saiki

chapter 11

CHAPTER 11 – A FAILURE IN S CLASS (4)
Note: Some parts of this chapter may seem weird. They are your local jokes/puns which are difficult to translate unless you are familiar with the culture and have a more in-depth knowledge of the language. Since I don’t have both, I can only give a surface translation which might not make sense in that case. However, fortunately, it was all meaningless chatter that have no significance in the story.

When the sun went down in the evening. Hong Bi-yeon and I got ourselves a self-study room with no one else in it and sat at a desk in the center.

Those glaring eyes of hers were so burdensome that I felt like dying.

“…I’m not sure what you hope to learn by paying for the three placement test questions.”

“Everything has a reason; you just have to tell me what it is.”

Oh, I guess so.

“But you only got these three questions wrong. See? You’re smart. I got all the rest of the questions wrong. Aren’t you embarrassed to ask me?”

I was ranked 1,141 in the class rank, and she was a super-elite who shined at 5th rank.

“I’m not embarrassed. Rather, it’s even more embarrassing that I got the question wrong and haven’t found the answer yet. As long as I can find the answer, I can ask anyone a question.”

Oh… It sounds like a model student’s answer.

But I think you’re looking down on me…

“First of all… Let’s take a look.”

I put on my copper glasses and looked at the problem again.

Obviously, I didn’t know it when I just solved it, but looking at it again, it was a really absurd problem.

Oh my gosh. To put a magic question on the test with a nonsense question.

‘Okay, can I actually explain this properly?’

I was tempted by the word ‘reward,’ so I accidentally agreed, but I don’t know if it will work out.

I was at a loss. It was literally an impromptu test of creativity, so it was really hard to teach you how to solve it.

‘How do you actually teach this?’

But the seats had already been set up. If I withdrew from here, I might be bullied by Hong Bi-yeon until graduation. That would be pretty terrifying.

Furthermore.

‘…I wanted to receive the modification of the Terifon in return, and it would be a waste to give it up.’

I have to think about something. Thinking about the character Hong Bi-yeon, I asked her a question to pass time.

“Before I go into the explanation, let me ask you one thing. Why did you ask me?”

It’s not that she didn’t have friends, and she was still a princess, so if she asked anyone a question, there would be plenty of people who would readily answer it, right?

She twisted her hair for a moment, then said coolly, as if she thought there was nothing to fuss about.

“Out of the 1,141 freshmen, there are only three students, including you, who have answered all of the first 3 questions of the devil.”

“What….?”

What do you mean?

“I heard it was a ‘trap problem’ that was put out not to be solved… but Mayu-seong, Fuleim, and you solved it. That’s why I got a little bit of a headache.”