"This..."
The list displayed on Ryuen Kaito's phone made every student present gasp sharply.
So even this dictator of Class C had peered into the deepest parts of this Special Exam and uncovered both the riddle and its answer?
Meanwhile, the rest of them had been racking their brains within their respective groups, trying to break through Class A's strategy. In the end, they had gotten nowhere and could only resign themselves to defeat, believing that Class A's scheme had surely succeeded.
Who would have thought it was nothing but a dream?
Class A had long since lost any chance of winning.
This Special Exam was not being controlled by Class A. Class C and Class D had secretly seized the lead.
That not only left the people from Classes A and B with complicated expressions, but also made Katsuragi Kohei's expression exceptionally grave. His hands were clenched into trembling fists, revealing just how unsettled the leader of one of Class A's two factions was.
Only then did Katsuragi Kohei recall the words Fang Li had asked Machida Koji to pass on to him.
"If you keep dragging your feet like this, just wait for the 'snake' to bite you black and blue."
Who that "snake" referred to was now painfully obvious.
Other than Ryuen Kaito, who else could it be?
If Fang Li had not used the broadcast to gather all the first-year students here, Ryuen Kaito would probably have already released the list and had the Class C students in every group claim victory for all the groups.
When that happened, Katsuragi Kohei's strategy of maintaining the current gap would have crumbled on the spot, allowing Class C to stand alone at the top.
The only person capable of stopping Ryuen Kaito was Fang Li.
That had been