Tampering with the Surveillance Cameras: First-Year Class D Loses 50 Points! Part 2! (Part 6)

That was not something she could say to his face.

And now—

"Totsuka brought up the matter between Hachiman and you again," Kamuro said. "Then he mentioned that Katsuragi and the others had gone to submit their Student Council applications and ran into Hachiman consulting the Student Council President, asking what punishment a student would receive for destroying a camera."

"Oh." Sakayanagi Arisu remained remarkably composed. "Looks like Hachiman is stirring things up."

"Wait, Hachiman was asking about the punishment for destroying cameras?" Sakayanagi asked.

"Wait a moment, I'll confirm it." Kamuro then used her phone to contact Hashimoto.

But soon enough—

"That's right. Katsuragi and Totsuka happened to overhear it as they were leaving the Student Council," Kamuro reported.

Yet Sakayanagi Arisu began to smile like a pampered Ragdoll cat.

"Just as expected of Hachiman."

"It really makes one's heart race, being on the same campus as him," Sakayanagi said.

"?"

Kamuro looked at her in surprise. "When you say your heart races, could it be that you actually have feelings for him...?"

?

Sakayanagi Arisu looked over at her strangely.

"What are you saying? My standards for a partner are very high," Sakayanagi said. "I don't like the kind of person Hachiman is at all—the unambitious type who wants someone else to support him."

"And a frail body like mine does not permit feelings such as romance."

Oh.

So that was how it was. For now, Kamuro would take her at her word.

After all, Sakayanagi often went back on her word.

Kamuro thought to herself.

Sakayanagi Arisu often went back on her word, but she was undeniably useful.

Her mind was exceptionally brilliant.

As she herself put it, although she could not possess a healthy body like ordinary people, when God closed one door, He opened a window for her.

Her intelligence and comprehension abilities vastly surpassed those of ordinary people.

She was, in other words, the legendary kind of genius.

No matter what she studied, she could master it at an incredible speed.

And when it came to using her brain, things were even easier.

Kamuro understood that sort of thing.

After serving her these past few days, she had learned more about Sakayanagi Arisu.

For instance, although she was only in high school, she had already taught herself all the university courses.

That was simply outrageous.

"However."

They had just been discussing romance.

Sakayanagi Arisu gripped her cane and spoke.

"Our lives may soon face a challenge."

"And choosing to place your bet on me may turn out to be the most correct decision you make during these three years at school," Sakayanagi said.

"..." Kamuro said, "Are you praising yourself? Yeah, yeah, yeah, you're better than Katsuragi. Happy now?"

"That is not what I mean, Kamuro," Sakayanagi said. "I mean that a full-scale class war is about to begin."

"And Class A will be swept into it as well."

"I fear Class A's plan to secure and maintain an advantage during this first month will also be brought to an end."

"So Katsuragi's so-called steady plan has gone bankrupt."

However—

Kamuro stared at her.

Her clear eyes were full of confusion.

Sakayanagi had also assessed her intelligence and knew that Kamuro was physically capable but not particularly sharp-minded.

Kamuro was simply not good at thinking, but Sakayanagi could handle what she excelled at.

Kamuro only needed to run errands.

In fact, when she had first come to this school, Sakayanagi had worried slightly about whether her physical condition would allow her to adapt to campus life here.

And then Kamuro had turned out to be the finest tool heaven could have bestowed upon her.

Since Kamuro was her tool, Sakayanagi Arisu was quite patient with her.

"This school is Meritocracy. The school hopes students will grow through competition between classes. That much is already common knowledge."

"After the new students enroll, each class is given the same starting point of 1,000 class evaluation points to demonstrate fairness."

"Then, as usual, the first month brings the customary Behavioral Guidelines Exam, which assesses whether students meet the standards expected of Advanced Nurturing High School students."

"Points are deducted if anything inappropriate occurs."

"All of that is known information."

"But what if something happens during this process?"

"What if the results for this month, which should have been announced on the first of next month, are forced to be announced early?"

Sakayanagi gripped her cane and continued.

"Then the class evaluation points and class competition system, which ordinary classes do not know about, will be exposed."

"In other words, the head start and exam questions we paid two million points to obtain will be leaked."

As she said this, Sakayanagi tapped the floor with her cane and continued explaining.

"That would be a frightening outcome, wouldn't it?"

"I imagine even ordinary Class A students would panic."

"That is why, during lunch break, I said I might have accidentally unleashed a Demon King. And it seems this Demon King is quite aggressive."

"Demon King... Hmm, let's call him Demon King Hachiman," Sakayanagi Arisu said.

She was in a relaxed mood, relaxed enough to give Hachiman a nickname.

However—

"That can't be right. The Behavioral Guidelines Exam during the first month is customary, and isn't it customary for the results to be announced on the first of next month?" Kamuro hurriedly said. "So why would the school announce them early?"

"Because of an unforeseen incident. For example, if a camera is destroyed, then once class evaluation points are deducted as punishment, the Student Council has a duty to update them."

"Our school administration and the Student Council are separate systems, but both have considerable authority."

"Sometimes, the Student Council can even intervene in the monthly special exams."

"Especially since Horikita is a very upright person who enforces the rules impartially. Once he discovers that he needs to carry out his duties, he will act. Under those circumstances, promptly announcing the evaluation points of all four classes would be only natural."

"So that is the truth behind why Hachiman went to consult the Student Council."

"He wanted the point totals to be revealed by having points deducted from his own class. That man is truly bold."

"And Katsuragi from our class did not take it seriously at all." Sakayanagi Arisu curled her lips.

She seemed to be starting to doubt her teammate's ability.

If Katsuragi had truly been steady enough, then after hearing that Hachiman intended to do something so troublesome, he should have been more vigilant.

Rather than allowing everyone to be forced into a passive position.

Still—

"Ah... So that's how it is... What do we do...?"

Kamuro finally understood and felt as though she were about to explode.

Because she was also an ordinary Class A student.

"We deal with it as it comes," Sakayanagi Arisu said. "Now that things have come to this, we have no choice but to accept it. Besides, our class will not lose. Even if they know the exam questions, there will still be people who fail, won't there?"

"So what we need to worry about is Class B."

"They are the closest to our class in strength."

Sakayanagi Arisu spoke as if she had provided a solution.

But then she suddenly smiled again.

"If it really turns out this way, then I might become interested in this so-called class competition."

"Previously, the opponents were too weak, so it was boring. But now, I am getting a little excited."

"During lunch break, I wondered what Hachiman meant by directly declaring war on us. So that was it..."

"Hachiman, you truly have brought surprises to my school life."

"But how will you deal with the remaining twenty-odd days of this month?"

"Because, as you said, even if the students in your class are told it is an open-book exam, some of them will still fail."

And so—

The day after the conversation between Sakayanagi Arisu and Kamuro—

During lunch break, a new announcement appeared on the Student Council bulletin board.

At the same time—

The first-year students were surprised to find Student Council members wearing armbands heading to the first-year school building and writing strange words on the inconspicuous blank blackboard there.

Class A, First Year: 996 points

First Year Class B: 834 points

First Year Class C: 611 points

First-year Class D: 530 points

But soon afterward, an addition was made. The 530 points for First-year Class D were crossed out, and "-50 points" was written instead.

In the end, First-year Class D was corrected to 480 points.

Meanwhile, the bulletin board also explained, in the Student Council's name, why First-year Class D had lost those 50 points.

[First-year Class D student Hachiman Hikigaya destroyed a school camera. The Student Council has therefore imposed a penalty of 50 class evaluation points on First-year Class D.

Let this serve as a warning. Do not repeat this offense.

Student Council]

Then—

The first years... exploded.

P.S. Sixth update. I can't keep writing today. Waaah.

P.S. Thanks for everyone's votes. Kisses.

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