Classroom of the Elite, Keima Katsuragi's Love Brain Battle

"How can you solve it like this! It would be terrible if the teacher found out... No, wait a second!"

Keima Katsuragi seemed to have thought of something, and he picked up the other person's terminal. On the grade report in Elsie's terminal, her score was still at the very bottom.

"You, did you only change the grade report in my terminal?"

"Oh no! It seems I should have changed everyone's!"

"That's not the point at all! You idiot!"

Volume One: Chapter Twelve: In a Tsundere, There Is Only the 'Tsun' and No 'Dere'.

"Then I'll just go and change the teacher's terminal directly!"

"Don't change anything else!"

Keima Katsuragi was already completely speechless toward Elsie Katsuragi.

If it were the original world, it would be fine, but this school was full of surveillance cameras. If someone else saw Elsie using her supernatural powers, it would be troublesome.

"I have already worked hard to learn the characters here! Sigh! But a small quiz like this shouldn't have any impact, right!"

"It probably won't. Chabashira said this test had nothing to do with the school and was just something she came up with on the spur of the moment..."

"Yay!"

"...However, we will definitely have monthly exams, midterms, and finals in the future. These exams might be related to the points we earn, and our daily lives will be affected..."

"It's fine. Even if we don't have points, I can go to Hell and grab some ingredients. We definitely won't starve! My cooking is actually quite good!"

"The authenticity of your statement is open to question. But getting points isn't the key; the most important thing is that if our grades are too poor, we might get expelled."

"Ex, expelled?"

Elsie froze, seemingly trying to understand the meaning of those words.

"If we get expelled, I suppose the mission for both of us won't be completed."

Keima Katsuragi replied.

"Nooooooo! God!!! What should I do!!"

"Hey, hey, you're a devil. Are you asking me to come up with a solution?"

"If the mission isn't completed, the world will be destroyed!!!!"

"If it's this kind of reality, maybe it's better if it's destroyed—no, that won't work either. If the real world is destroyed, I won't be able to play my games."

"That's right, that's right! God! Let's work hard together!"

"Sigh... Let's go to the library later. At least I need to make sure you know some common sense about this world... You're finished eating, right? Get ready to go."

A somewhat helpless Keima Katsuragi prepared to take Elsie away, and at the same time, he took out his handheld console, ready to play while walking.

But just at that moment, a familiar figure blocked their path directly.

"Please wait a moment."

The voice was crisp but full of authority, as if she had no intention of giving Keima Katsuragi any room to refuse.

Keima Katsuragi looked at the person; it was Suzune Horikita.

Suzune Horikita's expression was serious, and her eyes projected an incredibly earnest gaze that landed on Keima Katsuragi's face.

"What is it?"

"Please, trouble yourself to explain it to me."

Suzune Horikita took out her terminal, which was also displaying today's grade report.

Her name was also in a very prominent position.

[First Place: Suzune Horikita: 100 points]

"Oh, you're also in first place!"

Elsie, standing to the side, said with some surprise. Only then did she notice that Suzune Horikita had also scored a hundred.

"Explain... what?"

Keima Katsuragi rubbed his head and looked at the girl in front of him with a confused expression.

"How on earth did you manage to get a perfect score on the test!"

Suzune Horikita frowned and questioned him.

Although she had also achieved a perfect score in the end, Suzune Horikita knew very well that she had wasted quite a bit of time on the last question, and she hadn't even been sure her answer was correct at the end.

Yet, Keima Katsuragi had finished long ago, and he had even packed up his things before handing in his paper.

Suzune Horikita knew very well that Keima Katsuragi absolutely had not cheated.

But he had clearly been playing games the whole time.

Suzune Horikita did not know how Keima Katsuragi had managed to do that.

More than the slight sense of resentment in her heart, she was mostly just curious.

"It's simple, isn't it? You just write down the correct answers."

"That's not what I'm asking! The difficulty of the final question was on a completely different level from the rest, and the teacher didn't really mention it in class—"

"No, Sae Chabashira mentioned it several times."

Keima Katsuragi didn't look at Suzune Horikita again, simply lowering his head to focus on his handheld console, where he had opened a game.

"Four times in total, though Sae Chabashira brought up that point alongside several others at the time; you just needed to extract and separate that information."

Keima Katsuragi then repeated everything Sae Chabashira had said during that lecture word for word.

"What?"

Hearing Keima Katsuragi's words, Suzune Horikita's mouth parted slightly, her face filled with disbelief.

Even though she had listened with the utmost focus, she hadn't noticed Sae Chabashira mentioning those things in class at all.

What bothered Suzune Horikita most was that Keima Katsuragi had actually remembered what the teacher said.

Wasn't he playing games from start to finish?

Could it be...

Was Keima Katsuragi listening to the lecture carefully while playing games?

Is that even possible?

Suzune Horikita instinctively lowered her head to look at the screen of the handheld console in Keima Katsuragi's hands.

A 2D girl had a defiant expression on her face, speaking words that seemed to carry a mocking tone.

"Looks like you're hated by the character in the game."

"Heh, as expected of someone living in a pathetic reality."

Keima Katsuragi lifted his head slightly, cast a pitying glance at Suzune Horikita, and then lowered his head once more.

"What?"

"This is called a tsundere. Although they appear cold and arrogant on the surface and their words are often sharp, once you touch their heart, that soft side is fully revealed to you. Someone like you who doesn't play games at all could never understand this. In the real world, you simply won't find this kind of moe attribute."

"Why would I ever need to understand something like that?"

Elsie, standing to the side, couldn't get a word in, her gaze shifting back and forth between Suzune Horikita and Keima Katsuragi.

"Wait a second, that type that's cold and arrogant on the surface with sharp words..."

It was the first time Elsie had heard the term tsundere, but her gaze couldn't help but slowly focus on Suzune Horikita.

"Horikita-san?"

"??? What is it?"

Looking at Elsie's innocent and curious gaze, Suzune Horikita seemed to realize something belatedly.

Did her own behavior overlap with what Keima Katsuragi had just described?

Tsundere?

How could that be?

How could such a strange term have anything to do with me!

"I, I... am definitely not..."

"If there's nothing else, I'll be going."

Keima Katsuragi stared at his handheld console and walked past Suzune Horikita.

"Um, um, Horikita-san, we'll be going now!"

Elsie politely waved at Suzune Horikita, then immediately followed in Keima Katsuragi's footsteps, though she turned back to look at Suzune Horikita every now and then.

Suzune Horikita stood where she was, not moving an inch.

"What, what am I doing here..."

Volume 1: Chapter 13: It's Here, a Literary Girl!

Meanwhile, in the teachers' office.

Sae Chabashira was staring intently at Keima Katsuragi's test paper.

Every single answer could be described as absolutely perfect.

Furthermore, the time he spent was even shorter than she had anticipated.

"Did this guy master this knowledge in advance, or is it that... he remembered my entire lecture while playing games?"

Sae Chabashira couldn't help but mutter to herself in curiosity.

If he had known it in advance, Sae Chabashira wouldn't have bothered with this test.

Only the exams arranged by the school would have any impact on these students.

Sae Chabashira had already completely given up on the students of Class D; she would simply watch as these students fell into ruin bit by bit.

But this year, there were exceptions.

Three students had been specially assigned to Class D, and their backgrounds were difficult to investigate.

Ayanokoji Kiyotaka...

And then there is Keima Katsuragi, whose academic ability has reached A+.

His intelligence and judgment have both reached the absolute peak.

This level of talent alone would be enough to qualify him for Class A.

Why did he end up in Class D...

Could it be related to his go-your-own-way attitude and his near-maniacal obsession with games?

Furthermore, what is the situation with Keima Katsuragi's younger sister, Elsie Katsuragi?

Sae Chabashira frowned as she looked at Elsie's test paper.

Is what is written on it... really human writing?

It is twisted and distorted, with only a few characters even recognizable.

It looks as if it were a curse from hell.

And she even chose to hand in her paper early?

A conjecture could not help but form in Sae Chabashira's mind.

Could it be—

Is she intentionally scoring poorly?

As the younger sister of Keima Katsuragi, she surely possesses considerable ability.

Does she know that this test is not a real exam and holds no meaning, so she is scribbling nonsense on purpose?

Interesting.

Perhaps this pair of siblings has already grasped the secret of the school's S-System.

They, along with Ayanokoji Kiyotaka, might just become the secret weapons that change Class D.