COTE: A demon among angels.

Part 4: "Welcome to the Class of Excellence"

After Kanzaki's words, Amikura and Watanabe stopped being distracted in class and began to listen carefully to the teacher. I continued to keep an eye on the class from time to time, because if someone is going to do this nonsense again, then I will have to talk to him personally. But fortunately, nothing like that happened and I didn't have to interfere.

A few days before the end of our first month at the new school, we sat in our classroom and waited for our sensei. Our lesson will be a chemistry lesson, and, as luck would have it, our teacher is our sensei.

Entering the classroom with her cheerful smile, she greeted the whole class. I wonder if she's just smiling at us like that, or everyone in a row?

— Hello, my dears. Since the end of the month is approaching, today we will conduct a trial test. But don't worry, it won't affect your grades in any way.

Putting the task sheets on the first desks, she asked to pass them to the last desks.

When the tasks reached me, I immediately looked through the task sheets. There were twenty of them in total, four for each subject, and for each correct answer the student was awarded five points. That is, by answering everything correctly, you can score a hundred points.

Looking at the class again, I noticed that almost all of my classmates were clearly unhappy with these questions. Ichinose and Kanzaki looked more or less better than the others, but still they also looked in a predicament.

When the test started, I turned the pen in my fingers and began to solve the tasks. If I had finished the assignments faster than the others, I most likely could have left the classroom and returned to the dorm. But I didn't have any plans for today, so I decided to stall until the call.

I noticed sensei's fleeting glances at me. She seems to expect a lot from me.

Walking slowly through the rows and making sure that no one was cheating, she suddenly stopped next to me.

— Oh~. Do you have a problem with history, Kiyotaka-kun? Do you want me to help you?

Putting her palm on my head, she asked.

- No, you don't need to.

To stall for time, I decided to pretend that I was thinking about the question. Noticing this, she decided that I was having difficulties, and therefore offered to help.

— All right. I won't distract you.

She said, finally removing her hand and moving away from me.

When the bell rang, everyone immediately began to hand in their forms. After quickly finishing everything to the end, I also hurried to hand it over.

While everyone was discussing the test questions, I calmly packed my things and hurried away.

Part 2.

Today is finally the first of May, and our first month at the new school has come to an end. But, unlike the previous month, there have been some changes. Today 92,000 points came to our account, not 100,000, as in the beginning. Since last time I have 71,000 points left, and now I have a total of 163,000 points.

Because of this, some questions began to arise in the classroom, but there were no complaints in principle.

— It looks like you were right, and how many points we get depends on our behavior.

Kanzaki said, turning to me.

— It's not a fact that it depends only on our behavior. Perhaps there is something else.