Part 7
"Horikita, can we talk for a minute?"
During the break, Keisei spoke to Horikita.
"No problem. Is there something wrong?"
"Just a little ... it's about the special exam."
Keisei didn't want this conversation to be heard, and quietly urged her to go to the corridor.
Because I may have wanted to see what it was about. As a result, Horikita turned her head.
"Can you let Ayanokouji-kun join?"
"... Yes."
Keisei obviously was reluctant, but he still accepted it.
I could not refuse, so I had to follow them.
"Have you considered what I said?"
"What is information seeking?"
"Yes."
"About this issue ... I think it will be very difficult to obtain information from Class A."
"But, if we don't do anything, isn't that a waste of time? You should use this time more
effectively."
It seems like Keisei wants to start gathering information as soon as possible.
He understood this, in order to make an effort to win, he wanted to do as much as he could.
"Can we solve this problem just by involving any student from Class A?"
"You're right. I don't think ordinary students will know about the five events that will be
submitted."
These five events may only be known to Sakayangi, besides, of course, she will only talk about
it to her trusted people.
Not surprisingly, she will be doing the information management as a whole.
"Even though the program to be submitted later is only known by Sakayanagi, the people in the
class will always have a little information. Is that right, Kiyotaka?"
"Of course. They always know something in the class."
Because they have lived together for a year, they will know their classmates to a certain extent,
about who is good at doing what and not.
In this way, we can still estimate to a certain extent, such as who is good at doing something, so
that it might be submitted as an event on that day.
"That's right. I've been thinking of ways to get information from Class A students."
"What method?"
Keisei first confirmed that there was no one else around, and then whispered something.
"Bring Katsuragi to our side."
Katsuragi, formerly the leader of Class A who crossed swords with Sakayanagi.
"Previously, Yahiko who still worked under Katsuragi was expelled from school. He must have
hated her for doing so. Recently I met him several times. He was clearly different from before."
Katsuragi must really hate Sakayanagi.
I remember the day Yahiko dropped out of school, when Katsuragi met with Ryuuen.
"Do you think he will betray the class just to get back at Sakayanagi?"
"Of course, you need to give him an appropriate profit."
In this case, Keisei seemed to have thought about it.
"If he can bring victory to Class C, even though the end result is 4 wins and 3 losses, we will get
130 class points. From the perspective of the whole class, that is equivalent to 6 million personal
points in a year. Furthermore if we save a number of personal points each month, it's not
impossible to collect up to 20 million personal points in the end. "
When I heard this, I already knew what Keisei wanted to say after this.
"When we get to class A, we will give Katsuragi the right to move classes. What are the
conditions? And in this case, Katsuragi will be our friend."
"First of all, this is something that is not even guaranteed for him. After all, aren't we C class?"
"But in Katsuragi's current situation, he cannot do anything else."
"Katsuragi-kun's situation may be very bad now. But if his betrayal is revealed the next time,
Katsuragi-kun himself will have to drop out of school. He doesn't have time to wait for us to
collect 20 million points. Even if we assume that our class points have risen significantly and
everyone in the class works together, it will take at least half a year. "
While calculating the problem realistically, I think it's better to estimate about one year.
And even if it's to get class points, 20 million personal points isn't cheap.
"Horikita, what do you think?"
"... That's right. As Yukimura-kun said, information is very important."
"It means ..."
"But, I completely disagree with Yukimura-kun's proposal."
"W-Why?"
"I also think that Katsuragi-kun right now, is having a hard time. But even so, I don't think he will
agree to our requirements to betray his class. What can we give? Our conditions are not very
tempting for him."
If we can immediately get 20 million personal points, we can discuss it, but if the agreement
requires one year, it will be very difficult to convince him.
"But if you don't do anything, you won't get information."
"Even if I take action, I'm not sure I can get useful information."
"How do you know if you haven't tried?"
Keisei didn't give up, but Horikita also didn't want to give up.
"I'm not completely denying the important role of information. It's just that this battle is not
possible. If you have thought of a new plan, come back to me later."
After that, Horikita returned to the classroom.
"Damn it!"
Keisei slammed his fist against the wall.
"... Hey, Kiyotaka, can you help me?"
"Do you want me to persuade Horikita?"
"No ... First of all we must contact Katsuragi."
He really has a strong will.
"I don't think Horikita hope for victory. But I think, she consciously thinks that we can't defeat
Class A? Even though we can't win, we must confront him, before anything. Let's go. Even if we
contact Katsuragi openly, it won't cause problems with the class. "
Even though I didn't want to be here, I couldn't stop it from continuing.
In this case, I still go with him as an act of saying that I can still understand the situation.
"How can we contact Katsuragi?"
"That ... let me think about it. However, there is still time left before the exam. "
"Okay I understand. Then, call me if you think about it. "
To prevent him from acting alone. I said that. In short, let's work with Keisei's plan.