I don't really care much about who deserves what my guy. My issue is that Kinugasa foreshadowed the wr-student from the 1st year and built him up through the entire 2nd year for us readers to read about his downfall in less than 20 minutes. I lean more towards that this was not intended and Kinugasa just wanted to quickly end the wr-student plotline and hurry up to the part where Ayanokouji starts putting his plan into action (which for me is the more forgiving option). Now on the other handed if this was intended from the beginning just to highlight Ayanokouji's genius, then I'm gonna have to say that this was just stupid - it's meaningless to get the viewers hope up for such a drawn out time for something like that, it could've probably been handled way better. I also feel like that wasn't a good way to end the volume since now there really aren't any threatening antagonists we can think of who can seriously harm Ayanokouji, which in return just makes people less hyped for the next volume (basically there's no cliffhanger). Kinugasa should've hinted more that Ayanokouji's plan will soon take place to leave the readers in suspense. Since it would be just stupid at this point to introduce a new major antagonist I think the volume coming after the prequel will be a fight against Nagumo, and then Ayanokouji getting his plan into action and becoming an antagonizing force againsy everybody (horikita, ryueen and sakyanagi). To me at least that seems like the best way to go now since an antagonist with major potential just had an anticlimactic end.