Hachiman’s Classroom of Strength’s Supremacy

Chapter 137: Ryuen: I’m the one who will win!

“Thud thud thud!”

“I already thought this class was terrible, but now there’s actually a pervert!”

“Why did they steal my panties!”

“It’s disgusting. I don’t even know what they’re going to do with my panties!”

“This is so messed up!”

“This is so messed up!”

On the afternoon of the fourth day after arriving on the uninhabited island, Kushida Kikyo, standing outside the administrator’s hut by the wooden post, was venting her dissatisfaction.

She cursed while kicking the post. It wasn’t a workout; she was genuinely upset.

She seemed to have no regard for her image.

But this was the truest side of Kushida Kikyo.

Since she was wearing sportswear, even when she lifted her thigh, you couldn’t see beneath her skirt.

However, Hikigaya wasn’t here to look under girls’ skirts.

So, he sat off to the side, drawing circles on the ground with a twig to pass the time.

About half an hour later.

“Are you done venting?”

“I still feel disgusted,” Kushida replied.

Well, yes.

After forcing Ibuki to leave Class C, Hirata had told Hikigaya that Kushida was a great actress. Very dedicated.

Kushida had two faces—her acting skills were naturally strong, but the matter of her panties being stolen at camp wasn’t acting. She truly had realized her panties were missing.

In other words,

Her panties had really been stolen.

And she immediately thought that someone in the class was a pervert. The idea Hikigaya had suggested before about perverts taking panties had already come to her mind.

So,

She was in a very bad mood.

“Once we go back, you should search for them,” Hikigaya said. “Ibuki, as a spy from Class D, already succeeded in capturing a photo of Koenj swiping his card, so she needs a good reason to leave.”

Does that mean Ibuki was the one who stole the panties this time?

And since Ibuki was a girl, if she wasn’t a pervert, it was possible to find Kushida’s lost panties.

“Then I won’t wear them anymore,” Kushida said.

If they weren’t taken by a pervert but were just lost, Kushida didn’t want to get them back anymore.

“Do you still need to vent here?” Hikigaya asked.

By now, the two of them had reached the steel stairs.

“No, I’m done,” Kushida said.

“Then let’s go back to the camp. I’ll go find Koenj to swipe his card.”

“I think there might be extra points here,” Hikigaya said.

“Whatever.” Kushida wasn’t in a good mood since her panties had been stolen.

Even if it was really Ibuki who stole them, Kushida had been so good to her, yet Ibuki had stolen her panties.

It was really too much.

Initially, Hikigaya had suggested forcing Ibuki to leave, but she had stopped that idea.

And now,

Ibuki, is this how you repay kindness?

Kushida was very displeased.

On the other side,

“…Chabashira, two students from your class have gone to stronghold 25 again,” on the beach.

There were only two homeroom teachers on duty today.

They were Chabashira Sae from Class C and Mashima Tomonari from Class A.

After all, teachers weren’t robots.

So, every two teachers took turns on duty for a day.

The homeroom teacher for Class A was Mashima Tomonari.

The homeroom teacher for Class C was Chabashira Sae.

The homeroom teacher for Class B was someone else.

Among them, Mashima and Sakagami Kazuma were actually classmates.

Chabashira and Hoshinomiya Chie were also classmates, both part of the same cohort of students.

Then,

The students who eventually graduated from Class A were Mashima and Sakagami Kazuma, while Chabashira and Hoshinomiya graduated from Class B.

But,

Mashima wouldn’t underestimate them, as these two had been promoted from Class D. They were even very close to their class at the end, so Mashima and the others had almost been caught up.

As a result, the world is small, and they all ended up teaching here again, still as the homeroom teachers of the same cohort.

But,

“Your students went to stronghold 25 again.”

“But it seems they still don’t want to swipe their cards,” Mashima said.

If they had just arrived at the hut and hadn’t found the card swiper, it would have been understandable. But these two students had been to the hut several times, and each time they stayed for more than two hours.

Even a block of wood would have found the card swiper by now.

If they were the team leader, they would have swiped the card themselves. If they weren’t the team leader, they would have gone back to get the team leader to swipe.

But neither of them had done that.

Instead, they had come here repeatedly.

So, one thing could be confirmed:

That is… the couple came to meet secretly and missed out on the 50-point reward.

Chabashira also felt a bit regretful about this.

The meaning of stronghold 25 was that it overlooked the entire island. Only those who guessed that this was a man-made island, and had someone taking care of the small island, could find it.

So, extra points can be earned.

And it was also the two students from her class who discovered this secret stronghold that had not been found by any other students.

However…

These two students are completely unreliable.

Because the initial points for the class had already been reset to zero, the students of Class C didn’t need to come to the beach for roll call.

Chabashira hadn’t seen them for four days.

As for Hikigaya, she knew that Hikigaya had been working hard to lead the class.

But…

So many good opportunities came up, and Hikigaya didn’t seize any of them?

Chabashira was also wondering whether she should go to the students’ camp to see what was happening.

“However, Hoshinomiya’s class—” Mashima suddenly brought it up, then stopped.

The speaker had no intention, but the listener paid attention.

Currently, the only two classes still coming to the beach every day for roll call were Class A and Class B.

In Class B, the number of students coming to the beach was 41, not because Class B had more students than the others, but because each class initially had 40 students.

The extra person was Kaneda from Class D.

According to Ichinose and the others, he had resisted Ryuen and was left behind. They couldn’t stand it, so they took him in.

But…

Both Chabashira and Mashima were students of this school, so they thought there might be something wrong with Kaneda.

So, regarding Class B…

It was going to get bad.

“It’s almost time for the shift change.”

By noon, the homeroom teachers from the other two classes arrived via the small transport boat from the ship.

“Nothing happened, right?” Sakagami Kazuma sat in Mashima’s seat.

Most of his students had returned to the ship.

Other classes were busy with exams, but they were enjoying themselves.

So every beach roll call was easy for him. After all, only Kaneda came to report.

At the same time,

Now it was the fourth day.

In two and a half more days, the exam would be over.

And Ryuen, probably, was still scheming somewhere on the island.

Although Class D’s initial points had also been reduced to zero due to buying supplies for Class A, and their stronghold points were also zero, Mashima knew how obsessed Ryuen was with winning.

Therefore, everything would develop in a positive direction.

Also,

The two students from Chabashira’s class, whom he had once envied, discovered stronghold 25 and aimed to get the 50-point reward, which had been let go. After all, those two students were short-sighted and were only going there to meet in secret.

So, even though Class C had climbed up from Class D, it was still a garbage class.

They never knew how to seize opportunities.

While thinking this,

“Wait a minute.”

Just as Sakagami Kazuma had sat down, he suddenly said, “Class C has occupied stronghold 25.”

This made Chabashira and Mashima, who were about to return to the ship to rest, look over.

On the computer screen, it showed that stronghold 25 had already been occupied. When clicked, it displayed [C class, remaining time 07:59:40].

“…” Sakagami Kazuma.

“Class C students are really impressive,” said Hoshinomiya Chie.

She had just come from the ship after taking a nap, still feeling a bit groggy.

Upon hearing this, she became a little more awake.

She had already confirmed that Class B would likely come last in this exam.

But,

There was nothing she could do to help; teachers couldn’t interfere with students’ exams.

However, it wasn’t like she had done nothing.

On the first day, when Kaneda was taken in by Class B and came to the beach, Kanzaki had suggested to her that she could testify and confirm Kaneda’s injuries.

In other words,

Kanzaki and the others had also thought about reporting to the student council after returning to school, regarding Ryuen beating students from their class.

This could bring a possible deduction of points for Ryuen’s class.

However, they weren’t sure how the student council would handle it when the time came.

“Hey, hey, little Chabashira, how many class evaluation points do you think your class will get in this exam?” Hoshinomiya Chie asked, hanging on Chabashira like a little kangaroo.

They seemed to have a very good relationship.

However, Chabashira understood that Hoshinomiya was trying to sow discord.

Although they were classmates and best friends,

In terms of class competition, teachers also had their own positions.

There was competition among the teachers as well.

“I don’t know the specifics, we’ll have to wait until the exam is over,” Chabashira said calmly.

“Eh, you’re not going to guess at all? How boring,” Hoshinomiya Chie said, getting off Chabashira.

She was actually trying to stir up Mashima’s wariness about Chabashira’s class.

Because,

This time, Class C had occupied 20 strongholds, and now they had also added stronghold 25 for extra points. So, Class C could conservatively earn nearly 400 points just from the strongholds in this exam.

Currently, Class C’s class evaluation score was 550 points. Adding 400 points to that,

They would soon approach 1000 points.

And this score could also pose a threat to Class A.

But Mashima remained calm.

As the homeroom teacher of Class A, he knew that his class still had the most points remaining among the four classes, a solid 220 points.

As for the stronghold points, although they had only occupied one, by the time the exam ended, they should have 18 points.

But it shouldn’t just be that.

He felt that Katsuragi wouldn’t just take the 300 points’ worth of materials from Class D, so they must have reached an agreement with Class D.

If Kaneda, who was taken in by Class B, was a spy, then Katsuragi might continue participating in the leader selection process.

So, Class A could potentially earn more than 300 points in this exam.

And if they managed to obtain the leader information from Class C, then all of Class C’s points would be reset to zero.

So, it wasn’t a loss for Class A; there was still hope.

Now,

At Ryuen’s place,

They were staying in a relatively hidden area.

This time, Ryuen, Kaneda, and Ibuki had gathered together.

“It seems we’ve confirmed it’s Koenj” Ibuki said, handing the photo she took to Ryuen and Kaneda.

The photo showed Hikigaya standing to one side, while Koenj was swiping his card.

“Is it possible that Koenj swiped his card on purpose to deceive Ibuki?” Kaneda asked.

“That’s unlikely,” Ryuen said. “This time, Class C occupied a large number of strongholds, and any illegal actions would result in a deduction of 50 points. They wouldn’t be that stupid.”

“And…”

“The photo Ibuki took is much better than yours,” Ryuen said, zooming in on the digital camera’s photo.

The pixels were very clear, and upon zooming in, they could see that Koenj swiped the card with his left hand.

Ibuki had captured Koenj holding the card and about to swipe it, and the design on the card was also caught in the shot.

“Pretty lucky, usually the card is directly held flat against the reader.”

“But Koenj was holding the leader card vertically when swiping it, so the leader’s information was captured.”

Ryuen continued.

And at the top of the green leader card, the words [Koenj Rokusuke] were clearly visible.

Ryuen himself was the leader of Class D, so he had seen the leader cards before.

Leader cards were all green, with the leader’s name directly printed on them.

So, it was confirmed that Koenj was holding the real card.

“This is really hilarious!” Ryuen laughed.

Ryuen said, “I thought Horikita Suzune and Hikigaya Hachiman might do something.”

“But in the end, their leader card got caught in the photo.”

“They’re done for!”

“Right now, they’re happily occupying the strongholds, but once the exam is over, all those points will be reduced to 0 immediately.”

Ryuen laughed loudly.

“Then, you two can take the photo to Katsuragi.”

“After showing it to him, just forfeit and return to the ship.”

“As for the camera, leave it to Class A,” Ryuen instructed. “And while you’re reporting the leader information for Classes B and C to Katsuragi, a student from Class A will come looking for me.”

This was the agreement with Katsuragi: Katsuragi would take Class D’s 300 initial points and in return, would provide 300 points worth of class evaluation scores as living expenses until they graduated.

At the same time, Ryuen’s class was supposed to give Katsuragi the leader information for Classes C and B.

The deal seemed to have been completed.

However,

Ryuen, when conducting strategic meetings, never avoided his inner circle.

So, both of them knew that Ryuen wanted to pull a trick on Katsuragi.

That was, to obtain the leader information from Class A.

To guess Class A’s leader information.

Katsuragi was a cautious person, and even Ryuen found it difficult to get the leader information from him. But, Class A wasn’t invulnerable.

By deliberately making a deal with Katsuragi, Ryuen was showing that

So,

Would 1 million private points be worth buying the leader information from Class A?

It seemed a bit expensive.

But, you get what you pay for.

…

Thanks to Ryuen’s arrangement, Ibuki and Kaneda quickly headed to Class A’s stronghold.

Before they landed on the island, Katsuragi had already picked out several strongholds, but without exception, Class C had gotten there first.

In the end, they could only begrudgingly settle in this relatively small stronghold.

Though it was daytime, the stronghold still appeared lively.

Class A had lit two bonfires.

Sitting by one of the bonfires, a tall, slender boy with golden hair tied into a ponytail stood up and said,

“I’m going to collect some more firewood.”

The island looked to have plenty of supplies, it might even be a man-made island, but there were still snakes.

And if anyone got bitten, it could result in points being deducted from the class, so the bonfires in Class A’s camp were kept burning at all times.

Someone also had to keep an eye on them regularly.

“Go ahead. It’s all Katsuragi’s fault, assigning us this kind of menial work. He doesn’t let us act freely, and we can only go out in pairs, worried about getting bitten by snakes,” the companion of the tall, slender boy said. “But you, Hashimoto, can bear it. You’ve volunteered to guard the bonfire for two days straight. I’m getting fed up with it.”

Both of them were from the Sakayanagi faction.

But since Princess Sakayanagi wasn’t around, under Katsuragi’s leadership, they had no choice but to endure.

Moreover, now that Ryuen’s class had arrived, it meant they had obtained the leader information from Classes B and C.

So, this student from the Sakayanagi faction was focused on the leader information for Classes B and C.

If they could guess the other Class’s leader, they would get an additional 100 points, and at the same time, all those points from Class C’s numerous strongholds would be reset to 0, which would be a good thing for Class A.

While thinking this, Katsuragi also received word that someone from Class D had arrived.