COTE: The Mad Demon

Chapter 9 - Bet

Ayanokouji POV

The school lesson for today ended without a hitch. But that doesn't mean that our current predicament is resolved as our class points became zero. If we can't solve this earlier, we have no choice but to resort on using free items in the convinience store and free meals in the cafeteria.

After the teacher exits from the classroom, a boy named Hirata stood up and approaches the teacher's podium.

He then garners the attention of everyone, "Guys, before you all leave, can you please listen to me for a moment?" he asked.

As all the students focused their attention to him, he continued, "I know that our situation became unfavorable for all of us. Not only that our points was reduced to zero, but also our gap between the other classes, especially class A, widens".

After his statement, most of the students exudes a gloomy atmosphere after sensei's revelation. Now that their peaceful student life became nothing but a fleeting dream, they became more depressed, especially the students below the red mark, because they will be expelled if the test was real last week.

"But fear not everyone. We will overcome this if we all work together. And to those who are placed below the red line, I decided that we must form a study group so that we can at least avoid avoid your expulsion" Hirata solaced.

Because of Hirata's contingency plan, students who are below the red mark sighed in relief.

And meanwhile...

-Scrape!

Okuma stood up from his seat, causing his chair to release a scraping sound. He then walk towards the exit of the classroom.

As Okuma walks out from the classroom, Hirata hastily called for him, "Wait, Okuma-kun! Please don't go yet!" he pleaded.

Immediately after, he suddenly halted his steps and turned around to look at Hirata and asked, "And why is that?"

"Because I think that you and Sudou requires great assistance for the upcoming midterms exam. So please stay here for a moment as we are still planning for your study group-".

However, he was interrupted by Okuma, "Your effort isn't needed, Hirata. Although, I'm grateful, you should focus on students who really need studying" he said as he glanced to Sudou.

Okuma then immediately head towards the exit. Even though Hirata is still calling out to him, he still continued to ignore him.

"Hah! Look at him. He was a pussy. I guess what he's saying are just empty words" someone ridiculed.

At this remark, Okuma halted his steps and searched for the perpetrator. After he pinpoints him, he approached him until he was near him.

"Care to say it again?".

"I-I mean what I s-said. You're a p-pussy" he said while stuttering.

"Oh? Aren't you also one of the students who were placed below the red line?".

"Hah, I mean at least my score is higher than you. The difference between us are just like heaven and earth" he smirked. He even used the line he used against Sudou. But it seems that he didn't mind it even for a bit.

"What's your name?" Okuma asked.

"H-huh?" he said in confusion.

"I said what's your name? Or should I just call you ugly?" he said.

After his provocation, his face became beet red while his veins where protruding around his temple.

"Y-you! Fine! My name is Yamauchi Haruki. Don't ever forget that!".
he shouted angrily.