Could someone as successful as you had just been run into trouble?
"To be precise, getting students from all three grades to withdraw within half a day is still rather troublesome," Oreki said. "Contacting them and having them sign written documents for automatic withdrawal are both troublesome matters."
"..." Tsukishiro.
Fine.
Stop talking.
Even as the school principal, he had no authority to rule over all three grades.
From that perspective, timing, location, and public support were all against outsiders like them, so the task had been impossible from the start.
Unless they paid money.
"Here is your Points Card," Tsukishiro said. "I hope we never see each other again."
As he spoke, he placed another Points Card on the table.
Oreki took out his phone and scanned it.
130.59 million.
Then, because the students had all withdrawn, only the top three and bottom five received rewards and Private Points deductions as penalties.
The figures all matched.
But—
"Wait, Principal Tsukishiro. There are also the 50,000 Points used to buy off the students who withdrew." Oreki returned the Points Card.
"..." Tsukishiro.
He had to pay for that too?
"Buying off students is something you should be paying for, isn't it?" Tsukishiro said.
"But a White Room Student caused such a serious assault at High School of Advanced Education. If that gets exposed, won't the White Room be affected?" Oreki said.
Uh.
That was impossible to refute.
The White Room and High School of Advanced Education were, in a sense, opposites, and the White Room considered itself superior.
Yet someone from there had infiltrated High School of Advanced Education and committed such a vile act of violence. If it were exposed, that person would be implicated as well.
Still.
Tsukishiro looked up at the ceiling.
Because.
Oreki should not have