"So your low-score strategy won't be of much help to our class."
"However, if you can put in writing that Class D will take all the expulsion slots for second-to-last place, I can personally subsidize you with 100,000 points."
"And those 100,000 points are, for now, a reward for the growth you seem to have shown since enrollment, Horikita." Sakayanagi said.
In other words, it was a reward for her growth?
Suzune Horikita looked over.
"100,000?" Horikita asked.
"Yes." Sakayanagi nodded. "Your concession won't do much for Class A. This is a subsidy from me personally."
"Fine." Yet Suzune Horikita neither declined nor asked for more. She agreed immediately.
"..." Hachiman.
And Hachiman noticed something as well.
Suzune Horikita seemed to have started accumulating points.
Moreover.
She seemed to have fallen for Sakayanagi's trap.
PS: This chapter is 6,000 words. 2,500 words paid back, 477,500 words still owed.
PS: Yeah, ribbit!
A Shaken Class A! 6k! Brothers, please send blades at the end of the month!
Although Classmate Sakayanagi had subsidized Horikita personally,
Horikita had come knocking on her door, not only interrupting her time with her boyfriend but also demanding points to negotiate a deal. The fact that she could endure it and even offer personal support was already incredibly tolerant of her.
Still.
If just 100,000 points could make Class D take all the second-to-last-place expulsion penalties, then everyone in the class could rest easy.
Yet as she had told Suzune Horikita, so long as Class A's students maintained their usual grades during the exam, they would not end up as the lowest-scoring members of the second-to-last group and face expulsion.
However.
Some of the current Second-year Class A students would still feel uneasy, even knowing that.
Because.
They could not afford to lose.
They did not want