"Had Horikita run out of things to say?"
Noticing that the black-haired girl beside him had been silent for a long time, Ayanokouji closed his eyes in disappointment.
She couldn't even bargain.
No, strictly speaking, it hadn't even occurred to her to try.
Based on what they knew so far...
The school didn't want that many students in the class to be expelled.
Otherwise, there would have been no need to warn the class with a quiz first, then give struggling students a shortcut to higher scores with past exam papers.
Although this midterm was different from previous years, it had included plenty of easy points in return.
Not to mention that the school had also provided a way to buy points with personal credits.
All signs suggested the school didn't want to be too harsh about this. In the end, it had left struggling students a few ways out.
Ayanokouji could think of plenty of possibilities.
Buy points to raise their scores, buy a chance to retake the test, transfer a top student's score to a struggling one...
There were almost too many ways to do it.
The class had chosen to buy points to raise their scores. Now that they knew the price was steep, the next step was to bargain with the teacher.
As far as Ayanokouji could remember, whenever Chabashira-sensei explained the school rules, she used companies and society as examples.
In other words, students at this school needed to abandon the mindset that "teachers are always right" and approach problems from the perspective of an adult in society.
They couldn't treat the teachers and school as absolute authorities. They had to see them as people they could negotiate with.
Judging by what Chabashira-sensei had just said, there was clearly room to adjust the price.
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