"Then the leader is Katsuragi!"
"Yeah."
Totsuka could only say that now because Sakayanagi wasn't here.
Five days before he spoke up, Katsuragi had decided to distribute the "old exam papers" he'd bought to the students in his class.
That's right. At first, he'd considered giving them only to the Katsuragi Faction, as a perk for supporting him.
After all, these students had trusted him and contributed points to support him. Even the student council secretary position he'd obtained had been funded by their pooled contributions.
So what was wrong with a leader giving his supporters a few perks in return?
Besides, doing so would let the Katsuragi Faction get through the exam easily and earn high scores. Without the papers, the Sakayanagi Faction would have to take the exam normally and wouldn't score as well.
The difference between them would be obvious.
But in the end, Katsuragi had chosen to put the class first. After all, 30% of the material in the papers he'd bought was beyond the scope of the exam. If the Sakayanagi Faction took the exam without them, they'd probably score somewhere between 50 and 70 points. That could cost the class the reward of the maximum 100 class evaluation points.
So he'd decided to distribute the papers to the Sakayanagi Faction as well.
But the students in the Sakayanagi Faction had refused, saying they could handle the exam on their own.
Clearly, Sakayanagi's side had bought the papers in advance too. It was hard to tell whether she'd thought of it and acted when the second-year papers were leaked, or whether she'd laid the groundwork even earlier.
In the end...
Every student in Class A had essentially taken the exam with the papers in hand. Despite the factional differences, they'd cooperated for mutual benefit and