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

Reminded, Hikigaya temporarily put aside what reward to give Shiina and looked at Horikita, then noticed her strange gaze and followed her line of sight to find his hand in an inappropriate place.

".....cough cough"

Hachiman quickly withdrew his hand, pretending nothing had happened. Shiina's gesture of leaning forward was like an invitation to pat his head, which made him unconsciously put his hand on it. He couldn't be blamed for that.

“Ishikura, Airi.” Hikigaya paused for a moment. “Matsushita and Miyake, Horikita, you tell these four to bring their phones and come over.”

There are two students in the group with preferential treatment from Class A, and two students in the group with preferential treatment from Class C.

The remaining point for Class C is that they still owe Class B fifty class points. He will meet with the leaders of each class later to discuss and decide on the next step.

"Hiyori, you finish your Dragon Group exam first."

"I'll listen to you." Shiina's face flushed slightly.

"..." This answer immediately reminded Hikigaya of Karuizawa from last night, sending a chill down his spine. The thought of having to use such an intimate term as "Megumi" to refer to Karuizawa in public made him even more depressed.

I hope Ichinose won't be too hostile towards Karuizawa.

"Okay, I'll call them over right now and tell them who the recipient of the 500,000 personal points is. What do you plan to do with them?" Horikita didn't say anything more about what Hideya had just done.

"I used up a lot of personal points to buy information on preferential treatment recipients, and the class fund is not enough. Except for Hiyori, all the rest have been confiscated."

You can't accept a reward without merit. It's a problem to give a certain amount of money for something that can be done by simply sending an email. So, Hachiman simply confiscated it all, which allowed him to get back most of the personal points he lent to Class D.

Seeing Horikita busy, Hikigaya looked at Hirata and said, "Hirata, find a small meeting room and invite the leaders of the other three classes to come over. They can bring their own people. The meeting is scheduled for half an hour later."

Achieving the desired exam result would allow one to obtain a large number of personal points from the school, which requires the cooperation of the other three classes.

Chapter 122 Sakayanagi: Class A Disagrees

The Dragon Team exam is over. Dragon Team students do not need to take the exam again. Please be careful and do not disturb other students.

[The Sheep Group's exam has ended. Sheep Group students do not need to take any further exams. Please be careful and do not disturb other students.]

【Snake Group..................】

[Rat Group.................]

【Horse Group..................】

“Class A is finished.” In the corridor leading to the small conference room, Ge Cheng closed his eyes and sighed to the sky. At the same time, five groups of students finished their exams. It was obvious that some classes had figured out the pattern of the favored students.

The group of the privileged member from Class A has been completely wiped out. Based on Morishita's analysis, Machida from the Rabbit Group probably fell for the trap and guessed wrong.

This would mean Class A would lose 200 class points, widening the gap between them and other classes even further.

"The most urgent task now is to find the traitor in Class A." Sanada's eyes behind his glasses were filled with gloom.

Last night, Hachiman said he would buy the Class A preferential treatment spot for five million yen. This morning, not only did the five groups of special exams end at almost the same time, but Hachiman also invited them to meet.

There must have been a traitor in Class A last night.

"It's also possible that a student from Class B or Class C betrayed the class. We can't conclude that there's a traitor in Class A yet, after all, that's five million personal points." Not only Sanada, but Morishita also looked uneasy.

Now she understands the power of Hachiman and Ryuen, these two tyrannical dictators. They squander large sums of personal points raised by the class without needing the consent of most students, and the other students almost unconditionally obey their orders.

After a day of probing, Class A discovered that none of the students in Class D were sure if they were the ones receiving preferential treatment. The only way to achieve this goal was to confiscate the cell phones of all the students in Class D before the exam started.

This is something that would be absolutely impossible to do in Class A or Class B.

"Thinking about whether there's a traitor is no longer very meaningful. If it weren't for the interests of Class A, I wouldn't even want to go to the small conference room right now." Katsuragi opened his eyes and took another step towards the small conference room.

This failure is even worse than the one caused by Sakayanagi's antics on the deserted island. After today, the leadership position in Class A will be vacant again. Most of the students in Class A won't think about what caused his failure; they'll only focus on the consequences.

Katsuragi doesn't know what the future holds for Class A, but he will try his best to secure benefits for Class A at this leadership meeting.

Why is someone like Hachiman in Class D?

Looking ahead, Katsuragi felt the same way he did at the bar: as long as Hachiman still had designs on Class A, it wouldn't matter who led Class A.

Hachiman is now not only rich and powerful, but also intelligent; Class A has no chance of winning.

...........

"Good morning, Hachiman Hikigaya."

In the simply decorated small meeting room, several students from each class sat around a gray-black square table. Among them, an elegant girl with short silver hair smiled and waved gently to a boy with dead fish eyes.

"Good morning."

After a listless greeting to the problem genius, Hachiman unleashed a 'look at what you've done' ray at the bald guy, to which Katsuragi responded with a firm gaze and showed no sign of embarrassment.

Having heard rumors from somewhere, Kamuro and Yamamura intercepted them. After they conveyed Sakayanagi's meaning, he thought about it and decided to adopt her suggestion. Now, the largest group of people in the small conference room was their Class A.

The trio of Sakayanagi, plus the three they originally planned to come: Hashimoto, Kito, Machida, and Nishikawa.

Class A, a class with only forty students, had ten students attend.

There were only three people at Longyuan, and the two they brought were Albert and Jintian.

On Ichinose's side, there are four: Kanzaki, Amakura, and Kushida.

On the other hand, there were only two people on Hikigaya's side: him and Shiina.

The reason for not bringing Horikita and Hirata was that they felt it would be troublesome, since Horikita would betray the interests of Class D again.

"Morishita, would you like to sit here? It's too crowded in your Class A." As he spoke, Hikigaya pulled out a chair next to him, but Morishita ignored him and instead Sakayanagi sat down.

Seeing Uesaka Yanagi's expectant gaze, Hikigaya dismissed her thoughts.

"There are still six groups of students who haven't finished their exams yet. Class C has one group left, Class B has three groups left, and Class D has two groups left. I plan to finish the three groups in Class B with the results, and all the individual points issued by the school will belong to their respective classes."

"I plan to use an auction to determine the outcome of the remaining groups in Class C and Class D."

Class A 1080 points

Class B, 1380 points

Class C, 11:05

Class D, 1194 points

These are the scores for each class after the exam on the deserted island. The six groups that have finished have earned a total of 300 class points, which is enough for Class D to be promoted to Class A after the summer vacation.

However, Hachiman doesn't want Class D to be promoted to Class A. Once Class D is promoted to Class A, the three classes' grand strategy against Class A will quickly fall apart, and by the second semester, it's estimated that the other three classes will join forces to attack their class.

It's not time to advance to Class A yet; temporary glory is just a passing cloud.

Accumulate grain and delay declaring yourself king.

"Class D is bidding too? Hachiman, you always manage to surprise me." Ryuen stretched his legs out onto the square table, held his head, and leaned back. "What are you going to do if Class C doesn't agree?"

"What else can we do? We'll just have to part ways. The remaining six groups' exams will all be over in a few minutes. Class D will give some concessions to Class B to reach a cooperation agreement, while Class A and Class C will get nothing."

According to Hikigaya's method of allocation, the three groups of B-class privilege recipients will be allocated between 3.5 million and 6.5 million personal points based on the number of people in each class.

Because the recipient of the preferential treatment will receive 500,000 more personal points than the group members, Class B can receive 6.5 million points while Class D, which has the fewest members, can only receive 3.5 million points.

He now gives Class A and Class C two choices: either cooperate with him to share the school's money (Class D gets the lion's share), or they can end this special exam without paying a cent.

"Class B agrees with Hikigaya's suggestion."

"Class C...agree."

After Ichinose and Ryuen whispered to Kaneda, Ryuen also expressed his agreement.

"Class A disagrees."

While everyone's attention was focused on Katsuragi, who hadn't yet expressed his opinion, Saka, sitting next to Hikigaya, suddenly spoke up, and the other nine students in Class A didn't say anything to refute him.

If only Katsuragi were in Hachiman, he might think that Hachiman wouldn't refuse the offer, but Sakayanagi's presence was not without purpose. The purpose of so many students from Class A was to put pressure on him to support Sakayanagi.

"Then tell me your thoughts, Sakayanagi."

Hachiman turned his head and carefully examined the elegant, petite girl beside him.

After only a few days apart, the girl's haughty aura had subsided considerably.

Chapter 123: Is Class A also a dictatorship?

"What do you think of the average quality of the students in Class A, Hikiya?"

Just when Hikigaya thought Sakayanagi wanted to secure more benefits for Class A, Sakayanagi asked an inappropriate question.

As for the average quality of Class A?

That's certainly very good, good enough that Hachiman targets Class A.

Hikiko remembers all the evaluations made by the OAA system for the second-year students. Almost half of the students in Class A achieved a B grade in academics, and most of them were B+ or above. Their average physical abilities were also above average.

Their social skills are also quite low, unlike the group of problem children in Class D who need strict discipline to be barely usable.

As long as a leader emerges who is trusted and obeyed by the entire class, Class A's fighting power can rapidly increase.

"They are better than all the students in our three classes."

Given the facts, Hikigaya wouldn't have given the impression that the students in Class A were just average; strength is strength.

"I got a lot of useful information from Vice President Nagumo, including that classes with more students have an advantage in the special exams starting in the second year, and that starting supplies are also more abundant on deserted islands."

"Yes, I know that."

Just like the sports festival in the second year, each class gets a basic score just for having one student participate. Classes with more students do have an advantage over classes with fewer students. Class D only has thirty-six students, so they will be at a disadvantage from the start in the later special exams.

Hachiman knew that in this aspect, Class A was stronger than Class D.

"What exactly are you trying to say, Sakayanagi-san?"

Ichinose, who had previously maintained a faint smile, inexplicably began to become impatient and question Sakayanagi.

"Don't rush, Ichinose-san, I was just about to say it."

In response, Ichinose Gosakayanagi stood up from his seat, a slightly mischievous smile appearing on his cute face.

"Class A sincerely invites you to become the leader of Class A. Class A will provide 20 million personal points. Once you come to Class A, all the outstanding students in Class A will unconditionally obey your orders."

Hachiman glanced at the nine Class A students sitting opposite him; not one of them showed any dissatisfaction. He then recalled each student's OAA rating in his mind.

Katsuragi, academic A.

Ghost Head, Stamina A.

Kamuro, physical strength A.

Sanada, academic A.

.........

Almost all the elites of Class A are gathered here, and they all seem to support him as the leader of Class A.

"You also thought about transferring classes when school started, right? But it seems you were rejected by Class B." As she spoke, Sakayanagi's delicate, white hand with its distinct knuckles rested on his shoulder.

"Since Ichinose-san doesn't like you and even dumped you, it's okay for you to come to our Class A. There are plenty of pretty and cute girls in Class A. If all else fails, I can be your girlfriend too."

...Although Sakayanagi had a smug look about him, Hikigaya was still tempted by his proposal.

Having worked with President Horikita for so long, he was well aware that the special exams in the third year focused on testing students' academic abilities, and exams like the Desert Island and Preferential Treatment exams, which allowed the underdog to win, would not be offered.

As long as the group of students with D-level academic ability and E-level physical strength in Class D are still around, Hachiman will definitely be in trouble in the third-year special exam. Even in the game of Tian Ji's horse race, only the average horse in Class D can defeat the inferior horse in Class A.

My heart was fluttering, but it was too late.

After all, he had become the leader of Class D, and he could comfortably line his own pockets, but he couldn't bring himself to abandon them.

If we do this, how is it any different from Sakayanagi not taking the students of Class A seriously before?

"No, let's not. If you become my girlfriend, I'm afraid I'll be thrown onto a cruise ship tonight."

Large families value matching social status, and Hikigaya didn't know how many children Sakayanagi Shigemori had.

Unless it's a situation where he's looking for a son-in-law, Sakayanagi Arisu is someone he simply can't reach.

“That’s a chance to rise to the top in one step, Hikigaya.” Sakayanagi narrowed his eyes as if scrutinizing him.

"Hachiman is not a vain person."

As Ichinose's face darkened, he wanted to lash out but had no reason to. Shiina stood up and removed Sakayanagi's hand from his shoulder.

"I am the only daughter in my family."

"I'm sorry, my future goal is to be a stay-at-home dad, and I don't want to go out and show my face in public, so please allow me to decline."

With righteous indignation and stern words, Hikigaya resolutely rejected Sakayanagi this time.