But she quickly shook her head.
"While it's good that you're thinking that way, withdrawals won't be allowed in this exam."
"All events are mandatory unless someone is physically unwell. Even if they have to withdraw because of illness, their place in the class roster won't change."
"So it won't affect changes to the roster."
In other words, the school was determined not to let the students exploit loopholes.
According to Ichinose's interpretation, the school's random selection had set the range based on the class roster ranked by student numbers.
That meant some classes might have key combat strength taken away, causing the class's overall ability to decline.
So they might resort to certain measures to deal with it.
Although her class's performance had not been particularly smooth so far, and they had been forced to adopt strategies that seemed to offer little benefit in order to protect every student, Ichinose's thinking had not dulled.
So she analyzed the situation quickly.
Then she searched for a possible breakthrough.
But according to the teacher, ordinary withdrawals or slacking off could not affect changes to the selected class roster.
That left only one option.
Expulsion.
Voluntary withdrawal from school.
As long as someone withdrew from school, it could affect the roster changes.
But withdrawing from school was no small matter. Basically, no one would be willing to do it. Moreover, they would not only need to affect their own class, but also alter the roster rankings of other classes. The number of students who would need to withdraw would be rather large, and even if some agreed, the cost would be terrifying.
Then.
For Ryuen's class, this exam would probably be a grueling battle.
Over in Third-year Class D.
"Our class only has thirty-two students left."
"And ten of them will