Practical teaching: Starting from the soul traveling through Dragon Garden

Chapter 40 Horikita's Despair
Horikita thought she had found the correct answer and felt quite proud.

It’s a pity that there is another smart person in the Dragon Group.

Katsuragi, who has always been a quietist, has been observing the conversation between Horikita and Ryuuen. Something is wrong. Ryuuen seems to not care at all whether his plan will succeed.

This is the flaw, a flaw that Ryuuen revealed on purpose. He wanted to use this exam to temper Horikita's somewhat arrogant nature.

That's right.

Horikita is a little arrogant, or rather, self-righteous. Her grades are exceptionally good, her physical fitness is also very good, and she also achieved a relatively good result in the uninhabited island exam.

That's why she had the illusion that she could gain a huge amount of points in the preferential treatment exam and escape from Ryuen.

What Long Yuan wanted to do was to arrange a complete failure for her. A temporary victory would not bring about transformation, and the lessons of failure would be more impressive.

In this preferential treatment exam, Ryuuen will make sure that Class D does not earn a penny and lose 150 class points, returning all the class points earned in the previous uninhabited island exam.

However, Katsuragi did not completely see through Ryuuen. He did discover Ryuuen's flaw earlier than Horikita, and he stood on the side of Horikita in terms of interests, so Katsuragi decided to remind Horikita at this time.

"I didn't realize that Suzuki Eitoshi is a cat lover." Katsuragi spoke. Ryuen was quite surprised, but he quickly figured out why he did that.

"Ah, haha, I have liked cats since I was a child." Suzuki Yingjun explained, touching his head.

"Really? What breed is the cat on Suzuki-san's phone wallpaper? I don't know much about cats, but I think the one on your wallpaper is quite cute." Katsuragi talked more and more, and became very aggressive. It seems that when interests are threatened, even turtles will bite.

"Well, it's just a very ordinary cat." Suzuki Hidetoshi was not sure what breed the cat on the wallpaper was.

"Idiot." Long Yuan cursed in his heart.

Katsuragi started setting a trap for Suzuki Eitoshi as soon as he opened his mouth. He did not ask Suzuki Eitoshi why he changed the wallpaper to that of a kitten, but instead said in an affirmative tone that he liked cats.

If Suzuki had denied that he didn't like cats but simply liked the wallpaper, Katsuragi would not have asked about the cat's breed. However, Suzuki Hidetoshi said that he had liked cats since he was a child. Katsuragi dug a trap for him and he jumped into it without hesitation.

Horikita glanced at Katsuragi in surprise. This silent man would not talk so much for no reason. At the same time, she also noticed that something was wrong with Suzuki Yingxiong.

"This is not your phone." Horikita made this judgment.

The result was reversed again, but the team members' attention was not on the culprit Ryuen. They were more concerned about whose phone Suzuki Hidetoshi was holding and who the phone with the kitten wallpaper belonged to.

There are only five minutes left until the end of the exam.

Time slipped away drop by drop. Ryuen could see the anxiety on Horikita and Katsuragi's faces. He gloated and ordered all the cell phones of Class C to be placed in front of Horikita, including the cell phone with the kitten wallpaper: "The answer is right in front of you."

Longyuan is also digging a hole.

Ryuuen had previously said in front of all the team members that the favored ones were in Class C, and among the Class C members present, besides Ryuuen and Suzuki Hidetoshi, there was only one girl, Minori Kinoshita.

The phone with the kitten wallpaper is most likely Kinoshita's, but Horikita can't make this judgment, because she can't be sure whether Ryuen lied to her. Once bitten, she is afraid of the rope for ten years. Horikita escaped and looked at Katsuragi: "Who do you think is the preferential treatment?"

Long Yuan raised the corner of his mouth, thinking that he had made some progress. The most correct thing to do at this time was to pass the blame. When he couldn't judge right from wrong and couldn't bear the risk, he should transfer the risk to others.

The answer is obvious. If Katsuragi were to make this judgment, he could only choose Kinoshita. No matter whether it was Katsuragi or Horikita who made this judgment, if they were right, everyone would be happy, but if they were wrong, they would only get resentment and disappointment from their classmates.

Horikita gave Katsuragi the opportunity to judge the preferential treatment. Katsuragi naturally saw through Horikita's intention: "After all, this is your suggestion, Horikita, so you'd better judge it yourself." "Tsk, you're playing coward again." Horikita gritted her teeth. This was the first time that Ryuuen saw her expression like this.

Katsuragi's face twitched. It was fine if Ryuuen called him the nickname Turtle, but why was Horikita calling him that now?

"The exam will end in two minutes." Ryuuen reminded Horikita.

"I know." Horikita's voice sounded a little angry and anxious.

Time is very tight, but in fact Ryuuen only gave Horikita one choice. She can only guess that the beneficiary is Kinoshita, unless Horikita breaks the bottom line at this time to look through the personal privacy in the mobile phone to determine the real candidate of the beneficiary.

If Horikita really did this, even if the members of the Dragon Group really achieved result one, they would not feel any gratitude towards Horikita. Instead, they would be more wary and disgusted with Horikita. After all, no one would thank a peeping Tom.

At this moment, Horikita's phone rang, and someone sent an anonymous message:
"Horikita, Ryuen from Class C deleted all the messages from the school about the favored classmate, and I infer that the favored classmate of your Dragon Team is Ryuji Kanzaki from Class B."

This news was undoubtedly a bolt from the blue, but it was also a life-saving straw for Horikita. However, Horikita didn't know who the anonymous person who sent the message was. Under the condition of tight time, Horikita had no time to think and subconsciously thought that the anonymous person was Ayanokouji Kiyotaka.

"You, Class C, deleted all the information about the favored people!" Horikita questioned Ryuen.

"I'm a little surprised that you knew this." Long Yuan touched his chin and pretended to be troubled.

"The one who gets treated favorably is Kanzaki Ryuji!" Horikita said in an affirmative voice.

At the same time, everyone in Class A and Class D picked up their phones and entered Kanzaki Ryuji's name.

Long Yuan played with the phone in his hand: "Ringyin, didn't you doubt the authenticity of the text message?"

"You're lying to me!" Horikita realized belatedly that there was no need for Ayanokouji to send her a message anonymously. Even if he did, he wouldn't send her the message two minutes before the end of the exam. This was totally not Ayanokouji's style. Ayanokouji would always make thorough preparations before doing anything.

Kanzaki Ryuji is a fake favoritism.

But there is no turning back because the exam is over.

It can be seen that Horikita looked dejected and was very shocked. In this exam, she was always played by Ryuuen. From the beginning to the end, she never touched the correct answer.

Ryuen walked up to Horikita and patted her shoulder: "Sometimes the answer is not that important, and the process is not important either. What we pursue is always the result."

"You never thought of letting me win." Horikita looked up at Ryuuen.

Ryuen snapped his fingers. "I finally found the key to this problem. If I don't want you to win, you can't win. Even if you guessed the favored one correctly, I would still deliberately make a mistake to facilitate the second result. Unfortunately, you couldn't even guess the favored one correctly."

"Why! What good will this do for you? You won't get anything even if you achieve result 2." Horikita still didn't understand Ryuen's motives.

"Sometimes, compared to what you gain yourself, watching others lose can make people feel more physically and mentally happy." Ryuuen patted Horikita's little head.

"Besides, I'm not losing out. This means that the little cook will work for me for one more semester. Are you going to break the contract?"

Horikita slapped Ryuuen's hand down, and everyone in Class A and Class D had bitter expressions on their faces; they suffered the most in this exam.

The preferential examination was over, and the result was beyond everyone's expectations.

(End of this chapter)