Part 2
On Friday, the fifth day of the special exam, the number of pairs finalized had increased to 81, meaning that a little over half of all students had made their decisions. The number of students in Class 2-D who had found a partner had begun to increase as well.
The same was true of those whom I was close with. I had already known about Kei’s decision due to our talk yesterday, but both Airi and Haruka from the Ayanok?ji Group made theirs as well. The driving force behind this had been none other than Kushida. She was largely responsible for introducing our classmates to students from Class 1-B thanks to her collaboration with Yagami, an underclassman from the same middle school as her. However, this was by no means a perfect solution for everything. Although Yagami was gradually gaining a positive reputation within his own class, it didn’t seem like he had any intention of being a leader. As such, he was simply cooperating with us as an individual. It wasn’t reasonable to expect him to be able to provide enough students to cover for everyone who needed a partner in Class 2-D.
Yagami had offered his help under only one condition: That he partner up with Kushida.
And, as indicated by the information provided in the OAA app, that was exactly what had happened yesterday.
We had to use Kushida, one of our more academically capable students, but Horikita didn’t seem to be dissatisfied with that in the slightest because the benefits had far outweighed the cost incurred. Besides, we still had several talented students left on the table, such as Y?suke, Keisei, Mii-chan, Matsushita, and even Horikita herself.
In any case, just because one’s partner had been finalized didn’t mean that one could just take it easy.
A proper amount of studying was a reality that simply couldn’t be avoided.
In fact, you could say that the exam had only truly started once one’s partner had been chosen.
Even though I didn’t speak with them very much, I could feel a sense of unity in our class as everyone began to help each other out.
It was probably only possible because we were comrades who had stuck together through thick and thin over the course of the past year.
But despite the unified atmosphere?
One student rose up from his seat, seemingly about to return home for the day.
Horikita proceeded to speak up to him, as if she had been waiting for him to attempt to leave.
“It seems you still haven’t found a partner yet, K?enji-kun.”
“And what’s wrong with that?”
This was an intervention with the only person in the class who wasn’t a part of this sense of unity.
“As your fellow classmate, I just thought I’d ask you about your current situation.”
Even for students that usually did things on their own, they’d normally still talk about it with others so you’d still know what they were up to.
But K?enji wasn’t one to say anything to anyone, so it was hard to know what he was up to.
“You’re smart. You’ve never even considered the idea that you might get expelled, have you?”
“Of course.”
“Fair enough. Knowing you, even if you were to pair with a student with ratings similar to Ike-kun, you’d get close to 400 points easily. I think you’re pretty safe.”
Generally speaking, one would want to make use of K?enji as one of the most academically capable students in the class.
That was probably why Horikita had reached out to him, but sure enough…
“Fufufu. I have no intention of doing anything for this special exam. All that matters is that the one who becomes my partner scores at least 150 points. As long as they accomplish the bare minimum, it should be effortless for me to attain a score that exceeds the passing criteria.”
According to Chabashira, everyone should be able to score a total of 150 points on the exam at the very least. Unless you were in my shoes and you ended up partnering with the White Room enforcer, it was unthinkable that one’s partner would intentionally score a zero.
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