But what if it was the group in last place...
"So, Horikita, you think that although the last-place group is threatened with expulsion, the other classes won't simply abandon their own students, so they'll definitely pay to waive the expulsion penalty," Chabashira said.
"Something like that." Horikita nodded. "Though we still don't know what the price for waiving the last-place expulsion penalty will be."
"But I don't think students from the other classes would casually choose to expel their companions at a time like this."
In other words, to prevent students from their own class from being expelled, the other classes would do everything they could to turn things around?
Then, although some Class D students were also in those groups, as long as the other classes refused to give up, Class D would get a free ride.
So the real decision of who to abandon would fall on the worst-scoring student in the second-to-last group.
Once they realized that, some of the students in class began thinking more actively.
"Since students from all four classes are tied together in groups, if the other classes don't want to abandon their companions, won't they need everyone in that group to agree as well?"
"For example, if they want our class's students in that group to agree not to expel anyone, shouldn't they offer us some compensation?" a boy said, raising his hand.
Hmm.
"..." Matsushita.
The students in this class were quite something.
Originally, Horikita had merely meant that the last-place group would all face expulsion because they were bound together. Class D definitely could not come up with the money, and since they could not pay, they simply would not.
If the other classes wanted to save their own students, then they would have no choice but to... cover Class