He was already working for Houtarou Oreki, yet Oreki had specifically come to shake him down. Wasn't that a bit inappropriate?
"Actually, I brought a proposal with me," Oreki said. "You all know that once we get off the small boats, supplies on the Uninhabited Island will cost double, right?"
"So why not make something of that?" Oreki said.
Make something of the supplies? You mean... damn!
Ryuuen caught on.
"You'll definitely become a shady merchant someday," Ryuuen said.
Oreki's plan was to have Ryuuen stockpile supplies, then sell them on the island.
It was similar to last year's Uninhabited Island exam, where one class sacrificed its supply points to support another class.
Only this time, Oreki's method was even more ruthless. He was sacrificing the first-years.
That was right.
This exam involved the entire school, but the fact that first-years could form teams of four from the beginning showed that they had been given an advantage.
So even among the eight random cards, the first-years had received relatively preferential treatment.
Aside from Hitchhike, Additional Card, and the like, there were also more Lead Cards that multiplied initial supply points by 1.5.
That meant first-years held more supply points than students in the other grades.
So what he needed was to gather the first-years' abundant supply points and exchange them for supplies.
Then he could take those supplies to the island and profit off the price difference.
Of course, he wasn't the school, so selling supplies wouldn't earn him supply points. But he could sell them directly for cash.
He could make them write IOUs on the spot.
It was indeed a pretty good plan.
Thus, the two sides signed an agreement.
However, Oreki was rather generous. He didn't take a cut of the profits and merely secured free access