Chapter 44: I’m Not Targeting You All

  "Useless trash."

  This remark from Teacher Chabashira was extremely serious. In an ordinary school or any other context, it would be enough to get someone in huge trouble. However, in this school, where student value is measured by strength, it seemed completely reasonable and natural.

  At the end of the day, the students in Css D had done terribly for just one month since the start of school. They clearly didn’t deserve to be considered "valuable."

  "But, but Teacher Chabashira, we don’t remember any clear expnation about this!"

  Even in this situation, Hirata still tried to expin, attempting to argue for a "reduced punishment": "If we had been told at the beginning that our points could be reduced, I’m sure everyone would have followed the css rules and paid more attention."

  "Yeah, leaving the facts aside, don’t you think you, teacher, have made any mistakes? We are also the victims here!"

  Seeing that Hirata was stepping up to defend them, Ike immediately followed suit, shouting loudly to try to rally the others to force Teacher Chabashira into backing down.

  Pfft!

  Sitting at the back, Hachiman nearly ughed out loud at Ike’s words. Thankfully, he managed to cover his mouth in time so no one noticed.

  Leaving the facts aside?

  If you’re not going to discuss the facts, what else is there to talk about? Are you out of your mind? Or do you think such childish rhetoric and clumsy attempts at manipution will actually work?

  Looking at Teacher Chabashira, who completely ignored Ike’s remarks, not even bothering to gnce his way, Hachiman couldn’t help but feel that this was a case of her seeking personal revenge. But he had no proof.

  On the other hand, Hirata’s words did sound reasonable, but in reality, they were somewhat illogical and evasive.

  Though the school and Teacher Chabashira might have concealed things intentionally, just saying "if" wouldn’t justify everything. The real issue worth debating was how the school deliberately allowed students to act recklessly. Unfortunately, Hirata hadn’t realized this.

  Of course, Hachiman now understood that the school and the teachers had been intentionally testing the first-year students on their self-discipline, and given Css D’s current state, it was clear they had failed miserably.

  "If?"

  Teacher Chabashira couldn't help but ugh bitterly at Hirata's words, her voice dripping with sarcasm. "I can’t believe a 16-year-old high school student is still using such ridiculous excuses to justify himself. Yes, I didn’t expin the rules about personal points, but as a high school student, isn’t it common sense to follow css rules?

  Shouldn’t you have learned this in elementary or middle school? Should someone remind you every time you cross the street to use the crosswalk and follow the red-green light rule? And then, when an accident happens, will you bme someone for not reminding you to follow traffic rules?"

  "I..."

  The students were speechless in response to Teacher Chabashira’s series of sharp remarks. Many of them couldn’t help but lower their heads, while Hirata opened his mouth but couldn’t make a sound.

  "I thought you would realize your mistakes, but I never expected you to be this pathetic," Teacher Chabashira said, her frustration building. "When pointed out for your mistakes, your first reaction isn't to reflect on yourselves, but to argue and shift the bme onto others. Truly, you are the worst css, and even I, as your homeroom teacher, am ashamed of you all. You are completely defective!"

  Hachiman completely agreed with Teacher Chabashira’s words. The school's concealment of the truth and their so-called "test of self-discipline" were still worth debating in terms of whether they were right or wrong. However, one undeniable core issue was that Css D’s current situation was rgely the result of the students' own weakness.

  "Teacher, what does ‘defective’ mean?"

  Hirata’s voice trembled as he asked, and Horikita also showed a surprised expression, as if she had heard that word somewhere before.

  Teacher Chabashira calmed herself down a bit, then took out a poster she had been holding since entering the cssroom and stuck it on the bckboard, gncing at the confused students below her.

  "What I just said was a minor issue. What I’m about to say is the real purpose of today’s meeting."

  A-Css: 940B-Css: 650C-Css: 490D-Css: 0

  When Hachiman saw the numbers on the board, he suddenly realized the connection: css points were tied to the personal points distributed each month.

  As for the increase and decrease of css points, it was clearly reted to the content that Teacher Chabashira had mentioned before — students' behavior and discipline. Because of Css D’s poor discipline, they had been consistently losing points, and now their css points, which had started at 1000, had been reduced to zero within just one month.

  As Teacher Chabashira continued her expnation, it confirmed Hachiman’s earlier specution about the truth of this school — it was almost exactly what he had expected!

  Sure enough, many students started arguing, unwilling to accept the reality. Because Css D’s css points were zero, it meant there would be no personal points transferred in the future. Ike and Yamauchi, the usual troublemakers, were the loudest, as their personal points had already been nearly wiped out!

  Other students like Kushida, Sudo, and Hondou had almost no color left in their faces since their points were almost gone too.

  "By now, you still don’t think a high school student can use 100,000 points every month with no restrictions, do you?" Teacher Chabashira’s words made the entire css freeze in shock. "This is a pce set up by the government to cultivate outstanding students. Using just a bit of common sense, you’d understand that there are problems with this system. Why didn’t you all notice that? Oh, sorry, I forgot — you have no common sense!"

  Hachiman almost ughed at how sarcastic Teacher Chabashira sounded. He hadn’t expected her to have such a talent for humor.

  However, her sarcastic remarks, which sounded almost funny to Hachiman, were extremely painful to Css D’s students. Meanwhile, Horikita, who had been in shock up to that point, suddenly seemed to recall something and quickly turned her head toward a certain boy with dead fish eyes.

  "Teacher, since css points are so important, please tell us how they’re increased or decreased, so we can use that as reference," Hirata immediately asked, trying to find ways to recover from this situation now that it seemed irreversible.

  However, Teacher Chabashira coldly rejected him: "This is part of the school’s rules. Just like personnel evaluations, the specific review criteria are confidential. Do you understand? Even when you enter society, not all rules will be expined to you clearly. That’s actually part of the rules themselves, and it’s the same here in this school."

  At this point, Teacher Chabashira suddenly paused, looking at the students below her. "You may think I’m targeting you, but this is the truth, because this rule applies to the entire year.

  However, there is one good piece of news among all these bad ones."

  Seeing that some students below her looked hopeful, Teacher Chabashira’s expression softened slightly, and the corners of her mouth curled up a bit: "The good news is, congratutions, you no longer need to worry about point deductions. Because once your points hit zero, no further deductions will be made. This means... you can now be te, skip css, sleep during lessons, or py with your phone freely. Isn’t this great news for you all? Truly, you’re living in student paradise now!"

  Bckghosts