"Although it seems unnecessary, let's try hard for now," After estimating the strength of both sides, Sakayanagi said very softly.
She immediately slid mouse on computer in front of her.
She would match avatars of the participants in each game on screen.
According to rules, Commander could choose one person to pass the order.
This person would also be assigned a headset to receive the order.
Sakayanagi clicked on Katsuragi Kōhei's image.
Since she had chosen to use Katsuragi, there was no point in not trusting him at a time like this.
Moreover, Class B has already lost two games, and Katsuragi himself knows the importance of this game to Class B. So there is no need to worry that he will not comply when he hears that answer should be changed.
The first effort is strong, second is weaker, and third is exhausted.
Class B has already lost 2 games.
Even though Sakayanagi can still maintain a good mentality, other students may not be able to do so.
So now, girl has actually become unusually serious.
She will ask——
Her eyes were looking to the side, at Hikigaya-kun next to her. She would prove to him that situation was not set in stone.
"Chiaki Matsushita from Class C answered correctly—"
When Sakayanagi was distracted, 3 out of 10 questions had already been assigned to Class C.
"...." Sakayanagi. 'It is true that I am distracted a lot....' but she quickly focused her attention.
There are 10 questions in total.
Yukimura answered first correctly, Matsushita and Katsuragi answered the second question at same time, and both of them answered correctly, so it was considered a tie.
But third question was again answered correctly by Chiaki Matsushita.
Totally unexpected.
Class B was distracted and was completely at a disadvantage.
And now fourth question comes out.
Difficulty has increased.
However, questions are randomly generated by the computer system.
That is to say. It is possible to play cards out of the routine, even goes directly from 1 to 7.
56435X24
On the big screen in examination room, a question flashed out that an ordinary high school student would never be able to do in 1 minute.
Am I going to use a Calculator?
The answer is [1354440].
Sakayanagi got an answer in just 5 seconds, even before I could type numbers on the keyboard.
Arisu Sakayanagi has been a genius since she was young, and questions like these were just a way for her to develop her brain power when she was six years old.
Fuck....And she is fine, even if got herself a bit distracted sitting near Hikigaya-kun——
Her eyes turned towards Hachiman.
"…" who didn't seem to have any expression.
'.....From information I have obtained, Hikigaya-kun is only talented in Japanese literature. So he won't give any instructions for this kind of exam....'
Of course, Hachiman had no intention of giving orders. In other words, even as commander, could he still issue orders and expect team members to respond immediately?
What surprised him was this classmate Chiaki Matsushita was unexpectedly quite capable.
'Originally I just thought other party was hiding her strength, but now it seems she is slacking off too much.....' Hachiman thought about how to get more results out of her in future, deliberately giving more work.
Sakayanagi, who was sitting opposite him, was also lost in thought. But no instructions were given.
Because in this round, Commander can only intervene in one question.
And this kind of question, which she could get answer to in 5 seconds, obviously did not require her to take action.
Only, Sakayanagi didn't take any action, but on the field, Yukimura-kun was actually unable to keep up.
But his eyes were fixed on Katsuragi.
"• •" Arisu who noticed it, "....Is this some kind of unique strategy of your class's students? I noticed Matsushita-san of your class glaring at the camera just now too...."
"....." Hachiman said nothing.
Now it's fourth question, and Katsuragi-kun doesn't seem to have answered it.
'Does that mean he is really grudgeful towards Sakayanagi, so he's starting to let me win?' As he was thinking this, Yukimura noticed that Sanada next to Katsuragi raised his hand.
The answer is 134440
However, examiner, Chabashira-sensei, rejected his answer.
"It's 1354440." Matsushita from Class C gave her own answer.
"Fuck, too hasty!" At this time, Sanada was a little annoyed. Obviously, he should have known the answer, but was nervous just now because of the strange atmosphere, so he wrote one less.
In other words, it's not that Class B can't figure it out, but mentality is a little disturbed?
Of course.
After all, 3rd round of exam, and Class B has lost two games in a row, so if they lose this one, won't be long before 4 out of 7 games.
Yukimura felt safe.
"...It actually worked," Sakayanagi found it incredible, and turned to look at Hikigaya-kun with new kinds of wisdom and shock in her eyes.
But, next question came out.
35546X255-2455
It's getting complicated.
"The answer is——" Katsuragi raised his hand, then held up the small whiteboard with the answer he had written on it.
[9061775]
The speed is amazing.
Yukimura also looked over in surprise. 'Is this beginning of Katsuragi's efforts?'
However, child hurried to comfort himself.
Because it is already fifth question, and Class C has already got scores for three and a half questions.
So just win two more and that's it.
He looked at Matsushita, who seemed to be struggling with her skirt.
But it shouldn't matter, there are still 5 questions to come, so you just need to get 2 out of 5.
[24535X3566888+4677789-23455X455]
A new question appeared on the screen.
"..." Yukimura was speechless for a moment.
If the difficulty of first three questions is 1, and fourth question is 9, then current one suddenly becomes 100!
He turned to look at Matsushita, who now seemed to have lost brain, and was busy twerking her arse, at least providing some entertainment to her audience.
"….." Yukimura couldn't unsee it anymore, 'Are there random questions like this? This is only fifth! Are all after this going to be so difficult?'
Perhaps noticing state of the contestants, Chabashira-sensei opened her mouth, "The test questions are randomly selected by computer, so difficulty level is unpredictable. Even I can't know the test questions in advance."
In fact, not just mental game that is like this. The papers for written examinations are also extracted from question bank in computer.
Otherwise, if your class plans the test questions and know the answers, it would be unfair to others.
Therefore, in command tower examination, sports is actually the safest choice.
Otherwise it will become unpredictable.
Although it is full of bullshit from what you ask Yukimura, it should be a difficult problem in this round of Level 10.
This kind of question, even Sakayanagi also needs to do some serious calculations inside her brain.
Through live broadcast, we can see that all students are doing mental arithmetic seriously, but most of them are in a daze, probably having given up completely.
It is quite difficult for ordinary students.
So, this is no longer a question that people like Hachiman can solve.
"…" Sakayanagi even had the mind to look at Katsuragi Kōhei. It was obvious that he couldn't figure it out either, but he behaved very calmly.
'Where's Hikigaya-kun?....' Arisu was doing calculations at the same time, while she was focusing on Hachiman who was sitting next to her.
'He seemed to be staring at Matsushita-san who was literally shaking....So envious!'
Looking at his left hand quietly.
'Boys' hands are different from girls', they look more rough in handling...'
"…"
Knowing that she would be taking an exam, Sakayanagi immediately focused her attention on calculations.
Every second, all the calculations were done in her brain.
At this moment, Sakayanagi Arisu's brain was full of addition, subtraction, multiplication and division, full of formulas, and full of strings of numbers that had been broken down.
It's very brain-consuming.
But compared to her physical weakness, she actually likes to use her brain to abuse herself.
It's calculated. Very quickly.
She began to use the command tower's authority.
She judged that question was the most difficult one, and Class C would not be able to get this score.
If Class B could not get it either, it would create pressure.
So now have to make up for the disadvantage.
[Does Commander want to make changes to answers given by her own players?]
[Yes]
[Do you not trust your classmates?]
"• ? •" Sakayanagi for a second felt like she was high on drugs, and imagining completely outrageous things.
[I just want to help.]
[Are you sure? Katsuragi's face doesn't give me idea that he needs anything from you.]
[Don't be stupid, you are a computer! Now transfer my order into speech.]
[So rude! What if I give Sanada a different answer from what you typed because of your insults.]
"Ugghhh!" Sakayanagi's slender fingers were tapping on the keyboard, very furiously now, as if she was very angry at equipment.
"....Is there something wrong?" Mashima looked over, after hearing Sakayanagi creating a lot of weird noises, while typing on her computer.
"I am fine! It's just stupid device messing wi---Aha! where is your back-talk now?!" She used her coding skills with authority of the command tower to correct one answer and passed instructions to Katsuragi Kōhei.
"The answer is 87507602844."
It seemed that Kōhei Katsuragi on the field responded less than 10 seconds after receiving order.
The answer is correct.
"Super awesome—"
Other students who were watching the performance in examination room could not help but exclaim in amazement.
They don't know how to do mental problems, but they understand how difficult the questions are, but Arisu was able to solve them correctly.
Students in Class B are really amazing.
So, Class B finally answered 2 correctly and tied one question.
"Mmph!" Even Arisu looked very pleased with herself, she was grinning like a Cheshire.
But, Commander of Class C did not move at all.
Class C, who was watching game, had nothing to say about this.
...No one in the class knew how to do
Mental arithmetic, so at most they took out cell phones and used them as calculators.
The commander's tower didn't allow the use of such applications, so Hachiman could only stay aside.
After Sakayanagi gave the instruction, he did not move.
Since she could only intervene in one question, Arisu was almost a useless commander and could not participate in the competition again. So, can only watch and wait in vain.
"You won this game," Hachiman congratulated her in advance.
"Yeah, school's computer was no match for m-----"
"I was talking about the game."
"....Oh." Sakayanagi didn't know how to cover this kind of shame, so just kept her mouth shut until the end of this Maths exam.
The next five questions were not as abnormal as fifth question.
They were all relatively simple questions, but Katsuragi seemed to have finally started to exert his strength and got several questions right in a row.
Finally, a complete victory was achieved.
Sakayanagi's class finally won.
"The game is over——"
At end of third round of duel between Class B and Class C, reactions of two people attracted the eyes of Sakayanagi and Hachiman.
The exams for Class A and D have actually ended.
Noticing this strange scene, Mashima looked over in room's opposite, "Are you sure you want to exit here?"
"Yeah...."
"....Oh, right. Game is over."
Because third exam is over, there will be 10 minutes of free time, so Hachiman looked over and noticed that Ichinose seemed a little agitated.
But Shiina-san just opened her hands and looked helpless.
"Then please don't disturb others."
Watched Ichinose and Shiina leave.
"It seems something good happened," Sakayanagi said while her eyes roaming around the room, as if trying to notice unusual.
"Before the exam, students in Ichinose's class were targeted by Ryuen, who arranged for Ibuki, Ishizaki and others to follow the students. She thought Ryuen was going to use despicable means, so they were always on guard against his group...Only, now she can't continue the exam because all the students in her class in fourth, fifth, sixth and seventh rounds are unable to participate due to diarrhea....."
'Did you find a spy?' Sakayanagi Arisu reacted immediately. 'It seems that Ichinose-san is in dark, and is only focused on defeating Ryuen-kun, but she didn't expect that enemy has infiltrated her own ranks...'
"So, is Hikigaya-kun going to just give up too?" Now two classes have completed 3 matches.
The next two were English and Mathematics.
The number of people required for each game is 7.
For Hachiman's class, most they could do was to gather top students to gamble once, and would have to give up the other game.
"Let's just try to fight. After all, I tried my best in this exam."
"....." Sakayanagi did not respond to his words at this time. 'Because Hikigaya-kun said he would show his strength to fight me. But, his current behavior gives me a subtle feeling. Did I overlook something?'
At this time, fourth game of the seven events began.
As commander, Hachiman clicked on the information of participating students.
Originally, top students' backups were Matsushita, Yukimura, Horikita, and Hirata.
Yukimura and Matsushita could not continue to participate because they were taking mental exam, which resulted very heavy on both people.
Then only ones left are Horikita and Wang Meiyu.
Among them, Meiyu is only a top student in English, and is not good in other aspects, so if a math test is chosen, she will be useless.
Then, since winning event he prepared was not selected, Kushida-chan is now free.
Finally, Hachiman decided on the contestants.
Hirata, Kushida, Horikita, Wang Meiyu, and three other students who are tallest among short ones in class according to their academic ranking.
The selected students were notified to go to classrooms.
English test paper.
However, it does not include listening comprehension, only multiple-choice questions, cloze test, and reading comprehension.
This is convenient for pending scoring and modification.
Otherwise, if we add the essay, we have to think carefully about how many points to give, which will cause disputes.
"The exam is over—"
"Class B wins in total score," Teacher Mashima went to examination room and announced results.
The winning criterion for this round is total score of participating students.
The total score of seven students arranged in Sakayanagi's class is 588 points.
In Class C, there are only four top students.
Although remaining three are also selected according to scores, unfortunately, Class C is only 452 points.
"It seems that students in my class are better...."
This means Class B can get another 30 points in evaluation score from C.
4 rounds have been played.
2 losses and 2 wins.
As representative of Class B, Sakayanagi knew that students in Class B should feel safe.
At same time, she felt there was no need to intervene. Hachiman nodded like a dumb.
Then, as commander, he raised his hand, "Our Class C will forfeit the next round. We don't have any people who can fight....."
"Then you are really gentle, Hikigaya-kun," Sakayanagi passed him an additional comment with a twinkle beam.
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