Hikigaya doesn't want to be a force of strength

9. The school will inform all students of the detailed test results by email at : pm on the last day.

A dense array of basic rules were written on the paper, and the complexity of the above content alone far exceeded the rules of the uninhabited island exam.

Of course, Hikigaya also knew that none of these things were important.

If you want to influence the results of the exam, the special results that Mr. Mashima mentioned are more important!

Result 1: If everyone answers correctly, except for the favored person in the group and the students in the favored person's class, the school will pay all team members 500,000 personal points, and the favored person will be given 1 million personal points in particular.

Result 2: Except for the favored student and the students in his class, if any member of the group does not answer the question or answers the question incorrectly, the school will only pay the favored student 500,000 points.

"Are there only these two results?"

Although Mr. Majima had reminded them not to ask questions during the process, Hikigaya still instinctively asked when he saw the contents on the paper.

After all, the two results above are too simple, and there is no sign of any difficulty that should be part of a special exam.

If this is a special exam like the uninhabited island exam, then there must be deeper content beneath the seemingly simple rules.

Seeing this, Mr. Majima looked at him in surprise, as if he didn't expect Hikigaya to figure out the true content of the test so quickly, and then silently explained: "There are four total results. Once you all understand the specific rules, I will explain them to you."

"Ok."

Hikigaya nodded after hearing Majima-sensei's answer.

At this moment, Kushida Kikyo pulled Hikigaya's sleeve and said, "Hikigaya, have you understood the rules of the exam?"

"That's about right." Feeling the gazes of Kushida and Horikita, Hikigaya didn't bother to hide it. "To put it simply, this exam is about finding the favored person. If everyone finds the favored person, the whole group can get 50 points, and the favored person himself can double it to 100 million points. But if no one finds it, only the favored person himself can get 50 points."

"Huh? Can I get so many points? I want to be a favored person too!"

Kikyo Kushida's first reaction was the benefits brought by the numerous points, which even made her eyes light up instinctively.

In contrast, Horikita Suzune was still thinking rationally, and said in confusion: "This rule doesn't sound difficult at all? As long as you are selected as a preferential recipient, you can get points in any way..."

"Yeah, so this is the biggest problem." Hikigaya shook his head silently, "According to the disgusting style of this school, how could such a good thing happen. The favored ones don't seem to have any punishment, which only means that there must be rules that we don't know about yet."

Seeing Hikigaya criticizing the school in front of him, this scene made Mashima Tomoya a little overwhelmed.

He had obviously never seen a student with such a unique personality.

Of course, what surprised him even more was Hikigaya's overly exaggerated thinking and reaction ability.

There were at least seven or eight groups that Tomoya Mashima explained the rules to in one evening, and among them, there were very few people like Hikigaya who could respond quickly to the rules and even guide other people in the group to understand the rules.

This made Mr. Majima feel relieved because he didn't have to explain too much, but he also inexplicably felt an indescribable pressure on Class A.

Fortunately, this D-class student has an overly prominent personality, and it seems that the D-class itself cannot control it...

"It seems that you have understood the basic rules." Mashima Tomoya looked at the people present, "Then, I will explain to you the third and fourth results of this exam."

Majima-sensei took a breath and continued, "As for the rest of the results, they are written on the back of the document. However, please turn to the back page later."

"what?"

Hikigaya was about to turn it over, but stopped instinctively after hearing what Majima-sensei said.

He was curious why the answer couldn't be told directly to him.

"I just want to give you a simple explanation." Majima-sensei showed a slightly friendly expression, "Have you ever played Werewolf?"

"What?"

"Werewolf? Is that a setting in Western novels?"

When Hikigaya and Horikita heard what Majima-sensei said, they showed confused and bewildered expressions at the same time.

Seeing the looks of the two of them, Mr. Tomoya Mashima, who had been quite confident, could no longer hold back.

It was Kikyo Kushida who stepped forward to explain: "Don't you know Werewolf? This game was popular for a while, and some people in the class played it together."

"I've heard of this game." Hikigaya narrowed his eyes and said, "It seems to be a party game that requires more than five or six people to play... But it's obviously a game, why is there a limit on the number of people? How unfair is this to people who don't have that many friends? The world is obviously full of injustice, and games are supposed to be equal entertainment for all people, but this game discriminates against people like us who don't have friends. It's simply a shame for the gaming industry! By the way, Nintendo's latest multiplayer games are all betrayals! Why do they have to add a 2P hat setting for Mario Odyssey? It would be enough to have more single-player masterpieces like Zelda: Breath of the Wild..."

Under the stimulation, Hikigaya instinctively began his long speech.

His stress-like reaction made both Kikyo Kushida and Teacher Majima instinctively show sympathy.

Horikita Suzune said bluntly: "Huh, it's really pathetic for someone like you to have no friends."

"Why are you saying that?" Hikigaya was annoyed, "As if you have friends! We are obviously comrades who have no friends!"

"Yeah, but even though I don't have any friends, I never play games."

"Hey, you're not trying to say that game geeks are the lowest class of creatures, are you?"

"..."

Seeing the chaos that suddenly broke out at the scene, Mr. Tomoya Mashima finally realized that he seemed to have brought up a bad topic.

He quickly made amends, "Ahem, it seems you don't know much about Werewolf. I thought it was a topic that young people could easily understand... In that case, just turn to the back and read the rules written there, and try to understand them."

Chapter 349: How to achieve a seemingly unattainable result?

Hikigaya felt a little embarrassed when Majima-sensei seemed to be unable to do anything to him.

But there was nothing he could do.

He really didn't know much about werewolf killing.

In the past he could still find Zaimokuza to discuss two-player games, but this kind of party game that can only be played by five or six people made his lonely otaku self melt at the mere sight of it.

Kushida Kikyo seemed to have noticed this as well, and said with a sympathetic look on her face: "Don't worry, Hikigaya-san, if you want to play, I will definitely play with you in the future."

"No, even if you're willing to accompany me, we can't form a group just by the two of us..." Hikigaya said delicately, "I'm not familiar with your friends. If I force them to come, the situation will be so awkward that everyone will be so uncomfortable that they will pick their feet."

"That's true." Kushida nodded in approval and then looked at Horikita silently, "Then how about calling Horikita-san?"

"Do you think she might come?!"

Hikigaya spoke helplessly. He didn't think he would ever play Werewolf in his life, let alone go to a party that was too lively.

Even if he graduates and becomes a corporate slave and is forced to attend social events, he will definitely squat in a corner drinking alone and be the first to run away when the time comes.

It can be said that it is a future that is visible to the naked eye.

Just when he thought that Horikita Suzune would do the same as him, the latter said hesitantly: "It's just a game, but if you want to increase your knowledge, maybe you can give it a try..."

"Huh? Can I actually try it?"

"Humph, I just feel that you are such a lonely guy and I am giving you some insignificant sympathy. Don't get me wrong."

"..."

It seems like I really don't get along with this guy.

Anyway, after ending the topic of Werewolf and avoiding the situation where Mr. Majima would feel guilty, several people turned over the back of the cards to check the real rules of this special exam.

There are two other results written there:

Result 3: If someone other than the favored student tells the school the answer before the end of the exam, and the answer is correct, the class to which the student belongs will receive 50 class points, and the school will pay the person who gave the correct answer 500,000 individual points. Otherwise, the class whose identity is revealed will be punished by deducting 50 class points, and the group exam will end at this point. If the students in the same class as the favored student answer correctly, the school will consider the answer invalid and continue the exam.

Result 4: If someone other than the favored student tells the school the answer before the exam is over and gives an incorrect answer, the class to which the student with the wrong answer belongs will be punished by losing 50 class points. The favored student will receive 500,000 individual points, and the class to which the favored student belongs will also receive 50 class points. The exam will end at the time when the wrong answer was given. If a classmate in the same class as the favored student gives an incorrect answer, the answer will be considered invalid and will not be accepted.

"I see."

After reading these two rules, Hikigaya finally realized that Majima-sensei would use Werewolf as an example to try to make them understand the rules.

Although Hikigaya had never played Werewolf himself, as a young man, he more or less understood the rules of this popular party game.

If we replace the two, the werewolf in Werewolf is the 'favored person' in the exam. Others must try their best to guess the true identity of the 'favored person', while the favored person needs to hide his or her own identity as much as possible.

If you find out the identity of the favored class in advance and report it to the school, you can attack the class that the favored class belongs to and get rewards for your own class.

On the contrary, if you guess the identity of the favored person incorrectly, not only will the favored person's class receive rich rewards, but your own class will also suffer huge losses.

"You understand, don't you?" Majima glanced at Hikigaya and said silently, "Unlike result one and result two, if you wait until the last two hours after the exam to fill in your guess, you will enter result one and result two. But if you guess the name of the favored person before the exam is over, you will directly enter result three and result four. And these two results will affect the class points of the class, which is of great importance."

There are four results in total. The first two results are that there are no traitors in the group, and everyone can get through the difficulties without making any guesses in advance, and everyone will reap the results together, and at worst there will be no unnecessary losses.

In contrast, the latter two results occur only when there is a traitor or someone in the group reveals the identity of the favored person in advance, and the rewards and losses are limited to the classes of the traitor and the favored person.

This means that traitors and favoritism are responsible for their own profits and losses.

If the traitor guesses correctly, it will be beneficial. If the identity of the favored person is guessed, it will bring huge losses to the class. On the contrary, if the traitor guesses wrong, it will not only cause a huge impact on their own class, but the favored person will also get rich rewards.

In a sense, this is very similar to the content of guessing the leader in the uninhabited island exam, both of which are the kind of content that carries huge risks but also great rewards.

There is no doubt that this is also the part that this school, which believes in strength above all else, really wants to test its students.

Of course, unlike the uninhabited island where most people don’t care too much about their leaders, the favored ones are almost the main body of this exam.

If anyone is careless and reveals that he or she is the one who favors others, he or she will be immediately hunted by the traitors.

Since answers are accepted 24 hours a day during the exam, no one would simply aim for result 1 and wait for the exam to end. I'm sure everyone will rush to take action for the points.

In order to win and frame other classes, it is conceivable that the favoritism will plan to let others pretend to be the favoritism. Although the reward amount will be reduced, the other classes can be punished.

Tsk tsk, such terrible rules, this school really keeps breaking new ground.

"The school has also taken anonymity into consideration this time." Majima-sensei continued, "When the exam is over, the school will only announce the results of each group and the increase or decrease in points of each class. In other words, we will not disclose the names of those who were given preferential treatment or those who answered the questions."

"In addition, if you wish, the school will also issue a temporary ID for remittances, and even allow you to withdraw the money in installments. As long as you keep silent, there will be no worries of being discovered after the exam. Of course, if you don't need to hide it, it's fine to collect the points openly."

The school's various considerations once again proved its bad intentions.

If the favored ones want to maximize their benefits, they can even betray their class, take the riskiest move and earn the most points.

For this reason, the school has proposed concealing the identities of those who receive preferential treatment, etc., trying to make everyone feel at ease to take various risky actions.

Of course, it would also be an important part of the exam to trick others into believing that they were the favored ones and deliberately make their opponents make mistakes so that other classes could be punished, in order to make everyone in each class engage in cruel mutual spying and deception.

"The above is the specific description of this exam. The specific process of subsequent exams will be notified by text message."

After saying this, Mr. Majima closed his mouth silently, looking as if he had completed all his tasks.

"Is it over now?" Kushida still looked dazed after listening to what Majima said. "I feel like the content of this exam is very vague. I don't really know what I'm supposed to do."

"To put it simply, we need to achieve one of the four results." Horikita Suzune explained, "The first two of the four results are positive, so to put it simply, we just need to avoid being caused by other classes to achieve results three and four."

Horikita Suzune instinctively took a defensive approach, which was consistent with her usual style.

But certainly not everyone will be like Horikita, there are many people who will aim to achieve Result 3 and Result 4 and attack other classes.

Of course, Hikigaya would not make any additional reminders at this time. First, he did not want to attract so much attention, and second, he was not interested in participating in class struggles.

No matter what the result is, it doesn't mean much to him.

Unless he himself is the favored one, he might still consider aiming for result one and try to earn the one million points.

Of course, if he himself is not the one being favored, he can also try to induce the result to become result one. Five hundred thousand points is also quite good for him.

"By the way, here is a list of prohibited items. Please read it carefully."

Majima-sensei took out the last form.

There are two valid items written in the prohibited items:

First, you are not allowed to steal someone else's phone, or make threats to confirm information about the preferential treatment, or use someone else's phone to send answers without permission. If you are caught, you will be expelled.

The second is that the class must be dismissed immediately after the exam and that they are prohibited from talking to other students for a certain period of time. This is also a serious offense that will result in expulsion.

Such severe punishment has never been seen before.

Huh? But the second one?

Looking at the second prohibition, Hikigaya's eyes fell into some thought, and after a brief hesitation, he controlled his mouth that was about to say something.

Communication is prohibited after the exam, which means that in order to achieve the result of the exam, the information of the favored candidates must be shared during the exam.

Traitors are bound to appear in the sharing process, so theoretically it is impossible to achieve result 1.

This school is terrible!

It's simply forcing the students to fight each other to death!

However, based on Hikigaya's experience over the past six months, although this Tokyo Metropolitan High School does do some annoying things and deliberately disgusts students, most of its rules and regulations do have their meaning.

Therefore, it is impossible for this school to make some meaningless actions, that is to say, the result will definitely not be a pure decoration.