Playing Chess! 6k

That's so embarrassing.

And what's with that camera? It's right up to your face! And the test is supposed to last half an hour to an hour, so you're going to spend an hour there making a fool of yourself!

Therefore, many people don't want to lose face.

In particular, the students' competition Matoba are recorded and broadcast live on the LCD screen on the playground, partly for fairness and partly so that the footage can be retrieved at any time if there are any objections.

But.

For the students, however, it was broadcast live to the entire school.

It will be seen.

So if my embarrassing appearance is exposed like this, I'll probably... lose my right to choose a partner for three years.

"Unless the Command Tower forfeits," Chabashira-sensei said without a shred of sympathy. "Otherwise, you'll have to go to the arena."

"Now, it's time to head to the competition venue."

"They're arranged according to student ID numbers—" Chabashira said, then glanced at his phone.

"No need," she said. "The Commander Tower has forfeited this round."

Then his gaze fell on a boy sitting in his seat who seemed to have little presence.

"Next is the sixth game, a chess match."

"Kiyotaka Ayanokoji, it's your turn."

"Good."

This boy, who wasn't very noticeable, suddenly stood up.

The other students breathed a sigh of relief.

Although they forfeited the fifth game in mathematics, at least they didn't embarrass themselves by going, and even if they had gone, they would have lost anyway.

In this way.

The match between Class B and Class C has now become Class C with 2 wins and 3 losses.

Therefore, this sixth game is crucial.

Yukimura looked apologetically at Kiyotaka Ayanokoji's retreating figure as he left with Chabashira-sensei.

He knew he had a lot of responsibility for this exam.

If he hadn't felt he had grasped Katsuragi's weakness and insisted on participating in the abacus mental arithmetic test, then he might still have had a chance to win a round in the math test.

And then it turned out like this.

My class lost 3 games.

The sixth inning then becomes crucial.

This puts a lot of pressure on Kiyotaka Ayanokoji. If he can win this round, he will achieve a 3-win situation, and for the other players, winning just one more round will secure victory.

So.

If you win, you'll be praised, but if you lose, people will say, "If only you had won back then."

In other words, if they lose here, Kiyotaka Ayanokoji may have to bear the responsibility for the entire class's failure.

Kiyotaka Ayanokoji is now playing his sixth match.

How's your mindset?

Sae Chabashira left the classroom and went to the battlefield of the sixth game - chess - to provide assistance.

She stood at the classroom door. Logically, a teacher shouldn't talk so much to the contestants, but Chabashira's feelings as a teacher are understandable.

Because.

This class crawled out of a garbage dump. Although it's still pretty much the same now, judging from the exam results, it's not so hopeless that the class is completely hopeless.

Even the existence of a few outstanding individuals within a class.

She has resolved her inner conflict, but she is still a teacher.

The game that Kiyotaka Ayanokoji is about to participate in will probably put psychological pressure on him.

"So-so," was Kiyotaka Ayanokoji's reply.

"..." Chabashira.

As expected, she couldn't look at Kiyotaka Ayanokoji with ordinary eyes.

Chess is a 1v1 game. One player is required, and the time limit is one hour (exceeding the time limit results in a loss).

Rules: Based on standard general chess rules.

Command Tower can give instructions at any time, but there is a time limit. Command Tower cannot think for more than 5 minutes for each move, and the total time cannot exceed 30 minutes.

The rules here are quite interesting.

The commander can give instructions to his own team members at any time, which means that he can intervene from the very first move of the game.

But.

However, there is an obstacle: a time limit. The commander's thinking time cannot exceed 30 minutes. After that, it cannot continue to influence the players.

Because playing chess requires thinking, and thinking takes a lot of time. Therefore, this limits the number of moves the command tower can intervene in.

However, in rapid chess, one can command more moves and even complete the game.

Therefore, if Sakayanagi wants to play Go, he needs to arrange an absolutely obedient tool.

Meanwhile, the pawn player prepared by Sakayanagi had arrived at the examination hall and sat down.

The other person has blond hair and is a handsome guy from Class B.

"Kiyotaka Ayanokoji?" the other person said, then looked at Kiyotaka Ayanokoji who had sat down.

Class C has won two games so far thanks to two overpowered players, but they failed the abacus, English, and math tests. So if Kiyotaka Ayanokoji wins the sixth game, he will become a hero of Class C.

So if it's just about creating hype, the people who support him are really impressive.

The handsome chess player from Class B who struck up a conversation was none other than—everyone's old acquaintance— Masayoshi Hashimoto.

Sakayanagi's dog.

The person who lost 1 million points to Hachiman.

Now.

The situation in Class B is very favorable.

Hashimoto also felt that if he won this round, he would receive a good evaluation.

Hashimoto was chosen to be a chess player in Class B partly because he was threatened by Sakayanagi Arisu.

"During the previous Uninhabited Island Exam, Hashimoto, what did you do without permission?"

That single sentence was enough to make Hashimoto back down.

At the same time, he actually knew how to play chess since he was a child, so his skill level was not low.

So I was assigned here.

However, since he was a student from Class B and was tasked with winning a game for his class, Hashimoto decided to try to gain a better chance of winning. In other words, he planned to distract Kiyotaka Ayanokoji.

Therefore, it was said.

"But I didn't expect Sakayanagi to choose this project, and I am one of the few people in my class who can play chess."

"I have ten years of experience in chess, so it wouldn't be good to underestimate me," Hashimoto said. "And Kiyotaka Ayanokoji, how long have you been learning chess?"

"I've studied chess for two weeks," Kiyotaka Ayanokoji said.

"Trying to cram at the last minute?" Hashimoto's lips curled up.

He felt confident.

"I learned it for two weeks when I was a child," Kiyotaka Ayanokoji said.

Um.

These words reassured Hashimoto even more.

Thus, Hashimoto put on the headphones so that Sakayanagi Arisu could give him instructions at any time.

His only option now is to treat himself as a tool and gain as much advantage as possible in the moves before Sakayanagi begins to intervene.

This round is very important for the class; can we choose to win right here?

If they win, they could potentially return directly to Class A.

Therefore, he is a great contributor.

If he loses here, he could be held accountable, and the pressure would then fall on his partner in the next game of Go.

Therefore, he himself is also under pressure.

Probably, victory is necessary, or at least the situation must be made extremely chaotic and dangerous in order to absolve oneself of responsibility.

In this way, if he wins, he can explain himself to the students in Class B, and if he loses, it will definitely be Sakayanagi's fault, since he has already tried his best.

Then completely eliminate the side effect of being ostracized by classmates because of losing this game.

Then.

Hashimoto waited for the game to begin.

However, he also noticed that Kiyotaka Ayanokoji wasn't wearing headphones.

Is it because they don't want to bring him? Probably, since the commander of Class C Hachiman, seems to know absolutely nothing about chess, so naturally he can't offer any strategies.

She could only rely on Kiyotaka Ayanokoji herself.

But.

"Now let's prepare for the sixth game."

"Please put on your headphones."

Although Chabashira brought Kiyotaka Ayanokoji over, she wasn't the examiner for this exam; instead, a second-year teacher was in charge.

Each class has only one homeroom teacher, but students have to take so many exams, so it's natural that the same teacher can't be in charge for the whole class.

Other teachers will also be arranged to help.

In this way.

Kiyotaka Ayanokoji put on the headphones that she had put aside.

"Sixth game, chess, 1 vs 1, begin!" the examiner announced.

P. S.: Creditors, the debt is 194,000.

This chapter is 7,000 words long, and I still owe 187,000 words.

I need razor blades!

There's no hope of getting monthly votes anymore, so please vote for your favorite books instead.

Last month I wrote 380,000 words. This month I calculated that I can earn at least 13,000-15,000 words a day. I can pay off my debts by at least the 20th, which is probably close to 400,000 words... I was overjoyed.

Chapter 40 Playing Chess! 6k

Hashimoto is a well-known handsome guy in Class B, and he is also very good at using his appearance to gather information.

His parents were detectives, and perhaps because he grew up with bad habits, he felt that ordinary interpersonal relationships were meaningless. He preferred to use networks of interests to manage interpersonal relationships.

People can be divided into three categories: useful, potentially useful, and no longer of use.

In.

After entering Class A, he found it interesting to learn that the school ranked students Meritocracy, and then he began to build the network of relationships he had always wanted.

He joined the tennis club.

It's not just that there are many girls in the tennis club so you can watch them play tennis; it's that there are many girls here so they can pay attention to him.