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The morning after Ayase and Todo had an exciting anime viewing experience in their exciting outfits…
“umm ……”
A noticeboard just in front of my class.
There, while many students are packed together and feeling happy or sad, I roar alone at a little distance.
Then, from right beside me, something poked me on the cheek with an index finger.
“What’s wrong, Ikkun? You look like you’re saying, ‘Our fight is just beginning!’
With a face like that.”
Ayase, who has been making outlandish guesses that are far more out of line than Todo’s, suddenly peeks into my face.
“No, the test results are pasted up, right?”
Today is the day when the results of the regular tests conducted early in the new term are pasted up.
In our school, in order to encourage the competitive spirit of each student, the results of each are politely disclosed.
It may take a lot of time and effort to put up the names of all the over 200 students in a school year, so the names of the top 50 students are sometimes put up.
“Yeah, it’s posted up – I don’t even want to look at it …….”
“By the way, what rank are you in?”
“Fifth place!”
If that’s the ranking, look at it.
“I guess English has been holding me back… It’s really tear-jerking for young people these days to have to study a foreign language when their native language is already difficult.”
Ayase shrugs her shoulders.
She looks like a gal and talks like an excuse for someone with bad test results, but let me tell you – this girl is in fifth place out of about two hundred people.
“That’s not a bad ranking, is it? You have a good chance of getting into the university you want to go to.”
“Well, that’s true, but if I get a bad score, I’m afraid of the next round.
There is a high possibility of going down but little chance of going up, right?”
I understand what Ayase is trying to say.
It’s not a bad thing to have a good score, but if you go up, of course you will be close to the upper limit.
In that case, it is difficult for you to overtake, even if you can catch up from below.
This is also a problem because the scores are disclosed in a way that encourages a competitive spirit.
“Moreover, the people at the top are usually fixed…”
I don’t know why, but I’m getting stares from the side.
For the time being, I’ll just let it slide.
“……I’m not the type of person who cares much about rankings, so I dare to say…”
Hmm?’
“Whether you get passed or not, I think you should be proud of your grades because you worked hard to study, right? I know that you study not just at school, but even when you come to my room.”
Whether the results are good or not, the results of one’s own efforts are nothing to be ashamed of.
Especially in Ayase’s case, she tries to understand what she doesn’t understand until she understands it, and I see her preparing well for the test even after school.
“Even if the result of not giving up and not throwing the ball goes down, I know that Ayase has been working hard and sincerely, and even if she was proud in front of me, I would still praise her…—What’s wrong? Your face is bright red…”
“……, Ikun, that’s not fair.”
Why?
“Speaking of which, I wonder what Todo’s grades were like?”
Aside from Ayase, who turned red in the face and punched me lightly in the side, I suddenly thought about that.
She said she was working today and would not have come to school.
That is why it is possible that maybe the teacher told her the grades in advance.
Before that, I was a little curious.
“Let’s see… …… I remember I were contacted by Raikatsu-chan a while ago”
“You exchanged contact details?”
“Yes! It’s a commemoration of how well we got along.”
As expected, Ayase is a sociable person.
I didn’t realise that she had already exchanged contact details with a popular person at school.
“Now all that’s left is rivalry memorial ……!”
It’s so early …… to become enemies.
“Ikkun, Raika-chan is ranked 198th.”
“I see.”
“……………………”
“……………………”
“……, I’ll have to teach her how to study soon.”
“……, yes, we must teach her as soon as possible.”
I dare not say why, but I thought so.
“So, Ikkun. Why were you snarling earlier?”
“Hmm? No, I was called to the roof by the boys in class during lunch break.”
“That has nothing to do with the test.”
Well, it does, but…
“Apparently, they’re bringing Merikensacks, metal bats and cement.”
“……, do they practice devil worship?”
If that were the case, I could be sacrificed to summon the Devil. I really want to escape.
“So I’m wondering how I’m going to get through my lunch break.”
“Hmm …… I don’t know why that’s the case, but the boys seem to be having a lot of fun too.”
I’m sure it was because I had ignored all their communications after returning home yesterday with my arm being dragged by Ayase and Todo, but… well, there’s no need to say it.
“But if you think about it, Ikkun won’t be worried about his grades! He looks like he came in first place this time as well!”
Yay. Ayase happily asks for a high five. cute.
“That means we’re celebrating today too! We have to prepare potato chips, coke and merikensacks!”
“I don’t feel like celebrating the last one, but …… right, let’s have a victory party for the two of us today! My parents get home late anyway!”
“Woow! Then today we can eat all the food Ikun can make!”
I have to get permission from my mum, she said
Ayase opened her phone and started typing something busily.
With that figure by my side, I once again peeked at the noticeboard from a distance.
(Might be overtaken from the bottom of ……, huh?)
At the top of the noticeboard, thankfully, is my name.
I’m not particularly obsessed with my grades, but it would certainly be a bit of a shock to be overtaken by someone else.
(Well, there’s no harm in studying, and I’ll do my best not to be overtaken in the next test. ……)
With this thought in mind, I was about to turn my back to enter the classroom when…
“…… hmm?”
-Just before I did that, I suddenly stopped in my tracks.
“Ikkun mother gave me permission to stay late…… , what’s wrong?”
“……, did you feel like someone was watching you?”
“Eh? Isn’t that always the case?”
Here we go.
Ayase points to a hallway a little further away.
[Even I want to talk to Ayase, ……!]
[she really been spending a lot of time with Sakuma lately, is she?]
[If Sakuma wasn’t here, maybe …….]
There were boys looking at us grudgingly.
“Indeed.”
“When I’m with Ikkun, someone is like that.”
“You’re so popular, so well-liked”
“(…… there’s only one person I want to be liked by.)”
“What did you say?”
“Nothing!”
There is no doubt that she was trying to say something, but she doesn’t want to be pursued?
Ayase pulls my arm and steps into the classroom.
(I think this kind of thing is the cause of the stares. ……)
At any rate, it seems that she herself is not aware of this.
I walked into the classroom with my arm being pulled while receiving stares from those around me.
[Hey, Saijoin-san, she’s in second place again!]
[It’s great, isn’t it? …… She’s the daughter of the president of a big company, she’s well behaved and beautiful! And she’s smart too, she’s a foul class, isn’t she!]
[Come to think of it, wasn’t Saijoin-san there just now, ……?]
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