Chapter 89 – So excited and confident

In the KTV room, the students of Class C were ecstatic, their laughter seemed as if it would echo around the room for days: "We guessed right! We really guessed right! Yukio-san! Ryuen-san! How did you manage to do this?!"

"Nine of them! We correctly identified nine privileged students! All the privileged students from the other classes were covered by our Class C!"

"Doesn't that mean 450 class points? We, we've surpassed Class A now?! My God! Am I dreaming? You, pinch me! Ow! Damn! I said pinch, not hit!"

"Stop hitting! We're so happy right now, let's get hyped! Quick, turn on the service light, let them bring the booze! We're not going home until we're drunk tonight!"

Everyone in the room was wildly excited, some were even dancing on the sofas, swinging their arms and shaking their hips, no matter how exaggerated their movements, it couldn't vent the ecstasy in their hearts!

After all, after this battle, they could directly move up to Class A! That's Class A! As long as they graduate successfully, they could go to any university they want, pick any! Tuition completely free!

Whatever job they wanted to do, they could do, with the school's social resources fully available, anything they wanted!

Most importantly, it's only been one semester, and in just one semester they've moved up to Class A, who wouldn't be ecstatic?!

Yukio and Ryuen didn't blindly attack the privileged students of nine groups at the same time, but did so very measuredly, first having a student from the Rat group of Class C send a text message to answer in advance.

After this student achieved Outcome Three, a great result, they then quickly had the following eight students act, successfully taking down the privileged students of nine groups, achieving a leap in class points!

At that moment, the door to the room was pushed open. The students of Class C were curious, wasn't it, the service light hadn't been turned on yet, so how come a waiter came over?

During the past few days of visiting here, they hadn't seen such attentive service!

However, the person who appeared at the door was Katsuragi with a scowl on his face, not the waiter the students of Class C were expecting.

Following him, with a gentle expression, Ichinose, and a panting Horikita also appeared behind Katsuragi, causing the students of Class C to quiet down, leaving only a fast-paced song playing from the speakers, creating a stark contrast.

Seeing the students of Class C even dancing wildly on the sofas, Katsuragi's face turned even more sour, but he didn't take it out on the regular students.

Instead, he just looked at Yukio: "How exactly did you do it?" He and Ichinose had similar thoughts, if there was anyone among the first-year students on this cruise ship who could achieve this, Katsuragi's first thought could only be Yukio!

Ichinose's face showed no surprise, as if she had already prepared herself mentally, while Horikita's expression was bitter as she looked distantly at Yukio.

She was struck by the realization of the gap between them, feeling for the first time that someone had pulled so far ahead of her.

If the midterm exam was just a lack of familiarity with competition that led to her being outmaneuvered, and the deserted island incident was due to being blinded by interests, then for this special exam for the privileged students, Horikita could find no more excuses.

She had to admit, she was far behind Yukio, a realization that filled the competitive Horikita with intense frustration, yet left her feeling powerless.

On Yukio's side, only Ryuen and Shiina could remain seated; the rest had already stood up to celebrate. Hearing Katsuragi's question, he leisurely leaned back, completely sinking into the sofa.

His tone was so relaxed it was infuriating: "Figure it out yourself. I'm neither your parent nor your teacher. Why do you think that I would answer you?"

The success in this special exam was partly due to Yukio's keen insight into the hidden secrets of the grouping list, and partly to the undercover work of Karuizawa, as well as additional information provided by Kushida.

Otherwise, he wouldn't have been able to see through the only rule for selecting the privileged students, thereby breaking through the defenses of the other three classes.

But something as covert as undercover work, Yukio wouldn't just blurt it out for the sake of a momentary thrill.

Katsuragi, at this moment, just wanted to give a fierce middle finger gesture to express his feelings, his expression twisted with anger, but he didn't come here to quarrel with Yukio, so he had to suppress his inner rage.

Having been tricked by Yukio once, Katsuragi wasn't naive enough to think that Yukio would honestly answer just because he asked.

Knowing it was pointless, why did he still make a special trip here? Because he had encountered Ichinose and Horikita and, after exchanging information in advance, thought of a damage control measure: "I'm not here to waste words with you."

"Yukio, you've always liked making deals, so why not continue with another trade this time? How about this: as long as you agree to dissolve the contract with our three classes, we won't target the privileged students of the remaining three groups."

"You commanding your class members to break through the privileged students of nine groups in a row is indeed impressive, completely strange how you managed to do it."

"But you were ultimately too hasty. The last three groups that haven't finished their special exam, they all have Class C's privileged students, right?"

"If you're willing to dissolve the contract, we can avoid targeting the privileged students from Class C here. What do you think?"

This was the main reason Katsuragi rushed over. This total collapse, losing so thoroughly and terrifyingly, yet even so, it was necessary to actively think of remedial measures.

In such a situation, chaos, tension, fear, and even regret are meaningless. The only thing that matters is minimizing losses!

Hence, Katsuragi came up with this idea. Their Class A needs to pay a huge amount of one million points monthly. If they could cancel the contract entirely, it would be a small gain for them.

Ichinose, although very kind, also considered Class B: "We agree with Katsuragi-kun's suggestion. Yukio-kun, if you are willing to dissolve the contract, we in Class B will not focus on the last three groups' privileged students from Class C."

With both Katsuragi and Ichinose stating their positions, what else could Horikita, despite her reluctance, say?

Failure was already certain. Even if there were still three privileged students from Class C left, unless she could find all of them, she could not make up for all of Class D's losses.

But the problem is, she really couldn't find them. With Class A silent, discussions couldn't proceed, and they couldn't find the privileged students. Now with the three groups from Class C completely silent, what good method could they possibly have to find Class C's privileged students?

So, she could only follow suit and agree to the dissolution.

"Ha~" Yukio let out a yawn, as if Katsuragi's threat didn't concern him at all, not even enough to dispel his sleepiness: "Then suit yourselves. If you can find them, consider yourselves lucky."

"You!" Katsuragi was about to approach when he was stopped by Albert standing up and grabbing his shoulder, not allowing him to move any closer! Katsuragi really couldn't contend with Albert and had to stop far away: "Think about it carefully!"

"Once your class's privileged students are found by us, you'll also lose one hundred and fifty class points! And an additional loss of one million five hundred thousand personal points!"

Katsuragi's persuasion failed to elicit any reaction, instead, Horikita interrupted him!

"No, that's not right!" Seeing Yukio and the entire Class C's indifferent, composed expressions, as if they weren't worried at all about their discussions on finding the privileged students, Horikita suddenly remembered something. It struck her like a bolt of lightning, a spark of realization flashing through her mind!

She remembered seeing Yukio in the cruise ship's coffee shop that morning, with his phone filled with messages: "He, he might have deleted all the messages! The students of Class C now, don't even know if they are the privileged students themselves!"

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