Chapter 301

Same.

Suzune Horikita also brought her exam paper.

Chabashira-sensei wasn't in the office. But less than two minutes later Chabashira-sensei showed up.

"May I take on this assignment?" Sae Chabashira asked. Her manner was completely businesslike.

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

Although Sakayanagi, the leader of Class C, was in the staff room, Suzune Horikita ignored them without hesitation and instead conducted business with Chabashira.

She handed the brown file bag to Chabashira.

But the process doesn't end once the paper is submitted. As mentioned earlier, the exam paper needs to be reviewed to see if it exceeds the syllabus.

"It takes a little time to review the exam papers," Chabashira said, preparing to sit down and take out the papers for inspection.

Although Sakayanagi was also in the staff room, Chabashira's seat was quite far from theirs, meaning she could hear their voices but couldn't see the contents of the exam paper Chabashira was holding.

"Hehe--"

Meanwhile, the submission of exam papers by Sakayanagi's side had probably ended, but she didn't leave immediately; she seemed to stay, showing some interest.

Sakayanagi is a person who can put pressure on others.

Karuizawa understood this a long time ago.

But Horikita ignored it.

This made Hachiman had accompanied him, somewhat ponder.

Last night, he reminded Horikita to pay more attention to the exam herself.

He's already helped her resolve the rumors, so she needs to take control of the rest herself.

Horikita's answer to him was that she understood and would do her best. She also said she had some things to consider.

In other words, even someone as honest as her has finally seen through it. Kushida dared to make a bet with her because he saw that Kushida was actually working with Sakayanagi?

If Sakayanagi and Kushida team up, then if Sakayanagi gives Kushida the exam paper, Suzune Horikita might lose.

She has to break this.

Sakayanagi gave Kushida a favor, and what Kushida wanted to give Sakayanagi in return was simple: the exam questions for this test.

This would allow Class C to completely defeat Class A.

Get those 200 points.

Therefore, Sakayanagi might have prepared a test paper created by Kushida students of Class C for Kushida to submit as an exam question.

Horikita needs to be wary of this move.

Seeing that the teacher had started reviewing the papers, Horikita suddenly said, "I have another question for you. Do you have a convenient time to ask?"

"Hmm." Chabashira's Academic Ability was not low. She quickly skimmed through the questions, analyzing whether they were beyond the scope of the curriculum, while also managing to talk to Horikita.

"This question and its answer are two sides of the same coin as the success or failure of Class A. We must prevent any information from being leaked. Even if someone asks to see this material later, could you please refuse them all? I don't want anyone, including myself, to see it," Horikita said.

"..."

Upon hearing this, Chabashira put down the scroll in his hand.

Horikita's methods were indeed ruthless.

After the exam papers were submitted, no one was allowed to look at them, which completely thwarted any attempts by classmates to check them.

There was a precedent for this, because during the Sports Festival, their class roster was leaked. Although part of it was deliberately leaked to Ryuen, there were also some issues with the arrangement of students in Katsuragi's class compared to their class. For example, when Sudō was present, the original Class A would not send their seeded players up.

In other words...

There are spies in the class.

So it's not impossible that they'll sell out the class to the original Class A, now Class C, again.

And now Horikita and Kushida are still making such an important bet.

So.

As a classmate, Kushida also has the right to submit the exam paper, so it would be reasonable for her to insist on checking it.

So Kushida might be the biggest spy in this exam.

Therefore, Horikita now hopes that Chabashira will agree to stop Kushida.

But.

Chabashira is the teacher.

Horikita's concerns are valid, but Chabashira, as her teacher, cannot allow her to do so.

Teachers are supposed to be fair and impartial.

"Are you trying to refuse to make it public?" Chabashira's opening statement made it clear that, in principle, any classmate had the right to view this exam paper.

"Is it very difficult?" Horikita tried to appeal to his emotions.

"That's not true." Chabashira shook his head gently. "I understand your fear of the exam papers being leaked. The school has no right to refuse. However, there are conditions. Is this the opinion of your entire Class A? If it is the will of everyone, then I will agree."

"..."

All personnel, meaning the entire class.

On the 12th, Hirata, Kushida, Matsushita Yukimura preparing the exam papers. Suzune Horikita was then asked by Hachiman to explain in class that she had collected the papers, would make some changes to the difficulty level, and then submit them.

This indicates that the exam questions are being provided by an agent.

But.

Although Horikita was acting as the substitute for the class in setting the exam questions, that only represented the majority of the students' opinions, not the entire class's.

"Yes, they agreed." Suzune Horikita took out a piece of paper with a consent form on it, and below the consent form were rows of students' signatures.

"It's the signatures of 40 students in total, Hachiman, and Hirata ... Kushida," Suzune Horikita said. "I obtained authorization from all the students in the class."

"Hmm..." Perhaps not expecting Horikita to have actually done such a thing, Chabashira paused for a moment, but she still took the consent form. "Well, since you've come this far, then I have no reason to stop you."

"However, I must add something," Chabashira suddenly interjected, "Sealing the exam papers in this way is not something to look forward to in the first place. It is also evidence that the class is not united."

That's spot on.

If there is true unity, then why is it necessary to be wary of classmates and sign such a contract? Wouldn't it be better if everyone just trusted each other?

So this class isn't actually as harmonious as it seems.

Horikita has grown.

Although Horikita was speechless at her question, Chabashira still felt that Horikita had grown since the beginning of the school year.

She nodded and added, "I did accept your request. However, depending on the needs, there should be situations where I agree to make the exam paper public. Therefore, I would like to ask you to allow me to add something to the previous topic. If, after your permission, someone requests to see the questions and answers, I will agree to make the exam paper public. Is that alright? Wouldn't it be a risk for you to insist that I would never show it to anyone?"

As expected of Chabashira-sensei.

He speaks with perfect tact and precision.

Because if Horikita made it clear that no one was allowed to see the exam paper, but in the end there was a problem with the exam paper and the questions were leaked, wouldn't that be Chabashira's fault?

She had already taken the blame for the Hachiman Hikigaya and didn't want to involve others.

So.

She didn't want to do something as boring as leaking information. Nor did she want to suddenly be suspected as a teacher.

"So, can the teacher accept my test paper now?" Horikita noticed that Chabashira had already put the paper down.

Click.

Chabashira-sensei took out a cigarette and put it in his mouth. "As of now, my review is not yet complete, so I have to go through the normal process. Only after I have completely reviewed it and there are no abnormalities can I confirm the acceptance."

"..." Horikita closed his eyes. "Then let me put it another way. Before we bring this test question over, have you [already accepted other test questions]?"

"Heh, I can't answer anything else, but I can tell you that all the submissions for Class A's exam have been processed. Since the processing is complete, no more exams will be accepted," Chabashira replied. "So, although your idea and approach were quite good..."

"But," Chabashira looked at her with regret, "You were too late."

This was an unsurprising indication that Horikita Kushida already submitted his exam paper.

As for this result, Hachiman glanced at Classmate Sakayanagi.

Classmate Sakayanagi glanced back at him with a smile.

Hachiman glanced at Kamuro again.

However, Kamuro remained expressionless.

"Please cancel the exam immediately. This is the real exam. That other exam paper is absolutely unreasonable."

Meanwhile, Horikita was still fretting over the exam paper. Chabashira had actually returned it to her.

"Whether it is reasonable is not for you to judge, but for the school to check. After checking, the test paper submitted by Kushida was neither too difficult nor too easy, and the questions were very reasonable. Moreover, she made a similar request to you when you asked for a replacement."

I hope someone can confirm she was there. But... Chabashira took out his phone; it displayed a message.

"Kushida asked me for leave this morning. She has already gone back to her dorm to rest."

"What?!" X2

Not only Horikita, but even Hachiman seemed surprised. "Wasn't she perfectly normal when she was in class?"

"She was just enduring it. After taking her temperature, it was confirmed that she had caught a cold and had a fever. Her leave of absence was approved for her health," said Chabashira-sensei. "She won't be coming to school this afternoon or for the entire day tomorrow."

"..."

"..."

Kushida is truly a formidable person. She's also incredibly capable.

No wonder she didn't show much emotion in class; she was enduring her illness.

But who would believe that Kushida really caught a cold suddenly?

She most likely got sick by running in the water one night or something.

Yes.

Kushida could submit the exam questions, and so could Horikita, so Kushida cleverly used this trick, making it a condition that she had to be present to change the exam paper, but she herself pretended to be sick and couldn't come to school.

This completely blocked Horikita's movements.

Horikita's attempt to seal Kushida was foiled, and he was instead sealed away.

"..." Horikita bit her lip in an instant.

This is an absolute failure.

It seems that preparations have been made thoroughly.

Afterwards, Sakayanagi witnessed this amusing scene and smiled as he prepared to leave.

However, just as Sakayanagi was about to leave...

"Horikita, you can bring out your backup plan now," Hachiman said.

Um?

Look over here, Class C's homeroom teacher, Majima, and students Sakayanagi and Kamuro.

Chabashira said to Horikita, "Then let me review the exam papers."

"I see."

Horikita handed the exam paper that had just been returned to Chabashira again.

The Chabashira extinguished its cigarette and then sat down to look at it.

Meow meow meow??

Sakayanagi and Kamuro, look over here.

Horikita said,

"Thank you so much for cooperating with the performance, teacher." Horikita looked up and explained, "To prevent information from the last Sports Festival from being leaked, when I made the bet with Kushida for this exam, I asked Chabashira-sensei to only accept my exam paper."

So, as Kushida said, if other people submit their exam papers after Kushida has already accepted them, the teacher will pretend to accept them. I did this before Kikyo Kushida.

"..." Majima-sensei.

Meanwhile, Majima-sensei understood.