This Is a Good Thing
With a smile on her face, Ichinose Honami approached with her classmates from Class 1-A.
In his hand was the contract he had prepared and signed himself, and the result he had just received.
Final points table.
Asakusa Toru's score is higher than Miyabi Nagumo's.
The moment the exam ended, all events of the Sports Festival came to a close, and all scores were quickly calculated and tallied by computer.
There's no need to wait until the next day to announce the results; the Sports Festival isn't Special Exam, so the results can be given on the spot.
"White Team Victory"
They manipulated the results for Class D, crushing the first-year students' victory; winning the group stage was not difficult for them.
The first-year rankings were just as perfect as they had been decided before the Sports Festival.
First place in Class 1-A.
Second place: First-Year Class C.
Third place in First-Year Class B.
Fourth place: Class 1-D.
In other words...
When the Sports Festival ends, the Class Points for the first year will change again.
Class 1-A, Grade 1, 2356 (+50).
First-Year Class B, 900 (-50).
First-Year Class C, 820 (unchanged).
Class 1-D, 0 (-100, no change).
Total Class Points change: -50.
The substitute feature, which requires 100,000 Private Points, was not used.
In the individual competitions, Asakusa Toru basically dominated the first place, but the second and third place, which could earn Private Points or exam scores, were not entirely monopolized by Class A.
The competition was slightly manipulated based on the students' poor performance.
We can't really let them be expelled for failing their exams.
That would be incredibly stupid.
If refunds are to be issued, only students in Class D can get refunds.
They don't lose points for dropping out of school.
It's important to understand that dropping out of school isn't just about losing a month's income; it also involves having 300 Class Points deducted as a form of accountability.
One of the methods schools use to control the inflation of Class Points in the later stages is to expel students.
"..."
Miyabi Nagumo stared intently at the contract, focusing on her own name and Asakusa Toru's name.
Then.
The Personal Terminal was retrieved.
Transfer.
He grabbed the contract and tore the pages apart.
His face was icy cold.
"Sigh, I told you back then that you shouldn't have gambled."
"Does Nagumo even care about us?"
"These twenty million were all points collected from us, right?"
"We've already tried our best, he's the last one, right?"
"I told you before that we should pull some strings; he's too arrogant."
A defeat.
It was just one defeat.
Miyabi Nagumo, who had always led them to victory and had always firmly controlled the entire second grade, seemed to hear such noisy whispers from her classmates for the first time in her life.
It was like seizing the opportunity to kick a dog when it's down, like taking advantage of this once-in-a-lifetime defeat.
She conveyed all the resentment she had accumulated over the years through this provocative voice, which she wanted him to hear.
Is this a test?
It doesn't matter whether it's true or not.
Such a sound indicates that he has begun to gradually lose control of the class.
"Did you lose, Aya?" It was the voice of her childhood friend that rang in her ears. Asahina Nazuna walked closer with her hands behind her back, leaning against the side as if nothing had happened. "You should lose once too."
"You've been winning for too long."
"..." Miyabi Nagumo was silent for a moment, then suddenly asked, "What did you do?"
This is the intuition of childhood sweethearts.
"Ah, I asked a junior colleague for a favor, to see if I could give you a chance to fail." Asahina Nazuna readily agreed.
It's nothing to be ashamed of, it's just a request.
Essentially, she did nothing but speak.
Given the existence of the bet, even if she hadn't said those words, Asakusa Toru would have predictably defeated Miyabi Nagumo.
Her existence, her words, are unimportant.
... But her attitude is very important to Miyabi Nagumo.
"..."
Hearing her childhood sweetheart's seemingly hopeless words, Miyabi Nagumo remained silent for a long time.
It wasn't until the Sports Festival ended, and until the students around me started cleaning up the messy playground under the teacher's instructions, that things continued.
He then came to his senses.
Asahina Nazuna had long since disappeared without a trace. She didn't wait for him, she didn't stay with him, but chose to leave at some unknown time.
His classmates seemed to ignore his presence, while students from other classes and grades would whisper to each other whenever they passed by.
"Isn't that Nagumo who lost 20 million in a bet?"
Miyabi Nagumo: "..."
He suddenly felt a little reluctant to stay at this school any longer.
With the goal achieved and the Sports Festival coming to a close, Asakusa Toru felt a slight sense of relief, as if his inner turmoil had been resolved.
... Perhaps there was no unresolved issue from the beginning.
The different results are simply due to different approaches to people and situations.
Regardless, after saying goodbye to Shiina Mashiro, who didn't want to part at all, and Hayasaka Ai, who was filled with despair after realizing what kind of burden she had taken on, he still had to return to the closed-off school life.
Although the Sports Festival was announced a month in advance, and everyone prepared for a full month.
But it only took one day to finish.
In less than a month, they will face their mid-term exams in mid-October.
There were no surprises during the midterm exams; neither the difficulty level nor the scope of the questions indicated any teacher misbehavior.
What went wrong was the Student Council handover, which was supposed to take place in mid-October.
Yes, that's right.
There's a problem with this.
It wasn't that Horikita Manabu had encountered any unexpected events or changes, but rather that Miyabi Nagumo, who was supposed to take over as Student Council, had run into trouble.
He dropped out of school.
He wasn't expelled because he failed the midterm exam, nor because of any Special Exam in between.
He submitted the application entirely on his own, then dropped out of school and ran away.
I don't know if it was because I came to my senses and realized that I might have gone a bit too far, or if I suspected that I might be chopped into mincemeat by my classmates as soon as I graduated and left school, so I made a chilling decision to run away early...
Oh, that's probably unlikely. He's already controlled the entire second year. Even if he suddenly realizes his mistake, it would be difficult for him to relinquish his power. More importantly, there's that huge sum of money that's absolutely impossible to obtain outside of school.
Was it because everyone was kicking him while he was down? One defeat caused pent-up resentment to erupt, so he was swiftly and decisively overthrown by the second-year students?
That's not right either. They've been in power for over a year already. It's unreasonable to overthrow them now, even if it costs 20 million. This kind of decision to change leaders in the middle of a battle is the worst thing they could do. As long as Class 2-A wants to stay in the top ranks, they won't let this happen.
It's highly unlikely that it was caused by external factors.
It can only be due to internal factors.
For someone like him, whose life has been smooth sailing and who has won so far, the most likely outcome is that he will be greatly affected by his first setback. If he can get back up, he might be able to go even further, but if he can't, even a simple defeat would be unbearable.
The subtle changes in attitude that can be felt, the constant whispers in your ear—the seemingly trivial details may be the most crucial factors that determine the outcome.
Because he didn't directly ask the other party, although there were many guesses, Asakusa Toru didn't actually know which one was the correct answer.
Perhaps neither, or perhaps both.
Who knows?
Anyway, he doesn't care about men's affairs at all.
Although Miyabi Nagumo's incident had a significant impact, especially for the second-year students who found it absurd and outrageous, for the Student Council it was... somewhat of an undeserved disaster.
The Student Council who was supposed to take over withdrew from school, leaving only the second-year Student Council members...
They can't possibly let Kiriyama Ikuto, who was completely defeated and can't be helped back up after being slapped by Miyabi Nagumo, take over, can they?
Okay, sure.
Because there was no other choice.
This guy was incredibly lucky and won without even trying.
On the day they won by default, perhaps sensing some kind of signal, Kiriyama Ikuto invited Horikita Suzune, a first-year student, to join the Student Council to fill the vacancy left by the graduating third-year students.
Perhaps sensing this was a signal, Horikita Suzune, who already felt that although she had embarrassed herself terribly, she had at least made some changes, resolutely cheered herself up for a while and accepted the invitation to join the Student Council.
After hearing about Horikita Suzune joining the Student Council, Horikita Manabu fell silent.
But he remained silent, refraining from threatening words such as dropping out of school or leaving the Student Council.
The following day, Friday, was the day the midterm exam results were released.
Hoshinomiya Chie announced a new Special Exam.
[Paper Shuffle]
Chapter 278 This is a good thing
[Paper Shuffle]
A paired exam that falls somewhere between a boring and a not-so-boring exam.
Because it centers on the 'subject exams' that students are most expected to take, it is very boring.
And because it incorporates some other rules, it might not be so boring.
But these are all relative.
At least for Class 1-A, which has already achieved near-complete dominance at the grade level.
This kind of exam is so boring.
Just manipulate the exam results like you did during the Sports Festival.
The exam rules are simple: 8 subjects, 50 questions per subject, with a total score of 100 points.