Ryuen: This Is the Shuichi Kanda I Want to Crush! (Continued)

The deadline for submitting the exam papers was 5 p. m., which meant there was only one hour left until the deadline.

After school, Horikita immediately grabbed a paper bag and headed towards the teachers' office.

Looks like the real show is about to begin.

After Horikita left, Shuichi Kanda immediately followed.

What are you doing here?

"After all, I played a part in this, so of course I want to witness it to the end."

Shuichi Kanda made up an excuse that Horikita couldn't refute.

"Oh dear, is it finally time to submit the problem?"

As they headed to the teachers' office, Ryuen was waiting at the door, holding the same file folder as Horikita, as if he were waiting for someone.

"Oh, Suzune, I've been waiting for you for ages!"

Ryuen revealed a fearless smile.

"I don't want to see you."

Horikita ignored Ryuen and called for Chabashira-sensei as soon as he arrived at the classroom office. Chabashira-sensei appeared shortly afterward.

Meanwhile, Ryuen glanced at Horikita and Shuichi Kanda before approaching Sakagami, the homeroom teacher of Class C, and handing him the brown bag.

"May I take on this assignment?"

"Okay, I'll leave the rest to you, teacher."

After Sakagami finished, Chabashira-sensei came up and looked at Horikita.

"I thought you were going to forfeit."

"Chabashira-sensei is such a joker."

With that, Horikita handed the things in his hand to his beautiful homeroom teacher.

"Chabashira-sensei, this is the final draft."

"Okay, then I'll accept it." Chabashira-sensei took the test paper from Horikita, then glanced casually at Shuichi Kanda. "Can I accept it?"

"Of course, please be sure."

Horikita nodded.

"Furthermore, to ensure the absolute confidentiality of this information, could you please refuse to let anyone else see it, including myself? I don't want anyone to see it."

"Of course, teachers are meant to serve their students." Then Chabashira-sensei changed the subject, "Horikita, I understand your desire to keep the exam paper confidential so you delayed submitting it until the last minute. However, there are risks involved. If your questions do not meet the standards, we have the right to reject them."

The review of the exam papers will take at least an hour. In other words, regardless of whether the review is successful or not, this will be the last set of papers you submit. I don't need to elaborate on the consequences if that happens."

Indeed, if the school deems the exam paper in Horikita's hands too obscure or too difficult, then that exam paper will not be accepted.

If there were enough time, Horikita would naturally have time to create a new set of questions. However, the deadline is approaching, so if the paper fails the review, the subjects that fail will be directly removed, and the paper will be replaced with simpler questions from the school.

With that, Class D' s defeat was a foregone conclusion, and the students in Class C were probably laughing in their sleep.

"Of course I know, but this exam paper, created by the top combatants of Class D, is definitely not a problem."

Horikita wore a confident expression.

Seeing Horikita's expression, Ryuen smiled as well. "Suzune, you think you can compete with me like this? You're too green."

And you, Shuichi Kanda, I thought you were someone special, but it turns out you're just good at playing petty tricks.

It's so boring that no one has discovered the pieces I planted in Class D. After dealing with you guys, I'll take care of Ichinose, then Sakayanagi, and then rule this school.

Looking at the smug Ryuen, Shuichi Kanda sighed softly, hoping that he would still be able to smile later.

The exam papers are reviewed by the homeroom teachers of each class. Although homeroom teachers are usually only responsible for one subject, the teachers who are able to enter this school have all undergone strict screening, so it is not surprising that they know about other subjects.

It is precisely because only the homeroom teacher is working that it takes an hour.

"Suzune, would you like to sit down together? I'm really looking forward to the review results later."

After submitting the exam paper, Ryuen directly extended an invitation to Horikita Suzune.

Do you think I'm the kind of person who would make such a basic mistake?

"Who knows? Want to take a look?"

Seeing Ryuen's confident demeanor, Horikita's heart wavered slightly.

She absolutely refused to believe that Ryuen hadn't taken any countermeasures in this exam.

Putting everything else aside, the fact that no one in Class C reviewed shows that Ryuen was confident in his plan, so Horikita was also curious to know what he was up to.

"Then let's sit together. I'd also like to know the results of this review."

Shuichi Kanda agreed to Ryuen's request on Horikita's behalf.

Horikita glanced at Shuichi Kanda and then nodded.

"Then see you in Palette in five minutes."

After leaving those words behind, Ryuen left with a wicked grin on his face. His destination wasn't downstairs, but the classroom of Class C.

"What exactly is this guy trying to do?"

Horikita frowned, somewhat puzzled by Ryuen.

"Who knows? Maybe they want to kowtow and kneel down for what they did at the Sports Festival."

Horikita Suzune glared at Shuichi Kanda with annoyance. "How could you say something like that? If Ryuen would kneel down for something like this, then he wouldn't be Ryuen."

A few minutes later, when Shuichi Kanda and Horikita Suzune appeared in Palette with their schoolbags on their backs, Ryuen was already waiting there.

Strangely, he wasn't carrying a backpack, but rather holding something in his hand—a brown file folder, very similar to the one he had submitted earlier.

"Are you bringing so many people here to attack us?"

"You really have a sharp tongue."

Ryuen didn't care about Shuichi Kanda's provocation. After all, he had won 20 million points from him before, so he could understand the other party's displeasure.

"Have a seat. Order whatever you'd like to drink. It's on me today."

"No need for that, I can still afford a drink."

"I pass too."

Shuichi Kanda and Horikita Suzune ordered drinks for themselves and then found a place to sit down inside.

A short while later, Ryuen also came over with a cup of coffee, then sat down opposite the two of them, placing the file folder he was carrying on the table.

After glancing at the file folder, Shuichi Kanda looked away.

"I didn't expect you to be a black coffee drinker. Don't you think it must be very bitter?"

"I like this taste. But you, at your age, still love fruit juice." As he spoke, Ryuen took a sip in front of Shuichi Kanda.

What's wrong with loving fruit juice?

Did I eat your rice?

I think you're only saying that because you can't afford freshly squeezed juice, right?

What exactly are you planning?

Horikita frowned, noticing that Ryuen seemed to be there simply to have coffee.

"It's nothing, I just invited you, Suzune, to witness the results. If you really don't want to chat with me, it's fine to stay silent."

Then, Horikita sighed.

"So, I'm asking you what your purpose is in keeping me here for an hour."

"If you're so eager to know, you'll find out in an hour, won't you?"

Although Horikita was also very interested in Ryuen's purpose and the file folder that Ryuen placed on the table as soon as he sat down, Horikita still did not pursue the matter further.

She felt that even if she pressed him for details, Ryuen wouldn't tell her.

Since that's the case, then let's wait and see; she was very confident in herself.

Since Kushida, the traitor in the class, has reformed, she is not afraid of Ryuen playing tricks, and the quality of the questions set by their Class D is guaranteed, so there is nothing to worry about.

My only worry is the situation that Chabashira-sensei mentioned. What if the questions he asks unexpectedly exceed the scope of the curriculum? That would be terrible.

Now that things have come to this, all we can do is wait patiently.

An hour passed slowly in the silence between the three, and after noticing the strange atmosphere, Palette's guests gradually left.

Within just one hour, only three guests remained at Palette: Shuichi Kanda, Horikita Suzune, and Ryuen Kakeru.

Ding-dong.

Horikita's phone received a new email; it was from Chabashira-sensei.

The exam questions have been accepted and approved.

Seeing this, Horikita finally breathed a sigh of relief. Everything was going according to plan, and now it was time to focus on the exam.

"Looks like your hopes have been dashed; my exam questions have been accepted without incident."

"Really? Congratulations, Suzune." Ryuen smiled, seemingly unsurprised that Horikita's question had passed the review.

"Suzune, let me tell you some good news. It's already past five o'clock, and the deadline for submitting the question has passed."

"So what?"

Horikita frowned, still unable to figure out what Ryuen was up to.

"Nothing much, I just wanted to give you a gift."

As he spoke, Ryuen revealed a wicked smile, and then pushed over the file folder that he had placed on the table after arriving here.

"What's this?"

"Why don't you open it and take a look?"

This can't be...

Looking at the file folder in front of him, and considering Ryuen's strange behavior before, Horikita had a bad feeling.

He quickly picked up the file folder, took out its contents, and Horikita eyes widened the moment he saw it.

"This is..."

Then, as if he had seen a ghost, Horikita looked at the things he had taken out of the file folder in Ryuen page by page.

To everyone's dismay, the file folder that Ryuen produced contained the very exam questions she had just submitted to Chabashira-sensei.

"How so?"

Undisguised wavering appeared on Horikita Suzune's face.

"Did Kushida betray us?"

Horikita glanced at Shuichi Kanda instinctively, but Shuichi Kanda shook his head after noticing Horikita's gaze, indicating that Kushida could not possibly betray him.

Ryuen, on the other hand, seemed to have heard something interesting, Kushida?

Is it that Kushida Kikyo?

They actually suspect that Kushida is the traitor in Class D?

Horikita Suzune and Shuichi Kanda, I don't know what you guys are thinking, but you really know how to make me laugh.

"How could that be?" Horikita's face was unusually grim. "Could it be that the traitor in Class D isn't Kushida?"

But if it's not Kushida, then who could it be?

This exam paper was completed jointly by Horikita, Hirata, Yukimura, Wang Meiyu, Kushida, and Shuichi Kanda.

However, only he Hirata had access to the entire exam paper. Hirata couldn't have betrayed them, so who was it?

Seeing the despair gradually creep onto Horikita Suzune's face, Ryuen burst into laughter.

"Hehehe... Heh, hahahaha! Seriously, what are you doing, Suzune? Aren't you already at your wit's end? The questions you came up with with all your might are completely meaningless!"

"Who on earth? Who gave you the exam questions I set?!"