It was also because she had noticed something unusual about Yang Cheng and Ayanokoji that she later used her position as their homeroom teacher to pull up their entrance exam results.
Once she looked into them, she was shocked to discover that Kiyotaka Ayanokoji had passed every entrance exam with exactly fifty points.
A student who could achieve perfect scores was undoubtedly a genius.
But someone who could keep every score at exactly fifty was undoubtedly what people called a monster!
There was no question that Ayanokoji was hiding his abilities, though Sae Chabashira still did not know why he was doing it.
Compared with Kiyotaka Ayanokoji's results, however, Yang Cheng's entrance exam scores were truly quite mediocre...
At first, Sae Chabashira had thought she might really be overthinking things.
But after secretly observing a series of Yang Cheng's actions, Sae Chabashira ultimately concluded that Nanju Yang Cheng was also a monster-and that he concealed himself even more deeply than Ayanokoji!
Unlike Ayanokoji, who was relatively lacking in common sense, Yang Cheng had not deliberately kept his scores uniform. Instead, he had earned a mix of high and low scores to mislead anyone looking at them.
Yang Cheng: (￣∇￣) You're overthinking it, sensei. I really do suck.
What? Why would Sae Chabashira suspect that?
Naturally, she had evidence!
As the only student in Class D who had recognized the importance of Private Points and even taken a part-time job to earn them, he naturally received the most attention from Sae Chabashira.
Was Yang Cheng merely working at the café and gathering information about the school?
No, no, no. The guy was also posing as an upperclassman from Class A at the café.
Since he wore the café's clothes rather than his school uniform at work and did not have to wear a name tag, almost no one suspected him, especially since he was an unfamiliar face as a new student.
To avoid giving himself away, he would even casually draw out what year someone was in before engaging with them.
After all, since he was posing as a "Third-Year Senpai," running into an actual third-year student might expose him.
So he avoided third-year students and primarily dealt with second-year students.
The second-year students had already experienced what his year was going through, so they had plenty of information he needed.
Anyone who had made it to their second year at this school, even in the lowest-ranked Class D, would naturally not believe someone based on a few words alone.
And that was precisely why Sae Chabashira had discovered that there was more to Yang Cheng than met the eye.
To convince the second-year students that he was an upperclassman from Class A, the guy often enthusiastically helped his second-year "juniors" solve all sorts of difficult problems in his spare time at work.
The school held special exams at regular intervals, so there were quite a few study groups at the café.
And as their "Third-Year Senpai," Yang Cheng frequently explained difficult problems to those second-year students.
He was clearly a first-year student, yet he could teach second-year students. Could anyone really claim that a guy like that would have mediocre entrance exam scores?
Thus, Sae Chabashira could be certain that Yang Cheng's mediocre entrance exam results were entirely deliberate!
Sae Chabashira had also noticed that Yang Cheng attended school and worked every day, even teaching his second-year "juniors" in his spare time, yet he showed no signs of fatigue throughout the entire day.
That meant he was not only academically gifted, but also in excellent physical condition.
Highly intelligent, academically outstanding, socially adept, and skilled at disguising himself-Sae Chabashira truly could not understand why someone like him had been assigned to Class D, the class of "unfinished products," rather than Class A.
Had the school misjudged him? Or had Yang Cheng hidden himself so thoroughly that everyone had overlooked him?
Regardless of the reason, once Sae Chabashira discovered how outstanding Yang Cheng was, an idea immediately took root in her heart.
Before becoming a teacher, Sae Chabashira had also been a Class D student at this school during her high school years.
But even by their third year, her class had only managed to rise to Class B.
Their points had not been far behind Class A's, but then came the final question of the Unanimous Special Exam.
She had been the only person in the entire class to oppose expelling the male student who was her boyfriend in exchange for points.
That decision had caused their class to exceed the time limit and lose points, leaving them unable to catch up with Class A ever again. Three years of struggle had come to nothing, and her relationship with her boyfriend had ended over it as well.
Even after all these years, Sae Chabashira had never been able to let go of what had happened.
During her six years as a teacher, she had taught Class D twice, but because of her defeatist attitude, Class D had never risen in rank.
This time, however, was different. After seeing the abilities Yang Cheng had displayed, Sae Chabashira judged that he had the potential to lead Class D upward, and even make up for her past regret!
She did not understand why a piece of gold like him had ended up mixed among Class D's grains of sand.
But one thing was perfectly clear to her: Yang Cheng was her greatest hope of making up for that old regret.
For that very reason, Sae Chabashira had not exposed Yang Cheng's deception in posing as an upperclassman. Instead, she had let him do as he pleased.
What she did not know, however, was that Yang Cheng, on whom she had pinned such high hopes, really had been an ordinary high school student just a month earlier.
The only reason he had become so badass now was his cheat.
His ability to help second-year students solve difficult problems, and even teach them, was entirely thanks to the knowledge shared with him by One-Punch Monster Yang Cheng.
The technological level of the One-Punch world was by no means low. Though Monster Yang Cheng was only a third-rate scientist assisting Psykos...
No matter how fucking third-rate he was, he was still a scientist.
Given the One-Punch world's technological level, Yang Cheng could now build a High-Tech Bomb by hand without any trouble. Mere high school coursework? For him, anyone with hands could do it.
After Sae Chabashira left the classroom, the Class D students gradually calmed down from their initial panic.
They began looking around for the "special classmate" Chabashira-sensei had just mentioned, hoping to learn how to earn points from him.
"Nanju, are you planning to stay silent forever?"
Looking at the silent Yang Cheng beside her, Suzune grew rather anxious.
She was also one of the people who knew how to earn Private Points, but Yang Cheng had thought of it first, after all. If he did not speak up, she did not want to speak and take credit for it.
In all honesty, given Horikita Suzune's usual personality, she would not have cared what happened to her classmates.
After all, as far as she was concerned, they had brought this outcome entirely upon themselves.
But Chabashira-sensei had also said earlier that, because of the school's super system, their class could only climb the ranks through Class Points earned by the class's overall performance.
It was just like playing Honor of Kings. No matter how flashy your own plays were, they were useless on their own. To win, you also needed the skill to carry your deadweight teammates!
Suzune wanted to catch up to her outstanding Big Brother, and she did not want to remain in the weakest class, Class D. So no matter how incompetent her classmates were, she had to do everything she could to turn things around!
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