"But it'd be great if the exam papers really did get leaked ahead of time."
"I don't want to get expelled!"
"Me neither!"
The students chatted away, completely unaware that anything was amiss.
They were even hoping someone had leaked the exam papers. That was typical behavior for Class D students.
However,
some students weren't paying attention to any of this at all. Like this pair, for instance.
"Let's go to Happy tonight!"
As soon as Horikita Suzune returned to the classroom, her seatmate Nakano passed her that message.
Seeing it, Horikita finally confirmed once again that his plan had worked.
"I'm going to order an iced cola tonight."
Nakano Yuu said.
"I need to blow off some steam."
Horikita didn't respond.
"Don't worry. I won't let you drink anything cold tonight."
Nakano quickly added.
"..."
Horikita.
Sometimes, Horikita wondered whether Nakano was a thoughtful person or just wildly carefree.
Horikita Suzune seemed to have no intention of accepting his invitation to go out.
But then—
"The plan's already complete. Tonight can be a date or a celebration!"
Nakano Yuu said.
A celebration?
Horikita filtered out the word "date" and focused on "celebration."
If it was a celebration, did that mean she might get some points from the plan, too?
Horikita already had more than 600,000 points, but she knew perfectly well that 500,000 had come from her older brother, 100,000 was sponsorship money from Miyabi Nagumo, a second-year student, and another 40,000 was the fee Nakano Yuu had given her for helping sell the exam papers.
In other words, the only points she'd earned herself were the ones Nakano had paid her for filling in the answers to the old exam papers.
So she was still a very long way from reaching 20 million.
But she'd seen Nakano's Student