Mom has a point. But she needs to realize how bad the situation is if her son begs to quit school. If my son begs me, I will change his school immediately
Rather than being poor, they stick to the school due to its popularity. Azusa can still go to another school and get to a good university. And I wonder how the hell these spoiled rich brats doing nothing but bullying others can go to good universities and create good reputation for the school? I bet the system is rigged so these kids can go to university with comfort. Azusa has no point to go to this shitty school if he suffers bully and cant study. Now just like you said: they are poor AND unhappy. I swear to god Azusa must have already killed himself if this is reality.
Also, if he changed schools, how would the story progress and extend for like 20 more chapters. The purpose of the caste system is entirely lost. Author probably put that scene in to make things even more dramatic. They can’t escape that life, they can’t escape him. Would be a cool way to end this series though, if he just got out of the school and just went into reality where the rules of the caste don’t really work.
The ML is so bad I just hope the MC loves someone like the princess, who possesses both high IQ and EQ ( ̄へ ̄)