Just then, his phone rang. It was a notification from the class group chat—the results of this Cultural Festival exam had been announced.
First Place: Class 2-C +100 Class Points
Second Place: Class 2-D +100 Class Points
Third Place: Class 3-B +100 Class Points
Fourth Place: Class 2-B +100 Class Points
Fifth Place: Class 2-A +50 Class Points
Twelfth Place: Class 1-D
Ichinose Honami's class had taken first place because it had the largest number of students.
Ryuen Kakeru had sold his looks and barely managed to claim second place.
Third place went to Class 3-B, Kiryuuin Fuuka and Kiriyama Chiba's class.
Fourth place was Sakayanagi Arisu's class.
"Just selling booklets shouldn't have been enough to get them fourth place, right? I remember their class didn't seem to run any stalls." As Shimizu Akira was pondering this, his phone received a message from Nanase Tsubasa.
Nanase Tsubasa: Senpai, Sakayanagi-senpai bought all of our class's revenue from this event. Every one of our payment QR codes was linked to Class 2-B. I only learned the truth after seeing the results and asking Hosen Kazuomi.
Now he understood.
No wonder Class 1-D had come in dead last—they had handed all their revenue over to Sakayanagi Arisu.
Who knew what price Sakayanagi Arisu had paid for it?
After this Cultural Festival, the Class Points for the four second-year classes changed as follows:
Class 2-A (Shimizu Akira's class): 1480 + 50 = 1530 points
Class 2-B (Sakayanagi Arisu's class): 1291 + 100 = 1391 points
Class 2-C (Ichinose Honami's class): 1052 + 100 = 1152 points
Class 2-D (Ryuen Kakeru's class): 887 + 100 = 987 points
Overall, since every class had received Class Points, the rankings remained unchanged.
However, Sakayanagi Arisu's class was now only a little over 150 points behind Shimizu