Chapter 151 Exam Ends, Class Rankings Shift
"What?!"
"Someone in the Rabbit Group submitted an early guess?"
"Who did it?!"
Everyone present was greatly shocked. Then, one after another, they cast suspicious glances toward the members of Class D.
"Why is the first instinct to suspect us?" Horikita Suzune asked, still somewhat indignant.
"Are you kidding me?" Ryuen Kakeru laughed out of sheer anger.
"Besides you gods of Class D, who else would do something like this?"
Horikita and the others fell into silence.
Koenji was an exception, but he was certainly not an isolated case! In Class D, there was no shortage of people who would act on their own for personal gain regardless of the big picture.
"Hikigaya, was it you?" Ryuen Kakeru stared at him gloomily.
"Are you an idiot? I'm in the Tiger Group, how could I submit a guess for Rabbit?" Hikigaya retorted.
"Who knows if you instructed some woman to do it?" Ryuen Kakeru argued logically. "If I remember correctly, isn't one of your mistresses, that girl Karuizawa, in the Rabbit Group?"
凸(艹皿艹)! This guy's choice of words is way too foul!!
Before Hikigaya could even speak, the kind-hearted Ichinose Honami was the first to lose her patience.
She criticized sternly: "Ryuen-kun, watch your language! Calling her Hikigaya-kun's 'mistress' or whatever... is far too vulgar!!!"
"I'm not talking about you, Ichinose, what are you getting so worked up for?"
Ryuen Kakeru said with a look of impatience.
"In-in any case, you just can't say things like that!" Ichinose Honami replied with a red face, looking very much like she was taking it seriously.
"Ichinose, calm down for a moment. Right now, the priority is to find out exactly who initiated the guess," Kanzaki Ryuji advised.
"Our Class A is very disciplined; it wouldn't be someone from our class," Katsuragi Kohei and Hashimoto Masayoshi stated their stance.
"Class B wouldn't do something so reckless either," Ichinose Honami added.
"Then it's definitely your Class D!" Ryuen Kakeru was full of rage.
The Class D members had nothing to say; even they suspected it was one of their own.
"I say, is there a possibility that the problem came from Class C?"
Hikigaya spoke again, his words catching everyone off guard.
"Dead-Fish Eyes, who do you think you're looking down on?" Ryuen Kakeru glared at him fiercely. "In Class C, who would dare defy my orders?"
"That's not necessarily true. Perhaps someone acted emotionally?" Hikigaya spoke with hidden meaning.
"Especially regarding girls, most are sentimental. A decision made in a moment of impulse often transcends fear..."
"What exactly are you trying to say!!" Ryuen Kakeru's face was incredibly dark as he began to screen potential suspects in his mind.
Class C members in the Rabbit Group: Manabe Shiho, Yabu Nanami, Yamashita Saki, and Kozawa Tatsuya.
Among them, Manabe Shiho was the most vocal. But to put it bluntly, that woman was just a bully who feared the strong; under normal circumstances, she shouldn't have the nerve to defy his orders.
"Ryuen, think harder," Hikigaya looked at him with a tone of heavy significance.
"Could it be..." Ryuen Kakeru immediately opened his phone to check the Rabbit Group member list. Finally, he locked onto one name: Ayanokouji Kiyotaka!
A little while ago, Hikigaya had exposed X's name as Ayanokouji Kiyotaka.
Ryuen Kakeru had been half-doubting it then, but now he believed it seventy percent.
"That gloomy bastard finally couldn't resist making a move?" Ryuen Kakeru clenched his fists, his teeth itching with hatred.
"Now, you should understand how formidable that guy is, right?" Hikigaya continued to add fuel to the fire.
"Counting the uninhabited island, you've already fallen at that guy's feet twice."
Bang! Ryuen Kakeru slammed his fist onto the table in an uncontrollable rage. The others were left bewildered. They didn't understand at all who the two were talking about.
"Hikigaya, was it really someone from our class who submitted the guess?" Hirata Yosuke looked incredulous.
"No, the one who submitted the guess wasn't us." Hikigaya knew very well that the VIP of the Rabbit Group was Karuizawa Kei; a guess from Class D would be invalid.
"In other words, the guess was initiated by Class C?"
The way everyone looked at Ryuen Kakeru changed instantly. After getting so worked up, it turned out Class C had lifted a rock only to drop it on their own foot?
"Manabe, that stupid woman!" Ryuen Kakeru was fuming with rage. He never imagined the problem would arise from within his own class.
"Regardless of the reason, we've lost another group. What now?" Katsuragi Kohei asked.
"Hmph! Now that Class C has suffered a loss, the previous conditions have to be changed!" A look of determination appeared on Ryuen Kakeru's face.
"Ryuen, do you also plan to submit guesses?" Katsuragi Kohei was startled.
"Ryuen-kun, are you sure you want to do this? You shouldn't have absolute certainty regarding the VIP pattern, right?" Ichinose Honami was equally shocked.
"It's just a gamble!" Ryuen Kakeru looked at Hikigaya.
"Of course, we in Class C have something to lose, so we won't go 'all-in' directly like Class D."
The negotiations ended there.
The third day of the exam—the final day. Each group submitted their answers one after another.
[Rabbit Group: Result 4] (Ayanokouji misled Manabe into submitting a wrong answer) D +50, C -50 [Monkey Group: Result 3] (Koenji guessed Class B's VIP correctly) D +50, B -50 [Chicken Group: Result 4] (Class D intentionally answered incorrectly to pay back Class B's loss) B +50, D -50 [Dragon Group: Result 3] (Kushida Kikyo leaked the VIP to Class C) D -50, C +50 [Tiger Group: Result 2] (Under Hikigaya's misleading, someone guessed incorrectly) A +50, C -50 [Cow Group: Result 1] (Four classes agreed) All members get 500k points, VIP gets 1M [Rat Group: Result 1] (Four classes agreed) All members get 500k points, VIP gets 1M [Horse Group: Result 1] (Four classes agreed) All members get 500k points, VIP gets 1M [Snake Group: Result 3] (Ryuen took a risk and guessed) C +50, A -50 [Sheep Group: Result 3] (Ryuen took a risk and guessed) C +50, A -50
[Dog Group: Result 3] (Ryuen took a risk and guessed) C +50, A -50 [Pig Group: Result 4] (Ryuen took a risk and guessed) C +50, B -50
Class scores are as follows:
Class A: 1040 points (-100) Class B: 1070 points (-50) Class C: 1050 points (+150) Class D: 340 points (0)
Due to the change in class points, the class rankings are now re-adjusted:
Class A drops to Class C. Class B is promoted to Class A. Class C is promoted to Class B. Class D remains unchanged.
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