"Classmate Horikita informed me that I was supposed to score only one point in every subject."
Several Class D students gathered together and walked through the Shopping Street, each holding a cup of charcoal-roasted boba milk tea. One boy had gotten his tea to go, but he did not drink it in public and seemed somewhat unsettled.
Classmate Horikita had contacted the representatives of the other classes and returned with instructions for the second-to-last group and the last-place group.
The second-to-last group would be expelled by their Class D. That had already been clearly arranged.
However, Yukimura had never expected the group he belonged to would be selected as the last-place group.
Although they had been chosen at random, it still felt... complicated.
He had excellent Academic Ability, yet he had been assigned to the group ranked last in the academic exam and would now have to go through the expulsion process.
"Yukimura, is there something you're worried about?" The students acting with Yukimura were from the old tutoring group.
They included Akito Miyake, Sato, Hasebe, Matsushita, and Shinohara.
Sato had joined the tutoring group later.
Originally, she had not been this enthusiastic about studying. She had even considered going straight to work after graduating from high school, and she was rather interested in design and clothing.
She had never expected much from higher education.
But she did not want to simply be expelled like that either. She had been quite happy at this school and had made good friends like Kei, Shinohara, and Matsushita.
She could not bear the thought of being expelled alone.
Otherwise, when she had faced expulsion during the Forestry Exam, she would not have nearly cried before asking Hachiman to draw lots for her, ultimately allowing her to stay.
Unfortunately, she had wanted to invite