Today was the first day of the second semester, and Shinji was already on his way to class. When he arrived, his classmates greeted him, and as he arrived at his seat, Sae entered the class, and soon, all of the students sat in their seats.

Then, Sae said:

"Today is the start of the second semester. First, I want to start with a summary of the previous semester.

Last semester, you arrived at the school, at the bottom of the hierarchy, to class D. You managed to become the only class in the history of the school, to lose all of its class points on the first month. Yet, you managed to produce very good results on the class trip, where you ended up in first place at both special tests that occurred on the trip and even got promoted to class C.

I have to say that I'm very impressed with the accomplishments you managed to achieve in such a short time. By promoting, you also became the first class D to ever promote.

In this semester, just like last semester, there will be special tests, and the closest one is the sports festival, which will take place in a month from today. I will now proceed to hand you copies of the list of the rules of the sports festival, so be sure to read it thoroughly" she said, and handed the copies to the class.

When Shinji received one, he proceeded to read it, although, he already knew it:

"1. The sports festival's competitive system is built upon dividing all school years between the Red Team and the White Team. Classes A and D will be on the Red Team and classes B and C will be on the White Team.

2. There will be three types of competitions:

Individual competitions, team competitions, and recommended competitions.

For individual competitions, the 1st placer gets 15 points, 2nd placer gets 12 points, 3rd placer 10 points, 4th placer 8 points, and 1 point each will be deducted for placing lower than 5th place. For team competitions, the winning team will be allocated 500 points.

For recommended competitions, 1st placer gets 50 points, 2nd placer gets 30 points, 3rd placer 15 points, 4th placer 10 points, and 2 points each will be deducted for placing lower than 5th place. The Joint 1200-m relay, which will be the final contest, is the only team recommended competition, and the winning team will be allocated 1500 points.

3. The impact of the outcome of the Red Team vs. White Team:

From the totality of all the school years, the losing team will have 100 points equally subtracted from their class points across all school years.

4. The impact of separate ordering of school years:

The class that takes 1st place, will be awarded 50 class points, the class that takes 2nd place, will not have any change to their class points, the class that takes 3rd place, will have 50 class points subtracted, and the class that takes 4th place, will have 100 class points subtracted.

5. Every class has to prepare its participation table. Every student has to participate in at least one competition. The participation table have to be submitted until a week before the festival. It's possible to submit multiple participation tables, but only the first one to be submitted will be the one that will be used.

This is the list of competitions:

Individual competitions - 100-m Sprint, 200-m Sprint, Hurdle Race, Obstacle Course, 3-Legged Race, Tamaire (females only), Cavalry Fight

Team competitions - Capture The Flag (males only), Tug Of War (males and females separated), Scavenger Hunt Race

Recommended competitions - 100-m sprint, 200-m sprint, 3-Legged Race, Hurdle Race, Joint 1200-m Relay"

"Sensei?" said Yosuke as he stood up

"Yes?"

"There's no mention of the reward to the winning team..."

"What do you think it means, that there is no mention of a reward?" Sae asked with a smirk

"...That there isn't one?"

"If you knew the answer, why did you asked?" Sae said, successfully shutting Yosuke up, as he sat back on his seat quietly

"Are there any more questions?" Sae asked. When she saw that no one answered, she said:

"Then, let's start the lesson"


~~~ Time Skip ~~~

Shinji was alone on the roof when the door to the roof opened, and Arisu came through it.

"I was quite surprised that you wanted to meet with me up here. Is it concerns our deal? If it is, you don't have to worry, as me and Kamuro-San will transfer the required points later on the day" Arisu said

"It's not about it. I want to offer you another deal, which doesn't concern our other deal"

"Oh? What is it about?"

"Well, because of your condition, you obviously won't participate in the sports festival, which will leave the leading for Katsuragi once again. I've heard about the splitting of your class, and while the Katsuragi Faction did take a hit for the results in both tests in the class trip, it still has the lead in the class, as it has more members. I want to offer you a deal that will benefit both of us" Shinji said and took the participation table he prepared for class A out of his pocket

"This is a participation table I prepared for your class. I want you to submit it today before your class does, and by doing that, it will lead to another hit for the Katsuragi Faction, which will finally let you take the lead in the class. It's not a bad deal, isn't it?"

"As I thought, you truly are an interesting person. As expected of someone who's related to THAT person. The deal does look appealing, but, if we'll lose too many points, there is a chance that our class might get demoted, and I'm afraid it's too big of a risk"

"Then, why won't I add one more thing? If you'll accept the deal, I'll delete the recording right now, in front of you, and the two of you won't need to transfer points to me anymore"

"Oh? But you don't have any guarantee that I will submit the participation table, and you still offering me this?"

"Business is built on trust. If I want to make more deals with you in the future, there has to be a mutual trust between us, and with this recording, there will never be one. So, by deleting it, I'm showing my trust, and if you will submit the participation table, it'll be your way of showing trust in me. However, if you won't submit it, or you won't accept the deal, I'll know that I can't make any future deals with you, and in that case, I'll have to make deals with the Katsuragi Faction, which will make us enemies. I'm sure you know which situation is more dangerous to you..." Shinji said with a suggestive smirk

"Certainly, I'd rather not make an enemy from the student who has perfect scores in all of the tests and quizzes, and completely dominated the other classes during the first two special tests, even if I didn't participate in them. And if I have to choose between making an enemy of you, and a slight risk that our class will get demoted... I choose the less dangerous one" Arisu said with a smirk and took the participation table off Shinji's hand, which made him smirk widely

"I'm satisfied to see that you decided to cooperate. I look forward to making more deals with you in the future" Shinji said, and took out his phone, and deleted the recording of Arisu and Masumi.

"Me as well. Well, I have to go now. I have a participation table to submit" Arisu said, and walked back into the building, leaving Shinji alone on the roof...