"Alright everyone, we're going to jump right into the next video," Eve announced to everyone.

Everyone in the room shared confused looks as this had never happened before, Eve usually gave them a five minute break after the video finished showing but now she immediately announced the video would be live soon.

"Um... Eve?" said Ichinose as she stood up.

"Yes, Honami-chan?"

"Is there something wrong? Before you always gave us five minutes off, but now you don't."

"Ah, about that. Actually when I think about it, the break was a waste of a lot of time. Even though your life span has not decreased in this place, I have not eliminated your need to eat, drink and sleep. I have seen that some of you are sleepy and tired, therefore I am removing the break from now on."

Indeed, some of the students were already showing their tiredness because it was getting too late. Since this was a closed room and moreover they were now in another dimension, no one knew how to determine day and night other than the room's wall clock.

"What do you two think, Sakayanagi-chan, Ryuuen-kun?" Eve asked the two people with absolute power in their class.

"It's whatever you want to do, as long as it doesn't interfere with my enjoyment."

"Fu fu, same."

Sakayanagi and Ryuuen gave almost identical answers, Eve was satisfied with their answers then turned the question to Ichinose.

"What about you, Honami-chan?"

Ichinose didn't answer right away and turned to her friends for their opinions. As for Ichinose herself she actually agreed with Eve because time would be more efficient and they could get enough rest.

But before that she must listen to the opinions of her friends first before expressing her own opinion.

"Her reason makes sense, but after this we'll get some rest right?" Shibata asked Eve.

"Of course, there's no way I'm going to let you guys tire out. There's still a lot I want to show you."

"In that case, okay."

All of Ichinose's friends also agreed that like Shibata, they have no problem with not having a break while watching. Kanzaki gave a nod to Ichinose, the class B leader returned the nod with a smile.

"Alright, we agree," Ichinose said.

With the class agreeing with Eve's decision, everyone then turned their attention to the class that had yet to make a decision. Class C.

Horikita could feel everyone's gazes on her, but she wasn't focused on them but on her own classmates. As the class leader, it is certain that she will make decisions for her class.

Horikita watched all of her classmates and she could see that no one had any objections to Eve's decision, therefore she too was able to make her decision.

"No complaints from me," Horikita said.

"Very well. Then it's decided. Let's move on to the next video," Eve announced cheerfully.

The Beginning

"The Beginning...?"

"What does it mean?"

"Who knows."

The students try to guess what the title of the video they are going to watch means, it has become their habit now that every video starts.

"Fu fu, please pay close attention. This one is my favourite," Eve said with amusement, surprising everyone.

"Eh!? Eve's favourite?" said Ichinose in surprise.

"This is the first time she's said that," said Amikura who was just as surprised as Ichinose.

"Ku ku, favorite huh. I hope it will be fun and contain something important," Ryuuen said chuckling.

"He he, don't worry about that. The video this time will be the climax for tonight's session, of course the content won't be boring," said Eve giggling. But her words brought confusion to others.

"Wait, climax? Wasn't that the midterm exam before?" Nishikawa asked confused.

"Of course not, it's too boring. There's nothing tense in that part," Eve argued.

"Then I can assume that there is something 'tense' that you mentioned in the video this time?" asked Sakayanagi.

"Yup~. Now no more questions. Continue watching," Eve said leaving no one else room to speak.

Hence, everyone turned their attention back to the screen.

Chabashira-sensei strode into the classroom, looking around at the students in surprise. Everyone was clearly anxious, holding their breath in anticipation of the test results.

"This is the day of the announcement of the test results," Himeno mused.

"Hmm, I wonder who gets a perfect score," said Minamikata as she crossed her arms.

"I'm sure an honor student like Horikita-san can do it," Andou answered.

"Do you think Ayanokouji-kun will get a perfect score, Honami-chan?" asked Amikura.

Ichinose shakes her head, "I don't think so. Kiyotaka-kun wants to stay under the radar as much as possible."

"Too bad."

"Putting that aside, I'm more worried about Ken-kun's situation."

"Sudou-kun?"

Ichinose nodded, "Last time we saw him having trouble with his English exam. Ken-kun is weak in academics, I'm afraid he's in trouble this time."

"Yes, he did fall asleep at that time. But that doesn't matter right? Look, he's in this room with us, that means he passed."

"I hope so," Ichinose said in disbelief. Granted, Sudou was in this room with them, but Ichinose still felt something bad was about to happen.

"Sensei. We were told that the results would be announced today, but when?"

"There's no need for you to get so worked up, Hirata. You should have passed quite easily."

"So, when will the results be released?"

"Well, if you'd like, now is as good a time as any. If we waited to do it after class, we wouldn't have enough time for other procedures."

Some of the students visibly reacted to the words "other procedures."

"Other procedure...?"

Some of the students in the room were also wondering what Chabashira meant by other procedure. The Class C students didn't have much of a reaction since they already knew about it, except for Sudou who winced because he was the cause of the Other Procedure.

"What...do you mean by that?"

"Don't get flustered. I'll tell you now."

As usual, she revealed the details simultaneously and collectively. She stuck a large, white sheet of paper with everyone's names and test scores onto the blackboard.

"Honestly, I'm impressed. I didn't think that you'd score so well. Many students tied with perfect scores in mathematics, Japanese, and social studies. More than ten of you, actually."

"Wow, look at those grades."

"Lots of perfect scores."

"I still can't believe they got such good grades."

"If I don't know the reason, maybe right now I'm dreaming of seeing defectived people get high marks."

Students outside of class C expressed their admiration and envy when they saw students who were supposed to be at the bottom get high scores.

Some of the students shouted in joy and delight when they saw the 100s lined up on the results sheet. However, some weren't smiling. The only grade that truly mattered was Sudou's score in English.

"Ah right, his grades is the concern now," said Hashimoto looking at the screen intently.

"Surely there's nothing to worry about. After all, he will pass too," Kamuro said boredly.

Then—

We saw Sudou's test scores. He had scored sixty points in four of the five main subjects, which was considerably high. He'd scored thirty-nine points in English.

"Is that enough?" Hamaguchi asked curiously.

"No need to ask that again, right? There's no red line like before," Shibata said.

"Yes!" Sudou leapt up and shouted with joy. Ike and Yamauchi stood and cheered, too. There was no red line to be found on the results sheet. Kushida and I shared a glance and sighed in relief. Horikita didn't smile or cheer, but she did appear relieved.

Some students outside of Class C who were soft-hearted were relieved to see such positive results, even though they were in opposite classes but they were glad that Sudou and his friends efforts were not in vain.

"We showed you, sensei! When we really try our best, we can do anything!" Ike wore a smug, confident look.

"Yes, I recognize that. You all did very well. However—"

Suddenly the previously cheerful atmosphere turned tense upon hearing Chabashira's words.

Chabashira-sensei held a red pen in her hand.

Sudou unintentionally let out a "Huh?"

She drew a red line right above Sudou's name.

"............Huh?"

The room froze with audible gasps of gasp. They were too surprised that Sudou failed, indeed he had problems with English but they never thought that he would fail since he was still in this room with them.

"Wh-what is that? What does that mean?"

"You failed, Sudou."

"Ken-kun... failed?" said Shiina dumbfounded.

"If he fails, then..." Komiya didn't finish her words and looked at Sudou who was in Ayanokouji's line in confusion.

Just like Komiya, the other students were also looking at Sudou in confusion and wondering why he was still here with them when his on-screen self failed.

"What's going on here?" Ishizaki asked confused.

"I don't know dude, I don't understand either. Sudou failed, right? Why is he still here?" said Kondou who was just as confused.

Ryuuen narrowed his eyes thoughtfully, he was so sure that Sudou would be expelled, there was no way the school would be merciful by giving Sudou a second chance. School is not that soft.

So what made Sudou survive in this school?

It didn't take long for Ryuuen to find the answer, his gaze then landed on a certain person. If there was someone who could make Sudou stay in this school then it was this person. The only person who can give fear to him.

Ayanokouji Kiyotaka.

Ryueen grinned, he understood now why this video was Eve's favorite.

"Ku ku, how are you going to save that idiot, monster?"

"Huh? You're lying, right? Don't give me that crap! Why did I fail?" he cried.

Of course, Sudou was the first one to protest this. In response to Sudou's failing grade, the entire classroom did a complete one-eighty. We stopped our delighted cheering and erupted in confusion.

"Sudou, you failed the English exam. That's all."

Many did not like Chabashira's cruel and heartless remarks.

"Honami-chan, do you know about this matter?" Kobashi asked.

Ichinose shakes her head, "I don't know, this is the first time I know about this," Ichinose says worriedly because her bad feeling is actually happening.

"I don't know what happened anymore," Amikura said rubbing her head in a headache.

"Hey, is it possible for them to pay 20 million points?" Shibata asked.

"It is impossible. Even a class A student wouldn't be able to collect 20 million points in 2 months time," argued Hamaguchi.

"I guess you're right," Shibata said with a sigh, before long an idea popped into his head again, "How about the school give Sudou a second chance?"

"That is also impossible. After being in this school for a year, do you still think school is that gentle?" Hamaguchi asked raising his eyebrows.

"Hey, I'm just trying to guess, okay?"

"We better keep watching, there's no point in trying to guess when we can know the results soon enough," said Kanzaki.

"Well, it was actually for fun but alright," Shibata said scratching his head before looking back at the screen.

"Don't screw with me! I got thirty-two points! I passed!"

"When did anyone say that thirty-two points was a passing grade?"

"No, no. You said so, sensei! Right, everyone?" shouted Ike.

"Say whatever you want, it won't matter. This is the undeniable truth. You had to score at least a forty to pass the midterm exam. In other words, you were just one point short. You were so close."

"That was a near miss," said Hashimoto grimacing, he couldn't imagine being in Sudou's position.

"Yeah, he is only one point short. That must be really painful," Kitou said.

"Humph, if only we could buy exam points things would be easier," Kamuro said.

"Buying exam points, huh," thought Sakayanagi thoughtfully, then suddenly she gasped, "Wait, buying points!?"

Sakayanagi was silent for a moment while thinking, soon a small smile formed on her face.

"So that's how Ayanokouji-kun saved him, he was able to find the school system very quickly and took advantage of it. You are awesome as always, Ayanokouji-kun."

Sakayanagi smiled satisfied with the result of her own thoughts, even though there was no proof that Ayanokouji was involved in this but she was very sure that the brown haired boy would do something. Sakayanagi then turned to Kamuro which made her bring up that thought.

"Fu fu, you are very useful sometimes, Masumi-san."

"Huh?" said Kamuro raising her eyebrows in confusion but Sakayanagi had already turned her attention to the screen.

"F-forty?! You never told us about this! I won't accept it!"

"Should I tell you how we determine the passing grade?"

Chabashira-sensei wrote a simple formula on the blackboard: 79.6 divided by 2 equals 39.8.

"We set a passing grade for each individual class, just as we did for the last test. We calculated that number by dividing the average score by two. That's how we arrived at our answer."

In other words, anything at 39.8 or lower was considered failing.

"39.8? That means the passing grade is rounded up to 40?" Shibata said wonderingly.

"Yeah, it looks like it," said Hamaguchi nodding.

"Couldn't they just round it down? It must be painful for Sudou to see his passing grades being determined by the will of the school."

"There's nothing to be done about it, the school has already made a decision and once they make a decision it can't be changed," said Kanzaki.

"Ugh, that really sucks."

"Yeah, but that's our school."

"I provided proof that you failed. That is all."

"No way... So... Does that mean I'm going to be expelled?"

"Although your time here was short, you struggled valiantly. You'll be asked to fill out a withdrawal form after class, but you will need to have a legal guardian present when you do so. I'll contact them for you."

"Chabashira-sensei really heartlessly said all that, to be honest I don't like her," Andou said with a frown.

"Well, we are lucky enough to have the cheerful Hoshinomiya-sensei," said Minamikata.

As we witnessed the scene unfold, the teacher rattling off the information as if she were casually giving a report, we finally realized that this was actually happening.

"As for the rest of you, good work. You all passed without any issues. Work hard so that you can pass your final exam as well. Well then, next—"

"S-sensei. Is Sudou-kun really being expelled? Is there no way to save him?"

Hirata was the first to show concern, even though Sudou hated him and had lashed out at him verbally.

"He's being expelled. He got a failing grade."

"Could we possibly see Sudou-kun's answer sheet?"

"Even if you look it over, you won't find any grading mistakes. I was expecting that you'd protest."

She took out Sudou's English answer sheet and handed it to Hirata, who immediately looked over every problem. His expression turned dark when he reached the end.

"There...are no mistakes."

"Well, if you're all in agreement, homeroom is over."

Chabashira-sensei had heartlessly announced Sudou's expulsion without offering him a second chance or the faintest bit of sympathy. Ike and Yamauchi, knowing that words of comfort would probably have the opposite effect, stayed silent. Hirata remained quiet, too. Sadly, some of the students appeared relieved by this. Were they happy that a nuisance like Sudou was being removed from the class?

The students in question flinched as their relief on the screen was noticed, they timidly peeked at Sudou, fortunately for them Sudou didn't show any reaction.

Sudou himself was currently pouting as he looked at the screen, he already knew his old self was an asshole and so he wasn't surprised to see people happy about him being kicked out.

"Sudou, come to the faculty room after class. That is all."

"Chabashira-sensei. May I have a moment of your time?"

Though she'd stayed silent until that moment, Horikita raised her slender arm in the air and spoke. Thus far, Horikita had never voluntarily made any remarks. Chabashira-sensei and the rest of the class appeared shocked by this abnormality.

"Well, this is unusual, Horikita. Why?"

"Earlier, you said that the previous test had a passing grade of thirty- two points. You arrived at that number by the same formula you showed us today. Were there no mistakes in calculating the passing grade for the last test?"

"There were no mistakes."

"Then, that raises one more question. I'd calculated the average score for the previous test to be 64.4 points. If I were to divide that by two, I would get 32.2 points. In other words, higher than 32 points. Despite that, the passing grade was set at 32. That means that you left off the decimal. That contradicts what you did this time."

"Th-that's right. If you follow what you did last time, the passing grade for the midterm should be thirty-nine points!"

In other words, Sudou's overall grade should have meant that he just barely passed.

"I see. Did you anticipate that Sudou would just barely pass, then? You only scored exceedingly low in English, after all."

At that time almost all the students widened their eyes, they finally noticed a huge difference in Horikita's test scores where she got perfect scores in all subjects except English which only got fifty one points.

Even though Horikita's character is annoying, they admit that Horikita is one of the smartest students in the academic field. So there's no way she'd get a low score in the test unless she reduced it herself.

"I see, Suzune-san deliberately reduced her score to help Ken-kun," said Ichinose smiling affectionately seeing Horikita's character development.

"Yes, she's even willing to skip to get perfect scores in all subjects," said Amikura who also smiled.

"But even if she did that, Sudou-kun still can't be saved," said Kobashi gloomily.

Ichinose's face darkened after hearing that, she still didn't expect Sudou to be kicked out. After seeing Sudou's past, Ichinose could tell that this school was Sudou's greatest hope for achieving his dream. Seeing Sudou kicked out of his dream school naturally saddened Ichinose.

But that sadness quickly turned to confusion when she saw that Sudou was still here with them, which meant Sudou had managed to escape expulsion. At first she was confused by the situation, but it only lasted a while because she realized there was someone who could save Sudou.

Just the thought of that person dispelled Ichinose's gloom and she subconsciously smiled.

"He he, I wonder what Kiyotaka-kun will do."

"Horikita, you..."

Sudou had realized something. The other students gasped as they also realized what had happened. Horikita had gotten perfect scores in four of the five main subjects, but she'd gotten an exceedingly low score of fifty-one points in English. Her English stuck out