Now that Hachiman had formally declared war on her, she naturally could not keep going easy on him.
In other words, Sakayanagi Arisu was now full of fighting spirit.
It was quite a rare sight.
But.
"Didn't Kiriyama gather a bunch of people to pool points for him?" Someone utterly oblivious to the mood arrived at that moment.
It was Kamuro, who had already gotten food for the two of them.
As a Class A student, some people from her class had used the break to gather information from the third-years.
They had then reported part of that information to her.
What she learned was that Senior Kiriyama had still put up some resistance before being expelled.
"You mean gathering twenty million points, right?" Hachiman said. "Senior Kiriyama did do that. He even brought the homeroom teacher onto the boat."
"Then how did he still fail?" Kamuro seemed rather curious.
After all, even the homeroom teacher had been dragged into it. How could they still lose?
Hadn't they already done everything they could?
"Probably because I interfered," Hachiman said.
He then described what had happened at the time.
"I'll contribute six million myself. With the 1.05 million gathered this month, and another two million borrowed from the teachers, the remaining gap is 9.95 million!"
"So each person only needs to pay 474,000."
"And Nagumo will leave in March, so we'll be free by then. It's December now."
Kiriyama paused. "For a full nine months, we've collected our own living expenses. I know everyone has been living rather frugally."
"So even with daily expenses, everyone should still have five to six hundred thousand points on hand."
"And now is the most critical moment for our class. If we fail here, we'll lose our chance to challenge Class A."
"Can you accept