Classroom Of The Elite Year 2 Volume 9

Part 1

The first day of winter break.

The sky was covered in thick clouds and it's been raining since the morning.

About 10 minutes past the appointed time, Ryuuen approached with an umbrella.

Ichinose, who had been waiting from earlier, quietly stared at Ryuuen's face.

Ryuuen stopped at a distance where they could hear each other through the rain.

"The weather's always like this recently, huh?"

Without even a word about Ryuuen's late arrival, Ichinose started speaking.

"Aren't you gonna complain about me being late?"

"I don't care. I was ready to wait for 30 minutes. If you hadn't shown up, I would have left without hesitation."

Ichinose replied with a relaxed attitude, and seemed to care more about the weather than she did about Ryuuen.

She tilted her umbrella and looked up at the rainy sky for a moment.

"I think it'll be like this all day."

"How friendly and good-natured of you to go to the trouble of answering my call."

Ryuuen said, ignoring Ichinose's mutterings.

"I don't know if you understand the meaning of the word "friend", but it's normal to answer when you're called. I didn't have any plans right now anyway. So, what is it?"

"My plans got messed up a little. I want to know why."

"The Special Test? Your harassment didn't work as planned, huh?"

"You might think that it's uninspired for me to do something similar again, but it suits my pawns. If it's the easiest and most effective way, why not repeat it?" Ryuuen instructed his classmates to relentlessly pressure and interfere with Ichinose's classmates.

They would force their way into classrooms, libraries, karaoke rooms and other places where the students from Ichinose Class gathered for study sessions, and interfere with their studies.

Ayanokoji and the others had no way of knowing, but Ryueen was also doing more dangerous things.

He would offer money to students with high Academic Ability and pay them if they got a question wrong, or threaten them that it would be troubling for their peers if they answered all the questions correctly.

The strategy was based on the idea that even a class with high solidarity can be penetrated if they are weakened.

"It's true that it was annoying for everyone."

"I'm sure it was."

However, this did not result in a large amount of damage in the end.

In a match of Academic Ability where the gap is already large, Ryuuen has a faint chance of winning even with a frontal attack.

It's precisely because he understood this that he planned to fight and defeat his opponents from another direction.

"But, did you actually think you could win that way?"

"Yeah, I did."

When it came down to it however, none of his strategies worked on Ichinose and her class.

"I've come to give you my honest praise this time, Ichinose. I thought your class would collapse after something like that, but you've definitely grown up a lot since year-one."

The reports from Ishizaki and the others working under Ryuuen said that their sabotaging of the Ichinose Class was a success.

Although no students had accepted the bribes or the threats, they still seemed to be agitated.