Chapter 46: Chapter 10 (Volume 2) -Sometimes You Just Have To Accept Defeat

Hmm. How should I begin this status update? Maybe in the form of an astronaut on an unexplored planet?

*Crackle* (sound of the radio's static)

The time is 7:30 am and I have landed in this region, I shall call class 1-4.

*Crackle* 

The environment seems calm with no hostile enemies. 

*Crackle*

I have spotted a homosapien with long dark peach hair. I shall attempt to make contact.

*Cue the suspenseful sci-fi music*

It was a bad idea. Abort mission. I repeat abort mission. Ahhhhhhhhh!

*Crackleeeeee*

*End of Transmission*

Ok. That's enough playing around. We actually have two more days until finals and surprisingly they haven't said anything along the lines of.

*Cue the dramatic music*

Whoever fails their finals gets expelled or something like that.

Maybe I should feel relieved but I won't because every time I feel a slight bit of relaxation something pops up that forces me out of that feeling.

Speaking of grades. My overall grade for the term is pretty much below average. I should attempt to score high on my finals to bring up my overall score so I can avoid my father, potentially throwing a tantrum about my poor grades.

*Vibration*

Heh? Who can be sending a message, this early in the morning?

I unlocked my phone. It was actually an email.

From: Institute of Athena 

To: Student ID: 19119928

Subject: Student Assembly Meeting.

Good Morning students,

Please gather in the auditorium at 8:00am. The student council has an announcement to make.

-Information Unit (IOA) 

What is Yuu planning on announcing? 

I re-locked my phone and slipped it back into my pants pocket.

We still have 15 minutes left.

Minori folded her arms and said to me. "I wonder what the student council is planning?"

"Probably a way to make our lives hell."

Minori raised her left eyebrow. "You sure have a lack of faith in the council."

"You have plans of joining them? Last, I heard they wanted assistants."

Minori unfolded her arms and shrugged her shoulders. "If I do, will you avoid me like how you avoided the student council president that one time?"

I sighed, "It seems that your memory is quite sharp but we should start walking in order to avoid being late."

Minori being part of the student council, doesn't really register as a possibility in my mind but as I think about it. I would like to keep her as far away as possible from my brother Yuu.

Eventually us, along with the rest of the class started our long and treacherous to the auditorium aka the unknown.

Minori and I walked together for a bit, until she broke off from me and went at her own pace.

After a bit of walking, we finally approached the entrance into the auditorium. I must admit that the students looked like a colony of ants marching into a nest.

Funneling my way through the entrance, I stepped inside the internal structure of the building. This would be my second time in the auditorium, inclusive of the school clubs gathering which was held here during the first week.

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Now fully inside of the building. I noticed that each class is lining up in rows at designated areas.

On right side of the auditorium, class 1-1 is the closest the stage followed by class 1-2, class 1-3 and finally our class.

Behind our class would be the first two second year classes. Which would be a bad thing for me because my brother's class is 2-1 so he would be directly behind me.

Thankfully, he'll be on the stage where I can keep track of him.

Lastly to the left of us would be the last two remaining year two classes, followed by the year three classes.

So in a sense, the distribution of  students on the left and right sides are actually even.

Minori in a nervous manner looked to left of us, in the direction of class 2-4.

I wonder who's the student, that she could be possibly looking for.

My eyes shifted towards Kaori who was standing next to me giving off a slightly terrified aura as she glaze her eyes over to the direction of class 3-2 or class 3-3. I couldn't really accurately tell because a couple of students were partially obstructing my view, so that was just me guessing based on the position of her eyes.

So both of them have some sort of business with the upper classes. Is it friends? Maybe a relative? A crush?

I'll think about that later, mainly because the principal took the stage and asked for our attention.

He stood at the podium and spoke into the microphone.

In a loud and clear voice. "Good Morning students. I hope that you're all doing well on this fine morning. Just remember finals are basically knocking on the front door, so I do sincerely hope that you perform to the best of your abilities. Now I'll pass your attention over to the student council president Yuu Kaneko."

With that, he quickly left the stage.

I looked on as my brother slowly walked across the stage. His demeanor is calm and classy.

The students looking on, had a look of respect and admiration for him. Is it because of his last name or is my brother someone who gained those things on his own merit?

He has a friendly look on his face as he stepped onto the podium. 

Fixing his grey tie now before speaking.

In a confident and warm voice. "Good Morning, precious students enrolled in the Institute of Athena. I want to thank you for assembling here in a timely manner. Keeping with the information you received via email. This is an announcement, that I have came up with along with my fellow council members. As you may know the Greek Goddess Athena is a deity of battle strategy and wisdom. In other words a Goddess of War and I find it very fitting that our school adopted that name, especially due to the competitive environment that requires both smarts and strategy in order to win class clashes."

Yuu looked around for a bit as if he was trying to pinpoint the location of someone before continuing his speech.

"At this institute, we don't normally hold any award ceremonies apart from the crowning of the 3rd year class clash victors who successfully graduated with the most points in their year group. So with the permission of the principal and the board of directors, we the student council have decided to recognize the individuals who perform extremely well in the finals. The top 10 in each class, will receive a bonus 20% that they could add to any test result of their choosing and they will be recognized on this very stage during the last day of the term."

Heh? Is Yuu reading my moves or something? He just predicted that I would attempt to bring up my grades at the last minute by potentially topping the finals or least close to it.

If I place too high, I'll possibly end up on that awards list and be forced on stage. That will most definitely reveal my identity to the entire school. 

I can always purposefully tank my score, but the issue with that being, I don't know by how much.

If I carelessly tank my score then that will ruin my overall grade for the entire term even more. Which can lead to me being either in the potential expulsion zone or hovering near it due to bad grades.

The majority of the students in my class maybe lacking in the department of usefulness during the clashes but they are still smart enough to get into the school after all.

They will all be aiming for those 10 spots, which most definitely means that the average score could possibly end up being in between 79% - 94%.

if I don't score at least an 80% then my overall grade will tank into the red but if I do score that high, I may mistakenly end up in the top 10.

Is this Yuu's way of calling checkmate on me?

He is aware of my tendency to avoid him at school. Is he playing the situation from that angle?

I am sure that he is aware of my current slightly below average academic score as well.

He knows that our dad will be pissed if I came home with that bitter final grade or is he after something else?

 

 

 

 

 

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