Three weeks passed in the blink of an eye.
Over those three weeks, Class 1-D held who knew how many study groups.
Even though many problems arose during that time—for instance, students whose points had finally run low being unable to stand living solely on free, cheap food and goods, sparking a craze of borrowing Personal Points throughout the class that nearly caused the study groups to collapse—in the end, Hirata Yosuke and Kushida Kikyo managed to smooth things over, and every mishap passed without incident.
The only problem was Ike Koji, Yamauchi Haruki, and Sudo Ken, who continued doing their own things while the class enthusiastically threw itself into the study groups.
The three of them seemed to truly intend to cram at the last minute before the exam and somehow tough it out.
The rest of the class could do nothing about their lack of cooperation.
Out of kindness, Hirata Yosuke and Kushida Kikyo had tried to persuade them.
Unfortunately, while Ike Koji and Yamauchi Haruki attended a few study groups because Kushida Kikyo had personally approached them, Sudo Ken stopped studying entirely after attending just one. He seemed to genuinely hate studying.
As a result, it dragged on until the end, and those three were the only ones who had made no progress at all.
Before long, aside from overly kind people like Hirata Yosuke and Kushida Kikyo, the rest of the class seemed to have given up on helping them.
To begin with, those three were the class's unpopular trio.
If Ike Koji, Yamauchi Haruki, and Sudo Ken themselves had wanted to study, that would have been another matter.
But the three of them had no sense of crisis whatsoever. Even when others kindly advised them, they did not take it to heart at all. Sudo