"But when it came to letting Kamio Tatsuya get away, Chabashira must really regret it."
"After all, he's the kind of guy who can raise his class all by himself. His future prospects are way beyond anything we can match."
"Now that you mention it, I'm curious. Itagami-sensei, do you know why Kamio wanted to join your class?"
As soon as someone brought it up, Itagami could barely keep the corners of his mouth from turning up.
He felt that the best thing he'd done in his career was hand authority over to Ryuen, and the best decision he'd made was helping Kamio Tatsuya join his class.
Meanwhile, after leaving the bar, Chabashira suddenly felt inexplicably restless. Without thinking, she walked to the stern of the ship. As she watched the moonlight shine on the sea and the ripples trailing behind the ship, her mood gradually settled.
Eleven years ago, when Chabashira was a student, the four classes had been almost evenly matched as the final exam approached.
Given how things had gone up to that point, any class could have graduated as Class A. What changed everything was a Special Exam that Chabashira still couldn't forget.
Because of that Special Exam, the class lost 300 Class Points.
And because of that, the class fell apart, losing all hope of rising to Class A.
This year, too, she had made a mistake just as serious by acting rashly.
Did she regret it?
Of course she did. But even if she could do it all over again, she would still have made the same choice back then. After all, she hadn't realized how capable Kamio Tatsuya would turn out to be.
The only way she could change any of it would be to go back with her memories intact.
But how