She unconsciously let three words slip: "Checkmate."
Like the moment on a chessboard when you checkmate your opponent's king in one decisive move.
She went over her reasoning again, making sure she hadn't said anything wrong.
That was simply how things were—this time, she had obtained the key information almost simultaneously with the other party.
And just as she'd said, there were so many benefits to making the information public that she had no reason not to.
Sometimes having a monopoly wasn't a good thing, especially when all it meant was letting the other classes gain a little over thirty Class Points.
But right now, the most important thing was to quickly share the information with her classmates and further strengthen her authority.
During lunch break, she gathered the whole class and told them both that their Class Points would increase based on their average midterm exam scores and the key clues hidden in the test.
"As expected of Classmate Sakayanagi! You're amazing!" The first to applaud was a blond boy with an earring.
Sakayanagi Arisu glanced at him and immediately recalled his name—Hashimoto Masayoshi.
She remembered that Hashimoto had scored in the eighties in every subject on the last monthly test. He'd probably gotten everything right except for a few of the difficult questions.
He was also athletic in PE and had excellent social skills. She often saw him chatting with classmates, and he even had friends in other classes.
In terms of grades and ability, he was among the best of the ordinary students.
Her first impression of him had been that he was an "all-rounder." To put it kindly, he was talented at just about everything; to put it less kindly, he was an unremarkable jack-of-all-trades who wasn't top-tier in any one area.
"Classmate Sakayanagi, we owe