U, Ura? No! Oolong Tea? Yes...

Principal Yamamoto believed he might have figured out their line of thinking. Those despicable little rats had started by using high salaries and generous benefits—scratch that—by resorting to underhanded means to poach Toyogasaki's teachers. He had once wondered just how wealthy that hidden school had to be to poach people so frantically. But now, Principal Yamamoto understood. They were merely putting on a brave face! Why? Because Matsuzaki had clearly been an undercover agent, yet throughout this entire time, he had done nothing an undercover agent was supposed to do—he had neither poached anyone, nor gathered intelligence, much less... Therefore, Principal Yamamoto had every reason to suspect that the funds they used to recruit talent had already run dry. They had poached so few people and were already out of steam—what else could that be but putting on a brave face? Still, Principal Yamamoto understood why they had done it. By his reasoning, they had never intended to poach all the teachers away. They had wanted to disrupt the school's teaching plans through their poaching operation—this was all preparation for the upcoming regional joint exams. If he, Principal Yamamoto, had failed to withstand the pressure and become frantic and overwhelmed amid the wave of departing teachers, then he would have fallen for their scheme. If that had happened, would their school's joint exam results have been worth looking at? When that time came, that despicable hidden school could step forward openly and even smugly tell everyone, "Toyogasaki counts as a prestigious school? Look at the gap between them and the other prestigious schools..." Or perhaps say, "The reason Toyogasaki produced so many talented people was all because of Teacher XX—the traitor. Now, Teacher XX has transferred to our school..." Hmph, they wanted to rise to prominence by stepping on Toyogasaki!