Chapter 088 The Rules of the Sports Festival / The Senpai Wants to Pursue Him / Brother, You Smell So Good
Shimizu Akira looked at her serious expression and did not press any further.
"Fine, then I will wait and see. Let's go, class is about to start."
"Mm." The two walked out of the garden area one after the other.
Walking to the entrance of the teaching building, Chabashira stopped and cast a glance back at him.
"You go up first, I'm going to the office for a trip."
"Okay." Shimizu Akira went upstairs and walked into the classroom.
The classroom was already very lively, with students discussing matters regarding the unanimous vote exam. He walked to his own seat and sat down; next to him, Ayanokouji Kiyotaka was currently reading a book. "Morning." "Morning."
Time quickly arrived at eight o'clock, and today's intelligence refreshed on time.
[1: When Hirata Yousuke was in junior high school, he was a gloomy person; he regards Ayanokouji Kiyotaka at the time of enrollment as his past self.]
[2: When Ichinose Honami was in junior high school, she was the student council president.]
[3: Third-year Class A's Asahina Nazuna has made up her mind to follow her heart and start pursuing Shimizu Akira from today onwards.]
Hirata Yousuke was a gloomy person? Ayanokouji Kiyotaka at enrollment is the past Hirata Yousuke? Shimizu Akira completely couldn't see how these two people resembled each other at all.
As for the second piece, his own Honami being the student council president in junior high school wasn't any surprise. As for the final piece... a Senpai wants to pursue him?
Shimizu Akira actually quite liked Asahina Nazuna; after all, she was beautiful, had a bright and cheerful personality, and had looked after him multiple times—who wouldn't like a girl like that. But how did the other party fall for him? Could it be related to the amulet question asked last time! ...
The class bell rang. Chabashira Sae walked into the classroom, holding documents in her hand. She walked up to the podium and swept a glance over the students in the classroom. "Students, before class begins, I have something to say."
The classroom instantly fell silent.
"From the opening of school until now, I have done many things wrong. I have said harsh words, done irresponsible things, and never proactively cared about you guys.
This is my mistake. I apologize to you." She bowed slightly.
It wasn't that kind of perfunctory, superficial bow, but a serious, sincere bow where she genuinely bent her waist. "Henceforth, I will work hard to do well as a responsible homeroom sensei, and I hope the students can give me another chance."
Quite a few people in the class looked at each other, somewhat unable to believe it.
After all, that was Chabashira; from the first day of school, she had left them to fend for themselves, and every special exam she would only state some basic rules. Recently, after promoting to Class A, her expression and attitude had indeed improved quite a bit compared to before, but with her cold and self-righteous personality, it shouldn't go as far as an open apology, right?
In the end, it was Kushida Kikyo who snapped back to reality first. She cast a thoughtful glance at her boyfriend, and only then said with a smile: "Chabashira-sensei, since it's a matter of the past, let it pass starting from today."
Hirata Yousuke was also startled, but this kind of thing was ultimately a huge blessing for the class: "Kushida is right, what's important is the present. Chabashira-sensei, I have never blamed you."
Although Chabashira-sensei's personality was indeed cold, she hadn't done anything to betray the class. She was, after all, the homeroom sensei they had been with for over a year, so quite a few students also nodded understandingly.
"Sensei, you said you will change, so how specifically will you change?" a curious student raised his hand and asked.
Chabashira didn't show an impatient expression like usual, but seriously thought about it: "First start from... not putting on a face toward you guys."
"Just that?"
"There's more. When you guys come to discuss matters with me, I will no longer be perfunctory."
"What else?"
"And... I will work hard to remember everyone's OAA information."
"Sensei, it shouldn't be necessary to go to this step, right? Picking up a tablet and checking it makes it known, doesn't it?"
"Since I am to be a serious and responsible sensei, this kind of thing is still very necessary to do."
"Then what if I drop to Class B? Chabashira-sensei won't revert back to that original indifferent personality again, right?"
"I won't." Chabashira emphasized.
"Real or fake?"
"Feels like the credibility is a bit low."
There was still a portion of people in the classroom looking at her somewhat skeptically. This time, Chabashira was not in a hurry to refute anything. Facts speak louder than words; she would just prove it with her actions next.
She tapped the blackboard, picked up the document in her hand, and said: "Alright, personal topics end here for now. October is just around the corner, and I will now roughly tell you guys about the rules of this sports festival.
This sports festival, compared to last year, places greater emphasis on individual capability. Students in each class whose athletic ability exceeds B-grade or above can play a very big role, and can also bring a huge advantage to the class."
In their Class A, the boys whose athletic ability currently exceeded B-grade were Shimizu Akira, Koenji Rokusuke, Hirata Yousuke, Sudo Ken, and Miyake Akito; on the girls' side, there were Horikita Suzune, Onodera Kayano, and Kushida Kikyo—a total of eight people, which was already considered quite a lot among the four classes of the second year.
Yukimura Teruhiko couldn't resist raising his hand to ask: "Chabashira-sensei, my sports ability is not very good, and there is a high probability I will drag the class down. Don't tell me there is also a penalty of point deductions for the bottom ten places this time?"
Chabashira said gently: "Please rest assured, everyone. This sports festival has no expulsion rules, nor will it deduct the personal points of students with poor athletic ability. Students whose physical health is not good just need to participate in fewer events within their capabilities. On the way to participating in the sports festival, if you guys have any discomfort anywhere, feel free to give me a call as well."
A portion of the students were instead startled by Chabashira's suddenly kind side. It seemed that adapting to a slowly improving Chabashira-sensei would still require quite a bit of time.
Very soon, the overview and rules of the sports festival appeared on the screen.
Overview A sports festival in which the entire school year participates, composed of various events. Event Hours: 9:00 AM to 4:00 PM (Noon to 1:00 PM is break time). Students participate in freely chosen events to earn points, competing for comprehensive scores on a class basis.
Rules 1: Every student receives five points at the start of the sports festival.
2: Students participating in the sports festival must participate in five different types of matches.
3: Signing up for each match yields one point as a participation prize.
4: Prize winners can obtain additional points based on the match events.
5: To sign up for the sixth event and beyond, paying one point each time allows participation (cannot obtain the one point of the participation prize).
6: Each person can participate in a maximum of ten matches.
7: If the sports festival ends in a state where the number of entries is less than five events, all obtained points will be confiscated.
8: Unless there is a compelling reason, if one does not participate in a match already signed up for or withdraws, they will lose two points.
9: Students who have finished their matches should help cheer within the several designated areas.
Shimizu Akira took a rough glance. Sure enough, it was completely different from last year; this year they started adopting new match rules again. Each student starts with five points; the more people a class has, the more advantageous it is. Signing up means one point; by participating in the first five events, everyone has at least a guaranteed ten points.
"As shown in the rules, matches from the sixth event onward require deducting one point from the sports festival to participate; it is only recommended for students who are exceptionally confident in their own strength and can take the top three places to participate.
Here I will explain the rules of the two kinds of matches to everyone once more. The first kind is individual matches; all basic matches have fixed rewards: first place gets five points, second place three points, and third place one point. When the number of entries is the fifth time or below, one point is added; when it is the sixth time or above, one point is deducted. The second kind is group matches for special events, which only two people can participate in. The rewards for group matches are set relatively high, and all members of the participating team obtain points equally. The rewards are very attractive, but conversely, teamwork is required; furthermore, it also possesses disadvantages such as being relatively time-consuming."
The biggest good news of this sports festival should be the point that even if one tests at the very bottom, there won't be any penalty, which is exactly the same as the cultural festival. After Chairman Sakayanagi returned, expulsion was visibly loosened by a lot.
Looking at it currently, it was naturally Honami's class that occupied the greatest advantage: forty-two people, with each person guaranteed to participate in five events, could obtain four hundred and twenty points. In comparison, Sakayanagi Arisu had the fewest people, only thirty-eight people, and could only get three hundred and eighty points. Fortunately, Sakayanagi Arisu didn't vote out anyone during the last unanimous vote exam, otherwise another ten points would have been deducted.
"The school side will determine the school year ranking based on the comprehensive score at the end of the sports festival." The screen displayed the rewards by school year: First Place: 150 Class Points Second Place: 50 Class Points Third Place: 0 Class Points Fourth Place: Deduction of 150 Class Points
Although an individual ranking at the bottom wouldn't affect personal penalties, when facing the class, there would sure enough still be class point fluctuations; this was unavoidable, otherwise the four classes wouldn't compete with all their might either.
"Next, the individual rewards are announced."
Individual Match Rewards (By school year, boys and girls separated)
First Place: Two million personal points or a class transfer ticket (with restrictions)
Second Place: One million personal points
Third Place: Fifty thousand personal points
Horikita Suzune couldn't resist raising her hand to ask: "Chabashira-sensei, what is the function of this class transfer ticket?"
Chabashira looked at this student who was inexplicably somewhat similar to her, and explained gently: "As the name implies, it is a ticket that allows you to transfer into other classes at will. If it possessed its original function, its price should be twenty million personal points instead, so the school side added restrictions to it; this right can only be exercised within the second semester, and if it is not used before the start of the third semester, this ticket will become invalid."
"This thing doesn't have any attraction for me; I'd rather take those two million personal points instead," Sudo Ken said as a matter of course.
Onodera Kayano touched her chin: "I'm pretty much the same; the current class is very good."
Their class was currently second-year Class A, and the class atmosphere was very good; there shouldn't be any student who would want to leave, right. However, it wasn't necessarily the case for other classes, especially for the third-year senpais—this was equivalent to graduating directly from Class A.
Chabashira nodded, "The matches are divided into two types: events disclosed in advance and events that will only be disclosed on the day. Does everyone find it a bit ear-familiar? In fact, it's pretty much the same as the final event selection match during the first year, and it counts as a way for the school side to test the students' adaptability."
On the screen appeared several common events: 100-meter sprint, obstacle race, basketball shooting showdown, tennis singles, or boys and girls mixed doubles, etc.
"Because of factors such as limits on the number of people and the event hours, you guys might not necessarily be able to participate in all the matches you want to sign up for. If you
forcefully arrange a scheduled plan that does not fit with the itinerary, you might also be too late to participate and be deemed as withdrawing; note here, withdrawing requires a deduction of 2 points." After all, a portion of the events unfolded simultaneously; at this time, it relatively tested the decision-making ability of the students.
"Starting from ten o'clock tonight, you can sign up to reserve disclosed events through a dedicated application; for the whole school year, it's first-come, first-served. Cancellations of registrations are accepted until exactly one week before the sports festival officially opens, but there are only three cancellation opportunities. The final reservation deadline is two days before the official opening; if you haven't registered up to the upper limit of five events before then, you will automatically be allocated to events that still have vacancies." In other words, the first five events each student chooses can only be selected in advance; that was probably what it meant.
Chabashira used the 100-meter sprint registration as an example; below was the specific match information. 100-Meter Sprint: Same school year, boys and girls separated, maximum of seven people participating, four matches in total. Can freely reserve and register for any match. In addition, if there is a vacancy, one can also sign up to participate on the day. Participants should arrive at the venue five minutes before their own match starts to complete the registration procedures. No need to stay on the spot to wait after the match ends. The scheduled start time for the first match: 10:15 AM. As could be seen, the limit on the number of people, registration time, and match sessions were all marked very clearly.
"There is another very important point: students who currently or during their school period have participated in club activities cannot sign up for events that have club experience. Taking Hirata as an example, it is football; the school side does not recognize them signing up for related events."
This rule was completely targeted at people. Clubs belonged to the students' private hobbies; shouldn't exerting one's specialty also count as an advantage? Sure enough, as soon as these words came out, the faces of a portion of the students in the class became not too good, especially Sudo Ken—he himself was a member of the basketball club.
"Wait, the people who sign up and reserve will also be seen by other class members, right?" a student reacted.
"Yes." Chabashira nodded, "Judging the OAA data of the people who signed up together with you, analyzing your own winning rate, and choosing to withdraw or change to sign up for other events is also a way to win. However, as mentioned before, you guys only have three opportunities."
"But the later you sign up, the majority of the events will be snatched away by other classes, and in the end, you'll only be forced to follow the school's random allocation, right?"
"Yes. Signing up in advance makes it impossible to know the information of other participants beforehand; conversely, the later you sign up, the events you want to participate in will be beaten to the punch by other classes. This will require you to carefully trade off.
The final rule: if there are students with identical points and identical rankings in individual matches, the personal points will be divided equally and evenly, and at the same time, the class transfer ticket cannot be obtained."
This rule was actually very simple; it was precisely to avoid classes combining to control points. If all the people in the four classes took a tied first place, and the remaining three classes all transferred into the left-over class, then class competition and class points would have absolutely no meaning.
Chabashira took a breath: "The above are the specific rules of this sports festival. Do you students have anything else you want to ask?"
Kushida Kikyo raised her hand to ask: "In the unanimous vote exam held two days ago, regarding the buff option for the sports festival in Task 4, our class chose the cultural festival. There should also be other classes that chose the sports festival, right? Can you tell us what the remaining three classes specifically chose?"
Chabashira froze for a moment, only then saying: "Mm... according to the rules, homeroom senseis are not allowed to tell you guys. This will require inquiring in private; this also counts as a link in tactics." Quite a few students felt it was somewhat a pity.
Shimizu Akira thought about it and also raised his hand to ask: "Are individual matches and team matches a confrontation within the school year, or will confrontations occur among the three school years? Must the people teaming up be classmates? Or is there no restriction?"
Chabashira looked toward Shimizu Akira, her gaze unconsciously softening a few fractions, and slowly said: "Mm... among the matches of the sports festival, there is a portion of events that do not separate school years. The people teaming up are not confined to classmates, as long as they are of the same school year." That was actually quite nice; at least for Shimizu Akira, he could slightly team up with his girlfriends from other classes to play games.
"Chabashira-sensei, what specifically does five different types mean? Can you explain it well?"
"For example, a person who signs up for the 100-meter sprint cannot continue to sign up for the 400-meter sprint; swimming is also the same logic. Tonight I will properly organize a sports list; you guys can refer to the list, just don't sign up for events within the same circle."
"There's a detailed list!"
"Too convenient!"
"Thank you, Chabashira-sensei!"
"Do other students have any questions?" This time, no one asked anymore.
Chabashira Sae only then said: "Then the remaining time is left to you for a free class meeting; I will leave first. If there is anything, just send me a message or call me in private; I'm right in the office." Having finished speaking, she turned around and left the classroom.
Horikita Suzune looked at Chabashira's back, sweeping a glance at Shimizu Akira, "Chabashira-sensei suddenly changed a lot; this should also have a relationship with you, right?"
Shimizu Akira spread his hands: "Can only say there is a part. But I didn't say to let her become a good homeroom sensei or anything; that was her own idea." After he went over this morning, this Chabashira-sensei spoke a whole bunch of words all by herself—wasn't it just that she herself had already thought it through long ago.
Horikita Suzune's brain inexplicably thought of the scene when she first went to Chabashira's office last year, and the other party point-blank said she was inferior to her brother and called her a waste, "She said she will become a serious and responsible good sensei in the future; I don't quite believe Chabashira-sensei can thoroughly change."
"Well." Shimizu Akira quickly skipped this topic; this kind of thing, no one could say for sure.
After two or three minutes passed, the class began to hold the meeting for the sports festival. Hirata Yousuke walked over to Koenji Rokusuke's side: "Koenji, although according to the agreement you can directly opt out of exams this time, can we trouble you to participate in at least five or more sports events this time?"
Koenji Rokusuke waved his hand: "Hirata Boy, don't you feel the individual ranking rewards of this sports festival are very abundant? I don't mind taking a bit more extra money."
Other people were directly speechless.
"Hey, isn't having one million five hundred thousand personal points in your pocket enough for you to spend?"
"Last time, for the sake of those one hundred class points, you also almost voted out someone."
"How much do you like personal points?"
Koenji said completely unconcerned: "The Senpais happen to be at a time when they need personal points right now. Myself, I am extremely kind-hearted, so shouldn't I slightly sponsor some?"
What do you mean kind-hearted? Clearly it was all taken to be used on dates, right! However, for the class, this was definitely a piece of good news, representing that this guy would also contribute to the class this time. As for the option of the other party choosing the class transfer ticket, everyone wasn't too worried; since Koenji Rokusuke liked personal points that much, their class was currently the class with the most class points—he would have to be stupid to run away.
Hirata Yousuke smiled: "Then that's great!"
As for the subsequent content of the class meeting, under Horikita Suzune's suggestion, everyone thought of the exact same strategy as the last sports festival—letting people with good athletic ability fixedly carry one person with poor athletic ability, using this to raise the latter's winning rate. Currently, the registration platform hadn't opened yet; they would discuss specifically what events to sign up for during the next meeting.
After school. Shimizu Akira packed up his things, walked to the first floor, and suddenly discovered quite a few people gathered in front of the announcement board whispering in low voices. He squeezed in to take a look, discovering it was Nagumo Miyabi using his position as student council president to issue a notice.
[Hello students, I am Nagumo Miyabi. Approaching graduation, this sports festival is perhaps the last opportunity for the entire school year to engage in physical confrontation. As the student council president, I decided to make this exam become interesting; if a student wins against me once in an event I signed up for, I will directly reward the opponent with fifty thousand personal points, with no upper limit. In this exam, I will participate in ten events; if there really is someone who can continuously win against me ten times, they can get five million personal points at most—students are welcome to participate enthusiastically. It's merely that I hope the physical fitness of the students playing against me must at least be B+ or above; for students of B-grade and below, it is still recommended that you do not come to participate.]
Fifty thousand once, ten events—that was five million capped.
No, how come this guy Nagumo Miyabi couldn't sit still again? He even dared to issue this kind of public invitation to others to compete with him in sports festival events? Not to mention that in their class, there were he, Koenji Rokusuke, and Ayanokouji Kiyotaka—three people who could win against him; Kiryuin Fuuka wasn't bad either! Last time, he had already been violently beaten up by Amasawa Ichika once, and she could also steadily win against him. Isn't this clearly sending money?
However, this also counted as a piece of good news. It just so happened that Shimizu Akira spent quite a few points during the last uninhabited island special exam, and currently had only 33 million personal points left in his pocket. Since someone was openly sending money, then he would just go participate. Koenji Rokusuke should also participate in this activity, right? This was about to become interesting.
Shimizu Akira was just about to turn around and leave, when turning a corner, he instead saw an acquaintance. Ibuki Mio was currently walking toward here, seemingly also somewhat curious about the information on the notice board. Shimizu Akira thought about it, and simply pulled her once.
Ibuki Mio was still somewhat annoyed at who dared to stop her, wanting to quickly withdraw her hand and kick the opponent once; taking a look and seeing it was Shimizu Akira, she instead made a "tse" sound.
"What for!"
"There are many people over there, and your height is also not considered tall, so don't go squeezing. In fact, it's nothing big; it's just that Nagumo Miyabi wants to challenge everyone in the whole school, and winning against him once allows one to take fifty thousand."
Ibuki Mio still couldn't resist kicking his shin once—who let this guy say her height was short. However, after hearing Nagumo Miyabi's notice, she couldn't resist letting out a cold laugh: "That guy truly has money with nowhere to spend!"
Shimizu Akira rubbed his shin—anyway it didn't hurt—"That... didn't your homeroom sensei tell you guys? After graduation, personal points can actually be converted into Japanese yen, it's merely that the conversion ratio is relatively small. So Nagumo Miyabi this time is purely having nothing better to do after eating his fill."
"That guy has been like this since last year, liking to show off. Close to graduating and still not settling down, truly taking himself to be the emperor."
"An emperor he is not to that extent, and the student council president is also not omnipotent. However, his fifty thousand once—I am instead quite tempted."
"You are not short of money anyway." Ibuki Mio glanced at him, "Those tens of millions in your pocket are enough for you to spend until graduation."
"Who would ever complain about having too much money?" Shimizu Akira said solemnly, "Furthermore, I have many girlfriends right now, so I definitely have to seize opportunities to earn as many points as possible."
A few days ago, Hiyori had told Ibuki Mio that she and Shimizu Akira were officially together. "Then you have to treat Hiyori well!"
"This is natural; even without you saying it, I would do so." Although this guy opened a harem, the things he promised had always been practiced once spoken.
Ibuki Mio swept a glance at him, and again asked: "That, where is that woman Horikita?"
Shimizu Akira twitched the corner of his mouth: "Why ask me?"
"Aren't you and that woman a couple?"
"Even if we are a couple, we won't stick together all day long, knowing the opponent's location at every single moment. However, during this time period, she should have gone to the student council."
"Student council?!" Ibuki Mio snorted, "Shimizu, you let Suzune come find me when she has time these few days; I want to have a decisive battle against her in the sports festival."
"Why don't you go yourself?"
"Don't I fail to find the person! Furthermore, that woman might not necessarily promise either. Right, you are her boyfriend, help me advise her too, let her have a decisive battle with me."
Shimizu Akira hurriedly waved his hands: "Me speaking might not necessarily work either." Ibuki Mio glared at him in anger: "I have made so many assists for you and Hiyori, and you still dare to refuse me!"
"Suzune's character, you are also not..."
Before Shimizu Akira could finish saying anything, Ibuki Mio unexpectedly stepped forward proactively and hugged him once, saying with a red face: "Alright, you horny guy, I've already let you hug me once, you should at least promise me now!"
This time it thoroughly shocked Shimizu Akira in no small way.
Ibuki Mio—from beginning to end, he had always treated her as a tomboy!
"You let go first." He extended his hand to pry her off from his body, taking a step backward. Ibuki Mio glared at him, refusing to back down.
"Do you promise or not?"
"Promised, promised!" Shimizu Akira hurriedly waved his hand, "I'll help you advise Suzune, will that do?"
"That's more like it." Ibuki Mio snorted, extending her hand to tidy up her messy hair.
"However," Shimizu Akira added, "I can only help you speak good words, okay. Whether she promises or not is her business."
"Just passing the message is fine." Ibuki Mio turned her body around, "Then I'll leave first."
"Mm."
Ibuki Mio walked two steps, stopped again, and cast a glance back at him.
"Hey."
"Mm?"
"The matter just now is not allowed to be spoken to others, especially Hiyori."
"What matter?"
"Just... the matter of me hugging you."
"Oh, that. Rest assured, won't say it." Ibuki Mio turned around and walked away quickly.
Shimizu Akira stood on the spot, watching her back disappear at the hallway corner, and then lowered his head to look at his own hands. That hug just now, he seemed to also feel a tiny bit of... the scent of shower gel.
Brother actually smells quite good.
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