The Start
Walking into the classroom, Chabashira-sensei looks around in shock. Everyone is in the class and they're eagerly waiting in suspense for the test results of the midterms.
"Sensei. The test results should be announced today right? But we don't know when exactly."
"There's no need for you to worry, Hirata. I can say one thing is for certain, everyone did exceptionally well."
That's a relief, it doesn't feel like she's lying either. At least the whole class is in the clear, they even let out a sigh of relief after her comment. it'll be good if we get more class points, chances are we'll overtake class-C and become that much closer to A.
Also the taste of free food is starting to blend in, I mistook my tongue for being numb once but it was in fact the free food tasting tasteless because of the amount of times I've ate it. I've been craving for some real food, sure often Masaki would buy some for me but that's only on special occasions when we're alone, and as you know we don't get those opportunities very much.
"When will they be released?"
"Well now should be a good time. I can sense the overwhelming anxiety and excitement from all of you. You're all so impatient, well here you are your test results." She sticks the paper with everyone's names and scores onto the board.
"Honestly good job, I never imagined this class would do this well. Would you look at that, in math, Japanese, social studies and English, there are nearly 20 perfects."
Looking at the row of 100s students cheer in happiness, the classroom is filled with smiles of satisfaction. Even people like Horikita and Yukimura, if you looked closely enough you could see a sense of relief in under their masks.
However I couldn't care less about the others, the first thing I looked at when I saw the scores were those who are in my study group. They did even better than I thought.
Mori and Hasebe got around 70 in every subject, Miyake got a perfect 80 in most subjects and a safe 75 to 79 on the others, Matsushita did well and got about the exact same as Miyake. Ayanokouji was an oddball, getting about 69 in nearly every subject but at this point I don't even know what he'd thinking.
"Yeah let's go!" I hear Sudou make a noise to which made me turn towards the lower scores to find the final two people.
Sakura got a solid 60 in most subjects, I guess the anxiety got to her but she past at least. I look through the paper once again and spy Sudou's name. All his grades are solid 75s, as for his weakest subject.....a safe 59.
"Nice, he passed! That means everyone else did too!" The lowest score is Ike's at 44 in math, honestly better than expected. No wonder Sudou was celebrating I doubt he even studied the freaking paper from the other day at all!
There is absolutely no red line to be found on the paper. I throw a glance at all the tutors within the class and they seem proud of themselves, who wouldn't be? After all someone like Sudou, who was regarded as the dumbest in the class got reasonably high scores in the midterms. He's not all brawn I guess, he has a pretty nice memory too.
"You see this, sensei? When we put our minds to something, we can do anything!" Ike has a triumphant smile on his face. Dude you literally barely passed math, though your other subjects are quite safe being in the 60s.
"Yes, I recognize that. I'm proud of all of you, with this you easily pushed class-C to the side will become the new class-C by next week. You all should be proud of yourselves too, from incompetent students to classmates who have the potential of evolving."
The encouraging words of Chabashira-sensei echoes throughout the room, earning more cheers from my peers as I take one last look at the test scores to confirm one more thing.
"Hahahaha!" I burst into laughter upon seeing the high scores for each subject.
"Hmm? Is something the matter, Sugihara-kun?" Kushida asks in concern to which I stop my laughter and point towards Horikita.
"The bet is up, Horikita. I won." Cold sweat could be seen running down her neck as she takes a second glance at the test scores. Apperantly everyone was too fixated on observing the lower scores they didn't even take a look at the high scores.
"What the hell?! You got fucking hundreds across the board!" That's right Ike.
Math, 100; Japanese, 100; Social studies, 100, essentially I aced every single test that was thrown at me without breaking a sweat. Horikita's highest score was only a mere 93, slightly above Koenji's 90 and below another person's 95.
As I wipe tears of laughter off my eyes, I look at the front left corner of the class to look at a student I hadn't had the opportunity to talk to.
A girl with dyed blond shoulder length hair, not to mention the hair tails on the side that look like some sort of fox ears or something. She has red tsurime eyes and a pale, slime body about 150cm when it comes to her hegith. If I remember correctly that girl is Kaneko Masako.
She's basically one of the few students who refused to introduced themselves on the first day of school so she hasn't made many friends. By the looks of things she's doing just fine by herself, she even radiates an aura that is similar to that of a delinquent. Hell her aura in much more threatening than Sudou's...
"....May I see Sugihara-kun's test papers?" Horikita apperantly couldn't accept defeat still and asked for my test papers. Chabashira-sensei of course hands them to her with a smirk.
"You'd be surprised, he managed to solve every question flawlessly and with grace. If you ask me, I'd say he beat you fair and square Horikita." Horikita's eyes widen at my test answers, all of which I answered with swiftness and grace but not so I could get perfect scores, it was so I could take an 'eye open nap'.
"There....are no mistakes...." She finally gives into defeat and hands the tests papers back to Chabashira-sensei.
"If that's all, homeroom is now over."
Chabashira-sensei leaves with a smirk implanted into her face. She isn't even trying to hide the satisfaction of this class passing every exam and even ascending to class-C while we kick the now former class-C down to D.
It was surely a hard fought battle but in the end the war and the battle was won with ease.
It was all the matter of complete planning and patience, it also tested everyone's obedience and if they didn't obey me this would never had happened. Worse case scenario Sudou and many others would likely have faced expulsion, fortunately they didn't have to say goodbye to their days at this school yet.
"Thank you Sugihara-kun! I could have never passed without you~!" Most of the girls immediately surround me the moment I stood up which caused me to yelp in surprise.
"Yeah you're like, so smart! I can't believe you managed this class and helped us ascend to class-C all by yourself!" Another girl commented as I slowly back away with a sweat.
"I-I mean it wasn't ALL me right? If anything you should thank your tutors, they're the ones who did all the work. I only started the plan and they were the ones who followed along!" I throw a glance and Hirata and the others who just smiled on me as I attempt to defend myself from a few crazy women.
"Ne ne Sugihara-kun~ Could we maybe exchange contact information with eachother?"
"Eh!? No fair! I want Sugihara-kun's contact info too!"
"Yeah me too!"
Girls are fighting over me and it is NOT a good feeling! They say men always want harems, women surround ING them would be a dream come true but that couldn't have been further from the truth! How do those harem protagonists even handle crazy chicks like these anyway?! What jobs do they have?!
"U-umm...b-better rush! Man all that was so nerve wracking!" I dart for the door at full speed, earning the attention of everyone in the class excluding the few who couldn't care less like Koenji and Horikita who were busy doing their own thing.
"Eh? Sugihara-kun, where are you goi-"
"The bathroom!" I rush off into the hallway, closing the door of the classroom behind me as I run in the direction Chabashira-sensei was walking in.
Eventually I reach the exact distance where I start to sneak around, not wanting her to spot me.
"Is she...walking up to the roof?" The rooftop is often prohibited from entrance, only under certain circumstances would it be available so what's Chabashira-sensei doing here?
She's a teacher, thus a staff member so I would understand if she's allowed up there but I'm not.... Eh whatever! At most I'll get a pay cut and I can just explain myself or threaten her anyway.
Besides, I have a few questions left unanswered and the curiosity is killing me....