COTE: Popularity System

Class D took first place?

That most worthless Class D?

The first-year students suspected they had misheard.

Class D, which had reduced its Class Points to zero in the first month, nearly had seven people expelled during the mid-term exams, and had one person expelled even before the special exam began.

They actually won first place in the special exam?!

Was there something wrong with their ears, or was there something wrong with the world?

Unlike the shocked students in the anime, in the real world, Anibro showed an 'I knew it' expression.

"Class D really did take first place. They must have guessed the leaders of the other classes correctly."

Anibro had already seen the analysis from the viewers previously and had anticipated Class D's results.

"It's just... what kind of deal did Money-Giving Guy make with Class D?" Anibro frowned.

Up until now, Class D's success seemed to be all thanks to Ayanokoji Kiyotaka.

Fortunately, the subsequent content of the anime answered Anibro's and other viewers' confusion.

"Kōhei-san, do I still need to evaluate you now?" Takada Hikaru chuckled as he approached Class B's line.

Katsuragi Kōhei was still immersed in the shock of failure and hadn't fully recovered.

But his lackey, Totsuka Yahiko, immediately shouted angrily, "Takada, your class only got 140 points, didn't it? Don't get too smug! If the Sayanagi Faction hadn't deliberately dragged us down, causing us to lose 80 points, Class B's score would have been at least 200 points!"

"Totsuka, stop talking." Katsuragi Kōhei snapped back to reality and stopped his lackey from continuing.

Letting him continue would only intensify the internal class conflict and give other classes an opportunity to exploit it.

"Yahiko-san seems a bit unconvinced." Takada Hikaru didn't get angry.

He simply curled his lips slightly and said slowly, "Class B's leader is Yahiko-san, and Class C's leader is Kakeru-san, right?"

"Ah, this..." Totsuka Yahiko froze slightly, his face showing surprise.

Ryūen Kakeru also frowned, expressing dissatisfaction.

Takada Hikaru said with a light chuckle, "Judging by your reactions, I must be right. In this exam, Class A did not submit the name of any class leader."

"Tell me, if Class A had submitted the names of the Class B and Class C leaders, how many points would Class A have ultimately gained?"

240 points.

That was 40 points more than the 200 points Totsuka Yahiko had just claimed.

Originally, Class A had 140 points and Class B had 120, a difference of only 20 points. But calculated in the new way, the difference would be 40 points. That's even worse than the original result.

"Are you looking down on us?" Katsuragi Kōhei frowned.

Takada Hikaru clearly knew the leaders of the other two classes but didn't instruct Class A to submit them. This was undoubtedly letting them off easily. He was clearly looking down on Class B.

However, the current results seemed to prove that Takada Hikaru's judgment was correct. Class B truly wasn't worthy of his attention.

Ryūen Kakeru walked over, smiling darkly. "Katsuragi, you probably don't know that he had a falling out with his own class, do you? After having a fight with the guys in his class, he had no intention of helping the class at all."

Days of wilderness survival had left Ryūen Kakeru looking haggard, but he couldn't suppress his current excitement.

Ryūen Kakeru's fierce gaze swept over. "I heard from Kaneda that you proposed a very conservative strategy at the very beginning: abandon check-ins and randomly select a leader so that other classes wouldn't guess correctly."

"When I heard this plan, I thought you were just that level of guy, someone who couldn't even compare to Katsuragi. But now it seems this was just a smokescreen used to conceal your real plan."

Ryūen Kakeru's voice deepened. "Class D achieving such good results must have something to do with you, right?"

Hearing the analysis from the Class C leader, Takada Hikaru nodded slightly and chuckled. "You guessed correctly. Although I didn't tell Class A your class leaders, I told Class D. They gained 100 points by correctly guessing the leaders of two classes, and they also caused significant losses for you."

Takada Hikaru said in a relaxed tone, "Although I don't really care about Class A's results, seeing such huge flaws exposed by you guys, I couldn't help but want to do something."

Ayanokoji Kiyotaka, who was silently listening to the conversation between the big shots in Class D, was slightly taken aback.

Holy crap, I've been cucked!

Someone stole my credit!

He was clearly the one who guessed the leaders of those two classes!

But to facilitate his own maneuvers behind the scenes, he had pushed the credit onto Horikita Suzune. He never expected the credit to be snatched away by Takada Hikaru ahead of time.

Ayanokoji Kiyotaka only revealed the names of the two class leaders right before the exam was about to end. Therefore, Takada Hikaru must have informed Class D of the other classes' leaders at an earlier time.

The achievement that originally belonged to Horikita Suzune was now entirely credited to Takada Hikaru.

"Holy crap!"

In the real world, Anibro couldn't help but grin after watching the anime plot unfold, his eyes flashing with excitement.

[Ayanokoji: Holy cow, a cuckold plot!]

[Anibro is overjoyed!]

[Money-Giving Guy actually helped Class D?]

After seeing the anime plot, the audience all expressed their thoughts.

No one expected that Takada Hikaru, who had been constantly messing with Class D since the start of the school year, would actually have a day where he helped them.

Upon seeing the content of the comments, Anibro gave a helpless, wry smile.

Who would have thought that my name would be brought up by fans in the comments while streaming the anime?

And they even said I was a cuckold enthusiast...