She was also the one whose future had differed from her current expectations in Oreki's Precognitive Dream.
And Oreki was quite clear on Shiina's role.
She was the Tool Person he would use to complete the system's plundering of the first-years' Points.
She possessed intelligence.
Then she had dragged Ryuuen into it, and once Ryuuen was involved, he had immediately dragged the entire class in as well.
After all, they were going to swallow up the entire first year's Points. Doing it individually would be difficult.
They needed an entire class.
Only.
Oreki had Ryuuen's contact information. If Ryuuen had any ideas, he would message first.
But there was no message from Ryuuen right now.
Which meant—
"So, was this Ryuuen's idea, or did you act on your own?" Oreki asked from his chair.
Since he had never expected boys to come to his room, Oreki had not prepared slippers for Ishizaki and Albert, so both of them were in their socks.
Albert's feet smelled a little, and Oreki was already considering speeding things up and throwing them out.
"It was Ryuuen!" Ishizaki immediately said.
"Then I'll ask Ryuuen about it." Oreki had deliberately placed his phone on the table earlier, and now made a move to pick it up.
"Ah... actually, we acted on our own." Ishizaki hurriedly said.
Clearly, even though he had become one of Ryuuen's lackeys, Ishizaki was still quite afraid of him.
"So, what exactly do you want?" Oreki asked.
"We came to invite you to team up with us." Ishizaki said. "Don't we need to form teams for this exam? You're strong on your own, Oreki, so we hope you'll team up with us."
"Albert, Ryuuen, and I are all the strongest fighters in the class."
"You can choose any one or two of