to see what the other party was planning to do.

"Everyone arrived on time today, thank you so much."

After Sudo Ken arrived, Maezono himself first expressed his gratitude to the seven classmates who had arrived on time as promised.

"Gathering together is fine. But why are only these people discussing the future development of the class? Shouldn't this be a very important matter?"

As soon as Maezono finished her opening remarks, Sudo Ken couldn't wait to ask a question. This was mainly because he felt that the atmosphere here was a bit strange. Although he was not familiar with the small groups among the girls, he was still aware of them. At present, none of the three big names, Sakayanagi, Arisu, Ichinose, Honami, and Sakura Airi, were present. Instead, Hasebe Haruka, who had always been a loner in the class, had been pulled over.