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"Then you are really gentle, Hikigaya-kun," Sakayanagi passed him an additional comment with a twinkle beam.
"We lost the English test!" The students of Class C returned home.
Among them, Koenji took a break because he had completed his project.
After all, he couldn't play afterwards, and brought a victory to the class, so he left with ease.
The other students stayed, and Yukimura, who had participated in the mental class earlier, also came back.
"It's all my fault-----"
Spirits aren't very high, he made a misjudgment.
There were only two students in Class B who could do mental games, which was correct, but he underestimated Katsuragi's ability, who did not focus on personal affairs, but instead devoted all his efforts to helping his own class.
Also because he and Matsushita took over, so during English test, were not enough top students, so only three could be arranged to bet for.
There is only one result. Lose.
"Next round is a math test," Teacher Chabashira came to her classroom, means still having to select players to go, "It requires seven participants."
At this time, Ike stood up and said, "Since top students can no longer play, there is no point in arranging other people for this round, so why don't we just give up?"
Although these words are a bit abrupt, are voice of many students.
When looking at Class B's project at the beginning, Hachiman said only one group of top students would be arranged as backup to be ready for action at any time.
Only arranged for students who were good at winning events to train on their own.
So most of students were not assigned any tasks.
Who knew that luck was so bad today that, was directly selected for 5 projects of Class B, 2 of which were written tests.
The English has already eliminated the remaining four top students.
No one was left now, and because they didn't expect to be drawn for such events, arrangement for the remaining contestants was... to choose according to student numbers.
In other words.
Being selected means going to the examination room, not being able to answer the questions, and feeling so embarrassed that you want to smash your face on ground.
This can be seen from the scene with 3 girls whose English is completely useless.
It's so embarrassing.
And what's wrong with that camera? It's shooting right at your face. The test takes half to an hour, so it's embarrassing to spend time being live casted!
So, many people don't want to lose their face.
In particular, students' competition scenes will be recorded and broadcast live on the LCD screen in the playground.
This is for the sake of fairness and also, can be accessed at any time when there are objections.
For the students, it was broadcast live to entire school.
Therefore, if embarrassing appearance were to be exposed like this, would probably... lose the right to choose a partner for three years.
"Unless the Commander gives up," Chabashira-sensei said without any sympathy for such people, "Otherwise, you will be chosen randomly and forced by guards to go to competition. So, you should head to arena without any other ideas. You are arranged from scores in exa----"
She looked at her phone.
"Huh...Good luck for you, It seems like your Commander forfeits this round," Then her eyes turned to a young man who was sitting in a seat and seemed to have a low presence, took an oath for rarely even speaking in class.
"Next up 6th round, Chess."
"Ayanokoji Kiyotaka, it's your turn."
The boy, who had a dead expression on his face stood up suddenly from his place. Other students breathed a sigh of relief.
Although they gave up fifth round of math, at least didn't go and embarrass themselves.
Besides, would have lost even if they had gone.
Match between Class B and Class C has become a 2-3 loss. 6th game is very crucial.
Yukimura looked at Ayanokoji's back with an apologetic look as he left with Chabashira-sensei.
He knew that he had to take a big responsibility for exam.
If he hadn't felt that he had caught Katsuragi's weakness and insisted on taking Arithmetic test, he might still have won math.
Kiyotaka is now under a lot of pressure. If he can win this round, then he will have 3 wins.
If you win, you will be praised, but if you lose, people will say "it would have been better if you had been expelled."
In other words, if they lose here, Kiyotaka might have to bear responsibility for failure of the entire class.
"What's your mentality?" Chabashira Sae left the room and went to sixth game - chess battlefield to assist.
She stood at door of the classroom.
Normally, a teacher shouldn't talk so much to contestants, but as a teacher, Chabashira's feelings were certainly understandable.
This class climbed up from the garbage dump. Although it is still similar now, judging from exam results, not hopeless.
There is even fact there are a few outstanding people in class.
Her knot has been resolved, but she is still a teacher now.
The game that Kiyotaka is about to participate in will probably bring him psychological pressure.
"I don't feel anything."
"...." Chabashira.
As expected, she couldn't look at Kiyotaka with ordinary eyes.
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Chess is 1v1.
Required number of players is 1, and chess time limit is 1 hour (if you exceed, you will lose)
Rules: Based on standard chess rules.
The Commander can give instructions at any time, but there is a time limit.
The Commander's thinking time for each move must not exceed 5 minutes, and total time must not exceed 30 minutes.
Rules here are a bit interesting.
The commander can give instructions to his team members at any time, which means that he can intervene in game from very beginning.
After 30 minutes, he can no longer influence the players.
Because people need to think when playing chess, and takes a lot of time.
So this will limit number of moves commander can intervene.
However, as long as you play fast, you can command more moves and even complete game.
Therefore, if Sakayanagi wants to play chess, she has to arrange an absolutely obedient tool.
The tool chess player prepared by Sakayanagi has arrived at the examination room and sat down.
The other person has blond hair and is a handsome guy from Class B.
"...You are Ayanokoji from sports festival, right?" The other person said this and looked at Kiyotaka who was sitting down.
Class C has won 2 games so far thanks to two cheaters, but failed in Mental, English and math tests, so if Kiyotaka wins sixth game, he will become the hero of Class C.
So if it's purely for hype, audience who support him are really powerful.
The handsome chess player from Class B who came to talk to them was actually an old acquaintance of everyone - Hashimoto Masayoshi.
Sakayanagi's dog.
The person who was cheated out of 1 million points by Hachiman.
The situation in Class B is very good.
Hashimoto also felt that if he won this round, he would get good reviews.
Hashimoto was chosen to be chess player of Class B because he was threatened by Sakayanagi Arisu.
"During previous island exam, Hashimoto-kun, you did something without my permission..."
This sentence alone was enough to make Hashimoto scared.
At the same, he has actually learned chess since was a child, so his level is quite high.
So, he was arranged here.
But, Hashimoto is a student of Class B after all, and he still has to bring victory to the class, so decided to give Kiyotaka a little more chance of winning, that is, he planned to disturb his mind.
"Even though I didn't expect Sakayanagi to choose this project, but I'm one of the few people in my class who can play chess. I have ten years of experience, so don't underestimate me. And how long have you played chess, Ayanokoji?"
"I learned for two weeks."
"Oh, you mean Cramming at the last minute?" Hashimoto's grin curled up.
He felt stable.
"I learned it for two weeks when I was a child."
This made Hashimoto feel even more at ease, so good inside, he almost raised another bone.
So, he started to wear headphones so that Arisu Sakayanagi could give him instructions at any time.
All he could do now was to treat himself as a tool and gain as much advantage as possible in the moves that Sakayanagi hadn't made yet.
This round is very important for class, whether they can choose to win directly here.
If win, have the possibility of going straight back to Class A.
So he is the great hero.
If Hashimoto loses here, he may be held accountable, and then pressure will be put on his Go partner in next game.
So he himself is also under pressure.
Probably, victory is necessary, and even if not achieved, situation must be made extremely chaotic and dangerous in order to escape responsibility.
In this way, if he wins, he can show off to students in Class B, and if he loses later, it must be Sakayanagi's fault, after all, he has tried his best before.
Then completely eliminate the possible side effect of being ostracized by classmates because of losing this game.
Hashimoto-kun is waiting for the game to begin.
But he also noticed that Kiyotaka wasn't wearing headphones.
Does he not want to take? That's right, because Commander of Class C, Hikigaya-kun, doesn't seem to know how to play chess at all, so naturally he can't provide any chess tips.
He can only rely on Kiyotaka.
"Prepare for 6th Game. Both put on your headphones."
Although it was Chabashira who brought Kiyotaka here, she was not examiner for this exam.
Instead, a second-grade teacher was in charge.
There is only one head teacher for each class, but students have to take so many exams, so it is naturally impossible to let same teacher be in charge every day.
Other teachers will also be arranged to help.
Kiyotaka also put on headphones that were placed aside to be formal.
"The 6th game, Chess match, 1 vs 1"
"Now begins!"
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