Chapter 150

During the lunch break after the special exam announcement, I leave the classroom with Hiyori's special bento.

Chiaki is having dinner with Karuizawa and the others, so she remains in the classroom.

When I headed to the courtyard, Hiyori and the others were already there.

"Thank you for your hard work, Hachiman-kun. Now that everyone is here, let's eat."

"""Itadakimasu"""

At Hiyori's words, we say hello and begin eating.

"Still, it would be troublesome to have a special exam right away..."

"I think our class can easily win first place."

Masumi's words are true. At least if it were a class-based competition, they would definitely win.

This is because there is not a single person in Class A who has an academic evaluation of D or lower.

On the other hand, there are 11 people in Hiyori's B class, 12 in our class, and 4 in Ichinose's D class.

but...

"If it's just class points."

"Yes. Class points are not very important in this special exam. What is important is gaining a connection with the first years, and reducing the amount of money leaked."

This exam is most likely going to be a money game.

There are ways to do things, such as the strong one in the first year trying to sell to the weaker one in the second year, or the second year trying to get the strong one in the first year to obey by giving them more compensation.

In this case, Arisu's class, which has ample funds from the beginning of enrollment, has an overwhelming advantage, but Ryuen will probably try to increase the outflow of points held by A class as much as possible through tactics.

"Well, it's a huge advantage not to have to rescue idiots."

Among first-year students, there are 17 students in A class, 13 students in B class, 14 students in C class, and 11 students in D class, for a total of 55 students whose academic ability is B or above, but my class and Hiyori's class are full of academic scumbags.

"That's right. By the way, how does Hachiman-kun move?"

Arisu said so, but I am already in action.

"For the time being, I'm just gaining trust from C-class."

While saying this, I took out my phone and showed the three of us the chat exchange.

"Isshiki, if you become the leader, how about watching the idiots in your class study?"

"Really? Well then, please take care of these 9 idiots whose academic ability is below D. Now that I'm the class leader, I threaten them to join the study group. The reward will be based on the progress of the idiot's performance.''

"Understood. Leave it to me.''

Such an exchange is displayed.

"That's what it feels like. It's difficult for one person to take care of nine people, but I'm going to treat one of the C class students as Chiaki's friends and have her cooperate."

If I were Isshiki's senior and Chiaki was ostensibly a friend of a C class student, there would be no suspicions even if we were together.

Arisu laughs and nods.

"I see. If you do this, you'll be able to make other Class C students besides Isshiki-san your allies. Even so, it's more than I imagined that she'll already become a leader."

I agree with you about that. I thought she would become a leader, but I thought it would take at least another week, but I never expected that she would become a leader on the day the special exam was announced.

For now, I'll keep the 1st year C class on my side for this exam.

From there, I would like to gradually make connections with different classes.

Ideally, it would be the first year student to join the student council besides Isshiki.

As I was thinking like this, my phone started to move. It seems that a post has been sent to the general chat within the OAA app.

"We have received permission to hold a social gathering for first and second year students in the gymnasium from 4:00pm to 5:00pm today. If you have time, please come and join us.''

The sender is Ichinose. Well, it wouldn't be strange for Ichinose to do it.

"Well, Ichinose-san's class can't play money games, so I guess it's a natural decision."

"In Ichinose's case, even if she had enough money to play money games, I think she would still hold a social gathering.''

As Masumi said, Ichinose would do it even if she had the money.

It's not a bad tactic considering Ichinose and her friends ran out of points in the class vote. As Arisu said earlier, during this exam, it is important to build relationships with first-year students in preparation for the future.

There are many ways to do this, but first and foremost, we need to make our presence known, and we absolutely need to create opportunities for people to get our name known.

"However, it depends on what kind of person the first year student is."

"That's right. I have an image of Isshiki-san taking advantage of Ichinose-san."

I guess so. Isshiki, who I saw for the first time in a year, is definitely a type of person similar to Arisu and Ryuen.

Well, in that case, that's fine.

"But I wonder what will happen to my class. There are 12 idiots with academic grades below D, and in the past, if they don't have money, it'll become a hassle for them."

In order for an idiot to avoid expulsion, he must team up with a student with a high academic evaluation, but it is quite a hurdle for a 2nd year student to ask a 1st year student to help him because he is an idiot, and have no money.

Once the first graders start playing the game, they start thinking that it's okay to ask for points, and they have to be prepared to spend points whether they like it or not.

However, the students in my class had 0 points for a while, so they only have a few points, and even though they are small fry, there are many students who have a lot of pride, so it will be a struggle.

"By the way, what if Hachiman is the class leader?"

"Instead of calling out to Isshiki and having the idiot in my class pair up with the genius in Isshiki's class, I have the genius in my class pair up with the idiot in Isshiki's class.

Well, because the penalties are different, the other side has a more aggressive attitude. Therefore, there is a possibility that you will be asked for points, so when you call out to them, first... make it a condition that you give them 1 million points.''

This penalty is expulsion, but the other penalty is far better than the three-month suspension of private point payments and the two-year penalty.

"There's another way to do that."

"It's difficult to choose a pair of idiots."

In fact, there are many students in my class with the lowest academic ability ratings, but first-year students probably wouldn't want to join them, so we have no choice but to bring in our talented students.

"Well, I'll just do whatever I want as usual. Besides, I'm looking forward to seeing what kind of tactics Isshiki will use.

Do you want to send me a 'pipipi...' email?"

My phone rings so I look at it...

"If senior's class have a student who has low academic ability and a short temper, please let me know. If possible, I would like it to be a girl.''

I received such an email from Isshiki.

Judging from the content, it's probably trying to do something to the person.

Students with low academic ability and short temper... Sudo and Shinohara come to mind.

However, Sudo has been gradually growing both academically and mentally, and with Horikita as a stopper, it will be impossible to defeat him.

By the way, Isshiki wants a girl if possible, so Shinohara is the only choice.

I told Isshiki,  "The student who best matches your criteria is Satsuki Shinohara.

Regarding the later study session, I sent an email saying,  "I would like one of the people to be selected to be a friend of Chiaki.''

Now then, let's see what Isshiki does.

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Pillon

"Huh? Chat?"

During lunch break, while I was eating lunch, I noticed a message in the general chat within the OAA app.

"We have received permission to hold a social gathering for first and second year students in the gymnasium from 4:00pm to 5:00pm today. If you have time, please come and join us.'' The sender was Ichinose, the leader of the 2nd year D class.

Seeing this, Isshiki thought of sending nine idiots with academic ability below D to the exchange meeting and asking them to form pairs.

However, simply sending in idiots could lead to failure, so Isshiki takes action.

"Hey, Utomiya-kun."

Iroha approaches Riku Utomiya who is eating lunch in the classroom and talks to him. I know him from a certain case.

"What is it, Isshiki? Are you talking about that?"

"No, I'm not going to interfere in that matter. But will Utomiya-kun also come to the social gathering that was announced through the OAA chat?"

"Perhaps you want to pair up a student with poor academic ability with an excellent second-year student at the exchange meeting, but I don't see a need for it."

Utomiya's academic ability rating is 72, a B grade.

I don't think I'll be in the top 5 groups that can receive 100,000 points, but if I pair up with a second-year student with a C grade, I can easily avoid penalties, so I didn't think a social gathering was necessary.

"That's true. But if you blatantly send only idiots, won't they think that the social gathering is secondary and that you're here to find a partner?"

"Well, I guess so."

"If that happens, they might feel bad about it and give priority to students from other classes, so in addition to the nine idiots, I, the leader, said,  "I have decent academic ability, but I don't have the ability to think quickly and contribute to society.'' A few students who are not expensive students also showed up, and they wanted people to think that they were attending the meetup for pure purposes.''

Ichinose already knows that Iroha is Hachiman's junior.

It was easy to see on the school's internet that Hachiman was attracting a lot of attention last year.

Because of that, it's obvious that sending only idiots would be suspicious, so Iroha is thinking of bringing a few talented students to the exchange party.

"I see...I don't mind if that's the case."

In the morning, I felt uncomfortable with Iroha's rude behavior, but I don't have any particular objections to this strategy as it was a strategy that put more thought into the class than I expected.

"Thank you. Now, I need to talk to the other two people."

"Then it would be around Hatano or Inukai?"

"Those two have A academic ability, so it's no good. The students with high academic ability who will be participating in the social gathering will be B or B- students. The students with academic ability A will wait until after the social meeting is over...!"

Iroha thought of something and took out her cell phone and asked Hachiman,  "If there are any students in senior's class who have low academic ability and are short-tempered, please let me know. If possible, I would like it to be a girl.'

I sent an email.

"What's going on? I don't think so, but have you already sent an email to the student you wanted?"

"No, no. I just thought of something interesting."

After answering Utomiya's question, my cell phone rang again, so I looked at it and Hachiman said,

"The student who best matches your criteria is Satsuki Shinohara, a friend of Chiaki."

And when I checked Shinohara's data on OAA...

2-C Satsuki Shinohara (Satsuki Shinohara) 1st year academic performance D+ (38)

Physical ability C- (41)

Quick thinking ability C+ (57)

Social contribution B- (62)

Overall C (48)

It's an evaluation that doesn't have any particular merits. Moreover, matching the conditions she set for herself means that she is not a student with strength that cannot be measured numerically, but a pure small fry.

"I see, then I'm going to use  Shinohara -senpai♡"

Iroha smiles evilly.

Utomiya and other students in the classroom felt chills.

At the same time, I understand that she is the one who can lead the class.