316 Chapter four, 2017, revolt: 6 (1/2)

Ulf fought down an urge to tease the girl in front of him a little more. Despite being a kid she adamantly persisted in her notion of being in love with him. From time to time he played with the thought of taking advantage of it, just to help him get over Christina, but he'd told Noriko he was bad rebound material, and he refused to hurt her in more ways than declining her feelings for him.

'My midterm results?' Ulf forced his thoughts to the reason she had called him out.

”Not the top fifty, or you would have known,” he said.

”Stop avoiding my question!”

'Why does she want to know?' ”I'm not absolutely certain, but top hundred at least.”

Noriko blanched. ”You made it into the top third?”

'Top fourth, more likely.' Still a long way from the top ten where he really belonged. Rather than answering he nodded.

”Scores?” Noriko said.

'She really doesn't let go, does she?' Reluctantly Ulf dug up his phone. He had the results there.

”Per subject?” Ulf pretended to look if there was any ramen left in his bowl. If it had he wouldn't want to eat it anyway, but it was worth a try to see if she would drop the topic.

Noriko tapped his hand with her fingers and nodded. ”Per subject.”

'Better not give her a shock immediately.' ”Japanese 62.”

Noriko nodded again. Apparently she took his improvements with the language for granted.

”English 78.” And Ulf knew he was an idiot for answering the exam questions the way they were written rather than the way they were supposed to be written. He could have crammed out another four points.

Once again Noriko nodded.

”Social sciences 80.” Which was OK. At the rate his Japanese improved he'd score higher next time.

Noriko just looked at him and smiled.

'Well, guess I can't keep it a secret.' ”Science 95.”

”95?” This time she didn't just look at him.

”Uhum.”

”Wow!”

”You do know I've done this before?”

”Still, wow!” Then she tilted her head and looked at him. ”Math?”

'Here goes.' ”Nailed it.”

”Nailed it? Eh, no way!”

That made him feel more than a little self conscious. ”Yes way. 100,” Ulf said and grinned.

She was really cute when her eyes opened in surprise, and Ulf could see how she summed the numbers up and compared them with some kind of information he didn't have access to.

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”No way!”

'Now what?' For the first time Ulf felt genuinely interested. ”What is it?”

”You almost caught up with Ryu.”

”Huh?”

”Urufu, you barely missed the list!”

'Top fifty? Impossible. There are just over 300 of us.' Something nagged at the corner of his mind. 'Crap!' This was Himekaizen, and not his old high school in Gothenburg. 'Aw I forgot just how huge the difference is.'

”Sorry, I took my old school for granted.”

”Old school?”