Outsider : Classroom Of The Elite

Chapter 2.11 - Impulse I

It was almost a week after the Sudou incident had concluded. The person in question, Sudou Ken, had been cleared of all accusations, giving him the opportunity to return back to his club activities. The accusers on the other hand, received the ultimate price for deceiving the school. Ishizaki, Kondou and Komiya's expulsion was already written in stone.

It seems like Ryuen couldn't fund the compulsory twenty million private points, huh? If he could've done that, it would've been the best possible move.

Due to three expulsions, class C would lose three-hundred class points by default. But on the other hand, the requirements to save a single classmate was ironically three hundred class points, of course with an additional requirement of twenty million private points.

Albeit doing so would've resulted in their class completely exhausting their class points. But the thing is, we were still on our first semester. There were five more semesters in front of us, which was more than enough time for them to climb back on the rank. Points can be regained back at any given time; but once a classmate gets expelled, they cannot be reinstituted no matter what.

On top of that, not only Ishizaki was an influencer figure of class C, he was also the most loyal subordinate Ryuen could ever find, aside from Albert Yamada. Besides, class points can never reach a negative value, regardless how much the penalty was. This could've been a great leverage for them.

Which is why from a tactical point of view, saving one classmate by sacrificing points would've been more efficient in contrast to losing them all. It was the only counter-argument against my perfectly paced gambit.

I'm guessing that Ryuen had understood that fact as well; yet he failed to save any of them. In that case it was probably one of the two outcomes.

Either, his pride didn't allow him to request assistance from the others, which was probably not one of brightest moves. (AN: What a polite way of saying "Beg" LoL)

Or, he actually DID request assistance from the others, but eventually failed to produce results, which was the most probable outcome.

After reading his monologues quite a few times, I could easily guess what the answer was.

In any case, that sort of analytical view would never provide me any sort of progression whatsoever. What mattered most was the fact that we were now part of a psychological warfare. After climbing up to class C, not only had we become the target of class D; the other classes also became somewhat wary of us.

Ryuen didn't seem to attack us within the period of last few days. According to the novel/anime, his next attack would be during the Island survival exam arc, which was approximately one week away from us.

I really don't know what Ichinose's thought process was. But to help us even though we're enemies; I was sure that there was a deep layer of hidden intentions. And the cherry on the top was the fact that we had also caught attention of the star class; class A. It would've been be a pain if Sakayanagi started laying out the pavements from the early game. Hiding from the eyes of Hashimoto would've consumed a great amount of time and effort, although...

... though I don't think it'd be me whom she'd go after.

At that moment, there was no saying what could happen. Considering the fact that all the things that had occured after my intrusion never actually took place inside it's roots, and the fact that I had greatly influenced the outcome of the plot, nothing is absolute. In a realistic scenario like this, I could never afford to rely on premature information. Leaving everything to chance would be a low ello blunder.

"But more importantly, today-"

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