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Silence.
An unbearably suffocating silence.
After Ryuen Kaito spoke with that unrestrained smile on his face, everyone present fell silent, unable to say anything worthwhile.
Horikita Suzune and Katsuragi Kohei especially.
Horikita glanced at Fang Li before falling silent.
Because Fang Li had already told her about this very matter that morning.
And at the time, Fang Li had said that Ryuen Kaito was the person they needed to be most wary of.
Only now did Horikita truly feel the weight of those words.
Ryuen Kaito really did need to be watched.
Like Fang Li, he had found the key to conquering this Special Exam.
As for Katsuragi Kohei, he simply felt oppressed.
Judging from Katsuragi's grim expression, this was probably the last thing he wanted to hear.
Yet Ryuen showed him no mercy at all.
"There's no need to be so surprised, is there? Those useless idiots in your class, with heads full of nothing but pointless textbook knowledge, must've told you already, right?"
As though he intended to drive Katsuragi into a corner, Ryuen spoke with ruthless, arrogant ferocity.
"At the first discussion meeting this afternoon, didn't Fang Li, standing there, already give those idiots a hint and tell them to watch out for you?"
Those words proved that Ryuen had a grasp of the Rabbit Group's situation—and perhaps even the situations in all twelve groups.
With Ryuen's control over his class, ordering his classmates to report every detail of their group's situation to him would have been easy enough.
The Rabbit Group was no exception.
Wasn't Ibuki Mio acting under Ryuen's instructions when she invited Fang Li here?
Even though Ibuki had not outwardly participated in any of the Rabbit Group's interactions, that girl had still been keeping an eye on the entire group.
If so,