COTE: A Man On A Mission || Love is War?

"Good morning, Kushida-chan!"

"Okay~"

"Kushida-chan—"

"I feel like Kushida-chan is in a good mood lately."

It's 28th now.

Classes go on as normal.

The students chattering in the morning.

Pairing test had just ended and they were in a good mood, because Hirata had given them a set of answers for each subject, and then sent it to class group, asking to check it themselves.

Then found had passed, so felt relieved.

But the classmates also noticed that Kushida, who was like a little angel every day, was in a particularly good mood these two days.

Even her smile became sweeter, as if something good had happened to her.

Compared to Kushida-chan.

[What happened to Horikita Suzune?]

When Hachiman arrived at the class, he quickly received a message from Haruka.

Um.....Although the exams were over, Yukimura's study group connection was not over yet.

People like Haruka, who likes to give nicknames and gossip, are naturally puzzled about Suzune's condition.

Because now Horikita is supporting her chin with one hand.

Although she is still talking to people, but somewhat absent-minded, as if has something on her mind.

But she is quite beautiful even when she looks melancholy like this.

After all, she is the most handsome girl in class.

However, everyone has already noticed that Suzune is worried.

It means she is not very good at hiding it.

"Horikita, she's in a period of depression, which is common among normal girls." Hachiman sent a reply, "And Hasebe, you also have times when you don't want to talk to people, right?"

"Is that so?"

Haruka felt that Hikigaya was just lying to her.

However, she noticed that Suzune, who was sitting next to Hikigaya, was already talking to the other person, so she didn't ask any further questions.

And Suzune did continue to ask, "You actually helped Kushida-san all along?!"

"This exam...It's just Kushida's luck. In addition to contacting Sakayanagi, she also bribed other students in Class C to get the answers of math test...." Only, Hachiman just tried his best to fool her.

"....So it's her popularity that played a role?" Suzune who was very dumb, this is something she can't do, but Kushida has it.

"Besides," Hachiman nodded like a good person he was before coming to this school, "your brother will be leaving school in one semester. And you don't want him to see you without any friends."

Hachiman and Suzune are partners.

Kushida is her apparent friend. If she dropped out of school, then Suzune would really have no friends here.

She couldn't respond.

"....I kind of understand why she kept contacting me when she entered school," Suzune recalled the tragic past.

At that time, even though Kushida was ignored by her, she would still persevere in contacting her.

Girl even waited at her dormitory door every morning to bully!

"Maybe she was very nervous at that time, afraid that you would tell others." Hachiman who already took Kushida's side, after understanding she always does her best to work for him instead of this loner of a deskmate.

"She's actually in a bad mood all the time," Suzune finally sighed, "Forget it, I'll help her deal with her problems...."

"You should!"

"..." Suzune.

"What's wrong?" Hachiman noticed that Suzune, who was sitting next to him, was still looking at his profile.

"Why have you been wearing glasses lately?"

"Well..." Hachiman didn't know what to say anymore, "Actually, everyone said that wearing glasses makes you look better, so I just wear them. Besides, I've already bought the plain ones. It would be a waste if I don't use...."

In other words, out of the idea of frugality, not to show off.

"Are you planning on falling in love?" Suzune was extremely shocked!

"No...." Hachiman thought she was being pretty weird, "I just want someone to marry and support me. I want to be a househusband and don't ever want to fall in love!"

This is saying that he wants to skip the relationship.

Or, just think that love doesn't exist. Is it only real after marriage that you support him?

"..." Suzune. To this day, she finds that she still cannot understand the other person's view on love.

So when it comes to the topic of love, has no say at all.

And while thinking this.

Everyone heard sound of footsteps, the clacking of high heels.

And there is only one person in this class who dresses in such way.

Homeroom teacher, Chabashira Sae.

After a while, Hachiman saw the grown-up Suzune passing by the back door...oh no, it was Chabashira-sensei.

Standing at the podium.

Results of this exam have begun to be announced.

"First of all, congratulations, no one dropped out."

"This has never happened in my teaching history."

"At the same time, because the final exams are over, courses that have not been completed this semester will not be continued. This means that from today to October 31st, you will have a holiday."

"Please arrive here at 8am on November 1st to start your second semester."

After Chabashira-sensei finished speaking, she waited for the students' questions, but people were still stunned.

"That means we don't have to study the fifty-plus pages of textbooks we have left?" Student Ike stood up and said blankly.

"Yes." Chabashira also nodded, when she saw that child who interrupted Ike now stopped interfering with the main characters, "I told you a long time ago this school is very unique."

"So, during the vacation, living expenses that we deposited on the 1st are--"

"This will continue." Chabashira didn't like the insinuation of her being a loan shark, "but there will be some adjustments for this exam--"

But she was unable to continue her words because the students cheered.

"..." As for other students who had a long holiday, Suzune just continued to read her textbook.

Because it makes no difference to her whether she has a holiday or not.

She is a person who studies 10 hours out of 24 a day, and this will not change whether she has a holiday or not.

Although Hachiman was calm, he had already calculated the ranking of each class after the exam.

Although Kushida is no longer in danger.

And won the bet, so didn't have to drop out of school.

But, Just like what he and Ichinose said, Class A's position also dropped this time.

Although a traitor appeared in Class C and test paper was leaked to Hachiman, he did not leak it to all his classmates.

He just asked Hirata to change 20 questions on the mock paper and add these 20 easy points.

So students in the class got 20 points for nothing.

This is also reason why no one dropped out of the exam.

If it weren't for Sakayanagi's provocation, Hachiman wouldn't even give them 20 points.

Because, If there really is a bad exam, or even one requires people to drop out, then some who have already been expelled will not be able to take up the place for expulsion.

So have to protect it for the time being.

Wait until you need to drop out of school, and then throw it out.

This is also a rare advantage of this class.

That is, if you have to drop out of school, there are plenty of reserve forces in this class.

Because they were not given a comprehensive test paper, they lost.

1491-200=1291 points.

And Sakayanagi's C class scored 908+200=1108 points

Ichinose's Class B scored 1171+200=1371 points.

As for Class D of Grade 1, 0-200=0 points.

That is to say.

Ichinose's class jumped from B to A.

But now Hachiman is going to drop to the next place, which is Class B.

However, these students didn't care too much about being dropped to Class B.

The only thing cared about was how much living expenses they had every month.

Since people are about to enter a one-month holiday, there will probably be no more exams during, so what matters to everyone is how much they can spend.

However, Hachiman's points did not change much.

15.463 million.

He lent 1 million to Hiyori and 8 million to Ryuen.

On the 1st of every month, he can also earn 200,000 points from Ichinose's class and 1.2 million points from Sakayanagi's.

Add to that hundreds of thousands of points from his class.

It's not low either.

'Even after graduation, if you become a high-level corporate slave, you probably won't get more than 1.5 million a month.'

After thinking about it this way, Hachiman don't want to graduate anymore.

Advanced Nurturing High School is really a good one.

Other classes were also holding the same meetings.

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Grade 1 Class B here.

"Congratulations everyone, you've made it to Class A."

The homeroom teacher, Hoshinomiya, congratulated the students.

Class B worked very hard this time.

The average score of each subject was 88 points, which means they can definitely beat Class D.

Certainly.

Having such a score is a matter of pride, but it is not pure.

Even though random guys in Class B have strong academic ability, D, although a class for poor students, also has students with good academic powers.

Therefore, paper set by the other side is not something that students in Class B can easily get more than 88 points on.

So maybe there were some deviations, for example, two classes actually made some transactions.

In fact, to some extent, as a class teacher, Chie should feel happy.

'Because these pure little angels in Class B finally discovered and found a way to survive in this school. In other words, it's slightly darkened.'

At the same time, there is another point needs to be excited, that is, if their class moves up, Chabashira will fall from the position of A.

This is what Chie likes to see the most.

'It calls for a party night!'

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"Then results will be announced after the exam."

In first-grade Class C, which was originally of Katsuragi,homeroom teacher Mashima began to announce the results.

The school implements a class ranking system, but if there is a difference, class does not need to be changed, just the sign.

So the room of the former Class A now has the sign of C.

"First of all, congratulations to everyone. No one fell behind in this exam. Of course, this is also a reasonable result for you. And in this exam, congratulations to everyone for receiving a class evaluation score of 200 points from Class A."

Restored to 1108 points.

This score was more than 300 points away from the new score of Ichinose's class, and about 100 points away from Hikigaya's.

....It's a whole lot better than being left behind by more than 500 points.

"Sakayanagi, you won exam this time...." After class, Kamuro-san found her owner.

"Well, that's a reasonable outcome." Sakayanagi was very modest, "There are gradings between classes, so it's reasonable for us to outsmart the poor students in Hikigaya-kun's class.....But"

Silent for a moment.

"You mean even if it's just one exam, we still won't be able to be promoted back to Class A?" Kamuro-san was developing a little inside.

"No. I haven't thought promoting in the slightest!"

So that's exactly what happened.

Kamuro-san felt from the beginning that Sakayanagi might not take class very seriously, and because of her poor health, she gave the command of exam to Katsuragi before.

It seemed like Kamuro-san was making a fool of herself by looking at Katsuragi, but in fact, it also showed that Sakayanagi herself had no interest in the class.

This time's pairing test.

Grade 1, Class C +200 points.

Class B +200 points.

So Ichinose's should be the new A.

For Kamuro-san, wouldn't it be enough for her to fall behind in class now and then quickly find an opportunity to get back into Class A?

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