COTE: A Man On A Mission || Love is War?

8 o'clock in evening.

After all, it is a special exam that concerns entire grade.

Then also learned that some item cards have very strong but other too week.

So, students basically stay in the dormitory, including Hachiman.

"Drop!"

He was holding a tablet, on which he received a message from the school.

[You have a prop card, please check it]

Hachiman clicked on it and found there was an additional item card on his OAA attribute interface.

Item Card:

Invalid Card - The personal points paid during the penalty will become zero. It will only be reflected on card-holding student.

When individuals pay points, they only need to pay 0, which is equivalent to skipping rocks.

So if you fall into the last five groups, you can use this invalid card to offset the effect of paying the penalty of 6 million points.

[Do you want to transfer the item card to Yukinoshita Yukino in Class 1A?]

Yes!

However, when Hachiman clicked confirm, a new box popped up on the system.

[Cannot transfer, unknown error.]

[Do you want to transfer the item card to Asahina Nazuna from Class 3A?]

Yes!

However, when Hachiman clicked confirm, a new box popped up on the system.

[Cannot transfer, unknown error.]

[Note: The transfer method is wrong.]

"....." Hachiman.

[Do you want to transfer the item card to Kikyo Kushida from Class 1, Grade C?]

Yes!

[Ding! Congratulations on successful transfer of the prop card]

Soon, Hachiman received a message from Kushida on his phone, asking him why he gave her such a big treasure.

"....." Hachiman. 'It seems there is no way to cross the grade level....'

Originally, Hachiman was planning to find someone to do the work, but Kushida-san took the initiative to send the message.

Then let her take care of counting the students' item cards.

Hachiman assigned Kushida to do a lot of work, In fact, his conscience is a little damaged.

He had already prepared to offer Class D of first grade as a sacrifice to occupy the last five groups of places.

Then, because prop cards could not be used across grades, he would not be able to give invalid cards to the dropouts of Class D.

And there is no room for use in second grade.

So, now this invalid card becomes a waste.

But Kushida-san hasn't noticed this yet, she just saw effect of the [Invalid Card] and thought he gave her a great gift.

However, since Kushida-san doesn't know, let's just assign her some work.

It's a good time for him to take a shower and have a rest. Besides, Kushida is very efficient worker.

When Hachiman came back from taking a bath, he found that she had already counted the prop cards for the first and second grades.

There are 160 first-year students, each equipped with a prop card.

There are 40 Leading cards (which can double the initial material points obtained)

There are 30 Additional cards (double the points reward)

There are 2 cards with half-price reduction (if you are punished, the money will be reduced by half)

There are 38 people with Hitch-hiking cards (bet on a group before the test. If a group gets private points, you can get half of the points earned by the group)

37 people have Insurance cards (one day off for feeling unwell)

There are 10 cards with Addition (team size +1)

There is 1 Invalid card (can be used to deduct personal points once)

There are 2 Trial cards (get class evaluation score x1.5)

However, all Hachiman wanted were invalid first-year student card, Lead card (which Sakayanagi needed), the additional card, and Hitchhiking card.

As for second year, there are two trial cards that Hachiman wants, one of which is in hands of his old acquaintance Kiyotaka.

The other one is with a classmate named Sanada in Class A.

There is another one in Class D, held by Ryuen.

Then combined trial cards of D and A are guaranteed.

As for third year, he hasn't arranged for Kushida to do it yet.

Because 3rd grade cards do not need to be counted.

While Hachiman was recording the statistical results sent by Kushida-san in a small notebook, he noticed a message appearing on his phone.

Posted about 10 minutes ago.

However, he only read the posts by Kushida and didn't pay attention, just saw it now.

[Can we meet in the evening?]

by Asahina Nazuna.

"....." Hachiman.

Asahina-senpai, although the new semester has arrived, she has also become a 3rd-year student.

In other words, coming year will be the last year for them at school, and it will also be a crucial one.

As a member of the student council, Hachiman was one who wrote the third-year class evaluation scores earlier this month.

So he is very clear about the current situation of third grade.

Grade 3

Class A: 1646 points

Class B 1344 points

Class C, 740 points

Class D, 634 points

Just looking at numbers makes people feel really stressed.

Asahina-senpai is in 3rd-year class A, but advantages of this class A are not that great, especially since the strong student Nagumo in their class dropped out.

In the past, he expelled all those who opposed in order to rule.

The most ruthless students who dropped out were those in their own class.

So now that Nagumo is gone, shortcomings of Class 3-A immediately become apparent.

In just first month's special exam, the score was caught up by 100 points.

They have at least 10 special exams.

So can it really be defended?

Hachiman looked at the time when Asahina-senpai sent message, it was 8:02 pm.

That is to say, less than 2 minutes after the item card was refreshed on the OAA system, she sent a message asking for help.

Hachiman had thought she would be more patient.

"Sorry, I was taking a shower just now and just saw the message," Hikigaya-kun started sending his own late messages.

[It's too late now, but about this exam. There's something I'd like to ask you for help. At the same time, you won't be working for nothing. You will be paid accordingly.]

Hachiman continued to send messages.

[For this exam, I have already arranged 1st and 2nd place teams]

In other words, if anyone else wants to compete, they can only get third, whose reward is 150 points.

If you form a team, points will be divided equally, and if you want to score more, you have to get Trial Card.

So what Asahina needs to do is to take Trial Card away, or it will fall into the hands of dangerous people.

Of course, this is just an idea.

So, Hachiman asked Asahina-senpai to help him with one thing, which was to count item cards of 3rd-year students.

The third grade also had the 0AA system. Although they didn't use it in last exam, they had to adapt to it now.

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8:30pm.

Hachiman told Asahina-senpai that it was too late and inappropriate for them to meet, he still went out.

The place to go is gymnasium.

There are no cameras here.

This is also because it can directly accommodate a class of students.

When he was almost at the gymnasium, could hear some people talking inside.

"Hosen, why do we have to gather here at this time? And then you have to bring a tablet. Now it's been 10 minutes!" A student was talking.

"I don't want to come here at all," However, this is how Hosen replied.

But it happened quickly.

"Shut up, everyone! Someone will be here soon!"

"Hosen-kun, I think our class should be cautious about this exam," The voice of Nanase came.

Hachiman walked into the gym. The students around immediately looked at him.

"Night walker...!"

"Vice president of Student council"

"But how should I put it..."

Someone recognized Hikigaya-kun.

But Hikigaya-kun is not wearing the vice-president armband that Arisu Sakayanagi asked him to wear.

However, the face will not change after all, so even though he was not wearing glasses, he was still recognized.

It just feels weird.

Because it's like a bad thing.

"I'm here because I made an agreement with Hosen, and now it's time for you to give up." Hachiman pulled out a small bag from his pocket. There was a stack of point cards inside.

Two students have seen this point card.

They had seen it at Ryuen's place in second-year D class.

Last month, Ryuen wanted to use the point card to trick them into forming a team, but because they were controlled by Hosen, did not agree to Ryuen's conditions.

But did know about the existence of point cards.

"This time, Hosen, you sold me the command of your class's preparation for the exam for four million. There are 40 points cards inside, they are not named, and each one contains 100,000 personal points. This is the living expenses that Hosen fought for you. He feels guilty about getting a 0 in class evaluation last month. And you won't receive any living expenses now....."

"....." Hosen. 'you scumbag!'

"Hosen?" The first-year students in Class D looked at him in confusion as they listened to Hikigaya-senpai's words.

Is this true? How could Hosen feel guilty after losing his assignment? Even provided their kind with living expenses??

"💢" Hosen. 'Fuck you! Fuck you!'

Grass!

Hosen found himself being watched by others, and Hikigaya-senpai even made him feel guilty in a very malicious way.

"Hikigaya-senpai." Nanase who still had some brains, "You mean, he gave you command of Uninhabited island exam this time?"

"Yes...." Hachiman who still dared to be like a good person, "Your command for this exam belongs to me. And price is this bag of 4 million point cards. Each person gets 100,000 points. Are you still dissatisfied?"

Is there anything you are not satisfied with? The first-year students around looked at each other.

Last month, each of them had 10,000 points taken away from their living expenses by Hosen.

Because you just entered the school, need to buy a lot of daily necessities, so don't have much left on hand.

Then still have no money this month, which is very tormenting.

If you want living expenses, you have to strive for the top three.

Although Hosen said he wanted to be in the top three, this is a competition against seniors, so it is hard to say whether he can make it.

If everyone could get 100,000 points..

"I will not interfere with Hosen's private actions. So he can still represent your class in the battle. I am a senior after all, and will give first-years a chance."

What a good-hearted senpai!

What this means is that Hosen can still fight for top three class evaluation scores.

This calmed down remaining dissatisfied students.

Even Nanase no longer resisted, "Can you tell us what we are going to do?"

Hikigaya-kun smiled inwardly.

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