Book 6: Epilogue
Although many students became depressed from the days of repeated studying, time still passed by.
And then winter came. After entering into December, the final exam was finally less than three days away. Tomorrow, the school will be closed for the weekend, then the final exam will be waiting for us on Monday.
To be honest, the challenge of the exam itself wasn’t too much of a worry. As far as Class D is concerned, everyone has sufficient consistency and the results of the study groups are excellent. I can also assert that even Sudō, and the others who are often close to failing, have been working harder than ever.
The problem lies elsewhere. It’s not too much to say that the problem lies with Ryūen and Kushida. No doubt they’ve begun to move under the water’s surface, and I can roughly guess what they’re going to do.
Ryūen’s goals are to ‘beat Class D’s overall score’ and ‘smoke out the existence hiding behind Horikita’. For the former…… that is, the tactics available to him to beat our overall score are inevitably limited. The proper methods would be for Class C as a whole to study zealously, or to come up with super difficult questions. Either one works, but these are general strategies that Class D can also resort to.
I hardly know whether or not Class C has gathered for a large-scale study group. They haven’t appeared in cafes, libraries, classrooms, or any other typical studying location.
Is it just a coincidence that I haven’t seen them, or has Class C been working hard somewhere I’m unaware of? Even if they’ve studied hard, as long as Class D isn’t overwhelmed, they’ll be forced to fight a difficult battle. This doesn’t seem like their tactic for winning the fight regardless.
Then, it’s easy to imagine that they’re looking at strategies from other perspectives.
“Thinking about something?”