Classroom of the Elite: Houtarou Oreki

First Place: 2 million Private Points or a Class Transfer Ticket (restrictions apply)

Second Place: 1 million Private Points

Third Place: 500,000 Private Points

"First place among the first-year boys: Riku Utsunomiya. First place among the girls: Tsubasa Nanase. You will receive either 2 million Private Points or a Class Transfer Ticket."

"Please decide which reward you wish to claim as soon as possible."

Since the reward was either 2 million points or a Class Transfer Ticket, they had to make a choice.

Judging from Utsunomiya's expression, he had already made his decision.

He chose the Class Transfer Ticket.

And the class he chose to transfer to was... Class 1-B.

As the current class representative of Class A, choosing to transfer to Class B was strange, wasn't it?

So his decision came as something of a surprise.

"Why would he make that choice?"

Oreki stood at the front of the boys' line from Class 2-A.

Since Classmate Sakayanagi was absent, he calmly stood with the boys, with students from Class B beside him.

As the class representative, Honami Ichinose stood at the front of the line.

However, the one who spoke was the short-haired girl with pale green hair behind Ichinose.

She looked frail and timid.

This timid girl was Chihiro Shiraha. She often followed Ichinose around and... she was also the one who had confessed to Ichinose.

However, she seemed to have misunderstood the difference between affection and dependence.

"He probably has ambitions," Oreki said. "Since the Class Transfer Ticket has restrictions, he'll ultimately have to transfer back after using it."

"And by choosing to transfer to Class B, he's going there to drag them down."

"The gap between his class and Class B is small right now, so he's deliberately going over there to hold them