The Dragon Group's First Discussion
Later, he was hired by Sakayanagi from Class A to deliberately send his men to provoke students from Class B and then self-destruct with them.
Until he met Shuichi Kanda, a guy from Class D who seemed to be his kind of person.
I first noticed him because of the incident that changed the class dynamics. After Class A was severely tricked, their points fell behind Class B.
In order to maintain their position in Class A, Sakayanagi used 1 million Private Points to hire him to play a self-destruct game with Class B.
Ryuen, who was constantly testing the school's limits, readily accepted the proposal. After all, it didn't matter who he messed with; since there was money to be made, Class B deserved to suffer this calamity.
The reason he came into contact with Shuichi Kanda is quite strange. At the time, he was taking stock of the talents in his class and found that Shiina, the top student in his class, was getting close to Shuichi Kanda from Class D.
In order to find out whether Shiina had been controlled by the other party, Ryuen organized a dinner party, and it was because of this dinner party that Ryuen began his cooperation with Shuichi Kanda.
From then on, his plan went very smoothly. Not only did he encounter good things during their second meeting, but the subsequent Uninhabited Island incident was also a great success. He not only successfully extracted a large number of points from Class A, but also managed to take a piece of meat from Class B.
However, in both collaborations, Ryuen always felt like he was being used. Although the results were good for his plan and for Class C, this feeling of being constantly controlled made him very unhappy.
Therefore, he wanted to use this VIP Exam to teach Shuichi Kanda lesson.
At exactly eight o'clock, almost everyone's cell phones received a special email from the school at the same time, and the shrill ringtones rang simultaneously throughout the amusement park.
Are they here?
Ryuen first took out his own phone to confirm the text message.
[After careful consideration, you have not been selected as VIP. Please act as a member of your group and take on the challenge of the exam. The exam will begin at 1 PM today and will last for three days. Students of the Dragon Group, please assemble in the Dragon Group room on the second floor.]
"Not selected?" Ryuen muttered to himself before starting to check the table closest to him. After checking, he returned the phone.
For a full half hour, the scene remained completely quiet, until the inspection of Ryuen was completed.
"Alright, take your phones back. Those of you selected for VIP, be careful not to reveal your identities, or you know the consequences."
As soon as Ryuen gave the order, the students in Class C quickly retrieved their phones and began verifying their identities.
But when they got their hands on the phones, everyone's expressions turned very strange.
"Hey, Ryuen, what's going on here?"
A student from Class C stood up and pointed the text message record on his phone at Ryuen.
"It's nothing. I just thought you idiots would give away your identities, so I deleted all your text message records. How about that? Aren't I thoughtful?"
"Are you kidding me? If you didn't know who you were..."
"So what if you don't know your own identity? Or do you want to betray me?" Ryuen glared fiercely at the student.
Faced with Ryuen's domineering attitude, the student had no choice but to smack his lips and sit down.
"That's it. For this exam, no one is allowed to mail the answers to the school before I give the order."
To prevent the fools in his own class from thinking they were clever, Ryuen took extreme measures. If even they themselves didn't know whether they were VIP or not, then other classes certainly wouldn't be able to find out through conversation.
Furthermore, Ryuen already knows the members of his class VIP; the next step is to figure out the pattern in the selection of these VIP.
Once this pattern is discovered, Ryuen plans to single-handedly crush all three classes in this exam!
Currently, Class C has 678 Class Points, while Class B, with the highest score, has 969. Once we gain 450 Class Points —no, even if our class's VIP is discovered at the end and we lose 150 points—it doesn't matter.
If Class C can correctly guess the leaders of all the other classes, they will undoubtedly be promoted directly to Class A next month.
As long as you can deduce the pattern for selecting the VIP earlier than the students in other classes!
However, compared to this situation, Ryuen actually hopes that everyone can achieve result one. In this way, this exam can generate more than 80 million Private Points, enough for four people to transfer to Class A.
He trusted his Private Points more than the Class Points. Rather than struggling in every exam, he preferred to accumulate 800 million Private Points to help all the students in his class ascend to immortality!
Regardless of the approach, the first priority is to obtain the student lists for each of the twelve groups.
Clearly, these idiots in Class C also failed to remember who was in their group.
After dismissing the ordinary students, Ryuen only kept the elite members of Class C and his confidants.
After entering the list of VIP into his phone, Ryuen handed it to Shiina, who was sitting to his right.
"These are the VIP in our class who receive special treatment, three in total. If I'm not mistaken, the other classes also have three."
Shiina glanced at it and nodded, agreeing with Ryuen's statement.
"Are you planning to find all the VIP?"
"If possible, of course. But I prefer outcome one, though I'm afraid some people might not cooperate." Ryuen narrowed his eyes.
To achieve result one, everyone in the same group, except for the VIP and their VIP, must mail out the correct answers between 9:30 PM and 10:00 PM on the last day of the exam.
During this period, all students are required to stay in their rooms and are prohibited from discussing anything related to the exam.
In other words, if you want to achieve result one, you must inform everyone of the name of the VIP before the end of the exam, that is, before 9 p. m. on the last day.
However, even if the information about the VIP is revealed precisely at 9:00 AM, there is no guarantee that the individual will not betray them between 9:00 and 9:30 AM.
Therefore, to achieve result one, all 150-odd students must completely trust each other, which is arguably harder than climbing to heaven.
Of course, it's okay if you can't do that; you can impose mandatory constraints.
But here's the crucial point: during the previous Uninhabited Island Exam, classes B, C, and D ganged up on Class A and really messed things up, leaving the students in Class A somewhat disoriented.
It's unlikely that uniting them will work unless someone in charge steps forward. But Katsuragi has completely lost power, and Sakayanagi isn't on the ship. So the disorganized Class A has become the most difficult group to deal with.
The same problem that plagues Ryuen is also a headache for Kanda Shuichi Kanda.
Right now, he's thinking about how to recruit Class A.
Shuichi Kanda wasn't worried about Class B; Ichinose and his group's unity was no joke. Ryuen was even less of a concern.
Because Shuichi Kanda discovered that Ryuen seemed to care more about his Private Points than his Class Points, it's highly likely that he also wanted to achieve outcome one.
He might bring up the collaboration before I do, but only Class A.
According to the message sent back by Kamuro, Class A is now in disarray. After being tricked by Classes B, C, and D, they all suffer from paranoia.
"And this is Class A? "Shuichi Kanda's disdain was undisguised.
At the same time, they were also regretting that MD had really messed up Class A's situation on the Uninhabited Island.
At the same time, he was also complaining, "Why couldn't we have held VIP Exam first? Honestly, then I wouldn't regret torturing Class A so badly."
Moreover, he had not yet deciphered the selection rules for the VIP.
While I'd like to use Time TV to find the answer directly, wouldn't that be too pointless?
Moreover, he didn't know how the information had reached the teachers. The simplest way to put it was that they had been informed somewhere, but without knowing the location and time, searching would be very slow.
Even if he spends all 20 million points he has, he might not be able to find it.
As for searching for the exact time the students received the text messages, that's even more absurd. Besides Class D, there are 119 other people. If each person gets one minute, that's 11.9 million Private Points.
This is in the most ideal situation. Some people sleep until 9 a. m. and you have no idea when they will check their phone.
Therefore, Shuichi Kanda immediately rejected the idea of using Time TV as a shortcut.
Moreover, after using the Time TV twice, he discovered a problem.
That's it... it can't be charged.
Yes, this thing can't be charged, it's such a rip-off!
In other words, this device likely has a limited number of uses, so it absolutely cannot be used carelessly until he finds a way to recharge it.
So this thing has a limited number of uses, and I still have to pay for it!
Shuichi Kanda felt like he was a huge victim of injustice.
As for disassembling it, that was even more impossible. The thing was perfectly sealed, with no part that could be disassembled. He even suspected that it might be a disposable item.
The only hope is that sometime in the future, I'll be able to get the Time TV charger from the system.
At noon, after lunch, Shuichi Kanda and Hirata Yosuke went to the Dragon Group's room on the second floor of the ship.
The discussion was scheduled for 1 to 2 p. m., and the time was fast approaching, so Shuichi Kanda and Hirata Yosuke decided to go ahead first.
However, when the two arrived at the room, there were already people there. The first person they saw was Katsuragi from Class A, whose big bald head was hard to miss even if you didn't want to.
Of course, Shuichi Kanda didn't mean to look down on the other person; he just thought it was really eye-catching.
Three unfamiliar faces sat next to Katsuragi, though they should all be students from Class A. However, Shuichi Kanda wasn't interested in them, as they weren't VIP.
Therefore, knowing the other person's name is enough; there's no need to try to match it up with them, because schools certainly don't choose VIP based on their looks.
Because of the three VIP in Class D, Kushida and Karuizawa are both very good-looking, but Minami is relatively ordinary-looking.
After seeing Shuichi Kanda enter the room, Katsuragi's expression became slightly serious, but he didn't say anything.
On the other side is Ichinose's Class B group. Besides Ichinose herself and Kanzaki Ryuji, whom we met before, there is another girl. Based on the list we saw earlier, this person should be named Tsube Hitomi.
Furthermore, if we were to choose based on looks, Ichinose to VIP in this group. Although Kushida is also good-looking, she still falls short compared to Ichinose and Horikita.
"Good afternoon, Kanda- kun, Hirata."
Upon seeing the two, Ichinose immediately waved to them in greeting.
"Just call me Kanda, no need for honorifics. Ichinose."
Shuichi Kanda greeted the other person and then sat down near Class B.
Please make yourself at home here as well.
After giving a similar answer, Hirata sat down next to Shuichi Kanda.
The only ones who haven't arrived yet are Horikita Suzune and Kushida Kikyo from Class D, and the three from Class C.
Seeing the relaxed attitude of the two classes, Katsuragi's heart sank.
He believed that the leaders of both classes already possessed information about the VIP in their respective classes, while he himself knew nothing.
That's right, he knew nothing about the VIP information for Class A.
Class A is now like a frightened bird, distrusting no one, especially Katsuragi.
Leading the best Class A to only earn 70 Class Points on the Uninhabited Island.
Because of this incident, some people even suspected that Katsuragi had been bribed by other classes.
If it weren't for the fact that the points on his Student ID were from a clean source, this guy would probably already be isolated.
Faced with such a poor Class A, Katsuragi was at a loss. Having lost credibility, he could no longer compete with Sakayanagi for the position of class leader.
However, if Class A approaches this exam with this attitude, then without a doubt, Class A will suffer defeat once again.
Therefore, he braced himself and offered suggestions to the class, proposing a suggestion that everyone could accept.
Chapter 128 The Dragon Group's First Discussion
As time went on, Kushida Kikyo and Horikita Suzune arrived at the Dragon Group's room one after another, but the three members of Class C, Ryuen, were still nowhere to be seen.
"Is Ryuen not coming? If so, Class C is out of the game."
Looking at the clock, which was about to strike one o'clock, Shuichi Kanda joked.
"What's the rush? It's not time yet!"
No sooner had Shuichi Kanda Ryuen open the door and swaggered in with his henchmen.
"You rascal, you weren't eavesdropping outside, were you?"
"This room is so well soundproofed, how can anyone eavesdrop?"
Ryuen pulled out the chair opposite Shuichi Kanda and sat down in the seat next to Class A.
"So you were really eavesdropping?"
Shuichi Kanda continued his relentless pursuit, while Ryuen indifferently glanced at the students from all classes except Class C.
"Let me see, where is the VIP? Is it you, Kanda?"
"I'm sorry, I'm not VIP," Shuichi Kanda, shrugging regretfully. "If you don't believe me, I can show you my phone."
"Hmph, no need."
Ryuen scoffed and didn't take Shuichi Kanda's suggestion, because looking at Shuichi Kanda's phone would mean showing his own phone to him, Ryuen felt was unnecessary.
A lot of information was revealed in just a few words.
First, there's Ryuen. They immediately made it clear that the Dragon Group's VIP wasn't in their class, and expressed their determination to find the VIP.