The Footsteps of Expulsion! Sakayanagi: What if I don't want to be the one taking the fall? 6k!

So, Classmate Sakayanagi, this was the time to consider class competition, not the time for you to be someone's girlfriend.

That brought them back to the question Hoshinomiya-sensei had raised when they first met her.

At the time, Hoshinomiya-sensei had probably wanted to use Ichinose as bait to tempt Hachiman, asking what should be done if students from different classes started dating.

Even if they were a couple, they belonged to different classes, which meant they were in different camps.

At the same time, because of class competition, if one class suffered a loss—especially if espionage was involved—students with lovers in other classes would very likely become suspects.

In other words, in a school where everything was based around classes, relationships between students from different classes could easily cause problems.

And if both parties were class representatives of their respective classes, the danger would be even greater.

Even their exam strategies might be adjusted because their opponent was their lover.

And that would once again go against their class's interests.

It meant they could have done better, but chose not to.

So, Classmate Sakayanagi, did you know?

You were doing exactly that right now... so please, keep doing it.

Hachiman had promised Ryuen that he would lead the class upward, and they were now only 300 points away from Class A.

Yet he had accepted Ryuen's 20 million points.

Take someone's money, solve their troubles. Hachiman also disliked owing anyone anything, so to accomplish his goal, he needed to show some dedication.

So, regrettably, Classmate Sakayanagi, who was preoccupied with romance, had to be a little weaker.

Thinking that, Hachiman seemed to be about to put the phone on the table into his pants pocket.

With that motion, Hachiman's right hand could go beneath the table as well. Since he