The Class Vote Expulsion Exam Begins! (Continued)

However, it seemed that Meiyu Wang wanted to chat with her, so Kushida immediately turned back.

Soon after, other students, such as Karuizawa and Sato, came over together, while Sakura seemed to have slept in a bit late.

However, she managed to get 50 points in each subject this time, which can be considered an improvement.

With improved athletic ability and Academic Ability, Sakura can now be considered an average student in the class.

Very nice.

Hachiman felt the same gratification a father feels when he sees his child finally grow up.

Now, Sakura and Horikita are coming together, and it seems the two have a good relationship.

Although she felt that Horikita was bad at conversation, Hachiman would still feel pressured to keep talking.

So Hachiman gestured to Horikita and pointed towards the Chabashira-sensei was staring blankly.

Horikita seemed to have his attention drawn.

"There's probably some bad news to announce," she said.

This is the norm; when Chabashira-sensei stands on the podium, she's about to announce something. But I've never seen her like this before.

"Maybe she was dumped by some male teacher."

Horikita also noticed this behavior, started gossiping in the small group.

"So, is the teacher currently heartbroken?" Sakura opened her phone.

Sakura only joined this group recently.

It must have been Hasebe who became friends with her and brought her in.

Although Hachiman had seen Kushida's phone, if five people could create four group chats, it would be very troublesome for anyone to reach out to anyone else.

Hasebe, however, was clearly not that exaggerated.

So, being quite active in this tutoring and study group, I invited my acquaintances to join.

"I always feel like the teachers in our grade are weird; it seems like none of them are married yet," Kushida sent a message.

It's strange that Kushida was able to infiltrate Yukimura's tutoring group. However, both Kushida and Hasebe are quite interested in the topic they're currently discussing.

"Maybe it's because he's not good-looking enough, but I'm talking about the boys. They should be quite popular among the female teachers," Kamuro replied.

"Yay—" Sakura, who was to Horikita's right, let out a cute exclamation.

This drew the attention of the students around them.

But Sakura was quite startled.

She was no stranger to Kamuro; Kamuro had guided and instructed her during both previous sports training and the recent tutoring sessions.

Only.

Isn't this the class group chat?

Why Kamuro from another class, here too?

"..." This prompted Hachiman Hikigaya to send a message to Kamuro.

Kamuro was also playing on her phone at that moment, and her reply indicated that Kushida had invited her to join.

Hmm, so why is that? Kushida, what are you trying to do?

Although they appeared calm on the surface, the students were actually quite lively behind the scenes.

This is probably because... they haven't realized the seriousness of the situation yet.

Hachiman looked at his phone, then at Chabashira-sensei, and noticed that Chabashira-sensei had raised his head, as if glancing at him unintentionally.

But she quickly looked away.

"Well then, even though it's not time for the class meeting yet, let's start notifying everyone," she said.

She first tapped the table lightly. "First of all, your results on this written exam were quite good. Although you didn't receive any awards, no one dropped out."

"It's clear that you've been studying hard. Unlike the Class D I've taught before, they couldn't manage to have no students drop out at this stage, nor could they achieve what you've done—being promoted to Class A and accomplishing something that has never happened before in this school."

"That's what Chabashira-sensei said, but she sounded like she was just reciting from a script."

Even so, the words that came out were exceptionally beautiful.

Although she usually has a stern face, the students in the class suddenly felt that Chabashira-sensei had become much cuter.

Male students at this age don't realize how good teachers are, and female students don't know that teachers can actually be romantic rivals. Little do they know that some boys actually admire their teachers.

But.

Chabashira quickly withdrew what seemed like a compliment, "However, a special exam will be held in five days. This is Special Exam for this month, and it is unacceptable for you."

"Teacher--"

Because after the Chabashira came in, he started praising her extensively, but then quickly proposed an exam, some students immediately expressed their confusion.

The one raising her hand now is Suzune Horikita, who is next to Hachiman.

"Is there anything unusual about this exam?" Suzune Horikita asked.

Oh?

When they realized it was Suzune Horikita who asked the question, even Chabashira looked over.

Could it be that Suzune Horikita has learned to recognize the atmosphere?

"Yes, this was a sudden notification from the school," Chabashira-sensei replied to Horikita.

"So what are the contents of the Special Exam?" Hirata asked next.

Although he had gotten used to the Special Exam every month, he had actually begun to fear them. It wasn't that he found the exams difficult, but rather that failing each exam seemed to mean expulsion, which would put the students in the class at risk. He didn't want to see any of his classmates drop out.

However, Hachiman reminded him more than once that this outcome was inevitable.

Therefore, he was in great pain.

But Chabashira seemed to sigh, and after a moment of contemplation, he spoke, "It's the simplest exam that everyone can take."

She said, "For the next four days, you will have free time during your morning class meetings. I won't take up that time, but you will need to evaluate your classmates. Then, select three students you think deserve praise and three students you think deserve criticism, and vote on the exam on Saturday. That's all for the exam."

As he spoke, Chabashira wrote the rules on the blackboard.

This exam was somewhat unusual.

Although Chabashira was writing on the blackboard, anyone who paid attention could see it.

The exam will be held on Saturday.

Weekends are for holidays.

Yet they still use it for exams.

Isn't this extremely unusual?

The rules have also been listed.

The exam was evaluated by Class Vote.

The rules are as follows.

Students were given three Appreciation Vote and three votes for criticism, and a formal Class Vote was held on the fifth day, Saturday, to determine the results.

Rule 1

Appreciation Vote and criticism votes interfere with each other. Appreciation Vote - criticism votes = result.

Rule 2

You should not vote for yourself, whether it's Appreciation Vote or a vote of criticism.

Rule 3

Voting multiple times for the same person, leaving blanks, or abstaining are all prohibited.

Rule 4

The exam will be repeated until a first and last place are determined. The last place student will be expelled.

Rule 5

Each person also has an extra vote for Appreciation Vote specifically for students in other classes; this vote is mandatory and must be filled out and cast.

Note: If the exam time is exceeded, one student will be randomly selected to withdraw from the program.

These are the rules and patches for the Special Exam.

The exam form that will be distributed to everyone on Saturday, the day of the exam, has also been drawn.

It roughly means you can fill in the names of three classmates who you want to praise, three classmates who you want to criticize, and a seventh name for other classes to fill in their praise votes.

Without a doubt, the exam was extremely simple and straightforward. That's why Chabashira said it was the easiest exam ever, one that anyone could do.

But.

But.

The content of this exam can be described as the most brutal to date.

Chabashira continued, "I imagine this isn't your first time taking an exam, and exams are never this simple. But rest assured, this exam won't be linked to your class evaluation scores. And this voting exam will have two possible outcomes."

Firstly, the student who receives the most Appreciation Vote in each class will receive one protection.

This protection refers to the right to invalidate even if someone is expelled from school.

Even if you fail an exam, as long as you hold a protection reward, you can use that reward to invalidate any expulsion proceedings. However, this protection reward cannot be transferred to anyone else.

Although Chabashira's words still carried an official tone.

But it's not hard to understand.

Almost immediately after she finished speaking, the class erupted in commotion.

This is an impulse more fervent than any previous restlessness.

Because.

This is an opportunity to avoid expulsion.

For someone who is bad at studying or sports, wouldn't getting this be like having a life-saving charm?

Chabashira understood their excitement. "You all understand how powerful this protection reward is, right? Essentially, it's worth 20 million personal points. Of course, for outstanding students who don't have to worry about being expelled, it might not have that level of value."

The first half of the sentence is pleasing, but the second half is just nonsense.

What outstanding Student Council would hate expulsion protection? Even Horikita wouldn't refuse it, right?

As for Hachiman, the exam rules read out by Chabashira-sensei were similar to those revealed by Maeda -Shiina.

However, there are also differences.

That is, Maeda wanted to get the criticism votes from Ryuen regarding the Ryuen's class and the other classes.

However, according to the exam rules currently listed by the Chabashira, only Appreciation Vote can be issued to students from other classes. Criticism votes cannot be used to attack students from other classes.

It seems its lethality has decreased.

At the same time, the rewards are a bit excessive.

Hachiman looked to his right.

Horikita frowned; having received no prior notice, she sensed that things were not as simple as they seemed.

"So, teacher, what about the punishment?" Hirata asked again, and his question silenced the whole class.

Because.

Yes.

If the rewards are excessive, what about the punishments? Chabashira-sensei is only talking about the person who received the most Appreciation Vote, but what about the person who received the most criticism votes?

"The topic of this Special Exam is [to select the first place, and then decide the last place]," Chabashira said. "So Hirata, you read the question very well."

"The first-place student is protected from expulsion, but the last-place student will be expelled."

Chabashira read the poem very slowly, but the excitement in the class had already faded.

The punishment of expulsion.

Students are used to the fact that failing the written exam will result in expulsion.