Chapter 18: Chapter 4.1

I'll admit that the classroom has been rather bleak since we all discovered the real reason why we are here.

An experimental class? Talk about a massive plot twist in my school life. Funny enough, the person who took it the hardest was Minori Takeda. I believe her shock comes from the discovery that the school thinks of her as an inferior student.

Personally, I don't think so. She seems very studious, so I highly doubt that she scored low enough to get placed in this class. Maybe it's a case of messed up paperwork or is the school grading people based on something else?

Welp. There's no use thinking about it now. It's lunch time once more, and I did the smart thing, which is to get my lunch before the rush.

I stood on the second floor balcony of the school's main classroom building, overlooking the students who were mixing and mingling.

I leaned both my elbows onto the cold metal railings and let out a big sigh. Another day eating by myself. Woe is me!

I carefully undid the plastic wrap that covered my sandwich and bit into the bread. A smile of satisfaction crept up on my face. 

I unintentionally skipped breakfast today while trying to make it to class on time. So this sandwich right here for me is just pure sweet relief.

"So I see you're forever alone once again."

That voice suddenly being heard almost made me drop my sandwich, but I managed to catch it before it dropped too far.

"It is quite rude to sneak up on people when they are enjoying a meal, Minori."

Minori approached the railing and replied, "So you're just the person I wanted to see."

Oh? What's this about?

"That sounds a bit scary if it's coming from you."

Minori exhaled deeply and said, "It's about your results in the exam. Did you get a zero?"

Well, this is a bit personal.

I bit into my sandwich again and replied, "Something like that. My score did include a zero."

She leaned her back against the railing and said, "Right now, my only goal is to push the class up to first place and make sure we stay there for the next three years."

I looked downwards onto the first floor and replied, "That is a high goal you set for yourself. Hopefully you don't beat yourself up if you don't succeed."

I felt Minori's cold eyes side-eyeing me when she asked, "Why do you sound so negative?"

"I wouldn't call it that. All I did was add a dash of realism in. As Miss Aiko mentioned previously, our class is just an experiment. So I am not sure if we actually get the things that were promised if we do happen to win."

"That is true, but do you plan to roll over and play dead?"

I pretended to ponder over that question, "Hmmm, it depends on whether or not there will be treats afterwards."

While scribbling in her handy dandy notebook, Minori replied, "That's a strange answer."

I stretched my arms and yawned, "Will that be all?"

Minori poked me in the stomach with the pen she just recently wrote with, "You didn't properly answer my question."

"Uh, the first or the last one?"

She shot an annoyed glare at me, "Obviously the first one, you left the answer too open-ended and I hate inconclusive things."

I thought about it for a few moments and replied, "Why is it so important to you?"

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She closed her notebook, "Finding out the identities of the other two people who successfully figured out the last class clash methods has taken priority for me."

She's not going to let me off the hook until I give her a straight answer. So I might as well get some information out of it. "A mutual trade off" is what you would say.

I shifted my eyes to her and said, "I'll reveal my results, but only if you tell me something."

She eyed me with great suspicion.

"What an odd thing to say, but nevertheless, what do you want to know?"

"That day in the café, was it your brother that you were avoiding?"

Minori hesitated a bit when she heard my question.

I see.

"Never mind, I already know the answer because it's written all over your face."

I pulled out my phone from my pocket and entered the password. After pulling up the Grades application and turning the phone towards Minori, who looked at the screen.

"I had a feeling you were one of the two."

I relocked my phone and returned it to my pocket. 

"What do you mean by that."

Minori turned her body to face the railings of the balcony and replied, "That day of the exam. You were the first to finish."

"Uh, that could mean a lot of things, one of them being I could have easily rushed down the easy questions and gotten the entire method wrong."

"The second reason being that you used a pen to write your answers. No one in their right mind would even attempt to do that unless they were absolutely certain that what they were doing was the correct thing."

I attempted to debunk her theory by saying, "Or it could just be a sign of extreme arrogance on my part. Either way, the exam wasn't that tricky when you think about it. Our classmates were just too careless to read between the lines."

Minori turned her head towards me and said, "You're seemingly changing my opinion of you as a boring individual."

I raised my left eyebrow and replied, "Uh thanks."

"Now that I have confirmed it's you, on to the final person."

Both of us returned to the classroom, and shortly after, Miss Aiko made an announcement.

"Tomorrow will be your joint swimming assessment with class 1-2. So please don't forget to walk with your school-issued pool wear. However, participation is not mandatory."

Well, it can't be much of an assessment if we are allowed to skip out on it, right?

 

 

 

 

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