The Classroom of Power Supremacy Backed by Black Technology Chapter 36

Shuichi Kanda turned his head slightly, glancing toward the trio of idiots.

Even those three showed no tension, instead calmly starting to answer the questions.

Seeing this, Shuichi Kanda also picked up his pen and began writing. These were questions he had easily scored full marks on the first time he did them, so there was no chance of making mistakes now.

He finished the entire test in less than half the allotted time, and he could guarantee perfect accuracy.

It wasn't just Shuichi Kanda—most of the class with decent grades were the same. After all, these were just memorization subjects. If they couldn't produce a few perfect scores, the class would be completely doomed.

Chapter 61: The Farmer and the Snake

The midterm exams were held on the Friday of the third week of May, leaving nearly a week until June 1st.

So as long as the reward points from the midterms were distributed, Class D wouldn't have to keep living frugally on points borrowed from Hirata.

No one said it out loud, but everyone felt uncomfortable about this arrangement.

Even if not many points were handed out after this exam, it was still better than asking someone else for money—it felt like charity.

On Monday morning, Shuichi Kanda and Miyake walked into the classroom and immediately sensed an unusually tense atmosphere.

But there was no helping it—today was the day exam results were announced. Even with last year's test papers, if an accident happened and someone failed a single subject, they'd be mercilessly expelled. Tension was only natural.

Sudo, however, seemed nervous but also a bit excited. That guy had seriously memorized the test papers Shuichi Kanda gave him over the past week, so he probably felt that mix of anxiety and anticipation.

Maybe this exam would break his personal record since elementary school.

"Teacher." As Chabashira stepped up to the podium, Hirata immediately stood up to ask, "I heard the exam results will be announced today. When exactly will that be?"

"No need to rush. I'll announce them now. There are a lot of procedures to handle after school, and we wouldn't want to run out of time."

Procedures?

Hey, hey, no way?

Did someone actually fail?

Even Sudo was confident—who could be that pathetic?

"What... what's going on?" Hirata had a bad feeling.

"Don't worry, I'll announce them now."

With that, Chabashira-sensei stuck a large sheet of white paper on the blackboard, listing all the students' names and their scores.

The most eye-catching name was naturally Shuichi Kanda's—perfect 100s in all five subjects. Others had achieved the same, but his name was at the top for a simple reason: when scores were tied, names were sorted by the gojuon order of the first character.

Kami, ka, ranked sixth in the gojuon, placing him first among all the perfect scorers this time.

He felt like he saw this kind of sorting often. In his past life, lists were usually arranged by the alphabetical order of surnames, and Excel spreadsheets had the same sorting method.

As he scanned the exam results down the list, Shuichi Kanda was shocked.

Holy crap, Sudo wasn't dead last! Or rather, he wasn't last in everything.

And the lowest scores in Japanese and Social Studies were both above 50 points, which meant no one would fail.

By then, Sudo had finished checking all his own results.

"Awesome!" Sudo couldn't help jumping up.

"I don't have any red lines! And I'm not last!"

Compared to Sudo, his friend Yamauchi Haruki's face was far more miserable, because he was dead last in English this time.

He couldn't even believe Sudo had surpassed him.

"Indeed, let me congratulate you first, Sudo. You passed all your subjects."

Chabashira-sensei acknowledged Sudo's results and offered her congratulations.

"However..."

She then drew a red line over Yamauchi Haruki's name in the English column.

"Yamauchi Haruki, you failed English."

"Huh? How is that possible? I scored 43 points! Didn't you say last year's passing line was 32? I beat it by 11 points!"

After a moment of shock, Yamauchi Haruki stood up excitedly to argue.

"I said last year. Who told you this year's passing line would be the same?"

The classroom fell silent for a moment before Chabashira-sensei took a marker and wrote a number on the English scores.

88.6

"This is the average English score for this exam. The passing grade is 88.6 divided by 2, which equals 44.3. So, Yamauchi-kun, you failed."

"It seems you all really worked hard this time. Even Sudo scored nearly 50 points in English, which significantly raised the average. Correspondingly, the passing line was also pulled up."

Glancing at the dejected Yamauchi Haruki, Shuichi Kanda felt no sympathy at all. That guy had a much better foundation than Sudo, and like Sudo, he had gotten the past exam papers in advance.

Shuichi Kanda had clearly told him what to do, but he still failed. What else could be done?

All I can say is: serves him right!

To be honest, in these two months since school started, he hadn't seen a single redeeming quality in this guy—just a load of hot air.

And when Yamauchi Haruki heard Chabashira-sensei's words, his face twitched violently.

His already bottom-tier looks within the class became even more disheveled.

"It's all your fault! All your fault for scoring too well on the English test! This is on you, not me!"

Hearing Yamauchi Haruki's accusations, Shuichi Kanda felt no anger at all—in fact, he almost wanted to laugh.

See? The daily drama was starting again. Pretty entertaining, right?

But this guy failing the test was actually very beneficial for Shuichi Kanda. A plan he'd only prepared as a precaution could now be truly implemented.

Besides Shuichi Kanda, most of the other students in the class showed disgusted expressions. You didn't put in the effort yourself, yet you blame others for being too good? Who do you think you are?

"Yeah, it's all Shuichi Kanda's fault! You're the one who said this test's average would add to our Class Points, so everyone went all out!"

Shuichi Kanda had indeed mentioned this in class, but only a few like Horikita knew about it. This guy must have overheard it by accident, so when he said that, the classmates all turned to Shuichi Kanda in surprise.

And Chabashira-sensei directly confirmed that it was true.

"So it's all your fault! If you hadn't—"

Before Yamauchi Haruki could finish, Shuichi Kanda unhurriedly picked up his pencil case from the desk and threw it at him.

Huh, why the pencil case again?

Thud!

"You want to die?"

This time, Shuichi Kanda did it openly under the cameras, but he didn't care—the class had no points left to deduct anyway.

"Blaming others' hard work for your own laziness, Yamauchi Haruki, you're nothing but a complete piece of trash."

"And I gave you that practice test a whole week in advance, didn't I? How come Ike and Sudo both scored close to 50 or even above, but you couldn't?"

A week in advance?

The class was stunned for a moment, then started murmuring among themselves.

Then Kushida Kikyo stood up.

"Everyone, let me say something. This practice test was actually something Kanda-kun got from a senior in his club, but he only brought it out on the last day so as not to discourage everyone's motivation to study."

Kushida's words undoubtedly confirmed the truth of Shuichi Kanda's statement, and at the same time made the students dislike Yamauchi Haruki even more. He had the practice test a whole week in advance and still failed?

What a joke.

And now he was turning the tables and blaming others? Wasn't this a real-life version of the farmer and the snake?

Just like Shuichi Kanda said, he was a complete piece of trash.

Chapter 62: Damn, I Really Want to Laugh

As for Shuichi Kanda, even though he'd unhesitatingly grabbed his pencil case from his bag and thrown it at Yamauchi Haruki, he wasn't angry at all. On the contrary, he kind of wanted to laugh.

No! Can't laugh! Hold it in!

Yamauchi Haruki's actions had stunned Shuichi Kanda, but the result of those actions was exactly what Shuichi Kanda wanted. He really had to thank Yamauchi-kun.

Humans always choose a new enemy to unite against, even if that enemy is fictional—this has been common throughout history.

For example, when overthrowing an old dynasty, rebel leaders, no matter how much they wanted to kill each other, would temporarily unite to take down the common foe.

And now, Yamauchi Haruki, in front of the not-yet-united Class D students, had voluntarily stepped up as the class's common enemy.

No, not just stepped up—he'd outright become the class's enemy.

So for most of Class D right now, if you hated Yamauchi Haruki, you were their long-lost sibling!

How could Shuichi Kanda not laugh at this outcome? He'd been wondering how to unite Class D further, and now someone had self-destructed to solve the problem for him.

So, if the timing weren't so off, he'd want to personally award Yamauchi Haruki a banner! He could even come up with the slogan himself!

After this, once the class's cohesion reached its peak, if he could just get rid of this Yamauchi guy, Class D would become unprecedentedly united.

But before that, he had to keep an eye on Yamauchi Haruki and make sure he didn't cause too much damage to Class D—especially not let Sakayanagi find out, or nothing good would come of it.

That's why, as the class's enemy, this guy couldn't be expelled just yet. So, someone, please save him.

Ayanokouji, it's your turn! Follow our original plan!

"Enough! Are you all forgetting I'm the teacher here?"

Chabashira Sae finally remembered she was still the homeroom teacher.

"Sorry, I couldn't help it."

Shuichi Kanda was the first to apologize, then calmly sat back down.

But his action only reignited Yamauchi-kun's fury. Since he was going down anyway, he might as well take Shuichi Kanda with him.

"Teacher! He just tried to kill me! He should be expelled!"

Shuichi Kanda, however, didn't even bother to acknowledge him, silently pulling out the textbook for the first period.

Most of the class, especially the girls, looked at Shuichi Kanda with sympathy while expressing their anger toward Yamauchi.

"You're exaggerating, Yamauchi. Even if that punch landed, Shuichi Kanda's strength wouldn't kill you. Relax."

MD, she's mocking Yamauchi and taking a jab at me too, huh? Damn you, Chabashira-sensei. One day, I'll get my revenge!

Then Chabashira-sensei changed the subject: "But raising your hand in front of me is indeed very rude. Kanda, I'm suspending you for one week. Any objections?"

"None!"

Hearing this, Shuichi Kanda promptly put the Japanese textbook he'd just taken out back into his bag, stood up, and prepared to leave.

A one-week suspension?

I'm way too grateful for this. Although Horikita's been the main force behind the study sessions these past few days, Shuichi Kanda's been a bit tired too. A good rest won't hurt.

Besides, a one-week suspension just means I can't go to school. It doesn't mean I can't hang out elsewhere. I've got plenty of money anyway, and my studies aren't lacking. I have the capital to wander around.

Before leaving, Shuichi Kanda deliberately glanced at Kiyotaka Ayanokoji, who was sitting in his seat.

After Shuichi Kanda left, Chabashira Sae smiled.

"Well, that's that. Yamauchi Haruki, you failed English by one point, so you'll be expelled for it. If you understand, then this homeroom meeting is over."

After Chabashira-sensei left, Kiyotaka immediately stood up, took a piece of paper deliberately left in Shuichi Kanda's desk, and followed her out through the back door, also calling out to the dejected Yamauchi Haruki.

Shuichi Kanda returned to his dorm, tossed his bag carelessly onto the floor, changed into casual clothes, and then headed to Keyaki Mall.

A long vacation like this—how could he not treat himself?

After buying fresh meat and vegetables, Shuichi Kanda also restocked on seasonings and oil. Just as he pulled out his phone to pay, he saw a message from Miyake.