Classroom of the Elite (Ayanokoji Kiyone)

Volume 4 : Doubt

Ayanokoji Kiyone POV

We walked together in hall way

Kiyone : "Nee~ Yukimura-kun, did you notice Karuizawa-san was acting strange?"

Yukimura only made a strange face towards me in return. 

Yukimura : "What are you talking about? She's always strange"

A straightforward response, but that's not what I wanted to hear, it's just my intuition but there was something definitely off about Karuizawa's behaviour. Sotomura didn't seem like he noticed a thing. I switched on my phone which I had turned off when entering the room and there were messages from Sakura. I checked the contents and it seems she wants to meet me if I have time.

Kiyone : "Ano....I've made some promised with my friend so I can't accompanied you. Sorry Yukimura-kun, Sotomura-kun"

Yukimura : "That's fine, at this early stage I can't even find a way to make any plans yet either"

I bowed to them before leave

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On the way 

I was just thinking about contacting Hirata and Horikita to ask how their meetings went, but I might be able to gather more information from Sakura as well. 

Kiyone : "Hmm...Where should we meet?"

I think for now, the same meeting place as yesterday should do fine

When I mailed that to Sakura, I instantly received a reply.

Immediately I saw at the direction which written on the mail

Kiyone : "You should have told me if you already here"

Sakura : "It just small prank anyway. Fufufu~"

There will certainly be crowds of students at this moment but if we ignore them they surely won't pay any attention to us as well. Since the first group discussion had just ended, a furious crowd of students awaited me at the elevator.

Since only ten people can ride the elevator at one time, it would be more time efficient to use the stairs, I thought.

Sakura : "It's getting a little crowded, let's head towards the ship's bow"

Kiyone : "Ah...Okay. It looks like you can't handle a crowd".

Then we changed directions and started heading towards the bow. It is a ship filled with all sorts of facilities built for luxury, but the bow gives a wide view of the sea from the deck. As such, at the current time, there were few students there. In fact, it seems there's nobody there right now giving me monopoly over the whole area.

Kiyone : "So? Do you noted it?"

Sakura : "Of course, here"

She then pushed a piece of paper towards me, and when I took it from her and looked it over it contained a list of names.

Class A: Sawada Yasumi, Shimizu Naoki, Nishi Haruka, Yoshida Kenta

Class B: Kobayashi Yume, Ninomiya Yui, Watanabe Kihito

Class C: Yuuki Yuuya, Nomura Yuuji, Yajima Mariko

Class D: Ike Kanji, Sakura Airi, Sudou Ken, Matsushita Chiaki

It seems Sakura belongs to the (Cow) group. It seems things are also intense in this group. The males in the group are Sudou and Ike, men who wouldn't sympathize with Sakura's plight. And in this exam, one is forced to spend time with fellow group members from the same class no matter what. If I'm in the same group as her, I could help her out but as it stands, there's not much I can do right now.