"Ding-dong..."
The end-of-class bell rang through the school building, reaching the ears of everyone in Class 1-D.
Yet not a single person in Class 1-D rose from their seat. They remained silent.
A stifling atmosphere filled the entire classroom.
No one seemed to have recovered from the sudden, cruel reality. They simply sat there in a daze.
That was only to be expected, wasn't it?
Until yesterday, the students in this class had treated the school like paradise, living lives of luxury and entertainment.
Now, not only had they been thrown back to square one, but their lives from here on out would change completely. They would become the very bottom of the academy. How could a group of students who had not even become adults accept that all at once?
Only after a long while did movement gradually begin to stir in the class.
The first disturbance came from the last row of the classroom.
However, it was not from Fang Li, Horikita Suzune, and Ayanokoji Kiyotaka's side by the window, but from the side near the classroom door.
Bang!
With a loud crash, one student viciously kicked his desk, startling the entire class.
The one responsible for that violent act was none other than the number one name on the girls' blacklist: Sudo Ken, the red-haired Basketball Club member who looked like a delinquent.
"What do you mean Class D is the worst!? Everyone here is defective!? Bastards!?"
Sudo Ken shouted with a violent tone, his face twisted in fury.
"So not only do we have to live without any points from now on, we also have to be looked down on by the other classes!?"
For Sudo Ken, that seemed utterly unacceptable.
Of course, Sudo Ken's inability to accept it came purely from an emotional standpoint.
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