Since there were no classes in the afternoon, Kamio Tatsuya just lazed around in bed all afternoon.
Because no one in this group was aiming for first place or felt responsible for it, the members got along quite well.
In just over a day, everyone had pretty much gotten to know each other.
Sometimes, friendships between guys are really that simple.
At dinner, Kamio Tatsuya didn't see Kamuro today. Only Shiina was waiting for him at the entrance of the restaurant.
"Where's Masumi?"
"She said she was worried about Sakayanagi, so she's with Sakayanagi," Shiina explained with a smile. "But she already told me what she found out."
Kamio Tatsuya nodded. He didn't really care about that.
Sakayanagi was having trouble with her health, so it was only natural for her friend Kamuro to go help her out.
Kamio Tatsuya also learned from Shiina that there was indeed a group of girls in the third year that wasn't getting along well. And this group, just as Kamio Tatsuya had guessed, was the one Tachibana Akane belonged to.
In Tachibana Akane's group, aside from herself who was in the third year, everyone else was from the lower three grades.
According to Shiina's description, Tachibana Akane seemed to be ostracized and was often blamed by the other students.
Anyone who didn't know Tachibana Akane would surely think this was caused by some mistake she made.
But who was Tachibana Akane?
She was the former student council secretary. However, despite being called the secretary, the work she actually did for the student council was more like Horikita Manabu's personal assistant.
Horikita Manabu was incredibly picky, as you could tell from the fact that he refused to let Ichinose and Katsuragi join the student council at the beginning of the school year.
Although he was trying to restrict Nagumo, it was more because he felt these two were not competent enough and could easily be influenced by Nagumo.
Someone who could be an assistant to such a demanding former student council president definitely had skills.
You could even say that her strength was in complementing other people's work.
If she could handle someone as picky as Horikita Manabu, Kamio Tatsuya didn't think she'd have trouble with this simple exam.
So the answer was clear: the other members of this group were deliberately provoking Tachibana Akane.
It also seemed pretty certain that Nagumo's target wasn't just him, but Tachibana Akane as well.
Attacking from both sides, Nagumo senpai, you're underestimating me and Horikita Manabu.
But then again, what was Nagumo's motive for doing this?
The leader of Tachibana Akane's group was a girl from Class 3-B named Ikari Momoko.
Tachibana Akane was not the leader of the group. Even if the group's score was a failure, the leader, Ikari, would be expelled first, and then Tachibana Akane would be sacrificed.
If the outcome turned out this way, there would only be two possibilities.
Horikita Manabu would choose to save Tachibana Akane, and Ikari would be directly expelled. In that case, it would directly close the gap of 300 class points between the two classes.
Currently, the difference in class points between the two classes was 312 points. If they could close the gap by 300 points by sacrificing a teammate at this point, it was indeed possible to win.
But all of this depended on Ikari being willing to do it herself.
Kamio Tatsuya didn't know Ikari, but even without knowing her, he didn't think she was the kind of person who would sacrifice herself to fulfill others' wishes.
There were very few people like that. Ichinose in the first year was like that, but Kamio Tatsuya, having lived two lives, had only met one person like Ichinose.
Besides, if she were truly like Ichinose, she wouldn't be using this method to attack the class.
So after the group score failed, the result was only one.
That is, Horikita Manabu would choose to save Tachibana Akane, and Ikari would also be saved by her classmates with points.
Ikari only did this after confirming she wouldn't be expelled.
But in that case, everyone would lose 400 class points and 20 million private points. By relativity, wouldn't that mean nothing was done?
Kamio Tatsuya was somewhat speechless. Were the third-years that rich? Was this how they spent their money?
Just to prevent two people from being expelled required 40 million private points. What good things couldn't be done with that money?
At this point, Akito's approach should be to take advantage of this exam while Horikita Manabu was wary of Nagumo, and then use it to close the gap with A-class or surpass them.
Kamio Tatsuya didn't think they couldn't see this opportunity, especially since they had been fighting with Horikita Manabu for three years and were only 312 points behind Class 3-B.
Even if the leader's overall strength wasn't as good as Horikita Manabu's, they wouldn't be too far off.
But they didn't seem to choose to do this, which meant that excluding Tachibana Akane had other benefits.
So where did this benefit come from?
The only answer was that this benefit came from Nagumo.
And this benefit was enough for Ikari to risk expulsion to pursue, and this benefit would affect future exams.
So, was it a large amount of private points?
To have Class 3-B do such thankless work, this amount of points was probably 20 million.
Once again, he marveled at how truly rich Nagumo was!
However, while Kamio Tatsuya envied his points, he couldn't understand his actions. If it were Kamio Tatsuya, he would absolutely not play around like this.
Tomorrow was a holiday, so after dinner, Kamio Tatsuya planned to go to the bathhouse for a soak.
The large bathhouse was open for three hours, from 7 PM to 10 PM. Each grade had one hour of usage time. From 7 to 8 PM was the first-years' time, which was a perk for the younger students.
In the bathhouse locker room, Kamio Tatsuya saw his former classmate, Ayanokouji Kiyotaka.
Kamio Tatsuya glanced at him. This guy was indeed a pervert. Although his muscles didn't look developed, the data displayed was quite unbelievable.
It wasn't just strength, but agility and stamina were also 7 points. Even intelligence was 7 points.
This was still the first person Kamio Tatsuya had seen with all stats at 7 points.
As a side note, Koenji had 7 points for strength, intelligence, and agility, and 8 points for stamina, making him a guy who completely surpassed human limits.
If a human body isn't exercised regularly, its stats will gradually decline over time, so Koenji's daily workouts were essential.
But Kamio Tatsuya didn't usually see Ayanokouji exercising much, yet his physical condition seemed to have never changed.
"Ayanokouji, do you usually exercise?"
"Not really, I just move around during physical education class," Ayanokouji shook his head. "As for you, compared to the last time I saw you, you seem to have gained quite a bit of muscle."
"Because I exercise occasionally."
Kamio Tatsuya said, trying to brush it off.
"That's not the result of exercising occasionally, is it? In fact, the speed you showed during the sports festival was probably at the national top level."
"Perhaps, maybe I'm just talented."
Ayanokouji remained silent. He was actually very confused. Was this really talent?
Because a month before the sports festival, Ayanokouji and Kamio Tatsuya had gone to the swimming pool together and seen Kamio Tatsuya's leg muscles.
At that time, his muscles definitely couldn't have achieved the speed he showed at the sports festival.
But during the sports festival, his performance was excellent, so did he build such strong muscles in just a month?
Was he really that talented?
This violated the normal laws of human growth, didn't it?
While the two were chatting, another person entered the locker room and immediately greeted Kamio Tatsuya and Ayanokouji.
"Good evening, Kamio, Ayanokouji."
"Good evening, Kanzaki," Kamio Tatsuya nodded. "By the way, is Ishikura senpai's group in the same large group as yours?"
"That's right," Kanzaki said as he took off his shirt, then asked, "Do you know Ishikura senpai, Kamio?"
"We haven't spoken. I'm just interested in this person who has fought with Horikita Manabu for three years."
"Ishikura senpai is very capable. If he hadn't encountered Horikita Manabu, I think he could have led Class B to Class A."
Kanzaki's words were full of praise for Ishikura.
However, it was clear that even with Kanzaki's high regard for Ishikura, he didn't think he could win against Horikita Manabu.
It seemed his previous guess was correct. To reach Class A, Ishikura had indeed allied with Nagumo.
And Nagumo also seemed to genuinely want to win against Horikita Manabu. As for how to win...
That would be by helping Ishikura defeat Horikita Manabu in the last two months, preventing him from graduating from Class A.
For this, he was willing to pay a large amount of private points.
Then, the three of them went to the bathhouse together. However, the bathhouse today was inexplicably filled with a philosophical atmosphere.
Perhaps because of the training camp, the relationships between students from different classes seemed to have eased.
You could even see students from different classes sitting by the edge of the hot spring pool, chatting with their arms around each other.
"Oh, Kanzaki! Over here!"
Upon seeing Kamio Tatsuya and the other two enter, Shibata from Class B immediately called out.
"Kamio and Ayanokouji, come over too."
"What are you guys doing?"
Kamio Tatsuya leaned over with a smile. It wasn't like they were actually discussing philosophy, was it?
Shibata then gave a mysterious smile.
"We're discussing whose is biggest in our grade."
Biggest?
"Girls' busts?"
Don't think Kamio Tatsuya was being perverted. When guys gather, the conversation easily drifts in that direction.
"While that topic is tempting, today's topic is this."
Saying that, Shibata gestured to his lower half, which was covered by a towel.
...
Damn it, it really is philosophical.
Kamio Tatsuya really wanted to turn around and leave, but then he thought, if I leave now, doesn't that mean I'm scared?
So, he absolutely couldn't leave.
Moreover, he was quite confident in his own assets. Not only had he received praise from Kamuro, but even Kiryuin senpai, who had accidentally taken a glance, thought he was well-endowed.
So, what was he afraid of?
"This is really quite childish,"
Kanzaki sighed helplessly from the side, and he also tightened the towel around his waist.
This guy...
Is he not confident?
"But it's also a lot of fun. Most importantly, it can liven things up."
It was already hot in the bathhouse, and they wanted to liven things up even more. Weren't they afraid of boiling over?
Watching the guys get rowdier, Kamio Tatsuya stepped directly into the hot spring pool, enjoying the comfort of the hot water dispelling his fatigue.
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