May 1st...

In the original world, this was the day the truth of the S System was revealed.

"Hey, Ichika-chan? I feel like the points that were transferred are a bit low..."

"Ahh~! So it ended up like this after all..."

Ayumi-chan looked at the transferred points and asked me curiously.

Well, it’s understandable that Ayumi-chan would find it strange.

This month... Class 1-A should normally receive 100,000 Private Points, and when combined with the reward for placing first in the written exam, the total should have been 120,000 Private Points.

Yet about 30,000 Private Points had been deducted.

Which means...

"That’s amazing! So it turned out exactly like Ichika-chan said!"

With that one comment from Takahashi-kun, the entire class began looking at me with admiration.

"Thank you! This is all thanks to Ichika-chan!"

"I was worried about what Amasawa said on the first day, so I started saving! Seriously, thanks!"

"Me too! I’m really glad I trusted what Ichika-chan said back then!"

"Totally! If Ichika-chan hadn’t said that on the first day, I might have ended up completely broke..."

"Amasawa! Thanks a lot! Because of you I was able to save my points!"

With Konishi-chan leading the way, the entire class was thanking me.

This was something that would have been absolutely impossible in the original world, where I stood out in the class.

'Huh... That’s strange... why do I feel happy about this?'

I had always believed that the emotion of happiness inside me only activated when Kiyotaka-senpai praised me.

Or rather, I had learned happiness only for that purpose.

So this time as well, I had intended to simply show everyone a superficial smile.

And yet...

Somehow, I found myself wishing that this moment would last longer.

"...Being popular must be nice."

"Well... what I said turned out to be true. By the way, Ishigami-kun... did you actually know this would happen too?"

"Me? Who knows..."

While I was talking with Ishigami-kun like that, our homeroom teacher arrived and morning homeroom began.

"And these are the Class Points for each class."

After giving a detailed explanation of the S System, the teacher wrote the Class Points for each class on the whiteboard.

Class 1-A: 986 cp
Class 1-B: 726 cp
Class 1-C: 505 cp
Class 1-D: 253 cp

'Hmm... it’s not very different from the original world~!'

Incidentally, the reason Class 1-D’s Class Points are noticeably lower than the others is because they placed last among all classes in the Partner Written Exam and therefore received no additional points.

'Hōsen-kun must be furious~ I just hope he’s not taking his anger out on Tsubasa-chan.'

Even so...

At least this Class Point total is better than last year’s Class D.

'If I remember correctly... last year’s Class D had zero points...'

According to Kiyotaka-senpai, last year’s Class D had such terrible behavior that they burned through all the points they were supposed to receive during April alone.

I’m not sure whether that story was true or just something Kiyotaka-senpai made up.

Either way...

From this day onward, the full-scale battle between the classes for Class A officially began.