For students their age, celebrities and the entertainment industry were topics that never grew old.
Although students at Advanced Nurturing High School were forbidden from using social media to communicate with the outside world, they could still learn about current events online.
Sakura Airi was fairly well-known among the first-years as well. After all, she was one of Shiraishi Makoto's harem members and had an identity as an online idol. With the outbreak of this incident, her fame within the school soared.
Now, whenever she walked home after school, students from other classes and grades would gather around her to ask for photos and autographs. Although most of them were merely following the crowd for fun, it still affected Sakura Airi's daily life somewhat.
But being an idol was a path she had chosen for herself, and there would certainly be no shortage of such troubles in the future. Fortunately, compared to the ostrich-like state she had been in at the start of the school year, Sakura Airi had changed considerably. With Kushida Kikyo, Karuizawa Kei, and Ichinose Honami helping her, dealing with her schoolmates was no problem at all.
However, just as everyone had expected, the frenzy did not last long. That was not only because everyone had grown accustomed to having a major celebrity as their classmate, but also because the second Special Exam since the first-years' enrollment had begun.
Shiraishi Makoto had been paying close attention to this Special Exam. The Cross-Grade Joint Special Exam at the start of the school year had been designed purely by Tsukishiro Tokinari to disgust Shiraishi Makoto and Ayanokoji Kiyotaka. The Class Points awarded in that exam had been miserly, and the first-years had been completely scattered, making it difficult for the four classes to widen the gap between themselves.
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