After about ten minutes, the people gathering information returned.
"It seemed only second-year students took part in the archery course," Watanabe said, pushing up his glasses. "They seemed to be attending different courses in batches by grade."
That was why they had only seen second-years in the archery course.
The third-years were probably attending other courses, or not participating at all.
But this basically confirmed Group 1's arrangement. They had the members of each grade choose events they liked, were interested in, or might be good at. Then, if they drew an exam in that area later, they would have no choice but to participate.
Hachiman's approach was to make the best use of everyone's abilities, while Group 1 had chosen an interest-based strategy.
It was not as if that method would not work, but it would only make the results straightforward or impressive. It had nothing to do with the interaction the school advocated. The school probably hoped the students would interact during the training camp and become closer.
Clearly, Group 1 could not achieve that.
So—
Hachiman instinctively felt that Group 1 might not be united.
And that was not difficult to guess. Group 1 included representative figures from every third-year class, so it would be hard to make anyone submit to anyone else.
Group 1's third-year members were as follows.
Third Year
Class A: Sakayanagi Arisu, Kohei Katsuragi, Masumi Kamuro
Class B: Sho Ryuen, Albert, Kaneda
Class C: Honami Ichinose, Yuki Himeko, Shibata, Random Guy A
Class D: Hirata Yosuke, Kikyo Kushida
Sakayanagi was extremely forceful, and Ryuen would not back down either. Otherwise, the two would not have clashed at last year's graduation ceremony. Ichinose, on the other hand, was gentle and the grade's Archangel. Compared to Sakayanagi and Ryuen's aggressiveness, more second-years would probably support