But seeing that Sakayanagi was still in the mood to swoon, the situation should be stable.
Sure enough, five minutes later, Yukimura, Hirata, and Ike returned together.
They agreed to Hachiman's arrangement, but they had one condition.
They hoped Kōenji and Albert from Ryuen's class could be assigned separately to each of their two 13D groups.
"Are you asking me to join?" Hearing that he had actually been singled out as a key invitee, Kōenji walked over on his own. "How interesting. You wish to rely on my strength to climb higher and avoid falling, no matter what."
"Kōenji, that's basically it. So, will you agree? As long as you do, our class will cooperate with everyone for this exam."
"And if you refuse, Kōenji, we can't cooperate. At this rate, we'll definitely end up at the bottom," Ike said.
"..." Kōenji.
Kōenji took out a comb and ran it through his hair, not replying right away.
"I refuse," Ryuen said. "You want to use Albert's explosive power and tie him to your group to earn yourselves points, don't you?"
"I have no intention of letting one of my people do that."
It was not hard to understand why Ike and the others had that idea.
According to Hachiman's arrangement,
Class D's students had been divided into top horses, middle horses, and lower horses.
The top horses would certainly be safe if they teamed up with other classes.
But each middle-to-lower group had thirteen people. They already looked rather weak, and without someone with strong explosive power backing them up, they could very easily end up at the bottom.
Among the second-years, the ones with explosive power and cheat-like abilities were Kōenji and Sudō. However, Sudō was far weaker than Kōenji.
But that was fine. Class D still had Kiyotaka