She even felt that they would lose a huge number of Points in this exam.
Katsuragi was being underestimated far too much.
Oreki still had a high opinion of Katsuragi; otherwise, he would not have used Katsuragi as the unit by which to measure a class representative.
No matter how incompetent Classmate Katsuragi was, he would not let the class suddenly fall by over six hundred Points.
And as a Class A student, Oreki felt that no matter how badly their class evaluation Points fell, they could still catch up.
Because that was how this school's rules worked.
Both he and Sakayanagi Arisu understood that.
The true core was not ordinary class competition at all, but becoming the Student Council President.
If they fell too far behind, they could simply become the Student Council President and use the president's privileges to increase the Points awarded in each special exam.
Or, after becoming the Student Council President, as long as their own class held the advantage, they could continuously reduce the Points awarded in each special exam until graduation.
In other words—
Even fluctuations of one or two thousand Points did not matter right now.
They could catch back up.
But to the students in the class, falling and becoming a lower-ranked class felt like a devastating blow.
So even Classmate Kamuro felt that they needed to take measures to protect themselves.
That was why she had come to find him.
"..." Oreki fell silent.
He suddenly felt that Class A's position was like poison.
Because they had started in Class A, they possessed a certain confidence, a sense of being acknowledged.
But—
That confidence and acknowledgment came with a crowd chasing after them, a crowd that wanted to drag them down.
The moment they fell midway through, their morale would