Entering the classroom.
Sudou glanced at Horikita Suzune and carefully returned to his seat; the teacher in charge glanced at him but didn't say much.
After all.
He was already considered late.
However, even so, there were still several empty seats in the classroom.
Until a few minutes later.
There were still people walking into the classroom one after another.
Watching the scene before her, Horikita Suzune's gaze was somewhat worried.
As a student.
This certainly wasn't okay, right?
However.
Ever since being late was no longer linked to class points.
Horikita Suzune couldn't say much.
Every time she wanted to give a reminder, Ike Kanji and the others would explain by saying they were voluntarily paying and wouldn't affect the class.
They wouldn't cause trouble for anyone.
Clearly there was a problem, but it indeed was still somewhat inappropriate.
Yet she could only see if individual grades would drag the class down.
Even if Sudou was late.
He was studying seriously; however, what about the others.
All of this.
Could only wait until the second semester's final exams to be seen.
Leaving the class aside.
Horikita Suzune only now discovered.
She did not have the power to interfere with their freedom.
After class.
"Suzune, there's something I need to tell you."
Sudou Ken quickly walked in front of Horikita Suzune.
"That guy Hikigaya came to find me today; he wanted to turn me."
"Eh? What's going on?"
Horikita Suzune immediately frowned; what was that guy going to do to Class D again?
"That despicable guy wanted me to deliberately harm the class and transfer Class D's class points to Class B, and even promised to provide money to let me transfer to Class B as long as it succeeded; of course, I didn't agree!"
"However, that guy seems to have secretly contacted many people."
Once these words were out.
Horikita Suzune knit her beautiful brows.
A class wanting to poach from another class was not a strange thing in itself.
The problem was.
Before Sudou told her this, she, as the class leader, was completely unaware.
Clearly.
This part of the people either deliberately concealed it or felt it was unnecessary.
Ayanokouji also watched the scene before him with a blank expression.
It had to be said.
After the Unanimous Voting Exam.
the scope of information he could receive was already very small; he could only get some information from Hirata and Miyake Akito.
Looking at it this way.
The targets for solicitation were carefully selected.
Then the possibility of betraying the class should not be small.
"What, why haven't I heard about this?"
Ike Kanji and the others immediately stood up and asked.
They had also thought of this point.
"Wait a moment, everyone calm down."
Horikita Suzune quickly raised her hand to interrupt, turning to look at the people in the class:
"I'll ask for now, which of you has had contact with Hikigaya during this time?"
"I..."
After a moment of hesitation.
Wang Meiyu raised her small hand; Yukimura also hesitated for a second and raised his right hand.
Seeing this.
Matsushita Chiaki, Shinohara, Onizuka, and a few others followed by raising their hands.
There were only these few people.
"Wait, Shinohara?"
Ike Kanji was suddenly a bit anxious: "That guy contacted you too? Why didn't you tell me?"
"He did."
Shinohara nodded, feigning composure:
"I didn't plan on betraying the class anyway, and this isn't some major event; there was no need to make a big deal of it, right?"
"But..."
Ike Kanji still felt something was off and said with some hesitation:
"You should have at least told me..."
"You didn't ask, and besides, didn't I just raise my hand? And I didn't want to betray the class; this originally wasn't a big deal, right?"
Shinohara knit her beautiful brows, seeking the opinions of the other girls.
Furthermore.
Who she communicated with was her own freedom, wasn't it?
"Yeah..."
Matsushita Chiaki quickly chimed in: "He even promised we could sign a contract, but I refused; it was just a few words, it's certainly impossible to betray the class, this isn't a big deal either, right?"
Hearing this.
Ike Kanji couldn't say much more either.
It was just that the gazes of the people around them remained somewhat suspicious.
However, Matsushita Chiaki and Shinohara hadn't expressed a particularly strong desire to rise to A anyway.
They shouldn't go as far as betraying the class for this.
On the other side.
Ayanokouji watched the scene before him with a flat gaze.
He could roughly judge.
The targets Hikigaya contacted should have followed some sort of standard.
It was just that strength was not the key.
Besides strong ones like Matsushita Chiaki and Yukimura, there were also weaker targets like Shinohara and Onizuka.
After all.
Just to hold the class back, the level of strength truly didn't matter.
So.
Can these people who raised their hands be trusted?
The answer was naturally in doubt.
But.
Perhaps there were people who had had contact with Hikigaya but did not raise their hands; these hidden guys were the ones who deserved even more vigilance.
"Wang-san..."
Horikita Suzune looked at the first person to raise her hand, Wang Meiyu.
The others mostly followed by raising their hands; the credibility of the first person, Wang Meiyu, should be the highest.
"And you."
"I naturally refused as well, only..."
"Only?"
"We also talked about the topic of Sakura-san at that time, and I was asked..."
Wang Meiyu pursed her lips, her expression dimming:
"Abandoning a companion to rise to A, or discarding A to choose a companion—which one is actually more painful... As expected, we just chose an easier path; I'm a bit hesitant about how to apologize to Sakura-san..."
Once these words were out...
The surrounding people fell silent instantly, and even Horikita Suzune felt a twitch in her heart.
Which side is more painful...
There probably is no correct answer to this.
But making Sakura Airi drop out.
Except for Hasebe Haruka, they truly weren't that pained.
But with the passage of time.
This kind of guilt was clearly weakening.
In the final analysis.
People ultimately live for themselves.
"There's no need to hesitate, don't be fooled by that guy's flowery words; what that guy is best at is sophistry."
Horikita Suzune said, clenching her pink fist; Hikigaya had instantly broken Wang Meiyu's mindset.
"You were clear on the situation at the time, and to this day I don't feel my choice was wrong."
"And, Sakura seems to be doing very well now; if you were on good terms with her, there's no problem with going to apologize, but if your relationship was ordinary, she likely wouldn't mind if you don't apologize."
"There's no need to be so conflicted; Hikigaya just wants to use this kind of sophistry to disturb our state of mind and make us waver."
Horikita Suzune said calmly, though for some reason her heart was trembling.
"That makes sense..."
Wang Meiyu's expression was still somewhat dim.
She felt that what Ayanokouji, Horikita Suzune, and Hikigaya said all seemed to have some truth to it.
Indecisiveness was her biggest problem.
When encountering anything, it was difficult to make a decision herself; instead, she liked to seek the opinions of others.
On the other side.
The expressions of the surrounding people were even more disgusted.
After several 2.5 months of washing away.
That bit of slight guilt had long since disappeared, and moreover for the group like Sotomura and Ike Kanji in Class D.
They turned to hate because of it instead.
It's been so long, and Sakura Airi didn't even drop out.
To still keep holding onto it like this, specifically targeting Class D.
As a man,
Hikigaya actually didn't even have this much magnanimity; even Sakura Airi herself hadn't said much, so what kind of thing was he?
Isn't he despicable?
Those who held such thoughts were not few.
Forget it.
The surrounding people turned to look at Karuizawa, Yukimura, and the others again.
If Shinohara, Matsushita Chiaki, and the others were still barely believable, then Yukimura wouldn't be so easy.
After all.
He always had wanting to graduate from Class A on his lips, and he had even taken action to cut off his good friend Sakura Airi from the same group for that purpose.
Clearly.
Yukimura's will to rise to A was extremely strong.
Then things weren't so easy. .