After transferring the points to the other party, Kushida and Saiki also successfully obtained the questions for the first spot-check exam. Kushida immediately posted this news in the class group chat.
[Kushida: Everyone! We have cut the price of the test questions in half, only twenty-five thousand points needed!]
[Ike Kanji: As expected of Kushida-san!]
[Yamauchi Haruki: Kushida-san, you've worked hard!]
After Kushida posted the message in the group, several boys in the class almost instantly replied.
[Kushida: No, no, no, it was all thanks to Saiki-san!]
Saiki also saw the content in the group chat. If possible, he of course didn't want to be the focus of everyone's attention. But after all, Saiki didn't want that upperclassman just now to slaughter him so easily, so he still took the initiative to participate a little in the bargaining.
"Saiki-san, did you really look for other upperclassmen?"
Kushida put down her phone and turned her head with a curious expression to look at Saiki, who then shook his head.
"So that's how it is. As expected, you were only bluffing that senpai! Saiki-san, you're amazing!"
Kushida spoke to Saiki with a smile on her face.
[I didn't expect that this Saiki, who looks a little absent-minded, would actually be pretty clever in these matters.]
'In your heart, what exactly do you think I am like?'
"Then let's first go to the school's printing shop to make copies for all the classmates!"
Kushida continued speaking. "Although Horikita-san doesn't seem willing to be with us, let's still print a copy of the test questions for her."
[That damn Horikita Suzune surely won't want it, but no matter what, I must put on the appearance.]
'Whatever you like.' Saiki thought this in his heart but still nodded to Kushida.
———
The next day during class, Kushida and Saiki brought thirty-nine copies of the test questions to the classroom and distributed them to the other classmates.
[With the test questions, there's even less need to listen to the lecture!]
[This time the spot-check exam should be safe, right? But why isn't Chabashira-sensei saying anything about the exam? Could it be that there actually isn't an exam today?]
[Just looking at this test paper is fine. The exam shouldn't be difficult at all... but I don't understand this test at all...]
After having these test questions, the students who normally didn't listen in class seemed as if they had taken a reassurance pill.
However, perhaps because of the test questions, the students' learning attitude in the class didn't change much.
Every day there were still many students coming late, still many spacing out during class. Compared to before, they cared even less about these things.
They merely believed the class points were related to exam scores, and with these test questions, the exam was basically no problem. They did not know that what assessed class points was far more than just exam results.
Just like among them as Class D, there were quite a few who had gotten very good scores on the entrance exam.
But after all, regarding the test questions, it was still worth studying a bit. Every day after school, when returning to the dorm, some Class D students would voluntarily gather to study the questions. Even Sudo Ken and the others who normally never studied would ask other classmates about how to solve some problems.
Of course, whether they could understand was another matter.
———
Just like this, a week passed quickly. During this time, Chabashira Sae still didn't mention anything about the exam, causing some students to suspect that maybe this year there was no so-called spot-check at all.
However, today before the first period, Chabashira Sae, who usually only arrived at the exact time, unexpectedly came five minutes early.
"Today there is a spot-check exam. Starting from the first row, pass the papers back."
Chabashira Sae immediately handed out the test papers she carried, and on her face there even appeared a rare, meaningful smile.
[These defective products surely never imagined that within the first two weeks after school started, there would be a spot-check exam. Surely some of you will question why I didn't tell you about the exam and the rules in advance, but in this world, there are not so many things you can prepare for ahead of time!]
[Seeing how you all usually are in class, I really don't believe you can get high scores!]
[When next month the class points are announced, let me see well your looks of despair!]
'Hey hey hey, you're the homeroom teacher, you know.' Saiki complained inwardly. Normally, every homeroom teacher should wish their students would get high scores, but this teacher called Chabashira Sae was basically a weirdo in some sense.
However, perhaps reality was a bit different from what Chabashira Sae thought.
[Finally there's news of the spot-check exam! As expected!]
[Luckily I got the test questions in advance, otherwise this exam would have been a total disaster!]
[Quick, quick, hand out the papers! Otherwise I'll forget all the questions I memorized yesterday!]
The students in the class showed no surprise at all, and quite a few even felt secretly delighted.
Very soon, the test papers were distributed into everyone's hands. Saiki glanced over them briefly, the questions were indeed exactly the same as last year's test.
As the top high school funded by the government, they definitely wouldn't reuse the same exam just to save resources. Most likely, their purpose was to test whether the students had the observation skills to notice there were identical questions.
At the same time, it further made the students understand that in this school, anything could be bought with points.
For Saiki, it didn't matter.
'Yare yare, before I didn't really look at them carefully. Now it seems the difficulty gap between different questions is quite big.'
Saiki thought to himself. But for him, even if he hadn't looked in advance, these questions had no difficulty. Just glancing at them briefly, he could judge the answers.
And for Saiki, the hardest part was how to control his score to stay at an average level.
'Keeping all the test scores exactly in the middle has already made the teacher suspicious. Looks like I need to let each subject fluctuate a bit up and down, but not too much, or it will look suspicious again.' Saiki thought in his heart.
'After all, because there are test questions, other people's scores should all improve somewhat. My scores shouldn't be too low either.'
The most important thing wasn't how many points he could score himself but rather how many points the others could score.
[This time's questions are exactly the same as the test paper, amazing!]
[Thank goodness I prepared in advance!]
[This exam should be able to get quite a high score!]
Saiki could clearly hear the others' thoughts. Next, he needed to confirm how many points they could get with the questions in hand.
He turned his head, his gaze casually falling on someone. His line of sight gradually penetrated the other's body to look at their test paper, to see what answers they wrote.
'Looks like with the test paper, everyone can get high scores.'
Saiki casually looked at a few people, the correctness rate of their first few answers was very high, probably they would all get quite good scores.
His gaze continued to move and landed on Sudo Ken.
[First question is A, second question is C, third question is D...]
At this moment, inside Sudo Ken's mind, he was repeatedly reciting the answers to the questions.
Other people, after getting the test paper, studied how to solve each question. But Sudo Ken simply memorized the sequence of answers and the solution steps by rote.
Luckily the exam questions were basically the same as last year's. Otherwise, just changing a few numbers would have rendered Sudo Ken's "hard work" useless.
[Ah, damn, just now what was the answer for this one again, was it D or C? Quick, quick, remember it!]
'This guy, hopeless.' Saiki made such a judgment in his heart.
Even with the test paper, it seemed Sudo Ken hadn't seriously memorized the answers. After just a few multiple-choice questions, he already forgot which was correct.
'But in a way you did a good job, Sudo. You can probably drag down the average score of this exam a little.' Saiki's mouth curved up slightly.
Saiki's gaze continued to move and landed on Horikita Suzune.
At this moment, Horikita Suzune was concentrating intensely on solving the problems.
Although earlier Kushida had also made a copy of the test paper for her, Horikita Suzune did not accept it. But she still transferred her portion of the points to Kushida.
Even without the test paper, Horikita Suzune possessed the top academic ability in the class. Saiki glanced a couple times, her answers were almost all correct, even higher than most of the people who had seen the questions in advance.
And at this moment, Saiki heard another voice.
[What is the normal academic level of an ordinary high school student?]
[After seeing the test questions, about how many points would their scores be? I'm not really sure either.]
[Forget it, same as during the entrance exam, I'll keep each subject at fifty points. This question correct, this one wrong...]
Saiki heard that somewhat lazy inner voice and instantly knew who it belonged to, Ayanokoji Kiyotaka.
'As expected, a strange guy.'
Saiki could tell that Ayanokoji was different. He was indeed more special than normal students. Saiki, through telepathy, could know that Ayanokoji Kiyotaka could easily solve every problem, but he deliberately chose to get some wrong in order to precisely control his score.
'Like me, he wants to avoid standing out too much?'
Saiki's mouth curved up slightly. Finally, his gaze fell onto the test paper in front of him.
'But when it comes to hiding oneself, Ayanokoji, you're still far from enough.'
'To truly not attract attention, it's not about getting exactly the middle score, but to get a ranking merely close to the middle. Keeping every subject at fifty points will instead make you stand out even more.'
'And it's not only about ranking, which questions you get right and which you get wrong, that is the true core of this exam.'
For Saiki, these questions had no difficulty at all. He himself also wasn't clear about how hard the questions were for ordinary high school students.
But he possessed telepathy. Using this ability, Saiki could know which questions other students thought were difficult and which were simple, thereby judging which ones he should deliberately answer incorrectly.
Only this way could he appear as ordinary as possible.
'Because of the test paper, the correctness rate for the first few questions is very high, almost no mistakes. So I can't deliberately get them wrong.'
'But even with the test paper, the last few questions are still quite hard and have complicated steps, the correctness rate isn't that high... I'll deliberately get this one wrong.'
'Estimating roughly, this time's average score probably won't be low. I'll just have to get a bit higher too.'
Saiki thought this as he casually picked up his pen and quickly filled in the answer sheet.
———
After several hours of the exam, when the bell rang, Chabashira Sae immediately began collecting the papers.
[How strange, these defective products don't look panicked at all, not even surprised.]
There was a trace of doubt in Chabashira Sae's gaze. According to the students she had led in previous years, when they learned of a spot-check exam, most of them were very shocked.
But Class D remained calm from start to finish, as if they had known about the exam in advance.
After collecting the papers, Chabashira Sae glanced over a few, the correctness rate was much higher than she expected.
"Oh?"
Chabashira Sae's eyebrows raised slightly. She hurried to look over several more papers, and like before, the correctness rate was very high. There were even several students who had solved the extremely difficult questions inside.
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