It should be said that with Hachiman's assistance, Horikita had changed to some extent.
But Ibuki seemed to have gone unmanaged all along, still as blunt and direct as ever. That kind of personality could be rather cute at times, but among groups of girls, it was also the sort that was easily ostracized.
So whenever he saw her normally, she was basically alone.
But Ibuki, wasn't she a little too much of a straightforward woman?
"So," Hachiman said, "what did you come to see me for?"
"If it's about the plan for this exam, then Ryuen should have already decided on it."
"And if he hasn't collected points from you, that means he's handling everything himself," Hachiman said.
In fact, Ryuen had probably also handed some extra points over to Horikita at this time, but Hachiman would not say something so damaging to their relationship outright.
After all, why had Horikita become so ruthless? Hadn't she learned it from him?
"I have no doubts about this exam," Ibuki said. "There's just something I'm concerned about."
"Oh?"
Hachiman looked over.
"It's that... when the rules were announced, Ryuen clashed with Sakayanagi, and Sakayanagi directly invited you to transfer classes."
"Have you already made up your mind?" Ibuki said. "At the private meeting, Ryuen said that if the class rose up and you transferred away, we would fall back down very quickly."
"So it would be like riding a roller coaster once."
"Everyone would use up all their momentum at once, but they shouldn't hope that it could last," Ibuki said.
In other words, had Ibuki come to Hachiman for Ryuen's class's future?
Looking at it that way, Ibuki really was willing to devote herself to her class.
When motivating classmates, Hachiman was used to giving them some points as compensation,