"But that isn't what we need to focus on right now," Oreki said.
"Not that?"
"If Ryuuen stayed on the Deserted Island, what do you think he would do?"
Ryuuen Class's base Points had been reduced directly to zero.
And since they were at zero, certain rule-breaking actions no longer mattered.
But as long as the leader had not forfeited, they could still participate in later efforts to occupy strongholds for reward Points, or guess the leaders of other classes.
"In other words—"
Katsuragi quickly thought it through.
Then he frowned.
"So Ryuuen wants to identify the leaders of the other classes, including ours."
Class A's leader was not Katsuragi, but Yahiko, Katsuragi's follower standing beside him.
And Katsuragi had not kept that a secret from the Class A students.
Katsuragi trusted his class.
Oreki merely felt that they ought to prepare for trouble before it arrived.
The Katsuragi Faction and Sakayanagi Faction in the class fought fiercely. Nearly every day, when they arrived in class, they would find that the membership of a small group founded by Katsuragi from the Katsuragi Faction had dropped by one, or risen by two, only to drop by three again two days later.
That showed that people from both factions might do something foolish for their own side's benefit.
So—
Oreki said, "If Ryuuen guesses our leader's identity, our class will first lose fifty base Points. We only have 270 base Points left. That is both good and bad."
"The good part is that if we can turn them into class evaluation points, they are extremely meaningful. But since we have barely spent any, if other classes guess our leader, we will lose a great deal."
"For example, if Ryuuen learns our leader's identity and then shares it with Class B or Class