COTE : Backed By Black Technology System

In Kanda Shuichi's plan, there were three classes that were easy to handle. 

Class A, which had been overtaken by Class B, definitely wanted to climb back up. However, they no longer had a chance in this exam. If they wanted to surpass others, they would have to move carefully, step by step. 

So they absolutely couldn't afford to lose 150 class points, which was something they couldn't let happen. Therefore, Class A had no choice but to agree. 

Next was Class B. Compared to Class A, their class points were higher. While they had no chance in this exam, as long as Class A had no chance either, they would be able to hang the A-class plaque next month. 

Additionally, Kanda Shuichi had already talked to Ichinose in advance in the afternoon, making them feel that Kanda Shuichi respected them as collaborators. 

Plus, since they owed Class D a favor from the deserted island incident, they wouldn't oppose it. They were even happy to receive the 10 million points. 

As for Class D, as long as they were told that the 20 million points would be used to ensure that one person would be expelled, even if they were greedy, they would agree. 

Some might ask, wasn't Kanda taking 30 million points from Class A and B? Why not use that instead?

Well, if there's really such a person, it doesn't matter. Kanda Shuichi had already given the 20 million points that belonged to Class D to the students of the class. Whether it came back or not, that was Hirata's problem. 

Even if Class D was a mess, they shouldn't cause problems for Kanda Shuichi. 

But if someone did cause trouble and the class funds didn't come in, Kanda Shuichi would just congratulate Yamauchi—next time, they wouldn't need to send him out for expulsion. 

After all, Kanda Shuichi would never give up the money he got from Class A and B. 

As for Class C… 

Kanda Shuichi had considered that Ryuen was troublesome and greedy, but he didn't expect him to be this greedy. 

Ryuen didn't care about class points, or else he wouldn't have accepted Sakayanagi's offer and gone to war with Class B. 

His focus was only on private points, so Kanda Shuichi had promised from the start that he wouldn't take any private points from him. 

But even so, Ryuen was still not satisfied. Despite Kanda Shuichi appreciating him, Kanda was already starting to get a little annoyed. 

"Ryuen, you're really pushing me." Kanda Shuichi sighed dramatically, but he was already starting to smile. "Are you really planning to go against me like this?"

"As long as you agree to my terms, it'll be fine, right? How about this—I'll step back. Just give me the 10 million from Class B, and we'll be good. How does that sound?" 

Ryuen pretended to be magnanimous, because he felt that Kanda Shuichi must have something up his sleeve. 

At the same time, he tried to think from Kanda's perspective. If he were in control of the exam rules and needed to convince the other classes to reach result one, it would be easy with Class A and B. But how would he deal with Kanda Shuichi? 

The answer was, he couldn't. This guy didn't care about class points either, so the only way to convince him was with a bribe. 

"Ryuen, I originally wanted to get along with you for a while, but unfortunately, now you'll have to hand over all your 20 million points." 

Kanda Shuichi sighed again, then took out his phone. 

This action made Katsuragi and the others tense up, and Ryuen narrowed his eyes. 

This guy wasn't planning to end the exam right now, was he? 

Of course not. Kanda Shuichi still wanted private points. 

So the reason he took out his phone was to expose Ryuen's cheating actions. 

[It's now 7:57. In less than three minutes, the school will send out information about this exam. So, everyone, place your phones on the table in front of you. Don't touch them unless I give the order.]

Ryuen's voice played from Kanda Shuichi's phone.

During this afternoon's meeting, Ryuen had casually mentioned that he had already figured out the names of all the favored students in his class.

However, Kanda Shuichi thought that given the atmosphere in Class C, the students wouldn't have reported anything voluntarily, so Ryuen must have done something extraordinary to find out.

After deducing the pattern for selecting favored students, he took the opportunity, with only himself in the room, to pull out the time-viewing TV, start looking for clues, and saw everything Ryuen had done to his class's students earlier this morning.

He also discovered a new feature: the time-viewing TV didn't need to be set in a specific space, it just had to lock onto the target.

So, after spending 500,000 personal points, Kanda Shuichi finally got the key evidence against Ryuen and recorded his words using his phone.

Without a doubt, the way Ryuen obtained the favored students in his class was inappropriate. Although it sounded like an order, it was more like coercion, and therefore, it definitely violated the school's rules.

With that, Kanda Shuichi was in an unbeatable position. Originally, he didn't want to release the recording because he still had some respect for Ryuen.

At first, Kanda Shuichi had no intention of bringing this out, but there was nothing he could do. If his younger brother wanted to make things difficult for himself, then it was no longer his problem.

As for Ryuen's thoughts?

His first concern wasn't about the consequences but that—there was a traitor in the class!

The meeting had been held in a completely closed space, so it was impossible for anyone to sneak in. And that recording was very clear, almost as if it had been recorded right beside him.

But there had been no one near him at the time. Shiina had been seated far away. Could it be that someone had secretly placed a recorder or something near the desk?

No way!

At that moment, he had been walking around, so if the recorder was under a desk, the sound should have fluctuated, getting louder or softer.

However, the volume in the recording remained steady from start to finish, which meant the source of the recording had to be very close to him.

Could this guy have planted a bug on him?

But soon, Ryuen rejected that possibility, since Kanda Shuichi had only been around him during the briefing that night, and there had been no contact between them since.

Could it have been that night during the briefing when a bug was planted on me?

No, that wasn't possible either, because they hadn't had any contact at that time.

Could it have been someone else?

No, because no one had touched him physically.

The most important thing was that he had changed his clothes this morning before leaving.

Wait a minute, could it be that this guy snuck into my room and planted a bug on my clothes? Is the traitor actually my roommate?

Thinking this, Ryuen immediately started checking his clothes but found no trace of anything. Had it been removed?

Impossible. I live in a shared room, and my roommate is Albert. He would never betray me! So what is going on?

Damn it! How did this bastard do it?

Ryuen was utterly baffled.

Seeing Ryuen deep in thought with no results, Kanda Shuichi couldn't hold back his laughter anymore.

"Hahaha, Ryuen, are you wondering how I got this?"

"Yeah, I'm really wondering. When I said those things, there should have been no one else around, and I chose my seat randomly. I was moving around while speaking, so how did you get this recording?" Ryuen's face darkened, then he thought of a possibility.

"You didn't... synthesize this, did you?"

Ryuen's wild guess left Kanda Shuichi speechless. Synthesized audio? It wasn't impossible, but seriously, you really dare to think like that?

"Well, do you want to report this to the school? If you want, I'll turn it in right now. I'm sure the school will be able to tell if it's fake or not, right?"

Kanda Shuichi's smug expression really irritated Ryuen.

And, he had already figured it out. The things played back were exactly what was said, word for word, even the tone and order of the sentences were identical. There was no way it could be fake.

The earlier suggestion that it was a synthesized voice was just a small resistance.

After silently staring at Kanda Shuichi for a while, Ryuen gave his answer.

"Tch! Fine, I give up. I don't want the points anymore."

Ryuen was the type who could bend when needed. Even though he had already gotten his hands on 20 million points, he said he would give it up. It hurt, but he didn't show it on his face at all.

"Although the points no longer belong to you, I still admire your generosity. So, I'll let go of the 800,000 points per month that you extorted from Class A."

Upon hearing this, Ryuen's eyebrows twitched, but he didn't respond. The more he said now, the more mistakes he'd make. He didn't want to risk losing everything he had gained on the uninhabited island.

However, after this incident, Ryuen would definitely be extra careful, and Kanda Shuichi and Ryuen's cooperation would likely come to an end. In the next exam, Ryuen would definitely find a way to make Kanda Shuichi's life difficult.

After seeing Ryuen temporarily back down, Kanda Shuichi turned his attention to the students from Class A.

"So, how about it? Have you guys thought about it?"

It was clearly a question he already knew the answer to!

Katsuragi thought to himself before speaking on behalf of the others, "We agree to your terms, but how can you guarantee this plan will succeed? What if someone betrays us halfway through?"

"Simple."

With that, Kanda Shuichi snapped his fingers, and Hirata pulled out a stack of contract papers from under the table and placed them on the table.

At this sight, everyone's eyelids twitched. He was really prepared.

The contract was very straightforward.

First, the names of the privileged students must be sent to a designated email between 9:30 and 10:00 on the last day of the exam, to achieve Result 1.

Secondly, after receiving the points, each person would pay Kanda Shuichi 500,000 private points.

Failure to meet these terms would result in expulsion.

As for the extra 50K that came from the privileged students, Kanda Shuichi didn't care about it, definitely not because Kamuro was a privileged student from a particular group.

"Here, one for each of you. Everyone has to sign."

Hirata counted out 39 copies for Katsuragi, then 40 copies for Ichinose and Ryuen.

Finally, he handed over two copies for Kushida and Horikita, with Hirata's signature already on them.

"Eh? Do we have to sign too?"

Kushida was surprised. Aren't we teammates?

"Of course. What kind of mess would those idiots in our class cause if there were no rules?"

Horikita Suzune thought for a moment before taking the contract. After reading through it, she wrote down her name.

Having them sign the contract was to set an example, so that the idiots from D-Class wouldn't cause any trouble.

Soon, everyone had signed their names and completed the contract.

"By the way, the remaining contracts for your class must be handed to me within half an hour. No matter what you do, you must get everyone's signature on them. Otherwise, don't blame me for tearing up our agreement."

"Of course, you can also try to break the exam rules within this half hour. If you can, feel free to do so."

Katsuragi and Ichinose nodded, indicating there was no problem.

Ryuen, on the other hand, scoffed. After checking the time, he stood up, grabbed the stack of contracts, and turned to leave.

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