"By the way, Hachiman. There's something I wanted to ask you."
As we strolled leisurely along the beach, Masumi, who was holding my hand, suddenly spoke up. In the end, I had started calling her by her first name too. I'd assumed it would take some adjustment, like it had with Hiyori and Arisu, but when I tried calling her Masumi, she simply said, "Call me by my name from now on," and that was that.
"What is it?"
"The showers in Class A were damaged. Did you do that?"
So Hashimoto really had acted on my behalf. That decisiveness of his, without the slightest hesitation, was admirable.
"No, not me."
I'd merely asked someone else to wreck them. I could have done it myself, but if I got caught, Class D would immediately be disqualified, and the more than four million private points I'd saved up would go down the drain.
"I see. Then the culprit was Hashimoto, Kito, or Ryuen from another class?"
"Who's Kito? An officer in the Sakanayanagi Faction?"
"Yeah. He's considered one of the capable ones in Class A, and Sakayanagi trusts him quite a bit."
"I see. By the way, did you buy new shower equipment?"
"We did. I thought bathing in the river would have been fine, but most of the girls and some of the boys objected. Katsuragi said the class had points to spare, so we bought them."
"I see. How many points does Class A have left now?"
They'd taken supplies worth 150 points from Ryuen, so their total probably hadn't dropped by much.
"After buying the shower equipment, we had 220 points left. Katsuragi said this morning that if things went well, including the special location bonus, we could end the exam with over 450 points... but that's absolutely