Quickly.
The exam ended.
Since their raw strength was far greater than Ishizaki and the others, Hikigaya and the group easily secured the victory.
At this time.
Everyone returned to the Year 3 Class A. Half an hour later, Hoshinomiya Chie returned to the class to announce the results of this exam.
Class A won this special exam with a margin of 126 points.
After all.
Their raw strength was far greater than the opponent's.
As long as they could withstand the psychological offensive from Ryuen and the others, it wasn't difficult to win the exam.
This was still considered a very small gap.
It was mainly because Ryuen and the others changed their strategy to seize more answering opportunities.
Although they couldn't answer all of them, they could leave Ichinose and the others with no questions to answer, minimizing losses as much as possible.
Although the reward wasn't much, Ichinose and the others were still extremely happy.
As graduation approached.
The more advantages, the better.
Next.
Hoshinomiya Chie announced the changes in class points for each class.
Year 3 Class A (Hikigaya): 1654. points
Year 3 Class B (Ayanokouji): 1621 points.
Year 3 Class C (Katsuragi): 902 points.
Year 3 Class D (Ryuen): 852 points.
"What?"
Kanzaki and the others were suddenly stunned for a moment.
Seeing the class points for Class B, they immediately felt a sense of overwhelming pressure.
Clearly, the previous exam was still around 1300 points.
Now, the gap with Class A had actually been shortened to only 30 points.
"Teacher, what is going on?"
"How is this possible? I remember they were still at over 1300 points a few days ago."
"Doesn't this mean they gained nearly 280 class points in this single exam?"
For this exam.
The reward was the difference between the scores obtained by both sides, and the remainder was the increased class points.
Each side had 300 exam questions.
Theoretically, one could obtain a maximum of 600 class points.
But in reality, it wasn't realistic.
As long as it was a normal duel.
Being able to pull ahead by 200 class points was already very good.
If it really didn't work, one could do what Ryuen's class did.
Anyway, if I can't win, then I won't give the other party a chance to answer; focus entirely on seizing the buzzer to prevent the other party from scoring.
Over 200 points.
Undoubtedly indicated a massive victory for Ayanokouji's class.
After class.
Everyone gathered together.
Hoshinomiya Chie also leaned in toward Hikigaya, shaking his arm while looking a bit nervous.
"What should we do, Hikigaya-kun? Sae-chan and the others are about to catch up."
"Calm down, haven't they not caught up yet?"
Although he said that.
Hikigaya also felt a faint sense of unease in his heart.
Some people took out their phones to search the OAA, while others tried to gather information from their respective friends.
"What's going on? Class B seems to be missing another person?"
Ando Sayo held her phone, suddenly looking a bit confused.
Unknowingly, Class B, which was Horikita Suzune's class, now had only 36 people remaining, one fewer than before.
The others also opened their OAA to confirm.
"Eh, it's true... another one is gone..."
"Expulsions shouldn't occur in this exam, so what's going on?"
Kobashi Yume and the others were a bit confused.
"But..."
Amikura Mako suddenly discovered: "Look at Class C, their class seems to have gained one person."
Hikigaya had also already tapped into Class C.
Katsuragi's class suddenly had an extra person for some reason, and it was Yukimura.
It seemed some strategy was used, but even so, they still lost.
The exam had just finished.
Today, he didn't have to go to the Student Council.
Hikigaya left the school together with Ichinose and the others.
No matter what.
In any case, they won this exam; they would have a celebration banquet first and deal with other matters later.
Just then.
A mocking voice caught the attention of several people.
Not far in front of Hikigaya and the others, Soto-mura, Hondo, and the others were following Yukimura, their faces full of mockery:
"Yukimura, ptui! I didn't expect a guy like you would actually betray the class, you ungrateful thing."
"Don't say that, I saw it coming long ago."
"Yukimura is just that kind of person, how about it? Regretting it now, aren't you? Gugugu..."
Hondo and the others covered their mouths and giggled, making Yukimura's face turn red with embarrassment.
On the other side.
Hikigaya frowned.
From what he heard.
It was Yukimura who betrayed the class.
It wasn't surprising; he had also contacted Yukimura before, wanting to develop him into a mole.
As long as there was a higher probability of graduating from Class A, there was a high possibility Yukimura would betray the class.
He just didn't expect.
Yukimura would actually choose Katsuragi's class.
Indeed, Katsuragi's reputation must be better, or he saw something.
"How about it... Yukimura? Finding out in the end that we still won, aren't you very angry?"
Hondo and the others said with playful expressions.
For Yukimura, who had already betrayed the class and transferred to Class C, they naturally didn't need to be polite.
"Humph... it's not yet certain who won and who lost."
Yukimura snorted coldly and quickened his pace, wanting to shake them off.
To be honest.
He did feel some regret.
In fact, Katsuragi had already been in contact with him six months ago.
Even before the exam.
He had already made an agreement with Katsuragi.
As long as he intentionally answered incorrectly during the exam, he could transfer to Class C.
As for why it was Katsuragi and not Hikigaya, it was naturally because Katsuragi's credit and reputation were better.
He felt absolutely no sense of guilt.
The actions of Horikita Suzune and the others had long since completely lost any moral binding force.
Water flows downward, and people move toward higher ground.
Yukimura didn't think there was any problem.
If Soto-mura and the others had the same opportunity, they would likely have made the same choice, only they would have pretended to be hesitant.
He just didn't expect Ayanokouji would still win.
And it was a massive victory.
Fortunately.
He had perfectly completed his task, intentionally answering incorrectly to suppress the score of the Group A elites to less than 20 points.
And with the contract in place, Katsuragi also kept his promise.
He was allowed to transfer directly to Class C.
To be honest.
Yukimura indeed had some misunderstandings; he was still somewhat confused even now.
How could Katsuragi still lose so badly?
Fortunately.
Yukimura wasn't too worried either.
The reason he decided to transfer to Katsuragi's class during this exam was naturally because he saw the savings in Katsuragi's hands.
Even now.
Katsuragi had still saved up as much as 80 million private points!
Even if transferring him cost 20 million, there was still a huge sum of 60 million left!
Money is power!
As long as a situation like this exam didn't occur.
60 million private points were enough to bribe at least three people, and depending on the method, even more!
Simply put.
Those 60 million private points could be treated as a guaranteed winning chip for three exams.
With the current level of rewards for each exam.
They could jump directly to Class A!
It was only now that Katsuragi truly began to exert his strength!
Because of this.
Not just Yukimura, but even though they dropped to Class C, the people in the same class didn't show the slightest bit of panic.
With food in hand, there's no panic in the heart.
With money, there's enough confidence to turn the tables and win!
No one can escape the temptation of up to 20 million private points, right?
As for Ayanokouji's class being no good, Yukimura could guarantee that.
Even though Soto-mura and the others were arguing loudly, they were mostly just jealous that no one was interested in them.
It was just this exam...
Truly made Yukimura feel somewhat strange... for a long time.