Since everyone in the class knew their financial situation, quite a few students looked relieved. Hoshinomiya Chie, however, clapped her hands to draw everyone's attention.
"This exam is nowhere near as easy as you think."
"Once the exam begins, the school will disable transfers of Private Points into and out of accounts. Anyone who wants to avoid expulsion by paying Private Points at the last minute must have enough points in their own account before the exam starts."
This rule was clearly aimed at classes with large reserves of Private Points, such as Class 2-A and Class B. Originally, only thirty million would have been needed to keep the entire class safe, since only five groups would finish at the bottom.
But if no one else could pay on a student's behalf, then, considering that not everyone could form a large six-person group, Class A would need a total of eighty-eight million Private Points to rest easy.
The exam would take place in July. Even including all the points distributed that month, their saved Class Funds, and Shiraishi Makoto's own Private Points, they could only scrape together forty-eight million. Even if some students had been frugal enough to save a hundred to two hundred thousand over the past year, the total would still only be around fifty million.
Besides, this exam wasn't simply a comparison of academic or athletic ability, so no group was clearly in danger. With the complex environment of the Uninhabited Island and unpredictable exam tasks thrown into the mix, whether they fell into the bottom five would depend heavily on luck.
"All that talking has worn your teacher out a little." Hoshinomiya Chie raised a hand to wipe nonexistent sweat from her forehead. "But there are still a few things about this exam that we haven't