Chapter 8: Chapter 7

A week had passed since the first class clash and the students of 1-4 were starting to get familiar with each other.
You could say I was making friends as well.
Fine maybe I was lying to myself again.
I didn't consider them friends, more like people I was stuck with for the rest of my duration here.
After getting observe everybody here due to the ice breaker games Miss Aiko had us participate in over the last couple of days.
I came to the conclusion that there were only a few capable people in the class. Sure these students made the grades to get into the school but they lacked something that would help them survive in here.
The only students I found noteworthy were Takeda Kadae, Sena Tsuyoshi and Yogi Takanae.
Sena Tsuyoshi seems like your average like-able female who has been popular since middle school. She being overly friendly with everybody in the class kind of threw me off. It was as if she was covering for something. I'll leave my observation as that and not probe any further.
Yogi Takanae is a big muscular guy who's vibe just screamed alpha.
No it was more like he shoved it down our throats. Due to that I assume that he will make a bid for class leader when the time comes.
I am fine with that if it meant hiding in his shadow for the time being.
Even though the entire class was starting to get chummy with each other.
There was one person who kept to herself.
The female sitting next to me, Takeda Kadae.
She had a total ice queen aura about her but it seemed like a front to me.
She kept silent with a stern look on her face.
That look was so serious that it even deterred the friendliest person in our class Sena from speaking to her.
Even so, I did find her attractive to the point where I would occasional look at her.
"What is it?" She asked as she caught me side eyeing her.
Crap crap, was I looking like a stalker there?

"So I don't see you being friendly with anybody here" I nervously asked.
"I don't see the point, my only goal is to graduate with an internship"
Ah an internship I see. If you successfully complete it, you become a permanent employee. An easy shoe in to a great paying job
"Well in order to achieve that you need some level of cooperation with everybody else because the clashes are considered a team effort"
"So what do you want when you graduate from here?"
That question caught me off guard because I needed absolutely nothing the school was offering
The only reason I am in the first place is because my parents enrolled me as a last ditch effort for me to utilize my potential completely.
I mean what else than a cutthroat school to convince me otherwise. Oh boy am I sure glad they chose here instead of the original school I requested.
"If I am being honest here, I actually want nothing but a regular experience"
"You enrolled in this institute for a regular school experience" she replied with a puzzled look on her face.
"Yeahhh it's a long story"
As if I am going to explain to her that my wealthy parents is using enrollment at this prestigious institute as a sort of punish for me. I would just sound like some snob.
Our conversation was then cut short by Miss Aiko walking in with a concerned looked on her usually cheerfully face.

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"Miss Aiko what's the matter?" asked Yogi who tried to be a self insert leader.
She gracefully took a seat at the teacher's desk then exhaled.
"It's regarding the recent class clash you guys were involved in"
The entire class became silent when she said that.
Based on her facial expression I already know that we placed last.
She turned on a small flat screen television that was mounted above the white board.
The screen showed all the rankings of each class
Class 1-1 :20 points (1st)
Class 1-2 :15 points (2nd)
Class 1-3 :10 points (3rd)
Class 1-4 :5 points (4th)
Just as I suspected our class was dead last.
The class was a bit shocked at this recent discovery.
A student named Genji Hisoka spoke up "That exam was easy so I don't understand how we placed last"
Genji's intelligence was a mysterious to me so I have no idea how he got in. Maybe he is just downplaying himself not to stand out.
Sena placed the palm of her hand on her face
"Obviously we placed dead last because some of you guys didn't get it"
Hmm get it she says? I assume she caught onto the trick as well if she is speaking like that.
Takeda who had a pissed off look on her face said "Miss Aiko how did we place last?"
She already knew how we placed last and she just wanted confirmation
Miss Aiko sternly and swiftly "It was quite easy you see, there was a trick to the exam. For this class clash, the class who had the most numbers of students to solve it won and that class was 1-1. As for your class only 4 people out of 30 students managed to get it right. Such a shame because you're supposed to be the best and brightest. Then again a hierarchy was always going to be established. Ironically it went from class 1-1 to class 1-4, so congratulations on following the natural order of things" then began to clap.
She's right about that, a hierarchy was always going to be established even though we started off on equal footing. In life there is always somebody superior to another and right now 1-1 is the superior class. Which makes me wonder who are the students in there.
Yogi got up from his seat to defend the class.
"Look lady if you're supposed to be scolding us as a teacher than you're doing a bad-"
Miss Aiko stared at him so sharply that he stopped mid sentence.
"As I said since day one, I will not coddle you. I call it as I see it and you guys sucked"
Miss Aiko then took her seat while Sena asked with a curious expression "Who were the 4 students that got it correct."
The class began to look around at each other.
Crap crap, if she says my name then it's done as my heart began to beat a little quicker than usual.
"The principal gave me orders not to say. So on your own time, think of it as a "Guess who" and if you figure it out then you get a sweetie"
Huh why didn't the principal expose the names? I assumed he was under my parents order to force me to embrace my gifts.
What's really going on here?

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