To rise to Class A, Ryuen first had to help Class C resolve its current predicament.
Seeing Ryuen smiling so confidently, everyone seemed to relax involuntarily and began to feel a glimmer of hope.
"Ryuen, do you have a plan?" someone asked.
After hearing the question, Ryuen stopped laughing. Instead of answering, he swept his gaze around the room and said, "You idiots, if you'd accepted my leadership earlier, we could have started securing our points as early as Class D did. Even if we couldn't get more than six hundred points and rise to Class B, things wouldn't have been so bad that we were left with only 120 points and couldn't even afford to eat."
Ryuen seized the initiative right away, suppressing those who had resisted unification most fiercely at the beginning and had only joined at the very end.
Hearing Ryuen say this, those who had been most dissatisfied with his rule immediately felt guilty. Some of those who had been preparing to make a few sarcastic remarks about his laughter hurriedly backed down.
After confirming that he had forced the troublemakers who wanted to speak out back into line, Ryuen nodded and continued, "Have you noticed? Other than Class D, the rankings of the other three classes haven't changed..."
On the first day of school, Bai Lan had sold Ryuen information about the basis for class assignments.
However, he had kept it to himself all this time so as not to undermine the class's morale.
Earlier, Sakagami had also refrained from explaining the basis for the four class assignments, so as not to deal another blow to Class C's mentality. He hoped that the students would simply think they had poor discipline and still had opportunities to win through other means.
Yet what Sakagami had left