Real teaching, hypocritical gray life

Ichinose took all these actions into his sight, and finally took the phone out of his left pocket and moved it to his right pocket.

"You've been talking non-stop since just now. I wonder if you're the one getting preferential treatment?"

"No, Yukimura mentioned to me before that he's not a favored person."

Ayanokouji blatantly tried to cover it up, but Yukimura's face froze for a moment, making us doubt the truth of the matter.

"As a classmate, your testimony is not enough to represent Yukimura's identity. In addition, there is a possibility that he deceived you in order to keep the benefits for himself..."

"Please don't say that. Everyone has their own ideas. Besides, haven't you all seen Yukimura's behavior these days? He has been looking for the preferential treatment very urgently... Although it's a little late, I'm also following up with the presentation of my cell phone." After finding out a series of circumstances, Ichinose finally showed the real letter that he was not the preferential treatment recipient.

I glanced at Ichinose covertly, then frowned, but Ichinose nodded at me to reassure me.

Well, actually I also saw that Yukimura might be the one who got preferential treatment, but I didn't care about the flexible change of plan at all, because the result of this exam was already determined from the beginning.

In short, it is clear that everyone on the field, except Yukimura and the students in Class A, is not a favored person.

"..."

"Yukimura, what are you doing?" Karuizawa couldn't stand Yukimura's inexplicable long silence and asked. Everyone in Class A also leaned forward to peek at his face.

"...I know. I'll show you. Just let you see it."

In the end, Yukimura couldn't bear the pressure from everyone, and took out his cell phone with an unwilling look.

"...Before that, I hope we can agree on one thing..."

"Promise? What do you want to promise, Yukimura-kun?"

"That is, I hope that no one present here will betray us. Class A in particular must take out their cell phones and place them in front of us. Everyone needs to do this. Everyone needs to put their cell phones where they can see them."

"Why would we do such a thing?" Machida responded with a sneer.

"Then I refuse to show my phone, too."

At this time, Yukimura was unexpectedly firm.

"Isn't your behavior stupid? Are you a preferential treatment?"

"Who knows? I wouldn't mind if you sent me an email in advance saying I'm the preferred recipient."

"It's just bluffing." Machida didn't jump to conclusions and continued to launch tentative attacks, but Yukimura didn't buy it at all.

"You can guess whether it's a bluff or not, but I won't tell you anyway." As he said this, Yukimura held the phone tightly in his arms.

"How about this, Yukimura-san. Apart from Class A, we are willing to put our phones where you can see them. Your email messages don't need to be shown to everyone in Class A, but only to us. Is that okay?"

As the situation developed to this point, Hamaguchi also responded on the spot and gently expressed his advice to Yukimura.

"this......"

Yukimura was still hesitating whether to do as Hamaguchi said, but Class A couldn't sit still after this operation.

"Wait... I see, if it's just a matter of putting down your phone, we accept that."

The students in Class A, who had been sitting on the sofa in the corner keeping a distance from us, calmly placed their mobile phones on the conference round table.

After confirming that everyone had done as instructed, Yukimura changed his previous firmness and became gloomy, and then moved his hands.

He unlocked his phone in front of us.

"I'm sorry, Ichinose-san and Ayanokouji... I betrayed your trust. I was actually the one who got preferential treatment."

What was in front of us was the notification of preferential treatment, an email with content different from what was displayed on site.

But I noticed that the way Yukimura held the phone was exactly like the clever concealment that Ichinose mentioned earlier.

"What... Yukimura-dono, are you a favored person...?"

"If I knew things would turn out like this, I should have told you right from the start..."

Everyone in Class D was genuinely surprised that Yukimura was a favored person.

At this time, Machida leaned forward and carefully looked at the beneficiary's email, then tentatively reached out to operate on the screen, but Yukimura took back the phone at the critical moment.

"What do you want to do?"

"You only revealed the email of the benefactor, but who knows if this phone is yours? I need to check your private email or other account information."

"That's impossible. There are things in my private emails that I don't want you to see."

"But then we won't be able to verify the authenticity of the phone."

"I have already revealed the contents of the email, what else do you want?"

"So do you have any other means to prove from us that the phone is yours?"

"This this......"

After being asked this by Machida, Yukimura didn't know what to say.

"Since you, Yukimura, don't want your private emails to be known to everyone, can you show them to the person among us who you are most convinced will not spread the contents of the emails?" Ayanokouji suggested from the side, and Yukimura seemed a little panicked at this time, but Machida did not give Yukimura a chance to refute.

"They must be students from outside your class, otherwise there is a suspicion of collusion among your students."

"..."

Yukimura looked at Ayanokouji blankly, and at the same time looked at all of us hesitantly.

Ayanokouji then suggested.

"Why not let Ichinose be the candidate? After all, she is well-known as a good person among the first-year students."

"Haha, could Ayanokouji-san please stop praising me like that? I'm a little uncomfortable with it."

Ichinose scratched his face sheepishly.

"Sorry, I just wanted to offer a suggestion."

"...Since Ayanokouji said so, let's do it this way." Yukimura sighed uneasily and handed over the phone tremblingly.

The moment Ichinose took over, I took a look and saw that the interface had switched from the preferential recipient's email information to the private email information interface.

It seems that Class D's methods are almost exactly the same as what we thought.

"Well......"

"Are there any doubts?"

Hearing Ichinose humming, Machida reacted quickly, while Yukimura lowered his head nervously.

"I don't have any doubts...but it doesn't really matter if the contents of these emails are made public, right?"

"It may seem normal, but as the person involved, it would still be very embarrassing if others knew about it. At least please don't discuss this matter in front of me."

"Ah, sorry, I didn't mean to say that... The content of the private email should be from Yukimura-san."

Ichinose nodded confidently and returned the phone to Yukimura, and he breathed a sigh of relief. Machida still looked at Yukimura with suspicion.

"I've checked the emails... Why, you're not doubting my status as a favored person, are you?"

"That's impossible. We have received clear rules from the school. Letters sent by the school regarding the exam content are prohibited from being copied or forwarded. In addition, it was sent from the school mailbox, so the possibility of making a fake article is zero." Hamaguchi analyzed.

"This kind of thing can be done by simply changing the sender of the information to a corresponding name, and it is not certain whether it is fake or not."

"Damn it, you—"

"If that's the case, then if we don't reach Result 1, we can report it to the school and Class D will be punished accordingly, and our losses will be compensated, right? No one should do such a thankless task."

Hamaguchi continued to analyze the situation on the field. I wanted to try to relax for the rest of the time, but when Hamaguchi said this, Ichinose gave me a worried look.

Just as Hamaguchi said, the school strictly prohibits students from making false information about exams from the beginning, and violating the rules will result in expulsion.

Even if you violate the rules by lying now, it will become a problem after the exam.

"Then it must be Yukimura-kun, right?"

Manabe looked around at everyone's opinions, then stared at the phone on the table.

"I'm sorry, if Lord Yukimura had told us in advance, we might not have agreed to this plan."

"No, maybe this is fine... I was planning to keep the lie to the end... Anyway, everyone already knows my identity, so you will keep your promise, right?"

Ichinose nodded, and then spoke in the direction of Class A.

"Please don't waste Yukimura-san's courage, let's work together. Everyone in Class A, can we trust you?"

"We were originally acting according to Katsuragi-san's instructions. Even if we knew that Yukimura-san was a favored person, we would not act on our own. If Katsuragi ordered a betrayal, I would also try my best to achieve the result. Shouldn't you be more worried about the students in Class C than us?"

"Be a good person first."

In response to Machida's questioning, Ibuki responded mercilessly.

"Can you guarantee that the one in your class won't send a text message in advance?"

"Of course you can... I won't reveal our knowledge of the identity of the favored person to Ryuen, but if he breaks the rules with his own strength, that's another matter."

"What do you mean?"

"Literally, if he asked us to send a betrayal text message without knowing the scene, we would have no choice but to do so. Of course, we would send it according to the name he provided."

"Even if it's different from the information we got about the beneficiaries?"

"That's it."

"That's really tough."

"......"

Even if we all answer this way, we will inevitably be disbanded after the exam. In the thirty minutes after the exam, can everyone trust the students of other classes?

Furthermore, given the class dominance revealed by Class A and Class C, there is a high probability that they will send betrayal text messages, so taking action early or late will make a difference.

"I want to believe... No, I will believe everyone..."

Yukimura requested again, and each class reluctantly accepted it.

However, there would be absolutely no friendship between us, and no empathy between people. If that incident had not happened, the result would definitely be someone's betrayal.

But I don't want Class C to get a huge number of class points. I also want them to be more wary of Class D.

Everyone fell silent. I thought we would wait until that thing happened, but I didn't expect Ibuki to suddenly speak at this time.

“Although it may be a little late for me to suggest this, can I take another look at the email from the favored person?”

"This is something that is recognized by everyone. Is there any point in checking it now?"

"In fact, I didn't read the contents of Yukimura's email just now. If I didn't see it with my own eyes, I wouldn't know what was going on. Is that okay?"

"...Of course." Yukimura hesitated for a moment, then held the phone in front of her as before, and Ibuki also noticed this.

"You can put your hand—"

Before he could finish his words, the cell phone in Yukimura's hand suddenly rang in the room. In his panic, the phone fell to the ground and then rolled in front of Machida and the others. Yukimura hurriedly ran over and picked it up.

"The caller just now was... Ichinose? Why did you call at this time?"

Machida looked at Ichinose with a suspicious expression, and Ichinose hung up the phone after seeing Yukimura pick up the phone.

This is an action that can only be understood after anticipation.

"The school has said that it is forbidden to modify or copy emails, so the emails we saw must be genuine. There is no problem with that, but tampering with the phone itself is not prohibited."

"...What are you talking about?"

"I don't have Yukimura's phone number. The one I called just now is Ayanokouji's. So - the owner of this phone with the word 'privileged' written on it is actually Ayanokouji's, right?"

"But didn't you just verify its private email?"

"That's fake. If you ask for the unlock password in advance, you can know it. So can't you fake a personal email in advance and make it real? Although this is very troublesome, it can still be replaced."

Machida's face changed drastically after hearing the explanation.

"Besides, I know that you can't lie easily. It may be because of carelessness or mistakes, anyway, you will accidentally reveal your flaws. Although I can't be sure, Yukimura's behavior today is different from usual. It's like a poor performance."

At this moment, Yukimura stood there in a daze. His face was not as pale as people often said, but he looked at a loss.

"I have suggested similar methods to other students in the class before, but unfortunately I only perfected them shortly before the exam and didn't have time to implement them."

"However, this operation has a decisive weakness that cannot be ignored. That is the existence of the phone number."

"You can tamper with the apps and records, but you can't do anything with the phone number. Hamaguchi and I once tried to exchange SIM cards, but the SIM cards and devices of the phones were all locked. Both phones became unusable. In other words, if we exchanged phones, we wouldn't be able to make calls. Even if someone exchanges phones, they will know the owner's identity when they ring. Otherwise, we wouldn't encourage showing each other our phones."

"Swapping phones and tampering with apps and records, so far so good. But you didn't expect us to use the SIM card device lock to confirm, right?"

"Huh——" After finishing this long explanation, Ichinose let out a long breath.

Perfect explanation, it is the perfect solution because that is all we have to do.