Kushida Kikyo was scarier than I thought.
Although she revealed her true personality to me yesterday. On the test day, she still smiled and greeted me with a cute tone.
"Hi, Ayanokouji-Kun. Let's do our best!"
More than that. She still greeted Horikita whom she called with the bad word.
"Horikita-San! Thank you for hard-working."
"Thank you too. Kushida-San. If it wasn't you, it would be impossible to do it."
Horikita unexpectedly bowed her. Even Kushida was shocked.
"Y---your welcome. But it was your credit."
"No. I am the one who teaches them. But you're the one who makes them want to study. Without you. That three wouldn't try as well."
Horikita raised her head.
"But, I have something to ask you."
"What?"
"Do you hate me?"
I almost shouted out loud. Horikita, you were too straightforward!
Kushida's smile was still stable.
"What makes you think that?" She glanced at me, but I shook my head. I didn't tell her at all.
"I fell it since I met you for the first time. Maybe it's just my imagination."
Kushida shook her head. "No, it isn't your imagination. I hate you very much."
I felt these two girls were too scary.
Horikita was told, "I hate you." But she still didn't change her frigid face.
Kushida told someone "I hate you." But she still smile as she said "I love you."
"Do you want the reason?" Kushida asked.
"No, thanks. It isn't necessary. From now I can talk with you more comfortably."
Maybe Horikita was the same as Kushida.
Keep your friend close. Your enemy closer.
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Everyone did the test with confidence.
They studied hard for three weeks. Hirata did his best to make everyone could pass this test.
More than that, they get a little help yesterday.
If they could remember the test, they could get full marks.
More than that. Chabashira-Sensei told us if we passed this test, she would take us to the sea in this summer vacation.
The sea = swimsuit. Not just normal school swimsuits. But it would be a bikini. That kind of sexy swimsuit.
The power of desires was too powerful.
I didn't memorize the test yesterday. I felt like my luck will make me get the full marks. And it would become the trouble misunderstandable.
In the last test. I didn't pay attention to the test. I answered randomly.
So this time, I did it with earnestness. Prevent my luck intervening in the test.
Between the test. I peeked at the trio idiot. They looked serious, but not too much. I was sure they will pass the test, although it was hard.
We started with social studies, then, Japanese and Science.
After Math. The member of the study group was together around Horikita's desk.
"So easy!" Ike yelled.
"I'm sure I will 120 marks!" Yamauchi said.
"Inogashira-San. The next test is English. Are you memorize it?" Horikita asked Inogashira.
"Yes. Thanks for these 3 weeks, Horikita-San."
"Hey, where is Sudo?"
Ike looked around and saw Sudo reading the English test at his desk.
"Oi, Sudo, why you so serious? Didn't memorize the old test?" Yamauchi asked.
"I read it, except English. I fell asleep last night!" Said Sudo. "Damn! I can't remember it at all!"
The English were different from the Japanese. If you don't stand it. It will no different from the unmeaning chants.
We all looked at Sudo with concern.
Horikita stood up.
"Sudo-Kun." She called him.
"Hmm."
She sighed and press Q botton.
"Minna Ganbatte Ne!"
Horikita shouted. It felt like the raindrop falling on that room.
I felt like my hp was recovered.
"I can do it!!!!!!!!!!!!!" Sudo yelled and read the test liked it was the last test of his life.
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The test finished. Chabashira-Sensei walked out of the room.
Everyone except Sudo sighed with relief.
We stood up and walked to Sudo.
"Could you do it, Sudo-Kun?" Kushida asked.
"I tried my best. But----" He kicked his desk. "Damn!"
He shook his leg. And mumbled with anger.
"Sudo-Kun." Horikita called him.
"What? Do you want to joke on me?"
"No, I have to tell you. Although it's your fault for not practicing the test. But while we're studying. You do your best. You should be proud of it."
Horikita's tone sounded softer than normal.
"You may be expelled from this school.---"
"Do you insult me?"
Horikita ignored his word. "You may be expelled from this school. But if you have this much aspiration, you will be a professional basketball for sure."
She bowed.
"I apologize for insulting you. It's all."
Then, she walked out of the room.
Wait.
Did she just apologize to someone?
Did she eat too many waffles?
"Shit! Horikita was invaded by aliens for sure." Ike said with scared.
"Stupid, Ike!" Yamauchi said. "Alien doesn't exist. She was possessed by the ghost. Ah! Ayanokouji, you said you enjoy religion. Can you do exorcist?"
Sudo looked following Horikita. He touched his chest and turned his face to us.
"I---I think---I fall in love with Horikita. He said."
Run, Sudo, Runaway. You still have a chance.
"No. I'm sure I fall in love with Horikita!"
What a pitiful man.
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As soon as Chabashira-Sensei walked into the classroom, Hirata stood up and asked her.
"Sensei, Does the result released today?"
"There's no need to be excited, Hirata."
"When it will be released?"
"Now."
Chabashira-Sensei stuck the paper with everyone named and marks on the board.
"Good job, everyone. Math, Japanese, and Social study. There are more than 10 people who got the full mark."
When we saw the raw of 100. I heard the sound of happiness.
However, besides me(who couldn't smile.), Horikita, Kushida, and the trio idiot didn't smile.
The point was Sudo's marks.
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"Fxxk yeah!" Sudo almost jumped out of his desk.
For most of the subjects, Sudo got about 60. That was a high score. And His English score was 39.
"You can do it, Sudo!" Ike screamed.
Horikita sighed.
"You see it, Sensei! We did it!" Ike said with a triumphant face.
Chabashira clapped.
"I have to say, you did it well. However------"
Sensei drew a red line over Sudo's mark.
"You fail, Sudo."
The room became silent.
Sudo stood up and shouted.
"What!?"
"It can't be. Sudo got 39, rights?" Ike protested.
"Right."
"And you said the passing grade was 32!"
"I never said that."
"You said in volume 4; In this test, you have to get 32 to pass. " Ike said.
"In that test. Ike. But in this test. The passing grade was 40."
Chabashira-Sensei wrote number 76.2
"This was your average grade in English." She continued writing.
79.6 / 2 = 39.8
"This is the passing grade now." She said.
Ike opened his eyes wide. "No way---" He mumbled.
Chabashira-Sensei smiled coldly. "Wait a minute, please."
She walked out of the classroom. Then, we heard something from outside.
"Damn yeah! I tricked them! I tricked them! Who is a scheming teacher! I'm a scheming teacher! Eat this, Chie!"
Chabashira-Sensei walked back into the classroom.
"Yes, Sudo will be expelled." She said.
"Is there no way to help Sudo-Kun?" Hirata asked.
"He fails. So no way to help him, Hirata."
I looked at Horikita. She pursed her lips. I thought I knew why. Hoikita hated to lose. Opposite to many of our classmates who felt relief for cutting the class cancer. Horikita didn't want Sudo to be expelled.
Understandable, she even lowered her English grade to lower the average point.
Sudo failed. She lost.
"The homeroom is over, Sudo, come to the teacher's room after class. " Chabashira-Sensei said then walked out of the classroom.
Nobody said anything.
Sudo couldn't say anything.
Ike and Yamauchi knew the console would make it worse.
I stood up and followed the teacher.
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I didn't have any plan.
But I believed I would help Sudo somehow.
Because I'm the luckiest man in the world.
"It's doesn't like the salvation will fly to me from the sky. " I said.
Same pattern. The wind blew. Something flew into the corridor. I took it.
I looked at it but I still didn't know how to use it.
"Where are you going Ayanokouji-Kun?"
I turned around and saw Horikita following me.
"Help Sudo."
"I will go with you."
I nodded and walked to the teacher's room. We met Chabashira-Sensei stood outside the room.
"The class almost starts." She said while watching the sky.
"I want to talk about Sudo. " I said.
Chabashira-Sensei turned her face to me. "I said there is no way to-----"
She stopped her words while looking at something in my hand.
Horikita looked at it, too.
It was a notebook with the name;
The list of single handsome ANHS staff.
"How do you get that thing?" Sensei asked with a trembling sound. "I thought it's a myth."
"This? Do you know it?" Horikita took it from me.
"I know it! Every single woman in this school knows it. In this school, there is a secret association that helps the single middle-aged woman." Chabashira explained. "They make that book. The list of good men in this school and the contact. Only the member of the association could own that list. It likes the treasure map!"
Chabashira-Sensei tried to reach her hand to that list.
"Give it to me, please!"
"You want this that much?" Horikita asked.
"Yes!"
"What do you give me for exchange?"
"Anything! Anything! Chabashira's bloodline is in danger! I will give you----Ah! I will give you personal points!" Sensei screamed.
"Point? I have enough points, Sensei. I used free ingredients from the mall. And I bought only the necessary thing."
"No, the points are very useful. When I said you can buy anything with the points. I literally mean by that! You can even move the class with the point!"
Horikita opened her eyes wide.
"Really?"
"Yes, you can pay 20,000,000 points for the move to any class!"
I glanced at Horikita. She was shocked by the information. I was sure she considered that choice for a while. But 20,000,000 points was too much.
"What about exchanging it with 1 grade for Sudo?" I said.
Horikita raised her eyebrows. "You're right."
"You can't do that. The school has a rule for buying grades----"
"You said points can buy anything. So can I buy a grade with the points?"
"Yes, you can!" Chabashira-Sensei shook her head. "Just give me that fucking list! I don't want to buy the wine and cats anymore!"
"How much the grade?" Horikita ignored her.
"100,000"
"So give me 100,000. No, you bought the grade for Sudo-Kun, And I give you this list!"
"Okay! I will do it!" Chabashira-Sensei took her phone off and started doing her job.
While waiting for Sensei. Horikita looked at me and asked.
"How do you get this list?"
"The wind blew it to me."
"Do you think I will believe you?"
"It's the truth."
Horikita stared at me. "You're not normal people. Ayanokouji-Kun."
"What? You're saying I am the weirdo?"
"No. I mean you plan this, and your scores too.!"
"Plan what? No, you're the one who thinks about buying a grade. I didn't even know how to do with this list." I said. "And what's wrong with my score."
"You got 60 in Social, 61 in Science, 62 in Japanese, 63 in Math, and 64 in English."
"It's just a normal grade, Lower than an average though. " I said. "Or you think about how the grade line up? It's just a----"
"The day before the test, you told me you will get the points around 60,61,62,63,64. " Horikita said. "And you got perfectly what you said."
I sighed. Sometimes my luck works too well.
"I will tell you the truth, Horikita."
"The truth is----"
I looked at her beautiful eyes and told her as frankly as I could.
"It's just a coincidence."
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"Cheers!"
Ike shouted and raised his glass of orange juice. Yamauchi and Sudo did the same. Inogashira and Kushida laughed with them.
Horikita just put the drink in her mouth, same with me.
I would join them and cheers them with happiness. If this wasn't my room.
"Don't do your face like that, Ayanokouji, Oh, I forget. You always do that face." Ike teased me.
"Seriously, why do you have to party in my room?"
"The girls' room was forbidden, and yours was the cleanest one," Yamauchi answered shamelessly.
I sighed and drank another zip. I peeked at Horikita intermittently, I wanted to know if she put something in my drink.
"Thanks to Horikita-San and Kushida-San for helping us," Yamauchi said. "I can do it myself. But I just worry about Sudo and Ike."
"Hey! You're our people, too!" Ike shouted and punched Yamuchi's shoulder.
"Speak of this. You got less grade than I thought." Said Sudo.
I shrugged. "I told you, that full score is just a coincidence."
"Like I always say, Ayanokouji was a lucky bastard!" Said Ike.
I watched that sight happening in my room with many feelings.
It looked like the midterm test was just a dream.
Sudo completely forgot that how much he was close to the abyss.
This's maybe something called youth.
You enjoyed every moment of life. When you met a problem and fixed it. It will fly away like never happened.
Once. Kaxxxa and I were talking about the outside world.
"What if we weren't in the White Room. What did you want to do?" Kaxxxa asked me.
"Try to be the real good guy, I guess."
"That'll be fun. The real good guy, not just the guy who do good for their own sake." Kaxxxa agreed with me. "But I think different. I want to enjoy the life of youth."
"The life of youth?"
"Yes, Do you know? Fight with the demon king. Make a harem with the sexy priest, the powerful loli wizard, and the Kuudere crusader."
"I'm not sure that it's a normal life of youth?"
"Really? I read light novels and most Japanese teens would experience this." Kaxxxa smiled. "Or we could be like our Senpai. Being H.A.R.E.M. protagonist."
"We won't meet that life."
"Yes." Kaxxxa padded my shoulder. "But in the case we're lucky. Enjoy it as much as you can. Bro."
He thumbs up.
"Cheers. " I said while raising my glass.
"Hey, Horikita-San." Kushida said."Do you want to tell them or not?"
"Tell what?" Horikita raised her eyebrows.
"About your plan to reach class A!"
Everyone in that room turned their face to Horikita.
"Do you plan to reach class A!?" said Ike.
"Huh." Horikita sighed. "Yes, I plan it."
"It's impossible!" Inogashira said. "Chabashira-Sensei told me that class D never becomes class A."
"We're defective! I just want to have more points." Ike said.
"Yes, we defect," Horikita said.
"Hey, you should say something like, No! we're not defective. we are valuable."
"Defect doesn't mean value," Horikita said. "Defect is the good stuff that has something wrong. If you can fix them, you will get good weapons."
What sentimental words.
Horikita changed. I heard her use the words our not you. It was a little grown-up but still grow up.
"So I want you guy to help me reaching class A. Will you?" Horikita asked them.
"Of course!" Sudo yelled. "I will be your horse and dog."
"If Horikita-Chan said so." Ike smiled.
"Yeah! Let's do this!" Kushida jumped and try to hug Horikita. But Horikita pushed her.
"I still don't want to befriend you, Kushida-San."
"Moh! Why!" Kushida was in a huff.
I hope these two would get along well someday.
I sighed and stood up.
But suddenly, my leg was dead.
I couldn't stand so I fell in Horikita's direction.
While I was preparing for the H.A.R.E.M. protagonist's situation.
Horikita was able to escape my falling. So my face smashed the floor.
What? Why I'm unlucky?
I raised my head and I saw Horikita's movement.
To escape my falling, Horikita moved closer to Kushida who standing up.
They crashed each other,
And fell to the ground-----
"Chup!"
Horikita was on Kushida's body. And their lips touched each other.
They were kissing.
Ike opened his mouth wide.
Horikita stood up and blushed, same with Kushida.
"Kushida-San, I---I'm sorry." Horikita stuttered.
"No, no. It's fine, I apologize too." Kushida replied.
"Oh, today, it's so late. I have to go back to my room." Horikita went to the door.
"It's just 4 p.m.!" Sudo said.
"Shut up!" Horikita yelled and walked out of my room.
She stopped in front of the door and turned back to look at Kushida.
"Um, so---good night, Kushida-San."
"G---good night, Horikita-San." Kushida blushed.
"It's still afternoon----"
Horikita ignored Sudo's word and walked away.
"Oh, I have a business to do, too. Bye, everyone!" Kushida said and walked out of my room without waiting for a reply.
Ike looked following her.
"Damn. No girls no fun." Yamauchi said.
"I'm a girl too!" Inogashira said.
"Sorry. You're so extra character until I didn't realize you." Yamauchi apologized. "But shouldn't your character be a shy girl? You should say nothing when being with the boy."
"I don't know. I didn't have any performance. Till I forget my personality."
Ike was still vacant. He didn't say anything.
"What's wrong, Ike?" Sudo asked him. "You're shocked because your crush kissed my crush?"
Ike hooked his head.
"No, I just----confused."
He turned my face to all of us.
"I think-----I enjoy Kushida x Horikita ship."
Volume 1 End.
Volume 2 coming soon.
Thanks for reading.