Chapter 154: It's Over... I'm Going to Be Expelled!
Kei's attention was completely focused on the practice questions, so she failed to notice that her beloved boyfriend had already entered the classroom.
Otherwise, she would have happily rushed over as usual and wrapped herself around Yuto's arm.
Kei suddenly felt something press down on her head.
Someone was rubbing her hair?!
She snapped her head up in anger, but the moment she saw Yuto's handsome smiling face, all her irritation instantly disappeared.
A sweet smile replaced it.
"Yuto, why did you come so late?"
Yuto gently ran his fingers through Kei's smooth honey-colored hair.
"Didn't I already tell you? I planned to come shortly before the exam started."
"I'm so jealous. You're not worried about the midterm at all."
"Well, there's nothing to worry about. Just stay calm."
At that moment, Chabashira entered Class D carrying a thick document envelope.
The envelope was sealed, and the papers inside were the mathematics examinations for the first subject.
Standing at the podium, Chabashira looked down at the students with a slightly oppressive smile.
"Nobody is absent. It seems everyone made it here."
"There are still a few minutes before the first examination begins. Does anyone have anything they want to ask?"
As she spoke, Chabashira glanced toward a certain troublesome boy.
She hoped he might stand up and say something encouraging to reduce the class's tension.
Unfortunately, her troublesome boy had absolutely no intention of making a speech.
He was lazily playing with Kei's soft hair instead.
Little angel Kikyo stood up with her usual bright and cheerful smile.
"Chabashira-sensei, we've all studied very seriously these past three weeks."
"So I believe nobody in our class will fail!"
"Exactly! Kikyo-chan is right!"
"Nobody in our class is failing!"
Kikyo's declaration immediately earned enthusiastic agreement from the other students.
Chabashira raised a delicate eyebrow and glanced toward several students sitting near the right side of the classroom.
Ike Kanji.
Yamauchi Haruki.
Sotomura Hideo.
And Sudo Ken.
Through Yuto, Chabashira roughly understood what had been happening inside Class D.
Ever since the students obtained the papers Ike had bought, some had become convinced they were completely safe and stopped studying seriously.
The weakest students in particular had nearly abandoned studying altogether!
Therefore, Chabashira did not believe everyone in Class D would necessarily survive the midterm without failing.
Unless Ike's papers really were identical to the upcoming examination...
Otherwise, several poor students were in serious danger of expulsion.
Chabashira withdrew her gaze from Ike and the others.
"Let me tell you some good news. Hopefully, it'll give you additional motivation."
"What good news?"
"If you successfully pass this midterm and the final examination in July, the school will arrange a vacation during summer break."
"It will be a luxurious trip to an island surrounded by a beautiful blue sea," Chabashira said with a mysterious smile.
"Seriously?!"
"Yes! A summer beach trip!"
Kei excitedly turned toward Yuto.
"We're going to an island, Yuto! Let's go buy swimsuits together later!"
"Sure." Yuto smiled and nodded.
The girls in Class D immediately began looking forward to the island vacation.
Meanwhile, boys like Ike, who constantly dreamed about girls, practically had light shining from their eyes.
A summer vacation on an island!
That meant they could openly see all the girls wearing swimsuits!
"Everyone, we absolutely have to survive until summer vacation!"
"Woooooo!"
Several boys erupted into excited cheers.
Yuto, despite also being a boy, was nowhere near as excited as they were.
After all, he had three beautiful and charming girlfriends, and he'd already shared intimate moments with each of them.
So, forget just seeing girls in swimsuits—Yuto had seen, touched, and tasted things far more revealing and exhilarating than that.
After successfully raising everyone's spirits with the island vacation, Chabashira nodded in satisfaction.
At exactly nine o'clock, she broke the seal on the document envelope and removed the mathematics papers.
Then she distributed them.
The moment the Class D students received the examination, their expressions changed dramatically.
They skimmed through the questions.
Not a single one matched the papers Ike had obtained!
In other words...
Ike's examination papers were completely useless for this midterm!
Ike noticed the same thing.
His face rapidly turned pale.
Then his mind went blank.
Only three questions remained inside his head.
Why were they different?
Why were they different?!
How could they possibly be different?!
Once the Class D students realized the questions were entirely different, many of them gritted their teeth.
They wanted to immediately turn toward Ike and demand an explanation.
Why was the mathematics paper completely different from the one he had brought them?!
Chabashira noticed everyone's terrible expressions from the podium.
She did not need to guess what had happened.
Ike's supposed midterm papers were useless.
Otherwise, the students would be smiling with joy rather than looking as though disaster had struck.
To maintain order, Chabashira spoke coldly.
"The examination has begun."
"Any cheating or disruptive behavior will be severely punished by the school."
"So whatever problems you have, deal with them after the examination."
"For now, sit quietly and answer your papers!"
Her warning forced the Class D students to temporarily suppress their anger.
They could confront that bastard Ike after mathematics ended!
Not only had he brought them useless papers, but he had also made them reimburse him fifty thousand points!
That bastard was infuriating!
...
The exact same situation was occurring inside Class C.
After begging for forgiveness from the principal and chairman and receiving student council approval, the suspended Ryuen was still permitted to participate in the midterm.
When he entered the Class C classroom, many students actually welcomed him.
After all, Ryuen had supposedly obtained the upcoming examination papers, allowing them to avoid failure and achieve excellent scores.
But once the real papers were distributed...
Every Class C student began glaring at Ryuen with resentment and anger.
The more warmly they had welcomed him earlier, the more they despised him now.
Ryuen sat silently with a gloomy expression.
"I got screwed by that bastard Nagumo," he muttered coldly.
A thought suddenly flashed through his mind.
Had Nagumo deliberately deceived him?
Ryuen had forced Nagumo to help him gain permission to take the midterm despite his suspension.
Perhaps Nagumo had intentionally retaliated by giving him useless papers!
However, that was not the truth.
Nagumo certainly disliked the troublesome and persistent Ryuen, but he genuinely had no reason to sabotage him.
After all, Ryuen was still one of Nagumo's weapons against Yuto.
As for why the examination papers were different...
They would have to ask Yuto.
...
Under an atmosphere of deathly silence, the Class D students relied entirely on their own abilities to answer the mathematics examination.
Compared with the miserable expressions worn by most students, Airi, Kei, and Kikyo looked much more relaxed and delighted.
The practice questions their boyfriend Yuto had prepared for them covered many of the same concepts appearing on the actual mathematics paper.
Yuto had accurately predicted quite a few of the question types.
Ike, Yamauchi, and Sudo, meanwhile, felt like dying.
They could barely understand anything on the mathematics paper!
Because of their attitude—and because Ike had insulted Yuto—Suzune had angrily dissolved the study group.
Afterward, all three completely stopped studying and placed their entire hope of passing the midterm on Ike's papers.
Now not a single question matched.
They were finished.
Worse still, some of the mathematics questions looked vaguely familiar.
They seemed like things Suzune had previously taught them.
Unfortunately, because they had spent the past several days indulging themselves instead of studying, they had forgotten almost everything she had taught.
All that remained were vague, incomplete impressions.
That was simply how studying worked.
Unless someone had an excellent memory or a particularly strong impression of a problem, previously learned material would gradually fade without review.
There was a reason people said—
Learning is like rowing upstream. If you stop moving forward, you fall behind.
"It's over... I'm going to be expelled..." Ike muttered blankly.
His heart was filled with despair and regret.
Ike had believed that merely looking through those papers would guarantee success, so he had treated the midterm as nothing serious.
Now that the actual examination was completely different, he could already envision the miserable future awaiting him.
Expulsion...
Ike hated everything!
He hated Tokito for selling him the papers!
He hated the school for not using the questions he had memorized!
He hated Suzune for not stubbornly forcing him to continue studying!
He hated Yamauchi for constantly dragging him into playing games!
...
Ike hated absolutely everything.
Everything except himself.
He never considered that his own refusal to study might be the actual problem.
People like Ike possessed almost no sense of responsibility.
They pushed all blame onto others while insisting that they themselves were innocent.
Sotomura, another academically weak student, was somewhat better than the trio.
Although he had also placed considerable hope in Ike's papers, he had not completely stopped studying.
So he believed he could...
Probably scrape together a passing score.
...
The fifty-minute mathematics examination finally ended.
Chabashira collected every paper from Class D and sealed them inside the document envelope.
Once she finished, she glanced at the students beginning to surround Ike.
She sighed lightly, then turned around and left the classroom without hesitation.
An examination affecting class points could not be allowed to end in failure.
Chabashira understood that more clearly than anyone.
Otherwise, she would not have graduated from Class B, nor would reaching Class A have become such a deep obsession for her.
So Chabashira had no intention of interfering with what happened next.
She wanted a certain troublesome boy to clearly witness how disastrous the consequences of a failed decision could become.
Yuto was indeed watching.
And watching with considerable interest.
"Ike Kanji, you bastard!"
"Don't think hiding face-down on your desk will make this disappear!"
"Not a single question on that mathematics exam matched the papers you gave us!"
"You owe us an explanation!"
"Everyone, calm down a little," Hirata hurriedly tried to persuade the furious students surrounding Ike.
But with the entire class enraged, how could Hirata possibly stop them?
Overwhelmed, Hirata turned toward Yuto, who was clearly enjoying the spectacle.
"Shimizu-kun, please help calm everyone down!"
"All right."
Yuto spoke.
"I know everyone wants to beat Ike senseless, but don't rush."
"At least let him make his excuses first."
"Oh, and before that, make sure he returns the fifty thousand points he scammed from everyone."
"Exactly!"
"That bastard Ike gave us useless papers and took our points!"
"He has to return them!"
Hirata looked ready to cry as the students became even more excited.
Shimizu-kun...
Maybe you should have stayed silent.
Still, because Yuto had spoken, the furious Class D students stopped physically crowding Ike.
Yuto looked toward Sudo, who was also glaring at him.
"Sudo Ken, Ike is your friend, right?"
"Aren't you going to say something in his defense?"
"Why the hell would I defend him?!"
"This bastard caused me to screw up my mathematics exam! I want to punch him myself!" Sudo snarled toward Ike, who was lying face-down on his desk.
The moment Ike heard that Sudo wanted to hit him, he immediately stopped pretending to be dead.
He shot upright and burst into tears.
"I was tricked too! Waaaaah!"
"And I couldn't answer a ton of questions on the mathematics paper!"
"I'm going to be expelled from school!"
Ike cried loudly.
Tears and mucus streamed down his face, making him look both disgusting and pitiful at the same time.
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