Daichi Ishizaki also vanished that same night.
Just like that.
On the morning of the seventh day.
Homeroom Teacher Majima stood on the beach, while all the students who had participated in this exam without withdrawing stood in order by class.
He was about to announce the exam results.
However.
All forty students from Class A were present.
All forty students from Class B were present as well.
The eleven students from Class D were also lined up.
Yet in the spot reserved for Class C, whom their homeroom teacher Suma Bando had declared withdrawn, there was someone standing there too.
It was Kakeru Ryuuen, with his red middle-parted hair.
Katsuragi Kohei strode over quickly.
"Yo—"
"You're surprised to see me, aren't you?" Kakeru Ryuuen said. "Don't forget how obsessed I am with victory!"
In other words.
Not only had Ryuuen not withdrawn, he had even remained on the deserted island and genuinely survived in the wilderness.
At the same time.
He had planted spies and obtained the identities of Class B's and Class D's leaders.
Seeing Katsuragi approach, Ryuuen gave a mocking laugh.
However.
"I'm not surprised," Katsuragi said. "In the leader-guessing phase that just ended, I wrote your name."
"Ryuuen, you went too far." Class B's representative, who had been deeply shaken by the spies' attack, said, "Our class wrote your name in this leader-guessing phase too."
"Our Class D wrote your name too," said the petite twin-tailed leader of Class D.
Huh?
Ryuuen furrowed his brows.
Wasn't Class D's leader Kōenji?
Why had it become Meiyu Wang?
In other words, everyone had written his name. That meant every class knew he was Class C's leader?
Then the resolute-looking Ryuuen was informed that he had scored 0 Points and that, upon returning to school, his class evaluation points