Choices and Consequences: The Actor! Part 3 (Continued)

This is the weak point of Ryuen's class; there's simply no other option.

Then.

She passed the fourth exam with a reduction of 39 votes in pay.

"More than 50 minutes of the exam time has passed now. Would you like to take a break?"

"By the way, the break time is also within the scheduled exam time," said Sakagami-sensei. "You are allowed to go to the restroom once during the break."

Um.

Before the exam begins, I would like everyone to take care of their personal needs and go to the restroom as soon as possible, as the exam will last for a long time.

But now they're proactively suggesting they can rest, which seems a bit exaggerated.

Because there were only 5 questions on the test, it took less than an hour to pass 4 of them.

Two more hours to go have some fun.

"Then let's rest," Hachiman said. "We'll come back later."

Because after the first and second questions in the appetizer, the third and fourth questions gradually won over the students' minds.

The difficulty level increases from easy to hard.

Therefore, question 5 should be more difficult.

However, Hachiman is not in his original Class D now, but in Ryuen's class. Since it's this class, it shouldn't matter.

In this way.

The 20-minute break is over.

All the students returned to their classrooms and sat down in their seats.

"Then let's continue the exam," Sakagami said.

Then the electronic display screen lit up.

The last question has appeared.

Problem 5 - Allowing a classmate to drop out of school will earn you 200 points in class evaluation.

Options: For/Oppose

Note: 1. If everyone agrees, the student who wants to withdraw from school must be designated and a vote must be taken.

Note 2: If a student who withdraws is among the top three students in the class in terms of OAA Academic Ability /intelligence/athletic ability/ Social Contribution, they will receive an additional 100 points in the class evaluation score.

Note: 3. If you decide to withdraw from the program, you will only receive 50 points for this question if you use 20 million Private Points or the protected title of waiver of withdrawal.

Note: 4. If everyone unanimously opposes withdrawal, this question will end immediately and will receive no points.

"..."

Goodness.

This question immediately became a killer move.

As expected, there is an option to drop out of school.

And.

Just like last year, the students in the class were allowed to decide for themselves whether to drop out.

Hachiman began to think.

"Special Exam with unanimous agreement from everyone..."

The assessment should be about making choices.

One student in the class was placed on a scale, while on the other side of the scale was the class evaluation score of 200 points.

If the student who drops out is one of the top three students in their class in terms of Academic Ability /intelligence/athletic ability/ Social Contribution according to OAA, they can receive an additional 100 points.

Furthermore, completing the exam on time will earn you a reward of 100 points in the school's class evaluation score.

In other words...

The maximum class evaluation score can be 400 points.

Of course, you can also choose not to drop out of the OAA, as that would mean sacrificing this excellent student in order to get an extra 100 points.

This is a situation where you kill a thousand enemies but lose eight hundred of your own.

Then you can get a maximum of 300 class evaluation points.

"The meaning of the question and the notes are already very clear, so I won't go into details," said Sakagami-sensei. "You have 60 seconds to answer; exceeding this time will result in a penalty."

Normally, the reward for this question is quite attractive.

The maximum amount that can be added at once is 400 points.

But.

This also means sacrificing the average or top students in the class.

Sakagami also faced a similar exam in his past exams.

However, they were a bit more ruthless back then, directly stating that one of the top three students in terms of overall ability would be selected to drop out of school.

Therefore, there is no option to choose a regular student.

Even for ordinary students, Ryuen probably wouldn't choose that now.

Last year, Ryuen was down for a while, and then Shiina came to him with a plan that Ryuen had made for 800 million yen, asking about the probability of the plan's success.

The probability of success is probably only one in ten thousand, no, it might even be one in a hundred thousand.

However, this was actually made by Ryuen, and 800 million could afford to send 40 students to Class A.

Therefore, he was well aware that Ryuen actually cared about his classmates, otherwise this 800 million plan wouldn't have come about.

Although the success rate was very low, and the reality was cruel, two students in the class had already been expelled.

But.

That was a last resort.

Therefore, there is still room for maneuver in this exam.

So even ordinary students wouldn't need to sacrifice themselves. Therefore, this time, their class will probably choose to oppose the exam and end it by completing the questions within the time limit and getting a class evaluation score of 100.

And that's what I was thinking.

"The first round of voting resulted in 20 votes in favor and 19 votes against."

"Because the answers from everyone are inconsistent, we will proceed with a 10-minute discussion session." Sakagami-sensei stood to the side.

"The correct answer should be for the whole class to vote against expulsion."

"However," Ryuen said, "If someone chooses to drop out, they can get 200 points in the class evaluation, which will amount to about 20 million points by graduation."

"And Shiina, among the students you raised the list of those who voluntarily withdrew from school, there seems to be someone whose individual ranking is quite high," Ryuen said.

"Then let me check it out." Shiina then opened the tablet.

The tablets used by everyone to answer the questions were not linked to any information, but they all had the OAA System downloaded, so it was possible to check the information of each student.

And very quickly.

"There is one."

Hiyori said, "Yesterday, two students volunteered to drop out of school. One was Rika, and the other was a random guy named A."

"Rika's Academic Ability ranks third in our class."

Among the students in Ryuen's class, there are not many with good Academic Ability; only 5 have Academic Ability of B- or above.

Hachiman remembered Rika; she had gotten into a fight with Karuizawa while queuing, which he helped resolve. At the time, Rika was rather introverted and prone to tears, but her friend Shiho Manabe true delinquent, was very protective of her.

When Hachiman recalled that during the Forestry Exam, Shiho Manabe came in last place and subsequently dropped out of school.

So, Rika, who has a somewhat timid personality, naturally didn't feel so comfortable in Ryuen's class.

Therefore, it is understandable that they want to drop out of school.

"Then let's choose her," Hachiman said.

"Hmm." Hiyori nodded and then started walking towards Rika, seemingly preparing to do some ideological work with Rika.

But.

Ah?

Sakagami-sensei looked at Ryuen and Shiina with a surprised expression.

Is it because you people are so crazy?

And Ryuen, didn't you specifically write a plan to collect 800 million? And now... you just leave because of 6 million?

And they even specifically asked for tickets from students ranked high on the OAA list!

Aren't you afraid of damaging your class's strength?

Of course, I'm afraid of top-tier combat power, but I'm not afraid of those who can be replaced.

If no one withdraws, the class will only receive 100 points in the class evaluation score. However, if Rika withdraws, the class will receive 300 points in the class evaluation score.

These extra 300 points translate to approximately 20 million Private Points.

If needed, then we can buy the person back later.

Therefore, kicking can now be used flexibly.

After all, there's no rule saying that the person can't be bought back.

Of course, you can also choose not to buy them back, but instead choose to buy outstanding students from other classes. As long as you have some sense, anything is possible.

Therefore, choosing to drop out of school would not only grant you 20 million points, but also allow you to climb the class rankings with enough points, which would make you look good.

However, if you refuse, you will lose 300 points.

Then they couldn't climb any further.

Overall, it resulted in a loss.

"Now let's begin the second round of voting." After 10 minutes of discussion, Sakagami Digital-sensei began to announce.

And this time...

"Waaah—"

Rika Blossom sat in her seat, her hair styled in a watermelon cut, and she appeared quite petite. In this place full of delinquent boys and girls, she seemed somewhat out of place.

However, it can also easily arouse the protective instincts of others.

If I had to describe her, she would be similar to Chihiro Shiranam from Class Ichinose —weak and timid.

"The results of the second round of voting are in," Sakagami-sensei announced.

The results were also shown.

"36 votes in favor, 3 votes against."

"Because the results were not unanimously agreed upon, we will now have 10 minutes for discussion," said Sakagami-sensei.

This time it was a bit unexpected.

Because the previous options were all approved after a period of rest and reflection.

But I got stuck on question 5.

In other words, he had misunderstood; Ryuen and his group weren't actually that ruthless.

As soon as the discussion began, Ryuen stood up.

"So, what do you want?"

Ryuen approached Rika's table. "You don't want to drop out of school, do you?"

"Um... I..."

"If you don't want to, there are others who are willing to drop out," Ryuen said.

Then, the guy ranked last in OAA from Class D, A, stood up. "Then let me drop out..."

He was ranked last in the OAA in his class, so there was a high probability that he would be sacrificed. In that case, he might as well take the initiative to confess to Shiina and get an extra 200,000 points.