"Hirata-kun is so kind",the Hiratards said.
“He’s being expelled. He got a failing grade.”
“Could we possibly see Sudou-kun’s answer sheet?”
“Even if you look it over, you won’t find any grading mistakes. I was expecting that you’d protest.”
She took out Sudou’s English answer sheet and handed it to Hirata, who immediately looked over every problem. His expression turned dark when he reached the end.
“There…are no mistakes.”
“Well, if you’re all in agreement, homeroom is over.”Chiyabashira-sensei had heartlessly announced Sudou’s expulsion without offering him a second chance or the faintest bit of sympathy.
Ike and Yamauchi, knowing that words of comfort would probably have the opposite effect, stayed silent. Hirata remained quiet, too. Sadly, some of the students appeared relieved by this. Were they happy that a nuisance like Sudou was being removed from the class?
“Sudou, come to the faculty room after class. That is all.”
“Chiyabashira-sensei. May I have a moment of your time?”Though she’d stayed silent until that moment, Horikita raised her slender arm in the air and spoke.
"Kukuku what are you up to now Suzune?",said Ryueen but Horikita just ingored him.
Thus far, Horikita had never voluntarily made any remarks. Chiyabashira-sensei and the rest of the class appeared shocked by this abnormality.
“Well, this is unusual, Horikita. Why?”
“Earlier, you said that the previous test had a passing grade of thirty-two points. You arrived at that number by the same formula you showed us today. Were there no mistakes in calculating the passing grade for the last test?”
“There were no mistakes.”
“Then, that raises one more question. I’d calculated the average score for the previous test to be 64.4 points. If I were to divide that by two, I would get 32.2 points. In other words, higher than 32 points. Despite that, the passing grade was set at 32. That means that you left off the decimal. That contradicts what you did this time.”
"Fufufu you are wrong Horikita-san.Chabashira-sensei didn't left the decimal but rounded it down Fufufu", Sakayanagi said mocking Horikita.
Horikita just stay silent'I'm really dumb how can I not think that?'she thought.
“Th-that’s right. If you follow what you did last time, the passing grade for the midterm should be thirty-nine points!”
In other words, Sudou’s overall grade should have meant that he just barely passed.
“I see. Did you anticipate that Sudou would just barely pass, then? You only scored exceedingly low in English, after all.”
“Horikita, you…”
Sudou had realized something. The other students gasped as they also realized what had happened. Horikita had gotten perfect scores in four of the five main subjects, but she’d gotten an exceedingly low score of fifty-one points in English. Her English stuck out from her other scores.
“You really—”
Sudou noticed what she’d done. In order to lower the average score for the English test, Horikita had purposefully botched her own grade as far as she could.
Saving Sudo
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