"...But why did he call her over separately?"
Did he need her class to assist his class in this exam?
Or was there something he needed them to pay attention to? After all, during Hashimoto's exam last time, Hachiman had lent them a hand.
And Ichinose felt that she still owed Hachiman a favor from that.
Otherwise, after finally rising up once, they would probably have ended up dead last again.
Of course, it was also possible that if her class had come in last, Classmate Sakayanagi's Class A would not have suffered a greater reduction in points. Perhaps this had been Hachiman's strategy for reaching Class A.
But Ichinose was no fool. She felt that Hachiman's personal feelings for her had played a greater role in that private assistance.
"What do you think about this written exam?" Hachiman turned his chair around and sat facing its backrest, resting both hands on it. Sitting like this also made it easier for him to discuss things with Ichinose.
"This exam..." Honami lightly touched the hair by her left ear, seemingly entering a thoughtful state.
"Mm, although not every student in our class is completely safe, we started holding supplementary lessons a while ago. So even if a written exam suddenly appears, our class won't be afraid."
Mm.
That was also Ichinose's class's strength.
It was not merely their unity and cohesion, but their ability to maintain and make up for their own advantages. Yet this also showed that their class's fighting spirit seemed to have diminished quite a bit.
Just like in the previous exam, Ichinose had ultimately chosen to earn points from the other two classes rather than obtain class points.
That was somewhat timid.
But Hachiman did not dislike it.
Although he had already decided to refuse going to