Because Utsunomiya Riku and Hosen Kazuomi were at odds, Tsubaki Sakurako had been the one to call the class leaders together. But she had never done anything particularly impressive before. Without Yagami Takuya's full support, the meeting could never have happened.
"I've always believed all first-year students should work together," Yagami Takuya said, as though he had missed Tsubaki Sakurako's hint. "Even if you have nothing else in mind, I think it's worthwhile for the classes to check in with one another right now."
"Yagami, let me tell you something interesting." Seeing that he was still pretending not to understand, Tsubaki Sakurako shook her head lightly. "But I can't promise what will happen once you've heard it."
"...That does sound interesting." Yagami Takuya grew wary, but he did not stop her.
"Get Ayanokoji Kiyotaka expelled, and you receive twenty million Private Points. Who could turn down an offer like that?"
"Maybe no one else could, but I'm different," Yagami Takuya said.
"Different? Sorry, I can't imagine that. You look harmless, but you want Ayanokoji expelled, don't you? Maybe even more than Hosen and Amasawa, who actually took action during the last Special Exam."
"Why would you say that?" The smile on Yagami Takuya's face stiffened.
"I could see it." Tsubaki Sakurako raised her right hand and pointed at her eyes. "I'm fairly confident in my powers of observation."
"You..."
Tsubaki Sakurako met Yagami Takuya's gaze as though she could peer straight into the thoughts he kept buried. He looked away before he realized it.
Yagami Takuya understood then. Tsubaki Sakurako was nowhere near as ordinary as her OAA data suggested. Class C's true strategist was this unknown girl.
"But that's a minor matter. Things are looking rather bad right now." Tsubaki Sakurako seemed to have brought up Yagami Takuya only