Kushida Doesn't Seem Quite So Obsessive Anymore

"Okay, bye-bye."

It seems Class A is doomed this time. Among those students waiting for Ichinose on the first floor, there were probably some who were coerced.

There are also those who want to relax on the weekend, but go to the party to avoid feeling left out because all their friends are going.

That's true; how could a perfectly harmonious group possibly exist?

Even a four-person dorm room can have five group chats, let alone a class of forty people. It's perfectly normal for a few mishaps to occur.

While Shuichi Kanda was out, Horikita set off ahead of time to go to Shuichi Kanda's room.

Just as the elevator reached the fourth floor and the door opened, Horikita Suzune saw someone leaning against the railing in front of Shuichi Kanda's room—it was Kushida Kikyo.

For some reason, Horikita felt a pang of guilt the moment she saw Kushida Kikyo.

I'm just here to discuss the exam questions with Shuichi Kanda, why should I feel guilty?

Thinking this, Horikita stepped out of the elevator and walked towards Shuichi Kanda's room.

Horikita's approaching voice made Kushida instinctively show a gentle expression, and then he turned his head.

Upon seeing that the other person was Horikita, he immediately frowned, turned his head away, and didn't even say hello.

Aren't you going in? Or are you saying you're not here?

Kushida didn't want to talk to Horikita, but Horikita was the one who spoke to Kushida first.

"Looks like they're not here to see Ayanokoji or Sudo?"

"Kushida, I'm here to see Kanda. Looks like you are too."

"Hmph! What do you want with Xiuyi?"

Subconsciously, Kushida Kikyo started interfering with Shuichi Kanda's affairs, much like a wife who had caught her husband cheating on her when he was away from home.

"I..."

When Kushida asked her this, Horikita was about to reveal the purpose of her trip, but she quickly realized, "Why should I tell the truth?"

"This is between Kanda and me, it has nothing to Kushida, right?"

Kushida was taken aback by Horikita's words, because she didn't seem to have any grounds to question Horikita about what she was doing with Shuichi Kanda, since the two weren't boyfriend and girlfriend.

However, Horikita's words made her very uncomfortable, Kushida's expression grew increasingly gloomy.

"As Shuichi's friend, it is my duty to protect her from being deceived by bad women."

"On this point, who is actually deceiving him?"

Horikita, who had clearly decided to coexist peacefully with Kushida, had long since put all those other matters behind her. At this moment, all she wanted to do was give Kushida a good beating and then win!

"Of course it's you, you slut who talks badly about people behind their backs!"

Kushida's words made Horikita's face stiffen, because Kushida's words had undoubtedly hit a sore spot.

But how did she know?

Kanda say that?

Just as Horikita was pondering these things, the room's owner returned.

What are you two doing here?

The two were arguing so intensely that Shuichi Kanda didn't even notice Kushida approaching from behind.

"Shuichi, why didn't you take the elevator?"

"Because Long Ryuen led a group of people up first, I didn't want to squeeze in with him, so I took the stairs next to him."

After answering Kushida's question, Shuichi Kanda looked at Horikita again.

"You're here pretty early."

Shuichi Kanda confirmed the time, so it wasn't time yet.

"Arriving 15 minutes early is my rule; I didn't expect you wouldn't be in the room."

Now that Shuichi Kanda has shown up, there's no way he can continue arguing with Kushida.

Not only did Horikita think so, Kushida also smiled again.

"Because you promised to cook for me during the Sports Festival, I hope you can keep your promise today."

As he spoke, he gestured to the ingredients he was carrying.

Horikita's expression remained unchanged, and she did not refuse, since she had already fulfilled her promise to provide five meals for everyone else.

Incidentally, the five people who were granted the right to cook for Horikita were Sudo, Miyake, Hirata, Onodera, and Maezono.

Now, only one dish from Kushida's place and two dishes from Shuichi Kanda's place haven't been fulfilled yet, so it's good to finish them sooner rather than later.

Anyway, she's good at cooking, so this kind of thing is no problem for her at all.

So he took the ingredients from Shuichi Kanda's hands, a gesture that made Kushida freeze for a moment. He had just been thinking about what dishes he would make to provoke her, but she had gotten there first.

Shuichi Kanda received the ingredients from Horikita and then swiped his room key to open the door.

"Then come in, everyone."

Although I didn't call him Kushida, since we're already here, let's all come in together.

"Shuichi, what's going on? Why is that bitch Horikita coming to find you?!"

As soon as he entered the room Kushida became unrestrained, completely different from his restrained demeanor outside. He didn't hesitate to call Horikita a slut right in front of her.

Kushida's words made Shuichi Kanda frown. He wondered if he had spoiled her a bit lately, as she had become increasingly unruly.

"It's just to have her come and take away the math problems I gave her, and also to fulfill a promise she made to me before."

Seemingly sensing that Shuichi Kanda's tone had become slightly colder, Kushida felt a pang of sadness.

What brings you here?

"Can't I come to you for no reason? Besides, you can come to me for help with setting exam questions."

Hearing the growing sense of grievance in Kushida's voice, Shuichi Kanda headache coming on.

What the hell is this?

Since you want to see it, then I'll show it to you all.

So Shuichi Kanda took out the questions he had prepared and gave them to Kushida and Horikita respectively.

All the questions are of the same type, only the data is different. There is nothing particularly difficult about them. If you can do one, you can do fifty. However, the amount of calculation in each set is very large, and there is no pattern to it. If you want to know the answer, you have to start calculating from the beginning.

The moment Horikita and Kushida received the question, they felt a chill run down their spines.

"This probably won't pass the school's review, right?"

Horikita couldn't help but ask Shuichi Kanda.

"Of course you can. In fact, I've already checked with the school, and the math teacher's expression was similar to yours."

"Perfect timing. You have an hour. Let's see how much you can do."

The official exam lasts one hour. With the baseline scores of Horikita and Kushida as a standard, we can make a rough judgment about the Ryuen class.

Fortunately, Shuichi Kanda hadn't done these questions yet and didn't know the answers, so the two of them could prepare the answers for him as well.

As he spoke, Shuichi Kanda prepared draft paper and pens and handed them to the two of them respectively.

"Are we really going to do this?"

Kushida's expression showed some hesitation.

"So that you two, with all your energy, won't have to argue here."

"Kushida, let's have a competition. Whoever scores higher in one hour..."

"Hmph, do you think I'm afraid of you?"

Although Kushida knew that her grades were not as good as Horikita's, math was her forte.

"If I win, could you grant me one request Kushida?"

"If I win, can I ask you to drop out of school?"

"Shut up, all of you! Focus on your work and stop whispering!"

The tutor version of Shuichi Kanda online, and he can no longer allow the two to continue arguing.

Chapter 205 Kushida doesn't seem so obsessive anymore?

An hour later, Shuichi Kanda had a basic grasp of the progress of the two of them.

Even assuming they both answered all the questions correctly, Horikita scored 62 points and Kushida scored 42 points.

Then the two looked at each other and both wore expressions of existential doubt.

"If you were to give this to Class C to work on, I bet a lot of students in Class C would drop out, right?"

Horikita was very confident in her calculation skills, but after calculating for a while, she couldn't help but feel a bit of a headache.

If even I feel this way, what about the average student in Class C?

Thinking of this, Horikita's expression turned somewhat reluctant. She only wanted to defeat Ryuen, and it would be too cruel if this led to a large number of students dropping out of Class C.

At the same time, there was a hint of fear in her eyes as she looked at Shuichi Kanda. This man was too terrifying; he actually thought of using this method to torture people.

"Don't worry, I have no intention of getting a large number of students to drop out of school." Shuichi Kanda put away the test papers. "Don't forget, there's a traitor in the class."

Upon hearing this, Kushida, who had been keeping his head down, immediately let out a cold laugh.

"Hmph, speaking of which, Horikita seems to think I'm a traitor to the class."

Kushida's words made Horikita turn her gaze to Shuichi Kanda.

"I told her that. In fact, when you were speaking, my phone was on the phone with Kushida."

Shuichi Kanda was unhappy about this, so there was nothing to hide.

"In that case, Kushida, you should know that I don't know anything about your past, right? Or do you think I'm acting with Kanda to deceive you?"

"Huh? Although Shuichi wouldn't team up with you to lie to me, you can't guarantee that what you said that day was the whole truth, can you?"

Clearly, Kushida would trust Shuichi Kanda, but he didn't intend to trust Horikita.

"Indeed, it's precisely because I can't prove I'm not lying that you can't tolerate my existence and want to break me down and make me drop out of school."

"You're right, so could you please drop out of school? It would be better for all of us."

And so, the two of them started arguing again, oblivious to everyone else around them.

"Won't this argument go on forever? Now that things have come to this, nobody wants to drop out of school, right?"

Shuichi Kanda's words silenced both of them, and then Horikita spoke first, as if he had figured something out.

"Kushida, let's make a bet. We'll settle our matter here with this wager."

"Oh? How do you want to bet?" Kushida asked with interest. "Don't mention comparing exam scores or anything like that; I can't beat you."

Kushida's words made Horikita's expression freeze, because that was indeed what she had just thought.

"How about this? You can choose any one of these eight subjects. If your score is higher than mine, then you win."

Hearing this, Kushida was still hesitant. Her forte was mathematics, but the two hours of grueling training she had just endured had proven that even in her area of expertise, she couldn't beat Horikita.

"How about this, you two first discuss what the stakes are, and I'll choose a suitable competition for you. What do you think?"

Shuichi Kanda's proposal was accepted by both of them. In any case, if the project showed obvious favoritism, they could refuse it, which was very constructive.

"I want Horikita to drop out of school!"

"I hope that Kushida will stop betraying the class and work hard to help the class move up to Class A, and also give up the idea of expelling me. Of course, I will also stop revealing any information about Kushida. If this is violated, I will voluntarily apply for expulsion."

Don't betray the class again? You still think Kushida is a traitor.

However, Kushida remarked, "Horikita, you've really thought this through thoroughly! You came prepared?"

However, even though you came prepared...

"The stakes are unequal. Compared to Horikita's demands, Kikyo's demands are much greater, so your suggestion was quite reasonable."

What? I clearly couldn't win against that suggestion, right? Whose side is Shuichi on anyway?