Facing Karuizawa's questioning.
"If it's just the rules listed by Teacher Chabashira, I've followed them all," Horikita Suzune said calmly. "I can confirm that I haven't lost a single point, but as for you all... to lose so many points in just a few days, your performance is truly surprising."
These words might have been sincere.
But they were merely a manifestation of her lack of emotional intelligence, yet their destructive power was immense.
"Hey, how can you say that? That's going too far, Horikita!"
"Exactly, Horikita, how can you say such things?"
"I didn't lose many... I didn't lose many points!"
The other students, who had been quiet, suddenly spoke up.
They began to bombard Horikita.
But Horikita Suzune maintained her calm demeanor, her expression unchanged.
She was like a person standing alone in the rain without an umbrella.
This made Hachiman start to ponder.
Actually,
what can unite a group is the appearance of an enemy.
To attack this enemy, even a team that was not united at first will come together.
However, Hachiman did not entrust Horikita with this role; he entrusted her with assisting in clearing the Class's students' accusations of him losing points.
And for the method of restraining his classmates afterward, he had also made preparations.
But now, with just a few words, Horikita had completely stood on the opposite side of her classmates.
Should he say she was brave, or that she lacked emotional intelligence?
It was undeniable, though, that she hadn't said anything wrong.
The Class was at fault.
Like First Year Class B, without knowing the school's rules at all, after a few days, they still had over 800 points left, which indicates that this is how ordinary students should be.
And not like Class D, who lost several hundred points on the spot.
"Regarding this point," this time, Hachiman also stood up.
"I also hope to have living expenses next month, and I hope to obtain at least 400 Class evaluation points."
"So I hope everyone tries to follow the exam rules and not lose points," Hachiman said.
"How is that even possible!"
Immediately, a student wanted to refute Hachiman.
Because the current Class evaluation points were only 480.
In other words, if they wanted to keep 400 points, they could only lose 80 points in the next 25 days.
Hey, hey, hey.
Only losing a few points a day?
How could that be possible!
"Everyone, don't argue!"
Hirata quickly stood up again, hoping to ease the atmosphere.
He had already noticed that the Class's atmosphere was becoming lively, but this liveliness was developing in a bad direction.
"Then let's make an agreement."
Hachiman said, "Everyone contributes 10,000 points."
"Then put all of it with Teacher Chabashira. We'll use it on the 1st of next month."
"Eh!"
"What does that mean?" The students in the Class were puzzled.
Even Kushida looked over, confused.
Because from Hirata's previous explanation, plus Teacher Chabashira's confirmation, she had already determined that Hikigaya-kun breaking the camera and so on was likely because he had discovered the true nature of this school, and then used this method to passively make the Class evaluation points appear in everyone's view.
If viewed from this perspective, Hikigaya-kun was contributing to the Class.
So what he wanted to do was also to remind his classmates that they didn't have many points left to deduct.
Therefore, they needed to be economical.
Everyone working hard and so on.
However, now, Kushida sensed an unusual atmosphere.
"From today until the 31st of this month," Hachiman said, "pay points to Teacher Chabashira, let her supervise, and then on the 1st of next month, let her announce each student's point deductions."
"Because I can't trust you," Hachiman said. "At that time, the person with the most deductions will be punished."
"Hikigaya-kun!"
Hirata, who had just been helping Hachiman speak, now had a stern tone.
"Everyone is a team, there's no such thing as not trusting; on the contrary, we all trust you," Hirata said.
But that's not necessarily true, Hirata.
Hachiman thought to himself.
"So, you mean that incentives can't restrain classmates, so it's turned into a punishment system."
At this moment, a blond boy sitting in the back row, at the desk in front of Sakura, suddenly spoke.
"An interesting proposal, it might come in handy."
"But I won't do it."
This boy had a unique appearance, with a rugged European look, blond hair, and red pupils.
His physique was less bulky and more athletic.
He had a unique, toned beauty.
He was holding a small mirror, looking at his own reflection, seemingly captivated by his own appearance, quite narcissistic.
And almost as soon as he noticed the boy speaking,
Kushida, sitting in the front row, suddenly said,
"Kouenji, why would you say that? Isn't it better to cooperate with everyone?" Kushida said.
And this directly called out Kouenji's name.
After all, even though it was only the sixth day of school, it was normal for some classmates to still not know each other's names.
So some students were even a bit unfamiliar with this boy who had suddenly spoken.
But now that he was mentioned by a classmate, everyone paid attention.
It seemed Kushida didn't particularly like Kouenji.
Hachiman was watching.
"I'm not interested in your so-called attempts to save living expenses," Kouenji said indifferently. "If you have money, you just spend it. If you don't, the school also provides some free meal plans."
"You can just eat those when the time comes."
"And as for the ambition of saving Class evaluation points to aim for Class A, I think it's better to give up early."
"Horikita, Hikigaya."
Kouenji said, "I don't think you two can do it."
"After all, this Class is like this."
Kouenji said, then continued to hold up the small mirror and look at his face.
"..." Hachiman.
Hmm.
Kouenji indeed had unique insight, seeing that fooling everyone into saving living expenses was just a smokescreen.
The real meaning was to save Class evaluation points to aim for Class A.
However,
"Kouenji! What do you mean by that, you bastard! What do you mean 'this Class is like this'? Aren't you a part of it too!"
Sudo, the red-haired boy sitting to Kouenji's right, immediately expressed his dissatisfaction.
But this dissatisfaction probably didn't just appear now; it was from yesterday's physical education Class, when Kouenji's swimming performance outshone Sudo, who prided himself on his physical abilities.
This made Sudo feel the gap between a cheat and a normal person.
So Sudo must have remembered it.
However, letting this continue to escalate was not a good thing.
Therefore,
"Then, if you choose to refuse to cooperate, Kouenji, can you choose to drop out?" But then, Hikigaya Hachiman suddenly stood up and said, "Or rather, if our Class must have a dropout, can the entire Class choose for you to drop out on behalf of everyone?"
"..." X40
Thirty-nine students, including Teacher Chabashira Sae, the Teacher, all paid attention.
Chabashira felt that this year's Class D was different from the previous one.
She had misjudged them.
The troublemakers in this Class kept coming, one after another.
Their offensive power was incredibly strong.
And even Horikita Suzune, who initially scorned the entire Class by herself, no longer seemed so prominent.
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