You're Really Spoiling Her! Today's Update!
After Ichinose understood what had happened, her composure nearly collapsed.
Because...
If Hachiman had not caught on and secured them some guaranteed points, her class would have suffered even greater losses in this exam.
Meanwhile, Suzune Horikita stared at Sakayanagi Arisu with an even more vigilant, defensive gaze.
Back when Hachiman had still been in Class D last year, he had told her that if they wanted to reach Class A, they needed to ruthlessly widen the gap through exams while Sakayanagi was absent. Once Sakayanagi was present, pulling ahead would become extremely difficult.
This exam proved exactly that.
Before it began, it had looked as though Class B would win, with Class A finishing at the bottom.
It could be said that Class A had been in an absolute disadvantage.
But...
Sakayanagi's separate agreement with Ichinose's class had them and Class D feed each other only forty points, while Class A paid Ichinose's class ten million points.
On the surface, it looked like she was securing a slim chance for Class A to fight Class D for last place.
But...
If they focused on the possibility that Class A was not refusing to compete for first place merely to battle Class D, but instead intended to ensure that Ichinose's class finished dead last, it became frightening.
And that possibility truly existed.
Even while at a disadvantage and with a spy in their midst, Class A had still earned thirty-two points in the first half.
It could be said that without the spy, Class A should not have finished last. As long as they earned more than forty points in the first half, then in the second half, if they could secure fifty points like the Class D led by Ayanokoji that Hachiman had