"It looked like your earlier judgment had been mistaken."
Horikita Suzune watched Kushida Kikyo, who was surrounded by their classmates. "It looked like when we were on the ship, she just chose Private Points like everyone else."
Ayanokoji had suggested that possibility when the Cruise Ship exam ended. Horikita had also been suspicious of Kushida's rather strange behavior on the second day of the exam.
But her suspicions had mostly faded by the end of the Sports Festival. If Kushida had betrayed their class, wouldn't it have been strange that they still came in second despite losing Sudo, their star athlete?
"...Don't you think Class B had an awful lot of bad luck during the Sports Festival?" Ayanokoji reminded her. Their class hadn't cooperated with any of the others.
In that case, the most likely explanation was that their class's event roster had been leaked. And Class A had probably suffered the same fate.
"I don't see what that has to do with anything. Like you said, if Class B got hold of the event roster, how could they have lost so badly?" Horikita doubted Ayanokoji's judgment. Class B had undoubtedly been the biggest loser at the Sports Festival, losing a hundred Class Points.
"..." Ayanokoji said nothing. Victory and defeat had never depended solely on the results on the surface. Class B had indeed lost the Sports Festival, but Sagara Zoya had become Student Council President, while Miyabi Nagumo, a second-year student, had been removed from his position. He didn't believe there was no connection between the two.
"Besides, even if Kushida really is up to something, I don't think now is the right time to expose her," Horikita said calmly. Without any evidence, the class would never believe them.
Even if they pointed out that Kushida had acted