"You angered me, Horikita," Ryuen said coldly. "So I'll only pay you one million. Have one of your class's students take responsibility for the second-to-last-place expulsion."
"Then there's nothing to discuss," Suzune Horikita said calmly. "And our class won't accept your one million either."
"But I've already reached an agreement with Classmate Sakayanagi. And since you provoked Class A, getting their students to cooperate with us and creating a group that finishes second from last will be easy."
"And Ichinose will surely be willing to have someone take responsibility for the second-to-last expulsion slot, so there's a high chance we can get her class to cooperate as well," Suzune Horikita said. "So if you refuse here, the student expelled next will be from your class, Ryuen. And then your expense and loss will be 4.5 million."
"Accept Class D's proposal, and you only need to pay 6.06 million. You'll also get fifty points for free, and the gap with Class A will remain unchanged."
"Basically, you're only spending 1.5 million to lock in the current point gap. You can accept that price, can't you?" Suzune Horikita said.
At that moment, she was already staring at Ryuen sharply.
She carried herself with the confidence that everything was under her control.
"..." Ryuen.
Her words made Ryuen, who had just risen as if to leave, sit back down.
Spending 1.5 million to keep the point gap with Class A unchanged was indeed cheap.
But.
The bill was not that simple to calculate.
Because in the end, he would still have to pay 6.06 million points to get through this exam.
"Are you sure you want to mess with my class like this?" Ryuen said. "Are you sure Hachiman Hikigaya will agree to your arrangement?"
"H-Hachiman...?"
Classmate Horikita's confidence seemed to weaken slightly.