COTE: Bag And Love System

"Hello, Kushida-san."

　　 Several boys who were sitting in the seats immediately greeted Kushida Kikyo, who was in front of them. She had a very beautiful face and was almost as beautiful as Ichinose Honami when she was standing next to her. Both of them were supreme beauties.

　　 When it was Hikaru Hashima's turn, she had barely finished greeting when she saw a new message appear in the system bar the next second.

　　 [Drop! Kushida Kikyo's shares are now online! ]

　　[Current share price: 10]

　　[Number of shares issued: 5,000 shares]

　　"!"

　　 Seeing this message, Hashima Hikaru was shocked. After waiting for several days, he finally found a new stock, and this time the stock made the boy very satisfied.

　　 Actually, it is a stock with a starting price of 10, which is the most ideal full position target.

　　 "Hashima-san, I heard that you are Ichinose-san's assistant, so you must be very capable."

　　 Kushida, on the opposite side, had no idea what the boy was thinking at this moment, and simply began asking questions as usual, hoping to get close to him.

　　 "No, I'm just doing a little work for class." Hashima Hikaru shook his head lightly. He looked at the short-haired girl standing in front of him. The other person's expression and movements seemed very natural. It was obvious that she was a very sociable person.

　　 "Hashima-san is very modest. I often hear your name from Honami-chan."

　　 It seems that Kushida Kikyo and Ichinose Honami know each other very well, and they even call each other by nicknames.

　　 "I don't have that, Kushida-san, stop talking nonsense!"

　　 The pink-haired girl blushed, and quickly patted Kushida on the arm and said to Hashima Hikaru, "Hashima-san, we've paid the bill and you can go now."

　　 "Umm."

　　 After everyone left the barbecue restaurant, they planned to continue walking around the Keyaki shopping mall, as it was still early. Hashima Hikaru had no objection, so he followed them all.

　　 With the addition of Kushida Kikyo, the group grew to seven members. As an acquaintance of Ichinose, she naturally blended into the group atmosphere.

　　 Furthermore, the girl had a keen ability to read people's expressions and soon became acquainted with several students from Class B.

　　Hashima Hikaru, who had been observing her, left the first basic impression in his mind.

　　 However, she is a student from Class D, which means she is judged as the worst in the school, but Kushida gives people a completely different feeling.

　　 It seems that this guy is not simple either.

　　 Hashima Hikaru silently watched every move of the short-haired girl. Her starting stock price of 10 points made the boy very excited, but he had to carefully plan how to contact her.

　　 When the alarm clock on the bedside table rang for the first time, Horikita Suzune sat up from her bed in the dorm without delay.

　　 The next step is to change clothes, wash, and get ready.

　　 The girl stood in front of the mirror and smoothed her black hair, which was already long. There was no expression on her beautiful face. This was her first week in the Tokyo Metropolitan High School dormitory. Her class was the first-year Class D.

　　 School life these days hasn't made Horikita Suzune feel very good, because it's too relaxed here.

　　 Not only did the teacher give all the students in the class an allowance of 100,000 yen to live on the first day of school, but she also had no desire to manage the order of the class and didn't care if the students passed notes or played with their phones during class.

　　As soon as the bell rang, she left on time, not staying a second longer.

　　 This situation made Horikita Suzune, who was very strict with herself, feel very dissatisfied. She thought that the school her brother attended must be very good, claiming to have the most perfect admission and employment rate. How could he be so lenient towards the students' behavior?

　　 But even though she saw her classmates doing whatever they wanted, Horikita Suzune, who had always been a loner and had no interest in socializing, still had no intention of meddling in these matters, since they had nothing to do with her anyway.

　　 After entering the classroom in the morning, the atmosphere in the class was still the same as before. No one was concentrating on studying at all. The girls would gather to talk about clothing and fashion culture, while the boys would discuss games or tell vulgar jokes out loud.

Horikita Suzune could feel some people watching her after entering the classroom, but she didn't care at all. After sitting down in her seat, the girl began to read the book.

　　Sitting beside her was a handsome boy named Ayanokouji Kiyotaka. He had been on the same bus with Horikita Suzune and the two had had a conversation once.

　　 However, Horikita Suzune quickly forgot about that conversation. Her purpose in coming to this school was to track down the most important target of her heart and she didn't care about anyone else at all.

　　 After school, the black-haired girl went to the cafeteria alone to eat. Just as she was about to enjoy the food she had chosen, she felt a prying gaze.

　　 But after Horikita Suzune looked around, she didn't see any strange people in her sight. The students in the cafeteria were either eating in their seats or lining up to receive food.

　　 "Am I thinking too much?"

　　 After Horikita Suzune put aside her doubts, she chose a relatively secluded corner to start eating. At this moment, she heard a small discussion coming from the two boys sitting opposite her on the right.

　　 Although they were also eating, they were holding notebooks in their hands, as if they were recording something.

　　 "What's wrong, Tsunabe-san?"

　　 "I've taken note of this. For lunch these days, Sotomura from class D will choose the 2,000 yen pork chop rice set menu, and after eating, he will buy two bottles of juice of different flavors."

　　 "Okay, this guy knows how to have fun."

　　 "Hey, isn't that Yamauchi?"

　　"What's wrong?"

　　"This guy is famous for his big mouth. I talked to him for a few minutes and got a lot of information."

　　"Ninomiya-kun... you didn't do anything unnecessary, right?" the boy named Tsunabe said in a warning tone. "Have you forgotten Hashima-san's order? Don't do anything that might arouse his suspicions."

　　"Don't worry, Tsunabe-san," the boy named Ninomiya said calmly. "How could that boy, a student from Class D, have such a sharp reaction? I simply talked to him about the game casually and he soon opened up to me."

　　"I see. Don't act on your own again or you might affect Hashima-san's plans."

　　"Don't worry, don't worry."

　　 Ninomiya took two bites of the rice on the plate, but his eyes never left Haruki Yamauchi in front of him.

　　 At that moment, Horikita Suzune, who heard the conversation, immediately showed a trace of suspicion on her face. She couldn't figure out what those two boys were doing. Were they spying on others?

　　 Haruki Yamauchi and Hideo Sotomura were students from Class D, so Horikita Suzune had an impression of them.

　　 "Their division of labor is very clear. Although they are eating, they always keep their eyes on their targets," Horikita Suzune said solemnly, thinking in her heart, "It seems that they are following the orders of a student named Hashima, and they care a lot about the other party's plan."

　　 "Strange boy..."

Just as Horikita Suzune was thinking about her discovery, she suddenly saw Ninomiya's expression change in front of her. She immediately shouted to the boy beside her, "Hey, Tsunabe, look at that Yamauchi kid. Is that the latest handheld game console he has in his hand?"

　　 "...Yeah," Ninomiya's expression also turned strange after hearing the other party's words, and he said in a deep voice, "I remember that this handheld game console costs 30,000? This guy is really willing to spend money."

　　 "Bastard!"

　　 The relaxed expression on Ninomiya's face suddenly turned ugly. He said to Tsunabe beside him, "We must tell Hashima-san about this tomorrow. The students of Class D are really a bunch of trash. They dare to spend points so lavishly. It's only been a few days since school started!"

　　"Yes, if we let them spend all their points, Hashima-san's plan will go terribly wrong."

　　 After the two boys looked at each other, their expressions were a little subtle and they soon walked out of the cafeteria together.

　　 After hearing this conversation, Horikita Suzune, who was sitting in the back, suddenly had a cold face.

　　 She extracted several key pieces of information from these words.

　　 Their surveillance behavior is to find out how the other party spends their private points.

　　 The target of the surveillance is Class D.

　　The students of Class D are trash.

　　 This information made Horikita Suzune very worried. She didn't understand why these two boys were saying such things. Then the girl began to think about what she had discovered in class in the past few days.

　　A guess slowly formed in her mind, but Horikita Suzune didn't know where to start investigating, so she had to keep this discovery in mind for the time being.

　　 Also, she didn't know what class these two boys were from.

　　 However, since she saw someone watching her classmates, then there must be someone responsible for her. Maybe the prying eyes she just felt were that person.

　　 Horikita Suzune decided to be more careful in the future. After all, the word "trash" was very difficult for her to accept.

　　 Horikita Suzune, who has always been firm in her life principles, would never allow herself to be labeled like that, and she must find out what's going on!

　　 When it was Friday, Hashima Hikaru got up early to do morning exercises as he was used to.

Over the past few days, he has slowly been finding his own rhythm of exercise. Although it is still a little uncomfortable for him, after getting used to sweating, the benefits of exercise have made his body stand up straight and appear more energetic than before.

　　 After taking a shower and arriving at the Class 1-B classroom, Hikaru Hashima still had the unfinished bread in his hand, but as soon as he entered the classroom, a familiar feeling enveloped his body again.

　　 Could it be that he is coming back?

　　 "Mr. Hashima!"

　　 Immediately someone called out his name in the classroom, causing the boy's relaxed expression to instantly fall.

　　 "What's wrong?"

　　 Three times, three times. So I've been informed of something new? Can't you just leave me alone for a day?

　　 Hashima Hikaru looked at the two classmates who were watching him. They were two boys named Tsunabe and Ninomiya. It seemed like their mission was to keep an eye on the students of Class D.

　　"Yesterday we discovered some very important information about Class D," Ninomiya said nervously. He took out his notebook and said to Hikaru Hashima, "When I went to supervise Sotomura of Class D yesterday, I ran into another student of Class D that I know, whose name is Yamauchi Haruki."

　　 "And then what?"

　　 "I saw that guy holding a brand new handheld game console, which would cost 30,000 points to buy at an electronics store."

　　 "?"

　　 After hearing these words, Hashima Hikaru's expression changed.

　　 Thirty thousand?

　　 Doesn't that mean Mr. Yamauchi has already used up almost a third of the points he has?

　　 It's barely been a week since school started and this guy is spending money like crazy. Does he really think he'll get 100,000 points every month?

　　 "Is this the only discovery? Are there any others?"

　　 Ninomiya and Tsunabe, who were standing next to him, quickly handed the notes they were holding to Hashima Hikaru. The more the boy looked at the notes, the uglier his expression became.

　　 He realized that he might have overestimated the students assigned to Class D. The boy's original plan was to wait half a month before going to Class D to collect points, but if all the students in Class D were like this, he might not receive a single cent by then.

　　 "It's true... the good news keeps coming..."

　　We just solved the problem of Class C, but didn't we expect that the next one to be affected would be Class D?

Now it seems that Class A is easier to handle, but it may also be due to time. After all, everyone still has the points from the first day.

　　 Hashima Hikaru reached out and pressed his forehead, he asked Ninomiya and Tsunabe to return to their seats temporarily. The class meeting would be in the afternoon. After assessing all the situations regarding Class D today, a decision must be made immediately, otherwise, the points would not be recovered.

　　 "Hashima-san, are you okay?"

　　 Ichinose, who was sitting next to him, saw that the boy seemed unhappy, so she quickly walked over and said softly, "Are you worried about the situation in Class D?"

　　 "Well… sort of. I'm afraid today's class will give everyone a scare."

　　 Hashima Hikaru nodded lightly. After reading the notes, he finally understood why these students were assigned to Class D.

　　Morning classes went by quickly, and after the first class in the afternoon, the usual class meeting was held. When the elegantly dressed Chie Hoshinomiya walked into the Class B classroom in high heels, the students realized that the critical moment had arrived.

　　 This is the first class meeting since the start of the school year, and also the moment of acceptance of Class B's first plan organized by Hikaru Hashima.

　　 The first half of class focused on the teacher's summary of the week's study life and the announcement of some upcoming learning tasks or school activities. When these processes were over, Hashima Hikaru saw that Mr. Hoshinomiya was looking at him.

　　 "Well, the first half ends here. Now it's the class leader's turn to speak. Please invite Ichinose-san up."

　　 With a gentle smile on her face, Hoshinomiya Chie looked at the pink-haired girl who was chosen as the class leader by everyone. After she stood up, Hashima Hikaru also followed her. Everyone in the class understood that only these two people together could be considered the true leaders of Class B.

　　"Classmates, everyone should have made some progress on the plan announced a few days ago. The acceptance process is in the hands of Hashima-san. Please welcome Hashima-san." Ichinose Honami smiled and looked at the boy beside her, motioning for him to come up on stage to begin the acceptance of the plan.

　　"Dad, Dad, Dad!"

　　 The class immediately began to applaud and everyone was very supportive.

　　"OK."

　　 Hashima Hikaru nodded. That was what had been agreed upon, so he stood at the center of the podium without hesitation and looked at everyone present in the class.

　　 As the young man stepped onto the podium, the atmosphere in the class suddenly became serious.

　　"As I have just received information about Class D, the first topic today is about Class D's point collection operation," Hashima Hikaru looked at Ninomiya who was sitting in his seat and said, "Students in charge of Class D, please stand up and tell everyone about your findings. I will take notes while I listen."

　　"Start now!"