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

The fourth day of the special class voting exam.

Apart from Class B and Class D, which have already accumulated 20 million points, the atmosphere in the other two classrooms is very heavy and oppressive.

With fifteen minutes to go before the voting begins, Ryuen once again took to the podium in Class C classroom, except for the day the rules were announced.

Ishizaki also came on stage with him, holding a laptop in his hand.

"I'll show you some things before we start voting and then decide who to vote for."

Ryuen wore a mocking smile, while Ishizaki connected his laptop to the electronic screen next to the blackboard, and a video appeared in the eyes of all the students in Class C.

The main characters are Minori Kinoshita and Suzune Horikita, who is in charge of this voting exam for Class A.

Judging from the angle of the video, it was clearly a stalking and secret filming. Although the picture was a bit shaky, it still accurately showed the students of Class C that Kinoshita had been secretly meeting with Horikita Suzune for the past two days.

"You've betrayed Class C again, Kinoshita." Ryuen glared menacingly at Kinoshita, whose face was deathly pale.

"During the privileged student exam, you also sold your privileged student status to Hachiman for three million personal points, causing Class C to suffer a crushing defeat. This is the second time you have betrayed Class C."

"How many points did you collect from Horikita Suzune this time?"

"No, that's not it, I didn't betray you." Under the barbed gazes of the crowd, Kinoshita began to shake his head violently.

She knew that if she admitted it now, the student who dropped out of school must be her. Even her friends would criticize her, and no one would give her any praise.

Who would sympathize with a traitor who betrayed the collective interest and secretly reaped huge personal points?

"Heh, still trying to deny it? Ishizaki." Ryuen leaned over the lecture hall, looking down at the trembling Kinoshita.

"clear."

As Ishizaki clicked on another recording without a video, Kinoshita's voice, admitting that she had betrayed her class during the preferential treatment exam, came from the speaker.

This was recorded during the interrogation of Kinoshita when Ryuen and Ayanokoji were spending lavishly together.

"I don't think I need to say who should be expelled this time."

Ryuen slammed his hand on the lecture hall with great force, making a loud noise that drew everyone's attention away from Kinoshita.

"Right now, only I in Class C have the ability to lead you forward. If I drop out, who will you choose as your leader? Jintian, do you have that ability?"

As he walked down from the lecture hall, he grabbed Jin Tian by the collar and pulled him up from his seat.

"Do you want to be a leader?"

Ryuen's sinister face was less than twenty centimeters away from Kinda, making Kinda feel as if he were being watched by a hungry wolf, and a sense of fear washed over him.

He felt that if he said something wrong, Long Yuan would beat him up badly, and the surveillance cameras in the classroom did not give him any sense of security.

"No...no...I don't have that ability."

Even though he knew that his faction's students were watching his every move, Kaneda just couldn't muster the courage to resist.

After getting rid of Kinoshita, the traitor hated by all the students in Class C, he knew that dropping out of Ryuen was now a long shot.

"Then you're smart to know what's good for you."

He patted Jintian's face, making him fall back into his seat and lose face in front of the whole class. Ryuen then went back to the podium.

After surveying the students in the audience with an imposing air and finding that no one dared to meet his gaze, he knew he had the upper hand this time.

Jintian, the backup leader, has just lost his qualification to be a leader. As long as the students in Class C have any brains, they will not want him to drop out of school.

While Class C put on a spectacular show, Class A was not to be outdone.

"This is too reckless! How can we guarantee that Hikigaya won't be last? The other three classes have over a hundred criticism votes!" Yukimura shouted.

Just now, Horikita announced that if Hikigaya comes in last place in the criticism vote, a student who is not Hikigaya's friend will be randomly selected from the class and expelled.

“I have my own plans for the criticism votes from other classes. As long as you all follow my orders and there are still thirty-odd praise votes left after the Hachiman class votes are tallied, he will definitely not be last after offsetting the criticism votes from other classes.”

From the podium, Horikita looked at Yukimura with an imposing air, his eyes sharp and piercing.

This was a task she was willing to take on against her brother's wishes; for Hachiman to fall to last place would be tantamount to failure.

"I think you need to know something," Horikita Suzune said in a very serious voice. "Our original Class D was able to get promoted to Class A entirely because of Hikigaya. I don't think you want to know the consequences of disappointing him."

"As for the criticism vote that I initially planned to cast for Ryuen, I have already traded votes with other classes, so I will change it to cast for Ishizaki Daichi."

Horikita, you've grown up.

Looking at Horikita's serious and earnest demeanor, Hikigaya sighed inwardly from the audience.

This is clearly a lie. According to W61, the leaders of other classes would never agree to exchange votes with her.

However, the students in Class A didn't know this, so they assumed that as long as they listened to Horikita's Hikigaya, they wouldn't fall to last place.

The scales of victory are gradually tipping in Hachiman's favor.

If Horikita can get less than ten critical votes for the main hall from the other classes, then Hikigaya will be guaranteed a spot.

Chapter 230 Dropouts from Each Class

In an exceptionally oppressive atmosphere, the special class voting exam ended silently, with all students having completed their votes.

Chazhu, dressed in his unchanging dark business suit, walked slowly onto the podium, his expression calm and unreadable.

"The results of the special exam are in. First, I will announce the top three in terms of the number of votes received."

Chabashira glanced at the white paper in his hand that seemed to have the results written on it, "Third place: Karuzawa Megumi, Second place: Hirata Yosuke—First place goes to Shiina Hiyori."

The students in Class A were not surprised by this result, since Horikita had already decided that two of the three votes of praise would go to Hikigaya and Shiina Hiyori.

The second and third place winners were also students with their own supporters.

"Next up is the last one in the criticism vote."

Chabashira suddenly smiled and looked at Hikigaya, which made most of the students in Class A feel uneasy, except for Hondou and Koenji.

Nobody wants to participate in a gamble involving randomly selecting dropouts.

Meanwhile, in Class C, after announcing the top three in the praise votes, Sakagami also revealed the last name in the criticism votes.

Ishizaki Daichi.

"Eh?!!"

Upon hearing his name, Ishizaki stood up excitedly, "Teacher, are you sure you're not mistaken? Morishita should be in last place no matter what."

He didn't believe that the students in Class C hated him as much as Morishita, who had betrayed the class twice and received millions in compensation.

"You read that right, Morishita is second in the criticism vote with 37 votes, while Ishizaki has 57 votes."

Sakagami pushed up his glasses, his expression calm, while Ishizaki, sitting in the audience, had slumped into his seat, his face numb.

Fifty-seven votes, (II) q韭 (seven?) IX 哟 (three) 岜流 This number of votes, which far exceeds the number of students in the class, indicates that all the criticism votes from one class were concentrated on Ishizaki.

Although Ryuen avoided his expulsion by enticing Horikita Suzune to approach Kinoshita without spending any personal points, he clearly didn't win completely, or rather, he only won half the battle.

"Hikigaya!" Ryuen angrily kicked the empty seat in front of him, which belonged to Ayanokouji and had been expelled.

The loud noise silenced all the students in Class C, who were afraid of being targeted by the furious Ryuen. Kinoshita, in particular, who had escaped unscathed, dared not show any joy.

The students in Class C all knew that Ishizaki was the first student to follow Ryuen, even before Albert, who was almost always by Ryuen's side.

Some of the bad or troublesome things were done by Ishizaki with Komiya and Kondo. Compared to Albert, who was not good at communication, Ishizaki was Ryuen's most capable subordinate.

"Who received the last number of criticism votes in Class A? Sakagami."

After calming his anger slightly, Ryuen questioned Sakagami sharply, as if Sakagami were his subordinate.

However, the students in Class C were used to this, as this scene became commonplace shortly after Ayanokouji transferred to their class.

"Heh, that's not how a student should talk to a teacher, but I'll forgive you this time." Sakagami's lips curled into a smile. "The last place in Class A's criticism vote is..."

"Hondo Ryotaro."

Chabashira's gaze was clearly directed at Hachiman, but he uttered the name of another student.

This made Horikita really want to use the compass on her desk to give this jerk of a shot; it was just too twisted a quirk.

Not only was Horikita angry, but Hachiman, who was being stared at by Chabashira, also gave her the middle finger with a blank expression.

He wondered if he had been too lenient with Chazhu, this bad teacher who lacked professional ethics.

For a moment, he thought he had lost 20 million points.

"Sixty-one votes." After a moment of hesitation upon seeing the middle finger's smile, the tea pillar announced the number of criticism votes received by the hall.

This is a figure that exceeds Hikigaya's estimate.

His own plan alone is to prevent the number of criticism votes from reaching this figure.

"Congratulations, Horikita."

Amidst Hondou's agonizing screams, Hikigaya looked at Horikita, who had already breathed a sigh of relief; Horikita had won this special exam.

This is something she absolutely couldn't have done when she first enrolled.

"It's not over yet. We still don't know who dropped out of Class C." Horikita said, looking down at her phone.

"It's Ishizaki. Ryuen is furious and yelling at me right now. It seems he doesn't know that it was Ishizaki who made the decision to drop out of school."

As his phone vibrated, Hikigaya received a text message from Yamashita, containing Ryuen's plan to avoid expulsion and the results of the special exam for Class C.

Ryuen was the top vote-getter in Class C. He had re-established his authority after Kinoshita, a dropout, forced Kaneda to lose his spirit. With just a little threat, the students in Class C dared not not vote for him.

"It seems you have a spy in Class C."

Horikita exited the chat with Kinoshita; all her messages went unanswered.

"How did you manage that? I estimate the criticism votes will be around fifty." Hachiman asked curiously.

"I set up a betting game in your name, with odds of 1 to 10 for this student dropping out of school, and a base of 20,000."

Without looking up, Horikita continued operating his phone, opening his personal terminal and transferring money to each of the eleven students who participated in the gambling. Each of the eleven students had placed bets of 10,000 to 20,000 personal points to withdraw from the school.

Buying tickets directly with personal points doesn't guarantee that the other party will accept the money and do the job.

After careful consideration, Horikita came up with a plan to set up a gambling game. It just so happened that Hikigaya also had a reputation for being able to gamble big, so no one was afraid of him defaulting on his debts.

Once they participate in the gambling game and place a considerable amount of personal points, in order to ensure that their initial investment is not wasted, they will definitely secretly vote for our gang behind the leader's back.

"Was it Kushida who helped?" Hachiman scratched his head, looking somewhat troubled.

After calculating that Horikita had less than one million yen left in the A class's funds, he didn't care much. After all, he had made great contributions to the class, so what was wrong with spending a little money to save him?

Horikita, with his almost zero social skills, could not possibly find so many students to participate in the gambling, while Kushida, who only has a few hundred friends among the first-year students, has this ability.

Kushida's kindness can never be repaid.

"Yeah, she agreed after I just asked her a little, but she seems to have a lot of opinions about me." Horikita looked up after transferring the money to the students who participated in the gambling.

Hondou, trembling and staggering, followed Chazuki out of the classroom to complete the withdrawal procedures, his sobs faintly echoing in the quiet classroom.

If it weren't for her, the students who dropped out might not have been from this school, or even any students who dropped out at all.

Her feelings were very complicated, and her idea of ​​completing Hachiman's request to her brother vanished.

“You’ve done a great job, and your brother will be very happy for you.”

Hachiman stood up from his seat and patted Horikita's head. He could guess what she was thinking just by looking at her expression.

"Leave the rest to me."

As he spoke, Hachiman stepped onto the empty podium, calmly facing the students, most of whom looked dejected because of their classmates dropping out.

Chapter 231 The Problem with Class B

"If you don't have the strength, you will be abandoned."

Facing the somewhat resentful gazes of his friends, Hikigaya calmly summarized the special exam.

Horikita has attracted so much hatred from this special exam, so he should at least share some of the blame.

“With two years left until graduation, it’s not surprising that a special exam requires students to drop out to pass.” Ignoring the students’ hostile gazes, Hikigaya looked at Shinohara.

If we're talking about who harbored the most animosity towards Horikita after this special exam, it would have to be Shinohara Satsuki, who was almost chosen as a candidate for expulsion.

"The OAA software will be put into use in April, and the student ranked last in the class will be considered for expulsion, understand?"

"Understood."

Faced with Hikigaya's imposing gaze, Shinohara nodded reluctantly.