Vol 4 Chapter 3 (1/2)

The Third Question

Please iine the scene below then answer the question

‘You are going on a vacation with the person you like You are getting ready to board the flight, and you suddenly realized that you have forgotten to bring so?”

Himeji Mizuki’s answer:

Medicines such as those for headache and stomachache

Teacher’s comment:

This is actually a psychological test of “what you expect of the person you like”, the forgotten things sy so for a vacation and you didn’t realize it, it means you hope that your partner will make up for it I can see that Himeji-san desires a sense of relief from the person you like

Kirishi+ma Shouko’s answer:

Handcuffs

Teacher’s comment:

Before talking about what you forgot to bring, there see a pair of handcuffs in the first place

Kudou Aiko’s answer:

Forgot to wear underpants

Teacher’s comment:

What do you actually want from the person you like?

Once thebetween h a few more periods, and now it’s finally recess time

When thein a relationshi+p was made known, Class D’s preparation for the Summoner Test War came to an end Minami went and shared a table with Hiht?

shi+ht be appeased, but now there’s a different person who’s pissed off……

“Mizuki, do you want to have lunch together?”

I heard Mina

“Uh, Minami……”

I called out hurriedly to Minao somewhere

“What, Aki, what are you calling me for?”

“Uh, that……about the bento that you ……”

While I was still speaking, Minami raised on of her eyebrows

“Aki, what’re you saying? You’ve eive you my bento?”

I can feel the killing intent hidden in Minami’s words

“I’ized from the bottom of my heart”

I guess Minaer

But its right, that kind of thing happened, it’s norry……

“Really, Aki is always so oblivious! Mizuki, the weather is great today, let’s find a comfortable place without this idiot and have our lunch”

Mina beside her

I guess, they’ve decided to have their lunch outside

“Ah, Minami-chan, wait for me Then, then it’s decided, Akihisa-kun, later”

Hied to catch up with Minami who didn’t look back and strode away

It seeoing through that confession uess, she can still be considered gentle

“What happened, Akihisa? You didn’t get the bento that shi+mada made herself?”

Looking at her leaving, Yuuji brought his bento tosuit

“Un, Minary at me I actually hoped for that bento……”

“Forget about it, like this, if she were to share her personally made bento with you, shi+mizu may just rush in and cause trouble Froive up”

“I guess you’re right in a way……”

Nevertheless, the food that Minami makes is really delicious, that’s why I feel that it’s a pity……No no no, I don’t compare her with anyone on purpose

“By the here did Muttsurini run off to? How come I didn’t see him anywhere?”

“He seeuess he must’ve run off the confirm it—Oh, he’s back!”

“……I’m back”

Muttsurini caht noise Just that, it’s the jolly lunch tiloomy

“Muttsurini, what happened to you? Did soain?”

“……(Nods)”

“It is about the rumor that you just mentioned?”

“……The current condition is worse than this ”

As he was saying that, he took out his mini recorder that he always takes pride in on the table

He pushed the play button, and a conversation that was mixed up with other noises

(That, that, Tsuchiya-kun, I heard that you’ve got your hands on pictures of Akihisa-kun in sailor uniform, is this true?)

(……One hundred yen per piece, secondary distribution is forbidden)

(Secondary distribution is forbidden……That’s a pity……But keeping it for myself alone is already worth it)

--Ka cha!

“……I’ve got the wrong contents”

“Eh, as that? What was that conversation about?! That conversation seems to be extremely unfavorable to me!”

“Akihisa, you are too noisy, don’t get worked up because of a trivial matter”

“This is obviously not a trivialsi sold secretly?!”

“Wait! Akihisa, the words that you've just said are very terrible information to me!”

daht my picture and ran away?

“……This is the real one”

Muttsurini took out another siot more than one mini recorder on him

(What’s the condition of Class F?)

(They see idiotic, they didn’t apply forI can see that they still haven’t found out our intentions

(Really……There won’t be any problem like this Noe’ll just replenish our points, and we’ll declare war iht)

(Understood)

Since this conversation was recorded, the sound quality was as lousy as the one just now, I couldn’t find out ere the people behind this But, at least we knew that it’s a conversation between two guys

“Is it Class D? If it is, uess?”

“……(Shakes head)”

Muttsurini shook his head in reply

Not Class D? If it isn’t Class D, then which class did this conversation come from?

“I’ve already confirmed that Class D has no other movements, I’uy who is giving orders, they should be……”

“……It’s Class B’s conversation”

“Class B? Why!?”

That conversation clearly pointed us as ene for a Summoner Test War secretly If so, will Class B become our enemy?

“Talking about Class B, is it that Neuy, he actually caet back at us”

Yuuji ue unhappily

“I agree, no et back at us, Class B will be overdoing it by declaring a Su on an easy target

“No, I’m afraid Nemoto’s objective isn’t only this”

“Eh? No?”

“I can’t say that you’re wrong, that guy has enough reason to despise us, but what I e”

Yuuji was still speaking in riddles, getting others confused hat he was actually thinking of

“Yuuji, you said that they’ve got another objective, what is it?”

Hideyoshi+ also couldn’t cohtly inclining his head in confusion

“It’s to put down everyone’s blame on him”

“Eh? How is this related to e’re discussing?”

“Ne, and yet he was defeated even though he had used pathetic tricks against us during the Summoner Test War on April, that caused his position in his class to be more unstable”

“Un, I understand that”

Ne pan

“This is the problem! When a country is in obvious turmoil, what do you think the leader will do in order to appease the citizens in the fastest time possible?”

“Hn? Eh, this……”

That

“Akihisa, do you know the answer?”

“Pardon me, can you repeat it?”

“Really……Can’t you just pay attention to what others are saying?”

Yuuji rolled his eye in frustration

He suddenly talked about such a profound topic,But I’ll have to listen to him attentive now

“What I mean is ‘to appease everyone, what is needed to be done’”

Oh oh oh! That, I understand now The answer to this question is very simple

“Just use perfume”

“Your answer is so unexpected that it stunned everyone”

“……It scared me”

“Eh? I re ‘to control body odor, you must use perfume’!”[1]

Did a television program lie to me?

“No, Akihisa, Yuuji didn’t mean that, he meant what is needed to be done in order to appease the public in the fastest ti terrorism?”

“It’s a way, but it isn’t the fastest Not to ly suppressive force beforehand in order for it to work”

Replacing it with Class B’s condition, Neht to speak now, so it’s pretty much impossible for him to use that method to appease everyone

“If so, are there any other ideas?”

“The answer is ‘create a mutual enemy’ This can be seen everywhere in our daily life, if they have aa small dispute purposely, it’ll be easier for them to form an alliance There are a few people in history that used this method to stabilize their position”

Here, he listed a few historical figures as example I see, so this is the case

“By doing this, not only can they change the target of Class B’s anger from Nemoto to us, he can also vent some of his hatred If he’s lucky, he’ll not only be able to beat Class F, he can also regain his position in Class B and his right of speech, and this should be what Ne”

When I finish hearing Yuuji’s explanation, I can finally fully understand hiswar on us If there’s this much reason for me, I’d also want to start a Summoner Test War

“Even if Neht of speech, all he has to do is claim that he wants to ‘eli incident’, he can still get the whole class to listen to him Our current condition is a very rare opportunity to him”

To put it another way, it’s a good opportunity for us to help Nemoto-kun create a chance for him to redeem himself

“If it’s as Yuuji said, I guess that there’s no way for us to avoid this war Forget about it if it’s during peacetime, we still haven’t replenished our points now, that bastard Neo of such an opportunity”

“Hideyoshi+ is right Even if it’s during peacetime, we still don’t have much of a chance to win, especially since that only Hiht this battle, and it’s pretty eous condition Forget about Class D, if our opponent changes to Class B, the odds of us winning are less than one in ten thousand”

It was as Muttsurini said, our current condition isIf I had known sooner, I would’ve continued to let Class D misunderstand, and let them declare war on us there and then

“If so…… Yuuji, what should we do? Why don’t we apply for tests now, and use the whole afternoon to replenish our points?” “I agree, that’s the only thing left for us to do”

The difference between our class and theirs is, half of Class B is girls, and the re theirOn the other hand, our class mostly consists of boys, even if we start our marks replenishment now it’ll be just a drop in the bucket But other than that, we’ve no other options

But at that

“…… No, it’s better not to do those unnecessary matters”

“Eh?”

Yuuji objected to the point replenishment advice when he spoke

“How do you explain it then? Or do you have a plan to defeat Class B without replenishi+ng our marks?”

“No, I’o and believe that we’d have an idea to defeat Class B”

“If so, why did you say that we don’t need to replenish our marks? Then what should we do?”

If we can’t ith our current condition, then we’ll have to at least try by taking a different alternative that can make our condition better

“First we need to buy so war on us somehow”

“Buy some time? Will this even benefit us?”

If we don’t replenish ourmake any difference?

“Just listen, if Class D declares war on us, we’ll just have to accept it obediently Like this, we are bound to lose, but if they still haven’t declared e’ll still have a chance to avoid it”

“But just now Hideyoshi+ said that, Neh reason to declare war on us, do you think it’d be easy to ive up the idea?”

“That’s true, that’s e need to make it impossible for Class B to declare war on us Fortunately the Summoner Test War only allow a one-on-one war, that means—“

“You are going to let other classes battle Class B?”

If so, Class B can’t do anything to us then

“Oh……You want uise as my sister and provoke them like last time?”

“No, not like that We’ve already used that trick before; we can’t use it a second time I don’t want Class B to battle other classes, I’d like other classes to battle us instead”

“You want other classes to battle us……I see, if so, Class B can’t declare war on us for a while, and we can still replenish our marks after the battle Is this what you mean, Yuuji?”

“Right”

One of the detailed rules of the Summoner Test War is that after a war ends, the participants will have a short ceasefire to replenish their marks It’s because if this rule didn’t exist, all classes could be easily defeated

“I used to be dissatisfied with this rule personally, but this tiet to avoid a disaster”

Hideyoshi+ is right, if this rule didn’t exist, ould have been able to defeat Class A during the last Summoner Test War But, this time we’d have to feel thankful for this rule’s existence

“If we replenish ourfully prepared to resist Class B’s force, I don’t think they’ll dare to challenge us directly”

“To put it another way, all we have to do is get into top forht?”

Because of the lesson learnt froet into top fore us

In other words, whether they are going to battle us or not, it all depends on the condition of us Class F

“But, hoe find our opponent? We’re still under disciplinary probation, so we can’t declare war on other classes, we can only wait for other classes to declare war on us right?”

“Our target is none other than Class D If we let them take the initiative and declare war on us, we can also replenish ourIf our opponent is Class B it would be too risky to do so, but if our opponent is Class D, even if we can’t gain victory, we still won’t lose Fortunately their class is divided into co whether they should declare war on us, they don’t have much time to fully replenish their marks”

The way he put it, the irls, which is obviously better than facing Class B

“Yuuji, if we have a chance to win the battle all along, why don’t we just go all out at the beginning in the battle with Class D?”

It’s as if he’s confused by Yuuji, Hideyoshi+ slightly tilted his head in confusion

“Hideyoshi+, you misunderstood me What I meant is, if we declare war on Class D, we may not lose but on’t be able to win, that battle isree?”

I see Even if they aren’t afraid of being troubled like Yuuji, but most people would try and avoid cumbersome matters

“Eh? But the way you said it, we are still going to battle? If so, why don’t we use the afternoon period to replenish our marks?”

“Are your ears there for just decoration purpose? Try and remember the report that Muttsurini recorded”

Err, let me think, the conversation that Muttsurini recorded is—

“Muttsurini! 100 yen per piece is too cheap! Hideyoshi+’s pictures are already 500 yen per piece!”

“Oh oh,the pictures, can both of you explain it to me more clearly?”

“…… Those are all done by my secretary”

“You actually said so that a politician would say!”

“You guys, can you at least feel a little more worked up”

Yuuji facepalmed, and said that with frustration But, I personally felt that the picture issue was also very important

“Fro just now, Nemoto said that ‘we’ll declare war iht?”

“Ah ah, so you meant that Eh, it’s true that he said that”

“In other words, before we notice it, they intend to continue replenishi+ng theirtheir marks, or we noticed it, they won’t declare war on us suddenly”

Even if they don’t replenish their marks, Class B is still bound to beat us, but they’re this cautious, I guess it’s because of the loss they suffered from the last Summoner Test War They can still beat us with just one or two strikes even if it’s during peaceti the class representative don’t have ood to be cautious Feeling safer by replenishi+ng

“Oh, so tomorrow is the deadline, we’ll still have time to decide”

“Really? Won’t they attack today?”

“Didn’t Iron System is still under maintenance, so nobody will be able to declare war until to”

I didn’t have theabout this……I see, so the Shoukanjuu Su System is under maintenance

“Err…… We’ve discussed for so long, what should we do?”

“We are going to start the preparations of course, let Class D declare war on us The deadline is today, if we can’t do it, then we’ll be back to using orange boxes as tables for classes”

If so we’ll have to be successful soe boxes, I’m afraid Himeji-san will have to transfer school this time

“In a nutshell, what should we do?”

“We’ll , let Akihisa and shi+nite shi+mizu’s fury”

“Eh? But Mina”

“Let’s just put aside the truth, all in all, I want you and shi+et jealous until she freaks out”

“Eh eh eh eh! That won’t work! If I talk about it with Minami, she’ll freak out!”

“Then we’ll have topart to Hideyoshi+, it’ll be better if you write down a script, hope it isn’t much of a trouble”

“I understand”

“Muttsurini’s task is to gather infor is done, just leave the war preparations against Class D to me”

“……I understand”

“Good, it’s decided, we don’t have time to spare for lunch, we’ll wait for Hiin the operation Muttsurini, is our class bugged?”

“…… There won’t be any problem”

The battle this time is more of battle of mix-up information The condition o as planned this time?

“To put it siuys want me to do?”

Once we’ve told everything to both of the girls who just came back, Minary…

“I’d like you and Akihisa pretend to be dating, and itwill be so angry that their blood vessels burst”

He ht have seen Minami’s unhappy expression, but Yuuji still stated his request as if nothing happened

“I won’t do it”

Minami rejected it casually I can co, and now requesting both of us to be lovers, no matter how people see it, they’ll think that it’s a terrible prank

“I beg you to help, not only shi+mada, Himeji will need to help too”

“Eh? I, I’m involved?”

“Yes, it’s not real enough if it’s just Akihisa and shi+mada, that’s why I hope Himeji will play as the part of someone who is jealous of their relationshi+p”

In other words, Hi actress Actually they didn’t have to trouble Hiuys could also play this supporting part as well If Himeji-san was jealous because ofpart, I’uess I’ll leave this to Hideyoshi+ the veteran, I’ll just follow orders

“You want me to play as someone who is jealous of Akihisa-kun and Minami-chan…”

Himeji-san spoke softly as she think about the words Hideyoshi+ said What happened? She seems hesitant about it

“No uys say, I won’t accept it You actually want !”

Minami still rejects it stubbornly

“shi+mada, just calm down and think I understand it’s hard for you to do this, but other than you, there’s no one else who can play this role If you still choose to disregard it, you’ll regret it in the future For example, Himeji will transfer school because of this…If it comes to that, won’t you blame yourself?”

Hideyoshi+’s advice h reluctantly If our class utilities worsen, Himeji-san may be forced by her parents to transfer school nobody wants that to happen

Itwhen she rejected this role

Even so, then we can only—

“If so, as long as her partner isn’t ht?”

The reason Minami rejected it painfully, was because her partner wasshi+mizu-san If so, all we had to do was find someone to replace me

“Eh? Why don’t we find someone else to act as Minami’s boyfriend? This idea isn’t too shabby……But, who should we find?”

“Who… I think Yuuji is acceptable”

“Eh, are you telling o and commit suicide?”

“If you can’t, what about Muttsurini?”

“……I’s”

“Oh……Others, what about those like Sugawa-kun?”

“Akihisa, it see?”

Hideyoshi+ can’t accept this role, even if I didn’t say it, I’m pretty sure everyone knows the reason

“Don’t bother talking about it anymore, the role cannot be replaced by anyone else If you just did that thing in public thisa different person, ill fall for it? It must be you and shi+mada”

That’s right, since that thing happened, if Minami is with someone else in public, it’ll be very suspicious for others

“About that, Minami-chan and Akihisa-kun……I know that both of you aren’t willing, but, I beg both of you this time”

When Himeji-san finished, she bowed in request to me and Mina too much?

“Due to personal reasons, I really don’t want to transfer school, so I really need both of you to help!”

“Eh? Ah, of course I’ll help”

I sneaked a glance at Mina back at me with a complicated expression

“Oh……I, I understand! It’s just an act! But, I’ve no idea hoill end up coh!”

“Minami-chan, Akihisa-kun……Thank you”

Once she’s received Minaain

“It’s, it’s nothing, those tatao, and they’re still in good condition……I’ this for Mizuki, so don’t think about it too much……”

Himeji-san’s thanks htly away easily,Minami isn't really honest

“Since it’s decided, now let’s get to acting as a lovey-dovey couple, the three of you come and take these”

Hideyoshi+ handed to us three scripts that are stapled into booklets When I opened the booklet, all three of our na lines This must be……

“The script? You’ve already finished writing it? When did you finish it?”

“Most of the with me”

Even so, the period fro the war until Himeji-san and Minami returned to the classroom, was actually approximately five minutes, Hideyoshi+ could actually write down all the scripts in such a short time, what is his brain e into someone completely different as expected

“Take the scripts and try acting them at the roof floor Muttsurini, what is the condition of the listening bug that shi+mizu planted?”

“……I let her think that it was just a minor electrical disturbance just now, it’s back to normal now”

“Really? If so, other than acting, youelse If shi+mizu finds out about it, then it’s all over”

“Just wait for a while, we still haven’t read through the script, hoe act e still haven’t memorized the lines?”

“……Don’t worry, there’s a blind spot of the hidden camera at the roof floor, just read the script out loud”

Muttsurini took out a piece of paper, drew a simple plan of the roof floor, and marked the blind spot that he meant

“I see, if we can just read the script out loud, then we’ll have a way to deceive them Minami, don’t you think so?”

“That’s right, this saved me from a lot of trouble, but we still have to read the contents at least, I’…”

If, if there is then it’ll be a pain We newbies can’t act those kinds of scene

“Don’t worry, I didn’t write those kinds of scene Even if I did, you guys are going to act at the blind spot anyway, just do so out, we’ll have to act fast”

Under this kind of frustrating condition, Minami, Himeji-san and I were pushed out of the classroom by Hideyoshi+

“That……”

Do we really have to? Just when I was going to say that, I saw Hiesture Ah ah, I see, the corridor htly

Feeling frustrated, I could only walk the corridor quietly, getting ready to go to the roof floor There ht be hidden cameras somewhere near here, so we kept out scripts inside for safety purpose

Creek…

I pushed open the rusty door to the roof floor, this is the second time we come here today Next, I took out my script and winked to Minami, Minami then nodded back at me

When we opened the first page of the script, the lines for each of us ritten clearly inside

shi+mada : (Eh, Aki)

Akihisa : (Yea? Mina you need?)

shi+h it sees)

Akihisa : (Eh? By now, you don’t have to mention that matter on purpose…)

shi+h it’s true I can’t control s and went to kiss you—I should clear this up to you)

Akihisa : (Oh……En, I understand Then you s)

Staring at our lines, I feel as if all ofWhat is this script? Is this a punishame?

“……”

Minami as beside me was also frozen when she read the script Does she dare to say these lines?

“……Eh, Aki”

Oh oh! It has begun! Mina to help me If so, I must put in some effort too

“En? Mina you need?”

I read the script out loud It’s a lot easier if I can read the script and say it out loud

“Although it sees”

Itthat line Her s stayed this way, I doubt there’d be any problem