In other words, he had actually encountered several opportunities that could have changed the situation and prevented things from ending up like this, but he had failed to seize any of them.
"..."
As he said this and thought this, Yukimura was the first to walk forward.
However, as he stepped onto the stage, he suddenly closed his eyes before opening them again, as though enduring some kind of pain.
Clearly, he was not as calm inside as he appeared to be.
And now, he had no other choice.
Even if he was expelled and sent back, he still had his one advantage: studying. And although he had not done everything perfectly along the way, being able to attend this school had given him more experiences than studying outside ever could. It had surely been better.
And now that there was no path back, he would keep moving forward.
Teruhiko Yukimura charged ahead!
With that, Yukimura stepped onto the stage, reached his left hand into the drawing barrel, and began feeling for a ball.
"Yukimura really is good at studying," someone in Group 17 muttered below.
"What do you mean, Ike?" someone immediately responded to the mutter.
The one who had muttered was Kanji Ike, while the one responding to him was Shinohara. Shinohara was considered relatively familiar with Ike in the class, mainly because of what had happened during last semester's uninhabited island exam. Back then, Shinohara and Komiyama from Ryuen's class had been attacked, and Kanji Ike had also withdrawn and returned to the cruise ship.
But Shinohara had already woken up by then. Perhaps Ike was not as dependable as Komiyama.
Yet judging from the current exam results, Komiyama definitely had no way to prevent her from being expelled either. As for Ike... during last semester's unanimous