"Great, I'll first ask you one thing, okay? Saiki, right now.....do you have a girlfriend you are dating?"
Sato Maya followed Saiki to the side, then immediately asked, at the same time she widened her eyes, with some curiosity in her gaze.
[Earlier I noticed Karuizawa and Saiki's relationship was very close, I don't know if there is something between the two of them.....]
[Clearly earlier Karuizawa seemed to care about Hirata, so why after summer vacation did her relationship with Saiki become so close?]
"No."
Saiki did not hesitate, immediately shook his head in denial.
After all, Karuizawa's influence in class was not small. Whether in looks or figure, both were very good.
Although in the eyes of others her personality was not considered pleasing, in the class and even in the grade there were many boys who had favorable feelings toward her.
If some baseless rumor were to spread at that time, Saiki in school would not know how much trouble he would encounter then.
"Oh, so that's how it is...then, can I treat you as someone who is recruiting a girlfriend...."
Hearing Saiki's words, Sato's face immediately revealed a smile, impatiently asking.
But before Sato could finish her words, a familiar voice rang out from the side.
"Sato, Saiki, what are you two doing!"
The source of the voice was precisely Karuizawa.
At this moment, Karuizawa was like a curious little cat, body leaning forward, quickly arriving at Saiki's side.
"N-no... nothing!"
Since the words had already reached this point, Sato could only forcibly swallow them back. After all, such words were not suitable to be spoken in front of another girl.
Even more so when it was Karuizawa, who recently also clearly seemed to have some special thoughts toward Saiki.
In reality, this was the work of Saiki.
From the start he had used telepathy to read Karuizawa's voice, knowing the direction she was walking from, so he deliberately brought Sato over to that place, letting Karuizawa arrive just in time, to stop Sato from saying anything strange.
'Yare yare, although Sato seems to only simply want to get closer to me, and not yet to the extent of a confession, but such a direct question is really hard to deal with.'
'Of course I couldn't possibly give a positive answer, and I also don't want the situation to become too awkward, so letting Karuizawa help me avoid this awkwardness is better.'
Saiki thought this in his heart. Calling Karuizawa over should save him a lot of trouble.
"I was just thinking that earlier I hadn't really spoken with Saiki before, so I wanted to exchange contact information and such."
Sato immediately said, on her face appearing very calm.
"Oh oh."
Karuizawa spoke with a smile, at the same time her body slightly leaned closer toward Saiki's position, "Saiki, are you free tonight? I heard the dessert shop has introduced new varieties, want to go try them?"
[Looking at Sato's appearance, it seems she wants to hit on Saiki, right? But.....I can't let you succeed so easily.]
'Hey hey hey, this matter has nothing to do with you, right? Why do you look as if facing an enemy?' Saiki complained in his heart.
[Looking exactly like a very intimate relationship. But just now Saiki said he and Karuizawa are not a couple.....So, Saiki really is Karuizawa's target.]
'Although the dessert shop having new items really is attractive, and I was indeed planning to go there, right now I absolutely cannot agree. Otherwise I'll be dragged into these two's conflict, and that's trouble.'
Saiki realized that after he had called Karuizawa over, things had instead become even more troublesome.
"Sorry, tonight I have other plans."
"Eh! Really?"
"Um, Saiki-kun, about what I said just now, let's exchange contact information. As classmates, up until now we haven't had each other's contact, it doesn't feel very good. After exchanging numbers, if we have any questions in study, we can also communicate with each other."
"Mm."
Since the other's words had already reached this point, Saiki could only nod, and exchanged contact information with Sato.
At the side, Karuizawa's face kept its smile.
'Better to quickly leave.'
After finishing, Saiki quickly left this place, avoiding the trouble from escalating further.
And after Saiki left, the gazes of Karuizawa and Sato met each other.
"Didn't expect, you actually took the initiative to come find Saiki to talk. Feels like normally you two never had much contact, right?" Karuizawa asked.
"Mm-hm."
Sato nodded, at the same time showing a meaningful smile, "That, just now I even specially asked Saiki, he doesn't seem to have a girlfriend yet! At the sports festival I noticed him, his appearance when running was really handsome!"
"You are preparing.....to go for Saiki?"
"Not sure yet, but for now, developing the relationship a little wouldn't be bad."
Sato slightly lifted her chin, eyes meeting Karuizawa's eyes, but she did not notice the trace of fluster that flashed there.
"What's good about Saiki, isn't Hirata's performance also pretty good? Why don't you consider Hirata?"
"Hirata surely has many girls chasing him, the difficulty is too great! Besides, I think Saiki fits my taste better!"
"I feel you two aren't very suitable....."
"What's wrong? Karuizawa, you look like you care a lot...could it be, you like Saiki?"
"No way no way! How could that be!"
Hearing these words, Karuizawa's face instantly turned red, quickly shaking her head.
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Unconsciously, more than a month had already passed.
The atmosphere inside Class B had already become better and better.
First, because during summer vacation everyone had been promoted to Class B, almost all of them thought promotion to Class A was no longer a delusion, so everyone was also working hard toward that goal.
If it were a goal unreachable, ordinary people would easily give up halfway.
But if this goal really was very close, then they might work even harder to reach it.
In the class, basically no students were late or left early anymore, during class also not many still played with their phones or daydreamed, and the next few exams all obtained decent results.
And Sudo's performance in school had also improved a lot.
On one hand, Sudo also felt the possibility of promotion to Class A.
On the other hand, after the sports festival the class also became united, Sudo's position in the class rose a lot, and perhaps because of this, his temper instead restrained quite a bit, and he became much warmer toward those around him.
All these changes were taken in by Ayanokoji.
At this moment, in the classroom, Ayanokoji sat at his seat, silently observing the whole class.
[Sudo and Horikita, after the sports festival, both gained some growth.]
[Originally I thought only when people are in adversity or even desperate situations can they grow, but Saiki's thinking does not align with mine.]
[He created an absolutely comfortable environment for Class B, and in such an environment, he still let those people gain growth. Such a situation, even in the White Room, was not taught.]
[But recently, Class D's movements have increased more and more. They've been tailing our class's students, especially Yamauchi. All of this, it must be arranged by Saiki.]
'Hey hey hey, I didn't do anything at all.'
Hearing Ayanokoji's inner voice, Saiki also felt a bit helpless inside.
During this period, Saiki had actually been quite busy. Basically every day after school, Sato would often message Saiki, asking about his various hobbies and such, just wanting to gain further understanding of him.
Of course, Saiki didn't like having too much interaction with others, and he also didn't like chatting much, but Sato sometimes in the morning would bring some desserts for Saiki, so each time Saiki would still chat a little with her.
Only, all of this was also seen by Karuizawa. Every day she too would bring some pudding for Saiki.
And very soon, the class bell rang, Chabashira walked in.
She slightly narrowed her eyes, her gaze sweeping across all the students in class.
"Everyone looks very serious, completely different from that former Class D."
[Our class's points are steadily increasing.]
[These guys' grades have also made qualitative leaps. Although in these few small tests the scores still haven't closed the distance with Class A, they also haven't let the gap widen.]
[And next, we just might have the chance to overtake Class A!]
Chabashira's inner voice was heard clearly by Saiki.
Toward this teacher, Chabashira, Saiki actually felt a bit speechless.
She wanted the class to rise to Class A, but at the start she did nothing, not much fulfilling her duty as a teacher, instead choosing to use lies to deceive students.
At the same time, Saiki could also guess from her heart that probably another special exam was coming.
"Now I announce your midterm exam results. Anyone under forty points is directly expelled."
Chabashira Sae said with a smile, at the same time posting up the exam results sheet.
And when everyone looked at the sheet, quite a few faces revealed expressions of surprise.
The one who should have always monopolized the last-place position, Sudo, this time had results already close to mid-level, while last place this time was taken by Yamauchi Haruki.
[Sudo is not in the last place?]
Everyone was surprised at Sudo's grade changes. In fact, since the sports festival, Sudo had changed a lot.
[Adversity is not necessary, favorable circumstances can also let people grow. Precisely because he felt the respect and praise of others, Sudo himself responded with change. Looks like the ability Saiki grasps is more than the White Room, and perhaps more effective.] Ayanokoji muttered in his heart.
'I didn't think about any of these weird things at all!' Saiki wanted to protest, but simply couldn't.
"I just made a huge update to my record! See! And I almost averaged sixty points!"
Seeing his results, Sudo was so excited he jumped up from his seat.
[Honestly, it's not even first place, what are you so happy about!]
At the side, Yamauchi Haruki looked at Sudo with disdain from the corner of his eye, his gaze twitching.
'Is this what you think of your own friend?'
[So hateful.....Like this, doesn't that mean I'm the one who is last?]
'Did you never think it's your own problem? Even Sudo improved, yet you don't reflect at all?'
[Seriously, recently feels like nothing is going right.....Don't know why, recently it's like someone has been tailing me.....Am I overthinking?]
'.....Not really, there actually is someone tailing you.' Saiki answered in his heart.
Since the last incident, Class D's targeting activities against Class B had increased more and more. If it were usual, Ryuen would probably already have ordered people to directly use 'physical methods' on Yamauchi Haruki.
But Ryuen now was very wary of Yamauchi Haruki, thinking Yamauchi Haruki might already be fully prepared.
And since Yamauchi usually acted together with Ike Kanji, they couldn't easily make a move, only able to secretly monitor him for now, to see if they could get more valuable information.
Saiki raised his head, looking at the score sheet. His own score was still at mid-level, almost the same as Ayanokoji's.
"I'm also really looking forward to next month's personal points, Sensei!"
The overjoyed Sudo propped his elbow on the desk, speaking with a grin.
If it were an ordinary school, speaking to a teacher like this would definitely be punished, but Chabashira obviously didn't mind, her smile not fading, "Yes, your performance at the sports festival was good, this time's exam results are also passable."
"You can to some extent look forward to next month's personal points. Originally you were Class D, now biting down on Class A closely, you've done very well."
Chabashira, rarely, praised the class's students.
At the same time, her gaze also moved toward Ayanokoji below the stage.
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