At this point, the rules and content of this Special Exam were basically clear.
It sounded complicated, but just as Majima Tomoya had said, it was not difficult to understand once they sorted out their thoughts.
First, this Special Exam would last three days. Including the one completely free day in the middle, it would span four days in total, ending right when this cruise trip concluded.
In this Special Exam, the school would divide all first-year students into groups of a certain size, forming the twelve zodiac groups. Although each group mixed students from every class, they could still work together as partners.
The number of people in each group would vary slightly depending on the group.
For example, the Rabbit Group Fang Li and the others belonged to had fourteen people in total: three each from Classes A and B, and four each from Classes C and D.
Next, each group would contain one student serving as the "Favored One."
That "Favored One" would be informed of their identity after eight o'clock tomorrow.
Then, at times and locations designated by the school, every group would need to hold discussions lasting one hour each.
The content of those discussions was up to them.
However, there were essentially two objectives.
The person chosen as the "Favored One," along with their class, needed to do everything possible to hide their identity.
Those who had not been chosen as the "Favored One" needed to work hard to identify the "Favored One" within their group.
In the end, there were only four possible outcomes.
First: the person chosen as the "Favored One" shared their identity with all group members and cooperated with them to pass the exam. All members except those from the Favored One's own class would submit the correct answer to