The result.
Hmm.
Huh?
They weren't first-year exam papers.
It looked more like someone was dumping trash... because some of the fallen papers bore the words "XX Question Bank."
In other words, someone had compiled questions from some question bank, changed the name of the test paper, and tossed them down.
But they had nothing to do with the exam papers that had been purchased.
So this wasn't a leak.
"Lunch break isn't very long. We should deal with this first," Manabu Horikita said.
Student Council members had already arrived with brooms and dustpans to clean up.
And so, Manabu Horikita joined the Student Council members... in sweeping up the trash.
He admitted it.
When he had first invited Oreki into the Student Council, it was because he had noticed Nagumo's ambitions.
It had also been an assignment from the school.
But Oreki had refused him.
Then, at the beginning of this month, Oreki had displayed a stance of confrontation against Nagumo, which made Manabu Horikita hesitate.
And during the last special exam for the third-years last month, the changes in the four classes' scores had been strange.
More precisely, Class 3-B had received outside assistance.
Among the four classes, only Class 3-B had not lost points, and it had charged ahead with determination.
It had gained a full 280 class evaluation Points.
But the Class 3-B Manabu Horikita knew was not that strong.
That meant Nagumo had most likely begun interfering in third-year affairs.
If it had been natural competition among the third-years, he would have had nothing to say.
But Nagumo clearly intended to use the power of the entire second year. That was going too far.
At the same time, Nagumo's goal was probably the position of Student Council President.
Manabu still knew that much.
And if