"Kanzaki said, 'I was going to say that the Student Council President's position added to her radiance, but now it seems she earned that position through her own ability.'"
"Mm..."
"But wouldn't it be better if I weren't here?" Himeko finally said it.
After all, she and Chihiro Shiranam had been invited here by Kanzaki and Ichinose.
Chihiro Shiranam's thoughts were easy to guess. As long as Ichinose invited her, she would come.
But Himeko was different. She truly had no idea how to handle this sort of occasion.
"Though it may sound demoralizing coming from us," Kanzaki said, "the chances of our class ultimately graduating as Class A are still not high."
"And if that is the outcome, I think it would still be meaningful if we could help everyone grow."
"Normally, there aren't many opportunities to train everyone, so during discussions of strategy and post-exam reviews like this, I think it would benefit the others if more students could join us," Kanzaki said.
"That's what we think too." Ichinose nodded.
So that was why Yuki Himeko and Chihiro Shiranam had been invited?
"..." Yuki Himeko.
Then they did not need to invite her.
There were clearly plenty of other students in the class.
Inviting Shibata would clearly have been better, but Himeko gave up on that thought as soon as it arose.
Because Shibata was obviously the athletic idiot type.
And besides.
The class had lost last year's grade-wide sports festival, and Shibata had been full of guilt over failing to earn points for the class. If he joined in studying exam strategies and then they lost the exam again, it would probably hit him hard.
Himeko had been a delinquent girl in middle school.
She had not yet picked up any particularly bad habits, and realizing that