The next morning, I strolled into the ssroom and noticed a crowd of people gathered in front of the board. I guess the highest point owners were disyed once again. There was some pretty intense chattering from within the circle. It seemed that there were quite a few surprising developments.
As I nudged myself in and took at the leaderboard, there were some interesting things developing in the other sses. However, our ss'' results and cements were pretty predictable to me. Students who usually didn''t even show up to ss were standing near the board, frantically trying to understand what was going on.
The air conditioner was sting cold air into the ssroom, gently circting air around. However, even with all its efforts, the ssroom was still eerily warm. Not that it really mattered to me at all.
This was all pretty boring.
It was the second day of the special exam.
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ss 2-A
1. Hasegawa Mio - 16,003 points
2. Fujiharu Sara - 14,267 points
3. Tachibana Emi - 12,189 points
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ss 2-B
1. Naegi Saka - 33,177 points
2. Kumagawa Ester - 13,219 points
3. Kinoshita Chitose - 12,992 points
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ss 2-C
1. Kobayashi Lucy - 9,143 points
2. Hiroto Kaoru - 8,901 points
3. Suzuki Touma - 8,315 points
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ss 2-D
1. Katsuki Andria - 8,210 points
2. Akasaka Uya - 6,370 points
3. Tamura Ritsu - 6,002 points
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ss 2-E (My ss)
1. Ichikawa Mana - 7,324 points
2. Itsuki Akane - 7,027 points
3. Yamada Nendo - 5,870 points
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ss 2-F
1. Yogi Fukuda - 134,146 points
2. Kanako Hanae - 4,945 points
3. Hayashi Yoshida - 1 point
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Nothing was extraordinarily surprising—aside from the ss 2-F standing. From what I could tell, it looked like Tachibana decided to bail out her friend with 4,000 points—well, that saved me the hassle of bailing her out.
Also, since I wasn''t on the leaderboard, I shouldn''t be receiving any suspicion.
There was quite a bit of outcry in the ss, especially in rtion to the number of points that Yamada had. It was to be expected that the ss would not take lightly the fact that Yamada suddenly managed to get enough points to pass the exam. Whatever the case, as long as they couldn''t track it back to me, it''d be fine.
"Where did you guys get all your points?!"
"There was some anonymous person who gave them to us," Yamada answered.
"That''s not fair!"<novelnext></novelnext>
"Well, that''s too bad. You guys were nning on throwing me under the bus anyways!"
He didn''t mention the heavy fees involved.
It was also going to be significantly more difficult to acquire loans from the upper sses. As Furukawa predicted, ss B was going to be bidding for points, and they have much stronger purchasing powerpared to students of ss E. I was going to use that to my advantage, however. There was a good chance that many of the students from ss E are not going to survive this exam.
I was somewhat curious as to what ss F was doing. Based on their points amounts, I assumed there was some sort of dictatorship, or maybe all the students trusted Fukuda with their points. He suddenly managed to gain around 56,000 more points. My assumption is that he chose option two and took all the points for himself. Something seemed suspicious about that ss.
Kanako seemed to be doing well, just under Fukuda. There was probably something going on between the two of them, likely tracing back to her father. Her father was not exactly the type of person who would y fair, so it''d be fully expected that he may have set some stuff up in this school prior to her enrollment. It''d probablye a time when I''d have to deal with that, but for now, it didn''t seem a problem to me.
I''ll observe the results after the special exam concludes.
I opened my bank ount and contemted what I''d do today.
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Your ount
Current Points: 4,001
Owed: 28,388
Owing: 12,000
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There were free meals provided by the school during this special exam, so there was no need to spend any points during this period. It was good for me as well since it allowed me to save some points which would have originally been spent on the food we''re having. Also, it means I''d be able to invest the rest of my points. Aside from that, there wasn''t much else for me to do, so I decided to just listen in as normal.
We''d have ss as normal for the rest of the day. However, tomorrow morning will be utter chaos.
The stress levels of many students were quite high throughout the day.
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(This is a separate extra segment.)
MONOLOGUE OF FUJIHARU SARA
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At first, I saw him as just a random boy.
He was dull, he was boring, he was in, he was nothing special.
It was the first day of the second semester, he was seated next to me.
As expected, he was quiet, he was hard to talk to.
Oh well, it was nothing I hadn''t experienced before.
However, for some reason, as I talked to him, I felt as if something was different.
I''ve met lots of boys who have pretended to be apathetic.
But, for some reason, he genuinely seemed disinterested.
The more I tried to get close to him, the more I felt distant.
At times, it almost seemed as if I was getting pulled in by him...
Time was ticking.
It was obvious that he still hadn''t fallen for me.
Luckily, I''ve still got some ns up my sleeve.
I can sense that you''re someone special, that you''re hiding something, that you''re not who you appear at first nce. However, I''ll be the one to swallow up your pride.
No matter what I have to do... I''ll be the one to defeat you.
Mizuhara Ayato. I''ll make you fall in love with me
otherwise... I might...