Could this guy be someone we could make use of?
Chabashira Sae still wasn't sure. After taking her eyes off the students in her class, the young teacher thought of Chie Hoshinomiya, who had joined the faculty the same year she had.
Hoshinomiya had been cheerful ever since they started teaching, and she was always deliberately coming over to bother Chabashira and tell her about her class.
The name she heard most often was that of a boy she'd once met in passing in the teachers' office: Hashiba Hikaru.
Hoshinomiya called him her most promising student.
He was the one who had noticed the school's Deep Rules on the first day of classes and even asked Hoshinomiya to sell him the school rules. That was why the school had so generously rewarded them, helping them climb the class rankings in their very first month.
This was the most important obsession in Chabashira's heart, yet that woman's class had achieved it with such ease. No wonder Chabashira had grown increasingly sick of Hoshinomiya's bragging.
Could someone like Hashiba appear in this class?
Looking at the students who couldn't even focus on their exams, Chabashira felt their chances were slim.
In the classroom of Class 1-D, which ranked last, Sakagami Kazuma handed out the tests with a gloomy expression, then stood at the front of the class to invigilate.
His mood hadn't been good for a while. After the hearing into the assault allegations orchestrated by Ryuen, Komiya Yogo and Ishizaki Daichi had been suspended for a month.
They were allowed to sit the exam today, but once it was over, they would have to resume their punishment.
On top of that, Ryuen's earlier incident had cost Class D a hefty chunk of its Class Evaluation Points. Sakagami knew the school