Book 13: Chapter 4: Intro - The battles of the 1st graders and the 3rd graders
Now, nearly 3 months into the school year, the 1st years have gotten to understand the Advanced Nurturing High School and its rules a little better.
They were also in the process of forming groups for the next special exam.
However, an unpleasant instance soon happened after the group formation started.
Students of Class 1-D, led by Kazuomi Housen, were making their move, stubbornly refusing to participate in the groupings and to trade their cards. They were demanding points without which they were unwilling to form groups with the remaining year.
Because of this, the first years were put in a situation where they could not freely form groups.
Although representatives from each of the classes had hoped that Housen would have changed his mind during June, even today, July 1st, his stance on the matter hadn’t changed.
There was a chorus of voices from the 1st years to just ignore Class D in the group formation process, but in response, Takuya Yagami from Class 1-B stood up and calmed those voices. He raised that while it would’ve been easy to simply ignore Housen’s class, the important part about this special exam was that they need to compete with the “other school years.” Under the case where this point was given highest priority, it was necessary to select talented students from the entire year in order to form a strongest group. Around the same time, some students who had the same idea as him also expressed their support, so the three classes agreed to wait until July came.
Housen, however, had gone through the entire time with a negligent attitude, causing their negotiations to bear no fruit.
Finally, the deadline had arrived, and it had been decided that the representatives from all 4 classes would come together to discuss a way out of the current situation.