Hachiman's Meritocracy Classroom

On the other side of the audience seating, in the third row.

Suzune Horikita, whose name Komachi had just mentioned, sneezed.

"Caught a cold?" Akane Tachibana asked.

Akane and the others had managed to get tickets. Or rather, once the students selling tickets discovered that they had returned to the school, they asked for instructions and were told to let them in for free.

But Manabu Horikita would not accept something for free from others.

He had intended to pay the listed price, even including the on-site markup.

However.

"Vice President Hachiman said he specifically reserved four consecutive seats," the student selling tickets told them.

So this time, Hachiman was treating them.

Hachiman was treating them?

Manabu did not like taking things from others for free, but he did not need to be so particular when it came to his own family.

So Manabu sat down with his little sister and Akane.

However, he had something on his mind.

Four consecutive seats meant there was one extra seat.

But Manabu had noticed that Komachi Hikigaya had been taken to Sakayanagi's side, where she had excellent seats. So that seat was probably not something Hachiman had reserved for his sister.

Rather, Hachiman might come over later.

And now, the performance continued.

The students had chosen the gymnasium as their stage. The gym was huge and could hold nearly two thousand people.

There were tickets and an entry threshold as well.

It should not have been so crowded, but out of the 1,200 faculty and Shopping Street staff, more than 400 students, and 300 guests, nearly seventy percent had shown up.

This time, it was not only the guests; quite a few ordinary students had come as well.

However, the students were mostly in the back rows or holding standing-room tickets.

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