"Meanwhile, while we first-years are taking the written exam, the upperclassmen will be taking exams at the same time."
"And they'll be taking old tests too," Kikyou Kushida added.
"Then did you buy those five test papers?" Oreki asked.
"No, because you only told me to gather information." Kikyou Kushida replied cutely.
From that perspective, Kushida was rather clever.
If she had paid to buy the test papers, they would have belonged to her, and how she handled them would indeed have been up to her.
But she did not know Oreki's plan, so she was worried that acting rashly might cause him to misunderstand.
Or perhaps he might stop including her altogether.
Oreki had offered four million, and five percent of the proceeds would amount to two hundred thousand.
Two hundred thousand was still quite tempting to her.
At the same time.
Although she had obtained definite information from the upperclassmen, who could guarantee that the school would not make some innovations this year?
When she had gone to ask the third-year girls from Class 3-D, whose class evaluation points had fallen to zero, they had mocked her at first.
Because they had also heard that Class D and Class A among the first-years had become famous.
Class A was excessively outstanding, while Class D had scored a flat zero in their very first month after enrollment.
Neither of those things had happened since the school was founded.
Therefore.
Buying the test papers and telling her classmates that this exact paper would be tested still carried risks.
Thus, Little Kushida had only come to report the information.
Rather than taking action on her own.
But that also showed that whenever it concerned herself, she considered things quite... thoroughly.
Very true to form for the little angel, Kushida.
However.
Her