The situation in the Second Year had basically become clear. Classes A and C, as well as B and D, had each assembled teams from their class elites, preparing to compete for first place in this Special Exam.
Although the classes were competitors, competition within the same year was not particularly intense in this exam.
On the contrary, if a group from another class in the same year fell into the bottom three and the corresponding winning group belonged to another year, all four classes would have a certain number of Class Points plundered by the other year.
While the gaps between them would not widen, both their total Class Points and the Private Points issued by the school would decrease.
In this matter, the Second Year needed to cooperate in order to stand against the First and Third Years. The four classes had reached a consensus on this, and each class actively took part in cross-class cooperation, complementing one another's strengths and weaknesses.
Since the Third Year's Class Points were relatively close, they chose to fight independently in order to seize every chance to overtake one another. Things were not going smoothly for the First Year either.
Hosen Kazuomi continued with the same approach he had used in the first exam. Not only did he prohibit his classmates from forming groups with students from other classes, but he also held tightly onto every card in his possession.
Want to form a team? Want to trade cards? Then hand over your points like good little students!
Although the school had reduced the severity of the exam's penalties in consideration of the First Year's circumstances, the shadow of expulsion still hung over everyone's heads. Yet Hosen Kazuomi seemed utterly unconcerned with whether the weaker students in his class lived or died,