COTE : Elites War - Oblivion [Hiatus]

7.1 Conflict

Kiyotaka POV

The Battle Royale special exam had been going on for almost a week, with only a day remaining until the final task of the exam.

For now there's no problem. The task after determining the name was to build alliances with other classes, coincidentally because all the second years had agreed long ago to cooperate. No particular problem occurred.

Although yesterday during the meeting there was a bit of an argument between Ryuuen's class and Sakayanagi's  class, it all ended peacefully.

In addition there is the task of determining the destination of field trips, Hokkaido, Kyoto, and Okinawa.

In the end after a long debate of each delegate, the winner was the third year group who chose Hokkaido.

Nothing suspicious so far until the last day came.

This time Nagumo was no longer sitting at the president's desk, but sat as part of the delegation with a calm smile. Instead, a teacher announced the final assignment.

"Now it's your job to get de jure recognition. Please see a list of what countries you have to convince yourself to do."

When I recalled it again, this de jure and de facto task had been given since the first day, but the trial was only de facto.

It turned out that de jure was tried on the last day of the exam. I looked at the paper that had just been handed out, it had the names The Wind (1-D) and The Mountain (3-A) written on it.

Housen and Nagumo's class.

Huh, this is going to be a bit of a hassle.

Whereas I could see Nagumo widening his smile at his desk, somehow it seemed he already knew that my class had to receive recognition from his class.

"If you fail to get two de jure votes, then you will have two choices. The first is a reduction of 450 cp and 10,000 personal points for six months. Or you have to submit one student's name for expulsion. If you choose to expell a student, you can get 100 class point."

Everyone fell silent upon hearing the words of expulsion, dropping out was nothing new in Kudou Ikusei. But still it is a feeling of fear that is always felt by every student.

"Is there anything you want to ask?"

I think, Nagumo will trap our class in this task. Or rather he would set me up.

"Sensei, how do we get de jure recognition from other classes? Do we have to convince them at all costs?"

Nagumo's voice reverberated through the room, as usual he displayed an extraordinary amount of confidence.

The teachers looked at each other. "Yeah, you guys have to convince them at all costs."

"Then what if they put unreasonable conditions?"

This time the teachers were silent. They gave no answer at all.

And the tension grew as Nagumo widened his smile with a conclusion, "Okay, I understand. Thank you sensei."

There was only one answer to the attitude of the teachers to Nagumo's question, which was that anything was permissible to gain de jure recognition.

If you have to bribe, resort to violence, threaten, or even other offenses to get a de jure confession. All are permitted by implication.

The silence of the teachers meant that 'you are free to do anything as long as there is no evidence to show your offence'.

Honestly that's a terrible statement.