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

Because.

While he could tempt Classmate Sakayanagi into becoming love-struck, he himself was deeply caught up in it too, so this might end up being a situation where both sides lost.

"So our class can choose several groups to protect now?" Ichinose said.

"Class A and Class B have each chosen one, but you can choose several more if you want." Horikita said. "The list of groups chosen for protection can simply be crossed out."

"..." Ichinose.

Ichinose borrowed a pen from Horikita and crossed out the lists for Group 7 and Group 9... but when she was about to cross out Group 3, she suddenly stopped.

"Horikita, isn't there something wrong with this?" Ichinose said.

So Ichinose had caught on.

Suzune's expression seemed to carry the regret of someone who had lost something.

"Looks like you've noticed," she said.

"To be precise, we only need to determine the bottom two groups," Horikita said. "We only need to manipulate those two groups into taking last place and second-to-last place."

"There's no need to manipulate the other groups," Horikita said.

"..." XN

"Then if there's no need to manipulate the other groups, why did you have us choose the groups we wanted to protect?" Katsuragi said.

"Although Class D has no hope of Class Advancement, your three classes are still competing with one another."

"Wouldn't understanding information about the other classes be important, then?" Horikita said.

In other words, if Class A selected a list of groups, they could determine which people in Class A needed protection. Those people were most likely Class A's core members.

Once they obtained that information, they could sell it to Class A's rival classes.

So Horikita wanted to moonlight as an information broker?

Suzune Horikita really was terrifying.

Ryuen felt fortunate that he had not