Classroom Of The Elite: I Am No Genius. (Year 1)

Vol 4 Ch 5: Form The Groups

Hirano pov:-

Upon arrival, the special exam will begin. Judging from how they
confiscated our cell phones, it appears this is a troublesome exam where
you’d have to either gather information yourself or utilize your personal
connections. For me, I went with the latter.

“We will be arriving at our destination soon. Immediately afterwards, we will
have you form groups indoors. And then afterwards, depending on whether or not you’ve finished partitioning your rooms, you’ll have lunch. Throughout
the afternoon you’ll all be free to do whatever you want."

After Sakagami sensei finished the roll call, we had a chance to look around.

Perhaps it’s because we’re in the mountains? It’s colder than it was when we had left the school. However, a spectacle unfolded before our eyes that almost made us forget the cold for a moment.

“Wow…what’s this place? This isn’t on the scale of a mere outdoors school……”

Before us lay a wide, open space that resembled the school grounds. And
behind that were two old-fashioned school buildings. In order to accomodate all three school years, their size was also considerable. It appears we’ll be spending a week here.

Fortunately, Soga, who was a Cadet, will be be incredibly useful in helping us out.

Boys and girls were then split up and we each headed over to the school
building. The boys to the larger one, which is what they call the main
building. Once we stepped inside the building, the somehow familiar scent of timber tickled our noses.

“It’s an old-fashioned wooden building. It seems to be several years old but it
looks pretty well maintained. It’s really beautiful.” Soga said so but it appears everyone else agrees with him as well.

Probably starting from tomorrow, we’ll have lessons in classrooms like that
one. We then passed by what appears to be a gymnasium. The boys from
Class A and Class B arrive and they looked in our direction. Afterwards,
Class D entered and next up would probably be the 2nd and 3rd years.

We were instructed to form a line, stand still and wait for further instructions.
Class A, and Class B too, appeared calm and did not chat amongst themselves.

I should assume Class B has already come up with some sort of strategy on the bus.

As for Class A, I had used my phone to contact Ichinose and set up a plan with her.

The plan me and Ichinose agreed upon was that most of the students from both of our classes will form groups together.

I had already instructed everyone in my class to corporate on this while we were on the bus.

The boys will be handled by Soga, Kanzaki and Me. While Ichinose and Hiyori would be incharge of the girls.

The boys from across all school years assembled in the gymnasium. Feeling
uncomfortable, the 1st years immediately assembled and awaited further instructions without making a fuss.

Not too long afterwards, someone who looked like the teacher of a different school year stood up on a stage with a microphone in hand and spoke to the students.

“I’ll assume you’ve all received prior explanation in the bus regarding the
contents of this exam and that you’ve digested it. As such, there will be no
further explanation of it here. Now then, we’ll be forming our small groups here so I’ll have you set aside time for this. Each school year will hold a
discussion in order to create six small groups. Furthermore, as for the
formation of the large groups, it’ll take place at 8 pm today. That’s all. This is
supplementary information but when it comes to partitioning the groups,
irrespective of size, the school will not interfere. And we will not act as
arbitrators either.”