Come Witness My Answer

No matter what, they are, after all, biological father and son with the same surname.

On the morning of June 15th, all twelve classes across the three grades simultaneously began this Unanimous Special Exam.

After students handed in their mobile phones and other communication devices, all that remained in front of each student was a tablet computer used for voting. Because of prior settings by the school, the page was locked to the voting program, and all other functions were unavailable.

"Now, let's begin the Unanimous Special Exam. From now on, we will proceed according to the rules, so leaving your seats outside of intermission or chatting during prohibited times will result in a warning without hesitation. Please pay close attention."

As their Hoshinomiya Chie, announced the first topic of the Special Exam, the students of Class 2-A all lowered their heads, seeing it on their tablet screens:

[Topic 1: In the Final Exam Written Exam the end of this month, choose one of the following rules, Unanimous Vote, apply it to the specific Written Exam process for this class.]

[1. The Written Exam has been made more difficult, but each person who passes the Written Exam will receive a reward of 5,000 Private Points.]

[2. The exam time has been increased, but each person will have 5,000 Private Points deducted after the exam.]

[3. I don't want any changes]

Because there was no way to discuss before the first selection, the students of Class 2-A could only silently select one option and submit it while the sixty-second countdown in the upper right corner of the screen played.

One minute later, the results of the selection were displayed on everyone's screen:

[Option 1: 29 votes, Option 2: 0 votes, Option 3: 12 votes]

Because Unanimous Vote could not be reached, the exam proceeded as scheduled with a ten-minute mid-session discussion.

Without a doubt, the absolute core of Class 2-A is the iron triangle of Kitagawa Ryo, Karuizawa Kei, Ichinose Honami. Since the three of them are sitting together, the other students in the class naturally turn their attention over to them, wanting to hear their opinions.

"The topic itself isn't anything special; it just depends on whether everyone is willing to take some extra risk for the sake of five thousand Private Points."

Seeing that Kitagawa Ryo didn't intend to speak, Karuizawa Kei stood up first and began to express her thoughts.

While the most memorable Written Exam for second-year students is undoubtedly the Midterm Exam they took when they first enrolled last year, the reality is that failing the midterm and Final Exam every semester always results in expulsion. However, the shortcut of buying answers to pass the exams is no longer available, since Tokyo Advanced Nurturing High School is essentially still a high school and has basic requirements for students' academic abilities.

However, by this point in time, everyone had long been accustomed to the intensity of the ANHS Written Exam, especially for the Class 2-A, whose academic performance was already quite good. This is why none of them chose option 2 in the first round of voting.

As Karuizawa Kei said, for the students in Class 2-A, this issue is essentially about whether or not to be greedy for a little more Private Points.

"In fact, without knowing exactly what the range of increased difficulty is, there's no need to risk it for a mere 5,000 Private Points."

As one of the students who voted for option 3, Kanzaki Ryuji also began campaigning for his team:

"It only adds up to about 200,000 Private Points, but if a student in the class actually drops out due to this sudden increase in difficulty, the loss will definitely be much greater."

Although Class 2-A has a high overall academic level, just like the original Class A had students like Totsuka Yahiko and Kamuro Masumi who were below average, it's not fair to say that everyone in Class A is 100% confident in passing this upgraded challenge.

However, since more students clearly preferred option 1 in the first round of voting, those students who lacked confidence were hesitant to speak up directly, so Kanzaki Ryuji spoke up for them in the end.

After scanning the students in the class Karuizawa Kei also noticed this detail, and nodded to Kanzaki Ryuji:

"That's right. Let's do as you say and everyone choose option 3 in the next round. That way, we can pass this topic and get through one-fifth of this Special Exam without any problems."

Thus, after the two sides with differing opinions reached a consensus, a few minutes later in the next round, all forty-one students in Class 2-A unanimously chose option 3, successfully achieving Unanimous Vote and passing the first round of the task.

They were given no time to catch their breath; the second round of assignments immediately followed:

[Topic 2: Do you support allowing a single student to join multiple clubs on campus?]

[For/Oppose]

Kitagawa Ryo was also somewhat surprised when he saw the topic, but he figured that Horikita Suzune, as the Student Council, must have expressed a similar desire to the school recently, which is why the school included such a topic in this Special Exam.

Knowing that it was impossible to reach an Unanimous Vote on this option on the first try, Kitagawa Ryo casually clicked "agree" and then waited for the result.

And indeed, that was the case; after a sixty-second countdown, the results of this round were revealed:

[For: 26 votes, Against: 15 votes]

The ratio was roughly 60% to 40%, and judging from the first round of voting alone, it seemed that more students in Class A supported the topic.

Because this topic didn't involve Private Points or expulsion, most of the students in Class A didn't find it difficult to speak up as they had with the first topic; instead, they actively shared their opinions.

"I think this is a great topic. Actually, some students joined clubs in their First Year that they didn't really like, or they were interested at the time but aren't now. They're just too embarrassed to quit now, and clubs don't recruit new members for us second and third-year students anymore, so they just have to make do. If this topic is approved, this problem can be solved."

"But if a student can join multiple clubs, can't we ignore the practical factors like club funding and space? Doesn't this blatantly encourage some clubs to take shortcuts by recruiting 'ghost members' to scam funding?"

"That's a problem the school should consider. We students should definitely look at things from the students' perspective."

"No, do you really think anyone has the time and energy to juggle several club activities at the same time? Don't you know the saying 'don't bite off more than you can chew'?"

"Anyway, I think this topic is a pretty good idea if we're going to have another Club Special Exam like the one at the end of last month."

These words were spoken by Shibata Sō from the Soccer Club. Their Soccer Club had barely made it through the Special Exam at the end of last month, fighting all the way to the final penalty shootout before finally winning.

"Many students don't actually know where their talents lie. There are students who join the Soccer Club only to find that they are better at basketball. If they really want to pursue a professional sports career, joining more clubs means they can try more paths."

Seeing that the Matoba the class was somewhat deadlocked, everyone looked at the seemingly unbreakable trio again, and then suddenly realized that the three of them seemed to belong to the same club.

Like Kitagawa Ryo, Ichinose Honami and Karuizawa Kei also thought of the Student Council when they saw this topic. After all, it wasn't a new thing for Sakayanagi Arisu and Horikita Suzune to 'covet' Kitagawa Ryo. If this Student Council could pass with more than half the votes in the whole school, Kitagawa Ryo's name would probably appear on the Student Council list the next day.

However, considering that the Student Council is always one person per position, the freshmen had a lot of trouble recruiting more members this year, unless the seniors from the First Year voluntarily stepped down...

You know what, it seems like those two senior students in the third year were actually willing to give Kitagawa Ryo Ryoten a spot.

Thinking about this, Karuizawa Kei also felt a little conflicted.

However, before she could speak, Ichinose Honami raised her hand and spoke first:

"I voted in favor, for reasons similar to everyone else's."

Her meaning was already quite clear.

It's not like I haven't done it before.

Okay, Liang's transferring classes, I'll transfer classes too.

If he transfers, I'll just transfer with him.

In fact, Ichinose Honami was also the Student Council President during junior high school, so she has a lot of experience.

Following closely behind, Kitagawa Ryo also spoke up:

"I don't think everyone needs to take this topic too seriously. After all, even if we reach Unanimous Vote, it only means that our class has made a choice. Whether this topic can be truly implemented depends on the joint opinion of all twelve classes across the three grades."

But then he immediately changed the subject:

"However, I am more inclined to agree, because it essentially just gives students more choices. In fact, even if you oppose this topic, it won't have any impact on you once it's implemented. So why not give students who want to try more opportunities a chance to choose?"

After Kitagawa Ryo and Ichinose Honami expressed their opinions, Karuizawa Kei could only follow suit. In any case, it was just a part-time position and not a real transfer. So Student Council, she could just join Hiyori's Tea Ceremony Club later.

The influence of the "Iron Triangle" was quite significant in Class A. Moreover, in the first round of voting, the number of students who signed up for the "yes" vote was greater than the number who signed up for the "no." Therefore, Class 2-A easily reached a consensus in just two rounds of mid-term discussions, successfully passed the first two topics, and moved forward to the third topic less than half an hour after the start of this Special Exam.

[Topic 3: Each month, the Private Points distributed according to the Class Points will become zero, but three students will be randomly selected from the class to receive Protection Point; alternatively, the Private Points distributed will be halved, but one student can be chosen to receive Protection Point; if you do not wish to choose either option, the Private Points of the student whose score is in the bottom five in the next Written Exam will become zero.]

[Regardless of which option you choose, the period of confiscation of Private Points will last for six months.]

The moment Kitagawa Ryo saw the term "Protection Point," he perked up again.

If the location for the Summer Special Exam is ultimately chosen to be a city, then considering his use of Protection Point during the last Christmas...

The importance of this number of Protection Point will be elevated to infinity.

At this moment, Kitagawa Ryo was unaware that, at the same time, the Protection Point had unexpectedly appeared in the first task for the first- First Year students, causing the four First Year classes to argue and debate about it until now, and after three rounds of discussions, they still could not reach Unanimous Vote.

[Topic 1: Immediately deduct 50% of all students' Private Points, and designate one student in the class to receive one Protection Point.]

[For/Oppose?]

The first question alone completely shattered the appeal and prestige of the so-called class Leader of the First Year classes. Under this anonymous voting rule, even though Ishigami Kyo, Takahashi Osamu, Utsunomiya Riku, and Yuki were unwilling to give up their Protection Point, they were still unable to reach Unanimous Vote.

"... tsk."

Xue smacked her lips again.

The vote count displayed on the screen remains at [23 votes in favor, 17 votes against].

The situation thus reached a stalemate.

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PS2: The Protection Point in this book are solely for the purpose of allowing everyone to legally engage in excessive sexual activity in ways that are not appropriate for high school students (I'm sure of it).

Chapter 58: Come and Witness My Answer

Among the second-year students, only Kitagawa Ryo has ever earned Protection Point once so far, through Special Exam Class Vote at the end of last semester's second semester. However, he deliberately used them up at the beginning of the winter break.

This matter naturally sparked much discussion on the school forum, but the most prevalent view is that Kitagawa Ryo didn't want to use the Protection Point his original class had given him, so he deliberately used them up before transferring classes. Hehehe, that's virtuous!

Even so, it doesn't mean that second-year students are unaware of the importance of these Protection Point, or what role they can play in the various Special Exam that follow. For details, you can refer to Ryuen Kakeru held a special card with almost the same function as Protection Point in last year's Uninhabited Island Special Exam. For many people, this is definitely something that allows them to play in many creative ways.

This is precisely why, in the first round of voting, the majority of students in Class A chose the first two options:

[Randomly give votes to three students: 12 votes; designate one student to give votes: 25 votes; give no votes: 4 votes]

"The class currently has 1,263 Class Points. Each student receives 126,300 Private Points from the school each month. Option one costs approximately 31 million Private Points, while option two costs approximately 15.5 million Private Points."

Instead of stating her position right away, Karuizawa Kei first did a calculation for the class during the mid-session discussion, presenting the numerical data to everyone in a clear and intuitive way.

It must be said that, from this perspective alone, classes with fewer Class Points actually have an advantage, since it means they have to pay less to Protection Point.

But for Class 2-A, which holds over 1,200 Class Points, this price undoubtedly sounds quite heavy.

"If we convert the value of Protection Point into the Twenty Million Personal Points that can cancel expulsion penalties, both options are actually worthwhile. The former costs an average of 10 million Private Points for one random Protection Point, while the latter costs 15.5 million Private Points for one designated Protection Point."

"So, the real question now is, which one should we choose?"

After Karuizawa Kei raised this question, there was a slight commotion in the class, but soon a student stood up and pointed out a mistake in Karuizawa Kei's words.

"Our Class Points haven't remained constant over the past six months, so the cost calculation is incorrect. If our class can steadily increase its Class Points over the next six months, the corresponding costs will also rise."

However, no sooner had he finished speaking than Kanzaki Ryuji firmly expressed his own opinion:

"But if we try to calculate these data that are currently impossible to quantify, it will go on forever. If we're just talking about loans at the theoretical level, then I can also assume that the Class Points increased because the students who received Protection Point made a particularly big contribution, or that other classes used Protection Point to hurt our class."

Unlike the first two topics, the third topic directly affected the interests of each student, so the atmosphere was quite tense from the start. However, Kanzaki Ryuji seemed unwilling to back down and firmly expressed his views:

"Just like Private Points and Class Points, the value of Protection Point cannot be simply converted into Private Points. Perhaps we can indeed accumulate 20 million Private Points in six months, but that's not as good as directly giving Protection Point to one person. This is a completely different difference between being proactive and passive."

As the most radical student in Class 2-A, Kanzaki Ryuji has always had this kind of personality, but he usually doesn't openly show it to the other students in the class.

But just like when he was convinced that Kitagawa Ryo's arrival would make the class great again, so he directly participated in Karuizawa Kei's transfer plan, when it really came down to it, he was still willing to roll up his sleeves and charge forward.

Class 2-A is not actually a selfish class. If someone in the class were to get into trouble, they would definitely be the ones most willing to pool their Twenty Million Personal Points to cancel the expulsion punishment. It was by taking advantage of this mentality that Kanzaki Ryuji successfully used the difference between being proactive and passive to slowly tilt the tide in his favor.

"In my opinion, option two is the best choice. This way, everyone can still get Private Points from the school, and one student can be designated to receive Protection Point."

"As for the designated recipient, I'm inclined to give it to one of Karuizawa, Ichinose, or Kitagawa."

The topic naturally shifted to the trio, with Ichinose Honami and Karuizawa Kei both stating that they didn't need the Protection Point and that it would be best to leave them to Kitagawa Ryo, believing he could use them to their fullest potential.

Kitagawa Ryo didn't feign refusal; instead, he said he would use a portion of his Private Points to compensate the other students for their losses.

Actually, although he has changed classes three times in the year or so since he enrolled, it was actually students from other classes who helped him raise the 20 million Private Points each time. Kitagawa Ryo himself has hardly used his Private Points. The largest expenditure he made recently was three months ago when he paid part of the cost of canceling Horikita Suzune's expulsion penalty during the End-of-Year Special Exam.

Speaking of that 20 million yen fee, Sakura Airi paid the lion's share, 10 million yen, and it was she who took the initiative to pay it. However, this debt, or rather favor, was not attributed to Horikita Suzune, but rather to Kitagawa Ryo. We'll see when the other party will ask for it back.

However, the students of Class 2-A did not accept Kitagawa Ryo's suggestion. After all, Kitagawa Ryo's transfer had undoubtedly played a significant role in making Class A- Class A. They were not particularly calculative by nature, and after Kanzaki Ryuji persuaded them, they quickly made their decision.

Thus, although the third round of the Special Exam was a bit bumpy, it didn't delay Class A's time for too long. After all, just looking at the name 'Unanimous Vote,' the class that would naturally come to mind in the second year was their class.

The exam was supposed to last five hours, but only about an hour had passed. If the next two questions went this smoothly, they would probably become the first class in the entire school to pass this Special Exam.

With this expectation in mind, the options for the fourth question quickly appeared on everyone's tablet screens:

[Topic 4: Where would you most like to take this year's Summer Special Exam? The exam content and format will vary depending on the location chosen.]

[Option 1: Tokyo]

[Option 2: Uninhabited Island]

[Option 3: Conduct on campus]

They've arrived.

If this crucial question is placed as the second to last question, then the fifth question in this Unanimous Special Exam, is very likely to be the ultimate multiple-choice question similar to the one experienced by Chabashira Sae and Hoshinomiya Chie back then.

The three options were pretty much what Kitagawa Ryo had predicted beforehand; it was basically a choice between Uninhabited Island and a city. However, he didn't expect that this time it would specifically be Tokyo, since Japan also has other major cities like Kyoto, Osaka, and Yokohama.

Of course, this doesn't mean that Kitagawa Ryo didn't like the Tokyo option; it just made him increasingly curious about what tricks the ANHS University of Education would play in this Summer Special Exam.

Thinking of this, Kitagawa Ryo unconsciously imagined Ayanokoji Kiyotaka, who should be facing this Special Exam in the classroom two classrooms away right now.

For him, Tokyo was probably the most suitable place, and it might even be the most crucial factor that prompted Ayanokoji Kiyotaka to take that step. After all, according to his plan, the safest and final deadline would be graduation more than a year later, followed by the three-way talks six months later.

Only when all the right conditions are met—favorable timing, advantageous location, and harmonious relationships—will the other party choose to take action during the summer vacation, more than a month later.