There is something wrong with Hikigaya's classroom of supreme ability

But in the eyes of his classmates, this was clearly 'playing dead'. Of course, this was also instigated by the Sakayanagi faction students within the class. In short, it can be seen that even though he has fallen to the position of Class B, the fighting within the class has not only not weakened, but has instead intensified.

After the conversation with Ichinose last night ended in a whimper, Hikigaya unexpectedly met him again in the cruise ship restaurant the next morning.

Hikigaya had scolded Ichinose harshly last night, but today Ichinose acted as if nothing had happened and even took the initiative to greet Hikigaya, which made Hikigaya very confused.

However, what Hikigaya didn't notice was that even after Ichinose greeted Hikigaya, her heart was still beating fast and her cheeks were a little hot.

……

"Hikigaya-kun, I'm going to trouble you again."

At the stern of the cruise ship, a place where almost no students come, Hikigaya was taking pictures of the girl opposite him with a camera.

Sakura leaned gently against the fence and gently took off her coat, revealing her snow-white shoulders and the faintly visible "sea trench". Behind her was the endless blue sea, and seagulls flying in the distance could be seen. The sun just fell on the girl.

Click.

Hikigaya seized this opportunity and took several photos in succession. During this time, Sakura also made several slightly bold movements and poses, and then immediately blushed, and her poses immediately became very conservative, switching back and forth.

Ever since Sakura took the initiative to invite someone to take a photo last time, it seemed like a new door had opened up for Sakura. Originally, she could only take selfies by herself, and she had to do it secretly, for fear of being discovered by others, but now there is a "photographer".

When Sakura was in junior high school taking photos for a magazine, she was extremely nervous and afraid, so not only did she have to "clear the scene" and leave only her and the female photographer, but she also had to reshoot many times.

Now that the other person was not only a boy, but he also took the initiative to invite her, Sakura not only did not feel nervous at all, but on the contrary felt extremely relieved and even happy.

Even Sakura found the changes in herself incredible.

"Thank you so much for today, Hikigaya-kun. I'll organize the photos when I get back to school. If you don't mind, I'll send you a copy."

Sakura said softly, blushing.

"This, this isn't quite..."

Hikigaya's face froze. Even though the words were on the tip of his tongue, he couldn't help but change his words: "Well, okay then."

The boy with dead eyes despised himself for not being able to resist the temptation.

At this moment, the phones in both of their pockets rang with a high-pitched ringtone at the same time. Even in the vibrate or silent mode, the ringtone was still forced to sound. This was a special ringtone that only appeared when an email came from the school.

At the same time, a ship-wide announcement suddenly sounded. The content was very concise, asking students to confirm the important email just sent by the school. It was repeated three times, which shows the importance of the matter.

Hikigaya had already guessed what was going on, and immediately looked like he had lost all hope in life.

Sure enough, when I opened the email, it was another special exam!

[The special exam is about to begin. Please gather in the designated room at the designated time. Please gather in Room 207 on the second floor before : PM tonight.]

This is the general information in Hikigaya's email. It seems that he plans to explain it on site. However, the gathering place should be a multi-person room similar to a conference room, and the email will be distributed to each student. It seems that this is not a "large group" assessment method like the special exam on the uninhabited island not long ago.

"Sakura, can you let me see the contents of your email?"

Hikigaya suddenly asked.

Sakura handed her phone to Hikigaya without much hesitation, and seemed to trust the boy in front of her very much.

Hikigaya carefully read Sakura's email. The content was almost exactly the same as the one he received, but there were only two differences. Hikigaya was to arrive at room 6 before 207 pm, while Sakura was to gather at room 7 at 209: pm.

"So this special exam is divided into multiple 'groups'?"

Hikigaya could easily guess the school's idea, and if it was just to divide the class internally, there would be no need to go through so much trouble and waste time. In other words, this special exam was not just a division within each class, but it was very likely to involve other classes as well?

At the same time, the school's practice of isolating students and announcing the exam content after restricting conditions made Hikigaya feel a little unusual, but unfortunately the details were still unclear.

After that, Hikigaya said goodbye to Sakura and returned to the room. At the door of the room, he met Hirata who had just returned. After a brief conversation, Hikigaya learned from Hirata that the other party would gather in room 8 at 40:201 in the evening.

As for Hikigaya's roommates, Miyake Akito and Hondou Ryotaro, the time and place they met up with Hikigaya and Hirata were completely different. As for Koenji, well, he hasn't been seen until now, and Hikigaya has never intended to ask about this "weird guy".

At 5:55 in the evening, Hikigaya arrived at the door of Room 207 on the second floor of the cruise ship, and could also see students from other classes in nearby rooms.

Hikigaya knocked on the door and pushed it open. There were already two students waiting inside, both from Class D, and in addition, there was Mr. Sakagami sitting upright in the middle.

"You are the last one, please take your seat and prepare for the next part of the exam."

Mr. Sakagami, who had a serious face, suddenly spoke, his tone was so cold that it seemed to make the temperature in the room drop suddenly.

Are there only three people besides the teacher?

Hikigaya sat down with a normal expression, and looked at his other two classmates with a strange look on his face.

Because... these two are girls, a girl named Inogashira Shin, and a girl named Hasebe Haruka with long blue hair.

200

Chapter 200: Examination for the Favored.

Hikigaya had some impression of these two girls.

The tall girl with long blue hair, Hasebe Haruka, is a girl with an outstanding figure and appearance, especially her figure. Hikigaya still remembers that when the school started, that guy Chi made a "breast ranking list" and Hasebe's name was at the top of the list.

With such excellent looks, he should be very popular in the class. In Hikigaya's words, he should be a top-notch person.

But in reality, Hasebe is very withdrawn and rarely interacts with other students. She is basically always seen alone and is classified as a class outlier like Hikigaya, Sakura, and Horikita.

On the contrary, girls like Shinohara, whose hard conditions are much worse than Hasebe's, are doing very well in the class. They are the third largest force besides the two major girl groups of Karuizawa and Kushida.

As for the other girl, Inogashira Shin also has a very low sense of presence and a personality similar to Sakura, but her social anxiety is not as severe as Sakura's. At the same time, her grades are also on the lower end, and she can be said to be one of the bottom students in the class.

However, unlike Hasebe, Hikigaya and others who are at the bottom of the class, Inogashira Shin actually has quite a few friends, and is a member of Kushida's "good friend team". There are many girls around Kushida like Inogashira Shin who are not liked in the class and have social anxiety. Kushida is very keen to care for and help them, so they also become Kushida's most solid supporters.

Hikigaya's expression was somewhat strange towards the other two girls in the room. Together with herself, the three of them were almost the unpopular type in the class. Hasebe was as withdrawn as ever and had no intention of greeting Hikigaya or Inogashira Shin.

As for Inogashira Shin, she had been keeping her head down since Hikigaya came in. It seemed that she was under a lot of pressure from Mr. Sakagami, who was sitting in the middle. If it weren't for Mr. Sakagami's reminder, she might not have known when Hikigaya came.

Ever since entering the room, Hikigaya has been feeling the tangible scrutiny of Mr. Sakagami across from him, as if he could see through Hikigaya completely.

"There are only three of you in Class D, so I'm going to start explaining the special exam."

Teacher Sakagami pushed his glasses, looked around at everyone with a sharp gaze, and said in a cold tone.

This is a special exam called "Favored Students". Simply put, the students from the four first-year classes are divided into twelve groups, with each group having about 3-4 students from each class.

Hikigaya was assigned to the Tiger group. The twelve groups were named after the twelve Earthly Branches, or more commonly, the twelve Chinese zodiac animals. Hikigaya was assigned to the Tiger group. He also learned the student lists for the other three classes from the materials distributed by Mr. Sakagami.

Himenoyuki, Shibata Sa, Kobashi Yume, Shiranami Chihiro from Class A.

B Benson Aoi, Yamamura Miki, Sato Naka Satoshi, Kamuro Masumi.

Class C Komiya Yego, Yamada Albert, Ishizaki Daichi.

Including the three people from Hikigaya, there are a total of 14 people in their Torata team.

Hikigaya had a rather subtle expression when he saw the list, because there were quite a few students from the other three classes who had grudges against him, and perhaps the only one who could be considered friendly was Kamuro.

Moreover, this special exam is completely different from the uninhabited island exam. This time, it requires not only cooperation within the class, but also cooperation or competition with students from other classes.

As for this preferential treatment exam, as the name suggests, there is a hidden preferential treatment in the group, and everyone's goal is to find out the identity of this preferential treatment within the specified time.

It is divided into [Exam Part] and [Question Answering Part]

The [Exam] is divided into four days, one of which is a rest day. During the exam, there will be an hour of group discussion every day, with no restrictions on the content. The [Exam] officially ends at 9 pm on the last day, and then the [Questioning] section will begin.

The [Answering Section] requires students to answer questions, and the answers are the names of the favored students hidden in the group. One thing that needs to be emphasized is that the school will accept [Answering Section] half an hour after the end of the exam, and only between 9:10 and :.

"Then we'll move on to the most important part, the [answering part]. Please listen carefully..."

Sakagami glanced at the three people in the room and continued, "Depending on whether or not the preferential treatment is found, the following four results will occur. Please refer to the information..."

The [answer part] will produce different results, that is, the [answer], depending on whether the preferential treatment is found!

Result 50: When all members of the group answer questions correctly, all members of the group will receive a reward of 100 personal points. The reward for the students who are the favored ones will be doubled, and they will receive million personal points!

On the contrary, if no preferential treatment is found, the [question answering] fails, the team members receive no punishment or reward, and the preferential treatment person gets 50 personal points. This is the second result.

Afterwards, Mr. Sakagami was afraid that everyone wouldn't understand, so he used Hikigaya as an example to explain to the other two girls. Although Mr. Sakagami looked very serious and difficult to get along with, he was unexpectedly caring for his students?

Hikigaya easily understood the rules of the preferential treatment test. In fact, the core of the test revolves around the result of "whether the preferential treatment can be found" and produces different impacts.

However, Hikigaya soon realized the problem. If he followed what Mr. Sakagami said, result one would undoubtedly bring the greatest benefit. As for the so-called result two, it seemed very useless.

There shouldn't be such an obvious loophole in the school. Seeing Hikigaya frown, Teacher Sakagami thought that Hikigaya didn't understand the rules yet, so he asked.

"I do understand the rules, but there are a few flaws. So there should be something else, like the additional rules for the uninhabited island exam?"

In response to Hikigaya's question, Mr. Sakagami didn't answer immediately. Instead, he gave him a deep look and said, "It seems I misunderstood. On the contrary, you already understand the rules. Yes, there are additional rules for this exam. Please turn to the back of the paper."

Upon hearing this, everyone turned to the back and saw that results three and four were indeed written on it.

Result 50: After finding the preferential treatment recipient, you can [answer questions] to the school in advance in the [exam section]. If the answers to the preferential treatment recipient's identity are correct, the student will receive 50 personal points and his or her class will receive 50 class points. At the same time, the class of the preferential treatment recipient whose identity is revealed will have class points deducted.

Result four is similar to result three, except that the former is to find the [correct] beneficiary, and the latter is the [wrong] beneficiary. The rewards are also completely opposite. The class of the student who answers the [wrong] beneficiary will have 50 class points deducted. On the contrary, the class of the beneficiary cannot get 50 class points, but can also get 50 personal points!

After reading it, Hikigaya had a look of realization on his face. This could explain why the second result appeared.

The rules of this preferential examination may seem complicated, but in fact you only need to grasp two points: one is the identity of the preferential candidate, and the other is the critical time point!

201

Chapter 201: Intelligence Competition.

When explaining the special exam for the favored candidates, Mr. Sakagami even used the game "Werewolf" as an example. The rules are indeed very similar. The most important thing is to find the final "wolf", which is the identity of the favored candidate.

The only difference from Werewolf is that the favored one is not like the wolf, where everything will be fine once it is found. Different results will be produced based on the different choices made by other members of the group.

Simply put, based on whether the identity of the favored person is discovered, four outcomes are produced according to the choices made by the group members.

Whether the identity of the preferential recipient is discovered, and whether the questions are answered in the [Answering Part], there are a total of 4 possible combinations.

The identity of the preferential treatment is discovered, and the team members choose to answer the questions during the [Answer Time] after the [Exam Part] ends. If all members are correct, it is result one, otherwise it is result two.

If the test is not taken during the [test-taking time], that is, outside of 9:10 to : pm on the third day, it can be considered as [betrayal]. Regardless of whether it is right or wrong, the benefactor and the [betraying] student will receive corresponding rewards and punishments, which are results three and four.

As expected, there is no such thing as a free lunch. It seemed that all team members could gain huge profits, but in fact, the school deliberately gave them the option of "cheating". Moreover, a team is composed of students from four classes, which can effectively avoid the "cooperation" of team members. At the very least, the difficulty is increased by more than a little!

On the contrary, results three and four are in line with the interests of each class, and in the end it is still an exam full of intrigue.

Hikigaya also discovered a very subtle point, or perhaps the school did it on purpose, that is, the [examination part] ended at 9 o'clock in the evening of the last day, but the [question-answering part] was from 9:10 to 30 o'clock, with a blank space of minutes in between. And according to Mr. Sakagami, students were not allowed to talk to each other after the [examination part] was over. Violators would be expelled directly and the punishment would be extremely severe!

The school's intention in setting this rule is also very clear, which means that even if a group hopes to achieve result one, the identity of the preferential treatment must be announced before the [exam part], preventing the method of announcing it at the last minute before the [question answering part] begins!

[Exam section] - 30 minutes of blank time - [Question section]

After announcing your status as a favored person, there is no way of knowing whether a "traitor" will appear during the blank 30 minutes. This means that if you want to achieve result one, you must bear the risk of being betrayed during the blank 30 minutes. Once a betrayer appears, it means that only result three will be achieved, and not only will you lose the 50 personal points that were originally within your reach, but your class will also lose 50 class points!

“No wonder there’s such a long time after the [exam section] is over.”

Hikigaya muttered to himself.

Moreover, the prohibitions for this exam were very detailed, almost eliminating any off-site cheating or trickery. Although Hikigaya's voice was not loud, it was still easy to attract people's attention in the quiet room.

Teacher Sakagami narrowed his eyes. Although he didn't want to admit it, the ability of the D-class student in front of him was indeed very outstanding. He was able to realize the nature of this preferential treatment test so quickly. On the contrary, the other two girls still seemed unable to fully understand the content of this test.

"Teacher Sakagami, I have a question, could you please answer it?"

Hikigaya pondered for a moment and suddenly looked up at Mr. Sakagami opposite him.

Teacher Sakagami nodded slightly, his tone still cold: "What's the problem?"

"Regarding this exam, will the school intervene in the students' discussion content or behavior?"

Hikigaya asked a question that left everyone confused.

Teacher Sakagami frowned unconsciously. "As long as students follow the exam regulations and don't do anything beyond the rules, the school will not interfere in principle."

"That's it..."

Hikigaya nodded slightly: "Thank you, Mr. Sakagami. That's no problem for me."

Sakagami then looked at Hasebe and Inogashira. "Do you two have any questions? If you don't understand something, please ask."

Upon hearing this, Inogashira Shin shook his head silently. However, anyone with a discerning eye could see that the other party only had a superficial understanding of the test, but he did not dare to reveal it and could only nod reluctantly.

Hasebe on the side didn't say anything either. Seeing this, Mr. Sakagami asked everyone to pack up and prepare to leave.

After coming out of the room, they thought they would go their separate ways, but Hasebe suddenly called out to Hikigaya and Inogashira Shin, "Since we're teammates for this exam, we should get to know each other."

Inokashira wanted to refuse, but then he felt that Hasebe was right, so he nodded in agreement. Seeing this, Hikigaya had no choice but to nod as well.

So at Hasebe's suggestion, the three of them went to the cafe.

"Hikigaya-san, what do you think of this exam?"

After they each ordered a drink, Hasebe turned to Hikigaya and said, "I noticed you had your own ideas, but you didn't seem to want to express them in front of Sakagami-sensei."

Hikigaya was a little surprised. He hadn't expected the blue-haired girl in front of him to be so observant. He nodded and said, "Since we're all classmates, I won't hide it. This exam may seem like an exam between students within the same group, but if you think about it carefully, you'll find that it's actually an exam between the twelve groups."