Koenji, Sacrifice Yourself for the Class and Protect Your Title!

"Actually."

Of course, there are also some insightful people.

"There are a lot of things related to dropping out in this school's Special Exam," Yukimura said. "I think option two is worth considering."

"Because our class's current class evaluation score is over 1300 points, deducting half to select one student to receive the title of expulsion protection should be profitable."

"Because it only takes six months of doing this," Yukimura said.

"So, Yukimura, who do you think should get this title?" Karuizawa chimed in at that moment.

"This..."

Yukimura didn't actually know either.

Option one requires everyone to go without living expenses for six whole months, which is a lot of pressure, but it seems cost-effective to get three places to drop out of school. However, the concern is that these three places are randomized.

So perhaps they all end up with the underachieving students.

Giving expulsion slots to underachieving students seems to have little significance.

He was on the side with better Academic Ability.

He would certainly want a title that would guarantee him a safe place in school and prevent him from being expelled.

However, he also knew that if he suggested choosing himself, he would definitely not get the approval of the whole class.

If we consider the past, when Hachiman was still alive, then choosing Hachiman would have garnered a large majority of votes.

But now.

Hachiman left.

So it must be Kōenji.

"How about choosing Kōenji?" Yukimura thought to himself. But he didn't say it aloud.

Because Kōenji has been asking for everyone's living expenses to be given to him for the past two months.

Then his contributions to the class can be offset.

Although Kōenji only needs 8 million yen, his 225 points in class evaluation will earn him approximately 20 million yen upon graduation.

So he's already giving everyone a bargain by doing this.

However, Yukimura felt that this seemed like a bad sign.

Especially recently, when they were still on the ship, someone saw that Kōenji received a message from the school. It seemed to be congratulating him on successfully Class Advancement to the class he wanted.

In other words...

It seems like Kōenji wants to transfer to another class.

So, if you give him a title that exempts him from expulsion, and then he leaves, wouldn't that be a huge loss?

Yukimura eventually sat down.

But.

Kōenji was puzzled because Horikita, who used to follow Hachiman and do auxiliary work, hadn't done anything today.

They didn't even seem to participate much in this particular question or express their own ideas.

As for the reason, it's probably clear.

Because the withdrawal protection title is used to offset some mandatory withdrawal exams.

So.

They were sacrifices.

In this class... there's really no need to specifically seek out the expulsion protection title; if sacrifices are needed, there are quite a few in this class.

Thinking this, Kōenji leaned back in his seat.

The fourth question was quickly approached.

Topic 4 is only related to the written test.

It concerns increasing the difficulty of the written test, adding penalties, and reducing compensation.

There were few surprises about this class with a large number of underachieving students.

Aside from Yukimura, the academic genius, who sees failing written tests as a matter of expulsion—a standard practice where even the most serious failures only result in expulsion—he wonders if increasing the punishment could lead to greater rewards. Meanwhile, other classes are likely opting to reduce rewards, so perhaps their class could pull off a surprise attack.

So it only took me a dozen minutes to finish this question.

In this way.

Kōenji glanced at the wall clock hanging on the wall.

180 minutes.

There are still over 80 minutes left to answer question 5. It seems like there's plenty of time.

In this way.

The fifth question has begun.

Chapter 74: Kōenji, why don't you sacrifice your title of protection for the sake of the class?

The fifth question has begun.

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 be able to get 50 points for this question if you use 20 million Private Points or the protective title of waiver of withdrawal.

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

The electronic display screen, which served as a blackboard, and everyone's tablets all displayed the same questions.

Then.

"Is that really how it is?"

"Here comes the question: dropping out of school!"

Some commotion broke out among the students.

"Please be quiet," said Chabashira-sensei. "Read the questions and notes carefully."

"If there are disagreements, please continue them when we are in the discussion phase, rather than starting a free-flowing conversation now."

"..."

In other words...

Today's homeroom teacher actually has emotional biases.

Students immediately noticed that Chabashira-sensei was different from others.

Of course, people who think this way are probably those who are calm about exams and still have the energy to think.

And this person is Kikyo Kushida.

As a little angel, if she wants to bring others into her circle of friends, she definitely needs to be good at creating a good atmosphere.

Then they quickly noticed that Chabashira-sensei seemed to be in a much more relaxed mood today. She was clearly a bit annoyed yesterday, but now she didn't seem to feel that way at all. Instead, she kept looking at them with the eyes of someone who had been through it all.

Certainly.

Kushida's interest in Chabashira-sensei stemmed mainly from the messages she received from her classmates yesterday.

Yesterday, a student went to the cafeteria on the third floor for lunch, and then... happened to run into Chabashira-sensei. It turned out that Chabashira-sensei had taken two meals, one for herself and the other... was actually for Hachiman Hikigaya.

Then the classmate told her about it.

Well.

Hachiman was once Chabashira-sensei's prized student, so it's normal for them to have a meal together.

But.

Yesterday at noon, she also sent a message to Hachiman. Suddenly there was an exam, and it was the kind that didn't give her time to prepare. So she made an appointment with him to discuss it.

But at that time Hachiman refused her, saying he was already having dinner with someone else. They agreed to postpone it until the evening.

In other words...

Did he turn down his girlfriend's invitation because of his homeroom teacher?

Snort.

Kushida felt that her sweet romance had been somewhat damaged.

"Now, let's announce the results of the first round of voting."

"8 votes in favor of withdrawal, 30 votes against withdrawal."

"... Because there was no consensus across the board, we will proceed to a 10-minute discussion session," said Chabashira-sensei, checking the results.

Then he voluntarily stepped aside, giving the space and time to his classmates.

There are still 80 minutes left in the exam. If you only do one question, you should generally be fine.

The problem is, there are only two options now, and the class's attitude is very direct. They hold opposing viewpoints.

And this is a very subtle point.

Because.

A closer look at the question and notes reveals that while this topic is related to dropping out of school, it was avoidable.

Although choosing not to withdraw from school will not earn any points, this fifth question is also part of the exam process. Therefore, if you choose not to withdraw from school here, you will be able to complete all the exam questions within the allotted time.

A reward for receiving a perfect score of 100 in the school's class evaluation.

However, if we take the route of having students drop out, we have to continue and decide who should drop out. This will take even longer.

It doesn't look convenient.

Most of the students in this class do not want to be expelled, so they will definitely tend to choose the option of not being expelled.

Since there's no risk involved in not dropping out of school, why not do it?

But.

The current situation suggests that the underachieving students have chosen to drop out of school.

As the proctor, Chabashira was watching the students make their choices and noticed that some students placed their fingers on the left side of the tablet screen.

This is where you can choose to drop out of school.

In other words, some underachieving students chose to drop out of school.

Logically speaking, shouldn't they be the ones facing danger by dropping out of school?

Chabashira, of course, was unaware that these underachieving students had already begun to band together.

The exam rules were announced yesterday, and the exam is today. The struggling students are at least in second grade, so we've also taken into account the potential penalties, such as expulsion, for this exam.

Then I considered... if I really had to drop out of school to take the exam, the probability of being expelled would be very high.

In this way.

They started to band together.

If there is a penalty of expulsion, then choose the most suitable person to fill in.

Of course, this was agreed upon. Because the time to think about the questions was very short, some students in the group even pressed the wrong button when they saw the option to drop out of school.

So, what are everyone's thoughts?

Then came the 10-minute discussion time.

However, Hirata noticed that two minutes had passed and no one had offered to make a suggestion, so he decided to stand up on his own initiative.