At least Karuizawa still has a way to turn back. Hikigaya just gave her an opportunity. Whether she can grasp it depends on herself. Only she can save herself.

"You are such a slut!"

Hikigaya laughed at himself. He had to do such a thankless task even though he had been hurt before. But... he couldn't seem to ignore it!

On the fourth and final day of the preferential examination, the group discussion at 8 p.m. remained largely unchanged, with everyone doing their own thing. Then came the final discussion at 9 p.m. Although the situation at the beginning was almost identical to the previous one, as time approached p.m., everyone in the room began to become increasingly absent-minded.

"Xiao Ba, who do you think is the one who gets preferential treatment in our group?"

After spending some time together, Hasebe and Hikigaya became more and more familiar with each other. Even when they met normally, they would just nod and say hello, but when it came to the group discussion time, the other would become very enthusiastic and talk incessantly, and most of the time Hikigaya would just act as a listener.

"I, I don't know either."

Hikigaya answered casually.

"You're lying!"

Hasebe suddenly looked at Hikigaya angrily: "Hachi, don't you trust me? Is that why you didn't tell me?"

"Uh...how can you be so sure that I know that?"

"It's a woman's sixth sense!"

"..."

When he heard this, Hikigaya felt a dull pain in his instep again.

"Anyway, we'll know before the exam is over, there's no need..."

Before Hikigaya could finish his words, Hasebe interrupted him: "Hachi, have you bought the year-end lottery?"

"Uh...minors can't..."

"Tsk~ Don't tell me my parents didn't buy it!"

Hasebe continued, "Even though we know the prize will be drawn at the end, what we look forward to most is the excitement before the draw!"

"Ok."

Hikigaya probably understood what Hasebe meant. Compared to waiting for the final result to be announced, she enjoyed the process of guessing who would be favored before that.

"Because everyone in our group is so vigilant, it's difficult to find the preferential treatment by observation, but do you remember what I said at the beginning?"

"You mean intelligence competition?"

"Yes, because I'm quite familiar with Hirata, I know the identities of the three favored students in Class D, and I can roughly guess the pattern of how the school selects the favored students."

Hikigaya then told Hasebe the rules for selecting the favored ones. Upon hearing this, Hasebe quickly took out his mobile phone and began to solve the puzzle on it.

Less than ten minutes before 9 o'clock, Hasebe suddenly looked delighted and quickly grabbed Hikigaya's arm: "Hachi, I got it!"

But the next second Hasebe realized that his voice and movements were too loud and had attracted the attention of others. At the same time, Hikigaya also felt the dissatisfied gaze from a purple-haired girl and the "vicious" gaze from Shiranami Chihiro.

Hasebe quickly covered his mouth, then moved closer to Hikigaya, leaned his head over, and whispered, "Is it that big black guy?"

As he spoke, Hasebe's eyes unconsciously looked at Albert, and he couldn't help but say: "How strange, he is wearing sunglasses even though he is indoors. Is he squinting?"

"Why don't you go over and ask?"

"Damn it, why don't you ask?"

Hasebe's face was puffed up with anger, and Hikigaya couldn't help laughing. Hasebe was even more furious when he saw this, and punched Hikigaya on the shoulder with his fist. Then, this scene seemed extremely ambiguous to others.

A certain purple-haired girl's face turned dark, and Shiranami Chihiro's eyes widened, appearing extremely angry. Then, as if she had thought of something, she quickly took out her cell phone and secretly photographed the scene, with a sneer on her face, as if to say, 'You're dead, Xiao Fanbo will definitely give up now'!

With five minutes left before the end of the preferential [exam part], everyone subconsciously looked at the envelope on the table. When the announcement of the end of the exam sounded, everyone in the room stood up, picked up an envelope and left the meeting room.

Because it was forbidden to communicate with other classes within 30 minutes after the exam, everyone left. Hasebe and Hikigaya waved goodbye and raised their phones, meaning that they would communicate later.

After returning to the room, Hikigaya opened the envelope and found Albert's name from Class C written on it. At the same time, he received a message from Hasebe on his phone.

Afterwards, Miyake and Hondou also returned to the room one after another, and then they both couldn't wait to open the envelope and learned the identity of the hidden beneficiary in their respective groups.

As long as you do nothing during the 9 minutes between 9:30 and 9:30, [Result 50] and [Result 100] will not be generated. At the same time, as long as you use your mobile phone to send the name of the beneficiary to the school's designated email address after :, as long as all team members answer correctly, you will get [Result ], a reward of personal points for each team member and personal points for the beneficiary himself.

Because of the contract, no one would be willing to risk being expelled to [betray], and Yang No has also established many rules to prevent anyone from taking advantage of loopholes. Even Ryuuen would find it difficult to find loopholes, not to mention that many of Yang No's policies are aimed at Ryuuen, the unstable factor.

Time passed minute by minute, until it came to 9:30, and no one received any notification from the school on their mobile phones, which also meant that no one in the twelve groups had betrayed them within these thirty minutes.

Then the next thing is very simple. The preferential candidates tested twelve groups and finally reached [Result One]. Each class increased its individual points by 2150 million, and the class points did not increase or decrease.

222

Chapter 222: The struggle of ideas.

"This year's first grade is really not easy."

In a conference room, four first-grade teachers were sitting, each of them holding the results of the preferential treatment exam.

After witnessing the signing of the contract yesterday, everyone had already anticipated the outcome of this preferential treatment exam.

The speaker is Mr. Mashima, the former teacher of Class A and now the teacher of Class B.

After hearing what Mr. Mashima said, the other three people in the meeting room couldn't help but look surprised.

"Hey, looks like my A-class status will last until next semester. Luckily, I've got the bonus."

Teacher Hoshinomiya smiled proudly.

Teacher Mashima glanced at Teacher Hoshinomiya and frowned slightly, but did not say anything.

"But the results of this exam will probably make the school very dissatisfied."

At this moment, Mr. Sakagami, the homeroom teacher of Class C, pushed down his glasses and said, "The school must be very worried about the expenditure of over 8000 million individual points. This may have an impact on the upcoming special exams."

The others nodded slightly. Although the result of [Result One] for all students this time was very rare and could indeed be considered a very "beautiful" exam, and from their teacher's perspective it was indeed an exam that demonstrated their abilities, it was not so "perfect" for the school.

Everyone present knew that if there were only one or two groups, [Result One] would be fine, but now that twelve groups have achieved [Result One], the consequence is that the school will suffer a heavy loss. Such a large number of individual points will flow into the hands of students. This is not a good thing for the school, and it will definitely affect future exams.

"This first-year class is probably the first time since Gaoyu was founded that Class A has been overtaken by another class in the first semester."

Teacher Sakagami suddenly spoke.

"Yes~ That's really surprising~"

Hoshinomiya-sensei replied with a smile.

"This proves that the quality of this class of students is not as bad as we imagined at the beginning of the school year."

Mashima-sensei glanced at Sakagami-sensei and said in a deep voice.

Looking at the scheming of these three people, Mr. Chabashira couldn't help but sigh inwardly. He felt a headache when he thought of the D class he led. The students in D class were almost the 'worst' students. The poor here did not only refer to their grades, but also their comprehensive abilities and the more obvious and difficult to solve defects compared to other classes.

In reality, the academic ability of the students in Class D is indeed the worst. Looking at the admissions data, most of the students' grades and abilities are average, with few bright spots. However, there are exceptions. It can be said that Chabashira-sensei has also discovered several "potential stocks" in students who shouldn't even be in Class D, such as Koenji, Hirata, Horikita, and later, the unexpected discovery of Ayanokouji's hidden talents...

But what really surprised Mr. Chabashira was the seemingly insignificant boy with dead eyes who was late on the first day of school.

Hikigaya Hachiman.

He was one of only two students in the entire grade who joined the student union and was a student of Class D. However, at that time, Teacher Chabashira just took a quick look at him and didn't pay much attention to him. When she really paid attention to this student, it was from the first midterm exam and the contract with Class C.

Afterwards, she went to check Hikigaya's admission information, and her face was filled with black lines after seeing the comments above.

Then, during the deserted island exam, she later learned that Hikigaya had actually set up a trap to directly trap Class A at the time. Although it was not clear whether Class A's zero-score tragedy had anything to do with him, Teacher Chabashira's intuition told her that this student must be involved.

Unfortunately... the other party seems to only like collecting personal points and has no interest in promotion.

These students have excellent abilities and academic performance, even incredibly excellent, but their flaws are also very obvious.

If we can unite these students into one group, then it will not be impossible to achieve the goal that we have always longed for.

……

After the preferential examination was completed, the cruise ship spent another day at sea before officially returning home. It was almost mid-August when everyone returned to school.

Unlike ordinary students, Hikigaya needs to rush to the student union to devote himself to summer work after returning to school. The main thing is the summer IH conference. Various sports clubs are very busy, and naturally the work of the student union is also the same.

"Hikigaya, I heard that your first-year's special exam surprised many people."

In the student meeting room, Hikigaya, who was handling related matters, suddenly heard Akane Tachibana across from him unexpectedly bring up this topic.

"Your class is probably the first in the history of the school to see a change in the rankings of the top classes during a special exam."

"Ah... I should say that the students in Ichinose's class, now Class A, are very capable."

Hikigaya responded.

"Ichinose... Oh, I remember now. She was the sunny and cheerful girl with long pink hair? She even auditioned for the student council there."

Akane Tachibana also seemed to recall that although she was only a first-year student at the time, the impression of Ichinose was still deep in her mind even for Akane Tachibana, a third-year student.

Hearing this, Hikigaya suddenly had a question.

"Tachibana-senpai, I have a question. Given that Ichinose is such an outstanding student, why wasn't she chosen?"

"Uh, this question..."

Ju Qian suddenly looked embarrassed, but she finally sighed and said, "Although I have to tell you this sooner or later, I always feel that it's not appropriate for me to say it..."

"Appreciate further details."

"Hikigaya, you should also know about the second-year Nagumo, right? After the end of next semester, we third-year students will retire, and the student council will be handed over to the current second-years. Nagumo has also been elected as the next student council president."

Tachibana Akane always looks a little melancholy when she talks about Nan Yun.

"But Nanyun's philosophy is different from the president's. He advocates individual strength above all else. Therefore, it is foreseeable that Nanyun's policies and style after taking over the student council will be very different from what they are now."

Hikigaya's expression remained calm upon hearing this. In fact, this situation was not uncommon. On the contrary, it was very common. Even different leaders in the workplace had different styles of doing things, or would deliberately show the differences between the two.

However, more often than not, the selection of a successor is based on whether the two people have the same ideas, the same general direction, but different details. This is the "unspoken rule" for selecting a successor.

So even though Horikita Manabu and Nagumo have completely different ideas, Nagumo was still elected as the next president. This already explains a lot!

223

Chapter 223: Three does not account for two.

After one semester, Hikigaya had a general understanding of the problems within the student union.

As Akane Tachibana said, the current student council is due to the difference in ideas between Horikita Manabu and Minamigumo Masaru. Among the second-year students, there are two vice-presidents, Minamigumo from Class 2A and Kiriyama from Class 2B.

It is said that the current second-year Class A was once Class B, and it was thanks to Nan Yun's leadership that it finally reached the top of Class A, which is enough to show this person's ability.

According to Akane Tachibana, among the second-year students, Vice President Kiriyama is a supporter of Horikita Manabu. Normally, the position of the next student council president should be held by Vice President Kiriyama, who is in the same camp, but in fact it was won by Nanyun.

No matter what happened in this process, in terms of the result, it should be considered a victory for Nanyun.

Moreover, after a semester of familiarization, Hikigaya also discovered the abnormality of the second grade. Compared with the other two grades, the entire second grade seemed lifeless.

Hikigaya had paid special attention to the class points of the second grade. Class A, led by Nagumo, was far ahead of the other three classes. At the same time, Hikigaya had also heard some information from the third-year student Handa Gakusen. It seemed that the entire second grade was under the command of Nagumo alone.

In other words, Nan Yun alone controls the entire second grade?

This is a very scary thing.

Suddenly...Hikigaya froze as if he had thought of something.

"Hmm? Hikigaya, what's wrong with you?"

Akane Tachibana was puzzled by Hikigaya's sudden stillness. Hikigaya, having regained his composure, looked at Akane and said, "Tachibana-senpai, can I ask you a question? Because this involves some private and confidential information, you don't have to answer if it's inappropriate."

Although Ju Qian was doubtful, she nodded.

"Tachibana-senpai is in Class A now, right? What I want to ask is, does the class have over 2000 million individual points now?"

Akane Tachibana was slightly stunned when she heard this. She didn't expect Hikigaya to ask such a strange and tricky question. After thinking for a while, she nodded.

Hikigaya remembered that Chabashira-sensei had said before that 2000 million personal points could be used to change classes, and 2000 million personal points could also exempt one from the penalty of expulsion.

However, it is almost impossible for a student to earn 2000 million personal points, but what about the entire class?

Moreover, compared to changing one person's class, these 2000 million personal points are obviously more strategically significant in exempting one expulsion penalty.

Moreover, after passing the two special exams, the uninhabited island exam and the preferential treatment exam, Hikigaya also discovered that obtaining personal points was not as difficult as he had imagined.

The reason why Hikigaya asked this question was actually that he wanted to confirm one thing with Akane Tachibana. The personal points of the upper-level classes were indeed very abundant. If they relied on the personal points issued by the school every month, it would certainly not be so easy to collect such a huge amount of personal points. But what if the special exam was added?

Hikigaya also discovered an important problem. Compared to the personal points he obtained through "conspiracy and deception" from Ryuuen and Katsuragi, the personal points obtained through special exams are obviously larger in amount and easier to manipulate!

Just like this preferential examination, because of Yang Nai, the students gained more than 8000 million personal points in the entire examination!

If it were Nagumo... Hikigaya could already imagine how much personal points Nagumo could gain from the special exam by manipulating the entire second grade!

It can be said that the huge personal points are Nanyun’s biggest backing. No wonder Tachibana Akane is so afraid of Nanyun!

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