Hachiman’s Classroom of Strength’s Supremacy

Chapter 151: Kamuro: You asked me, Sakayanagi said Katsuragi definitely won’t be able to hold on! Go!

Shiina Hiyori is in Class C… no, now she is the “class flower” in Class D.

Of course, for Ryuen, it doesn’t matter that there’s another vase in the class. What’s important is her brain.

Shiina’s brain is smarter than Kaneda’s.

And now.

Ryuen had placed an A4 paper on the table, with the names of 12 privileged students written on it, along with the numbers 50X9=450 points.

And just by looking at it, you could tell that this was the maximum number of points that could be obtained in this exam.

Their class had fallen to the position of Class D for more than two months.

In the short term, it could still be considered a temporary situation, but once time passed, their side’s morale would also suffer.

So.

Now, looking at this note, Shiina immediately felt that Ryuen wanted to gain a large number of class evaluation points from this exam, aiming to rise again.

This wasn’t hard to understand.

After all.

He had gone through a miserable time on the deserted island and still ended up with zero points.

And after watching all of them arrive, Ryuen placed his hands on the table and said,

“From the information I bought from the senior year, aside from the deserted island exam, there will be another special exam on the ship.”

“Now, looking at it, this special exam seems interesting.” Ryuen said. “And our class is going to shine in this exam!”

As for thinking through things, whether it was Albert, Ishizaki Daichi, or Ibuki, they all just frowned and kept quiet.

Waiting for orders.

“However,” Kaneda pushed up his glasses and said, “In this exam, our class’s students have been split into 12 groups, so if our class has any privileged students, it’s important to make sure they aren’t found out.”

“And also.”

Kaneda said. “It’s important to make sure that these selected privileged students obey. At the very least, they can’t hide the truth.”

You can’t hide the privileged students’ information, otherwise, it would be a huge loss if other classes figure it out by guessing.

Although their class evaluation points are currently zero.

This is an exam, so it’s definitely a comprehensive score.

Therefore, the class needs to ensure no one holds them back.

And this isn’t an easy task.

After all, once a privileged student is selected, they get a reward of 500,000 or 1,000,000 personal points.

It’s hard for anyone not to be tempted.

“This kind of thing is simple.” Ryuen tilted his mouth. “At 8 a.m. tomorrow, have everyone come to my room, and show me the information the school issued.”

“This way, they won’t be able to hide anything.”

“Also.”

“Give the orders,” Ryuen said. “If anyone betrays the class, then for the next expulsion exam, all the students will sacrifice this trash.”

“Our class’s evaluation points are zero right now, and we must break through zero.”

“Otherwise, future class competitions will have nothing to do with us.”

“Although dropping from Class C to D is just one step down, over time, we might really become Class D,” Ryuen said.

“Regarding this.”

Although Shiina didn’t like to actively socialize with others, her relationships in class were decent, and most students would talk to her.

She was very good at sensing the atmosphere.

And since Ryuen specifically invited her to participate in the thinking process, it meant he hoped she would contribute.

In other words, she had to think.

The recently concluded deserted island exam had been a failure for the class, but Ibuki and Kaneda, who participated, had received the empty promises of 200,000 personal points each from Ryuen.

Although Shiina wasn’t that fond of money, their class’s evaluation points were currently zero, and Ryuen also promised to provide 20,000 points per person every month as living expenses from the points obtained from Class A.

But she indeed wanted to get some points.

Because Ryuen allocated points based on your contribution.

“I’ve been thinking, why did the school split the students into 12 groups,” Shiina said. “If the goal is to assess each student’s potential and ability to collect information, then the exam shouldn’t be thinking-based.”

“Also, in the end, it’s still a class competition.”

“Like in Rule 1, if everyone guesses the identity of the privileged students correctly, then all members of the group will receive 500,000 points, and the privileged students themselves will get 1,000,000 points. For this result to happen, all the members of the group have to drop their guard against each other and unite.”

“It seems very out of place.”

“It completely goes against the idea of class competition.”

Shiina said, then stayed quiet after speaking.

“Mm.” Ryuen nodded and glanced at Shiina. “Your idea is good.”

“And I have a plan.” Ryuen said. “Here’s the list for my group.”

Ryuen was in the first group that gathered at 6 p.m., so by now, he had actually been thinking for 4 hours.

Ryuen flipped the A4 paper, and the names he had written appeared.

There was a list of names.

Class A: Katsuragi Kohei, Nishikawa Ryoko, Matoba Shinji, Yano Koharu

Class B: Kanzaki Ryuji, Ando Sayo, Tsube Hitomi

Class C: Horikita Suzune, Kushida Kikyo, Hirata Yosuke

Class D: Ryuen Kakeru, Oda Takumi, Suzuki Hidetoshi, Sonoda Masashi

“Do you think this list is interesting?” Ryuen said. “Katsuragi from Class A, Kanzaki Ryuji from Class B, Horikita Suzune from Class C are all there. And I’m in Class D. It’s as if the representatives of all four classes are gathered together.”

“Competing with each other as representatives makes sense.”

“But.”

Ryuen looked at Ibuki.

“Ibuki, do you remember the list of your group, the Rabbit Group?” Ryuen said.

“I don’t remember. I only remember that Ichinose from Class B and Hikigaya Hachiman from Class C are in my group,” Ibuki frowned. “I don’t know the other people.”

“…” Ryuen.

Well.

He didn’t expect much from Ibuki’s brain. He just needed to know that Ichinose and Hikigaya Hachiman were in Ibuki’s group.

“I can confirm that my group, the Dragon Group, is a gathering of representatives from the four classes.”

“But if we really want to be evenly matched, then it’s strange that Ichinose and Hikigaya aren’t there.”

“And placing them in the Rabbit Group is very unfair to the other classes,” Ryuen said.

“You mean…” Shiina started to think, then said, “The list of privileged students can actually be changed at will?”

Ryuen looked at her with approval.

If he were to fall, perhaps this class wouldn’t collapse completely, and someone would still be able to support it.

“To be precise, some members’ group assignments won’t affect the exam results.”

“In other words,” Ryuen said. “I believe there is a shortcut in this exam! And there are patterns in the privileged students! It can’t be random.”

…

As for Class B.

At 10:30 PM.

All the students had gathered in the designated room to hear the rules explained.

But.

Class B’s students weren’t as tense as those from other classes.

But.

Kanzaki and Ichinose still hadn’t returned to their dorms to rest.

They were on the deck.

There was a bar on the deck, which wouldn’t sell alcohol to the students but would provide drinks.

“I mostly understand the rules of the exam, but the students from our class have been split into 12 groups.”

“It looks like it will depend on everyone’s individual performance,” Kanzaki said. “But, since there are 12 privileged students, if our class can seize this opportunity and rise up, we might directly become Class A.”

When they first enrolled, neither of them had a strong ambition to move up to Class A.

But as they spent more time in school, they started to hope to charge forward with the whole class.

“It’s good to think more about it,” Ichinose said. “If most of the privileged students end up in our class, it’ll be dangerous.”

“…” Indeed.

According to the teacher’s notice, at 8 a.m. the next day, the list of privileged students would be sent to 12 students.

Excluding Sakayanagi Arisu from Class A, there would be 159 students.

Out of these, 12 privileged students would be selected, and if it were random and most of them were placed in Class B, then Class B’s situation would become very bad.

“This…”

Kanzaki also fell into thought, “Then I’ll send a message in the class group.”

“I’ll ask those who receive the school’s message tomorrow at 8 a.m. and are confirmed as privileged students to send me a private message.”

“First, we need to confirm who the privileged students in our class are, then we can plan the next steps,” Kanzaki said.

“Looks like that’s the only way,” Ichinose nodded.

This time, Class B was very close to Class A, but they also needed to be cautious and see if they were in danger.

At that moment.

Ding ding!

Ichinose received a message.

“What’s wrong?” Kanzaki noticed Ichinose’s expression, which seemed a little surprised.

Ichinose honestly replied.

“Hikigaya sent a message.”

“What did he say?”

“He wants the list of privileged students from our class,” Ichinose said. “And if we refuse, the alliance between our two classes will be broken.”

“That guy!” Kanzaki quickly stood up.

“And he gave us two days to think about it,” Ichinose said.

Uh.

Looking at it this way, it seemed Class B wouldn’t be able to sleep soundly tonight.

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The next day arrived.

At 7:40 a.m.

All the first-year students from Class C gathered at a British-style small restaurant. The restaurant could accommodate more than forty people, so as soon as Class C’s students entered, it felt quite packed.

They were gathered here to discuss the upcoming privileged students exam. As Mama Hirata, who always spoke gently, said, “I hope everyone can maintain the class evaluation score in this exam.”

That was also everyone’s goal.

Because regarding the exam… in fact, many people still hadn’t fully understood the questions, so when they were told there would be an explanation of the exam rules, everyone came.

“Now, please take a look at these materials.”

Always smiling, Kushida stood while holding a stack of materials.

She distributed them.

“Isn’t this the material with the rules we didn’t understand last night?”

“No, the rules have been simplified.”

And the students noticed this.

Last night, the class was divided into 12 groups, and they entered Room 204 on the second floor in batches to hear the explanation of the exam rules, with a classmate in each group responsible for taking photos.

This was the scene everyone saw. It seemed the class had already prepared, so everyone showed up for today’s discussion.

“The simplified rules were entrusted to Kushida,”

As the classmates all received the materials, Mama Hirata quickly said.

The rules on the materials were also translated into content that even an idiot could understand.

So the students in the class instantly felt much more at ease. At least they knew what the exam was about now.

“Kushida is amazing!”

“She’s helped so much again.”

The students were discussing among themselves.

“I love you… Kushida-san—”

There were also shameless people shouting out unbelievable things in the midst of the commotion. It was obvious that Kushida was very popular.

“These guys has no shame,” Hachiman said, speechless.

However.

After someone made such a chaotic shout, there was also…

“Kushida-san is so cute.”

“I also think you’re great, Kushida-san.”

Compliments like these seemed to never cease.

“…Do these people have any shame?”

On the seat next to Hachiman, Horikita Suzune looked like she had no strength left to comment.

“Do you want me to shout for you as well in the commotion?” Hachiman asked.

“No need, absolutely not,” Horikita Suzune immediately rejected. “I’m not interested in anything related to romance.”

“I thought as much.”

Hachiman nodded.

At this point, Horikita only wanted to rise in class and prove herself to her older brother, while Hachiman was aiming to make money so he could eventually stop working.

Both seemed very pure, but surprisingly, they were often misunderstood as a couple.

Hachiman had thought about this several times—why was he paired with Horikita like this?

“But I think it’s a good idea to let Kushida handle the gathering and distributing of materials,” Hachiman said. “Class C has a lot of problems, and by putting Kushida in charge, she’ll seem capable, so when some classmates have problems, they’ll go consult her.”

“I see.”

Horikita understood. This guy was just using Kushida.

Kushida and Hachiman had a transactional relationship.

He kept secret the fact that she had a dark side, and she helped him rise in class.

However, there weren’t many reliable classmates in the class. But from what he saw with Matsushita, he felt there were still some classmates he could rely on.

And this kind of task could be entrusted to Kushida.

By doing this, it would boost her popularity significantly.

Then, like today, she would become everyone’s angel.

And in doing so, he could gather more people’s secrets and maybe find some troublesome students he could use.

Of course.

Kushida was someone who liked to win people over or be praised.

It wasn’t a problem to satisfy her a little.

“Well then—”

After everyone had received the materials, Horikita poked him with her hand, signaling that it was already 7:50 a.m. If they didn’t do something soon, in 10 minutes, the school would send the information about who had been selected as the privileged students.

Hachiman exchanged a glance with her and then stood up.

“Everyone, listen to me.” Hachiman walked to the front. “Now, from the back to the front, pass your phones up one by one.”

“Why?” As expected, there was resistance.

Hachiman glanced at Horikita.

Horikita Suzune understood that it was time for her to step in.

She then said in a cold voice.

“Because we need to intercept the information about whether each of you is a privileged student.”

She continued, “Once intercepted, we can secure the results of our class’s deserted island exam. If you refuse, you might lose 600 points.”