After a moment of silence, Yukino Yukinoshita took out her test paper again and began to think. Top students always cherish time this way.
Although she held onto the top position in this exam, for her, it was far from enough.
In the past, when her older sister, Yukino Yukinoshita, studied at Soubu High School, no one could be tied for first place with her.
Everyone was left far behind her.
If her older sister knew she could only be tied for first place with someone now, she would definitely mock her mercilessly.
Thinking of her older sister's smiling face when she teased her, Yukino Yukinoshita's brows furrowed tightly.
Of course, Yukino Yukinoshita had no hostility towards Shiina Mahiru, who was tied with her for first place.
On the contrary, Yukino Yukinoshita saw her as a good opponent.
By defeating her, she would become even stronger.
Meanwhile, Sakurajima Mai was surveying the classroom, walking around it. This classroom was more spacious than she had imagined; besides three desks and chairs and a storage cabinet, there was almost nothing else.
Sakurajima Mai shook her head, thinking that so-called club activities were just like this.
So, Sakurajima Mai came over to Yukinoshita's side again, wanting to see what the Bucho (Club President) was doing.
"A math test paper?" Sakurajima Mai muttered softly, then shook her head. She wasn't very interested in math either.
However, Yukinoshita's score made her quite impressed.
Out of a perfect score of 150, she got 145, only missing one fill-in-the-blank question.
Now, Yukino Yukinoshita was thinking about this very question, which had been troubling her for a long time.
She even suspected at one point that the answer was wrong.
All along, her multiple-choice and fill-in-the-blank questions were always correct, after all, she had already self-studied the first-year high school curriculum.
If it weren't for these missing 5 points, she wouldn't be tied for first place.
Across the way, Mochizuki, however, heard Sakurajima Mai's words.
With his good eyesight, he also noticed that Yukinoshita was looking at a test paper.
And it looked like she was having trouble.
Mochizuki rolled his eyes, thinking of something interesting.
"If you don't know how, you can ask me, President Yukinoshita."
Yukinoshita, who was vaguely grasping the clue to the solution, had her train of thought successfully interrupted by Mochizuki.
She looked up, ready to retort a couple of sentences to make him shut up.
However, Mochizuki didn't notice this and immediately spoke without any modesty: "I got a perfect score in math this time."
Then, Mochizuki got up and sat down in the seat that was supposed to belong to Yui Yuigahama.
The sudden closeness made Yukino Yukinoshita not even have time to get angry.
"You, who told you to suddenly sit here?"
"Don't worry about these details."
Yukino Yukinoshita: "..."
Sakurajima Mai was also thinking, how can you have no sense of boundaries?
"Let me see what kind of question has stumped President Yukinoshita."
As he spoke, Mochizuki had already picked up Yukino Yukinoshita's test paper and started looking at it, easily finding the only question she got wrong.
Mochizuki's somewhat smug tone made Yukino Yukinoshita think of her annoying older sister again.
Fine! If that's the case, let's see if you really have the ability. How could you get a perfect score?
If you can't solve it, I'll make sure you regret it.
"So it's the last fill-in-the-blank question. Even I calculated it twice during the exam."
"No wonder you calculated it wrong."
This question was already beyond the normal first-year high school level; it couldn't be solved just by relying on textbook knowledge. Mochizuki guessed that only a few people in the entire grade could get it right.
For the average student, giving up on it during the exam to avoid wasting time was the clear choice.
"Stop talking nonsense, get to the point." Yukinoshita said through clenched teeth.
Next, with his excellent lecturing skills and advanced math level, Mochizuki began to speak eloquently...
"For this question, we need to discuss it in three cases. First is the real number a..."
And Yukino Yukinoshita's intelligence was such that she understood instantly.
Beside them, Sakurajima Mai, who was already in her third year of high school, listened with a half-understanding...
At this moment, Yukino Yukinoshita felt a bit of an IQ gap.
She even felt that 150 points was not this guy's limit.
Moreover, Mochizuki's method of solving the problem was more time-saving and effortless than what she had just thought of, and it was very skillful.
The key was that he could explain it in such a simple and easy-to-understand way. Without a very deep foundation in math, it would be difficult to do.
Why didn't she think of that?
Although she was secretly a little impressed, she would never say it out loud.
Fortunately, it was just math. It was normal for boys to be a little better at math.
Yukino Yukinoshita comforted herself.
"Speaking of which, what would happen if someone suddenly disappeared and everyone forgot about her?"
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