Horikita Suzune's pupils contracted almost imperceptibly.
Before she could open her mouth to retort to his arrogance, Kazehara Tetsu's next words completely threw her off balance.
"But..."
His voice dropped slightly, carrying the seductive quality of a demon's whisper.
"If you really want to get into Class A that badly, there may be a way."
"You just have to... beg me. Maybe I'll be in a good mood and take pity on you, pulling you up with me."
Horikita Suzune froze.
Her mind stalled for a brief moment.
Pull her up to Class A?
A few seconds later, her formidable rationality regained control of her mind.
A hint of amusement laced with scorn appeared at the corner of her mouth.
"Kagihara, I admit that in some areas, you do have an unusually keen eye. But there's a limit to how conceited you can be."
"Let's set aside the question of why you'd spend enormous resources to pull an 'Outsider' like me into Class A."
"Just the Twenty Million Personal Points alone... how do you plan to deal with that? Are you going to come up with all twenty million points yourself?"
In her eyes, what Kazehara Tetsu had said was nothing more than a clumsy boast, an attempt to psychologically overpower her.
There were no such absurd shortcuts in this world.
Two million points were the ticket to Class A.
But she didn't believe Kazehara Tetsu could raise that much.
She didn't believe a single word of it.
Kazehara Tetsu looked at her plainly disbelieving expression. He wasn't angry, and he didn't even bother to argue.
He merely shrugged, wearing an indifferent expression that said, "If you don't believe me, then forget it."
"Fine. Looks like you're not interested in this shortcut. Let's drop it, then."
Horikita Suzune didn't ask