"..." Ryuen.
So this time's exam... had been a huge loss.
Still.
"I don't have any points on my phone right now," Ryuen said. "You still have some, Hachiman. Transfer them to Oda first. You said you'd cover the expenses for the last-place group in this exam too."
For a moment, Ryuen wondered whether he would keep suffering losses like this whenever an exam involved Academic Ability. Perhaps he needed to make some preparations.
For example, maybe he should finally start studying seriously.
"What a shame," Shiina said as she looked at her deskmate.
"We could have drained Class A of a huge amount of points, but it didn't work." Hiyori sighed softly.
Hiyori had actually found Hachiman's plan to freeload off and backstab Class A quite brilliant.
Ryuen's class's enemy now was Class A, and their goal was to drag Class A down.
In a class battle, there were two ways to defeat the other side.
The first was the most direct: class evaluation points. The second was the class's reserves.
Just like now.
Ryuen's wallet had been flattened by class expenses, forcing him to borrow money from Hachiman.
That was clearly a sign that the class lacked reserves. Class A, meanwhile, had accumulated quite a stockpile of points. For Ryuen's class, which was practically broke, climbing upward would be difficult when their opponent was both powerful and wealthy.
Thus, the joint backstabbing by Classes B, C, and D in this exam might have forced Class A to spend thirty million Private Points on its own.
That would have severely depleted Class A's point reserves as well.
With their opponent weakened, Ryuen's class would still have a chance at victory.
In the end, though, the plan had failed.
So they had still underestimated them.
While Ryuen had been reading