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Hayato chatted with Michelle as he "flipped through" the thick stack of materials.

Michelle glanced at Hayato, took one stack of papers, raised an eyebrow, and said, "Hello, viewers. This is the National Academic Decathlon, and I'm your host, Michelle Jones. We're now entering the buzzer round. One point for a correct answer, minus one for a wrong answer. First question: What is the most abundant element in the universe?"

"Ding!" Hayato cooperated with a robotic sound effect. What a clever little guy.

"Contestant Number 6, please answer."

"Hydrogen! Also, why am I Number 6?"

"Correct. One point. Don't you people in China love the number six? Six-six, everything goes smoothly! Second question: What are the most abundant and least abundant elements in Earth's crust?"

"Ding! Oxygen and astatine!"

"Correct. One point. Third question: Which elements have the highest and lowest melting points in the world?"

"Ding! Carbon, 3,550°C. Helium—it has no solid state at one standard atmosphere, and at twenty-five atmospheres, its melting point is negative 272.2°C."

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The rapid-fire questions and answers continued for over ten minutes. As time passed, Michelle's questions covered more and more subjects, becoming increasingly obscure and complex, yet Hayato remained perfectly at ease, buzzing in and answering instantly every time.

Every answer was correct!

Michelle's eyes widened as she stared at Hayato. "You're on some other school's competition team too, aren't you? And you're their ace, right?"

Her impression of people of Chinese descent was that they were smart and hardworking, but poor at socializing.

As for socializing, Michelle herself was not particularly good at it either. She mostly kept to herself.

Hayato smiled. "Whatever you think is fine."

"Hmph. I know the answers to my own questions too." Michelle puffed out her cheeks, a stark contrast to her usual