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Classroom Of The Elite Volume 1 - Chapter 28
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We gathered in the library one minute later than we’d agreed. Everyone had their notebooks open, ready and waiting. The library was a popular study spot, it seemed. First through third years fought to move up in the rankings. I understood it with a glance.
“You’re late,” Horikita said.
“Sorry, the crowds were tough.”
“You two didn’t eat lunch together, did you?”
Ike turned to us, his eyes suspicious. Kushida and I had actually eaten together, but perhaps it was better to keep that information private.
“Yes, we did. We ate lunch together,” Kushida said.
It would have been better if she’d said nothing. Sure enough, Ike and the others glared at me, their discontent plain to see. Ike looked at me like I was his ancestral enemy. Horikita spoke without glancing up.
“Hurry,” she said.
“Okay.”
At Horikita’s cold command, I sat down and took out my notebook.
“I thought I might need more help on this, but geography is actually pretty easy.”
“Chemistry wasn’t as hard as I thought it’d be, either.” Ike and Yamauchi sounded pleased.
“Most of the problems boil down to memorization, right? You can’t solve many problems in English or mathematics if you don’t understand the foundation, though.”
“Don’t let your guard down. I think there might be current events questions on the test, too.”
“Current…events?”
“Events of the recent past related to politics or the economy. That means that the questions may not be limited by what’s written in the textbook.”
“Ugh, isn’t that against the rules? That means we have no idea what’s going to be on the test, doesn’t it?!”
“So that’s why you should study everything.”
“I suddenly hate geography…”
While the test might cover current events, I thought it’d be fine to ignore them for now. If you worried too much, you’d likely miss out on something important and suffer for it.
“Shouldn’t we hurry it up?” I asked. We were wasting precious time talking about this or that.
“Yes. We’ve been wasting time because someone was late.”
“Are you still harping on me for that?”
“Here’s a question for everyone. Who came up with inductive reasoning?”
“Um. It was that guy we learned about in class before, right? That was…” Ike wracked his brain and spun his mechanical pencil.
“Oh, that’s it. That one guy. His name made me super hungry.”
“Francisco Xavier! Or something like that, right?” Sudou asked. Close, but no cigar.
“I remember! Francis Bacon!” Ike cried.
“That’s correct.”
“Yes! I’m definitely going to get a perfect score!”
“No, not really…”
If we all managed to keep up this pace for another week, everyone might just avoid failing.
“Please be mindful of your health, everyone. If you get sick, you’ll have less time to study!” Kushida understood that we had no wiggle room left.
“Don’t worry. Not about those three, anyway,” Horikita grumbled.
“Just as I’d expect from you, Horikita-chan! I feel like you’re starting to have some faith in us!”
Actually, she probably meant something more like, “Idiots don’t catch colds.”
“Hey, quiet down. Your yammering is getting annoying.” A nearby student turned to look at us.
“Sorry, sorry. Guess I got a little carried away. I’m just so happy I got something right. Did you know that Francis Bacon was the guy who came up with inductive reasoning? I won’t lose points on that question!” said Ike, laughing foolishly.
“Huh? Hey, could you guys be Class D students, by chance?”
A group of boys all looked over at us at once. Sudou, seemingly irritated by this, sounded mildly angry as he said, “So what? What’s the big deal if we’re in Class D? Do you have a problem with that?”
“No, no, there’s no problem. I’m Yamawaki, from FClass C. Nice to meet you.” Yamawaki chuckled. “I have to say, I’m glad that they separate the classes in this school by ability. That way I don’t have to study with losers like you.”
“What’d you say?!” Sudou’s anger flared.
“Don’t get mad. I’ve only spoken the truth. I wonder… If we happened to fight, how many points would you lose? Oh wait, you guys don’t even have any points to lose, do you? In that case, you’d probably be expelled, right?”
“Fine with me. Bring it!”
Sudou’s shouting attracted attention and looks of disgust. If things got much worse, then the teacher would probably hear about it.
“He’s exactly right. We’re not sure what’ll happen if you create a ruckus. You should remember that you might be expelled as a worst-case scenario. I don’t particularly mind that you’re bad-mouthing us, but you’re in Class C, right? Honestly, you shouldn’t really brag about that,” Horikita said.
“Clearly there were errors of calculation in placing Class C and A. But you guys in D are on a completely different level.”
“That’s quite an inconsistent standard of measurement. The way I see it, everyone outside of Class A is lumped together.”
Yamawaki stopped laughing and now glared at Horikita.
“Wow. For a defective product that can’t make a single point, you’re pretty sassy, aren’t you? Did you think you could say whatever you like just because you have a cute face?”
“Thank you for your wholly incoherent and irrelevant statement. I was never very concerned about my appearance until now, but after being praised by you, I must say I feel rather uncomfortable.”
“Tch!” Yamawaki slammed the table and stood up.
“Hey. Relax. If we’re the ones who start fighting, then word will get around and we’ll be in trouble.” The other Class C students tugged at Yamawaki’s sleeves, holding him back.
“You do know that you’ll be expelled if you fail the next test, right? I’m looking forward to seeing how many of you get kicked out.”
“Unfortunately for you, no one from Class D will be expelled. Before you worry about us, though, perhaps you should worry about your own class. Pride cometh before the fall.”
“Ha ha ha! Us, fail? Don’t joke around.”
“We’re not studying just to avoid failing. We’re studying so we can improve our test scores. Don’t lump us together with you,” Yamawaki said.
“Also, being happy because you know who Francis Bacon is? Are you nuts? Why are you studying things that aren’t even on the test?”
“Huh?” Horikita looked stumped.
“Wait, do you guys not know what’s on the test? No wonder you’re called defective products.”
“That’s enough out of you.” Sudou, on the verge of really losing his temper, grabbed Yamawaki by the collar.
“Hey, hey! You’re really going to get violent even though it’ll lose you points? You’re okay with that?”
“We don’t have any points to lose!”
Sudou pulled his arm back. Uh oh. Was he really going to beat the crap out of this guy? I knew I should stop him. I got up, then—
“Okay, stop. Stop!”
A female student shouted at us. Sudou stopped in response.
“What? This doesn’t involve you. Stay out of it,” he said.
“Doesn’t involve me? I’m trying to use the library, so it does involve me. If you want to get violent, might I suggest that you do so outside?”
In response to the blonde beauty’s disinterested yet logical argument, Sudou let go of Yamawaki.
“Besides, don’t you think you’re provoking him? If things continue like this, I’d have to report it to the school. Do you want that?”
“S-sorry. We don’t want that, Ichinose,” Yamawaki said.
Ichinose. I’d heard that name once before. Wait… That was the Class B student who’d been talking with Hoshinomiya-sensei.
“Come on, let’s go. If we try studying here, we’ll catch the stupid going around.”
“Yeah.”
With those last words, Yamawaki and his group left.
“If you’re going to study here, please act like adults. Thank you,” Ichinose said.
Watching her gallant departure, I had to nod in admiration.
“Unlike Horikita, she managed to keep everyone in line.”
“I didn’t intend to create chaos. I only spoke the truth.” The truth had led to chaos, though…
“Hey. He said that this question wasn’t on the test, didn’t he?”
“What do you mean?”
We exchanged looks. Chiyabashira-sensei had told us that material about the Age of Discovery would be on the test. Horikita and I had written that down.
“Does this mean that each class gets a different test?”
“That seems unlikely. The test should be the same for everyone in the same grade.”
Horikita was right. The same fundamental problems from the five main topics should be featured on everyone’s midterm. Otherwise, it’d be unclear how to judge our aptitude. Had Class C learned that the test would change before anyone else?
Or was Class D the only group being left out of the loop? We were mystified in the light of this new information. What if every class’s test had different social studies questions? No… What if it wasn’t just social studies? What if all the test questions were completely different? If that were the case, then we’d wasted a whole week’s worth of studying.
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…Please don’t report,…
…Wilysha_Purple♡…