But the students' phones were different.
"This school trip, I was planning to buy some souvenirs, and I also wanted to send one to my little sister back home," Hachiman said.
In truth, buying souvenirs was something that should have been handled today.
But Kushida had wanted to go on a date, and Hachiman had been unable to refuse, so it had been pushed back to tomorrow.
I see.
"Souvenirs..." Chabashira recalled that when the teachers had eaten together, Sakagami, Class C's homeroom teacher, had mentioned that all five million yen in cash from his class had been exchanged.
The school had only given each student twenty thousand yen in cash, so that came to eighty thousand at most.
And apparently, Ryuen from Class C had provided the students with living expenses, which had further increased their enthusiasm for freely exchanging cash.
But it still should not have been enough to exchange it all.
In other words, a big spender had stepped in.
There were not many people in this school who could exchange that many points, but didn't Class C happen to have one?
In other words...
Hachiman had exchanged a large amount of cash. If it was not to send home, then it was... for shopping.
Buying souvenirs.
"Borrow my phone," Chabashira said.
"Thank you, Chabashira-sensei," Hachiman said.
Hachiman was actually quite law-abiding.
After all, they were outside campus now, and the school had not planted bugs on the students. There was no way to determine whether students had contacted outsiders, or even borrowed a stranger's phone to make calls and leak information about the school.
However, borrowing a phone directly from his homeroom teacher also allowed her to supervise him.
"I received a message from you earlier. I thought you'd seen the message I sent you first,