Classroom of the Elite: Crimson Usurper (Volume 4)

Chapter 6: Declaration of War

"I'M beginning to think you're not fit for leader."

"And who else is qualified for being leader?"

Our class lost, for the second time in a row. Third if the Sudou incident was counted.

We were now left with a mere 142 class points, almost the same as with Class D when they somehow magically got 87 points from the test we've taken. From what I've gotten, at least 80% got about a 70, all while at first there were more than 85% that got below a 55.

While I don't suspect anyone to rise up against me, they know that I'm the only one who can leader. They will certainly, most definitely, lose the already non-existent trust and would lower expectations of my leadership.

Horikita didn't win, the current Class D didn't win.

There's no possible way Horikita was able to come up with this plan. Even from the recordings I've gathered when I visited Horikita and her underlings' table, they've seemed to have known I've had an recording under the table.

'To prove worthy of my leadership', my ass.

I was already convinced that there was a mastermind in Class D, their victory in this exam has confirmed the already confirmation of such thing.

"Wow! To think Ryuuen is thinking hard about some-"

"Be quiet."

"Hoh, you're that focus-"

"Be. Quiet."

Ignoring the annoying blueberry, they've used the same underhanded tactics. They've found loopholes and used that to their advantaged. They played around with me, I thought I figured out the pattern, the emails they sent discouraged that. 

And yet, there were the contracts themselves. The fact they achieved outcome 1 meant that they knew who the VIPs were. So, there was a pattern, just that the emails misdirected me.

"Those emails were a fucking fake-out... a distraction." I whispered to myself.

They've swapped the emails. How exactly? I'm yet to know.

All I know is that they've played with me the entire fucking semester. Almost as if they're taunting me after I sparked the Sudou Incident to happen.

"Why in the living fuck did Kushida say nothing about this?"

She would've knew about this, right?

Unless... she wasn't informed of the plan.

I figured out the pattern used in this exam, but Horikita... no the mastermind behind this, played with me and made me think that the pattern was a distraction from the school. After what happened in the Dragon Group, I thought that-

But no, the fucking pattern I've deduced was right all along. And they did this right at the last day, prohibiting me from looking into it any further.

If Kushida wasn't informed of this and she was the VIP, the mastermind most probably knew that Kushida would betray Class D sometime.

But how the fuck did they know?

They've placed counter measures, Kushida informed me that she got the email but before Hirata proposed showing his emails near the last few minutes of the discussion and provoking everyone else to do the same, he whispered to her-

"If you're fine with it, may you show your email last?"

Before Kushida had the chance to even show her email, everyone else did it and so Horikita showed her 'email' first. And right after everyone knew she was the 'VIP'-

The group discussion ended.

Kushida showed me her email, however it has 2 emails. One that said she was the VIP and one that said she wasn't. What was the mastermind trying to do? They were trying to make me guess which one was accurate. I didn't know. They were trying to make me confused, and they succeeded.

Students can't give others their emails so what the fuck happened?

Kushida being genuinely surprised as well with Hirata after Horikita showed her email led me to believe I was wrong. But while Hirata was acting.

Kushida wasn't, and that was the piece that got me.

The contract between me and Kushida isn't yet expired because of this. If possible, in the next special exam, Kushida could be able to betray her class and I'll be able to rise my class up.

If Kushida isn't able to do that, then the deal is cut off, and she's on her own. Perhaps she'll go to another person, but I don't care.

What I care about is defeating Class D, no... the soon to be Class C. Despite the wide gap, I still have more than enough time to destroy them. 

But I won't simply destroy them. I will obliterate them. I will make sure they will stay where they originally were.

Class D... Horikita... and however is there pulling the strings behind this.

I will utterly rip you into shreds. I will declare war and do what any war or dictator does.

Destruction.

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Word Count: 740 Words

I cringe at this, but it is what it is.

Anyway, postscript is next!