"Have you given this special exam any serious thought?"
"And if your class chooses the plan of sending students to Class A, then perhaps you can seize this opportunity," Hachiman said.
"Seize... this opportunity?" Ichinose's cute brows twitched. "Is there something unusual about this written exam?"
"I haven't been told the rules of the special exam either," Hachiman said. "But the points accumulated by the classes in our year are rather different from those of other years, or previous students."
"They're a little too abundant."
"So before everyone enters their third year, I think the school will deal with this situation."
"Otherwise, people recklessly spending money to buy students from other classes would cause problems."
"It would have a terrible effect on students in other years. For example, if their own class was weak, they could pool points and buy a reliable representative. Then the balance in class rankings that the school originally set up would be disrupted."
Uh.
So having a huge number of points on hand wasn't necessarily a good thing?
Ichinose began to think.
She also felt somewhat ashamed. She had thought Hachiman had invited her over so late to deal with some personal matter, but it turned out he had been thinking about them all along.
Because—
The richest student in this school was definitely Hachiman.
So what about Hachiman's points?
From what Ichinose knew of him, he seemed to have been converting them into cash in batches and sending it outside the school.
And having money within the school might affect how students handled special exams.
So the school was going to intervene now?
"What you mean is..." Ichinose said.
Hachiman said seriously,
"Before the graduation ceremony, Shiina told me that Ryuen might do something."
"And I didn't interfere. Because I knew Ryuen would definitely