Results Announced: First-Year Class D, 0 Points! (Continued)

"Why have you been wearing glasses all the time lately?"

"Well..." Hachiman said. "Actually, everyone says that wearing glasses makes me look better, so I've been wearing them for a while now."

"Besides, I've already bought the non-prescription glasses, and it would be a waste if I didn't use them."

In other words, it stemmed from a desire for thrift, not from a desire to show off.

But.

"Are you trying to start a relationship?" Horikita asked bluntly.

"No," Hachiman said. "I just want someone to marry me and support me. I want to be a stay-at-home husband, not a romantic partner."

This means he wants to skip dating.

Or, to put it another way, is it that romantic love doesn't exist? Is the only real relationship that happens after marriage, where you support your partner financially?

"..." Suzune Horikita.

Even now, Suzune finds herself still unable to understand the other person's views on love.

So when it comes to topics about love, she has absolutely no say.

And while thinking like that.

Everyone heard footsteps. The clicking of high heels.

There's only one person in this class who would dress like that.

Class teacher Sae Chabashira.

Really.

A moment later, Hachiman saw the grown-up Suzune Horikita... oh no, it was Chabashira-sensei passing by the back door.

Chabashira-sensei stood on the podium.

The results of this exam will now be announced.

"First of all, congratulations, no one has dropped out of school."

"This is unprecedented in my teaching career."

"At the same time, since the final exams are over, any courses that were not completed this semester will not continue. In other words, from today until October 31st, you will have a holiday."

"Please arrive here at 8:00 AM on November 1st to begin your second semester of studies."

After Chabashira-sensei finished speaking, he waited for the students' questions, but the students were still in a daze.

"So, you mean I don't need to study the remaining fifty-odd pages of the textbook for the whole semester?" Ike stood up blankly and asked.

"Yes." Chabashira nodded. "I told you a long time ago that this school is very unique."

"So, during the teacher's holiday, the living expenses we received on the 1st are—"

"This will continue," said Chabashira-sensei, "but adjustments will be made based on this exam—"

But she couldn't continue speaking because the students had already cheered.

"..." As for the other students who were given a long holiday, Suzune Horikita continued to read her textbooks.

Because it makes no difference to her whether she has a holiday or not.

She's someone who studies for 10 hours out of 24 hours a day. And that doesn't change whether she has a holiday or not.

Although Hachiman remained calm, he had already calculated the rankings of each class after this exam.

Although Kushida was out of danger.

And he won the bet, so he didn't have to drop out of school.

But.

Just as he and Ichinose had said, their ranking in Class A dropped this time as well.

Although a traitor appeared in Class C and the exam paper was leaked to Hachiman, he didn't reveal it to his classmates. He simply had Hirata change 20 questions on the exam paper, adding 20 easy questions instead.

So the students in the class got 20 points for free.

This is why no one dropped out of school this time.

If it weren't for Sakayanagi's provocation, Hachiman wouldn't have even given them 20 points.

Because.

If there are truly terrible exams, or even if students are required to withdraw from school, then those who have already been expelled cannot fill the gaps in the withdrawal quota.

So we need to protect it for now.

They'll throw them out when it's time to drop them out.

This is also a rare advantage for this class.

That is, in the event of a situation where students have to drop out of school, this class has a large reserve of students.

But.

Because they weren't given the complete test paper, they lost this exam. 1491 - 200 = 1291 points.

Sakayanagi's Class C was 908 + 200 = 1108 points.

Ichinose's Class B score was 1171 + 200 = 1371.

As for First-year Class D, 0-200=0 points.

In other words...

Ichinose's class has moved up from Class B to Class A.

However, Hachiman's class is now going to drop to the next level, Class B.

However, these students probably didn't care too much about being relegated to Class B; all they cared about was how much living expenses they would have each month.

Since a month-long holiday is approaching, there will likely be no exams during this period. Therefore, the relevant question for everyone is how much they can spend during the holiday.

Hachiman's points, however, remained unchanged.

15.463 million.

But.

He lent 1 million to Hiyori and 8 million to Ryuen.

On the 1st of each month, you can also earn 200,000 points from the Class Ichinose and 1,200,000 points from the Sakayanagi Class.

In addition, there are over 100,000 points from my own class.

It's not low either.

Even after graduation, if you become a high-level corporate slave, you probably won't earn around 1.5 million a month.

So.

Thinking about it this way, I'm starting to not want to graduate anymore.

Advanced Nurturing High School is truly a great school.

Other classes were also holding the same class meeting.

This is First Year Class B.

"Congratulations everyone, you've made it into Class A."

The Hoshinomiya-sensei, congratulated the students.

The students in Class B worked exceptionally hard this time. Their average score across all subjects was 88. This means they are certain to beat Class D.

Certainly.

Having such a score is something to be proud of, but it's not entirely pure.

Even though the students in Class B have good Academic Ability, Class D, although it is a class of lower-achieving students, also has students with good Academic Ability. Therefore, the test set by the other side is not something that students in Class B can easily get above 88 points on.

So there might have been some discrepancies, for example, the two classes might have actually made some transactions.

In fact, to some extent, the homeroom teacher should be happy.

Because these pure little angels in Class B have finally discovered and found a way to survive in this school.

In other words, it's been slightly dyed black.

There's also something exciting: if their class moves up, Chabashira will fall from Class A.

This is what Chie Hoshinomiya likes to see the most.

"Then the results will be published after the exam."

Meanwhile, in First Year Class C, which was originally Katsuragi and Itayagi's class, the homeroom teacher, Majima, began to announce the results of this exam.

The school implements a class ranking system, but if there are differences in ranking, the class does not need to be changed; only the class sign needs to be changed.

Therefore, the classroom that was originally Class A now displays the class sign for Class C.

"First of all, congratulations to everyone. No one fell behind in this exam, which is a reasonable result for you. And congratulations to everyone for getting a class evaluation score of 200 points from Class A in this exam."

The class's evaluation score has been restored to 1108 points.

This score is more than 300 points lower than the new score for Class Ichinose, and about 100 points lower than the score for Hachiman Hikigaya's class.

But.

This is much better than being more than 500 points behind before.

"Itaru, we won this exam." After class, Kamuro found Sakayanagi Arisu.

"Yes, that's a reasonable answer," Itaru said. "There are differences between classes, so it's reasonable for classmates to outperform the underachievers in Hachiman Hikigaya's class. But..."

Banliu paused for a moment.

"You mean even if we take one exam, we still can't Class Advancement back to Class A?" Kamuro said.

"No," Sakayanagi said. "I haven't even considered it."

Day.

So it turned out to be true.

Kamuro felt from the beginning that Sakayanagi might not care much about the class, and that she had given up the responsibility of leading the exams to Katsuragi because of her poor health. While it seemed like she was making a fool of Katsuragi, it also showed that Sakayanagi herself was not interested in the class.

This is the pairing exam.

First Year Class C, +200 points.

First Year Class B, +200 points.

Therefore, Class Ichinose should be the new Class A.

For Kamuro, if his class drops now, wouldn't it be easy to quickly find a chance to get back into Class A?

At least, Kamuro himself was really looking forward to graduating from Class A and then being able to enter the university he wanted without taking the entrance exam.

Their original Class A has now been taken over by two other classes.

It's like taking turns sitting in Class A, and next year it'll be my turn.

However, Kamuro doesn't think that Class D can sit in Class A.

After all, it seems that Ryuen gave up on leading that class, and they didn't get any points this time either.

Still 0 points.

"So what are you thinking about right now?" Kamuro then asked.

It's unusual for her to talk so much today.

They were even a little guilty.

Because.

The class achieved good results, but she actually did something that went against the class's wishes.

She leaked the exam paper to Hachiman Hikigaya.

Sakayanagi probably didn't know about this, so Kamuro took the initiative to talk to Sakayanagi in order to cover it up.

"Eh." Banliu gently shook his head. "I'm thinking about whether what I did was right."