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part 20

You're late, Kikyou. What, couldn't slip past your classmates?" asked Ryuuen.

"You two again?" Ibuki eyed Ryuuen.

"Are you absolutely sure that the two of you just team-up? No relationship or anything?" Kaneda added.

"What did you say?" Ryuuen glared at him.

"Nothing! Nothing at all!"

"What are you plotting, Ryuuen-kun?" Kushida demanded. She drew closer to Ryuuen on the isolated rooftop.

"Oh? They're not teaming up?" Ike asked confused.

Kushida inwardly groaned. "Why am I always making a deal with the devil?"

"Thank God you're not gonna do it this time around." Sato put an arm around her shoulders. "Right?" She asked for confirmation.

"Right." Kushida nodded.

"Huh?" said Ryuuen.

"The questions and answers you gave me were completely different than the ones on the exam."

"Oh nevermind." Ike said.

"You asked for a the test questionnaires and its answers?" Shibata asked.

"Why do you keep on asking me?" Kushida looked at him annoyed. "Do I look like I know the answer?"

"But I was asking the Kushida on the screen." He whined.

"And you expect her to answer you how?"

"Oh, yeah. I switched 'em out before the deadline. What about it?" Ryuuen snorted derisively, then took a sip of bottled water.

"I told you, didn't I? I will get Horikita expelled, no matter what. I betrayed my classmates and switched out our questions on the condition that you gave me the math test answers. If you kept your promise, Horikita would've dropped out of school. But you betrayed me," said Kushida.

"Turning traitor again, ey?" Ryuuen smirked.

"Hell bent on expelling her, I see." Sakayanagi said.

Sakayanagi eyed him, "Though, I'm quite curious why you switched out the questions."

"Clearly because he doesn't want to expell Horikita-san without playing with her first." Katsuragi said.

"What? You mad about something so trivial?"

"Trivial? You want to win against Class D and give us nothing in return?"

"You're mistaken, Kikyou. Your questions weren't used on the exam," replied Ryuuen.

"Huh? What are you even talking about? I turned them in right away, just as you instructed me to. I even confirmed everything with Chabashira-sensei."

"You really haven't noticed? Suzune acted ahead of time to stop the school from formally accepting your questions. Thanks to that, not only did we lose, we just barely avoided catastrophe. Everyone in my class depended on that strategy," said Ryuuen.

Huh, you instructed sensei to only accept the tests you'll submit?" Hirata said.

"It would seem so." Horikita said.

"That's smart." Yukimura nodded.

"I'm shock that sensei played along." Haruka admitted.

"She wants to graduate from Class A, even if it was through her students. After finding out that this year Class D have many promising students." Matsushita said.