Classroom Of The Elite: I Am No Genius. (Year 1)

Vol 4 Ch 4: Mixed Training Camp

"Quite down and listen." Sakagami sensei spoke and told my classmates not to interrupt him.

“Taking place mainly in summer, it commonly takes place on a day with
pleasant weather in places like mountains or other locations where greenery is abundant. Collective action is undertaken with the aim of promoting students’ health. Also could refer to facilities used for that purpose.”

He stopped for a moment and then continued.

“Opportunities to meet senior students normally…especially for students not
participating in any club activity are limited. But at the outdoors school, we’ll be taking collective action that goes beyond school years for 7 nights and 8
days. It’s like something beyond even what the sports festival offered. The
name of the special exam that will be taking place is ‘Mixed Training Camp’.
Since you’ll still be anxious if it’s just a verbal explanation I’ll be distributing
the materials now.”

Sakagami sensei began walking and handed over a bundle of the materials to the student sitting in the front row seat. We each took one and passed the rest behind. The material itself was rather thick and amounted to multiple pages. Since we weren’t instructed in particular not to go ahead and look, I flipped over and looked through it.

There were pictures of what appears to be the training camp properly
included.

Rooms where students can sleep, large baths, cafeterias and the such are
included. Seeing all this makes it look fun, or rather, like reading a travel
guidebook though…… But it’s inevitable that every important word regarding the special exam we see would make our moods somber. Even if it’s a special exam, there’s the relatively thick paper we were handed on top of the verbal explanation.

Even if you think of it as being the same as the explanation for the Paper
Shuffle we received not too long ago, this special exam seems like it’s
shaping up to be something bothersome.

Not too long after, it appears everyone got their hands on the paper. After
confirming that, Sakagami sensei continues speaking.

“Feel free to read ahead but I’m going to go ahead with the explanation for the Mixed Training Camp. Since I’ll be collecting the materials before you
get off the bus, make sure you understand the rules well. I’ll be accepting questions at the very end so make sure to shut up and listen. Do you understand that?”

No one spoke. It was a confirmation for Sakagami sensei to continue.

“This time around, the special exam will be a training camp focusing mainly
on mental development. In order to accomplish that, we’ll start with the
ABCs of integrating into society and we’ll confirm whether or not you can
live in harmony with those you don’t interact with commonly. And each and
every one of you will learn it.”

So would that be the reason why we’ll have to take collective action alongside the senior students? Sakagami sensei said so as well but students engaged in club activities will have established relationships between senior students and junior students but even so, most of that will be limited to club activities only. Students outside of that category will have had absolutely no contact with the senior students and those students aren’t a minority by any measure.

Essentially it’d have been great if such exchanges were to be carried out
voluntarily without the need to use club activities as an intermediary but it’s
also a fact that reality isn’t that simple. However, how exactly are they going
to involve the senior students in this? Unless contact between us isn’t an
absolute necessity, then just like during the sports festival, students will
probably keep their distance.