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

Because if things go wrong, you might really have to drop out of school.

At least, many students think this way and have concerns in their hearts.

"Just write my name and Kamio's name on the praise votes. As for the criticism votes..." Ryuen said, glancing at the students in the class with a playful smile, "You can write whatever you want on them."

Time passed minute by minute.

The time for the official vote has finally arrived.

"Now we will begin the class voting test. Those whose names are called should come to the voting room individually."

Because it is a separate exam, there is no need to worry about someone seeing your name when you write it down. The school has taken this into consideration very carefully in implementing the policy of anonymous voting.

It's just a pity that it's not very useful.

"You must remember that you cannot write your own name on either the praise vote or the criticism vote. You can only cast praise votes for students from other classes."

After repeating the rules to the students again, the teacher on the board began calling roll, and the students left the classroom one by one.

However, since everyone had already prepared their answers, everyone finished voting quickly.

Soon it was Tatsuya Kamio's turn. After arriving at the voting location, Tatsuya Kamio looked at the ballot in front of him and wrote down his answer almost without hesitation.

Appreciation votes: Ryuen Sho, Shiina Hiyori, Ibuki Mio

Ryuen and Shiina are definitely on the list, and as for Ibuki, consider it an extra detail.

As for the criticism votes, Tatsuya Kamio first wrote down Yuya Tokito's name, and then randomly picked two other people from the class to write down.

As for the appreciation ticket from the other class, Kamio Tatsuya smiled and then wrote a name on it, which had been agreed upon from the beginning.

Not long after returning to the classroom, the exam ended, and everyone was waiting for the results.

The ballots are counted in real time, so the school basically releases the results almost immediately after the last student in the entire grade finishes writing.

Therefore, the final results came out not long after the exam ended.

"Sorry for the wait, the results of the C-class voting exam are now being announced. Everyone, return to your seats."

The students in Class C returned to their seats and then looked at the teacher on the board at the front of the class.

"There were no ties for first place or last place in this exam, so there is no need for a second exam."

"I'll start by announcing the top three with the most votes. Third place goes to—Long Yuanxiang, with forty votes."

Longyuan only got third place with forty votes of appreciation?

The students in the class were all surprised, but Tatsuya Kamio and Ryuen were not surprised, because it must be that praise votes from other classes were concentrated on someone in Class C.

"Second place, Kaneda Satoru, fifty-seven votes."

The students in the class were even more surprised, because although Jin Tian was a good student, had many friends, and was a practical person, he was not very popular with students in other classes.

As a result, he actually received a whopping 57 votes of praise.

The students in Class C immediately realized that someone had probably manipulated the votes that could be cast for students in other classes.

Is it Class 1, or Class B?

Surely it's not Class D?

However, Tatsuya Kamio was well aware of this matter, because he had already instructed his team to cast their votes for Yahiko Totsuka, while Class D would, of course, have them vote for him.

"First place, Tatsuya Kamio, seventy-six votes."

Longyuan unexpectedly failed to win first place, and despite receiving forty votes, they did not earn the class's protection points.

However, the vote count shows that everyone in the class voted for Long Yuan, including Shi Ren, since no one from other classes would likely vote for Long Yuan.

"How is this going?"

The students in Class C were filled with confusion, but Tatsuya Kamio and Ryuen remained quite calm.

They both knew that other classes might try to sabotage things and choose someone other than the two of them to support.

However, Ryuen did not take any action, while Kamio Tatsuya did.

Therefore, the final protection points went to Tatsuya Kamio.

Ryuen was naturally aware of this, because Tatsuya Kamio had told him about it before he went to take down Class D that day.

Longyuan's response was: I'm not interested.

Therefore, Tatsuya Kamio naturally accepted the protection points.

"Quiet down. Next, I will explain the three candidates who received the most criticism votes."

The teacher's words on the board became serious, and the students in the class also became inexplicably nervous.

Even though we're following the plan, what if others have other plans?

Therefore, although most students don't think they will be last, what if they are?

"First, the third to last, with negative eight votes, is Takeko Nishino."

Takeko Nishino is a girl in the class, similar to Ibuki. She has relatively few friends in the class, so she is likely being targeted by the girls.

It's only third to last, so it doesn't matter.

"Next is second place, with a negative 18 votes, Ibuki Mio."

After he finished speaking, Shi Ren immediately stood up from his seat: "Impossible!"

"Shi Ren, is there something you need?"

He glanced at the other person on the board, his tone extremely cold.

"me……"

"Last place, -40 votes, Tokito Yuya." The board didn't give Tokito a chance to speak, directly stating who was in last place, that is, Tokito, "Based on the results of this exam, you have been expelled from school."

"No, this can't be!" Tokito's expression turned panicked. "Didn't you promise me you'd cast your criticism vote for Ibuki? Why did it end up like this?"

"They did cast their criticism vote for Ibuki, but that doesn't mean they can't cast their criticism vote for you. After all, everyone has three criticism votes."

The one who answered the question at the time was Kaneda.

Just as Shiina said back then, the students in Class C had long considered the current student as a candidate for withdrawal.

When Kaneda went to find them to ensure there was absolutely no chance of anything going wrong, the students in Class C were not surprised at all.

I see. So even if Ibuki does nothing during this exam, she won't be expelled.

As for why Ibuki only received eighteen negative votes, it's naturally because some people didn't vote for her critically, but instead voted for her in praise.

It would be enough if only 11 people voted for Ibuki.

Ryuen, Kamio, Ibuki, Shiina, Kaneda, Yamada, and Ishizaki—that makes seven people. The extra ones must be Manabe and the others.

Now that things have come to this, Kamio Tatsuya glanced at Kaneda. Was this guy the one who came up with the solution?

Yes, very likely.

As for the process, Tatsuya Kamio could guess it; Ryuen had told him beforehand that Tokito had begun to take action.

Afterwards, Kaneda and others took countermeasures.

It was basically about persuading the other students in the class to vote for Tokito while they were voting for Manabe.

As a result, everyone voted for the current leader, but Kaneda and his group did not vote for Ibuki, and even gave Ibuki a vote of appreciation.

That's where the difference comes in.

Therefore, he ultimately achieved the best result of finishing last.

Shi Ren seemed unable to accept reality all at once, and fell silent with a shocked expression.

The teacher on the board glanced at him, then looked at Longyuan.

"No way, why me? Didn't we agree to make Ibuki drop out of school?"

Some of Shi Ren, still unable to accept reality, swept his gaze across the faces of those who had gathered that day, but no one felt guilty.

"At this point, don't you think it's embarrassing?"

"Suzuki! You promised me back then, you promised to make Ibuki drop out of school!"

The student being pointed at by the then-admin is named Suzuki Hidetoshi, who is one of the more outstanding students in the class and was a member of the Dragon Group in the preferential treatment test.

"Jintian has already made this very clear. Besides, we had already decided to expel you from school before you even asked us to join the gathering."

I agreed to go to the party with you that day just to see what you were really up to. How was it? Our acting was pretty good, wasn't it?

Upon hearing this, not only Tokito was stunned, but Manabe was also dumbfounded.

What did you just say?

Are those guys putting on an act?

No way, I didn't notice at all.

Turns out I was the only one kept in the dark, damn it!

"why?"

"You still want to ask why now?" Suzuki Hidetoshi was completely dumbfounded and even lost the desire to explain to him.

Seeing that Suzuki stopped talking, Ban turned his gaze to Ryuen.

"Long Yuan, you should have enough points to help him. So, do you want to help Shi Ren?"

Now, everyone's attention turned to Long Yuan, because Long Yuan had said that if they made the wrong choice, he would use points to help them.

So, was he really the unwanted person that Ryuen mentioned, as Kaneda and the others said?

"Indeed, I have more than 20 million points, but I should have made it very clear before the exam that these points are not for Shi Ren."

So, Mr. Shi, you'd better just obediently leave the stage here.

Longyuan made the decision without hesitation.

"In that case, Shi Ren, come with me. It takes time to process the withdrawal procedures."

Upon hearing the words on the board, Shi Ren did not make a scene as expected, but instead left the classroom dejectedly.

After the person in charge left, Long Yuan went up to the podium.

"Perhaps some of you will be interested in who this 'unnecessary person' I'm talking about is. In that case, I'll just say it..."

Then, Ryuen looked at the students below and smiled.

"Well done, guys."

The students in Class C were immediately excited to receive praise from Longyuan.

This was the first time that Longyuan had acknowledged their contributions, so even they were very happy.

So here's the question: given Ryuen's personality, even if a student does what he expects, he generally wouldn't praise the student so positively.

This brings us to the bet he made with Tatsuya Kamio.

Ryuen didn't have confidence that the students in Class C would be able to correctly select the current leader, so the two of them took a gamble.

If the students in Class C expel their current classmate without Ryuen and Kamio's intervention, then Ryuen should praise the student like a competent leader.

If the person ultimately chosen is not the current one, then the person who receives protection points must use their personal points to help that person.

Well, no matter what, Tatsuya Kamio is not inferior.

At the same time, the exam results for other classes were also released.

In Class B, the last-place student, Shigeru Takemoto, was then given a bailout using his personal points, thus avoiding expulsion.

As for the protection points, they naturally went to Masumi Kamuro, who won first place with 42 votes of praise.

This isn't just one class's vote of appreciation, but two classes'.

To ensure that Class B's protection points didn't fall to Sakayanagi, Kamio Tatsuya even went to find Ichinose.

In exchange for 40 personal points and not causing trouble for the class, she won all of the class's praise votes for Kamuro Masumi of Class B.

Moreover, this idea wouldn't be without its benefits for Ban, so Ichinose agreed after thinking it over.

In the end, all the external class appreciation votes from Class B and Class C totaled eighty-one votes, causing the protection points for Class B to fall to Masumi Kamuro.

As for why she was chosen, does that need explaining?

As expected, Class 1 and Class D received their protection points as Ichinose and Ayanokouji, respectively.