Thanks for Your Generosity, Nagumo-senpai! It's Great Having You in Charge of the Second Years! (Continued)

Had Nagumo seen how cute Sakayanagi was and deliberately approached her, only to get played?

Or was Sakayanagi actually in cahoots with this guy, the two of them conspiring to take him for a ride?

But there was no way he'd admit to anything like that.

However, Nagumo soon heard Nakano-kun continue.

"Nagumo-senpai seems to have unified the entire second year, which now has only 140 students. It's normal for a few students to drop out of Classes C and D, but Classes A and B have had even more students drop out. Your own Class 2-A has lost seven students. So how did the upper classes end up with more dropouts than the lower classes?"

"Clearly, there's only one explanation."

"To maintain your rule, you expelled students from your own class, along with students from Class B who wouldn't obey you."

Nakano Yuu said.

"..."

Nagumo.

At that moment, all expression vanished from Nagumo-senpai's face.

If he'd initially thought Nakano Yuu had overheard his conversation with Sakayanagi and learned the details that way, he could now confirm that he'd been wrong.

This was information that ordinary students in Sakayanagi's Class 1-A couldn't have dug up so easily.

But Nakano-kun kept talking.

"The idea of collecting points is easy enough to understand, too. How do you take control of an entire year? Besides creating an atmosphere of terror by expelling anyone who disobeys, you need a way to keep everyone content."

"For example, you take points from all four classes. You squeeze your own class the hardest, then collect a fixed share from the other classes, pooling the points like a group investment."

"As long as they're willing to keep believing their class can become Class A, you can combine the points collected from all four classes to reach twenty