Hachiman Hikigaya, who returned from his studies after completing his training.

The fact that Hachiman hadn't retaliated against him for so long after the preferential treatment exam made him relax a bit, but he didn't expect Hachiman to make such a killing move.

"We've arrived, Hiyori."

When the bus came to a smooth stop in front of two quaint school buildings, Hikigaya gently patted Shiina's shoulder, who had a cute sleeping face.

"Um--"

With a soft moan, Shiina opened her seemingly dazed eyes as her eyelashes fluttered slightly. She realized that she was being held almost entirely in Hikigaya's arms.

In just a brief moment, Shiina felt her face burning hot, as if she had a fever.

If she could, she really wanted to just faint.

Chapter 195 I Want to Drop Out of School Ayanokouji Kiyotaka

After saying goodbye to Shiina, whose face was still slightly flushed, Hikigaya led the boys of Class B to follow their teacher into the gymnasium of the forest school.

The various sports equipment inside looked a bit old, but they were clean and tidy, and the windows on all four sides were open, so the air didn't smell stale.

How do you plan to divide Hachiman?

After the boys from the three grades gathered together while keeping their distance from each other, Katsuragi, who was in the group of first-year boys, walked up to Hikigaya. Seeing this, Ryuen and Kanzaki also came over.

"It's your business if you want to listen to Hachiman's opinion, but Class A doesn't intend to follow Hachiman's ideas."

Kanzaki said coldly, while Ryuen, standing to the side, neither agreed nor disagreed with Katsuragi's statement, but made no attempt to hide the mockery on his face.

After Ayanokouji failed the special final exam, the leadership of Class C returned to him as agreed. This time, he planned to work with Hikigaya to mess with that bastard Ayanokouji.

Even if Ayanokouji is very capable and useful to Class C, he would have to make the painful decision to give up his power if he wanted to seize control.

"Each of Class 4 will send out their strongest three-person team to take first place. The team leader will be from Class C, and I will arrange for a strong second or third-year team to cooperate with this team to ensure that we can take first place."

"Of the remaining five groups, four groups are formed by each of the four classes with more than ten students. The last group is the remaining students from each class. The person in charge of the last group is also from Class C and must be Kiyotaka Ayanokoji."

Without making any attempt to hide his intention to drop out of school, Ayanokouji Kiyotaka said earnestly.

This special exam is also high-risk, high-reward in nature. If the team that wins first place has members from all four classes, the class points and individual points rewards will be tripled.

The rewards for students in the class led by the group leader will also be doubled.

Of course, the punishment will also be doubled.

"Are you deaf? Hachiman, we Class A won't cooperate with your nonsense." Kanzaki said with a stern face and a tone full of anger. Hachiman's attitude was truly hateful.

“That’s right, and I won’t agree to your nomination of Ayanokouji as the leader of the last group either. A group that brings together the remaining poor students from each class will definitely not reach the school’s average score.”

"This is clearly retaliation against Ayanokouji. Is this the kind of magnanimity you have as the student council president?"

After Kaneda stepped forward, a boy from Class C named Tokito Yuya also objected.

"If you want to save Ayanokouji, then you can become the leader of the last group." His gaze swept past Kanzaki Hikigaya and landed on the two students from Class C who stepped forward.

"These are entirely my personal points, not class points raised by Class B."

Slowly taking out his phone, Hikigaya opened his personal terminal and showed the interface displaying his 37 million personal points to all the first-year boys.

Now that Class A is able to repay his loan again at the beginning of January, his savings almost exceeded 40 million personal points.

"No way, thirty-seven million!!!"

"Is it really that easy to become the student council president?"

"If you had cash, you could have bought a house outside."

The students, who were initially anxious as they watched Hachiman and the others discuss how to form groups, could no longer remain calm. Shocked, they were eager to share and began whispering amongst themselves.

"I want to drop out of school, Ayanokouji Kiyotaka. I don't care if I spend all 37 million personal points. There is only one outcome for the obstacles in my way."

Calmly, Hachiman looked at Kanzaki and the others, whose faces were ashen, as if they had eaten feces.

"I still say the same thing."

Ayanokouji, whose attention had been drawn to Hikigaya's blatant words, slowly walked up to him, his expression as calm as a cold pool in a desolate mountain.

"If you can do it, then give it a try."

"Then I'll wait and see your resistance." Looking into those emotionless eyes, Hikigaya returned the same cold gaze.

He didn't know where Tsukishiro came from, but he figured he must be from Ayanokouji's father's side.

In my memory, Tsukishiro moved into Advanced Education Center around February and became the acting chairman. This special exam can be said to be the only one recently that allows Ayanokouji to drop out of school.

If Ayanokouji can drop out of school, then all 37 million personal points are gone.

"Hirata, Miyake, Makita."

"Sanada, Toba, Machida."

"Hashimoto, Albert, Gibbon."

After Hikigaya called out three people, Katsuragi and Ryuen also called out students from their classes who were both physically and academically gifted. As for themselves, as leaders, they naturally chose to stay behind in the group where the main group of their class was located.

There are only two ways for Ayanokouji to avoid being expelled: one is to get the group of students who are the worst in the first grade to reach the school's unknown average score.

Another strategy is to prevent the largest group from falling to last place. The only way to achieve this is to attack the other five groups, which is why the class leaders stay behind in their own groups.

"If I were you, I would also listen to Hachiman and not put my students in danger because of a fit of pique. Hachiman is serious this time."

"With the class points raised by Class B, he could gather 40 million personal points to have two students drag others down with them."

While Kanzaki gritted his teeth and didn't respond, Katsuragi walked up and patted him on the shoulder, giving him a way out. Unfortunately, Kanzaki didn't respond immediately and just turned away.

None of the students in Class A who came into Kanzaki's view dared to look him in the eye with resentment.

This immediately deflated the anger that had been building up within him.

"Shibata, Hamaguchi, Watanabe." With his eyes lowered, Kanzaki sadly uttered the names of three classmates, and the fact that Shibata was also there showed that these three were the elite boys in Class A.

Kanzaki undoubtedly acquiesced to Hikigaya's plan.

When the first five groups were all formed, those left to team up with Ayanokouji were all first-year students with their own flaws and shortcomings.

Takemoto and Totsuka from Class D, Tokito and Yamawaki from Class C, Sotomura and Hondo from Class B, and Beppu and Moriyama from Class A.

"You can slack off and indulge yourselves during the exam, but if your group's score doesn't reach the school's average and you're dragged down with Ayanokouji, I'll give that person 20 million personal points to help them."

In front of Ayanokouji, who had just been unanimously elected as the group leader, Hikigaya promised them that they would not be expelled and tempted them to indulge themselves.

Ayanokouji simply watched silently without saying a word, maintaining an expression devoid of joy or sorrow.

After about ten minutes, the second and third grade students also divided into groups, and the twelve groups in total slowly approached the six groups composed of first graders.

Although the school's rule is that large groups should be formed starting at 8 p.m., students can form groups now if they wish.

Chapter 196 The Day Before the Exam

Among the group of second and third graders, the group led by former student council president Manabu Horikita, who took the lead, consisted mostly of students from Class A.

Just like the deserted island exam, all students' cell phones will be confiscated for this exam. So, on the bus, Hachiman had already spoken with Horikita, the student council president of the third year, and Kiriyama, the second year, to interfere with the second and third year students' team formation.

After learning of Hikigaya's plan, Horikita Manabu, as he wished, formed a large group consisting of a team with many outstanding students from Class 3-A and the strongest group from the first year.

Kiriyama, on the other hand, formed a group with the strongest combined strength from the three classes, and another group whose strength was only slightly weaker than the first group and was equally strong.

The students in Class 2B are all in these two groups. As for the remaining weak students from Classes C and D who have already been selected, they are naturally reserved for Nagumo's Class A to form teams.

Moreover, Nagumo had no choice but to accept these students, because the group required students from at least two classes to be formed.

"Hachiman, I won't give up like this."

After being selected from the remaining second-year students, Nagumo glared fiercely at Hachiman before leaving the gymnasium.

His group consisted of the first-year Ayanokouji group and the third-year B class Tsunoda's weakest third-year group.

There were people from Hikigaya in all three grades, and Nagumo had no power to resist at all.

"Wow, it's a wooden bed!" Sudo exclaimed in surprise.

After the group assignments were completed, the group, mainly composed of students from Class B, arrived at the dormitory prepared by the school, where wooden bunk beds were placed, under the guidance of their instructors.

"Then I'll choose this place."

After the instructor left, without waiting for Hikigaya to assign or discuss positions, Koenji occupied one of the upper bunks at the very back of the room, near the window.

Without using the ladder to the upper bunk, he simply jumped and pushed himself up to sit on the upper bunk, demonstrating his unparalleled physical abilities to the others.

"If you can do it, you can choose for yourselves; if not, let's play rock-paper-scissors to distribute them."

After placing his luggage on the table behind the door, Hikigaya, imitating Koenji's actions, climbed onto the bed without a ladder, much to the envy of Sudo, Komiya, and Ishizaki.

There were only two other students from other classes who teamed up with Class B, and both of them were from Class C.

They are all students with good physical abilities but poor academic performance.

"Kōenji, would you mind if I assigned you a task?"

Sitting cross-legged on the bed, Hikigaya looked at Koenji, who was lying flat on the bed, amidst the other students' rock-paper-scissors games.

The forest exam was nothing like the exam on a luxury cruise ship, which was meant to be enjoyed. According to the brochure distributed to everyone on the bus, they not only had to get up early to clean the school, but they also had to prepare their own breakfast the next day.

They not only had to prepare breakfast for their group, but also for students from the other two grades in the larger group.

A breakfast for a group of thirty-odd people usually requires six or seven people to prepare before the 7 a.m. breakfast time. The more people there are, the more sleep time the students can get.

If the distribution is equal, students from each grade in the large group will be responsible for two sessions.

"No problem, President Boy."

After getting out of bed and glancing at Hikigaya, Koenji agreed and lay back down.

"That's good." Putting aside the sudden thought of dropping out of Kōenji's school, Hikigaya got out of bed and left the dormitory.

Seeing Koenji's unworthy behavior, his first thought was that Shiina was currently the leader of Class B, and Shiina had almost no chance of subduing Koenji.

He used to tolerate Koenji because he couldn't do anything about it, but things are different now that he's become the student council president.

There was still about an hour before dinner time, and the first day hadn't yet entered exam time, so we were free to move around. This was a great time to explore the school.

For example, areas with cameras and areas without them are key areas to investigate.

During the investigation of the security cameras, Hachiman encountered Ryuen, as well as Nagumo and Ayanokoji...

These people are indeed all corrupt.

As the school bell rang, Hachiman arrived at the brightly marked cafeteria, which was already packed with students, with criticism of some people's shady plans.

After getting the same dinner as everyone else at the food window, he began searching for Shiina in this space that could hold five hundred people.

The group assignments for the first-year girls were entirely decided by Shiina herself; Hikigaya neither interfered nor could interfere, since the leadership of Class B had already been handed over to Shiina.

It's no problem for the group to understand the group situation. He's keeping an eye on the boys, so there shouldn't be any problems. He's a little worried about the girls, since Ayanokouji is a ruthless person.

If it becomes clear that his friends, such as Shiina or Sakura, will definitely drop out of school, he must use his personal points to save those who are about to drop out.

When he no longer has a huge amount of personal points, just like when he ousted Nan Yun, the villagers from the outer village will definitely not listen to his laziness but will instead try their best to save themselves and reach the average score given by the school.

"I am here, Hachiman."

After wandering around for a few minutes, Hachiman was finally discovered by the person he wanted to be discovered.

"How's the grouping for the girls going?" After sitting down next to Shiina, Hachiman began to eat heartily from his plate. Each meal only lasted an hour, so he had to hurry.

“Each first-grade class formed one large group, and the remaining students formed the other two groups.”

"I was in charge of the large group in the class. With the cooperation of Class D, the other two groups were led by Himeno Yuki from Class A and Kino no Misato from Class C."

"Who are the students from our class in the group that Kinoshita is in charge of?" Hikigaya stopped what he was doing.

Himeko, the person in charge of Class A, was someone he was fairly familiar with and could barely call a friend, so he naturally wasn't worried that she would deliberately drag the students of Class B down with her. But as for Kinoshita of Class C, Hachiman could only say that this person was very dangerous.

The fact that she prepared a fake Class C participant list for him before the sports festival exam shows that she had already been exposed and caught red-handed by Ryuen or Ayanokouji.

It is currently uncertain who her owner is.

“It’s Sato, Shinohara, and Ichihashi,” Shiina replied immediately. “Although Karuizawa kept saying she wanted to go with Sato and the others, I firmly refused.”

That's good.

Hikigaya thought to himself that although he felt somewhat sorry for Ichihashi and the others, he would not spend 20 million personal points to save them if one of the three of them was clearly going to be dragged down with Kinoshita.

The premise for the person in charge to bring someone down with them is that the school determines that the person down with them is one of the reasons why the group's average score is lower than that set by the school.

If Sato and the others obediently follow Kinoshita's instructions, work hard, and abide by the rules, the reason for their execution will likely not be accepted by the school.