AN Can you tell me how can I fix the gap between phrases and sentences problem?
Beep! Beep! Beep!
"Yawn!"
I woke up exactly at 5:00 o'clock in the morning just as usual. Washed my face, brushed my teeth,etc. Then did some light exercise which I prefer to do. Like plank, push up, squat, sit up, etc. and all. Then I did some lap around the school ground. Then I revised few study materials ranging from highschool to university level.
After that I made breakfast and also prepared my bento. It is a common dish from my old country. Named Chatpate. In this dish we mix puffed rice, crushed noodles, mixture of veggies like onion, tomato, coriander, cabbage, boiled potato, etc., various spices, lemon and chillies according to taste and oil too. But I won't mix it now, I will do it later in lunch time and enjoy it cuz it won't taste good if I do it now. But I doubt there will be a good atmosphere in class to enjoy it.
After finishing my breakfast. I went towards the class. Oh I forgot the most important thing. Let's check it.
"Hmm. It's so-so I guess."
The total points that increased or I got for this month I mean. Well I guess it's good that it didn't dropped to zero. Then I entered my class. As expected the atmosphere was not good. All of them were confused. While some were already aware of the situation at somewhat level by connecting the dots after listening to my theory from Hirata. After I reached the class I went towards my seat and waited for the bell for the first period to ring.
During the time period I could hear murmurs like:-
"Hey did you get all of your points?"
"Nope."
"Me too."
"Maybe they forget to do it."
and all. After a few time time the bell for the first period rang. And Chabashira-sensei strode into the room, holding a rolled-up poster. Her expression today was even more stern than usual. Oh! I remembered the joke Ayanokouji and Ike thought of. Ike my child please don't do it.
"Hey, sensei, did you start menopause or something?"
You had to went ahead and do it, huh? Anyways let's see what she has to say ignoring Ike's sexual harassment.
"All right, your morning homeroom is about to begin. Before we get started, does anyone have any questions? If so, now is the time to speak."
She appeared totally convinced that the students had questions they wanted answered. Immediately, several students raised their hands.
"Um, I checked my point balance this morning but it wasn't fully deposited. Did the school had any problems? I mean the points are deposited on the first day of every month, right?"
"Hondou, I already explained this before, didn't I? Points are deposited on the first day of the month. I've confirmed that points were wired this month without any issues."
"But, I didn't got full points."
"It's unfortunate I cannot bring popcorns."in thought.
"Yeah, this has to be some mistake, right?"
"Are you kids really that dumb?"
"Dumb? What?"
As Hondou stupidly repeated her words, Chabashira-sensei looked at him sharply.
"Sit down, Hondou. I'll explain once more," she said.
"S-Sae-chan-sensei?"
Hondou, taken aback by her unusually strict tone, slumped in his seat.
"Points were deposited. That much I know for certain. There is absolutely no chance that we forgot about anyone in this class. To think so is
ludicrous. Understood?"
"Well even if you tell that, we didn't received even half of the total points."
"Ha ha ha! I see. So, it's like that then, teacher? I think I've solved the mystery," Kouenji boomed, laughing.
He propped his feet up on his desk and smugly pointed toward Hondou.
"It's simple. We're in Class D, so we didn't received more than half of the points."
Half correct.
"Huh? What are you talking about? They said that we'd get 100,000 points every month—"
"I don't remember hearing that, though. Do you?" Chuckling, Kouenji boldly pointed at Chiyabashira-sensei.
"While he certainly has an attitude problem, Kouenji is exactly right. For crying out loud, barely anyone seems to have noticed the hint I gave you.
How deplorable."
In response to this sudden turn of events, the classroom exploded in an uproar.
"So, Hirata-kun was right, huh?"
"I wish I no all of us had taken him seriously, then the situation shouldn't have been this bad"
Hearing that sensei became a little surprised or happy? Perhaps both I guess.
"Sensei, may I please ask you a question?
"Go ahead."
"Is it because we didn't act like a proper highschool student in the class?"
"Since you know that much, I guess there would be no problem telling you about one of the reasons."
No! you would tell even if we didn't knew about it.
"So then can you please tell us? We won't completely understand otherwise."
That was certainly true.
"A total of fifty-eight absences and late arrivals. One hundred and one incidences of talking or using a cell phone in class. That is quite a
few infractions over one month. In this school, your class's results are reflected in the points that you receive. As a result, you wasted more than half of the 100,000 points that you should have received. That's what happened."
"I should have explained this all to you on the day of the entrance ceremony. This school measures its students' true abilities. This time, you were evaluated as being worth how much you got. That's all."
Chabashira-sensei spoke in a robotic fashion, devoid of any emotion. Even though we'd started with the huge advantage of 100,000 points, Class D had lost more than half of it in just a single month.
"But I never heard this." Yamagod said crushing his juice.
I heard a pencil moving against paper. Horikita seemed to be tallying the number of absences, tardy arrivals, and instances of talking in class down in her notebook, perhaps trying to make sense of the situation.
"Chabashira-sensei. I do not recall hearing you explain that to us before—"
"What? Are you incapable of understanding something unless it's explained in detail?"
"Of course. There was never any talk about reducing our points. But sensei if we would have known about it before we could have act accordingly."
"That's a rather bizarre argument Hirata.It is certainly true that I don't recall explaining the rules of point distribution. However, didn't you all learn in elementary school not to be late or talk in class?Was that not taught throughout your elementary and junior high schools?"
"Well, that's—"
"I'm sure that in nine years of compulsory education, you learned that being late and talking in class are bad things. And now you say that you can't understand this because I haven't explained it to you? I'm afraid your reasoning is flimsy. If you had simply acted properly, then your points would
not have dropped all the way to this low. Besides, you seemed to knew about S-system a little bit. So I believe this comes down to you taking personal responsibility for this mess, don't you think so?"
"Y-Yes that's correct."
There was no way for anyone to refute her perfectly sound argument. Everyone knew that bad behavior didn't pay.
"Did you really think you would get 100,000 points every months throughout the year, no three years of your highschool life, without any strings attached? Try using your common sense. A normal allowance for any highschool student would be near 5000 to 7000 yen, that also if you come from a little rich family. Do you really think by spoiling some brats they could be produced to trained gifted people in an school established by the government with the aim to do so? That's unthinkable."
Although Hirata appeared to be frustrated, he looked the teacher straight in the eye. "Well then, could you at least explain in detail how points are added or deducted? We can keep that in mind for future reference."
"I cannot tell you. We cannot disclose the methods behind our student evaluation. It's the same as any other organization. When you enter a company, it is the company's choice whether or not to tell you how it evaluates its employees. However, I'm not cruel, and I'm not trying to be cold. In fact, this situation is so pathetic that I will give you one bit of guidance."
For the first time, I saw a faint sliver of a smile on Chabashira- sensei's lips.
"Remember my words from the first day about the school or rather the introduction to the rules about this school. Use that information well then you will be able to advance classes."
"What? Advance classes?"
"Oh! I hadn't told you about it yet, did I? Well, it's about time that we switch to our main topic."
From the tube she carried, she removed a white rolled-up poster and spread it out. She stuck the poster to the blackboard with some magnets. The
still-confused students stared blankly at the poster.
"Are these…the results for each class?"
Horikita tentatively took a guess. She was probably right. Class A through Class D were listed. To the side was a row of numbers that went up to a maximum of four digits. Those were as follows :-
Class A 940
Class B 650
Class C 490
Class D 130
"We got 13000 points this month. Which means the total number of points we get is multiplied by 100 to that number. Which means the total points we had at first would be 1000." I said. If I kept quiet during an important time my social standing would certainly go down or people may think I already knew about this situation since I already asked a question concerning S-system in the first day itself.
"Good deduction Ayanokouji. These points are CP.
Class points. While the points you guys use are called private points. PP. And they are given to you just like he deduced."
"Sensei you just said something about advancing classes right? Can you please explain that part?"
"I was gonna do it right now. So coming to this school means that you must have already chosen an university or future workplace for your future. But unfortunately nothing comes that easily in this world."
Everyone of us nodded.Then.
"Huuuhhh!?"
"Sensei does that mean we must atmost be the top 3 class to get privilege?" This time one unexpected person asked the question instead of Hirata. I wonder did butterfly effect already started?
"No, you must surpass class A or be class A at most. There is no hope for others."
"What?"
Those who had dreamt of many luxurious jobs or lifestyle their dreams were immediately crushed.
"Do you finally understand now? Do you see why you were placed in Class D?"
"The reason why we were placed in Class D? Weren't we simply accepted into this school?"
"Huh? But classes are normally divided up like this, right?"
Students exchanged glances.
"In this school, students are sorted by their level of excellence. The superior students are sorted into Class A, the least capable in Class D. It's the same system you'd find in the major cram schools. In other words, Class D is akin to the last bastion for failures. You are the worst of the worst. You're
defective. This is just the result of you being defective."
"But without much points how can we survive plus all the other class would surely make fun of us?"
False. Not all. Class B won't make fun of us.
"Don't worry you still have dorms to live and free food and also free items three times a month. You won't die."
"By the way, I have one more piece of bad news for you guys."
She then put another chart with the same process as before.
"I see that we have quite a huge amount of idiots in our class. Come on, what the hell did you guys learn during middle school?"
With the exception of a few high scores, almost everyone tested below a sixty. Even if you ignored Sudou's wonderful score of fourteen points, there
was Ike, scoring a little above him at twenty-four points. The average score was sixty-five.
"I'm so glad. If this were an actual test, then seven of you would've been expelled."
"E-Expell? What do you mean?"
"Oh, what, did I not explain this to you? If you fail on a midterm or final exam in this school, then you have to drop out. If we applied that rule to this test, anyone who scored below thirty-two points would be out. You guys really are stupid, aren't you?"
No you didn't. You should stop it.
"Wh-what?!" wailed Ike and the other failures.
There was a red line drawn on the paper, separating the seven people in question from the rest of the class. Among those seven people, Kikuchi had scored highest, with thirty-one points. Anyone with a score equal to or lower than Kikuchi's had failed.
"Hey, don't jerk us around, Sae-chan-sensei! Don't joke about kicking us out!"
"Frankly, I'm also at a loss," the teacher said. "These are the school rules. You should prepare for the worst."
"The teacher's right. There do seem to be a lot of morons here."
Kouenji wore a smug grin while he polished his nails, his legs propped on the desk.
"What the hell, Kouenji? You scored below the red line, too!"
"Pah. Where exactly are you looking, boy? Look again."
"Huh? Kouenji is…huh?"
Starting from the bottom of the page, Sudou scanned upward, and there he found Kouenji Rokosuke's name. Unbelievably, Kouenji had tied for the top spot, scoring ninety points. That meant he'd been able to solve one of those super difficult problems.
After that Yukimura argued that he shouldn't be in class D. And Koenji being him countered it back. And it went on.And Kushida helped to calm down the situation like in the light novel. At this moment it was not important. The most important thing was what excuse should I give. After a few moments I thought of a reliable one. Then I waited for a certain moment. My one of the favourite iconic moments were about to happen from now on for the volume one of light novel. Oh I can't wait. Really I wanna say.
Waku! Waku!
AN So sorry guys the chapter came late. Cuz yesterday I had took medicine for elephantiasis.So due to it's side effects I slept the whole day after coming from school. Even without the side effects I was already suffering from headache before and am currently taking medicines for it. If you like it do consider giving it a vote.Anyways this is chapter 8 the revelation of S-system. If possible I will post the next chapter today, only if I get enough time.