Ryuen truly lived up to his name.
He was exceptionally skilled at using these little tricks.
Still, Ryuen had worried too much. What he had obtained were the exam papers; as long as the answers were filled in, the entire class could take the test with open books and achieve the highest scores.
However, this move to obstruct others would still have an effect.
It could delay the time other classes got the textbooks, leaving them with less time to study.
There was a chance of lowering the other classes' average scores. Of course, it could also cause some academically weaker students to fail.
Although this exam's rules ranked the four classes by their average scores, points would be deducted if any students failed. So if students from Class A could be made to fail, then... Ryuen's class would close the gap with two classes at once.
The chances of that were small, but borrowing books was merely a convenient move and not difficult at all.
Thus—
After setting down a physics textbook, Ryuen took Ishizaki and Albert to pull every third-year first-semester textbook for physics, chemistry, English, mathematics, and biology off the shelves.
"This is kind of insane," Kaneda could not help complaining.
Originally, he had only been responsible for English, which meant five books.
But now, dozens of books were piled in layers across the table.
Albert and Ishizaki had only been assigned to transport the books, but their easy task had suddenly become much more difficult.
Each person now had to handle twenty books.
"..." Hiyori.
"..." Hachiman.
"Let's move them," Hachiman said to Hiyori.
"Mm." Hiyori nodded. The two of them had originally intended to slack off and wait for support, but now they had even more books to deal with themselves.
Having carried the