Demon Slayer: I was taken home by Shinobu Kocho at the beginning.

“Ayanokouji.” Tatsuya Kamio wasn’t too surprised. “That makes sense. Ayanokouji and Nagumo-senpai are in the same group.”

"I'm sorry to disappoint you, but Nangumo hasn't made any strange moves so far."

Ayanokouji said this.

In reality, this was not the case; Nagumo did not make any strange moves.

But it is very strange in itself.

Because Nagumo had challenged Horikita Manabu many times before, but without exception, he was rejected each time.

This time, surprisingly, it succeeded.

Therefore, if Nagumo really wants to defeat Horikita Manabu head-on, he should take some measures, such as strictly managing the attitude of students in large group classes.

However, Nagumo did not actually do that. He simply let the students do as they pleased and would not offer help even if the first-year students encountered difficulties.

There was absolutely no sense that he had any desire to win this match.

That's why Nagumo, who did nothing, seemed so strange.

"It seems that my team's overall capabilities are superior."

Horikita analyzed the current situation.

"Horikita-senpai, do you think President Nagumo will keep his promise?"

Kamio Tatsuya suddenly asked.

"Nangumo is indeed ruthless towards the rebels, and it's not the first or second time he's done something like the Dragon Garden that seems to violate regulations."

However, that guy has never broken his word or kept his promise.

Kamio Tatsuya fell silent. Oh no, Horikita Manabu was far too honest.

"Horikita-senpai, I have another question."

"what's up."

"Third-year class... or do you have 20 million private points?"

"Why are you asking this?"

"It's nothing, I just think you trust Nagumo a bit too much, Horikita-senpai." Kamio Tatsuya shook his head. "Ayanokoji, are you really not going to tell me?"

"Okay, I do have some doubts. Senior Nagumo clearly challenged him to a duel, but I didn't feel any passion for winning from him at all."

Upon hearing Ayanokouji's words, Horikita Manabu's face showed a hint of disappointment.

"what happened to you?"

"I was just thinking of the worst-case scenario... never mind, just pretend I didn't say anything."

Seeing Horikita Manabu's expression, Kamio Tatsu understood.

Having worked with Nagumo in the student council for nearly two years, Horikita, though not approving of Nagumo's actions, still held a certain degree of trust in him.

However, this trust will likely vanish during this exam.

Horikita Manabu must have already determined Nagumo's intentions. Even if Nagumo has never broken his word before, he probably won't this time.

Even if it means betrayal, Nagumo will defeat him by any means necessary.

It was precisely because Horikita Manabu saw through this that he felt somewhat disappointed.

However, even if he saw through all of this, there was nothing he could do, because Nagumo's conspiracy against Horikita Manabu had already been completed after the group division ended.

Akane Tachibana, who had been separated from the other groups, was now trapped in the encirclement formed by Nagumo.

Therefore, he could only trust that Nagumo would keep his promise, and could only carry out defensive operations by trusting the enemy's promise.

Not only Tatsuya Kamio, but Ayanokoji also saw through this.

Aren't you going to do anything?

Horikita Manabu fell silent.

If he wanted to, he could certainly thwart Nanyun's plan, but that would inevitably drag Nanyun into it.

This was a scene that Horikita Manabu did not want to see.

All we can do is prepare 20 million personal points and sacrifice 400 class points.

After receiving Horikita Manabu's answer, Ayanokoji looked at Kamio Tatsuya.

"What do you see me doing?"

Aren't you going to do anything?

Kamio Tatsuya was somewhat curious.

Do you think I can stop Nagumo?

"I don't know, but I hope you can."

Upon hearing Ayanokouji's words, Kamio Tatsuya felt as if he had heard similar words somewhere before.

Tatsuya Kamio glanced at Ayanokouji but said nothing.

If he could, he would also like to stop Nagumo, because Horikita Manabu really took good care of him.

He also wanted to help Horikita Manabu and, incidentally, give that Nagumo guy a piece of his mind.

Actually, if you really want to do it, there are ways.

Although the Inogari Squad was like an impenetrable wall to Tatsuya Kamio and his group, it was not insurmountable.

There's a saying that goes, "No matter how solid something is, it can't withstand collapse from within."

Chapter 252 Senior Ishikura, are you scared?

The second day, Sunday, was a rare day off, but even so, Tatsuya Kamio and the others were required to get up at six in the morning.

Moreover, even though it was a day off, we couldn't leave the forest school or meet up with the girls freely, so overall it was quite boring.

No wonder the school allows students to bring some entertainment devices out, and doesn't even prohibit computers.

However, even if bringing a computer wasn't prohibited, the school didn't have internet access, so there was still no way to contact the girls; all they could do was play the games that came pre-installed on the computer.

Most people aren't really interested in this.

Kamio Tatsuya had originally planned to rush to finish his manuscript, but he just wasn't in the mood to do it alone, and his group members were playing cards around him.

While it's not impossible to work on a manuscript in such a noisy environment, Tatsuya Kamio doesn't want these guys to know that he's writing a novel.

What if these guys start watching "Dragon Raja" in the future?

Thinking about what happens next, even Tatsuya Kamio himself couldn't help but feel a little overwhelmed, let alone the readers of this isekai world who were being tormented like this for the first time.

At that point, sending razor blades or something similar will be the least of your worries.

He was afraid that someone would come to his door to check his water meter.

Japan's public safety isn't necessarily good.

Moreover, he wasn't without things to do today.

Yesterday at the bathhouse, Kamio Tatsuya asked Kanzaki about the address of Ishikura, a senior from Class 3-B, so he plans to visit him today.

The third-year students' dormitory was on the fourth floor, so Tatsuya Kamio left his room while the students in his group were playing, hoping to find an opportunity to talk to Ishikura alone upstairs.

However, it seemed that fate was on Kamio Tatsuya's side. He had just stepped out when he saw Ishikura walking down the stairs alone.

And there was no one else around.

Good afternoon, senior Ishikura.

Ishikura was slightly surprised when Tatsuya Kamio spoke to her.

"I remember you're Kamio, a first-year student, right?"

"That's right, I'm Tatsuya Kamio from Class C, Year 1. I didn't expect that Ishikura-senpai would know me." Kamio Tatsuya wasn't too surprised that Ishikura knew him.

Because while he was a student in Class C of the first year, he was also the vice president of the student council.

They are considered to have some degree of fame.

"Do you have time? I'd like to talk to senior Ishikura about the exam."

Ishikura was somewhat surprised, because the two of them were not in the same group at all, so he didn't know what Kamio Tatsuya wanted to talk to him about.

"Sure, I'm a bit bored too, let's go for a walk outside."

A few minutes later, Tatsuya Kamio and Ishikura arrived at the fireplace on the first floor.

"Senior Ishikura, I remember the difference between Class 3 and Class B was only 312 points, right?"

"That's true. I didn't expect you to care about the score gap between higher grades."

"After all, I'm the vice president of the student council, so I occasionally see similar information." Kamio Tatsuya smiled. "I heard that in this exam, no one from the third-year group became the group leader."

I'm not just talking about the boys; it seems the same applies to the girls.

Ishikura frowned.

Kamio Tatsuya's words just now indicate that he not only knows information about the boys, but also has people on the girls' side.

"What do you want to say?"

"Doesn't Senior Ishikura want to take advantage of this exam to bring down Senior Horikita? Because no one in the class is in charge, they can't possibly get too many class points."

On the other hand, Ishikura-senpai, your group has President Nagumo in it. Don't you think this is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity?

Upon hearing Tatsuya Kamio's words, Ishikura fell into a slight silence.

"But even so, I'm not confident of getting first place. You're also in the student council, so even if you haven't spent much time with Horikita Manabu, you should understand that he has almost no weaknesses."

Kamio Tatsuya knows very well that Horikita Manabu is indeed very powerful, but to say that he has no weaknesses is a bit of an exaggeration.

“How could he not have weaknesses? You’re exaggerating. He’s not some kind of superman.” Kamio Tatsuya smiled. “Even superman has weaknesses, let alone Horikita-senpai.”

Besides, haven't you and Nagumo-senpai already targeted Horikita-senpai's weaknesses?

Ishikura's eyes widened in disbelief as he looked at Kamio Tatsuya.

After a long while, Ishikura finally spoke in a low voice.

"Did Nagumo tell you that?"

“How could Senior Nagumo tell me this? From his perspective, I’m on the same side as Senior Horikita.”

"So, you guessed it?"

“I wasn’t really sure at first, but now I am.” Tatsuya Kamio smiled. “Because I noticed that the group that Akane-senpai is in on the girls’ side is acting a bit strange, like she’s being deliberately ostracized.”

"Just relying on these?"

Kamio Tatsuya's words left Ishikura somewhat frustrated; he had actually been tested by a lower-grade student.

“That’s right, based on these.” Tatsuya Kamio smiled. “That group is basically made up of students from Class B.”

Logically, the groups should be the ones vying for a top-three finish, but instead, there has been discord among the members of one of these groups.

Moreover, as far as I know, Tachibana-senpai is not the kind of person who is assertive. She can even tolerate an oddball like Horikita-senpai, but she ended up having conflicts with more than a dozen people at the same time.

This makes it hard not to suspect that there are problems within the group.

Therefore, I have a bold guess: Ishikura-senpai is probably collaborating with Nagumo-senpai to get Tachibana-senpai expelled from school in this exam.

Moreover, it involves dragging people down with you, which is obviously not beneficial, and as the class leader, you certainly wouldn't agree to it.

Therefore, I speculate that Senior Nagumo's condition for getting you to cooperate was that he would pay all the personal points you would incur for canceling your withdrawal.

Ishikura looked at Kamio Tatsuya and immediately felt that the guy in front of her was so terrifying.

Are you really only in first grade?

Tsk, can you please not see through my true colors so easily?

"It's the real deal," Tatsuya Kamio said with a smile.

"Tell me, what's your purpose in telling me all this? You're not planning to persuade me to abandon the plan, are you?"

Ishikura's mood calmed down, and now he began to take an interest in Kamio Tatsuya.

"Since the class scores of Class 3 and Class B are only 312 points apart, it means that the two classes have had their share of wins and losses in the past three years, right?"

"Yes."