Classroom of the Elite: Houtarou Oreki

"Could it be that Kiryuin had faked it earlier, pretending to drink it, and only acted like a weakling who'd been drugged during the individual events?" Nagumo asked.

"Then she'll retaliate against us," Kiriyama said nervously.

"Mm... that's possible," Nagumo said. "But there's no need to worry too much. At most, Asahina will have another team battle with her."

"They won't run into each other in the next two events."

As he thought that—

He noticed that he had received a text message on his phone.

[Class 1-C Sakurako Tsubaki

Class 1-D Haruno Hirashita

Class 2-C Shiho Manabe, Rika

Class 2-A Otome Yamabuki]

It was a list of lower-year students, and they were all girls.

The text seemed utterly baffling.

However, Nagumo had saved the sender under a contact name.

Sakayanagi Arisu.

Then her second message arrived.

[If I make these students forfeit, then Kiryuin-senpai from Class 3-B can obtain the remaining Points, correct? My request isn't excessive, either.

If Nagumo-senpai doesn't want Kiryuin-senpai to come to your class, fifteen million will do.]

"Damn it."

Nagumo quickly realized that the students on that list were participants in events where Kiryuin did not overlap with Asahina.

If they forfeited, their opponents would win by default.

In other words, regardless of whether Kiryuin had recovered physically, she could still obtain the highest reward.

And Arisu Sakayanagi informing him of this meant that she intended to do exactly that.

"..." Nagumo fell silent.

Nagumo knew that the fifteen million he had just gotten from Kiriyama was about to fly away.

Arisu Sakayanagi wasn't even dropping hints anymore. She was openly demanding money.

Houtarou Oreki, couldn't you keep your girlfriend in check?

Still—

The Sports Festival had only given Oreki two million, so Nagumo was somewhat worried that the guy