Now that Hashimoto had betrayed them, would he keep betraying them in the next exam too?
The classmates began staring at Hashimoto with cold, disgusted looks.
Hashimoto instantly felt the distrust in his classmates' eyes.
Damn.
Sure enough, with this happening so suddenly, it was difficult to patch up his lie.
Hashimoto had an unbearable headache.
"Fine." Hashimoto looked as though he had given up resisting. "The truth is, Ryuen transferred one million Private Points to me for this exam."
One million.
One million Private Points?
"You sold out the class for a mere one million?" That figure immediately sparked dissatisfaction among Class A's students.
In this exam, Class A had not only come in last and lost 300 points, but one member would also be expelled.
The consequences were severe, yet the traitor had chosen to betray them for such a paltry profit. Of course people would be furious.
"You all know this already, though." Hashimoto said, "My so-called betrayal, just as I said earlier, definitely did more good than harm."
"Class B was bound to win, while we could only compete for last place."
"So it was better to use a self-sacrificing ploy."
"Besides, I obtained an agreement from Ryuen." As he spoke, Hashimoto crouched down. While everyone wondered what he was doing, he took off his left shoe, then removed his sock as well.
Making even more people frown, Hashimoto took out an agreement wrapped in a plastic bag from inside his sock.
"This is—" Morishita, who had been leading the charge against Hashimoto, frowned. She usually wore that dissatisfied expression toward everything, but this time everyone...
They probably found it utterly off-putting that Hashimoto had taken off his shoe in public and hidden the agreement he had signed with Ryuen inside his sock.
"This agreement between