"I promise."
After waiting for a moment.
Allowing the people below a bit of time to settle.
Ichinose took a deep breath, and her gaze immediately turned serious:
"If I become Student Council President, I will carry out a series of reforms to the school through education and entertainment."
"Eh?"
Seeing Ichinose return to the main topic, Ike Kanji and others were momentarily stunned.
Education through entertainment?
What does that mean?
"I feel that rather than having students start learning to avoid punishment, it is better to increase everyone's interest in learning through interesting educational methods."
"Therefore, after becoming Student Council President, I will implement the following, but not limited to, series of reforms."
"First, further promote examinations based on group collaboration."
"Second, strictly prohibit any form of campus violence."
"Third, reduce punishments related to being late or being distracted."
Speaking of this.
Ichinose looked toward the third-year students and explained:
"There are many classes that have lost the motivation to learn because they were distanced too much by Class A too early; this contradicts the school's educational philosophy. No student should be abandoned, therefore..."
"Fourth, I will significantly increase exam rewards, giving lower-ranked classes more opportunities to rise to Class A."
"Until the moment before graduation, no one can relax; everyone will still maintain the opportunity to rise to Class A. This way, no one will easily slack off because of it."
"But who can ultimately graduate from Class A depends on the true strength of each class."
Ryuuen raised an eyebrow, somewhat intrigued.
Although the point about prohibiting campus violence made him somewhat concerned, such things were already prohibited.
It was nothing more than a difference in the level of enforcement.
It wasn't a big deal.
But this point.
Precisely hit the needs of the lower-ranked classes.
If every exam had the possibility of gaining five hundred class points as a reward, then it would be possible to rise to Class A in just one exam.
But Ryuuen also knew.
This was clearly unrealistic.
If a certain class was too strong and won several exams in a row, it would similarly create a huge gap.
Most likely it was plundering class points from the opposing class.
If a certain class had too many class points, they would probably be plundered clean by three classes combined.
Only in this way could all classes always maintain the opportunity to rise to Class A.
But the requirements for the leader were clearly higher.
However.
Isn't this quite good?
The corner of Ryuuen's mouth curled up as he revealed a smile.
He did not fear competition in the slightest.
Let the storm come more fiercely.
It's just that, if things were this way, a constant state of high pressure would be maintained, which clearly contradicted Ichinose's so-called policy of education through entertainment.
"Fifth."
Ichinose continued:
"I will suggest canceling the [cashing out] system upon graduation and increasing the exchange ratio between class points and private points."
"For example, the current ratio is 1:100; in the future, it might be 1:200."
The school was not stupid either.
Money cannot be created out of thin air and changed at will.
But in the eyes of students.
The purchasing power of private points and cash was the same.
When cashing out at graduation, the exchange ratio would certainly not be high; perhaps one million private points could only be exchanged for one hundred thousand in cash.
Rather than that.
It was better to just want more private points now; at most, all these private points would be spent before graduation.
Clearly.
Compared to long-term considerations.
Most people focused more on immediate interests.
Those who would be hurt.
Were only the third-year students who were about to graduate; at this time, Nagumo Miyabi's face was ugly to the extreme.
Although he didn't intend to embezzle this sum of private points.
But this felt as if the interests of the third year were being used to subsidize the first and second years.
It made one very uncomfortable.
Anyway, most third-year students would not cast their votes for Ichinose.
They might as well just give up!
As long as she could win the majority of the votes, Ichinose becoming Student Council President was a sure thing.
At this time.
"Hey, what does one to two mean?"
"Our class points are now over five hundred; does that mean we can get one hundred thousand private points every month in the future?"
"One hundred thousand every month... one hundred thousand every month..."
"And, we can also quickly rise to Class A?"
Ike Kanji and others from Class 2-D could no longer suppress themselves and began to discuss excitedly; their eyes glowed upon hearing of one hundred thousand private points.
After nearly two years.
They were finally going to return to one hundred thousand private points?
Although Ichinose was only suggesting it, she clearly had the intention to propose it to the school.
Given the school's words about respecting student autonomy.
They would likely agree.
They would also relax punishments for being late and give more opportunities to rise to Class A.
What was this?
Paradise?
Only Horikita Suzune backstage furrowed her brows, carefully scrutinizing Ichinose's reform plan.
No, it was more likely Hikigaya's reform plan.
Such a reform plan.
For them, it was simply a dimensional reduction strike.
At least.
Regardless of whether it was reasonable or not.
At least Hikigaya provided a detailed reform plan, whereas they only had vague verbal concepts.
Things like unity and individual strength.
Apart from Nagumo Miyabi's punishment for violence being slightly relaxed and the reward for individual strength being slightly increased, there was no substantial change at all.
To call this a philosophy was just child's play.
Horikita Suzune admitted.
Hikigaya's reform plan was extremely charismatic and much stronger than her own and Yagami Takuya's speeches.
However.
What Horikita Suzune couldn't understand was.
Whether it was the increase in private points or the opportunity to rise, most of these were reforms more beneficial to the lower-ranked classes.
Hikigaya was clearly from Class B.
If he were overtaken by other classes because of an exam, wouldn't this guy regret it to death?
Moreover.
If their private points increased, the utility of the private points in Hikigaya's hands would also be weakened accordingly.
What could previously be negotiated with one million.
In the future might require two million.
To discard one's own weapon like this, what was he trying to do?
Is this guy a big idiot?
Could it be.
In Hikigaya's eyes, power was greater than everything else?
But the Student Council President didn't have many powers, and the school was there to supervise.
Horikita Suzune truly couldn't understand.
Why a person like Hikigaya would do this for their Class D; if it weren't for the OAA stating Hikigaya was in Class B.
Horikita Suzune would almost take him for a companion.
This guy wouldn't be secretly in love with me, right?
Horikita Suzune furrowed her brows; naturally, she wouldn't think that.
However.
Aside from Hikigaya wanting to deliberately attract her attention, Horikita Suzune could no longer think of any other possibility.
First deliberately targeting Class D to attract her attention, then helping the lower-ranked classes to please her?
Although she knew it was impossible.
Horikita Suzune truly couldn't understand it.
Regardless.
Trouble.
Such a reform plan.
For lower-ranked classes—no, for everyone—it was too attractive.
At this time.
The way Ike Kanji and the others were dancing for joy said it all.
On the other side.
Nagumo Miyabi's gaze was like a knife as he looked back at the third-year students; he felt Hikigaya was targeting him.
Although he didn't know how Hikigaya would change things, hearing that there was still hope of rising to Class A would certainly cause some trouble for the third year.
However.
Nagumo Miyabi knew very well what a difficult task reform was.
Precisely because of this.
Whether it was Horikita Manabu or Nagumo Miyabi, they both attached great importance to the suggestions Hikigaya gave to the school at the start of the term.
Clearly.
Hikigaya was a capable person.
Thinking of this.
Nagumo Miyabi narrowed his eyes and looked at Hikigaya through the crowd.
Since he was capable and even dared to backstab him.
Then don't blame him, Nagumo Miyabi, for being unkind.
On the other side.
Only Hikigaya himself was quite anxious.
No matter how many times he had thought about it.
If I could manage this trash school.
I would do this and that.
If I went up, I could really do it!
Hikigaya was confident that such a reform plan would be extremely attractive to everyone.
The lower-ranked classes naturally went without saying.
People who worshipped individual strength could also aim to save up twenty million private points through their own individual strength.
There was clearly a system for transferring classes with twenty million, yet no hope was given to any individual.
What was the meaning of that?
There were simply too many problems with this trash school.
Originally, Hikigaya was very confident.
Pity.
Just now, Ichinose's outburst of self-exposure had made Hikigaya lose his confidence.
Hearing Ichinose's self-exposure just now.
And then hearing such a reform plan that was extremely beneficial to everyone.
How would the masses choose?
Hikigaya also didn't know.