Prologue
Equality is a strong word that is used all the time. People want to be treated equal, the government decided, fine let’s give people this so-called ‘EQUALITY’. This is when Project E started, the government took children from all over the country and sent them to Project E Multi-School. It is a school ranging from elementary to university. The location of the school is the best part, it is in a different island compared to this country. The school is separated into different campuses, it is one of the greatest ideas in this 21st Century.
Why have they done that, is something you may ask, but isn’t it obvious. The government has given every single child equal education, it just depends on how the student will utilise it.
Where do I come in the picture? Well, I am a regular high school student and I am I score average grades. Well I am a person who want a peaceful life and live alone. I am a person who avoids love, athletics and clubs because they are too bothersome.
I am love this project because I am alone and that is all what matters.
Chapter 1
Well I am here, Project E Multi-School High School section, a school where every single child in the country is given equal opportunity. People here are supplied with everything, sports, dorms, shops and more. This is all to contribute with equal opportunity. I took one inside BAM… I got attacked from the back. It was a female student who ran into me. She looked cute but that is it.
“Sorry,” she said.
“Nah it’s alright.” I helped her up.
Once she got up she ran away. The more I looked at her, I found certain characteristics amusing, for example, her height. She almost looks like an elementary school student; however, we are in the High School campus. I couldn’t bother to help her and walked straight to the entrance. There we collected our information and we get to learn what class we are in.
Class Z, huh, so I was put in the bottom tier classes. What a bother, I get to be put into a class full of delinquents.
Walking into the classroom, there were seating plan already organized by the school. I was sat in the very middle, but this class surprised me a lot. Most of the students where you average looking students. I was next to a kid who liked to play battle cards. The one behind me liked was on his Nintendo DS and was watching the Football World Cup on his tablet, you immediately knew he was going to get bullied because he was a rich kid. The person in front of me was a female beauty and was adored by many people in the class. The other person next to me wasn’t there. I was but in the worst seat probably, I am surrounding with people who were mostly extroverted and me, I was an introvert.
The teacher walked in the class, I can already see what type of teacher she was. She was probably a strict teacher who belittles other performance and doesn’t care if you achieve a high score. The only attribute people can all around the classroom could tell is that she was cute. Her posture and everything looks like she used to teach an elite school. SLAM… she slammed the book on the table.
“Listen up you brats.” She spoke in a loud tone.
“I am your teacher Higuwarshi. All of you are in Class Z, you may be wondering what that means. That means you guys averaged a score below 20 points. You guys are the worst of the worst. I can’t even believe that most of you aren’t delinquents.”
I already knew it, I guess my skills never fail me.
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“Before I outline the semesters work, I need to speak to a few students. Nitta Yoko, Masuda Ryota, Nakama Keiko and Mayeda Masumi.”
Wow, my name actually got called out. I walked outside for some unknown reason. She was first talking to the other three students and then got to me.
“Mayeda Masumi, you really are Mayeda Masumi. You want to know something, you are the worst trash out of all. You scored 5 in English and 2 in Maths. What is your game, you know in the exam for putting you in which class? There was a test error, we accidentally had a misprint in the test instead of 6 multi-choice options, there was two. We tried to get rid of the misprint test, but 0.001% had the test. Only four students, you were one of them. So, you should at least have scored maybe a 30 or 40 but you scored such low scores.” She grabbed me by the neck collar. “So, what are you trying to do.”
“I am not sure myself sensei, I guess I studied the opposite of the right answers. I think that is the only valid answer.”
The teacher started laughing out loud, I bet even the students inside could hear it. “I like you Masumi. You know I received a text from an unknown. It said to watch out for you. Why is that?”
“I guess there was an error in the system. Don’t you think, how can a message tell you to watch out for a Class Z student.”
“I let you off the hook Masumi. I want to see what type of damage you can do.”
“I don’t want to do any damages sensei. It would be too much of a bother, I just want to have a peaceful life.” I walked back into the class to my seat. The teacher followed behind me and couldn’t hide her smile and laughter.
She tried to stay composed and stayed there for a few minutes.
“Okay, the school functions in a different way from all your old ones. We do say everyone is given equal opportunity, the education in this classroom is the same the other ones. However, we have a ranking system. If you are in the top ten, you are in the student council. They are the only people with special treatment. You guys are ranked around 3 million. That means, the only disadvantage of this is like treatment and several other aspects which relate to real life. To put it in other words, if this were jobs, all your jobs are terrible, and you guys have terrible cheap dorms. The student council in other words have jobs which are similar to like a Neurosurgeon, Anaesthesiologists and Dermatologists which make from 210k to 300k. They live in mansion like dorms and that is all. The school doesn’t judge your classes rank, but individual ranks.”
“Sensei, how much to Class Y.” A student stood up, he was the guy behind me, the rich student in the class.
“What do you mean.”
“How much money do you want to get me into Class Y or higher.”
The teacher walked up to him and then slapped his face. The sound was so loud it sounded like a gun.
The student was angered and started yelling. “How dare you, do you know who my parents are, they are-”
“Yes, I know, President Sasaki Iwao.”
Everyone was in shock. Sasaki Iwao is the person who invested and the person who started Project E. He is basically the person who is in the top of the food chain. That spoiled brat is his son and he is in Class Z.
“You know why this school is now the only school in the country. That is because it gives all students equal opportunity. So, do you think your special because you dad is the president. You must be joking, you know you should feel embarrassed. Your father is the president, you are a Class Z student. You are a disappointment you leach off your father’s money. The thing is, there is no such thing as a heir in politics, so you are probably going to end up as a janitor. SIT DOWN!”
I could look at the guys eyes, he was about the cry and he was trying hard to not show it. Sadly, one tear manages to come out. The teacher began to explain the system to rank up.
“The only way to rank up in this school, is by achieving high grades, club activities and other extra-curricular stuff. The better you do the more points you earn. The more points you earn, the higher the class. You get this now.”
What a bother, I know now that I am going to stay at Class Z forever. I am not going to be doing any of those stuff. The bell rings and now we can go out.
“Oh yeah, I forgot one thing, you need a watch to show your ranks.” The teacher clicked something and then watches came down from the ceiling.
One came down for me, I put the watch on my wrist and then it made a noise like the others around me. Rank 2,999,746 and Rank 1,472,842 in High School is what it said.
“You need to get rank 1,300,000 to get into Class Y Group 5.”
Group 5, the word keeps on popping on my head. Does every Class have different groups? If that is true what group are we in.
Did I say earlier about how this school even has shops, I decided to go there to get some items. I looked at the items, the only way to get them for free is if you have the right amount of rank. I couldn’t even get average clothes and products. The phones that I could only get for free is a Nkio FlipPhone. I guess I need to try hard for the next exam so that I could get a Smart Phone to play games.