Stealing Someone's Partner / Final Exams Are Just Around the Corner

The exam was set by a team of three students who were the top students in their grade, so the difficulty level was absolutely off the charts.

If all three classes (A, B, and C) can achieve high scores, thus raising the average score, it's simply impossible for Class D to avoid dropping out by about two groups of students.

"... I will pay the price." After a long silence, Horikita Suzune grabbed Aoyama's hand and placed it on her face. "Take whatever you want, as long as you help me."

"You still have illusions about Class D getting promoted to Class A?"

Aoyama gently stroked Horikita's delicate, smooth face with Aoyama palm, gazing into Horikita's wine-red eyes.

He didn't believe Horikita couldn't see that Class D was beyond saving, and there should be a limit to how much they could obsess over it.

"No, it's just that I feel there's no better place for me to train than Class D." Feeling a little ticklish from Aoyama's touch, Horikita rubbed against Aoyama's palm, bringing her cheek closer to his hand.

She felt that if she asked Aoyama to transfer her to another class, Aoyama would likely accept her, but she would inevitably be placed below Kamuro and the other two.

"Okay, then as a price, first of all—" Horikita gently pulled the stiff Horikita onto his lap and sat her sideways, passing Aoyama through the crook of her legs.

"You must forget Horikita Manabu's instructions to you, and stop hiding from me."

"Secondly, you should continue to deal with Ayanokoji's help in setting the questions as usual, pretending you know nothing about it. Just keep the power to change the exam papers in your hands, and then come with me to see Amikura."

He had said that if Ryuen caused trouble, he would make Class B take a hellish exam, and he didn't intend to let his words go unfulfilled.

"Third"

Now that Ayanokoji has guessed that he plans to run away, there is no need to target Class D. Therefore, Aoyama plans to focus all his efforts on Class B at Ryuen.

You like to laugh, don't you, Ryuen?

Let's see if you're still laughing when the final exams are over.

As he refined his plan to deal with Class C, Aoyama caressed Horikita's soft, slender waist.

Having robbed Nagumo, he still had 25 million personal points left. He also didn't need to repay the 10 million loan Nagumo had on Sakayanagi, plus the class fees for November and December.

If he borrows another 40 million personal points from Horikita Manabu, he might be able to scrape together 40 million personal points by December.

He'd throw money at them and cripple Class B, making Ryuen know the consequences of messing with him.

"What's the third one? Why are you pausing for so long?" Horikita Suzune asked shyly, trying not to notice the large hand moving around her waist.

"Because there is no third one, I just want to hold Suzune for longer."

He pressed Horikita Suzune's head against his shoulder, and Aoyama rubbed his hair against her smooth, delicate forehead.

Chapter 264 The Breaking of the Wall is Underway

"Kushida, how come you have so many personal points?"

On a typical Sunday morning in November, after finishing her final exam preparations on Saturday, Kinoshita Minori from Class 1-A went shopping with a friend, Kushida Kikyo from Class 1-D, whose Class Points had dwindled to only 70.

After the Class Points were updated in the new month, the class order of the other three classes changed again, except for Class D, which remained unchanged.

Class A, Grade 1: 1362 points

Class 1-B: 1240 points

Class 1-C: 1123

Class 1-D, Grade 1: 70 points

The White Team won the second-place match in the Sports Festival, with Ryuen's Class B being promoted to Class A for the first time, while Aoyama's Class C was promoted to Class B, Class Ichinose, formerly Class A, was demoted to Class C.

The worst off was Class D, because Yamauchi was expelled for seriously violating school rules, and in addition to the points deducted for the Sports Festival, he also lost an extra 100 points.

All the other Class Points, but Class D had a pitiful two-digit score.

Kinoshita Minori was quite surprised. The Class Points had never been higher since the first month of school. She had originally thought that Kushida should be living a frugal and carefully budgeted life.

After discovering that Kushida was buying things without a care in the world, she asked out of curiosity how many personal points Kushida had, since she was much more generous than her.

The result, however, was a staggering number.

"Those were all given to Aoyama I was his girlfriend."

Noticing the unusually envious look in Kinoshita Minori's eyes, Kushida felt a surge of exhilaration. He slowly put away the phone, its screen displaying millions of personal points.

Although she earned some of it herself, Aoyama did give her a considerable amount.

"I kept saying no, but Aoyama just kept forcing it on me, and I couldn't refuse."

Kushida feigned helplessness, then directly bought the long dress made of excellent fabric at an excellent price.

After accepting the task of poaching a member of the Aoyama Ryuen, she quickly found a suitable candidate, Minori Kinoshita, a member of the Kinoshita Minori club and an excellent student whose academic ability was only slightly inferior to her own.

She is vain and spends money extravagantly, running out of living expenses shortly after the beginning of each month.

Coupled with his simmering resentment towards Ryuen's violent rule over the class, Kushida was certain he could win her over in December, without even needing to threaten her with dirt on her.

Kinoshita Minori's eyes gleamed with a strange light. "Eh, I really envy Kushida. But Aoyama -san is being too generous."

"It's alright."

With a smirk, Kushida suggested going to an expensive women's clothing store.

On the other side.

Even on Sundays, Okabe Fuyu still studies in a secluded corner of the library.

Under Ryuen's strict orders, although she did not participate in setting the final exam papers, she still had to tutor the struggling students in her class during her free time from Monday to Saturday.

Moreover, because the underachieving students were the hot girls in the Manabe, her academic and emotional stress increased significantly.

Why was I assigned to this class?

Feeling a bit tired, Okabe thought to himself as he stretched and closed his eyes.

Given her academic ability, it would have been normal for her to be assigned to Class A at the start of the semester, but instead she was assigned to the Ryuen Class, a class she disliked completely.

She strongly resisted violence, but had no choice but to submit.

Even though her class has now been promoted to Class A, she's certain she'll soon fall back down, since that terrifying Aoyama has taken over the class.

Aoyama got 100 points on the test, but that only meant he got 100 points on the paper itself.

Despite not being able to get a perfect score in any subject, Okabe fully understood the significance of Aoyama's perfect scores in all subjects. Coupled with his extraordinary physical abilities at the Sports Festival, she felt that Aoyama was excessively outstanding.

And he's also the Student Council President, and handsome too.

"Um?!!"

After stretching and opening his eyes, Okabe suddenly widened his half-open eyes to a wide stare.

The Aoyama Shiki that had just been on her mind suddenly appeared before her, standing right in front of her and smiling.

"Yo, good morning, Okabe-kun." Aoyama waved to Okabe, who looked shocked.

With her hair tied in a low ponytail and braids, Okabe's shocked expression was quite cute in his eyes.

The boys at Kouiku aren't necessarily handsome, but the girls are definitely good-looking, at least above average.

"Good morning... good morning... good morning, Aoyama -kun." Okabe immediately sat up straight, trying to calm his shock.

"There are a bit too many 'early' characters."

He chuckled softly, pulled out a chair, and sat down opposite Aoyama in a corner of the library on a Sunday morning. He wasn't worried about being seen by the students from the Ryuen class.

As for Shiina, he's a bookworm who indulges in reading late into the night during holidays, and is probably still sleeping in right now.

"How did you know my name, Aoyama- kun?" Okabe met Aoyama's gaze with a hint of shyness and curiosity. Aoyama must have seen her stretching earlier, which was rather unseemly.

Aoyama smiled gently, "Because I'm the Student Council President, I know the names and faces of every teacher and student in the school."

"That's amazing!"

Okabe's admiration for Aoyama reached a new level. Although the Kouiku's unique circumstances meant that there were only a few hundred students, it was already quite remarkable that he could remember and recognize so many people.

"I think Okabe is really amazing. He didn't sleep in on Sunday morning and even studied in the library." Aoyama didn't hold back his praise.

"And recently I've been tutoring the struggling students in the class, which I think is quite remarkable."

Kushida's chosen candidate to poach his partner was Kinoshita Minori, while Aoyama's was Okabe Fuyu. This was reported by Manabe and the others; he was an academically excellent student who had always been dissatisfied with Ryuen's violent rule.

Although Kaneda Satoru is quite capable academically, and is even the second strategist of Ryuen, Aoyama would choose the cute girl if he had the choice.

One boy, Yukimura, is enough to automatically join his group.

"I'm not as amazing as Aoyama -kun makes me out to be." Hearing such praise from someone as impressive Aoyama, Okabe felt a lot of the pressure he had been under recently, and he also felt a little embarrassed.

She would never have tutored the very strong-willed Manabe and his friends unless forced to by Ryuen.

Helping others with their studies while being afraid of upsetting them—what kind of behavior is that?

After apologizing, Okabe continued, "By the way, did you need something from Aoyama- kun?"

Aoyama chuckled teasingly, "Can't I talk to Okabe-kun for no reason? I wanted to get to know him."

"No, that's not what I meant," Okabe hurriedly said.

"That's good. If there's anything you don't understand about reviewing, I can teach you since I'm free."

With his right hand supporting his cheek, Aoyama struck a pose as if he were completely at ease.

If they were to ask Okabe to transfer to their class right away, the success rate would be uncertain, and there was even a slight possibility that it would expose them to Ryuen.

With more than a month until the final exams, he had enough time to probe Okabe's true feelings about transferring classes.

Chapter 265 The Approaching Final Exams

See you next week.

In a secluded corner of the library, Aoyama parted ways with Okabe Fuyu for the third time, and also learned that Okabe wanted to transfer classes if given the chance.

Even though she is currently a student in Class 1-A.

A few minutes after leaving the library, Aoyama received a call from Horikita Suzune.

"Ayanokoji just told me that he's finished preparing his exam papers. I'll finish mine too, and we'll hand them in to Chabashira-sensei tomorrow," Horikita Suzune's voice came through the phone.

More than a month before the final exams, all classes were reviewing and preparing. Nothing particularly noteworthy happened, and time flew by. Now it's almost the end of November.

In almost a month, Ayanokouji and Ayanokoji friends worked together to complete a test paper with a total of 400 questions across eight subjects.

"Come with me to the teacher's dormitory first, I need to talk to Chabashira."

After thinking for a moment, Aoyama decided to meet with Chabashira and ask her to do something for his class.

If he were Ayanokoji, he would definitely take back the right to submit the exam papers from Horikita, this variable, in order for the plan to proceed smoothly.

He worried that if Horikita acted too insistently on the right to submit the exam papers, Ayanokoji would become suspicious.

"Should we let Chabashira-sensei know? She seems to be treating Ayanokoji differently."

"It won't happen soon."

Aoyama chuckled, and after ending the call with Horikita Suzune, he immediately dialed Chabashira's number.

In less than half an hour, he met up with Horikita and went to the teachers' dormitory.

"I thought I'd come in and smelled a stench of smoke."

Amidst Chabashira's clearly unwelcoming expression, Aoyama entered the teachers' dormitory assigned by the school.

Given the school's ample financial resources, the teachers' dormitories are not small at all, and the layout is a standard one-bedroom apartment, unlike the single rooms for students.

Overall, the room reflected Chabashira's efficient style, and its cleanliness was impeccable.

Chabashira didn't even pour tea for the two of them, and seeing Horikita's disappointed expression, he said, "Speak, what do you want from me?"

She actually had high hopes for Horikita Suzune, a student who was somewhat similar to herself, and hoped that she could be a huge help in helping Class D get promoted to Class A.

"Here's a test paper I'm planning to give to Class D." Ignoring Chabashira's rudeness, Aoyama simply threw the test paper he had brought on Chabashira's living room table.

"What does this mean?"

"I'm having you take this test so you can estimate how many students in Class D will drop out."

This is a collaborative work by him and three others; none of the questions are easy to answer, and there are far too many misleading traps.

"... This is what you showed me, Aoyama."

After a moment of silence, Chabashira picked up the exam paper from the table and stood up to look at it. As time passed, she could no longer remain calm.

How can it be so difficult? There isn't a single question that even a teacher could grade.

Chabashira became increasingly surprised as he looked at the test paper. If the questions were beyond the syllabus, the teacher could simply replace them with simpler ones without notifying the students. However, Aoyama's test paper was practically teetering on the edge of being beyond the syllabus.

The answer is A, the answer to this question is also A, this question is also A, and so is this one.