White Bird Flying [Discontinued]

4. A Prey Has Fallen For The Trap

Kiyo POV

For third period, we had history class with Chabashira-sensei. When the bell rang, Chabashira-sensei walked into the classroom.

"Today's lesson will be a bit serious."

"What do you mean, Sae-chan-sensei?"

Ike and the two idiots already had a pet name for the teacher.

Out of Everyone in the Class they are the 3 who have been causing the most disturbance.

They'll probably be hated the most after the month ends.

"It's the end of the month, so we're going to have a short test. Please pass these to the back."

She handed out the papers to the students in the front row. Eventually, the single-sheet test reached my desk. It contained questions in the five main subjects. With only a few questions per subject, it really was short.

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{That's what she said....}

{Kiyo : "That's not what she said."}

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"Huh? I wasn't listening, though. This is so unfair!" a student cried.

Even though they acted as if they were paying attention, most of my classmates didn't actually pay attention to what the teacher's teaching and just wandered in their thoughts.

I won't be surprised if some of them managed to fail the test.

"Don't say that. This test is just for future reference. It won't be reflected in your report cards. There is no risk involved, so don't worry. Of course, cheating is prohibited."

Her phrasing struck me as odd. Normally, only general grades were reflected in your report card. But the way Chabashira-sensei said they wouldn't be reflected in our report cards made me think that the grade could be reflected in some other way.

As soon as the pop quiz began, I scanned the questions. There were four questions per subject, for a total of twenty. Each question was worth five points, for a total of one hundred points. Most of the questions were extraordinarily easy, to the point where it was almost a letdown.

In fact, the questions seemed to be about two levels less difficult than the ones on the entrance examination. It appeared far too easy. However, just as I thought that, I reached the end of the test. The final three questions were an order of magnitude higher in terms of difficulty. The final math problem couldn't be solved without complex formulae.

I doubt that any of my classmates would be able to ace the test.

 Well I don't really know them that well so they might surprise me.

"No way. These questions are seriously way too hard..."

These questions couldn't be geared toward a first-year high school student. The final three questions were clearly of a different quality than the others, so it was possible they'd been put on the test by mistake. Even though the results wouldn't be reflected in our grades, what in the hell were they evaluating with this?

I decided to not think about it too much and began answering the test.

Chabashira-sensei monitored us. As she slowly patrolled the classroom, she kept a watchful eye to dissuade us from cheating. I quickly glanced at Horikita, who would never even think of cheating. Her pen danced across the paper as she filled in all of the answers.