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Kiyotaka Ayanokouji said expressionlessly:

"Well, we still need to look at the list."

Ignoring their conversation, Majima Tomoya, as usual, pushed out another piece of paper:

"In addition to the group list, the school has prepared other materials regarding the results of this special exam. Please refer to this material."

The four sets of papers were handed to each person separately.

The edges of the paper were slightly curved, and there were obvious creases from being turned over. Clearly, this paper was being reused to explain the exam rules to students in each group.

"Summer Group Special Examination Instructions"

The core of this document is clearly marked on the page.

......

Later, at 8:20, in the room where Ryuen Sho was, facing the smiling Hoshinomiya Chie, he crossed his legs and began to summarize the key points of the exam rules.

"Firstly, we will receive an email at 8:00 AM to confirm the status of the recipients of the preferential treatment."

"Secondly, the exam schedule is from tomorrow until 9 p.m. four days later."

"Thirdly, the group members must gather in the designated room twice a day at a designated time for a one-hour discussion."

Fourth, the discussion content is entirely left to the group's autonomy to decide.

Fifth, after the exam, the school will only accept answers to the "Who is the preferential treatment recipient?" question between 9:30 PM and 10:00 PM that evening. Furthermore, each person can only answer the question once.

"Sixth, the school will inform all students of the detailed exam results via email at 11 p.m. on the last night."

And perhaps we can take advantage of, but we need to be careful about, the rules of word-for-word interpretation.

"The school only accepts answers from students who send emails to the designated mailbox using their own mobile phones."

"Preferential treatment recipients" are not entitled to send answers via email.

"Answers to those outside the group to which one belongs will be considered invalid."

Long Yuanxiang: "......"

The rules are not meticulous, and there are clearly not many points of leverage. It is not yet clear what the school's purpose, ideas and attitude are.

Of course, there are also rules and prohibitions, which are much more detailed than the rules for the uninhabited island test.

"It is prohibited to use methods such as stealing other people's phones, making threats or other intimidation to confirm information about preferential treatment recipients, or to use other people's phones without authorization to send out answers."

"Students must be dismissed immediately after the exam and are prohibited from talking to students from other classes for a certain period of time."

"All acts of copying, forwarding, or altering mail sent by the school are prohibited."

"A certain number of personal points will be deducted each time you do not participate in the exam."

Perhaps because the loopholes in the uninhabited island test were too great, the attitude towards the prohibited items this time seems to have become quite serious.

Apart from the penalty of deducting personal points for not participating in the exam, the penalties for the other three violations are all 'expulsion from school'.

That's right, it's not simply a matter of canceling exam eligibility, nor is it about confiscating all personal points, and it certainly won't affect the entire class.

It's simply 'dropping out of school'.

This school seems to prefer threatening students with 'expulsion' more than one might imagine.

However, compared to these restrictive details, the outcome is clearly more influential on the direction of action.

Seemingly noticing that Ryuen Sho had already read the rules, Hoshinomiya Chie added with a smile:

"When the exam is over, the school will only announce the results for each group, as well as the increase or decrease in points for each class."

"In other words, we will not disclose the names of the recipients or respondents."

She raised her index finger and circled it, saying, "If you wish, we can issue a temporary ID for remittances or allow withdrawals in installments. As long as you remain silent, there will be no suspicion of being discovered after the exam."

So, everyone can 'feel free to do what they want' without worry, right?

"I can secretly mix it with the money the school gives me at the beginning of each month, and no one will notice!"

Hoshinomiya Chie's seductive voice echoed in the room, but no one showed any sign of wavering.

Class C has long been dominated by Ryu Won-sho.

No one dared to show greed in his presence.

"Stop yelling." After thinking for a long time but unable to find any obvious loopholes, Long Yuanxiang waved his hand and said, "Where is our group's roster again?"

"I want to watch it again."

So, obediently, the classmate next to him quickly handed over the list.

Long Yuanxiang is in the Chen group, which is the Long group.

The list looks like this.

[Class A: Sayo Ando, ​​Ryuji Kanzaki, Hitomi Tsube

Class B: Katsuragi Kohei, Nishikawa Ryoko, Toba Shinji, Yano Koharu

Class C: Takumi Oda, Hidetoshi Suzuki, Masashi Maruda, Sho Ryuen

Class D: Kushida Kikyo, Hirata Yosuke, Horikita Suzune]

The distribution of the quantity is 3443. Is there any deeper meaning behind this?

There's no Asakusa Tetsu in Class A, but there's Kanzaki Ryuji. Class B has Katsuragi Kohei. As for Class D, well, let's just leave Class D out.

Although they seem to be the only two most outstanding 'popular contestants,' Class D is Class D, and there's no need to consider their existence.

The punishment for this exam was terrible. Expulsion was the punishment that Long Yuanxiang hated the most. Although reducing the number of students seemed to widen the gap in numbers, it also reduced the number of personal points circulating in the entire first year, which was quite detrimental to his 800 million plan.

With that in mind, the prohibitions can basically be ignored, and there's no intention to encourage students from other classes to break the rules.

Among the other precautions, only the information that 'personal terminal' is very important can be extracted.

So, is the only thing we can do to focus on the 'result'?

If we calculate the changes in gain or loss individually for four different outcomes...

Result 1: Individual points increased by 14 x 50, totaling seven million individual points.

Result 2: Individual points increase by 500,000, enjoyed by the single individual.

Result 3: Individual points increased by 500,000, while 50 class points were 'transferred'.

Result four is the same as result three.

In other words, if we only focus on individual points, ending the exam with the result would undoubtedly be the best answer.

As long as we find ways to persuade and control the people in the group, we can find a way to achieve result one.

If it's just this group... Katsuragi is easy to persuade. Once Katsuragi is persuaded, the rest of Class B won't be a problem.

Kanzaki will listen to Asakusa; since he promised, he won't easily betray the cooperation because of an exam like this.

Class D... So it really depends on the people in Class D? Hirata Yosuke should have some brains, and Kushida Kikyo wouldn't betray him so easily.

Is Horikita Suzune the last remaining question?

Some of the names are unfamiliar, but if you mention Hirata Yosuke, she'll probably behave herself.

So, does the Dragon Group want to achieve result one?

Long Yuanxiang frowned.

......

(The following content is not included in the word count)

【Result 1: If everyone answers correctly, except for the group members who are eligible for preferential treatment and students belonging to the preferential treatment class, the school will pay points to all group members individually. (Students belonging to the preferential treatment class will each receive the same number of points)】

Result 2: If any member of the group fails to answer or answers incorrectly, the school will pay the preferential treatment recipient 500,000 personal points, excluding the preferential recipient and their classmates.

Result 3: If someone other than the privileged student reveals their answer to the school before the exam ends and answers correctly, the class to which the student belongs will receive 50 class points, and the school will pay the correct answer 500,000 personal points. Conversely, the class whose privileged student status is discovered will be penalized by deducting 50 class points. The group exam will end at this point. Furthermore, if a student in the same class as the privileged student answers correctly, the school will consider their answer invalid and continue the exam.

Result 4: If someone other than the privileged student reveals their answer to the school before the exam ends and answers incorrectly, the class to which that student belongs will be penalized with a loss of 50 class points. The privileged student will receive 500,000 personal points, and their class will also receive 50 class points. The exam will end at the point where incorrect answers are given. Furthermore, if a classmate of the privileged student answers incorrectly, their answer will be considered invalid and will not be processed.

Chapters 250-253 (Combined)

"Do we need everyone to agree on result one?"

Unsurprisingly, this was the first thought that popped into Ichinose Honami's mind after reading the rules.

To maximize the benefits from a simple arithmetic problem, it seems obvious that the best outcome would be for everyone to get the same result.

Although it's easy to see that this is an extremely difficult task, since it might be manageable for just one group of 14 people, but twelve groups with a total of 160 first-year students would be quite uncontrollable.

Not to mention, in order to entice students to 'keep' the points all to themselves, the teachers tirelessly reminded each class of the school's policy of keeping such matters confidential while explaining the rules.

But Honami Ichinose felt that if she really wanted to do it, it wouldn't be a difficult task.

The students in Class A are united enough that they would not do anything that would be thankless and unprofitable. Class C is under the control of Ryuen and should be willing to cooperate. Although Class D is somewhat inferior, with Kikyo Kushida helping out, there shouldn't be any major problems.

The only thing to worry about is Class B under Sakayanagi Arisu.

But there's always a way. If we think about it from the perspective of mutual benefit, we should be able to persuade her.

“No, let’s not play result one.” But Asakusa Tetsu gently shook his head: “Let’s play result three or four.”

Honami Ichinose had no need to question or deny Asakusa Toru's decision.

But sometimes, what's needed is a suitable straight man to make the explanations flow naturally.

"Hmm, then, why?" She rested her head on her hands, blinked her big eyes, and looked at Asakusa Tetsu with a puzzled expression: "I want to know."

Pure curiosity.

"Do you remember the class points for the four classes in first grade, A, B, C, and D so far?" Instead of answering the question first, Asakusa Tetsu asked Ichinose Honami this question first.

The girl quickly gave her answer:

"Class A: 2006 points, Class B: 800 points, Class C: 670 points, Class D: 80 points."

"That means the school has to pay out more than 14 million a month." After a casual calculation, Asakusa Tetsu casually added, "If everyone gets the same result, the twelve groups will have a total of 84 million, which is equivalent to six months' worth of class points."

"It seems that results three and four are not as good as result one at all," he said.

"But what if we turn our attention to Class D and take advantage of this 'transfer' exam for class points to get all of Class D's points?"

Honami Ichinose blinked:

Will Class D's score drop back to zero?

“It might be a negative score.” Asakusa Tetsu smiled and said, “It will probably be zero. The school can’t set a precedent for a class with negative scores for the time being. At least until the situation really becomes a situation where classes with zero scores dominate, the school will not consider allowing negative scores to appear.”

Because it is not necessary.

But this seems to create an opportunity that can be exploited.

"The preferential treatment exam is divided into twelve groups. If each of the three classes, A, B, and C, tries to 'get' some class points from the class..." After a pause, Asakusa Tetsu said, "the twelve groups can transfer 600 class points."

"It doesn't sound like much. After deducting the 80 points that Class D already has, it's only 520 class points."

"Five months have passed since the start of the school year. If we calculate based on the remaining 30 months of revenue from class points, it will only amount to 60 million."

"That sounds like a far cry from the 84 million in Result 1, doesn't it?"

Asakusa Tetsu seemed to be actively negating the choice he had proposed through calculation.

Did he not calculate carefully at first, and only after he finished calculating did he realize that the first result seemed to have a higher return?

Obviously not.

"It seems so?" Honami Ichinose tilted her head, following the lead of the conversation.

Asakusa Toru nodded readily:

"If we simply calculate based on the gains and losses of the preferential treatment exam, then that is indeed the case."

“But if we take a longer-term view, we can consider more.” He paused for a moment and said, “For example, the next special exam that will ‘deduct class points’.”