Three days passed in a flash.
At this time, 2nd Year Class B.
Everyone was looking toward the door with anticipation, waiting for Ichinose's drawing results.
Originally, Hikigaya and Ichinose.
The two of them had discussed privately whether Hikigaya should be the leader.
Although there was a risk of expulsion, it wasn't an unsolvable problem.
In the name of the class, they could sell Katsuragi a favor and borrow four million from him—that wouldn't be hard.
After all.
The opponent this time wasn't Class A.
Four million for Class A was just a drop in the bucket, and with Class B's current money-collecting speed, they could pay it back in a month.
However.
Having a Protection Point and not using it would indeed be too stupid.
In the end, it was decided that Ichinose would serve as the leader and go to the multimedia classroom to draw lots.
As for whether Ichinose could make up her mind.
Hikigaya still decided to respect Ichinose's opinion.
As long as Class C's leader had a Protection Point, Ichinose would surely be able to fight with peace of mind.
It should be fine.
Drawing one's own class's project would undoubtedly greatly increase the win rate.
At this time.
Everyone in Class B was apprehensive, and so was Hikigaya.
Twenty million was the bottom line for Class B to protect their companions.
Therefore.
Now was the saving phase.
Since there were no usable private points, they naturally couldn't use private points as a weapon.
To be honest.
If they drew Class C's project.
Hikigaya felt that winning would be too difficult.
Class C's Sudou, Kouenji, Ayanokouji, and Hirata—those few elite members were just too strong.
Although Kouenji was unpredictable, who could say for sure?
Maybe Kouenji would just participate on a whim.
Horikita Suzune was naturally aware of this and would likely choose a small-number project.
Winning against Class C in a small-number project.
The difficulty could be said to be extremely high.
However.
In other words.
The more people participating, the greater the weakness of Class C would be.
This was also one of the reasons Hikigaya leaned toward baseball.
Baseball tested unity more.
And the number of people who could participate was not small.
Except for the pitcher having the ability to lead the team to victory by himself, it was impossible for anyone else; they could minimize the impact of individual performance.
Even if Sudou, Kouenji, Ayanokouji, and the others were strong.
They couldn't possibly be strong to a heaven-defying degree, right?
Soon.
Accompanied by the sound of footsteps.
Ichinose's figure appeared before everyone, looking slightly excited.
"Honami, how's the situation?"
"No problem. Our class's project, baseball, was drawn! The exam rules will be announced to us at the class meeting in three days."
Hearing this.
Kanzaki and the others immediately breathed a sigh of relief.
After all, with the projects not being restricted, it was impossible for the school to be fully prepared.
They would probably make some adjustments based on specific rules.
"Really? That's just great. Honami-chan really is our class's goddess of luck!"
"This way, we're one step closer to victory!"
Hearing the comments around him, the corners of Hikigaya's mouth rose slightly.
It seemed the goddess of luck was on their side this time as well.
"Honami, who is Class C's leader?"
"It's Horikita-san."
Ichinose turned to look at Hikigaya, her expression looking slightly awkward:
"Also, Hikki, Horikita-san was very confident and asked me to tell you that this time Class C will definitely win and then rise to Class B."
"Yeah, that's very much in her style."
Hikigaya didn't take it too much to heart.
Talking big is normal.
However.
One couldn't afford to be careless either.
"Let me just ask."
Hikigaya said with some concern: "Since it's already been decided to be baseball, who do you think are the ones in Class C good at playing baseball?"
"I think they must have more or less played when they were little? It's just that I'm not clear if they are good at it."
"That's true. Let's use the process of elimination first. Who do you all know in Class C who can't play baseball?"
As soon as these words were spoken.
Everyone couldn't help but look toward Sakura Airi. The person here who understood Class C best was undoubtedly Sakura Airi, followed by Ichinose.
"I'm sorry, I actually don't know that much."
Sakura Airi's face turned red, feeling a bit embarrassed.
"I only know... Yukimura-kun probably can't play baseball, and Miyake-kun probably isn't very good at it either. I'm not very sure about Ayanokouji-kun, it just feels like maybe he can do anything."
Oh.
What kind of monster is that?
But since Ayanokouji was born in the White Room and hadn't had contact with people since childhood, logically speaking, he shouldn't be able to.