[Eon's POV: ]
"Oh?"
They didn't stop their work when Cradle said she was done with her answer but it was difficult when I said it.
Not only the rest of them who were finding the answer to this question, even the rest of the students who were talking with each other and the rest of our house captains also stopped whatever they were doing and looked in our direction.
{ "So Captain Lucifer is done as well? Let me see then. What did you use as the divider?" }
Harry was curious in what kind of answer I had come up with as well so there was a smile on his face, while the rest of them were focusing on me right now.
It felt a little weird since they were looking at me like whatever answer I had come up with was most probably the right one, which, truthfully, wasn't so good of a reaction.
'There was no certainty that if I had reached an answer, that answer would be the right one for certain.'
If even Cradle was wrong, there was a good chance that I might be wrong as well.
It wasn't like I was some kind of omniscient being, not when there was this restriction of skill usage.
There was no certainty my answer would be the right one, but, we didn't even have a right answer to compare the authenticity of our answers.
So... only the most plausible answer was going to be the acceptable answer of this question.
Then again, the race was to see who gets to that plausible answer faster.
"The divider that best covers every element of this puzzle, is simply the 'cause' that produced the certain results that made some impact on the overall result of the competition."
It was very simple actually.
'Something happened, someone did something, because someone did something, something else happened, and because that thing happened, there was a certain kind of chain reaction that led to another event and ultimately, there was the resulting outcome at the very end, the victory of Miss Mia.'
It wasn't too complex, but it was difficult to understand for sure.
There were countless things, countless visible and invisible things that could have happened for something to take place, however, if it was the headmaster we were talking about, if we consider the report that he received included video recordings of the entire competition, then it was certainly possible for him to have made the kind of system where the cause that was the reason behind the event that had the most significance.
"Look at this."
Using the Aura and a little telekinesis, I made the papers before me float before us and thanks to that, all of them were now looking at my readable handwriting and barely readable calculations.
"Dividing the distributed points into three broadest categories of Points given because of environmental factors, Points given to the individuals, and Points given to the Other elements, this whole process that the headmaster might have followed would be..."
I explained to them how I interpreted this process.
They had better manners than the students on the seats before us who wanted to jump up and question a hundred things about my analysis.
But since they weren't a part of our little competition or part of the stage, they didn't risk a punishment from the house captains.
"Ah, you can keep that appreciation to yourself. Tell me how you reached the second connection point in the three broadest categories you created.
Did you just instinctively know you should go with what you did there or did you calculate it?"
The one asking that was Newtine even though the way he was king that question was pretty much similar to how the vice president asks the questions.
We had to prove that the method we were using was completing the structure we were creating.
'Or in simpler words, the categories we were using to separate the distributed points had to be connected to one another for the loop of information to complete itself.'
It didn't have to be like this in all cases but in my case specifically, since I was using the 'cause' as the connective in this equation, I had to prove everything was interconnecting at the end.
"If you are talking about how the 'Other' kind of points are categorized, then yes. I calculated for them, however, not all of them have a fundamental application to the rest of the calculation."
There were many things that the headmaster gave points for.
Things as small as good teamwork, a proper choice of environment, the right way of greeting the other people during great times, their behaviour in times the judges of the competition did not look at them, to how well they took advantage of the things that they were provided from the start of the competition.
There were many little things that didn't look as significant to us as the headmaster had given them those points for, but logically seeing from a pure perspective, the things that he had given points for certainly made sense.
Newtine was perhaps the only one who reached closest to my own calculation, since even Alf had approached it in a unique manner.
'Alf used his calculation abilities well and made the most simple looking categorization system, but he could not do well with the whole point distribution.'
He focused on maths instead of logic and the premise of his calculations, however if he had done that, he would have reached the answer faster than any of us.
"One of the most important sub-category of 'Other' section— if you look at the Random points, you will understand where you fell short, where even I was stuck for a while."
The headmaster used logic for almost all the points, but there were certain bunch of points that had no real premise to them.
They were the most confusing elements that the others did not understand the designations of and mostly mistook them as something they were not.
"The headmaster, at each time interval from the start of the competition to the end, gave away random points to either individuals, or elements present there, or influential factors.
Thinking critically about it was would make it seem like a joke from our great headmaster, however, taking out all logic and reasoning, if we accept the random assignment of points as something he thought was needed here... everything just makes sense."
The numbers were before them, the answer was before them, and the reasoning was before them as well.
They could see it now, our mistakes until this point and the reason it took so long for us to figure it out.
'And though not all of them would know the reason behind it, us who had taught in the war against the demonic cultist, could certainly guess why he would have had to do that.'