Classroom of the Elite (Ayanokoji Kiyone)

Volume 5 : What Are We Lacking?

Ayanokoji Kiyone POV

Another competition done

Ijuin : "Fuu~......that was unfortunate. A little bit more and we'd have been able to beat Class B......"

Miyamoto : "I guess so"

We prepared a substitute for the omnidirectional tug-of-war in Sudou's absence but we were still soundly defeated just now. We challenged them believing in the slim possibility of success. But we lost. We had plummeted down to the bottom.

As a class, we had decided to re-evaluate our coordination but it was Hirata who, more than anyone else, received the most damage.

Just like with the scavenger hunt, he bore the burden of providing the points necessary for substitution and as such, he's lost a considerable amount of points. It's an extremely dire situation where we have to tackle any and all contests without our greatest ace, Sudou.

Hirata : *sigh* "Doesn't look like Sudou-kun's coming back yet"

Karuizawa : "Yosuke, are you planning on providing the points for the next contest as well?"

Hirata : "Yeah. Because it's necessary. A necessary expenditure"

Karuizawa : "But still, if you keep like this....."

But even so, conveniently for us, Hirata's paid for three so far. Twice for Sudou who missed out on the scavenger hunt and the omnidirectional tug-of-war and once for Horikita, who missed out on the latter. It wasn't cheap by any means.

If he has to pay for the next one as well it would come to a total of 500,000 points. No matter how many private points he's saved up, it's still overspending.

Kiyone : "Well......leaving aside Sudou-kun, Horikita-san will probably pay for herself later"

She is indeed absent, but it's quite the inhuman thing to do having Hirata pay for it all. Fortunately enough, she's obtained a large sum of points from the previous exam similar to Hirata himself.

Kiyone : "Anyway, isn't it about time you let them bear the cost too? The ones participating, I mean"

Hirata : "That may be so. But 100,000 points is a large amount and saving up that much isn't easy after all. I'm the one who went ahead with the substitutions and all so I can't really go around asking them for points".

Kiyone : "Don't you think that the one who bailed is at fault?"

On top of that, Hirata got beat up by Sudou. But it seems Hirata thinks nothing of it.

Hirata : "There's the class's victory to consider too but if we can rank higher and win prizes here it'll give us an advantage in the exams to come. It's best to participate still. If they have to pay their own way through, there are probably a lot of students who would pass up on this"

Certainly, most of the students who are in dire need of points in their exams also fret over their financial troubles. Of course they'd want points for themselves but since there's the possibility they'd plummet to the bottom instead and be at a disadvantage in their exams, they'd hesitate.

Because it'd be a miserable sight if they happened to lose both money and points.

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The remaining contests are the mixed gender three-legged race and the last one: the 1200 meter relay. Kushida-san decide to nominate herself on mixed gender three-legged race since no one girls interested to do that.

There is short time break before the contest began. Kushida-san approached me

Kushida : "Fufufu~ you seem bored today, Aya-chan. What happened? Are you perhaps doesn't like sport event, even during your middle school?"