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Baka to Tesuto to Syokanju:Volume1 The Final Question

2009-09-23T11:14:09Z

Andisan: New page: ===The Final Question=== '''Question: Please fill in the correct year in ( )''' In year ( ), Christian was first introduce in Japan. '''Kirishima Shouko’s Answer:''' “1549”...

===The Final Question===

'''Question: Please fill in the correct year in ( )'''

In year ( ), Christian was first introduce in Japan.

'''Kirishima Shouko’s Answer:'''

“1549”

'''Teacher’s Comment:'''

Correct answer, nothing to comment in particular.

'''Sakamoto Yuuji’s Answer:'''

“In the snowing season filled with pure white snow, I hold your cold and shivering hands in 1993.”

'''Teacher’s Comment:'''

No matter how romantic you make your answer looks, wrong answer is still wrong answer.

“3 VS 2, Class A wins.”

This is the first sentence Takahashi sensei said to us when we step into video classroom.

Yeah, I know, we lose. We were defeated without any doubt.

“Yuuji, I won.”

Kirishima walks towards Yuuji, who is kneeling on the ground.

“Kill me!”

“Good that you are prepared! I will kill you! Hold your breath and die!”

“Yoshii, please calm down!”

Himeji holds me from the back.

“This idiot score fifty three! If he scores zero, maybe it is because he forgot to write his name! The score like this…..”

“This is the best I can do.”

“You are a big idiot!”

“Aki, calm down! You can’t even score more than thirty right?”

“I can’t deny that.”

“Then you have no right to blame Sakamoto!”

“Damn! Himeji and Minami, why are you stopping me! I must cut his throat open as punishment!”

“That is not called punishment, it is execution!”

Himeji tries her best to stop me.

Damn! Idiot Yuuji, your life is saved by Himeji’s gentleness.

“However, it is really dangerous! If Yuuji didn’t underestimate the difficulty of primary school questions, I might lose in this duel.”

“I have no excuse to say.”

Exactly as the enemy expected?

“By the way, our promise….”

Ah.

This reminds me that we promise with Class A to do one thing for the winner.

“…….(Taking photos)”

This is what you expect from Silent Pervert, he is fully prepared!

I can’t just stand here and do nothing. I must help him taking pictures.

“I know, tell me what you want!”

Yuuji simply answers her. Are you trying to act cool? You are not the person who is in trouble now!

“Then----”

Kirishima glances at Himeji, and moves her focus back to Yuuji.

After she takes a small breath, she said: “Yuuji, go out with me.”

She said it.

What?

“I just knew it. Can’t you give up already?”

“I will never give up, I always like Yuuji.”

Eh? Eh? What is going on now?

What happened?

Why does Kirishima want to date with Yuuji? Doesn’t she like only girls?

“I have refused you a lot of times already right? Don’t you want to try dating with other guy?”

“I only have Yuuji in my heart, I am not interested in any one else.”

That means---- the rumours about Kirishima not interested in opposite sex, it’s because she loves only Yuuji? She is interested with Himeji, only because she is alerted with the females close to Yuuji?

“Where is my right to reject?”

“None. This is promise, we will go dating now.”

“Ah! Let me go! Let’s forget about the promise----”

(Powerful grab, dragging sound)

Kirishima holds the back of the Yuuji’s shirt and drags him out of the classroom.

“……”

“……”

“……”

The classroom is dead silence.

What happens just now is just out of everyone’s imagination, none of us can say anything.

“Then, everyone in Class F, the game time has ended.”

A wild roar is transmitted into our ears while we are in total shock.

We turn our back to look for the source of the sound, and see the teacher from Office of the dean of students, Nishimura sensei (Iron Man).

“Huh? Nishimura sensei, do you have some business with us?”

“Yes, I am preparing to explain the tuition for Class F.”

Eh? We, Class F?

“Congratulation! Because you lost this war, the homeroom teacher changed from Fukuhara sensei to me. In the following year, you guys have the chance to study like mad.”

“What?!”

All the males in our class scream a pitiful yell.

Iron Man had another title, ‘Demonic Teacher’, simply because he is very strict with the result of the students. Also he is in charge of the tuition room management in this war.

“Listen up, you guys perform very well in this war. To tell the truth, I never expected Class F to achieve so much. However, even if ‘result doesn’t mean everything’, it is still a powerful weapon in your life. Even if result is not the most important thing in life, it doesn’t mean we should not put effort into it!”

Damn! If Yuuji was as smart as a primary school student, we would never need to listen to the reasoning from Iron man! He was called the ‘Whiz kid’, but a person who normally just slack off could never win in a subject that required memorizing. Yuuji you big idiot!

“Yoshii, I will give special supervision to you and Sakamoto, because both of you are the first ever ‘Kansatsu Shobunsha’ and A-class war criminal for this school.”

“I won’t just let you have your way! No matter what, I will try to hide from your supervision, and have the same relaxing school life!”

“…… won’t you want to regret for what you have done?”

Iron Man sighs. It seems that he is shocked by how slacked I am.

However, I actually want to start studying, just a little bit.

“Anyway from tomorrow onwards, besides the normal teaching, I will give all of you an extra two hour after school lecture.”

This is because we are going to have another war three months later, so that we can escape from Iron Man.

Good! This is the first time in my life I am enthusiastic in studying, so let me start studying hard now!

Just when I am full of energy, Minami quietly walk sto me and said:

“Aki, since the after school lecture starts from tomorrow, today we should go to have the crepes in the coffee shop that you have promised me last time.”

“What? Minami, isn’t that something to do in weekend?”

Could it be that she wants me to give her a treat twice in a week? Then before the next living expense was mailed to me, I can only drink salted water!

“N..No! Yoshii needs to watch movie with me!”

“Eh? Himeji, we never even discuss about this right?”

Even Himeji does this to me? What is going on? Although it feels good, it also means I don’t even have the money to drink salted water! I will definitely die if I can’t think of something to get out of this!

“Ni..Nishimura sensei! Tomorrow is too late, let’s have the tuition today! There is an ancient saying that ‘smiths the iron while it is cold’ right?”

“it is ‘while it is hot’, idiot!”

“That is not important!”

“Hmmm, watching you to be so enthusiastic, I am very happy----”

Iron Man suddenly stops speaking, looking at Minami, Himeji and I.

“However don’t overwork yourself, just go have fun today!”

Iron Man’s face is filled with evil smile while he is saying those unreasonable words.

“Damn you Iron Man! You knew I am in crisis now and you give me more trouble instead of helping me! In the graduation ceremony I will bring a baseball bat full of nails and wait for you under the legendary tree!”

“This is a rather innovative way of expressing love!”

I am going to release all the hatred that I have accumulated from past.

“Aki! You can’t get away from this by trying to act you are working hard!”

“N..No! I really wanted to study!”

“Yoshii! Watch the movie with me first!

“Himeji, do you actually like me instead of Yuuji?”

“Sakamoto? What are you talking about? Since a long time ago for Yoshii I----”

“Aki! Just come with me!”

“Wah! Minami, the head is a vital part of human body, please be gentle to it----”

The result of this Test Summoning War for me is developing a small enthusiastic motivation towards studying and greatly reducing my living expense. Although I didn’t reach my target, the ending like this is not bad as well!

Anyway, there is something I am very totally sure. That is----

“Hey, take me to have crepe now!”

“G…Go to watch movie with me!”

“No, no, no! My living expense! My nutrition! ”

My main food will be the tap water in the public park, that’s all.

Baka to Tesuto to Syokanju:Volume1 The Ninth Question

2009-09-23T10:37:36Z

Andisan:

===The Ninth Question===

'''Please answer the following question:'''

Please list the five basic nutrition which is required to maintain human life.

'''Himeji Mizuki’s Answer:'''

“1. Fats 2. Carbohydrates 3.Proteins 4.Vitamins 5.Minerals”

'''Teacher’s Comment:'''

Exactly what we expect from Himeji, well done!

'''Yoshii Akihisa’s Answer:'''

“1. Sugar 2. Salt 3. Tap water 4. Rain water 5. Spring water"

'''Teacher’s Comment:'''

Aren’t you the only one who can survive with these?

'''Tsuchiya Kouta’s Answer:'''

“It is called menarche, the first period since the female was born. In medical term, this period is called the menstrual period. Menarche is closely related to the age and weight factors. It usually appears when the female’s body weight reached 43 kg, but the age factor would differ between each individual. In Japan, the average age is 12 years old. There are other factors beside weight, such as race, weather and social environment that will affect the time that menarche occurs...”

“Menarche may occur before the female was ten years old, which is termed isolated premature menarche. Besides that, menarche that occurred after fifteen years old is called delayed menstruation. Also, if the menarche never occurred until eighteen years old is called primary amenorrhea……”

'''Teacher’s Comment:'''

I am sorry to inform you that the health education examination had ended an hour ago.

After that, I went to the teachers’ office to accept the personal teaching from them. Then I went home with a very tired body and fell asleep as soon as I fell onto my bed. I was totally fatigued and dropped into the dream land like a piece of torn cloth.

We had a meeting after the exam for replenishing the score in the next morning.

It was the final tactical meeting before facing our last opponent, Class A, and said goodbye to the Class F classroom.

“First of all I would like to thank everybody who helps Class F make it this far. I am really grateful for all the help you guys offered. ”

“Yuu…Yuuji, what’s wrong with you? It is so unlike you to say something like that!”

“Yeah, I think so too, but these words come from the bottom of my heart.”

I am touched by the words he said. Who can ever imagine us, the Class F students, can achieve so much in this war….

“Since we are already here, we will do everything to win the war against Class A. We will prove to the teachers together, that exam result is not everything, OK?”

“YEAH---”

“THAT’S RIGHT-----”

“There is more to life than studying!”

Before the last fight, I can feel that our hearts are joined together as one.

“Thank you very much. About the fight with Class A, I plan to challenge them to dueling.”

I am not so surprise because I have heard of it just before the meeting. However those who had heard it for the first time seems to be a bit shocked and the room are filled with uneasiness.

“What does that mean?”

“Who will represent us in the dueling?”

“Are you sure we could win this?”

“Calm down every one! I am going to explain my plan now.”

Yuuji slammed the table to calm everyone down.

“The person who will be dueling, of course will be me and Kirishima Shouko”

Class A class leader is Kirishima Shouko and Class F class leader is Sakamoto Yuuji. If someone needed to be chosen to represent the class in a duel, it would definitely be the class leader.

I can understand everything up until here.

However I couldn’t understand what Yuuji would do to win in the duel.

The enemy is Kirishima, not only she is the head of student union, her result is also so much better than Himeji, who is already too good for Class B students. Although this sounds really bad, but----

“Idiot Yuuji can never win against--- WAH!”

A Stanley knife suddenly flies pass my cheek. Damn you Yuuji, are you planning to kill me?

I don’t think he is that cruel. No matter how bad Yuuji is, he won’t purposely consider about killing his friends…

“Next time the target will be your ear.”

It seems that I am not Yuuji’s friend.

“But just as Akihisa said, Shouko is much stronger. If I directly challenge her, I might not stand a chance to win.”

Since you admit you can’t win, there is no need to throw that Stanley knife towards me right?

“However wouldn’t it be the same as our fight against Class D and Class B? We will definitely lose if we fight with them head on.”

But we continue to win until now.

“This time it will be the same. I shall defeat Shouko and Class F will get Class A’s classroom. It will not change the result that the victory will belong to us. ”

Yuuji leads us to win the Test Summoning War that we thought we could never win, so although it still doesn’t sound very convincing, there is no one in the class who will disagree with his idea now.

“Leave everything to me! I shall let everyone see the power of the former ‘Whiz Kid’.”

“OHHHH----”

It seems that there is no need to ask the opinion from everyone. We all have faith in Yuuji.

“Now, let me explain the tactic in detail….. I plan to challenge her within limited scope.”

“Limited scope? Which subject do you want to pick?”

“Japanese History.”

Japanese History? Even if Kirishima is not very good in Japanese History, I never heard of Yuuji being very good in Japanese History. Why did he want to pick Japanese History?

“However I would like to limit the scope of the examination. The difficulty will be at the primary school level and the maximum score will be one hundred. Syokanjus will not be used and the result will just depend on the score in the examination.”

A primary school level exam with maximum score of one hundred?

Under this condition, it will be generally assumed that both of them will be scoring one hundred and the person who makes the first mistake will lose. In that case, the challenge will be how focused they are. It seems there is more chance for us to win this compared to fighting directly.

“However if both of you have the same scores, you will get new questions right? In that case the difficulty of the questions might increase. Isn’t this a disadvantage for Yuuji, who has stopped studying for a period of time?”

“Yeah, Akihisa is right.”

Although it seems like we have a chance on winning in this plan, this is also a dangerous gamble. And the key person in this plan will be Yuuji?

“Hey, don’t underestimate me. In any case, a tactic that purely counts on luck is not a tactic at all.”

“What? Yuuji you know how to make Kirishima loses focus in the exam?”

“No. I don’t think that girl will be defeated by primary school level questions just because of her losing focus.”

That’s right. Besides that, the techniques that could be used in a supervised exam can never affect Kirishima. Then what can he do to win?

“Yuuji, stop hiding the plan from us! It is about time to let us know what your trump card is!”

Everyone in the class nodded after Hideyoshi spoken.

“Ah, Sorry. The opening speech is longer than I expected.”

Yuuji shakes his head, and starts talking again.

“There is only one reason that made me choose this duel. That is because I know that girl will definitely answer one question incorrectly.”

One question? Which question is it?

“That question is ---- ‘Taika Reform’.”

“Taika Reform? Is it the sort of question asking when did who did what? Will these sorts of primary school student level questions come out in the examination?”

Although I don’t think the school will prepare that sort of questions for the students here, but the school which aims for encouraging students to further their studies might have questions like that.

“No, not such a detailed question. It is a much simpler one.”

“You mentioned simple, could it be asking about the year?”

“Oh Hideyoshi, BINGO! It is just like what you said, if the question about the year came out, it would be our victory.”

In what year did Taika Reform happen? Such elementary question, will that smart Shouko answer incorrectly? Even I know that ‘Nightingale cried. Taika Reform’[http://www.baka-tsuki.net/project/index.php?title=Baka_to_Tesuto_to_Syokanju:Volume1_Translator%27s_Notes#Question_9], even I can remember the year using this sentence!

“Taika Reform happened in year 645. This question is so easy even Akihisa could get it right.”

Please……Don’t……Look at me……

“However Shouko will definitely answer this question incorrectly and the victory will belong to us. At that time we could say goodbye to this lousy classroom as we planned.”

Come to think of it, there is something that I am curious about for a long time---

“Errr----Sakamoto.”

“Eh? What’s wrong, Himeji?”

“Do you know Kirishima….very well?”

That’s right. Yuuji had been using ‘that girl’ or ‘Shouko’ to call Kirishima. If they don’t know each other very well, he won’t use such word to call her.

It couldn’t be, that this guy in front of me…. Not only Himeji likes him, even Kirishima who is smart and pretty can’t escape from him?

“Yeah, she is my childhood friend.”

“Everyone, GO!”

“What? Why does everyone follow Akihisa’s order and hold their slippers on their hands?”

“Shut up, you are the enemy of men! We shall use you as a sacrifice before we defeat Class A!”

“What did I do wrong?”

There is no need to trade words. All men in the class reach the same agreement. I am blessed to be able to study in such a united class.

“Is this your last words? Wait, Sugawa, it is too early to take off your socks. We shall put that forbidden weapon into his mouth after we subdue him.”

“Understood!”

Enemy of men, enjoy forty seven pairs of high school male students’ smelly socks!

“Err, Yoshii.”

“Eh? What’s up, Himeji?”

“Does Yoshii like Kirishima?”

“Ah, so so! She is a very pretty girl!”

“Eh? Himeji, why are you preparing to attack me? And Minami, why are you holding the teacher's table and aiming at me?”

“Everybody calm down!”

Hideyoshi claps his hand loudly to stop the situation going worse, he is really calm.

“Humph, Hideyoshi don't you hate Yuuji?”

“Cool down and think again everyone. It is Kirishima Shouko that we are talking about right? I don't think she will be interested in male such as Yuuji.”

Oh, that’s right.

“Actually, she should be interested in the other person……”

“You are right.”

All of us suddenly focus on one particular person.

“W…What? Could it be I did something wrong?”

Himeji starts to get panic. Don’t worry, you didn’t do anything wrong. Although you didn’t do anything, it is very likely that someone will do something to you.

“Anyway, Shouko and I were childhood friends, and I purposely taught her the wrong answer to that question when we were young.”

Although I still doubt his relationship with Kirishima, I will let it go for now since Kirishima only like girls.

“That girl will not forget anything she learned because she is the best student in second year.”

A smart brain which will remember things easily will be the key to her failure this time.

“I will make use of this to defeat her, and change our tables to----”

“High class system tables!”

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“A duel?”

“That’s right. Class F and Class A class leaders will represent their classes in a duel to decide the victory of Test Summon War.”

This is the usual war declaration.

The messengers who were sent to declare the war with Class A are the leader Yuuji, and the key members of our class such as Himeji, Hideyoshi, Silent Pervert and I.

If we do this every time, my uniform will not be torn all the time.

“Err, what are you guys planning?”

The person who is negotiating with Yuuji now is Hideyoshi------- ‘s sister Kinoshita Yuuko. She looks exactly like the female version of Hideyoshi. However, if I admit I am interested in her that would mean that I am admitting to have the same feeling towards Hideyoshi……

“Our aim is definitely winning this war.”

Kinoshita Yuuko shows that she is suspecting us. That is understandable, because we are the lower ranked class, who seeks to challenge the top student in the year --- Kirishima to a duel, which is totally unreasonable. It makes sense that she is afraid that we are planning something here.

“Although I think this is a good idea to get rid of the troublesome Test Summoning War, there is no need to take the risk.”

“You are really smart!”

An expected answer, now the negotiation officially started.

“By the way, how is the war between your class and Class C?”

Yuuji crosses his hand and uses his hand to support his lower jaw. He acts calmly and said.

“Although it took a while, we are too good for them, so no problem at all.”

Class C was taunted by Hideyoshi and had a war with Class A. The war only took about half a day. Now Class C is using Class D’s level equipment in class.

“Class B seems to be interested in having a war with you!”

“Class B…… You mean THAT from yesterday?”

“Yeah, the quality of the class can be easily seen from the class leader. Although they haven’t officially declared war, who know what will happen later!”

“But Class B already had a war with Class F. So within the three months preparation period, they should have no right to declare war themselves right?”

One of the rules of Test Summoning War is there are three months preparation period in between wars.

The class that loses in the war will have no right to declare another war in three months. This is to prevent the losing class from challenging the winning class, and make the war become an infinite loop.

“You should know that, no matter how things appear in the war, the war is ended through a ‘Peace Treaty’, so they are not restricted by this rule…… Not only Class B, things are the same for Class D.”

That’s the reason why we didn’t take away their class equipment.

“Is this threatening?”

“This doesn’t sound too good, how about calling this a request?”

I have a feeling that Yuuji looks exactly like Nemoto. Using this sort of negotiation technique makes him no different from villains.

“OK, I understood. Although I don’t know what you are planning, there is no way our class leader will lose. I accept your suggestion.”

“Eh? Really?”

She accepted so easily. Although I never took part in the conversation, I shouted out because I was too surprised.

“Because, I really don’t want to fight with a class with a class leader like THAT……”

Ah, that reminds me. Nemoto was wearing the female uniform when he went to Class A. I never imagine something like that indirectly helped our suggestion being accepted so easily, which is quite a pleasant surprise.

“But we have some conditions. This war will not only be the duel between the class leaders. That’s right, let’s do it like this. Both classes select five different people, and have five different duels. The class that wins three fights out of two win the war. How about that? If that’s the case, we will agree with your suggestion.”

“Hmmmm…..”

At first she seems to be not too wary but actually she is really alert, we shouldn’t underestimate her.

“I see, you are trying to prevent us from sending Himeji?”

“Yes, even though I don’t think that will be a big problem. However if class leader Kirishima is in very bad condition and Himeji is in top form, there might be some unpredictable accidents.”

This is really disrespecting Himeji.

However she wasn’t bluffing, because Kirishima is such a scary person.

“Don’t worry! I will represent our side in the fight.”

“No way, I will not totally believe in you.”

She later said, this is a war, not a competition. And she is right.

“Really? Then I shall agree with your condition!”

I can’t believe Yuuji said that.

Are you serious? Five different duels, do we stand a chance to win?

“Really? I am so happy~”

“However, we will decide the subjects. It is fine that you give us little bit of advantage right?”

I see, he was planning to negotiate like that. It is important for us to get the power to decide the subjects. The opponent will not be so kind to accept the one-on-one duel and to let us pick the subjects. Therefore to make them accept the condition, Yuuji chose to accept their condition of five different duels.

“Eh? Hmmm……”

Kinoshita is thinking carefully. This is a negotiation representing the class. The outcome of this negotiation can greatly affect the war, so she has to be really careful.

“Accept it!”

“WAH!”

I was shocked.

“I accept Yuuji’s suggestion.”

Suddenly there is a calm and powerful voice.

No one noticed when Kirishima arrived. I know that she is a quiet person, but I never know she could hide the presence from everyone like an experienced martial artist.

“What? Class leader, are you sure?”

“In return I would like to add another condition.”

“Condition?”

“Yeah.”

Kirishima nods. She carefully scans Himeji from top to bottom while she is hiding behind Yuuji, and said.

“The losing side shall accept any request from the winning side.”

T...This is the biggest crisis of Himeji’s virginity and outlook on life! What, what, what, what, should I do? If something like this happened…… I would be so panicked that I couldn’t even sleep! I don’t even have money to get the digital camera!

“……(sound of taking photo)”

“Silent Pervert, it is too early to take pictures now! Are you planning to lose the fight on purpose?”

Why did this happen? This would definitely affect the morale of the class. Did she plan this from the beginning? Kirishima Shouko, she really lives up to the name of the head of student council, what a scary person she is.

“Then how about this. Three of the subjects will be decided by you and we will decide the remaining two, what do you think?”

Although this still doesn’t fully give us the advantage of deciding the topic, Kinoshita Yuuko’s suggestion still gives us a slight advantage. Now, what should we do?

(Himeji, are you ok with that?)

(Eh? What are you talking about?)

(I mean if we lose, Himeji you will be……)

(Although I am not sure what is going on, but I think it’s not a problem.)

(Accepting that so easily…… are you sure? If we lose, Himeji and Kirishima will----)

“Negotiation is done.”

“Y..Yuuji! How could you decide this by yourself! Himeji hasn’t agreed with the condition!”

Even if you are the class leader, this is too selfish! This is related to Himeji’s happiness!

“Don’t worry. I will not give Himeji any trouble.”

He said it with confident. He really thinks that we will win this for sure?

“When will the duels start?”

“Hmm, how about we begin at ten o’clock?”

“OK.”

Kirishima gives people a unique feeling. The way she speaks is sort of similar to Silent Pervert.

“OK. Since the negotiation is done, let’s head back to the classroom first!”

“That’s right. We need to report this to the class.”

After the meeting, we left Class A classroom.

The last fight is right around the corner.

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“Are both of you ready?”

The supervising teacher today is Takahashi sensei, who is the homeroom teacher of Class A, and has helped us a lot in the recent wars. The specs she put on today have a beautiful design with intelligence, and her long legs in the tight skirts are quite charming as well.

“Yes.”

“No problem.”

The battle field is in Class A. Not only because it is wider here, the floor is far more superior than the lousy tatami, which could break anytime.

“The first duel officially starts now. Please stand forward.”

“I will go!”

Our opponent class send Hideyoshi’s sister, Kinoshita Yuuko.

And the person representing our class in this fight will be ------

“Allow me!”

Her brother, Kinoshita Hideyoshi.

Hideyoshi definitely knows what his sister’s weakest subject is and how to disturb her concentration. The key to this duel will be how does Hideyoshi confuse his sister feeling-----

“By the way, Hideyoshi?”

“Yes?”

“Do you know Koyama from Class C?”

“What? Who is that?”

Eh? Why did I have a bad feeling about this?

“It is alright if you don’t know. Can you come here for a while?”

“Eh? Sister, why are you dragging me to the corridor?”

Hideyoshi’s face looks like those Class C students when they were being scolded by him while he was acting like his sister......

“Sister, it is now time for dueling------ Why are you grabbing my hand?”

“Did you do anything to Class C students? Why am I become the person who scolded Class C’s student pigs?”

“Hahaha. About that, I was doing what I think is the true nature of you, sister-----Ah, sister! No…. Don’t turn my joint into that direction…… ”

(*sounds of door opening)

Kinoshita Yuuko opens the door and walks into the classroom.

“Hideyoshi said he had something urgent to attend to and went back. Do you want to send someone else to replace him?”

“N…No…. We give up in this duel.”

Even Yuuji doesn’t dare to say anything to oppose Kinoshita Yuuko, who is smiling and wiping the blood on her hand with her handkerchief.

Takahashi sensei types on the notebook computer and the big screen on the wall shows the result of this fight.

Class A Kinoshita Yuuko VS Class F Kinoshita Hideyoshi

Signs of life WIN VS DEAD

No one can say for sure that Hideyoshi is still alive.

“Next.”

“I will go. The subject we choose is Physic.”

The person representing Class A is Sato, and the person representing Class F this time will be---

“OK, Akihisa I am counting on you.”

“Eh? Me?”

What! I am representing my class in duel! There is no way back if I lose!

“Don’t worry, I have trust in you.”

Really? Yuuji you……

“Huh…… In this case, it is about time for me to get serious.”

“Yeah, there is no need to hide anymore. Let everyone here understand your true power.”

“Hey, is Akihisa really strong?”

“Nope, I’ve never heard about it before.”

“Yuuji is kidding again right?”

Those Class F students, who are supposed to be my comrades, indeed said some very cruel comments.

Well nothing can be done about that. It is normal for them to think like that when they looked at my past performance. However it is different today.

“You are Akihisa? Could it be…you are…”

My opponent Sato seems to have discovered something and starts trembling.

Her observation is pretty good.

“Ah, you have discovered that? You are right. I had never used show my power until now.”

To prepare for the fight, I fold up my sleeves and slightly shook my wrist to warm up.

“Then you are…..”

“That’s right, It is just as you thought. Although I have been hiding it till now, actually I am ----”

I take a deep breath and announce to everyone in the class:

“----left handed!”

Class A Sato VS Yoshii Akihisa

Physic 389 VS 62

This is so strange. How on earth do I still lose after I showed my true power?

“You idiot! Does the examination result relate to which hand you used?”

“Mi…Minami! The reaction force is painful enough already, I beg you please stop beating me ok?”

It seems that I can’t win against enemy who has 6 times more marks than me with just agility.

“OK, the real fight starts now.”

“Wait, Yuuji! You never trusted me from the beginning!”

“Trust? What is that? Is it edible?”

I really feel like giving him a punch with my golden left hand.

“Now, the third group please prepare now.”

“……(stand up)”

Silent Pervert stands up.

The power of choosing the subject starts to act in our favor now.

This is because 80% of Silent Pervert’s total marks for all subjects are scored from the Health Education subject. In this subject, not even Class A student can challenge him.

“Then it is my turn now!”

Class A sends out a girl with short, light coloured hair who looks like a boy. Who is she, why I don’t recognize her?

“Nice to meet you, I am Kudo Aiko who transferred here in the end of last semester in first year.”

She has a flat body which makes her look like a boy.

“What subject do you want to select?”

Takahashi sensei asks Silent Pervert.

“Health Education.”

Silent Pervert selects his strongest subject.

“You are Tsuchiya right? You seem to be very confident in Health Education.”

Kudo starts to talk to Silent Pervert. What is the situation now? She is a transferred student, so she doesn’t know the true power of Silent Pervert? But she seems to be really relaxed.

“However I am also very good with this subject…… unlike you, I am stronger in the practical matter!”

W……What kind of announcement is that? For some reason, my heart is bouncing really hard!

“Here you there, you are Akihisa right? You look like you don’t know how to study. Let me teach you Health Education when we have time ok? Don’t worry, I will teach you with practical exercises.”

How does she know my heart is beating like mad now? And she tells everyone she wants to teach me Health Education!

“Ha, just what I ….”

“Aki will never have that chance, so there is no need to learn Health Education!”

“That’s right! He never needs to learn it!”

“Shimada and Himeji, please take a look at Akihisa. He looks really sad!”

I won’t be so unlucky right? Even a person like me will get the chance to use my knowledge from Health Education!

“Both sides please prepare to summon.”

“O---K. Syoukanju summoning!”

“Syoukanju summoning!”

Syoukanjus that look very similar to their owners appear with their weapons on hand. Silent Pervert’s syoukanju is the same as the one he had when fighting with Class B. Its weapon is two kodachi[http://www.baka-tsuki.net/project/index.php?title=Baka_to_Tesuto_to_Syokanju:Volume1_Translator%27s_Notes#Question_9]. On the other hand, Kudo’s syoukanju…

“What? Why is her Tomahawk so huge?”

Her syoukanju is holding a very big Tomahawk which looks really powerful. It also wears a wristband on its hand which means it can use special ability. Oh my god! She is really strong!

“Let’s decide who is stronger, the one who is good in the theory or the one who is good in the actual practice.”

Kudo has a tender and beautiful smile. After that the wristband on her syoukanju begins to shine and she starts her attack.

Her syoukanju’s huge Tomahawk has thunder surrounding it and rushes towards Silent Pervert with impossible speed.

“Bye bye, Silent Pervert!”

Then, the strong hands of her syoukanju swing the Tomahawk. This is an attack that can’t be dodged!

“Silent Pervert!”

Just when the tomahawk is going to cut his syoukanju into two---

“Accelerate.”

The wristband on Silent Pervert’s syoukanju’s hand starts to shine, and its light totally covers its owner.

“Huh?”

The opponent looks like she can’t understand what is going on. Not only her, even people like me have no idea of what had just happened. How can Silent Pervert’s syoukanju escape from the opponent’s attack range?

“Accelerate ends.”

Silent Pervert quietly said.

All of a sudden, Kudo’s syoukanju has blood bursting from every part of the body and falls to the ground.

Class A Kudo Aiko VS Class F Tsuchiya Kouta

Health Education 446marks VS 572 marks

In….incredible! His score might be higher than the sum of all my subject scores!

“In the war against Class B, he wasn’t in his top form.”

Yuuji starts to explain to me, who is in total shock at the moment. I never knew that silent pervert can be so scary when he is concentrated!

“Im…Impossible….How can I….”

Kudo is kneeling on the ground, she looks like she is really shocked as well.

“It is 2 VS 1 now, who’s next?”

Takahashi sensei still continues the competition with her emotionless face. It looks like she doesn’t really care even if the students from her class lose.

“Ah, y…yes, it is my turn now.”

We definitely send out Himeji, who is the only person in Class F that can fight with Class A students directly.

“Then I will be your opponent!”

The person who walks out from Class A is---- Kubo Toshimitsu!

“You finally appear, vice president of student council.”

Yes, his name is Kubo Toshimitsu!

His ability is just below Himeji, ranked third in the second year. He is the vice president of second year student council because Himeji didn’t perform well in the class dividing test.

“This is the fight that I worry the most.”

Yuuji has his point for worrying.

Kubo’s ability is almost as good as Himeji. The difference between their total scores is less than twenty. Now that Himeji has been fighting for the last few days, we can’t really say for sure she can win this….

“What is the subject?”

Takahashi sensei asked them.

By the way, whose side has the right to choose the subject now? Hideyoshi’s fight is a real mess and I have no idea now.

“I choose sum of all subjects.”

Just when I am thinking deeply, Kubo simply answer the teacher’s question.

“Hey wait a second! Don’t simply decide----”

“It is fine for me.”

“Himeji?”

Himeji stops me from protesting. Are you sure you will be fine?

“Then……”

Same as the last few fights, Takahashi sensei continues to maneuver on the computer.

Both side summon their syoukanjus, the duel is decided within seconds.

Class A Kubo Toshimitsu VS Class F Himeji Mizuki

Sum of all subjects 3997 marks VS 4409 marks

“Really?”

“When did she improve so much?”

“With scores like this, she can even challenge Kirishima Shouko!”

Speech of surprises came from everywhere.

The difference is more than four hundreds? Although I knew that Himeji is really strong, this is not a score that a normal human can get!

“Damn! Himeji, how did you get so strong……”

Kubo is regretting now, and questioning Himeji. Their ability was about the same until recently. No one expects the difference to be so huge, that’s why he is concerned about it.

“I…I like everyone in the class, and Class F is the class with classmates who are willing to sacrifice for the others without asking for anything.”

“You like Class F?”

“Yes. That’s why I can continue working hard.”

Himeji’s words are so comforting.

Really? Himeji, you actually like Class F, a class formed by stupid male students. However I am in this class, which makes me feel really warm deep inside my heart.

“The score now is 2 VS 2.”

Takahashi sensei had slight changes in her look, which is rather strange. Is it because Himeji’s incredible growth or the fact that Class F can actually fight against Class A?

“The last duel, both sides please prepare.”

“OK.”

The person walks out from Class A is the strongest enemy---- Kirishima Shouko.

The person we sent from our class is definitely---

“It is my turn now.”

The one and only, Sakamoto Yuuji.

“The subject is?”

Maybe it’s because they think there is no way Kirishima Shouko will lose, there isn’t any noise coming from Class A. They just quietly look at both of them.

“I would like to choose Japanese History, the scope will be limited to primary school level and the maximum score is one hundred.”

The noise suddenly comes from everywhere.

“There is a limit to maximum score?”

“Primary school level? Doesn’t that mean full marks?”

“This fight will be determined by how focused they are….”

This will also give us a chance to win.

Class A also realizes that, so they start making some noise now.

“Understood. I will need to prepare some question. Please wait here for a while.”

Takahashi sensei closes the lid of her laptop and walks out of the classroom.

Takahashi sensei is enthusiastic in education, maybe she have collected some primary school level question sets?

I watch the teacher left the scene and return to Yuuji immediately.

“Yuuji, I am counting on you.”

I firmly hold Yuuji’s hand. We did all we could do. It all depends on the result of Yuuji’s duel now.

“Yeah, leave it to me!”

He firmly holds my hand as well.

“…….(put out his hand)”

Silent Pervert walks towards us and shows Yuuji a victory hand pose.

“Your power helped me a lot, thank you very much.”

“……(ha)”

Silent Pervert’s mouth slightly rises, and stands back to where he was just now.

“Sakamoto, thanks for telling me all those stories.”

“Ah, you mean stories about Akihisa? Don’t worry about it, and do your best.”

Huh? My stories? What did Yuuji say?

“Yes I will.”

Himeji gives him an energetic answer. Yuuji also has a happy smile on his face. It is a caring and gentle face.

“Now the final duel is Japanese History. Participants Kirishima and Sakamoto, please come to the video classroom.”

Takahashi sensei returns to the classroom and gives order to both class leaders.

“OK.”

Kirishima gives a simple answer and leaves the classroom.

“Well, I need to go now.”

“Sakamoto, take care.”

“Yeah.”

Yuuji is sent off by Himeji and heads towards the final battlefield.

The final fight finally starts. It doesn’t matter if we are going to cry or laugh, the test summoning war is going to end.

“Everyone, please look at the screen here.”

Takahashi sensei controls the machine, and the big monitor diplays images in the video classroom.

Kirishima takes her seat first, and then Yuuji also walks into the classroom and sits down.

“Now we are going to distribute the paper. The test is fifty minutes, maximum score is one hundred.”

The Japanese History teacher on the screen is placing the test papers on their tables with the back of the papers facing up.

“Any actions that are considered as cheating will result in zero mark, understand?”

“Yes.”

“I know that!”

“Then we start now!”

Both of them turn their paper over.

“Yoshii, it finally begins!”

“Yeah, finally.”

“If that question doesn’t appear, Sakamoto will…..”

“His concentration and focus are worse than the opponent. If the duel goes into extra time, he might lose. However……”

“Yes, if it appears….”

“Yeah…”

If it appears, this will be our victory.

Everyone is swallowing their saliva, and anxiously staring at the monitor, reading the questions that appear on it.

Will it come out? Will it come out?

“Please fill in the right year in ( )”

Year ( ) Heijo-kyo established as capital

Year ( ) Heian-kyo established as capital

It really is primary school level questions. Maybe even I could answer them as well.

Will that question come out?

Year ( ) Kamakura Bakufu established

Year ( ) Taika Reform

“Ah!”

It appears…..

“Y…Yoshii!”

“Yeah!”

“This mean, it is our ….”

“Yeah! Our Japanese style tables will be…..”

“Changed into the high class system table!”

Everyone in Class F shouts at the same time.

“This is the biggest ever victory for us, lousy Class F!”

“OHHHHHH!”

Our cheer sounds like it shakes the whole classroom.

===“Japanese History Duel, Limited Scope Test, Maximum Score: One Hundred”===

Class A Kirishima Shouko 97 marks

VS

Class F Sakamoto Yuuji 53 marks

Japanese style tables in Class F become paper boxes.

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===The Ninth Question===

'''Please answer the following question:'''

Please list the five basic nutrition which is required to maintain human life.

'''Himeji Mizuki’s Answer:'''

“1. Fats 2. Carbohydrates 3.Proteins 4.Vitamins 5.Minerals”

'''Teacher’s Comment:'''

Exactly what we expect from Himeji, well done!

'''Yoshii Akihisa’s Answer:'''

“1. Sugar 2. Salt 3. Tap water 4. Rain water 5. Spring water"

'''Teacher’s Comment:'''

Aren’t you the only one who can survive with these?

'''Tsuchiya Kouta’s Answer:'''

“It is called menarche, the first period since the female was born. In medical term, this period is called the menstrual period. Menarche is closely related to the age and weight factors. It usually appears when the female’s body weight reached 43 kg, but the age factor would differ between each individual. In Japan, the average age is 12 years old. There are other factors beside weight, such as race, weather and social environment that will affect the time that menarche occurs...”

“Menarche may occur before the female was ten years old, which is termed isolated premature menarche. Besides that, menarche that occurred after fifteen years old is called delayed menstruation. Also, if the menarche never occurred until eighteen years old is called primary amenorrhea……”

'''Teacher’s Comment:'''

I am sorry to inform you that the health education examination had ended an hour ago.

After that, I went to the teachers’ office to accept the personal teaching from them. Then I went home with a very tired body and fell asleep as soon as I fell onto my bed. I was totally fatigued and dropped into the dream land like a piece of torn cloth.

We had a meeting after the exam for replenishing the score in the next morning.

It was the final tactical meeting before facing our last opponent, Class A, and said goodbye to the Class F classroom.

“First of all I would like to thank everybody who helps Class F make it this far. I am really grateful for all the help you guys offered. ”

“Yuu…Yuuji, what’s wrong with you? It is so unlike you to say something like that!”

“Yeah, I think so too, but these words come from the bottom of my heart.”

I am touched by the words he said. Who can ever imagine us, the Class F students, can achieve so much in this war….

“Since we are already here, we will do everything to win the war against Class A. We will prove to the teachers together, that exam result is not everything, OK?”

“YEAH---”

“THAT’S RIGHT-----”

“There is more to life than studying!”

Before the last fight, I can feel that our hearts are joined together as one.

“Thank you very much. About the fight with Class A, I plan to challenge them to dueling.”

I am not so surprise because I have heard of it just before the meeting. However those who had heard it for the first time seems to be a bit shocked and the room are filled with uneasiness.

“What does that mean?”

“Who will represent us in the dueling?”

“Are you sure we could win this?”

“Calm down every one! I am going to explain my plan now.”

Yuuji slammed the table to calm everyone down.

“The person who will be dueling, of course will be me and Kirishima Shouko”

Class A class leader is Kirishima Shouko and Class F class leader is Sakamoto Yuuji. If someone needed to be chosen to represent the class in a duel, it would definitely be the class leader.

I can understand everything up until here.

However I couldn’t understand what Yuuji would do to win in the duel.

The enemy is Kirishima, not only she is the head of student union, her result is also so much better than Himeji, who is already too good for Class B students. Although this sounds really bad, but----

“Idiot Yuuji can never win against--- WAH!”

A Stanley knife suddenly flies pass my cheek. Damn you Yuuji, are you planning to kill me?

I don’t think he is that cruel. No matter how bad Yuuji is, he won’t purposely consider about killing his friends…

“Next time the target will be your ear.”

It seems that I am not Yuuji’s friend.

“But just as Akihisa said, Shouko is much stronger. If I directly challenge her, I might not stand a chance to win.”

Since you admit you can’t win, there is no need to throw that Stanley knife towards me right?

“However wouldn’t it be the same as our fight against Class D and Class B? We will definitely lose if we fight with them head on.”

But we continue to win until now.

“This time it will be the same. I shall defeat Shouko and Class F will get Class A’s classroom. It will not change the result that the victory will belong to us. ”

Yuuji leads us to win the Test Summoning War that we thought we could never win, so although it still doesn’t sound very convincing, there is no one in the class who will disagree with his idea now.

“Leave everything to me! I shall let everyone see the power of the former ‘Whiz Kid’.”

“OHHHH----”

It seems that there is no need to ask the opinion from everyone. We all have faith in Yuuji.

“Now, let me explain the tactic in detail….. I plan to challenge her within limited scope.”

“Limited scope? Which subject do you want to pick?”

“Japanese History.”

Japanese History? Even if Kirishima is not very good in Japanese History, I never heard of Yuuji being very good in Japanese History. Why did he want to pick Japanese History?

“However I would like to limit the scope of the examination. The difficulty will be at the primary school level and the maximum score will be one hundred. Syokanjus will not be used and the result will just depend on the score in the examination.”

A primary school level exam with maximum score of one hundred?

Under this condition, it will be generally assumed that both of them will be scoring one hundred and the person who makes the first mistake will lose. In that case, the challenge will be how focused they are. It seems there is more chance for us to win this compared to fighting directly.

“However if both of you have the same scores, you will get new questions right? In that case the difficulty of the questions might increase. Isn’t this a disadvantage for Yuuji, who has stopped studying for a period of time?”

“Yeah, Akihisa is right.”

Although it seems like we have a chance on winning in this plan, this is also a dangerous gamble. And the key person in this plan will be Yuuji?

“Hey, don’t underestimate me. In any case, a tactic that purely counts on luck is not a tactic at all.”

“What? Yuuji you know how to make Kirishima loses focus in the exam?”

“No. I don’t think that girl will be defeated by primary school level questions just because of her losing focus.”

That’s right. Besides that, the techniques that could be used in a supervised exam can never affect Kirishima. Then what can he do to win?

“Yuuji, stop hiding the plan from us! It is about time to let us know what your trump card is!”

Everyone in the class nodded after Hideyoshi spoken.

“Ah, Sorry. The opening speech is longer than I expected.”

Yuuji shakes his head, and starts talking again.

“There is only one reason that made me choose this duel. That is because I know that girl will definitely answer one question incorrectly.”

One question? Which question is it?

“That question is ---- ‘Taika Reform’.”

“Taika Reform? Is it the sort of question asking when did who did what? Will these sorts of primary school student level questions come out in the examination?”

Although I don’t think the school will prepare that sort of questions for the students here, but the school which aims for encouraging students to further their studies might have questions like that.

“No, not such a detailed question. It is a much simpler one.”

“You mentioned simple, could it be asking about the year?”

“Oh Hideyoshi, BINGO! It is just like what you said, if the question about the year came out, it would be our victory.”

In what year did Taika Reform happen? Such elementary question, will that smart Shouko answer incorrectly? Even I know that ‘Nightingale cried. Taika Reform’[http://www.baka-tsuki.net/project/index.php?title=Baka_to_Tesuto_to_Syokanju:Volume1_Translator%27s_Notes#Question_9], even I can remember the year using this sentence!

“Taika Reform happened in year 645. This question is so easy even Akihisa could get it right.”

Please……Don’t……Look at me……

“However Shouko will definitely answer this question incorrectly and the victory will belong to us. At that time we could say goodbye to this lousy classroom as we planned.”

Come to think of it, there is something that I am curious about for a long time---

“Errr----Sakamoto.”

“Eh? What’s wrong, Himeji?”

“Do you know Kirishima….very well?”

That’s right. Yuuji had been using ‘that girl’ or ‘Shouko’ to call Kirishima. If they don’t know each other very well, he won’t use such word to call her.

It couldn’t be, that this guy in front of me…. Not only Himeji likes him, even Kirishima who is smart and pretty can’t escape from him?

“Yeah, she is my childhood friend.”

“Everyone, GO!”

“What? Why does everyone follow Akihisa’s order and hold their slippers on their hands?”

“Shut up, you are the enemy of men! We shall use you as a sacrifice before we defeat Class A!”

“What did I do wrong?”

There is no need to trade words. All men in the class reach the same agreement. I am blessed to be able to study in such a united class.

“Is this your last words? Wait, Sugawa, it is too early to take off your socks. We shall put that forbidden weapon into his mouth after we subdue him.”

“Understood!”

Enemy of men, enjoy forty seven pairs of high school male students’ smelly socks!

“Err, Yoshii.”

“Eh? What’s up, Himeji?”

“Does Yoshii like Kirishima?”

“Ah, so so! She is a very pretty girl!”

“Eh? Himeji, why are you preparing to attack me? And Minami, why are you holding the teacher's table and aiming at me?”

“Everybody calm down!”

Hideyoshi claps his hand loudly to stop the situation going worse, he is really calm.

“Humph, Hideyoshi don't you hate Yuuji?”

“Cool down and think again everyone. It is Kirishima Shouko that we are talking about right? I don't think she will be interested in male such as Yuuji.”

Oh, that’s right.

“Actually, she should be interested in the other person……”

“You are right.”

All of us suddenly focus on one particular person.

“W…What? Could it be I did something wrong?”

Himeji starts to get panic. Don’t worry, you didn’t do anything wrong. Although you didn’t do anything, it is very likely that someone will do something to you.

“Anyway, Shouko and I were childhood friends, and I purposely taught her the wrong answer to that question when we were young.”

Although I still doubt his relationship with Kirishima, I will let it go for now since Kirishima only like girls.

“That girl will not forget anything she learned because she is the best student in second year.”

A smart brain which will remember things easily will be the key to her failure this time.

“I will make use of this to defeat her, and change our tables to----”

“High class system tables!”

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“A duel?”

“That’s right. Class F and Class A class leaders will represent their classes in a duel to decide the victory of Test Summon War.”

This is the usual war declaration.

The messengers who were sent to declare the war with Class A are the leader Yuuji, and the key members of our class such as Himeji, Hideyoshi, Silent Pervert and I.

If we do this every time, my uniform will not be torn all the time.

“Err, what are you guys planning?”

The person who is negotiating with Yuuji now is Hideyoshi------- ‘s sister Kinoshita Yuuko. She looks exactly like the female version of Hideyoshi. However, if I admit I am interested in her that would mean that I am admitting to have the same feeling towards Hideyoshi……

“Our aim is definitely winning this war.”

Kinoshita Yuuko shows that she is suspecting us. That is understandable, because we are the lower ranked class, who seeks to challenge the top student in the year --- Kirishima to a duel, which is totally unreasonable. It makes sense that she is afraid that we are planning something here.

“Although I think this is a good idea to get rid of the troublesome Test Summoning War, there is no need to take the risk.”

“You are really smart!”

An expected answer, now the negotiation officially started.

“By the way, how is the war between your class and Class C?”

Yuuji crosses his hand and uses his hand to support his lower jaw. He acts calmly and said.

“Although it took a while, we are too good for them, so no problem at all.”

Class C was taunted by Hideyoshi and had a war with Class A. The war only took about half a day. Now Class C is using Class D’s level equipment in class.

“Class B seems to be interested in having a war with you!”

“Class B…… You mean THAT from yesterday?”

“Yeah, the quality of the class can be easily seen from the class leader. Although they haven’t officially declared war, who know what will happen later!”

“But Class B already had a war with Class F. So within the three months preparation period, they should have no right to declare war themselves right?”

One of the rules of Test Summoning War is there are three months preparation period in between wars.

The class that loses in the war will have no right to declare another war in three months. This is to prevent the losing class from challenging the winning class, and make the war become an infinite loop.

“You should know that, no matter how things appear in the war, the war is ended through a ‘Peace Treaty’, so they are not restricted by this rule…… Not only Class B, things are the same for Class D.”

That’s the reason why we didn’t take away their class equipment.

“Is this threatening?”

“This doesn’t sound too good, how about calling this a request?”

I have a feeling that Yuuji looks exactly like Nemoto. Using this sort of negotiation technique makes him no different from villains.

“OK, I understood. Although I don’t know what you are planning, there is no way our class leader will lose. I accept your suggestion.”

“Eh? Really?”

She accepted so easily. Although I never took part in the conversation, I shouted out because I was too surprised.

“Because, I really don’t want to fight with a class with a class leader like THAT……”

Ah, that reminds me. Nemoto was wearing the female uniform when he went to Class A. I never imagine something like that indirectly helped our suggestion being accepted so easily, which is quite a pleasant surprise.

“But we have some conditions. This war will not only be the duel between the class leaders. That’s right, let’s do it like this. Both classes select five different people, and have five different duels. The class that wins three fights out of two win the war. How about that? If that’s the case, we will agree with your suggestion.”

“Hmmmm…..”

At first she seems to be not too wary but actually she is really alert, we shouldn’t underestimate her.

“I see, you are trying to prevent us from sending Himeji?”

“Yes, even though I don’t think that will be a big problem. However if class leader Kirishima is in very bad condition and Himeji is in top form, there might be some unpredictable accidents.”

This is really disrespecting Himeji.

However she wasn’t bluffing, because Kirishima is such a scary person.

“Don’t worry! I will represent our side in the fight.”

“No way, I will not totally believe in you.”

She later said, this is a war, not a competition. And she is right.

“Really? Then I shall agree with your condition!”

I can’t believe Yuuji said that.

Are you serious? Five different duels, do we stand a chance to win?

“Really? I am so happy~”

“However, we will decide the subjects. It is fine that you give us little bit of advantage right?”

I see, he was planning to negotiate like that. It is important for us to get the power to decide the subjects. The opponent will not be so kind to accept the one-on-one duel and to let us pick the subjects. Therefore to make them accept the condition, Yuuji chose to accept their condition of five different duels.

“Eh? Hmmm……”

Kinoshita is thinking carefully. This is a negotiation representing the class. The outcome of this negotiation can greatly affect the war, so she has to be really careful.

“Accept it!”

“WAH!”

I was shocked.

“I accept Yuuji’s suggestion.”

Suddenly there is a calm and powerful voice.

No one noticed when Kirishima arrived. I know that she is a quiet person, but I never know she could hide the presence from everyone like an experienced martial artist.

“What? Class leader, are you sure?”

“In return I would like to add another condition.”

“Condition?”

“Yeah.”

Kirishima nods. She carefully scans Himeji from top to bottom while she is hiding behind Yuuji, and said.

“The losing side shall accept any request from the winning side.”

T...This is the biggest crisis of Himeji’s virginity and outlook on life! What, what, what, what, should I do? If something like this happened…… I would be so panicked that I couldn’t even sleep! I don’t even have money to get the digital camera!

“……(sound of taking photo)”

“Silent Pervert, it is too early to take pictures now! Are you planning to lose the fight on purpose?”

Why did this happen? This would definitely affect the morale of the class. Did she plan this from the beginning? Kirishima Shouko, she really lives up to the name of the head of student council, what a scary person she is.

“Then how about this. Three of the subjects will be decided by you and we will decide the remaining two, what do you think?”

Although this still doesn’t fully give us the advantage of deciding the topic, Kinoshita Yuuko’s suggestion still gives us a slight advantage. Now, what should we do?

(Himeji, are you ok with that?)

(Eh? What are you talking about?)

(I mean if we lose, Himeji you will be……)

(Although I am not sure what is going on, but I think it’s not a problem.)

(Accepting that so easily…… are you sure? If we lose, Himeji and Kirishima will----)

“Negotiation is done.”

“Y..Yuuji! How could you decide this by yourself! Himeji hasn’t agreed with the condition!”

Even if you are the class leader, this is too selfish! This is related to Himeji’s happiness!

“Don’t worry. I will not give Himeji any trouble.”

He said it with confident. He really thinks that we will win this for sure?

“When will the duels start?”

“Hmm, how about we begin at ten o’clock?”

“OK.”

Kirishima gives people a unique feeling. The way she speaks is sort of similar to Silent Pervert.

“OK. Since the negotiation is done, let’s head back to the classroom first!”

“That’s right. We need to report this to the class.”

After the meeting, we left Class A classroom.

The last fight is right around the corner.

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“Are both of you ready?”

The supervising teacher today is Takahashi sensei, who is the homeroom teacher of Class A, and has helped us a lot in the recent wars. The specs she put on today have a beautiful design with intelligence, and her long legs in the tight skirts are quite charming as well.

“Yes.”

“No problem.”

The battle field is in Class A. Not only because it is wider here, the floor is far more superior than the lousy tatami, which could break anytime.

“The first duel officially starts now. Please stand forward.”

“I will go!”

Our opponent class send Hideyoshi’s sister, Kinoshita Yuuko.

And the person representing our class in this fight will be ------

“Allow me!”

Her brother, Kinoshita Hideyoshi.

Hideyoshi definitely knows what his sister’s weakest subject is and how to disturb her concentration. The key to this duel will be how does Hideyoshi confuse his sister feeling-----

“By the way, Hideyoshi?”

“Yes?”

“Do you know Koyama from Class C?”

“What? Who is that?”

Eh? Why did I have a bad feeling about this?

“It is alright if you don’t know. Can you come here for a while?”

“Eh? Sister, why are you dragging me to the corridor?”

Hideyoshi’s face looks like those Class C students when they were being scolded by him while he was acting like his sister......

“Sister, it is now time for dueling------ Why are you grabbing my hand?”

“Did you do anything to Class C students? Why am I become the person who scolded Class C’s student pigs?”

“Hahaha. About that, I was doing what I think is the true nature of you, sister-----Ah, sister! No…. Don’t turn my joint into that direction…… ”

(*sounds of door opening)

Kinoshita Yuuko opens the door and walks into the classroom.

“Hideyoshi said he had something urgent to attend to and went back. Do you want to send someone else to replace him?”

“N…No…. We give up in this duel.”

Even Yuuji doesn’t dare to say anything to oppose Kinoshita Yuuko, who is smiling and wiping the blood on her hand with her handkerchief.

Takahashi sensei types on the notebook computer and the big screen on the wall shows the result of this fight.

Class A Kinoshita Yuuko VS Class F Kinoshita Hideyoshi

Signs of life WIN VS DEAD

No one can say for sure that Hideyoshi is still alive.

“Next.”

“I will go. The subject we choose is Physic.”

The person representing Class A is Sato, and the person representing Class F this time will be---

“OK, Akihisa I am counting on you.”

“Eh? Me?”

What! I am representing my class in duel! There is no way back if I lose!

“Don’t worry, I have trust in you.”

Really? Yuuji you……

“Huh…… In this case, it is about time for me to get serious.”

“Yeah, there is no need to hide anymore. Let everyone here understand your true power.”

“Hey, is Akihisa really strong?”

“Nope, I’ve never heard about it before.”

“Yuuji is kidding again right?”

Those Class F students, who are supposed to be my comrades, indeed said some very cruel comments.

Well nothing can be done about that. It is normal for them to think like that when they looked at my past performance. However it is different today.

“You are Akihisa? Could it be…you are…”

My opponent Sato seems to have discovered something and starts trembling.

Her observation is pretty good.

“Ah, you have discovered that? You are right. I had never used show my power until now.”

To prepare for the fight, I fold up my sleeves and slightly shook my wrist to warm up.

“Then you are…..”

“That’s right, It is just as you thought. Although I have been hiding it till now, actually I am ----”

I take a deep breath and announce to everyone in the class:

“----left handed!”

Class A Sato VS Yoshii Akihisa

Physic 389 VS 62

This is so strange. How on earth do I still lose after I showed my true power?

“You idiot! Does the examination result relate to which hand you used?”

“Mi…Minami! The reaction force is painful enough already, I beg you please stop beating me ok?”

It seems that I can’t win against enemy who has 6 times more marks than me with just agility.

“OK, the real fight starts now.”

“Wait, Yuuji! You never trusted me from the beginning!”

“Trust? What is that? Is it edible?”

I really feel like giving him a punch with my golden left hand.

“Now, the third group please prepare now.”

“……(stand up)”

Silent Pervert stands up.

The power of choosing the subject starts to act in our favor now.

This is because 80% of Silent Pervert’s total marks for all subjects are scored from the Health Education subject. In this subject, not even Class A student can challenge him.

“Then it is my turn now!”

Class A sends out a girl with short, light coloured hair who looks like a boy. Who is she, why I don’t recognize her?

“Nice to meet you, I am Kudo Aiko who transferred here in the end of last semester in first year.”

She has a flat body which makes her look like a boy.

“What subject do you want to select?”

Takahashi sensei asks Silent Pervert.

“Health Education.”

Silent Pervert selects his strongest subject.

“You are Tsuchiya right? You seem to be very confident in Health Education.”

Kudo starts to talk to Silent Pervert. What is the situation now? She is a transferred student, so she doesn’t know the true power of Silent Pervert? But she seems to be really relaxed.

“However I am also very good with this subject…… unlike you, I am stronger in the practical matter!”

W……What kind of announcement is that? For some reason, my heart is bouncing really hard!

“Here you there, you are Akihisa right? You look like you don’t know how to study. Let me teach you Health Education when we have time ok? Don’t worry, I will teach you with practical exercises.”

How does she know my heart is beating like mad now? And she tells everyone she wants to teach me Health Education!

“Ha, just what I ….”

“Aki will never have that chance, so there is no need to learn Health Education!”

“That’s right! He never needs to learn it!”

“Shimada and Himeji, please take a look at Akihisa. He looks really sad!”

I won’t be so unlucky right? Even a person like me will get the chance to use my knowledge from Health Education!

“Both sides please prepare to summon.”

“O---K. Syoukanju summoning!”

“Syoukanju summoning!”

Syoukanjus that look very similar to their owners appear with their weapons on hand. Silent Pervert’s syoukanju is the same as the one he had when fighting with Class B. Its weapon is two kodachi[http://www.baka-tsuki.net/project/index.php?title=Baka_to_Tesuto_to_Syokanju:Volume1_Translator%27s_Notes#Question_9]. On the other hand, Kudo’s syoukanju…

“What? Why is her Tomahawk so huge?”

Her syoukanju is holding a very big Tomahawk which looks really powerful. It also wears a wristband on its hand which means it can use special ability. Oh my god! She is really strong!

“Let’s decide who is stronger, the one who is good in the theory or the one who is good in the actual practice.”

Kudo has a tender and beautiful smile. After that the wristband on her syoukanju begins to shine and she starts her attack.

Her syoukanju’s huge Tomahawk has thunder surrounding it and rushes towards Silent Pervert with impossible speed.

“Bye bye, Silent Pervert!”

Then, the strong hands of her syoukanju swing the Tomahawk. This is an attack that can’t be dodged!

“Silent Pervert!”

Just when the tomahawk is going to cut his syoukanju into two---

“Accelerate.”

The wristband on Silent Pervert’s syoukanju’s hand starts to shine, and its light totally covers its owner.

“Huh?”

The opponent looks like she can’t understand what is going on. Not only her, even people like me have no idea of what had just happened. How can Silent Pervert’s syoukanju escape from the opponent’s attack range?

“Accelerate ends.”

Silent Pervert quietly said.

All of a sudden, Kudo’s syoukanju has blood bursting from every part of the body and falls to the ground.

Class A Kudo Aiko VS Class F Tsuchiya Kouta

Health Education 446marks VS 572 marks

In….incredible! His score might be higher than the sum of all my subject scores!

“In the war against Class B, he wasn’t in his top form.”

Yuuji starts to explain to me, who is in total shock at the moment. I never knew that silent pervert can be so scary when he is concentrated!

“Im…Impossible….How can I….”

Kudo is kneeling on the ground, she looks like she is really shocked as well.

“It is 2 VS 1 now, who’s next?”

Takahashi sensei still continues the competition with her emotionless face. It looks like she doesn’t really care even if the students from her class lose.

“Ah, y…yes, it is my turn now.”

We definitely send out Himeji, who is the only person in Class F that can fight with Class A students directly.

“Then I will be your opponent!”

The person who walks out from Class A is---- Kubo Toshimitsu!

“You finally appear, vice president of student council.”

Yes, his name is Kubo Toshimitsu!

His ability is just below Himeji, ranked third in the second year. He is the vice president of second year student council because Himeji didn’t perform well in the class dividing test.

“This is the fight that I worry the most.”

Yuuji has his point for worrying.

Kubo’s ability is almost as good as Himeji. The difference between their total scores is less than twenty. Now that Himeji has been fighting for the last few days, we can’t really say for sure she can win this….

“What is the subject?”

Takahashi sensei asked them.

By the way, whose side has the right to choose the subject now? Hideyoshi’s fight is a real mess and I have no idea now.

“I choose sum of all subjects.”

Just when I am thinking deeply, Kubo simply answer the teacher’s question.

“Hey wait a second! Don’t simply decide----”

“It is fine for me.”

“Himeji?”

Himeji stops me from protesting. Are you sure you will be fine?

“Then……”

Same as the last few fights, Takahashi sensei continues to maneuver on the computer.

Both side summon their syoukanjus, the duel is decided within seconds.

Class A Kubo Toshimitsu VS Class F Himeji Mizuki

Sum of all subjects 3997 marks VS 4409 marks

“Really?”

“When did she improve so much?”

“With scores like this, she can even challenge Kirishima Shouko!”

Speech of surprises came from everywhere.

The difference is more than four hundreds? Although I knew that Himeji is really strong, this is not a score that a normal human can get!

“Damn! Himeji, how did you get so strong……”

Kubo is regretting now, and questioning Himeji. Their ability was about the same until recently. No one expects the difference to be so huge, that’s why he is concerned about it.

“I…I like everyone in the class, and Class F is the class with classmates who are willing to sacrifice for the others without asking for anything.”

“You like Class F?”

“Yes. That’s why I can continue working hard.”

Himeji’s words are so comforting.

Really? Himeji, you actually like Class F, a class formed by stupid male students. However I am in this class, which makes me feel really warm deep inside my heart.

“The score now is 2 VS 2.”

Takahashi sensei had slight changes in her look, which is rather strange. Is it because Himeji’s incredible growth or the fact that Class F can actually fight against Class A?

“The last duel, both sides please prepare.”

“OK.”

The person walks out from Class A is the strongest enemy---- Kirishima Shouko.

The person we sent from our class is definitely---

“It is my turn now.”

The one and only, Sakamoto Yuuji.

“The subject is?”

Maybe it’s because they think there is no way Kirishima Shouko will lose, there isn’t any noise coming from Class A. They just quietly look at both of them.

“I would like to choose Japanese History, the scope will be limited to primary school level and the maximum score is one hundred.”

The noise suddenly comes from everywhere.

“There is a limit to maximum score?”

“Primary school level? Doesn’t that mean full marks?”

“This fight will be determined by how focused they are….”

This will also give us a chance to win.

Class A also realizes that, so they start making some noise now.

“Understood. I will need to prepare some question. Please wait here for a while.”

Takahashi sensei closes the lid of her laptop and walks out of the classroom.

Takahashi sensei is enthusiastic in education, maybe she have collected some primary school level question sets?

I watch the teacher left the scene and return to Yuuji immediately.

“Yuuji, I am counting on you.”

I firmly hold Yuuji’s hand. We did all we could do. It all depends on the result of Yuuji’s duel now.

“Yeah, leave it to me!”

He firmly holds my hand as well.

“…….(put out his hand)”

Silent Pervert walks towards us and shows Yuuji a victory hand pose.

“Your power helped me a lot, thank you very much.”

“……(ha)”

Silent Pervert’s mouth slightly rises, and stands back to where he was just now.

“Sakamoto, thanks for telling me all those stories.”

“Ah, you mean stories about Akihisa? Don’t worry about it, and do your best.”

Huh? My stories? What did Yuuji say?

“Yes I will.”

Himeji gives him an energetic answer. Yuuji also has a happy smile on his face. It is a caring and gentle face.

“Now the final duel is Japanese History. Participants Kirishima and Sakamoto, please come to the video classroom.”

Takahashi sensei returns to the classroom and gives order to both class leaders.

“OK.”

Kirishima gives a simple answer and leaves the classroom.

“Well, I need to go now.”

“Sakamoto, take care.”

“Yeah.”

Yuuji is sent off by Himeji and heads towards the final battlefield.

The final fight finally starts. It doesn’t matter if we are going to cry or laugh, the test summoning war is going to end.

“Everyone, please look at the screen here.”

Takahashi sensei controls the machine, and the big monitor diplays images in the video classroom.

Kirishima takes her seat first, and then Yuuji also walks into the classroom and sits down.

“Now we are going to distribute the paper. The test is fifty minutes, maximum score is one hundred.”

The Japanese History teacher on the screen is placing the test papers on their tables with the back of the papers facing up.

“Any actions that are considered as cheating will result in zero mark, understand?”

“Yes.”

“I know that!”

“Then we start now!”

Both of them turn their paper over.

“Yoshii, it finally begins!”

“Yeah, finally.”

“If that question doesn’t appear, Sakamoto will…..”

“His concentration and focus are worse than the opponent. If the duel goes into extra time, he might lose. However……”

“Yes, if it appears….”

“Yeah…”

If it appears, this will be our victory.

Everyone is swallowing their saliva, and anxiously staring at the monitor, reading the questions that appear on it.

Will it come out? Will it come out?

“Please fill in the right year in ( )”

Year ( ) Heijo-kyo established as capital

Year ( ) Heian-kyo established as capital

It really is primary school level questions. Maybe even I could answer them as well.

Will that question come out?

Year ( ) Kamakura Bakufu established

Year ( ) Taika Reform

“Ah!”

It appears…..

“Y…Yoshii!”

“Yeah!”

“This mean, it is our ….”

“Yeah! Our Japanese style tables will be…..”

“Changed into the high class system table!”

Everyone in Class F shouts at the same time.

“This is the biggest ever victory for us, lousy Class F!”

“OHHHHHH!”

Our cheer sounds like it shakes the whole classroom.

“Japanese History Duel

Limited Scope Test

Maximum Score: One Hundred”

Class A Kirishima Shouko 97 marks

VS

Class F Sakamoto Yuuji 53 marks

Japanese style tables in Class F become paper boxes.

Baka to Tesuto to Syokanju:Volume1 The Eighth Question

2009-08-13T14:28:24Z

Andisan: New page: '''Question 8''' '''Please answer the following question:''' Female will manifest second sex characteristic after ( ), and thus develop the feminine characteristics. '''Himeji Mizuki'...

'''Question 8'''

'''Please answer the following question:'''

Female will manifest second sex characteristic after ( ), and thus develop the feminine characteristics.

'''Himeji Mizuki's Answer'''

“Menarche”

'''Teacher's Comment'''

Correct Answer.

'''Yoshii Akihisa's Answer'''

“tomorrow”

'''Teacher's Comment'''

Aren't you a bit too hasty?

'''Tsuchiya Kouta's Answer'''

“It is called menarche, the first period since the female was born. In medical term, period is called menstrual period. Menarche is closely related to the age and weight factors. It usually appears when the female’s body weight reached 43 kg, but the age would differ between each individual. In Japan, the average age is 12 years old. There are other factors beside weight, such as race, weather and social environment that will affect the time that menarche occur...”

'''Teacher's Comment'''

You wrote too much.

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“Akihisa, you are really desperate!”

This was the first thing that Hideyoshi told me after the war ended.

“Urgh....it hurts, really hurts....”

Anyway my hand was really hurting. Although not all the force was bounced back to me, the pain that was generated by destroying the wall barehanded was not a joke.

“This sort of strategy...... really suits you.”

“I..Is it? Don't you think you should praise me more?”

“This is a manly and amazing operation that force yourself into extremely dangerous situation at all cost and then make use of the sense of crisis to complete it.”

“Are you trying to say that I am an idiot?”

Destroying the wall in the school was not a small matter. I was forced to stay in the teacher's office to receive a psychological counselling. If this wasn’t my first school misconduct, I might not be able to go up to the next grade, or even get kicked out of the school.

“Well, this is the strength of Akihisa.”

Yuuji tapped my shoulder.

Being idiot is my strength? That is not something to be proud of!

“Now, let us start the meeting that make some people happy but also humiliate others. What do you think, Loser Class Leader?”

Nemoto was like a balloon without any air, quietly sat on the ground.

“Originally, I planned to take the equipment from your class, and then gave you the pretty little Japanese style tables as presents. However I could give you a special deal, which allows you to escape this punishment.”

Yuuji's announcement seemed to cause some unexpected reactions.

“Cool down, everyone. I had said it before, our target is Class A. Our goal is not here.”

“Yeah, he is right.”

“This place is just a transition point for us. So as long as Class B agrees to our condition, we shall spare them for now!”

Everyone in my class showed that they understood what Yuuji declared. Yuuji had said something similar when we were fighting Class D, so the classmates also understood him much better.

“What is the condition?”

Nemoto weakly said.

“The condition is related to you, Loser Class Leader.”

“Related to me?”

“Yeah. This time you had used enough of your dirty tricks, and to tell the truth, I disliked you since last year.”

Although what Yuuji said was impolite, Nemoto really did what Yuuji said, so no one jumped out and helped him. And he seemed to understand his situation as well.

“I will give you, Class B, this one and only special chance.”

Yuuji added what I asked him to get yesterday morning into the condition.

“Go to Class A and tell them, Class B is well prepared for the Test Summoning War. If you do that, I won't take your class equipment away. However remember not to declare war against Class A; else you will not be able to avoid the war. All you need to do is to let them understand that you guys are planning to fight the war, that's all.”

“That's all?”

Nemoto's eyes were filled with disbelief. If this went according to the previous plan, this would be all we wanted from him. However...

“Yeah, as long as Class B Leader wears this and does exactly what I said just now, I will spare your life this time.”

This is a tactic to get his uniform, but I think Yuuji also mixes a bit of his personal feeling into it.

“S..Stop kidding me! How dare you tell me to do such stupid act!”

Nemoto starts to panic and unable to talk properly, I think he really hates this!

“Class B members will definitely do as what Lord Yuuji said!”

“Leave it to us! We will definitely let him wear this female uniform!”

“If doing this can protect the classroom equipment, we have no other choice!”

These were all the warm supports coming from the Class B members. From their actions, I could imagine what dirty stuff Nemoto normally did.

“Then we have a deal.”

“Oi! D...Don't come any closer! You guys are pervert....Urgh!”

“Let him quiet down first!”

“Oh, thanks.”

Suddenly, a guy from Class B gave their Class Leader a punch in the stomach. Even Yuuji was shocked by how fast they changed their attitude.

“Now, let's change the clothes for him. Akihisa, I will leave this to you.”

“Understood.”

I came closer to Nemoto, who was lying on the ground and starting to take his clothes off.

Although there was no other punishment worse than taking the clothes of a guy, there was nothing else I could do since this was one of my purposes.

“Urgh....Urgh....”

Nemoto made some noise. Oh no, maybe he was going to wake up soon.

“Ahhhh!”

“Urgh!”

To ensure he didn't wake up, I gave him another punch. After that I took his male uniform that I was familiar with, and prepared to help him wearing the female uniform.

“Err.....How do I put this on?”

The way to wear a female uniform was totally different from a male uniform. I didn't even know where to start.

When I was confused and didn't know what to do next----

“Let me to help you.”

One girl from Class B nominated herself to help.

“Really? Thanks for the help. This is a rare chance; give him a good make up as well!”

“That's impossible, because the foundation is already rotten.”

This was so harsh.

“I will leave this to you then.”

I gave Nemoto to that girl and took his uniform away from the scene.

Maybe it was around here?

I looked around in Nemoto's uniform, and finally found an object.

“Found it, found it.”

I took the familiar looking envelop and put it into my pocket.

Now, what should I do with this uniform? Well, I decided to just throw it away. Since this was an opportunity to let Nemoto to enjoy the touch and the feel of female uniform on the way home.

I thought about all these things, and walked towards Class F classroom before everyone else reached there.

After throwing Nemoto's uniform into the rubbish bin, I withdrew the envelope from my pocket.

“Now it’s the time to return this to its rightful owner.”

I put the letter into Himeji's bag which is on the table, and the mission is now officially ended.

“Yoshii!”

“What?”

Suddenly, someone shouted behind me. I inevitably made some idiot scream, what a shame on me.

“W..What's up?”

I looked back in panic, and saw Himeji standing right there.

“Yoshii.....”

Her eyes looked like she was going to cry anytime.

“W..What's up?”

I thought my action of touching Himeji's bag had been seen, so I really started to panic. All of a sudden, Himeji gave me a hug and hugged me very tightly.

“Waaaa!”

“T...Thanks for your help....I..I really don't know what to do....”

The person who really didn't know what to do should be me right? Damn! Is this the newly invented tactic that forces people to change the focus?

“A...Anyway you need to calm down first. If you cry like this I will be in trouble.”

“Y...Yes.”

To soothe Himeji, I lightly pushed her away from me.

Ah, damn! Why did I push her away! I won't get a chance like this again!

“I am sorry, I was too excited.....”

Himeji wiped her eyes which turned a bit red after crying.

Ah! I really want to say! Please hug me tightly again!

“I want... want to ....”

“What?”

Ah! It slipped out of my mouth! I would be in deep trouble if I couldn't say something to get myself out of this!

“.....to hit the wall again.”

Idiot me! I really am an idiot! Are you a terrorist? Why do you want to hit the wall again!

“Er, if you do it again, you will not be able to go to the next grade....”

Yeah, I understand. I already know that. Don't look at me like that!

“Then I need to join the others.”

“Ah, please wait.”

I felt really weak and tried to turn and then ran away, but Himeji pulled my sleeve.

“W..What's wrong?”

“Er....”

Maybe she wanted to introduce a good doctor to me? Damn! I didn't think that what I said before will bounce back to me so soon. Why do I need to face such humiliation every single time!

“The letter, thanks for your help.”

Himeji lowered her head, and thanked me with a very low voice.

“It's nothing! I just accidentally found the letter and took it out from Nemoto's uniform.”

“That's.....lie isn't it?”

“No, that's not true....”

“Yoshii you are really gentle. When I needed to leave my seat during the class division exam, you also stood up and shouted towards to supervisor 'Just because of leaving the seat due to not feeling well, this is so unfair!' ....”

Come to think of it, there was something like that happened before. Because the supervisor was too uncaring, I couldn't help to feel mad.

“Also, this war... is started because of me right?”

“Eh? Ah, No! How could this be possible?”

“Hehe, you can't hide this anymore. Because when my self introduction was stopped, I saw Yoshii asked Yuuji out to discuss about something.”

She saw that we were discussing something? Then I couldn't hide it anymore.

“I am really, really happy. Yoshiii you are so nice, just like you were in primary school....”

What? I can't help to feel that this situation in this scene is very strange. I even had a numb feeling that I never felt before. Although I didn't quite understand what happened, I didn't like this situation at all!

“T..That letter, I wish you all the best!”

Anyway let's just change the topic for now else this might develop to a stage beyond my imagination.

“Ah....Yes! I will do my best!”

Himeji smiled and answered what I said. Looking at her smile I could not stop thinking like this: this girl really like Yuuji! I knew this long time ago, I knew I couldn't compete with Yuuji. Although I didn't like it, I couldn't do anything to it.

“Then, when are you going to confess?”

Let's tried to gossip a little bit, I could at least do this right?

“Er....I think it will have to wait until everything finished...”

Himeji's face turned red when answering my question.

“Is it, I think confessing directly is much better than letter!”

“I...is that so? Yoshii prefer that?”

“Yeah. If I am the guy, saying it in front of me will make me happier!”

Because of Nemoto, this letter had become a bad memory. I thought this was better for Himeji herself.

“Really? Don't forget what you have just said!”

“Eh? Ah, I know.”

My opinion might be different from Yuuji, but Himeji looked very happy, just like she got a very important advice.

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“T...This clothes, the skirt is too short!”

“Don't worry about it; if you walk slowly you should be fine.”

“S...Sakamoto you bastard, how dare you make me do this....”

“Stop wasting time! You have outdoor photo shooting later, you won't make it in time if you don't hurry up!”

“W...Wait, I never heard about that before!”

Suddenly some quarrelling sound came from the corridor. It seemed that show had started.

“What happened?”

“No idea.”

Now there was a new outdoor photo shooting session besides sending message to Class A. It seemed today would be a beautiful memory that Nemoto would never going to forget.

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“Anyway, good luck.”

“Yes! Thank you!”

Himeji gave an energetic answer and then left the classroom, what light paces she had!

Now is the time for me to return to the group.

I followed Himeji, and prepared to leave the classroom.

“Wait, before that.”

I walked towards Yuuji's seat, and took his bag.

“Anyway, let's leave some rude words in Yuuji's text book!”

I am not one of those who can congratulate the lucky guy easily!

Baka to Tesuto to Syokanju:Volume1 The Seventh Question

2009-05-03T02:26:56Z

Andisan: New page: === Seventh Question === '''Please answer the following question:''' '''What are the comparative and superlative forms for the words ‘good’ and ‘bad’?''' '''Himeji Mizuki’...

=== Seventh Question ===

'''Please answer the following question:'''

'''What are the comparative and superlative forms for the words ‘good’ and ‘bad’?'''

'''Himeji Mizuki’s Answer:'''

“Good—Better—Best”

“Bad—Worse—Worst”

'''Teacher’s Comment:'''

Correct Answer.

'''Yoshii Akihisa’s Answer:'''

“Good—Gooder—Goodest”

'''Teacher’s Comment:'''

I am surprised that you made such a common mistake. The comparative and superlative for good and bad is not just adding ‘er’ and ‘est’, don’t forget it next time.

'''Tsuchiya Kouta’s Answer:'''

“Bad—Butter—Bust”

'''Teacher’s Comment:'''

The meanings of these three words are ‘bad’, ‘butter’, ‘bust’.[http://www.baka-tsuki.net/project/index.php?title=Baka_to_Tesuto_to_Syokanju:Volume1_Translator%27s_Notes#Question_7]

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“I am going to use the hidden strategy that I mentioned yesterday.”

This was the first sentence Yuuji said when he came to school in the next morning.

“Strategy? It is still not the time for war yet right?”

The time now was 8:30 a.m. and the war was scheduled to start at 9:00 a.m.

“I am not using it on Class B, our target is Class C.”

“Ah, I see. What are you planning to do?”

“I plan to let you, Hideyoshi, wear this.”

Yuuji took out a set of female uniform from his bag after he said that.

The uniform used black and red as its base colour. It was a rare piece of artistic work for people in the society and students from other schools.

Come to think of it, Yuuji, how did you get hold on this? What had happened to you?

“No problem, but why do you want me to wear this?”

Hideyoshi, as a guy you should care a bit more shouldn’t you?

By the way, after wearing it Hideyoshi looked more like a girl, almost like his twin sister in Class A---

“I would like you to act as Yuuko Kinoshita, and pretend to be the messenger from Class A.”

I see, that’s why he wants Hideyoshi to wear female uniform!

Hideyoshi had a twin sister in Class A. They looked exactly the same, just like monozygotic twins. The differences between them were results and the way they spoke.

In other words, pretend to be his sister, and using the name of Class A and put pressure on Class C?

“Hideyoshi, quickly go and change your uniform!”

“Oh, OK….”

Hideyoshi took the uniform from Yuuji, and change into the uniform in front of them.

What’s wrong? What is this strange feeling in my chest? Although he is a guy, I just cannot take my eyes away from him!

"……" ''*Sounds of picture being taken*''

Silent pervert used the speed that almost gets his finger on fire and kept pressing the button on the camera.

Luckily, I am not the only one having this strange feeling.

“OK, I have finished changing. Huh? What’s wrong with you guys?”

Our faces must have looked very complicated I think?

“What should I say? I am not very sure as well!”

“You guys are so strange.”

No, it is your outlook that is strange! Why do you look so pretty?

“Then, let’s go to Class C.”

“Yeah.”

Yuuji left the classroom with Hideyoshi.

“Ah, I want to go as well.”

I quickly followed them.

I have been thinking about this yesterday. There was a very long distance between Class C and Class F. Although this was mostly due to the different sizes for each classroom, I still hoped the school could build it in a simpler way.

We continued walking, and eventually stopped in front of Class C classroom.

“I am sorry, Hideyoshi. You need to go in alone.”

Since he needed to pretend to be Class A messenger, Yuuji and I who were Class F members couldn’t stay beside him. Therefore we planned to hide somewhere and observed how things went.

“I don’t really feel like going…”

Hideyoshi looked very unwilling to do it. That’s understandable, pretending to be his sister and cheated the enemy was not a good experience to have.

“We are counting on you.”

“Ah…..There is no other way….”

“Sorry, but please provoke them as hard as you can. Make them hate Class A from the bottom of their hearts. I think you should be able to do it.”

Hideyoshi was a genius in acting, with a nickname called the Star of Drama Club. Although he was not good in studying, his performance in other areas was pretty impressive.

“Ah….Don‘t put too much hope on me……”

Hideyoshi sighed and powerlessly walked towards Class C. He looked very unhappy. Could he really cheat them in his current condition?

“Yuuji, are you sure Hideyoshi is fine? I think we better switch to other plan…”

“I think there should be no problem.”

Really? I kept on feeling that Hideyoshi looked like he didn’t want to do it at all. I just hope that his acting skill was not affected by his mental instability.

“I am worried …….”

“Shhhhh! Hideyoshi is going into the classroom.”

Yuuji put his finger to his mouth. We were so far away; they shouldn’t be able to hear us. However it was better to play safe so let’s just follow what Yuuji said.

''*Sounds of door opening*'' We heard the sound of the door that Hideyoshi opened.

“You dirty pigs, shut up now!”

……Wow.

“Hideyoshi really lived up to his name.”

“Yeah, there is no better way to provoke them than this.”

Even if he didn’t say anything, the hatred of Class C toward Class A should rise dramatically I think?

“W..What did you say!”

The shout must have come from the Class C class leader Koyama. I could feel the anger in her words without looking at her face. This was expected, they got scolded as pigs without knowing what is going on…..

“Don’t talk to me! The disgusting smell from the pigs will spread to me as well!”

You walk to them yourself and blame them for spreading pig smell? Wow, aren’t you acting a little bit too much?

“You are the Kinoshita from Class A right? Don’t think that you can be so arrogant when your result is good. What are you doing here in our classroom?”

In term of being well known in the school, Yuuko Kinoshita was more famous than Hideyoshi. Also, Hideyoshi was wearing female uniform now; there was no way they could see through him. Besides that, he had successfully provoked them, which have lowered their judging ability. This was just perfect.

“For me, the most unacceptable thing is that Class A classroom is built beside this ugly and smelly classroom! For people like you, a pig house is more than enough!”

“What! Are you trying to say that we are on the same level as Class F?”

Oi, Koyama! He never says anything about Class F!

“Although I don’t feel like dirtying my hand, I will give you a special offer and let you go straight into the pig house.”

Is this the minimum level of acting skill required to get into drama club? Or is our school just too weird?

“You guys are preparing for Test Summoning War right? Make sure you are well prepared, as we are going to clean all of you dirty pigs later!”

After Hedeyoshi said that, he purposely stomped hard onto the ground while he was leaving the room.

“Is this ok?”

Hideyoshi looked refreshed and walked towards us.

“Yeah, you have done well.”

“We have no time to bother about opponent like Class F! Everyone, prepare for the war against Class A!”

The scary shouts came from Class C class leader Koyama. It looked like the plan was going very smoothly for us. However, why was I feeling a little bit guilty?

“The plan is successfully done. We should start our preparation for the war against Class B.”

“Ah, OK.”

There was no time to get distracted by minor things. The Test Summoning War was going to start in ten minutes.

We quickly walked back to the Class F classroom.

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“Make good use of the doors and walls! Do not make the fighting area bigger!”

Hideyoshi's instruction echoed in the battle field.

At exactly nine o'clock, the war against Class B officially started. We resumed from the position we were in the war yesterday, which was right in front of Class B classroom, and started attacking.

According to Yuuji's instructions, our aim was to keep the enemies in the classroom.

While we were following the instructions, there was a new problem.

Something was not quite right with Himeji.

Although she was supposed to be the commander, she hadn’t given any instruction at all. Besides that, it seemed that she was not willing to take part in the war. What happened to her?

“Try to use only one subject at a time to defeat the enemy! Keep an eye on the backup!”

Therefore the person who was leading the troop now was the vice commander Hideyoshi. He followed Yuuji's instructions and achieved several objectives in just a few hours.

“The left entrance is under the counter-attack from the enemies!”

“We are lacking of Classical Literature force. We need backup!”

The left entrance that was under enemies attack was supervised by Takenaka sensei right?

That didn't sound good at all. There were a lot of students in Class B who were good in literature related subject. If we didn't counter their attack with our strong fighters, it might give them a chance to break through our troops.

“Himeji, please provide support to the left wing!”

In Yuuji's plan, Himeji had an important task to do in the afternoon. Although I felt sorry for troubling Himeji so early, it couldn't be helped.

“Ah, th...that....”

At this important moment Himeji didn't join the fight immediately. She looked like she was going to cry; panicking and walking around. That was not looking good; the enemies were going to break through!

“Haaa!”

I shouted, pushed through the crowd and dashed towards the left entrance.

After that I whispered something to the supervising teacher Takenaka sensei.

“Bla~bla...... if this is announced......your image......”

“!”

Takenaka sensei pushed my head low, and started to look around.

I never imagined that I needed to use the threatening information I prepared for emergency--- Classical Literature version! This was not part of the plan.

“I... I need to leave for a while!”

Just as I expected, we had a bit more leeway now.

“Those who still have some Classical Literature score head towards the left entrance! Those who have consumed the score immediately go to replenish it!”

This was just a temporary solution, but it should solve the problem for now.

Now is the time.

“Himeji, what's wrong?”

I quickly asked Himeji what I was wondering. I didn't know what happened, but it looked like there was something wrong with her. Not knowing the cause would put us into disadvantages in the war.

“A...Ah, I am fine!”

Himeji quickly shook her head, her long hair also swung around according to her action. Her action was so exaggerating.

It was obvious that there was something wrong with her.

“There must be something wrong right? Can you let me know if there is any? Maybe what you say might affect our plan.”

“R...Really it’s nothing at all!”

She kept on denying, but she looked like she was going to cry any time. There must be something wrong with her!

“The subject at the right entrance has been changed to Modern Japanese!”

“What happened to the Mathematic teacher!”

“Maybe kidnapped by Class B!”

Even the right wing’s subject had been changed into the one that Class B was good at, we were in serious trouble now!

“I am going to fight!”

Himeji quickly ran out and planned to join the fight after she said that. However---

“Ah......”

She suddenly stopped moving and turned her head down.

What happened? It looked like Himeji saw something and then behaved like that.

I looked towards the direction that Himeji was looking at.

At the end of the sight was a bastard leaning at the window and looked down on us --- Nemoto.

What did Nemoto do?

It was not very clear from where I stood, so I started to look carefully but I didn't see anything special---

“!”

Suddenly, something in his hand jumped into my sight.

It was a very normal item. It was not hard to get it, but it was also something that you could not buy.

The item in his hand was---

The letter that the shy Himeji wanted to hide from me three days ago.

“I see, so that is what happened!”

I was wondering when I heard about the treaty with Class B. That cheap and cunning Nemoto would never suggest such a fair treaty.

It seemed that he was planning to paralyse Himeji. If that's the case, then it was reasonable for him to suggest such treaty. If Himeji couldn't fight, that treaty would be very beneficial for Class B.

It really was a good tactic. There was neither any loss, nor any risks involved.

“Himeji.”

“Y...Yes.....”

“Since you are not feeling well, don't force yourself in joining the fight. The Test Summoning War hasn't end, you need to take care of your health.”

“Yes.”

“OK, I have something else to do and need to leave now.”

“Ah......”

Although Himeji looked like she wanted to say something, I just turned away from her and ran away from the scene because I had something more important to deal with.

“Nemoto, you have done something very interesting.”

I couldn't stop myself from saying something like that.

That bastard, I must kill him at all cost!

“Yuuji!”

“Huh? What's up, Akihisa? Are you running away from the war? If it is I will use the scissors to stab you!”

When I rushed back to the classroom, Yuuji was writing something on the notebook. When I took a closer look, it had all the information for both the enemies and our side remaining forces.

“I need to talk to you.”

“Then I shall force myself to listen to you!”

Now I had no time to reply his joke, and it seemed that Yuuji realised that my attitude was different from normal. He looked at me seriously, so I looked at him with a serious face as well.

“I need the uniform that Nemoto is wearing right now.”

“What happened to you?”

D...Damn! This sounds like I am a pervert!

“Ah, no, that, er....”

Actually I wanted the letter in the uniform, but I couldn't explain it... what should I do? If I don't clarify, I will become a guy who is a pervert that want a uniform that is weared by another guy. I would definitely face the destiny of cruel questioning.

“Sure, no problem. When we win the war, I will think of a way to get it for you.”

He agreed? Don't give me this reaction! It was just like saying 'It is not surprising that you have such interest'!

On the other hand, I couldn't explain the situation. Darn... Although it was painful, I could only accept such misunderstanding for now.

“Is that it?”

Yuuji looked at me with a helpless face. Of course that was not all I want.

“Also, I hope you don't send Himeji into this fight.”

“What is the reason?”

“I can't say.”

Although Himeji was going to tell him later, this was not something for me to let him know.

“Can't I send her no matter what the situation is?”

“Yes, no matter what the situation is.”

Yuuji used his hand to support his chin, considering the request that I had just made.

The request I made now was really unreasonable.

Not using Himeji in the fight against Class B was not just greatly reduced our fighting ability, it was a suicidal action. It was very possible that we might lose this war because of this request, and Yuuji would need to take the responsibility for the result.

“I am begging you, Yuuji!”

I deeply vowed towards Yuuji.

I also understood that this request was too selfish. Not only it wouldn't give Yuuji any benefit for accepting my request, he would need to bear a huge amount of danger. Honestly if I were him, I would not accept such unreasonable request like this without explaining the situation.

“I can agree only on one condition.”

“A condition?”

“You will take the mission that is planned to be done by Himeji. I don't care how you do it; you must accomplish it at all cost.”

However Yuuji accepted my request, he really had a better calibre than mine.

“Of course, leave it to me! I will definitely complete the mission!”

The corner of Yuuji's lip slightly rised.

“So what should I do?”

“Attack Nemoto at the right time with any subject.”

“Any backup?”

“None. The class B entrance need to be blocked.”

“Your requirement is really hard to meet!”

I am in big trouble now.

The fight now was at both entrance of Class B classroom. Because of the location, the fight could only be done one by one. This was a key step for earning more time in order to achieve Yuuji's plan. To get close to Nemoto, who set up a formation in the classroom, one must have a very strong individual fighting ability. That's right, someone with similar power as Himeji, and I did not have such power.

“What happened if I fail?”

“Failing is not an option; you must accomplish the task even if it costs your life.”

He spoke in a very strong tone that was totally different from normal. It seemed that this mission was closely related to the whole strategy.

What should I do? How can I accomplish this mission?

“Well, I am counting on you now.”

Yuuji stood up and prepared to leave the classroom, leaving me who was in deep thought just now.

“Huh? Where are you going?”

“I am going to Class D to give them instruction. It is about the agreement last time.”

Class D.. Most probably about that air conditioner machine outside their classroom.

It was not important. What should I do, how can I accomplish the mission for Himeji......

“Akihisa.”

Before Yuuji walked out the classroom, he turned him back to me and said:

“Your result is really bad, however the same as Hideyoshi and silent pervert, you have something that others can't compete with. That's why I can trust you so much.”

“Yuuji…”

“Do it well, I won't change the plan.”

After saying that, Yuuji left the classroom.

What I am good at? My adept Syokanju controlling technique is nothing when fighting in a small area.

“Ah!”

Although it was not really an advantage, I still had one special technique to use compared to the others. There was a way to complete the mission which could only be done by someone who had scores as low as mine. However it needed a lot of determination.

“It must be very painful!”

Just imagining what was going to happen gave me a huge pain through my body.

The amazing thing was that I gathered my resolution easily.

“OK! Now is the time to teach the evil person a good lesson!”

I gave my cheek a few good slaps to cheer myself.

Now there is a way, with a high success rate, and can be done if I have courage! I have no reason to run away. Consequences? Who cares!

“Minami! Muto and Kimishima! Come and help me for a while!”

I shouted to the three people who were in the middle of test to replenish their score.

“What happened?”

“What for?”

“I am having a test now.”

The three of them have consumed a lot of scores in the battle yesterday, so their mission was to take the tests to replenish their scores.

“Stop the test, come and help me. It is a mission that will decide the result of this war.”

“It sounds pretty important.”

“Yeah, no joking from now.”

“What should I do?”

“Duel against my Syokanju.”

“Are the two of you serious?”

The supervisor for Syokanju duel from Class D--- English teacher Endo sensei, reminded us again.

“Yeah, of course.”

“I am going to duel with this idiot sooner or later.”

Minami and I stared at each other.

“But there is no need to come all the way to Class D and fight, isn't it?”

Just as the teacher said, we purposely came to Class D to duel. Also both of us were Class F students, around us were Class F students as well. This must be a very strange situation for Endo sensei.

“There is nothing we can do about it, this idiot is 'Kansatsu Shobunsha'. If we are fighting in the lousy Class F classroom, the power of the Syokanju will definitely make the whole classroom collapse.”

“Two of you, please think about it again!”

“No, I have decided. If I don't repay what she normally does to me, I can never sleep peacefully.”

“Alright. There is a saying two might understand each other better after the fight, it seems that this is also part of the education!”

Endo sensei deeply sighed and stayed away from us after saying that.

Now we can summon our Syokanjus.

I took a deep breath, and spoke loudly.

“Syokanju Summoning---”

The familiar Syokanju appeared in front of my eyes. Although there were a lot of troubles for being a 'Kansatsu Shobunsha', this was the first time I felt thankful for having this title.

“Go!”

Minami's Syokanju appeared in the scene to reply my fighting will. I made my other self held the bokuto tightly, so tight that the bokuto almost became one with its hands, and dashed towards the enemy. Go!

Facing the enemy that had the wall at its back, my Syokanju made use of the inertia produced from the dash and swung out a strong punch.

''*PONG*''

“Darn!”

The act was too obvious and the enemy dodged it easily.

After that, the pain from the Syokanju's punch on the way bounced back to me.

“OHHH!”

I commanded my Syokanju to give a more powerful hit.

The enemy easily dodged to the side and the punch landed onto the hard wall again.

“Ouch....”

My fist suffered a great pain again.

The hit that was enough to shake the whole classroom, would also have a huge reaction force. There was a huge amount of pain going from the top of my head to the bottom of my leg and it gave me a sickening feeling.

“Aki, we are running out of time.”

Minami looked at the clock on the wall and said.

It was now two o'clock and fifty seven minutes in the afternoon, only three minutes away from the starting time of the mission.

“Isn't it about time for you to give up? Using so many people to block the entrance of the classroom, it makes the classroom so hot.”

The voice of Class B class leader Nemoto came from far away.

“What? The gutless Lord Class leader of Class B is planning to surrender now?”

The familiar voice that replied belonged to Yuuji. Since Himeji couldn't join the fight, so he need to use our main troops and commanded them?

“HA!”

The Syokanju moved again.

That huge move still failed to hit the enemy.

It looked like the Syokanju lost the ability to learn and kept on hitting the wall with full power. Before the pain faded away, a new pain appeared immediately.

“What? It should be you who need to give up right?”

“It is not your concern.”

“Oh really? Even though the condition of your saviour, Himeji, is not looking good?”

“For opponent like you, there is no need for bother Himeji. I let her to rest at the back.”

“Hmph! It seems you are pretty good in talking, loser class leader.”

“Loser? If you are talking about Class F, you will be enjoying that feeling very soon.”

“HA!”

This is the fourth attack.

The warm liquid dripped down from my fist.

When I looked at it, it seemed that I had lost quite a lot of blood. There was a small pool of blood on the ground now.

“There is a loud noise from the wall for a long time, what is going on?”

“Who knows? Maybe you are too disgusting and cause others to give you some trouble?”

“Hmph, say whatever you like, the winner will be decided soon. Everyone, dash out together!”

“Reform the troops! Step back first!”

“What? Boasting and running away at the same time?”

“Aki, it is about time.”

“Yeah, I know.”

I gave the comrades around me a signal with my eye.

Everyone nodded silently.

“Yoshii, Shimada, what are you planning to do?”

Endo sensei suddenly turned back and looked at us.

I needed to finish the job before he realised our fake duel and to recall the Syokanjus.

“OHHHHHH!”

I used all my force and roared.

It must be done in the fifth time! There is no turning back!

“I will leave the rest to you, Akihisa.”

After luring all the main troops away, Yuuji used his usual and clear voice to make the ad judgement.

It is exactly three o'clock in the afternoon, the mission starts now!

“HAAAA!”

I concentrated all the Syokanju's power on the fist, and punched at the wall.

Our aim from the beginning was the wall that separated Class D and Class B. The duel with Minami was just an excuse to summon the Syokanju.

“Urgh!”

The pain that ran through my whole body was stimulating the nerve.

However, only I could do this. With the price of suffering the pain that bounced back, my Syokanju had the ability to touch physical objects.

''*Sounds of wall collapsing*''

A clear collapsing sound open the way to Class B.

“What?”

Beyond the collapsed wall was Nemoto's distorted face due to extreme shock.

Almost all the enemy's troop left the classroom to chase after Yuuji's main troops.

It is a rare opportunity now. Since the main troops have gone, the defence force around the class leader is extremely weak now, it is now the time to win!

“Die, Nemoto Kyoji ----”

We dashed forward and prepared to challenge Nemoto, who was still stunned because of all the sudden changes.

“Endo sensei! Class F Shimada wants to----”

“Class B Yamamoto accepts the challenge! Syokanju Summoning!”

“Damn! It is the personal guards!”

The personal guards that remained in the classroom blocked the way in front of us.

We were only twenty meters away from Nemoto, however we were inside a small classroom which made this distance looked extremely long.

“H...Hahaha! You really surprised me! However it is so unfortunate! Your surprise attack plan still fails!”

Nemoto Kyoji purposely laughed loudly in order to cover his action just now.

It was true that our surprise attack plan had failed. The personal guards already surrounded Nemoto. Since we have lower score, we couldn't really break the current state anytime soon. However we have achieved our goal.

I know this is a sudden change of topic, but let me explain the characteristic of each subject!

Every subject has a different teacher teaching it. Depends on the teacher, the situation of the test will differ as well.

For example, Mathematic teacher Kiuchi sensei marks the paper very fast.

For example, World History teacher Tanaka sensei is very loose in terms of marking.

For example, English teacher Endo sensei, which is in the scene now, tends to give away some marks when he is marking the paper.

Then, how about Health Education?

Health Education teacher isn't very fast in marking papers and his marking criteria is not really loose. Also the summoning area is not very far and the teacher doesn't run very fast.

The characteristic of Health Education, is the teacher's---

''*Sounds of people landing*''

The entrance was blocked. The classroom was filled with unimaginable heat. Suddenly a student and a teacher appeared in the scene; a clear landing sound spread all over the classroom.

Because the air conditioner was broken, the windows were opened to let the air flew.

Two people climbed down from the roof using the rope, then jumped into the classroom and landed right in front of Nemoto Kyoji. That's right, the characteristic of Health Education was his extraordinary ability to move around.

“Class F Tsuchiya Kouta.”

“You..you bastard!”

“Will challenge Class B Nemoto Kyoji with Health Education.”

“Silent pervert----”

Because the personal guards were fighting us, Nemoto Kyoji had no bodyguard to protect him. Now he had no way to run.

“----Syokanju Summoning.”

Class F Tsuchiya Kouta VS Class B Nemoto Kyoji

Health Education 441 marks VS 203 marks

The short knife in silent pervert's Syokanju flashed, and instantly killed the enemy.

The war against Class B officially ended here.

Baka to Tesuto to Syokanju:Volume1 The Sixth Question

2009-04-18T11:00:36Z

Andisan:

===Sixth Question===

'''Please answer the following question:'''

Please write down the molecular formula for Benzene.

'''Himeji Mizuki's Answer:'''

“C6H6”

'''Teacher's Comment:'''

It’s very easy isn’t it?

'''Kouta Tsuchiya's Answer:'''

“Ben+zene=Benzene”

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'''Teacher's Comment:'''

Are you despising Chemistry?

'''Akihisa Yoshii's Answer:'''

“B-E-N-Z-E-N”

'''Teacher's Comment: '''

Come to my office later, together with Tsuchiya.

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“Good job everyone, thanks for the effort in taking those tests.”

Yuuji said, he stood on the podium and put his hand on the table.

We had tests for the whole morning. The tests finished not long ago. Now we are going to have lunch. To replenish the score we lost in all subject, the amount of test we took was scary.

“We will start the Test Summoning War with Class B this afternoon, are you ready to kill?”

“Oh----”

The morale was still high, and it was the only weapon for our class.

“The main point for this war is to hold the enemies in their classroom. Therefore we can’t afford to lose the battle at this corridor.”

“Oh----”

“Himeji Mizuki will be the commander there. Guys, be prepared and ready to die.”

“I…I will try my best.”

Himeji shyly walked out from the crowd, maybe she didn’t want to shout like the boys did.

“OH-----”

The morale of the frontline troops went over the limit since they were able to fight with a beautiful girl.

In conclusion, the key to this war is the battle at the corridor. If we lose there, we are finished. Therefore from the fifty students in Class F, we send out forty of them in that battle. This troop will be lead by Himeji, who is the strongest student in our class, second strongest in the whole school, so we should be able to win the battle without any hassle.

When the bell that announced the end of the lunch break rang, the war with Class B finally began.

“OK, everyone let’s go! The target is the systematic tables!”

“Yes Sir!”

To successfully hold the enemies in their classroom, we must take control of the momentum.

We rushed to the corridor outside Class B at full speed.

Since a lot of the students in Class B were good in non-science related subjects, plus the Mathematic teacher Hasegawa sensei had larger summon area, we picked Mathematic as our main subject for battle; in other words, if we wanted to finish the battle fast, Hasegawa sensei would be very useful.

There were English essay teacher Yamada sensei and Physics teacher Kimura sensei on our side as well. This time we needed to increase the number of teachers to supervise the battle, and finished the enemies off as fast as possible!

“I can see Class B students!”

“They brought Takahashi sensei!”

Class B students walked slowly in front of us, but there were only ten of them, they should be the vanguard and just wanted to test our ability.

“Don’t let them walk back alive!”

Along with this threatening shout, the war against Class B has officially started.

Class B Nanoka Chounan VS Class F Kondo Yoshimune

Sum of All Subjects 1943 marks VS 764 marks

What? He is too strong! It is like totally different level!

Class B Kaneda Ichiyuko VS Class F Muto Keita

Sum of All Subjects 159 marks VS 69 marks

Class B Satoi Mayuko VS Class F Kimishima Hiroshi

Sum of All Subjects 152 marks VS 77 marks

The difference between the fighting abilities was overwhelming, our frontline troops kept on losing. If we didn’t send in reinforcement before their scores reduced to zero, our numbers would be greatly decreased.

Just when I was trying to see whether we have any reinforcement or whether the route is being cut off by the enemies----

“I…I am late…..S…orry…”

Himeji hardly caught her breath and arrived at the scene, I thought she should be running all the way to the front line.

“Himeji Mizuki is here!”

One of the students in Class B shouted. It seemed that Class B already knew Himeji was not in Class A, and made appropriate investigation I guess?

All the students in Class B were shocked when they heard that. It was very easy to see that they were scared of Himeji.

“Himeji, although you have just arrived, can you please….”

“Y…Yes. I will go now.”

Himeji immediately dashed into the middle of the battlefield. Looking at her give you the feeling of calmness, I really feel like taking a photo now and keep it as a souvenir.

“Hasegawa sensei, I am Iwashita Ritsuko from Class B; I would like to challenge Mathematic with Himeji Mizuki from Class F!”

“Ah, Hasegawa sensei, I am Himeji Mizuki, nice to meet you.”

Himeji was immediately targeted by the enemy, maybe she was the target that the enemies wanted to get rid of as soon as possible?”

“Ritsuko, I will help as well!”

Another girl from Class B stepped forward and summoned at the same time. There were only ten students from Class B here, and two of them were here, it seemed that they were really scared of Himeji.

“Syokanju summoning!”

The magic circle appeared after the summoning and the syokanju that we were all familiar with, stood in front of us.

The enemies’ syokanjus used their swords and spears and pointed towards Himeji’s Syokanju, but her Syokanju seemed to be very calm and just held the great sword that we have seen before.

It was now a face off between the three syokanjus with the face of their owner, however---

“Eh? Himeji’s syokanju has an accessory.”

“Ah, yes. Because I am pretty good in Mathematic……”

“You can wear an accessory in the subject you are good at?”

The two head tall of Himeji’s syokanju had a beautiful looking bracelet on the left hand wrist beside the great sword on her hand.

“T..That’s?”

“She is not the enemy we can handle!”

The enemies started panicking when they saw the bracelet.

Ah, this reminds me, wearing the bracelet means---

“Erm, I am going to attack.”

Himeji tightly held her hand, following her action, her Syokanju dashed towards the enemy from its left hand side.

“Wait a minute!”

“Ritsuko! Dodge the attack first!”

Both of their syokanjus jumped to the side with dramatic actions. Suddenly, the bracelet on Himeji’s syokanju hand emitted a bright light.

Beep!

“Ahhh!”

“Ritsu.. Ritsuko!”

The instance when the left arm emitted the light, one of the enemies’ syokanju that couldn’t escape on time was covered in flame.

Class F Himeji Mizuki VS Class B Iwashita Ritsuko & Kikuiri Mayumi

Mathematic 412 marks VS 189 marks & 151 marks

So wearing bracelet means that the syokanju is capable of using special ability? Although I have forgotten what is the requirement score for that, I did remember somewhere in the rules stated that students who score above certain score are able to equip bracelet on their syokanjus, which allow them to use special ability. This rule has nothing to do with me so I have totally forgotten about it.

“So..sorry. I can’t be that gentle in battlefield!”

Himeji’s Syokanju sticked to the enemy which had lost control due to dodging the previous attack, and cut the enemy and its weapon into half, killed it instantly and won the fight.

“Iwashita and Kikuiri have died in battle!”

“What! How’s that possible?”

“Himeji Mizuki is scarier than she was in the rumours!”

The remaining eight students from Class B looked extremely shocked; it was not surprising for them to look like that.

By the way, Himeji, you are too strong.

“E..Everyone, please do your best!”

Himeji said something that didn’t sound like a command from a commander, however it is extremely effective.

“I am going to unleash my power!”

“Himeji is the best!”

The numbers of Himeji believers had dramatically increased.

“Himeji, you can have a rest now!”

“Ah, yes.”

The enemies’ morale had significantly dropped, it was better to let Himeji to rest now. Special ability could deal huge damage but it would cost a lot of scores. Even if there was no Himeji in the fight, defeating the enemy vanguard was just a matter of time now.

“Swap with the main troop and retreat at the same time, don’t die in battle!”

And that’s the enemy’s command. Anyway we have achieved our target successfully. Let the enemy stepped back slowly, and restricted their actions in Class B classroom, then the battle for today should be close to the end. It was thanks to Himeji’s extraordinary fighting ability that made the plan flowed smoothly, thank you very much!

“Akihisa, I will head back to the classroom now.”

“Huh? Why?”

Hideyoshi walked towards me when I was looking over the overall situation of the battle.

Go back? Did something happen to the main troop?

“The class leader for Class B is……”

“The guy named Nemoto.”

“You said Nemoto, could it be Nemoto Kyoji?”

“That’s right.”

The guy called Nemoto Kyoji had a very bad reputation. According to the rumours, he was a pro in doing dirty tricks, and would take whatever actions needed to achieve his goal. There were rumours about ‘Poison the opposing team in ball game’, ‘Bring weapons when fighting with others’ and so on. I didn’t really believe he could be that bad, but being careful wouldn’t harm us at all.

“I see, then we should head back as soon as possible!”

“Although I don’t think Yuuji will fall for his trap, we better head back just to make sure everything is ok.”

After we informed Himeji about this, Hideyoshi and I brought a few men back to the classroom.

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“Wa, this is terrible!”

“I can never imagine they actually did all this.”

“This is so mean.”

When we were back at the classroom, we could see there were holes all over the Japanese tables, pencils and erasers were all broken or split into two.

“This is bad, now we can’t replenish our score smoothly.”

“Yeah, this might be a minor problem, but it certainly will affect our score replenishment.”

By the way, I think Nemoto is a pretty coward.

“Don’t worry about it too much. Although it takes some time to repair, it won’t affect our plan so much.”

“Well Yuuji, we will follow what you say.”

Something didn’t seem right.

“Why does the classroom become this bad and Yuuji, you don’t know anything about it?”

There was no problem in the classroom before the lunch break, it must have happened sometime between the start of the battle until now. However, Yuuji should have been in the classroom at that time and be able to stop them right?

“They wanted to sign a treaty with me and I went to negotiate with them, so the classroom was empty at that time.”

“What treaty?”

“Well, if both of us can’t win the war before 4 p.m., we will maintain the situation of the war as it is and start the war again from 9 a.m. tomorrow morning. Both sides cannot do anything that is related to the Test Summoning War. ”

“I see, and then you agreed?”

“That’s right.”

“But if it comes to the stage where stamina determines the result, we should be in advantage isn’t it?”

“That’s true for all of us, except Himeji.”

Ah, I see.

“After forcing them to stay in the classroom, the war ends for today, the true battle starts tomorrow.”

“That’s right. It seems we can’t take them down today.”

“At that time, Himeji’s fighting ability is more important than the fighting ability of the whole class.”

That meant the battle would focus in certain areas? Then it should be the same as the battle against Class D and let Himeji finished off the class leader I guess?

“That’s why you accept their suggestion, and let Himeji fight in the perfect condition?”

“Yes. This treaty is good for me.”

Is it? Good then if you said so.

However I keep feeling a little bit strange about this. They have destroyed our tables, and then signed a treaty that was good for us at the same time. I don’t think Nemoto Kyoji is such a naïve person.

“Akihisa, we should head to the front line now, maybe they have used some dirty tricks again.”

Hideyoshi ran out of the classroom after he said that.

“Yeah. Yuuji, we will leave this to you.”

“Oh, I will go to prepare new pencils and erasers.”

Yuuji raised his hand and said goodbye, I turned away from him and chased Hideyoshi from the back.

I managed to catch up with Hideyoshi quickly without running at my full speed.

“I keep thinking we haven’t seen the last of them!”

“Yeah. I don’t think they will stop here, we better be careful.”

What would be the next dirty trick they use? Damn, they have stronger fighting ability than us, why don’t they fight with us face to face?

We were going to reach the battle field.

“Remember to be careful!”

“You too, Hideyoshi!”

After reminding each other, we went back to our troop.

“Hideyoshi! You are finally back!”

The person who welcomed me back was Sugawa. Huh? Wasn’t Shimada supposed to control the troop?

“Sorry to keep you waiting! What is the situation now?”

“The situation is very bad for us.”

“Huh? Why?”

The enemy’s main troop has never appeared, and our fighting ability is better than them, why are we in the bad situation now?

“Shimada is captured and held as a hostage.”

“What?”

Now they are using hostage? Do you really believe you can win with using dirty tricks?

“Therefore the enemy only have two people left, but we can’t attack them at all. What should we do?”

Now, my troop is confronting with the enemy because of this incident.

“Hmmm, let me see the situation before I make the decision.”

“Then we should head there now, the enemy is blocking us in the corridor there”

Sugawa lead the way, and I followed him at the back.

After walking through the human wall formed by my troop, it was clear that the situation in front of me was exactly the same as what Sugawa had told. Shimada and her Syokanju were hold as hostages by two Class B students. And they had a tuition teacher beside them as well.

“Shimada!”

“Yoshii, Yoshii!”

Why does this sound like a soap drama?

“Hold on there! If you get any closer, I will give her Syokanju the final hit, and send her to the tuition room!”

One of the enemies that captured Shimada stood out and restricted my action.

Not only they would let the precious female student in our class died, they also purposely held her as hostage to threaten us, and lowered our morale at the same time. This strategy was really smart.

If we blindly dashed forward before we managed to defeat them, they would defeat Shimada and used the fact that she was sent to tuition room so we would feel guilty about it.

……This is nothing at all.

“Everyone, prepare to attack!”

“Leader, are you sure about this?”

There is no other way! We always have someone who sacrifices in the war! This is not revenge for being tortured every day, it is just a decision that a leader need to make!

Even the enemy was calling for a stop, how uncool.

“Do you know why she is being caught by us?”

“It’s because she is an idiot.”

“I am going to kill you!”

Huh? What? Why does Shimada sound stronger than me while being held as a hostage?

“This girl, she believed in the false information about you being injured, and left the troop alone to the nursing room to look for you.”

What did you say?

“Shimada……”

“W…What!”

Am I thinking too much? It seems like Shimada’s face is pretty red.

“How could you assassin me when I am injured, are you a devil?”

“That was not the reason I went!”

This is so scary, now I can’t have a nap in nursing room in peace.

“Is there anything wrong to visit you and see how your wound is? I am worrying about you!”

Huh?

“Shimada, is this true?”

“Y..yes! Can’t I do that?”

Shimada looked a little bit angry and turned her head aside.

Really? She was worrying about me! That Shimada…..

“Haha, now you understand. Listen to me and stop doing anything.”

“Everyone, attack!”

“Why?”

Why? Do you really need to ask that?

“She is not the real Shimada! She must be faked by one of the enemy! You guys pick the wrong person to fake! That Shimada will never be so gentle! If she is the real Shimada, she will definitely be very happy to send me to hell!”

“Oi, wait a minute! This person is the real Shimada!”

Class B students, look at how uncool you are.

“Shut up! After we have seen through your dirty strategy, you still want to continue using it? How ugly! ”

“I am telling you that she is the real one!”

Class B Suzumoto Jiro VS Class F Tanaka Akira

English Writing 33 marks VS 65 marks

Class B Yoshida Takuoh VS Class F Sugawa Ryou

English Writing 18 marks VS 59 marks

Defeat both of them first! Give their Syokanjus fatal hit!

“Ah…..”

“Help me-----”

Both of them were taken away by the tuition teacher instantly, this really felt good.

Then, what’s left is only----

“Everyone be careful! The enemy might cancel the camouflage anytime and attack us!”

This was the impostor who was trying to imitate Shimada!

“Yoshii, you are so mean! I was really worrying about you……”

“Stop your clumsy act, you second rated actor!”

The real Shimada would never say something like that!

“It is true! I was really worrying about you!”

“Surround her. Even if she is from Class B, she can’t fight so many of us at the same time.”

“It is true! I heard ‘Yoshii saw Mizuki’s underwear and can’t stop his nosebleed’, and got really worried!”

“Stop surrounding her! She is the real Shimada!”

She was the only person who would fall for this sort of idiot lies.

“Shimada, are you alright?”

I lent my hand to Shimada, who was sitting on the ground. Damn you Class B, how dare you used such dirty trick!

“It is good that you are fine, I am worried about you!”

“……”

“Go to have a rest in the classroom, you must be very tired right?”

“……”

“By the way, these guys are really cowards; do they have pride for being human?”

There was no reaction from Shimada.

“Ah----Shimada, actually----”

“What!”

She finally turned her head and looked at me.

I tried my best to give a perfect smile filled with apologies to Shimada, who was staring at me right now.

“I know you are the real Shimada.”

She became berserk.

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“Where am I?”

When I regained consciousness, I saw the ceiling that was full of dirt. This is…Ah, our classroom.

“Ah, you finally wake up?”

The cute voice came from my side; could it be the healing voice of Himeji?

“I was worried about you. Yoshii, your wound looked like you were beaten by someone and then pushed down from the stairs.”

Correct answer.

“Even if it is The Test Summoning ‘War’, there is no need to make someone injured like this right?”

No, instead of calling it a ‘war’, you should call it a one sided slaughtering.

“It is nothing important. How is the Test Summoning War?”

I tried to sit up on the tatami and felt pain all over my body.

“According to the treaty, it is now armistice, the war will continue tomorrow.”

“How is the situation?”

“We sort of attacked to the front of their classroom as planned. However our losses were greater than what we imagined.”

Yuuji read the damage report on the paper one by one. Although it was sort of within our expectation, this was still a huge loss. It seemed that we didn’t have a total win in the battle at corridor, but that’s the result of putting most of our men in, not a good result for our overall strategy.

“Although there were some accidents happened, it seems that things went smoothly until now?”

“Yeah, you could say that!”

However, the opponent was that coward Nemoto Kyoji, he must have had some hidden plan.

“…. (Knocking the door)”

“Oh, silent pervert! Is there anything you want to report?”

Before I realized it, silent pervert was beside me.

Today, silent pervert was a member of the intelligence team, so he did not take part in the battle. His job was to stay alert and to record what was going on in the enemy troop.

“Huh? Something strange is going on in Class C?”

“…… (Nodded)”

According to silent pervert’s information, Class C was preparing for the Test Summoning War. If they are not planning to challenge Class A, then there is only one reason----

“They want to take on the easy target? They are such cowardly bastards.”

As Yuuji just said, they were planning to attack the winner of this war, because it was easier to take on the opponents who were tired and exhausted.

“Yuuji, what do you plan to do?”

“Hmmm, what should I do?”

Yuuji raised his head and looked at the clock. It was four thirty now, not too late.

“We better sign treaty with Class C as well. If we threaten them that we are going to use Class D to attack them, I believe they will give up the idea of attacking us.”

“Also, they don’t believe that we will win right?”

It shouldn’t be too hard to sign treaty with Class C.

“OK, let’s go now!”

“Yeah.”

I injected my power into the aching body and stood up. My body seemed to be in fine.

“As a safety switch, Hideyoshi, you stay in the classroom.”

“Huh? Why? Is it ok for me not to go with you guys?”

“If your face is seen, my hidden strategy that I leave for emergency situation will not work.”

“I don’t quite understand what you are talking about. If you said so, I will just do as you said!”

Hideyoshi stepped down obediently. But, what is the emergency situation he is talking about?

“Then let’s go! It will be a little dangerous since we are short on numbers.”

Without Hideyoshi; Yuuji, Himeji, silent pervert and I headed towards Class C.

“It took me a long time to clean Yoshii’s blood that spilt on my body; I must make him pay later.”

“Was it Yoshii’s fault?”

When we were in the corridor, we saw Shimada, who was using her handkerchief to wipe her hand, and Sugawa, who had his bag on his back.

“Ah, Shimada and Sugawa, nice timing, let’s go to Class C together.”

Although I didn’t think it would happen, but just in case we get attacked by Class C students like I was, it would be dangerous to be going with only a few of us. Also we needed extra people to guard Himeji as well. I kept on thinking and called on my two best friends in front of me at the same time.

Of course, as my best friends, they won’t reject my invitation.

“Hmm, OK!”

“O, no problem for me”

Now I have backup I can trust.

“Hurry up else Class C class leader will be going home.”

“Yeah, let’s go!”

After Shimada and Sugawa joined the team, six of us continued to head towards Class C.

“I am the class leader of Class F Sakamoto Yuuji, who is the class leader here?”

There were still a lot of students remaining in Class C. It was just as what silent pervert reported; they were preparing for the Test Summoning War and waiting to pick the easy target.

“I am, what do you want?”

The girl appeared in front of us had very short hair, I remembered she was the star of volleyball club, Koyama.

“I am here to negotiate with you as the class leader of Class F, are you free now?”

“Negotiate? Ha……”

Although I don’t like to badmouth girls, Koyama is so far away from being gentle and steady. After she heard what Yuuji said, for some reason, she showed an evil smile on her face.

“Yeah, I am here to sign a treaty of mutual nonaggression.”

“A treaty of mutual nonaggression, right? What do you think, Nemoto?”

Koyama turned her head, and talked to the group of students in the corner.

Huh? Nemoto?

“Of course not, because there is no need for that right?”

“What? Nemoto! Why Class B is here?”

The person who brought a group of people and walked towards us, was our current enemy--- Class B class leader Nemoto Kyoji. He had short hair and unshaven beard around his mouth, plus the evil looking eye. He looked totally different from Yuuji who had a pair of sharp eye.

“Class F, aren’t you mean? How dare you break our promise? I thought we agreed that we’d stop anything related to the Test Summoning War?”

“What did you say…”

“You were the one who broke the treaty first right? I am just doing what you had done!”

After he said that, the group of people at his back started moving. The person who hid behind him was Hasegawa sensei, who was short and was staying on the battle field just now.

“Hasegawa sensei! Yoshino from Class B wants to challenge----”

“Not so fast! Sugawa from Class F will accept the challenge! Syokanju Summoning!”

Just when Yoshino from Class B planned to surprise attack Yuuji, Sugawa jumped out and accepted the challenge for Yuuji. Good job, Sugawa!

“We are never against the treaty! This is just between Class C and Class F---”

“It is no use, Akihisa! Nemoto will definitely use the sentence ‘anything related to Test Summoning War’ as an excuse!”

“That’s right, and that’s what I will do~”

“Nonsense!”

“Nonsense is also a very useful theory!”

“Akihisa, run!”

“Damn!”

Leaving Sugawa who was fighting at the back, the rest of us left Class C as fast as we can.

Class B Yoshino Takayuki VS Class F Sugawa Ryou

Mathematic 161 marks VS 41 marks

“Don’t let them get away! Defeat Sakamoto!”

Nemoto’s voice and the footsteps sound came from our back.

Honestly, the current situation was very dangerous. Not only that we could not fight with Class B students face to face, our only hope Himeji already used up a lot of Mathematic scores. Nemoto must have known that Himeji had used up a lot of Mathematic score, so he called Hasegawa sensei here. It was a dirty trick, but it was an effective one.

“Ha, Hu…..”

“Himeji, are you alright?”

We were running on the corridor at full speed, but Himeji’s steps were slowing down. She was not good in sports. For a physically weak student like her, it must have been very hard to run like this.

“Err… You guys c..can go first……”

Himeji was trying to catch her breath while saying that. We would not be able to escape the enemies attack with her like this, but we couldn’t lose her here as well. If we lost Himeji’s fighting ability, who knew what would happen to the war tomorrow. Also I couldn’t just leave a girl here and ran for my life!

Is there nothing we can do now?

“Yuuji!”

“What, Akihisa!”

“Leave this to me! Yuuji, you retreat with Himeji now!”

I stood and looked back; Himeji and Yuuji ran past me.

I never have imagined I had a chance to say some cool stuff like this, did I look cool enough?

“Y..Yoshii, don’t, worry about me.”

“I got it, I will leave it to you.”

Yuuji stopped Himeji’s word, and agreed with my suggestion. This was the Yuuji I know, never let his feeling to affect his judgement, and calmly made decisions according to the situation.

“…… (Stop running)”

“Wait, silent pervert, you need to escape as well. I think the key for tomorrow’s battle is you.”

Silent pervert stopped with me at the same time. I felt grateful for that, but I thought he had more important mission to accomplish, we could not lose him at situation like this!

“Then it should be ok for me to stay right? Leader?”

Shimada stopped running, and stood beside me.

“Can I rely on you?”

“Of course you can, leave everything to me!”

“…… (Good luck)”

Silent pervert gave us a big thumb up, and then ran away from the scene immediately.

“……What should we do now? Leader?”

“Ah, I have an idea.”

“Huh? Really?”

Shimada looked at me with a shocked face.

Wa--- it seemed that she never trust me, what an impolite vice leader.

“I don’t want to end up in tuition room as well, leave this to me!”

“Found them! Yoshii and Shimada from Class F!”

“Kill them!”

The enemies approached us quickly. Hasegawa sensei was there as well.

“Class B students! Stop there!”

To decrease their morale, I purposely used strong language to stop them.

“You are pretty brave. Do you think you can stop us with only two of you?”

“No, before we fight I have something to say to Hasegawa sensei.”

If we showed the enemies our weakness, we would lose control of the situation, so I continued on speaking strongly.

(Yoshii, what are you thinking? Are you going to complain with Hasegawa sensei and say they are disobeying the treaty?)

(Well leave it to me, I have my way.)

I whispered softly with Shimada who was starting to worry now. Ah, she was worrying too much.

“What is it, Yoshii?”

Hasegawa sensei walked to the front. She was still trying to catch her breath, maybe she needed more exercise?

“Do you know that Class B disobey the treaty?”

If she was a teacher, she wouldn’t stand beside the students who were not obeying the rule. That’s definitely true for someone who was responsible for being a judge.

(That cunning Nemoto must have thought of a good excuse)

“From the fact that I have heard, the one who broke the treaty was Class F, wasn’t it? If you are complaining that you get attacked because of this, before saying anything about the treaty, you should check your personality shouldn’t you?”

I thought the teacher’s comment was a little bit rude. Although, I believed the facts were twisted by Nemoto when he was explaining these facts to Hasegawa sensei, just as Shimada said.

(It is exactly the same as I imagine until now, what are you planning to do?)

“……”

(I am looking forward to your strategy.)

Shimada winked.

Confronted by her expectation, I made the following reply.

“We are dead….”

“This guy is an idiot!”

This is so rude.

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“Sakamoto! Yoshii.. Is he.. Is he going to be fine?”

“Of course! I can’t guarantee for others, but he would definitely had no problem.”

“But……”

“He is really not good in studying. However, even if you have bad result, it is not everything right?”

“Wha…what does that mean?”

“That idiot.. He is not a normal ‘Kansatsu Shobunsha’.”

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“Syokanju Summoning!”

Four enemies summoned their Syokanjus at the same time.

We kept on running away, but this corridor was full of dead ends. It was just a matter of time before we arrived in the battle area.

“Yoshii, what should we do?”

“You ask me? Then who should I ask!”

“Anything is fine, just think of something!”

Shimada and I were running side by side and shouted to each other at the same time.

“OK, I got it! Shimada, you try to take them on at the same time!”

“OK OK, then?”

“My chance of escaping will be higher.”

“I will definitely finish you off one day!”

Now we were at the end of the corridor. There was only a wall with a window in front of us.

“Shimada, summon your Syokanju now.”

“Summon it?”

“Then use it to receive damage instead of me.”

“Go to die!”

“Wa! Why do you suddenly go berserk? Are you a berserker?”

I kept running and dodged the punches that Shimada threw on me at the same time.

Damn. Now we were at the dead end.

I rested my back on the wall and looked forward, and saw the enemies getting closer and closer.

“You guys must be very tired will running around!”

“By the way, do we have to chase them?”

“There is nothing we can do. When we are being idiot playing with them, Sakamoto’s group has escaped.”

“Then let’s finish them and go back!”

When they realized we had nowhere to run, four of them looked like they had used up all the energy and started chatting in front of us

Since there is no reason to chase us, why don’t just let us go!

“Oi, do you have enough chat?”

Shimada was angry and scolded them when she saw that they were being so impolite. Oh, at situation like this, she was still very aggressive.

“Because….Ah!”

“What?”

“You are the lousiest class.”

How dare he say something like this! I must say something in return!

“We are not the lousiest class! It is just the students are lousy!”

“Yoshii, shut up!”

Huh? I was trying to fight back, why was she so angry?

“Don’t look down on us because we are Class F!”

“Oh really? What can the Class F level do?”

“Then feel it yourself! Syokanju Summoning!”

Shimada shouted out and the Chibi Shimada that I had seen a lot of time appeared.

“That is what I’ll do! I will let you know the difference in our ability!”

The guy from Class B who was quarrelling with Shimada also summoned his Syokanju. It held its knife and dashed towards us. Although the enemy couldn’t do any complicated moves, it had enough power.

“You!”

Shimada also let her Syokanju rushed forward.

Then the enemy’s strong attack caused Shimada’s Syokanju to---

Class B Kudo Shinji VS Class F Shimada Minami

Mathematic 159marks VS 171 marks

“You, are you really from Class F?”

No, they had the same ability! What’s going on?

“He he, it is your fault for choosing mathematic. For this subject, it doesn’t matter if I don’t understand Kanji[http://www.baka-tsuki.net/project/index.php?title=Baka_to_Tesuto_to_Syokanju:Volume1_Translator%27s_Notes#Question_6]!”

OH, Shimada you are so cool!

“By the way, Shimada what is your score for Ancient Literature?”

“Just a single digit!”

She is so sure! It is so cool as well!

“Kudo, do you need help? You don’t want to be sent to the tuition room like this right?”

“Damn, please help me!”

Kudo regretted and bite his lips. It was really a shame to ask for help when fighting Class F.

Then the situation was not looking good for Shimada. Both Syokanjus were using their weapons and fighting with all their strengths, none of them can move now. If the number of enemies increased, she would definitely lose.

“Shimada, do you need help? You don’t want to be sent to the tuition room like this right?”

“You will just get in my way!”

“You are so mean!”

I regretted and bite my lips. She is so mean to me!

However, this was no time for jokes. No matter how tired I was, I shouldn’t just run away in a situation like this. It was time for me to join the battle.

“Syokanju Summoning!”

A familiar magical circle appeared beside me. The Syokanju that had the same amount of fighting ability as my mathematic score, slowly showed itself.

Its strong looking face!

Its sturdy body!

Its fast and swift moves!

Its absolute strength it showed when it was summoned!

“Don’t worry about Yoshii! You can see that he is just a weakling!”

“Pay me back! Pay me back my handsome descriptions!”

“Go away, you weakling!”

“Shimada, are you my partner? Why do you insult me so much!”

It was true that my Syokanju only had a bokuto[http://www.baka-tsuki.net/project/index.php?title=Baka_to_Tesuto_to_Syokanju:Volume1_Translator%27s_Notes#Question_6] on its hand and looked very weak.

Now I was surrounded by the enemies (one of them was my classmate)!

“Now we are in trouble.”

Shimada’s face was slightly twisted.

Although she could win against the enemies, the difference in the score was small. It was obvious that Shimada had consumed a huge amount of score.

“Goodbye!”

The Class B student controlled her Syokanju and attacked, Shimada’s Syokanju couldn’t dodge it. Now is the time for me to show up!

“Taste my kick!”

I let my Syokanju dashed forward and tripped my enemy over from the side.

“Ah!”

Underestimating my ability plus infamiliarity with controlling a syokanju, the enemy tripped over easily.

“This is not the end of it!”

I used my bokuto and swung towards the enemy, hit it into the ground. Now is the time!

“Ah----”

My Syokanju quickly grabbed the back of the head of the enemy Syokanju, and hit its head towards the ground.

Boom! It made a loud noise that could be heard anywhere along the corridor.

“Huh?”

Everyone said that at the same time.

The result of the battle was decided instantly.

Class B Sanada Yuka VS Class F Yoshii Akihisa

Mathematic 166 marks VS 51 marks

The score of the battle just now appeared in the air.

It is so embarrassing! Her score is triple of mine!

“What! Sanada’s score is higher right? Why is she defeated by such a weak Syokanju?”

Kudo from Class B complained to the teacher. This had nothing to do with the teacher, what can you get from her?

“Huh? My Syokanju is still alive?”

The syokanju that was beaten into the ground stood up, the power was really not enough……

“Yoshii, what happened?”

“Ah… I guess these are maybe the few advantages for being a ‘Kansatsu Shobunsha’?”

From everyone’s performance in the war against Class D, I realized that controlling Syokanju was not an easy task.

The extraordinary power and the difference in size, these made controlling Syokanju more difficult. Therefore everyone only used dash attacks or simple attack methods, and let the score to determine the result.

“What do you mean by advantages?”

“In other words, I am used to controlling Syokanju!”

As a ‘Kansatsu Shobunsha’, I had summoned Syokanju countless time, and the pain and tiredness that bounced back to me gave some advantages---- it forced me to make my Syokanju to perform more complicated actions. If I only knew how to perform simple actions such as ‘run’ or ‘swing the knife’, I could never do those extra work given to me.

“This is just an accident!”

The enemy raised its knife again and attacked me. However her terrified expression made me a little bit happy.

“Ha!”

Facing the enemy’s knife, I made my Syokanju block its attack. As the score showed, our power difference was threefold. If I took the damage directly, the bokuto would definitely break into two, so I must defend the attack by diverting the enemy’s attacking force.

“Ah!”

The enemy’s knife was thrown sideway, and the body was open for attack.

“Haaa!”

I let my Syokanju dashed forward and gave it a hit at its waist, then another hit on its head.

Class B Sanada Yuka VS Class F Yoshii Akihisa

Mathematic 126 marks VS 51 marks

The value shown had made a few changes. I have already bullied the enemy like this, but we still had a huge gap in our power. My Syokanju is really weak!

“We better take them seriously!”

“Although I don’t want to bully Class F like this, we can’t just stand here and look at this mess.”

The other two people at the back walked out. No matter what, this situation was just too bad right?

“Ah, wait a minute. At least have a fair fight, two versus two duels!”

“Yoshii, you are wrong, it is not four against two now.”

“Huh? The backup has arrived?”

“It is five versus one now!”

“Shimada, are you going to betray me now?”

Just how much does she dislike me?

“I am coming, take this!”

Along with some useless shout, the enemies Syokanjus attacks came. I let my Syokanju ducked below to dodge the attacks.

“This guy!”

“The undead guy!”

Wa! The number of enemies Syokanjus had just increased by two! Was this the so called “putting to death by dismemberment” punishment?

The enemies Syokanjus stood side by side and rushed towards me. I should avoid being surrounded before trying to defeat them.

“It is clear that we should be able to kill him in one hit….”

“None of our attacks land on him….”

“This guy is just like Metal SlOme.”

I am not that weak!

“Hey!”

I angrily dashed into one of the enemy’s stomach and gave him a punch, right on target!

And I hurt my hand. That was the result of reacting force.

“Should we start now?”

“Damn! I am retreating now!”

Kudo realized that he couldn’t win in one on one fight so he decided to retreat. He wasted a lot of scores in the fight just now, so it was a good idea to run away. Now it became three versus two--- No, Shimada had also spent a lot of scores, so it is now three versus one.

“Shimada, now!”

I gave instruction to Shimada who was not attacked by the enemies at the moment, and who was looking towards the fire extinguisher I used before.

“Roger!”

Shimada picked up the fire extinguisher and pulled out the safety switch. Now we should be able to run away-----

“……”

--but she is not moving now. What’s wrong?

“Quickly use it!”

“Ah, what should I do?”

She looked extremely smug now.

“Sh..Shimada! What do you want?”

Shimada had shown her true self in a dire situation like this! It was very hard to fight against three opponents at the same time!

“What do I want? Ah, right----”

“I will do anything you want!”

“Then firstly, let’s change how we call each other!”

“I will do it! Please let me change!”

“Then, I will call you Aki-chan, and you will call me Minami-san.” (Note: Can someone with original version please confirm this)

“Mi…Minami san! Is this ok?”

“This holiday, I feel like going to the ‘Betice’ in front of the station, and have some crêpe there.”

“Damn! I can only live with salt water! How can you think of such a luxury idea--- Ah! Okay okay, I will treat you, Minami-san! Please allow me to give you a treat, don’t leave me alone!”

“Good, and one last thing.”

“Some more? Give me a break!”

Shimada looked very happy.

“Say you will love me forever?”

What! This is like looting in a burning house! I will remember this!

“Say you will love me forever”

I repeated exactly what she had just said. Now she should have nothing to complain about right?

“Idiot!”

(Blowing sound)

The fire went all out.

We had white powder all over our body and barely escaped with our life.

But why did Shimada look like she was in a bad mood?

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“Ah----I am exhausted!”

“Y…Yoshii! Are you alright?”

Himeji opened the door and dashed out. Her bouncing breasts were really dazzling.

“Yeah. This is nothing---- Ah, it hurts!”

Shimada fiercely stepped on my leg. For some reason Shimada was really angry with me today.

“Humph!”

“S..Shimada, what did I do wrong?”

(Scary stare!)

“Ah, n, no, Minami..”

That eyesight that could kill anyone was focusing on me now.

Although she specially approved me to remove the ‘san’ at the back, the way I call her couldn’t be reverted.

I couldn’t really get use to calling her Minami in such a short amount of time.

“Why has the relationship between two of you become very good now?”

“Huh? You mean us?”

If our relationship was good, she wouldn’t be stepping on my feet and threatening me at the same time right?

“Ah, you are back? Thanks for all the hard work.”

“You look fine.”

“Yeah, I am back.”

Yuuji and Hideyoshi walked out as well. Silent pervert didn’t seem to worry about us so much, but he also slightly nodded towards me.

“Then everyone.”

“Huh?”

Yuuji looked at everyone and said:

“Now the situation shows that Class C is our enemy. Since they haven’t attacked us now, they will be declaring war with us immediately after this war end. To tell the truth, we don’t really stand a chance if we are fighting Class C immediately after Class B.”

They must be thinking about the same thing. Even if we win this war, they won’t give us any time to rest, and attack us immediately.

“Then what should we do? Even if we win this war, we will only be an easy target for Class C right?”

“That’s true…

“Don’t worry.”

Confronted by a troubling group, Yuuji stared with his energetic and wild look and said:

“Since they are going to attack like this, I will counter their attack in my way.”

“Your way?”

“Yeah, I will return them a big favour tomorrow morning.”

We were dismissed after that and continued the war tomorrow.

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Andisan: New page: '''Fifth Question''' In the following sentence, fill in ( ) with the correct answer. Light is wave, and ( ) as well. '''Himeji Mizuki's Answer:''' [particle] '''Teacher's C...

'''Fifth Question'''

In the following sentence, fill in ( ) with the correct answer.

Light is wave, and ( ) as well.

'''Himeji Mizuki's Answer:'''

[particle]

'''Teacher's Comment:'''

Good answer.

'''Kouta Tsuchiya's Answer:'''

[an object which will bounce away all the things that get close to it.]

'''Teacher's Comment:'''

Your answer always surprises me!

'''Akihisa Yoshii's Answer:'''

[A hero's weapon]

Teacher's Comment:

I like to play RPG as well.

''“Class Leader of Class D Hiraga Genji Died in Battle!”''

“Oooo---”

This information was announced from the speakers throughout the school along with the victorious shout from Class F and cries from Class D.

“Amazing! I can’t imagine we actually won against Class D!”

“Now we can say goodbye to the tatamis and the Japanese style tables!”

“Ah, now those rotten stuffs will belong to Class D!”

“Long live Sakamoto Yuuji!”

“I love Himeji!”

People were praising the Class Leader Yuuji from every direction.

I looked at the direction where Yuuji was standing before, and saw him surrounded by the Class F students and stood among the crestfallen Class D students.

“Ah, it’s nothing! After being praised by you guys like this, what should I say?”

Yuuji scratched his cheek, and turned his face away. Surprisingly he was pretty shy.

“Sakamoto! I want to shake your hand!”

“Me too!”

Everyone was treating him like a hero. By the look of this situation you could understand how much we disliked that classroom. The tatamis in the classroom were really rotten, so it was normal for us to dislike that classroom.

OK, I should blend into the crowd, and found the chance to get close to Yuuji.

“Yuuji!”

“Oh, isn’t it Akihisa?”

Yuuji turned back his head.

I went close to him with a refreshing smile on my face.

“I want to shake hand with Yuuji as well!”

And then held my hand out.

“Oooo!”

(crushing sound)

“Yuuji...... I just want to shake your hand, why are you holding my wrist like this?”

“Shut up.... Of course I have to restrain your hand like this.... Hmph!”

“Wa!”

My hand was turned into the wrong direction.

I shouted out like a pig being stabbed as I couldn’t stand the pain and accidentally dropped the knife I had been holding in the other hand.

“......”

“......”

“Yuuji, it is good to win this war with everyone.”

“......”

“I never know that completing jobs with fellow classmates can give you such a good feeling. I am so touched that even my wrist joint is feeling the pain!”

“What are you planning to do just now?”

“I just want to use this hand, which is so painful like it is going to break anytime, to shake your hand and share the joy of victory!”

“Oi, someone go and get a pincer plier!”

“W.. Wait! I am sorry!”

“Hmph.”

Finally he let go of me. It was extraordinarily painful!

Come to think of it, what was he going to do with the pincer plier?

“*mumbling*”

It seem Yuuji was mumbling about something. What was he talking?

“nails...”

I would never fight against him anymore.

“I never have imagined that Himeji actually belongs to Class F.... Unbelievable.”

Someone’s voice was coming from my back.

I turned my head to see who was talking, and saw Hiraga who could hardly walk properly, slowly coming toward us.

“Ah, I... I am sorry for what happen just now.”

Himeji also ran towards us from the opposite direction.

“No, you don’t have to apologize. This is just the result we get for not fighting Class F seriously.”

The world of competition was very harsh. They lost because they were being cheated, but there was nothing that Himeji needed to apologize for.

“I will hand over the classroom according to the rules. However it is very late now, can we do it tomorrow?”

This was so sad for the general who lost the battle! In the next three months time, they would have no right to declare a Test Summoning War, so he would have to suffer the hatred from his fellow classmate in that lousy room. The class leader would be the hero if the class won in the war, but if they lost he / she would be the sinner.

“Of course there is no problem to do it tomorrow. Right? Yuuji?”

Looking at his current state, I really couldn’t bear to ask him to hand out the class room now, so I turned and asked for Yuuji’s opinion.

“No, there is no need for that.”

The answer from Yuuji’s mouth was out of my imagination.

“Huh? Why?”

“Because I have never planned to get the Class D classroom.”

Yuuji told us his plan as it was there from the beginning, but I had no idea about that at all.

“Yuuji, what’s wrong? It took us so much effort to get these normal facilities right?”

“Have you forgotten something? Our final goal is to defeat Class A!”

Defeating Class A, this was the final goal for Yuuji and I.

“If that’s the case, why don’t we set our target at Class A? Isn’t this very strange?”

Sooner or later, we were going to fight them head on, then why didn’t we save the energy of doing things here and there, and attacked Class A directly?

“Go to measure your own capability! This is why you get the nickname ‘Brother Idiot’ from the secondary school students nearby.”

“What are you talking about? Stop saying the lies which half of them are facts!”

“Ah, I am sorry. It should be the primary school students nearby right?”

“......That’s not the part which is wrong.”

“What...... Do you really have such strange nickname?”

D...Don’t look at me! Stop looking at me with those looks on your faces!

“Anyway, I don’t plan to get any of your Class D facilities.”

“Of course this is the best outcome for us...... but are you sure?”

“Of course, but I have one condition.”

That’s right. If we let them go so easily, then this war was meaningless.

“Let’s listen to it first!”

“Don’t worry, there is nothing special. When I give you the signal, I want you to break that thing by the window, that’s all.”

Yuuji’s finger was pointing at the external section of the air conditioner outside the window.

However, that machine wasn’t belonged to Class D. Class D facilities were just the normal things you could see in a slightly poorer high school, which didn’t have anything like an air conditioner. It was there because there was no space for the owner class, so they placed it outside Class D’s classroom.

“Class B’s external section for their air conditioner?”

“Of course, breaking it might cause you being scolded by the teacher. But this trade should sound good enough for you, right?”

If they ‘accidentally’ broke it, at most they would just get serious warnings from teacher. However doing so could help them to avoid staying in the broken room for three months, there was no better deal than this.

“This definitely sounds good to us. But why do you want to do that? ”

Hiraga’s question was very reasonable. Our aim was Class A, why were we targeting Class B, and broke their air conditioner that had no direct connection.

“That’s related to our tactics against Class B.”

“Is it? Then I shall gratefully take your suggestion.”

“About the exact time, I will talk to you again the day after tomorrow, you can go back now.”

“OK, thanks. Hope you can defeat Class A as you plan to.”

“Haha, stop saying something you don’t mean it. Actually you think that we will definitely lose right?”

“That’s right. Class F can never win against Class A, that’s just wishful thinking.”

Class D class leader Hiraga raised his hand and then leaved the scene.

“Everyone! Thanks for the hard work today! Tomorrow we will be recovering the scores we had used, everyone should head back and have a good rest! That’s all for today! ”

After Yuuji gave out the commands, everyone chatted with each other and walked back to the classroom to pack their stuff before leaving.

“Yuuji, should we go as well?”

“Yeah!”

The feeling of winning was really great, but to tell the truth, I was really tired. Tomorrow we would continue the war, so I should just head back and rest!

“Ah, w...wait, Sakamoto.”

“Huh?”

When Yuuji was preparing to leave as everyone else, someone stopped him. That person was Himeji.

“Oh, Himeji, it’s you!”

“Actually I have something to ask Sakamoto.”

She used her hand and pressed her chest, look like she was a little bit excited. It must be something important; maybe I should avoid them and leave for now?

“Oh, I know.”

After saying that, Yuuji walked toward Himeji and chatted in front of me. I hardly heard what they were talking about, and somehow, I felt a bit lonely.

Himeji just stared at Yuuji, looks like she was really concentrating, and totally forgetting my existence; it had to be something important.

Huh? Could it be...... Himeji actually didn’t realise my existence? Could it be, she never looked at me at all? Damn! If that’s the case, I would just pull her skirt up until I was satisfied!

''“This is a good chance, Akihisa. Let’s just pull the skirt! Isn’t about time to see, the underwear of such a pretty girl?”'' [http://www.baka-tsuki.net/project/index.php?title=Baka_to_Tesuto_to_Syokanju:Volume1_Translator%27s_Notes#Question_5]

What! Are you the devil in my heart? Damn! You are here to tempt me into the path of bad guys? Don’t look down on me! My heart of justice will not lose!

Eh? Where is the angel? Where is the angel in my heart? Wait, come out now! Isn’t this showing I only have the heart of evil?

“Anyway, I am a little bit interested in the beginning, and because that guy comes and talks to me about it, I am more interested of it after that.”

While I was fighting with my own mind, two of them were walking toward me.

“Eh, why would Yoshii say something like that?”

Both of them didn’t know about the fight I had in my heart, and they continued to chat.

“Come to think about it, he did mention about what happened during the class division test, maybe it is related to that, which means, even idiots have what they won’t give up.”

Yuuji was talking with a very friendly way and some jokes in between the chat. Looking at him, what was he talking about? Could it be love confessing? Himeji liked Yuuji?

“Class division test—that’s right.”

“I can only say until here—but Himeji, I think what you are guessing is right.”

I see, no wonder Yuuji looked so proud. Being loved by such a cute girl, there was no reason why he wouldn’t feel happy.

By the way, why hasn’t the angel in my heart come out?

“Oi, Akihisa. We should go back now.”

“Ah, OK. Have you finished chatting with Himeji?”

“Yep, now her resolve is stronger. Right, Himeji?”

Being asked by Yuuji, Himeji’s face immediately turned red, I could even feel that there was a “Bomb” sound effect above her head, this skill was really stunning.

“O, is it? But I am not sure what is going on. Then let’s go, bye, Himeji.”

”Ah, yes! See you tomorrow!”

Himeji’s face is still red. She kept waving her hand and saw Yuuji and I left the classroom.

''“Nothing’s wrong with pulling the skirt up right?”''

The angel in my heart, you were too slow! And even you agreed with pulling the skirt up?

*

“Right.”

“Huh?”

“Is it really necessary to fight Class D? There are many other ways to break the air conditioner right?”

“Ah, you are talking about that?”

On the way home---Because my house and Yuuji’s house were in the same direction, so we usually went home together.

“There are many other reasons. Like making everyone get used to the Test Summoning War, to give pressure to other classes, to improve self confidence, to increase our morale and so on.”

“I see. Then why don’t we get the facilities from Class D?”

“That’s because our final target is Class A, if we get the facilities from Class D, maybe some of the students will be satisfied and start to go against Test Summoning War. To avoid something like that from happening, and to maintain the energy everyone has from the dissatisfaction, I purposely make that decision.”

Surprisingly, this guy thought a lot. After listening to Yuuji, I couldn’t think of him as a person with bad results. Or I should say... I saw the ‘Genius’ again.

“Can we win against Class A?”

“Of course, leave it to me.”

“Thanks, for the trouble I caused because of me being stubborn.”

“Not really. The reason why I come to this school is to do something big in the Test Summoning War.”

Yuuji unintentionally looked into distance.

When Yuuji was a kid, he was called ‘Genius’. However, the past glory had faded. Yuuji never said anything about it, but he was at the current state because most likely he lost the motivation in studying.

The test scores would become the power of the syokanju in the Test Summoning War. In this war, although Class F result was obviously bad, if they used their intelligence and strength and won against Class A, it would prove that those who couldn’t study could also stand on the top. I think, that’s what Yuuji wanted to prove.

“To achieve the goal, Akihisa you need to help me. Anyway, let’s concentrate on recovering the scores tomorrow.”

“Che.”

This meant, we were going to have tests tomorrow. We had used up a lot of scores today; it looks like we were going to have tests on every subject tomorrow. Oh no, it would be tests for the whole day!

“Don’t just play games, read some books before you sleep!”

“Alright, alright. I will at least read the boo....eh?”

This is so strange, why my bag is so light? Maybe....

“Ah, text book, I forget about them under the Japanese style table!”

“Idiot, quickly go back and take it.”

“Aww..... Then you go back first.”

“Of course, why should I wait for you?”

“I just knew it, you are heartless.”

I was nearly home. Complaining wasn’t going to help, let’s just take the book and go home!

I thought about it and ran to the school, which only had few students participating in club activities left.

“Oh man.”

I sighed and wore the indoor shoe, and headed toward Class F classroom.

“I am back!”

Just like I went back to my own home, I shouted once, and then walked into the classroom. Because of the Japanese style table and tatami, this room looked more like home than classroom.

“Y...Yoshii?”

“Eh? Himeji?”

Himeji was in the classroom which I thought was empty.

“W..What’s wrong?”

She looked panic, what’s wrong with her?

I looked towards Himeji’s seat(?), and saw a cute letter paper and envelope on the Japanese style table.

“Ah, T...This is...”

What was she doing? It looked just like she prepared the paper and the envelope, and readied to write a love letter for Yuuji; although I didn’t know what they were for.

''“Face the truth, it is a love letter.”''

Shut up, the devil in my heart! I wouldn’t be deceived by your lies! If you said so, what proof did you have to show that it was a love letter?

“This is, ah....”

“OK, I understand, no problem.”

“Eh---- Wa!”

With a crashing sound, Himeji was tripped by the Japanese style table.

The letter she was hiding at her back flew in front of me, and I accidentally saw one of the sentences.

'''''“I like you.”'''''

''“Nothing can prove that this is a love letter more than this right?”''

“......”

''“Understand? This is the truth.”''

“......”

''“Is it time to give up?”''

I folded the letter that flew towards me, and returned it to Himeji.

To show that I was a caring person, I joked:

“This letter of unfortunate is really special!”

''“Are you prepared to neglect it until you die?”''

What are you talking about, you stupid devil! Every time you say something, it causes me unfortunate! I won’t be cheated anymore!

“Er, I think you are wrong......”

“You don’t have to do that, just come to me and tell me, I can do it directly. Ah don’t worry, I will go to borrow the stun gun from Yamashita next door. ”

“Yoshii, this is not letter of unfortunate!”

“No way! This is the letter of unfortunate! I am feeling very unfortunate now!”

“Yoshii.”

I swung my arms like a kid, and suddenly something soft grabbed my hand. When I looked properly, Himeji was holding my hand, tried to stop me from going berserk.

“Calm down, acting like this will harm yourself.”

Her voice was filled with warning.

When I calmed my darkened heart down, these hopeless facts was starting to corrupt my heart.

“...... There is nothing I can do....... I have to accept it.”

My knee felt powerless and I just knelt down. What’s going on? Why did I get this losing feeling in two days continuously?

The person who would receive the letter is Yuuji right? I am concerned about it.

“The person receiving it is our class---”

“Yes, he is our classmate.”

Himeji blushed, but she answered my question without a doubt.

Then it was obvious. That’s right, that person was Yuuji. However I didn’t want to name it and embarrass Himeji.

“Is it? What is good about that guy? Maybe his outlook is acceptable!”

“Ah, no, what attracts me is not the outlook. Ah, of course I like the outlook!”

“Damn! I hate that guy from the bottom of my heart.”

“Is...it?”

“Yeah, for me as a person with no confidence in outlook, that sounds too good.”

“Eh? Why? You look very handsome! My friend is interested in you!”

“Eh? Are you sure?”

Even I think that her friend is mad.

“Yeah. Although I am not too sure about the detail, but when she saw you and Sakamoto walked together, she would say ‘Muscular looking Sakamoto and Beauty looking Yoshii walk together, look just like a piece of drawing’.”

“Your friend is a good person, you have to be good to her.”

“Other things she says are ‘Yoshii will be the uke[http://www.baka-tsuki.net/project/index.php?title=Baka_to_Tesuto_to_Syokanju:Volume1_Translator%27s_Notes#Question_5]’ and so on.”

“I take back my words, stay away from her! That world is still too early for you Himeji.”

Yuuji and I.... *vomit*!

“Anyway, beside the outlook, isn’t his inner side good as well?”

“Ah, Err....Yes....”

“That’s right, his liver looks very strong and healthy!”

Should be able to sell it at a good price I think?

“That’s an organ inside the body.”

“That, although I think it is not possible, is the personality of that person good?”

“Of course, no problem!”

Waa.. I never imagined Himeji would speak so loudly. I was scared. I never know she liked Yuuji so much.

“What’s good about his personality?”

“Very...very gentle....”

Gentle?

The person who cheated me to go and got hit in Class D, and nearly broke my arm was a gentle person?

“I give you the numbers now, have you prepared your pens and paper? Don’t worry, he is a very good Cranial nerve surgeon. ”

“My brain is perfectly fine!”

How could it be possible? What made you think that he was gentle? What kind of cruel family did you grew up in, Himeji?

“Gentle, bright and optimistic, he is my idol!”

Listening to her honest comment, it gave me a strong feeling that made me unable to laugh at her.

“About that letter..”

“Y...Yes.”

“Good luck.”

In a situation like this, I couldn’t do anything to destroy the relationship. Since Himeji liked Yuuji so much, as fellow classmate, I couldn’t stop myself from cheering for her.

“Yes!”

The smiling Himeji was just too adorable; I really envied Yuuji from the bottom of my heart.

*

The next day, I went to school as usual.

In order to replenish the scores we lost in the war, we had to undergo a whole day of tests, I needed to do my best now.

“Good morning---”

Along with the ‘kala--kala’ sound effect, I opened the classroom door.

It was still tatamis and Japanese tables in the classroom. I still felt a little bit pity for not getting class D facilities.

“Oh, Akihisa. You are nearly late! ”

“Ah. Good morning, Yuuji ”

Yuuji arrived earlier before me in the classroom, he sat down near the Japanese table beside mine, with the English textbook in his hand. It seemed he was still planning to do some last minute study before the test.

“Nobody complain about anything?”

“Huh? Complain about what?”

“About Class D facilities.”

We all put so much effort and won the war, but eventually we didn’t take the enemy facility, it would be normal that some of us to feel unhappy about it.

“Ah, that! I have explained about it with everyone, so no problem at all.”

“Oh.”

I think because of Yuuji’s performance yesterday that make people follow his order so well. Besides when they knew it is possible to win higher level classes, they lost interest in the facilities of Class D!

“By the way, are you all right?”

“What?”

“About what happened yesterday.”

What, which event is he talking about...... Ah, is it about Yuuji’s execution?

“Ah, even idiot like me will give up doing idiot stuff like that after knowing my nails will be pulled off for doing that.”

“No, I am not talking about what you plan to do to harm me.”

Then what is it you want to talk about? I totally don’t know what Yuuji is trying to tell me.

“What are you trying to say----”

“Yoshii!”

“Wa!”

My speech was broken by a punch from nowhere.

“Sh...Shimada, good morning....”

“This is not the time to say good morning!”

Shimada looked like she was really angry.

I was lying on the ground now and able to see her underwear, but I was not feeling happy at all.

“You idiot, if you couldn’t save me yesterday, that’s fine. But how dare you used the fire extinguisher and broke the window, then blamed it on me!”

Oh, now I remember.

“And thanks to you, my ranking on ‘'The Most Unwilling to be Her Boyfriend” is even higher now!”

That’s surprising; I thought you are at the top of that rank already.

“I was planning to tie you up for interrogating and torturing. ”

Suddenly, Shimada calmed down.

By the way, before you tied me up, haven’t you hit me enough already?

“I think you have enough punishment already, I shall forgive you this time!”

“Yeah, I can’t stop my nose from bleeding till now!”

“No, I didn’t mean that.”

“Huh? Then what do you mean?”

“The first test we have today is maths.”

Shimada looked really happy--- happy from the bottom of her heart and said:

“And Funakoshi sensei is supervising the test.”

The moment I heard this sentence, I dashed out from the classroom and ran on the corridor.

“Ha....This is tiring.”

I lied on the table and sighed.

Finally we finished the tests on four subjects. The tests by themselves were exhausting, suffering the questioning by Funakoshi sensei at the same time made me even more exhausted.

By the way, I introduced an otaku[http://www.baka-tsuki.net/project/index.php?title=Baka_to_Tesuto_to_Syokanju:Volume1_Translator%27s_Notes#Question_5] living around my house (thirty nine years old/ single..... should be male) to Funakoshi sensei, and told her that’s all I want to tell her yesterday.

“Hmm, you look exhausted.”

Hideyoshi came from nowhere and said.

He had a pony-tailed hair style today. Owww...... this is exactly what I liked. He is a guy, but he was tempting me with that pose now.

“......(nodding his head like mad)”

Silent pervert, who was always quiet and you could hardly felt his presence, was beside Hideyoshi.

“Good, let’s have lunch now. I will have ramen, katsudon, fried rice with curry today. ”

Yuuji is still looking energetic and stand up, you can’t see any bit of tiredness on his face. What material is he made of? And he eats too much for his lunch.

“Hmm? Yoshii you guys are heading to cafeteria? Can I stick with you guys?”

“Ah, Shimada you want to come as well? No problem for me!”

“Then I shall go with you guys.”

“.....(nod)”

Silent pervert nodded and agreed, maybe he was planning something? Idiot, there was nothing good from a tomboy like Shimada.

“Yoshii, are you thinking something bad about me?”

“Definitely NO.”

Her sixth sense was scary.

Anyway, I finally got the chance to rest in the lunch break, I should eat something nice to recover my strength! However you couldn’t really get anything nice from the cafeteria.

“Then, I will be luxurious today, and have a salted water meal today.”

“Err, everyone...”

When we stood up and prepared to head towards cafeteria, someone’s voice stopped us.

“Hmm? Ah, Himeji is that you? Want to go to cafeteria together with us?”

“Ah, no. Err.... it’s about l...lunch. That, I promised everyone yesterday....”

Himeji looked at us uneasily, what’s wrong?

“OOH, could it be the lovely lunch?”

“Y,Yes, if it is OK for everyone.”

She took out the package from her back after she said that.

Really? Himeji, you are really a good girl! Thanks to you, I might be able to live a few days longer!

“Of course it is ok for everyone, right? Yuuji!”

“Yeah, that’s right. Thank you.”

“Is it? That’s great.”

Himeji shows a happy smile. This is so strange, she is the one who made the lunch, but she is happier than us who are eating it for free, I really don’t understand what gentle girls are thinking.

“Hmph...Mizuki you are pretty aggressive...”

Shimada stared at me fiercely as I was the murderer who killed her dad.

I don’t understand fierce girls thinking either.

“Then, since we have someone making lunch, let’s eat at the rooftop instead of the classroom.”

“That’s right.”

For such a high class food, it is not acceptable to be eaten in a lousy room filled with rotten tatamis and smelly smell from guy’s sweat. We should go to an enjoyable location such as rooftop, enjoy the food there and feel grateful to the chef.

“Is it? Then you guys can go there first.”

“Huh? Yuuji, where are you going?”

“I'll go to get some drinks, as a treat to you guys for the effort yesterday.”

“Ah, then I will go with you! You can’t take so many drinks at the same time right?”

It was very rare to see Shimada being so caring; did she take the wrong medicine?

“Thanks.”

“OK.”

Yuuji agreed without a doubt. If it was me, I was sure I would feel worried to be taken to somewhere and got beaten badly.
“Remember to keep a share for us.”

“No worry, but I can’t guarantee anything if you come too late.”

“I don’t think I will be late. Let’s go!”

Yuuji and Shimada took their wallets and left the classroom, looks like they were heading to the cooperative store at first floor.

“We should get going as well.”

“Yeah.”

I took over the package from Himeji, and walked to the rooftop.

These lunch boxes are pretty heavy, it seems that she put a lot of effort into making lots of different dishes, I am so touched.

“Great, the weather is pretty good!”

“Yeah!”

We walked to the roof top and opened the door, and a clear sky without any cloud welcomed us. This was the best weather for eating lunch box.

“Ah, I have brought the cushion.”

Himeji took out the cushion for picnic out of the package. She seems to be well prepared, maybe she has brought the whole set of equipment for picnic?

We felt exited and started preparing together. There was no one else on the roof top, like we had booked the rooftop for ourselves, that’s great.

“This really feels good!”

“.....(nod)”

I lazily lied on the cushion, enjoying the sunlight and the breeze that was blowing towards me.

“Err, I am not very confident....”

Himeji opened the cover of the meal box that was only used during New Year time.

“OH!”

All of us cheered together. It looked so delicious. There were karaage, tempura, onigiri, bamboo shot rolls and so on. Whatever dishes you could name, all appeared in the lunch box.

“Sorry Yuuji, I will start----“

“....(took a piece)”

“Ah, Silent Pervert you are too cunning!”

Then he smoothly put the food into his mouth---

“…..(fell onto the ground)”

(Sound of Silent Pervert falling to ground.)

Silent Pervert boldly fell down, and his muscle slightly was twitching.

“……”

“……”

Hideyoshi and I looked at each other.

“Wa! Tsuchiya?”

Himeji was panicked and dropped the disposable chopsticks that she prepared to give to us onto the ground.

“……(Suddenly stood up)”

Silent Pervert stood up.

“…….(Great!)”

Then he faced Himeji and raised his thumb.

He probably tried to say “delicious”!

“So, so that suits your taste? That’s good.”

Silent Pervert’s thinking must had been delivered to Himeji, because she looked so happy.

However, Silent Pervert, why were your legs kept on shaking? You looked just like a boxer who was going to get a KO.

“Don’t restrain yourself, eat as much as you can!”

Himeji showed her smile, and told us to eat more.

When she put it this way, it looked like we couldn’t refuse at all. I even had a feeling to eat all of them no matter how awful they were.

However, I still cannot forget silent pervert’s empty looking eye and shaking body.

(Hideyoshi, those dishes, what do you think?)

I used low volume so that Himeji couldn’t hear, and whispered to Hideyoshi.

(…… No matter how I look at it, it is not faked.)

(That’s right, now we are in deep trouble.)

(Akihisa, is your body strong?)

(To tell the truth, my stomach is very weak. It has degenerated because I rarely eat anything.)

Of course, Hideyoshi and I were using the happiest looking face and talked to each other, we couldn’t allow Himeji to discover our conversation and the shocking in our heart.

(Leave this to me!)

Hideyoshi bravely spoke in a low voice.

(Stop kidding, this is too dangerous!)

(No problem. Although I might not look like it, my stomach is very strong. Even sprouted potato can’t harm me.)

(But…)

(Don’t worry! Believe in my iron stomach---)

He had the outlook of a pretty girl, but he was saying some manly lines. At this moment---

Yuuji appeared on the stage.

“Ah, Yuuji.”

Before we couldn’t stop him, he used his hand to take a piece of fried egg.

(Sounds of munching)

(Sounds of Yuuji falling to ground)

(Sounds of juice cans falling on ground)

The juice can fell onto the ground, and spilled everywhere.

“Sa..Sakamoto? Wait, what’s wrong?”

Shimada appeared before him and saw what happened. She immediately dashed towards Yuuji.

There is no mistake about it, Himeji is the real killer chef.

I looked at Yuuji, who was shaking crazily like Silent Pervert.

After that, Yuuji, who was on the floor, used his eyes to ask me:

(Did someone put poison in the food?)

(This is not poison, this is the true ability of Himeji.)

I also used the eye contact to answer his question. This was the secret technique that could only be used by us since we stuck together for a long time; it was very useful in situation like this.

“Ah, my leg… suddenly cramped.”

Yuuji told a kind lie because he was afraid to hurt Himeji’s feeling. Himeji, maybe it is just like what you said yesterday, Yuuji is a gentle guy!

“Ah haha, it must be because you are dashing up and down the stairs right?”

“Ah, maybe that’s the reason.”

“Really? I thought Sakamoto is pretty strong and healthy.”

Shimada, who is totally out of the situation, shows a doubtful face. It seems we should make her get off the stage before she speaks too much.

“By the way, Shimada, the place where your place your hand….”

“Huh? What’s wrong?”

“There is a bug just died there not long ago.”

This is total bullshit.

“What? You should say it earlier!”

She panicked and moved her hand away, this made her looks a bit more like a girl.

“I am sorry. You better go to wash the hand.”

“You are right, I will be right back.”

Shimada left the scene. Now the danger was lower by a little bit.

(We can’t let Shimada eat something like this, right?)

(Of course.)

HAHAHA--- the frank laugh of three guys was spread all over the roof top.

(Akihisa, it is your turn now!)

(D,Don’t be silly, I will definitely die!)

(What happen just now has lowered my determination….)

(Yuuji, eat it! Himeji definitely wants to see you eat it.)

(Is it? I thought this is for you, Akihisa.)

(No way! You don’t understand a girl’s thinking!)

(No, if you put it this way, you are the one here who don’t understand---)

(Shut up, stop struggling!)

“Huh? Himeji, what is that?”

“Huh? What?”

Himeji turned around and looked at the direction where my finger was pointing.

(Eat this!)

(Unnn?)

I took the chance and stuffed all the food into Yuuji’s mouth.

Yuuji’s eye had already turn white, I grabbed his lower jaw and helped him to swallow the food---- when you are eating, remember to munch carefully and swallow them slowly.

“Hu, finally finished it.”

“I didn’t know you were so good in torturing!”

Although I am being commented like this by Hideyoshi, I don’t care at all.

Yuuji was lying on the ground, and shaking even more crazily than just now, but I didn’t care as well.

“I am sorry, I think I look wrongly.”

“Ah, I see.”

I could never imagine Himeji to fall for such a classic trick, this is so helpful. But she is too pure; I am worrying for her now.

“The lunch box is very delicious, thanks for the food.”

“Yeah, your cooking skill is very good.”

Thanks to Yuuji, the lunch box was cleared without any problem. Our heart was just as clear as the sky now!

“Ah, that’s fast. Have you finished all of them?”

“Yeah. And Yuuji kept on saying ‘delicious, delicious’, and ate them at the same time.”

Yuuji, who was at the corner of our eyes, weakly shook his head.

Don’t worry, you have left a good impression with Himeji, maybe she will make the lunch for you again.

“Is it? I am so happy.”

“No no no, we are the one who are happy. Right, Yuuji?”

I signalled Yuuji to show some reaction, since he was still conscious, there should be some reaction from him.

“Argh…argh….T,thanks, Himeji….”

This is so terrible; his eye is looking very empty.

“Talking about good food, there is a café in front of the station just opened not long ago.”

In a situation like this, the person who changed the topic was me. This was all for avoiding Himeji to say ‘Then I will bring the lunch for you guys tomorrow’.

“Ah, the comments about that shop are pretty good!”

“Huh? There is a shop there?”

“Yeah. To thank you for the lunch, Yuuji will give you a treat there.”

“You bastard, don’t simply make promises for other people.”

It seemed our tactics was successful. We have finally avoided this crisis.

We were just chatting about everything and enjoy this warm time together.

“Ah, that’s right.”

Himeji put her hands together.

“Huh? What’s up?”

“Actually---”

She put her hand into the bag and searched for something.

“I have prepared dessert as well.”

“Ahh! Himeji, look at that!”

(Akihisa! Even I will die if you do it again!)

Yuuji risked his life to stop my plan.

(Chi, you little bastard, your reaction is pretty quick huh.)

(Akihisa! Are you planning to kill me?)

(There is no other way! This mission can only be done by you, Yuuji! I will leave this to you!)

(Don’t be idiot! I won’t do it even if you use that frank smile in the shonen manga[http://www.baka-tsuki.net/project/index.php?title=Baka_to_Tesuto_to_Syokanju:Volume1_Translator%27s_Notes#Question_5] and ask me to do it.)

(You are hopeless.)

(If you say that, why don’t you do it yourself!)

(What! Why did pose like that? What are you trying to do to me?)

(I am going to punch your heart using my fist, and then stuff everything into your mouth after you fainted! Take this!)

(No---- Crazy Killer!)

Yuuji held his fist firmly, just one second before the fight began, Hideyoshi quietly stood up.

(…..Let me do it!)

(Hideyoshi don’t be reckless, this is life threatening!)

(And you actually want to sacrifice me?)

Of course! Compared to you smelly guy, Hideyoshi who has a pretty girl outlook is so much more important.

(No problem. My stomach is very strong, eating these at most cause me Dyspepsia.)

That’s true, Hideyoshi’s stomach can nullified the poison, maybe he can resist these desserts.

“What’s wrong with you guys?”

“Ah, no! Nothing at all!”

“Ah, could it be……”

Himeji’s face suddenly darkens.

Did our thinking of not willing to eat these desserts is exposed?

“I am sorry, I left the spoons in the classroom!”

The dessert inside the container was fruits mixed with yogurt (looks like it anyway), so using chopsticks were really not suitable for eating them.

“I will go to get them now.”

Himeji disappeared at the stairs entrance. Now is the chance---

(Use this chance and eat them!)

Hideyoshi held the container in his hand, looked like a warrior who treated death as returning home.

“I am sorry, I will never forget your kindness.”

“Sorry, and thank you.”

Facing us who were bowing and quiet, Hideyoshi smiled, and spoke as nothing happen:

“Don’t make it like I am going to die, I didn’t plan to do so yet!”

“T..That’s right.”

“Ah! Hideyoshi, we are counting on you!”

“OK, leave this to me. I will start eating now!”

Hideyoshi raised his head, and drank the entire object inside the container.

“Munch munch. What, this is just normal----Wa!”

Life is like a flower of virtuality, and another flower has fallen in a blink of an eye.

“..Yuuji…”

“..What?”

“Sorry for forcing you to eat those foods just now.”

“……I am glad you understand that.”

The person, who self proclaimed himself ‘Iron Stomach’, was now lying on the flow with white foam at his mouth.

*

“By the way Sakamoto, about the next target---”

“Huh? About the Test Summoning War?”

“Yeah.”

After the very happening lunch, everyone revived and casually enjoyed the tea, especially Hideyoshi. He was trying to drink as much green tea as he could, I heard that green tea could help to kill the bacteria!

By the way, Shimada only managed to buy green tea. Although she was very angry, we were very grateful.

“The opponent will be Class B right?”

“Yeah, that’s right.”

This reminded me that Yuuji mentioned about destroying Class B air conditioner machine outside Class D yesterday. What was that for?

Since Class B air conditioner had nothing to do with attacking Class A, would that mean we will be dealing with Class B next time?

“Why Class B? Isn’t our final target Class A?”

Class A was our target. Everyone must be wondering why were we challenging Class B, which was one grade lower than Class A right? By the way I didn’t understand why as well.

“I will be frank.”

Yuuji suddenly turned serious.

“No matter what tactics we use, we can never win against Class A with our fighting ability.”

Admitting we lost before fighting? This was not what Yuuji would do.

However this was not news for us. Fumitsuki Gakuen divided the classes from Class A to Class F, and Class A wasn’t just any ordinary class; you could say their abilities were in a totally different dimension from the others. For all the fifty people in Class A, forty of them were still beatable. They were just normal students whose results were a little bit better than Class B. The remaining ten students were totally different. Especially the Class Leader Kirishima Shouko, her ability was totally out of anyone’s imagination. Even if we managed to attack them by surprise, and surrounded her, we would end up getting beaten up badly.

No matter what tactic you used, if you could not defeat the Class Leader, you could never win the war. Since we couldn’t defeat her, we had no chance of winning at all.

“Then our final target will be changed to Class B?”

Although there was still some distance away from Class A, Class B equipment was pretty good as well, I believed no one would be unhappy about it.

“No, that’s not going to happen. Our final target will still be Class A.”

“Yuuji, this is totally different from what you have just said right?”

I continued the conversation after Shimada, being able to defeat Class A or not meant a lot to me.

“If we fight as a class we can never win, so I decided to challenge them to duel.”

“Duel? How should we do it?”

“Use Class B to achieve that.”

Use Class B? How?

“Do you know what happen when the lower level class lost in Test Summoning War?”

“Eh? O..Of course!”

Actually, I didn’t know.

(Yoshii, if the lower level class loses in the war, their equipment will be one grade lower.)

Luckily Himeji reminded me from my side. I see, that’s what would happen!

“The equipment will be downgraded right?”

“That’s right. Which means, for Class B, the equipment will the downgraded to Class C equipment.”

“Of course, that’s common sense right?”

“What if the higher level class lose?”

“They will be sad.”

“Silent Pervert, go and bring me a pincer plier.”

“Wait! Are you trying to transform my body into one that will never need to use finger nail cutter?”

I didn’t say anything wrong, they would be sad right?

“They will need to exchange the equipment with the lower class.”

Himeji helped me to answer this question again; she was such a good girl.

“Yeah, I am going to use this rule, and negotiate with them.”

“Negotiate?”

“If we win against Class B, I will ask them to attack Class A, so that they won’t have to exchange the equipments with us. Even if they lose to Class A, they will only get the equipment of Class C’s level, which is much better than the Class F equipment, this should work smoothly.”

“Hmph, then?”

“I will use this to negotiate with Class A, and warn them ’we will start attacking you after you have finished fighting with Class B’.”

“I see.”

It must be tiring for them to fight another war after they finished the fight with the second level class in the same year.

Although this was the same for Class F, we had our unhappiness which motivated us. We might not be as smart, but we were very motivated.

However it was very different for Class A. They wouldn’t get anything from winning the war, and they didn’t want to waste time with an opponent like Class F, the morale between Class A and us would be very different.

“However, there is a problem with this tactic. This might cost more energy, the process is troublesome, but compared to a duel, the Test Summoning War is much more secure war to win against Class A right? Also---”

“Also?”

“Are you sure we can win in the duel? They must already know that Himeji is in our class.”

After Class F won against Class D, everyone would definitely focus on the winner. Himeji was not our secret weapon now. Therefore, they must have prepared tactics to fight against Himeji.

“I am well aware of this and well prepared, don’t worry.”

Yuuji looked confident, which was totally different from me, who was really worrying now.

“Anyway we will need to fight against Class B first, I will fill everyone with the details later.”

“Is it? Well, it is fine by me as long as you have tactics about it.”

If there was no chance of winning, he wouldn’t be able to say something like that right?

“By the way, Akihisa.”

“Huh?”

“After the tests today, go to declare war to Class B.”

“No way. You can go to do it yourself.”

No matter what you say, I won’t change my mind.

“Well, let’s decide who will do the job using paper scissor rock.”

“Paper scissor rock?”

Well, at least this is better than him forcing me to go.

“OK, I accept the challenge.”

“Good, then who ever lose will go, ok?”

Yuuji nodded and said:
“It will be boring if we just play normally, let’s include a psychological battle as well.”

This was Yuuji’s suggestion.

About the psychological battle, it is that, right? Everyone said what they would use, and then guessed whether the opponent would do as they said or lie. I see, this is interesting.

“I understand now, I am going to use rock.”

Yuuji made a pose for paper scissor rock, and told me:

“Are you? Then I am---”

Yuuji, what will you think? Am I going to be honest and use rock, or use others? This is a fight of intelligence as well.

“If you don’t use rock, I will kill you!”

Wait…. What kind of psychological battle is that?

“Ready? Paper, scissor, rock!”

“Waaa!”

Paper----(Yuuji), Rock---(Me)

“Then it is decided, you will go.”

“I will not go!”

I won’t accept this! This is so different from the psychological battle I imagine!

“Are you still worrying about being beaten up badly like in Class D last time?”

“That is one of the reasons!”

“If that’s the reason, you can rest assured, I can guarantee that it won’t happen again.”

Yuuji stared at my eyes.

I won’t be cheated! You keep using the same technique and ask me to do the dirty work!

“Because there are a lot of people in Class B who like handsome boy.”

“Really? Then there is nothing to worry about!”

Only I can complete this difficult mission, the responsibility is huge!

“However you are so ugly……”

Yuuji had a long sigh. Nonsense, that was not true!

“You are so impolite! I am a handsome boy when I looked at myself from three hundred and sixty five degrees!”

“There is 5 degrees extra.”

“I think there is only 5 degree!”

“I hate you two.”

I only mixed up three hundred and sixty five days in a year and degrees of circle, so why are you using the magnifying glass to look at my small mistake! Damn!

“Anyway I will leave this to you!”

Yuuji’s voice came from my back, as the lunch time ended; the afternoon which was full of tests had just started.

*

“I would like to listen to your explanation.”

The test in the afternoon had ended safely; it was now after school time.

I used my hand to cover the sleeve that had been pulled into pieces, and walked towards Yuuji slowly.

“This is just as I thought.”

“Wa--- I am going to kill you! I will cut you into pieces!”

“Cool down.”

“Urgh!”

A…attack at the heart….this is terrible.

“I will head back home now. Tomorrow morning we will have test, don’t oversleep.”

After saying that in with a frank tone, Yuuji left the classroom. You are a Devil!

“Urgh….my stomach….”

My whole body was in serious pain, it looked like before the effect that Yuuji’s technique caused on my body disappeared, I couldn’t move at all.

I could only lie on the ground and watched every classmate left the classroom. No one worry about me, and bring me to the nursing room. Am I so hateful? Although I think Himeji will worry about me and come to me.

Because I couldn’t move my body, I turned my neck and looked around in the classroom. I saw Himeji still remain in the classroom, holding her back and looking around as well. She looked very suspicious, it seems like she was guarding something.

---Ah, now I remember, Himeji wrote a letter yesterday right? Maybe she was thinking where she should put her letter.

“Urgh…”

I felt shy about continuing watching her, so I slowly crawled out the classroom.

Baka to Tesuto to Syokanju:Volume1 The Fourth Question

2008-12-28T07:56:34Z

Andisan:

Question 4

i) What is the X value that satisfied the function 4sinX + 3coxX = 2 and lied in the first quadrant?

ii) Which one of the following equation is equivalent to sin(A+B)?

(1)sinA + cosB

(2)sinA – cosB

(3)sinAcosB

(4)sinAcosB+cosAsinB

Himeji Mizuki's Answer

i) X = π/6

ii) (4)

Teacher's Comment:

That's right. The symbol for angle is π and not °, the answer is perfect.

Kouta Tsuchiya's Answer

i) X = probably 3

Teacher's Comment:

I understand you are trying to slack off by using 'probably', although your answer is very close to the correct answer, I can't give you any mark.

Akihisa Yoshii's Answer

ii) probably (3)

Teacher's Comment:

I have seen a lost of students’ attempts before and you are the first who tries to slack off in multiple choice questions using this method.

------

“Yoshii! Kinoshita's troop has started the fight with Class D at the corridor!”

Swinging her ponytail behind her back, the person running towards me was Shimada, who was placed in the same troop as me. Looking at her outlook carefully, you could see that she was tall and her legs were long, then why didn’t she look like a girl? Which part of her was wrong?

“Ah, maybe because of the flat chest?”

“Let me break your fingers one by one! Evenly!”

Oh no, I think I had just stepped on a landmine.

“Let... Let's just stop there. We need to focus on the Test Summoning War!”

The troop that was fighting at the frontline was the vanguard lead by Kinoshita, and the backup troop which we were in was located between the frontline and the Class F’s classroom. Although I couldn't recall that I accepted the offer, since I had become the troop leader now, I had to take the responsibility to lead everyone, so I needed to focus my mind now.

First of all let's have the feel of the battlefield’s atmosphere. It seemed that I could hear the sounds of fighting coming from the vanguard troop if I listened carefully.

“Show me what you got! You loser!”

“Iron... Iron Man? No! I don't want to go to tuition room!”

“Shut up! The prisoners of war will be staying in the tuition room and will have special tuitions before the battle ends! I am not sure how much time it will take for the war to end, but it seems that I should have enough time to tutor you!”

“Ple… Please, let me go! I don't have the confident to get through the torture!”

“Torture? That's not true. It is just a marvellous educational tuition. When it ends, I will educate you into a standard student whose hobby is studying, and the idol is Ninomiya Kinjiro[http://www.baka-tsuki.net/project/index.php?title=Baka_to_Tesuto_to_Syokanju:Volume1_Translator%27s_Notes#Question_4]”

“De..Devil! Someone help me out of this-----No----(door closing sound)”

OK, now I had a good understanding of what a Test Summoning War was.

“Shimada, give the order to the troop.”

“OK? What order? What do you want me to say?”

During a dangerous time like this, there was only one order I could give.

“Retreat!”

“You cowards!”

I got hit, and she was using the hidden art that attacked both of my eyes!

“Ouch, my eyes!”

“Does it wake you up, you big idiot! You are the troop leader! How can you run without putting up a good fight?”

Was the pain in the eyes come along with a clearer mind? If she wanted to say something like this, she should have just punched or slapped me instead of stabbing my eyes before saying it!

“Listen up, Yoshii. Our mission is to back up Kinoshita's vanguard troop right? Then during the time that they replenish their test scores, we need to hold the frontline. If our troop with an important mission like this run away first, then they can't replenish their scores smoothly.”

It was rare to see Shimada gave some serious opinion.

What she had just said was true, the mission we carried was very important. Our performance could greatly affect the result of this war. Instead, I was thinking about running away just because I was afraid to suffer the pain from having the tuition....

Shimada, you were so brave! I didn't know why, but my tears were just bursting out of my eyes (maybe because of the pain from getting stabbed in the eye)?

“I am sorry, I was wrong. I will throw away the fear of the tuition room, and focus on how to win in this fight.”

“Good. About this, I think there is nothing to worry about. Although we are weak in one on one fight, but if we are fighting one enemy together at a time, we should be fine.”

That's right. Even though our scores were lower, it was not the only factor that decided the result of this war. Depending on how we used our tactics, we still had a good chance of winning this war.

“You are right. Alright, I am filled with energy!”

“That's the spirit, Yoshii!”

All of us raised our fist: No problem, we could do this!

When our morale was high, a scout went towards Shimada.

“Shimada, the vanguard troop is losing!”

“Retreat!”

Wait a minute, that was totally different from those righteous speeches you just gave!

“Yoshii, we can retreat first right?”

I felt that this would cause a very big problem, or maybe it was just me?

“OK, we should run away first! It is too difficult for us now.”

“That's right, we already did our best.”

I looked back towards the direction where Class F was.

Yokoda(Class F) who was supposed to be staying in the class, was standing right behind me.

“Isn't it Yokoda? Why are you here?”

“I am here to give you a command from the class leader.”

Yokoda looked at the memo, and read out the message loudly:
“ 'If you dare to run, I will kill you!' ”

“Everyone charge---”

When I came back to my mind, I was on the way towards the battlefield. It was all for the victory of Class F!

Suddenly, there was a pretty girl in front of me running in my direction.

“Yoshii, you are here to support me!”

Oh, it was Hideyoshi. What should I say; this guy looked so cute no matter when or where he was....

“Hideyoshi, are you ok?”

“Yeah, somehow I managed to survive. But my score is greatly reduced.”

“I see, then how about your syokanju?”

“Too tired to move, can't continue fighting anymore.”

“Ok, then you better get some test to replenish your score!”

“You are right. There may not be enough time to have tests for every single subject, it still helps to have just one or two subjects score replenished.”

He immediately ran towards the class room after he said that, following behind him were the members of the vanguard troops. It seemed that their number was less than when they left to fight just now, a lot of people must have been sent to the tuition room.

“Yoshii, do you still remember the rules for Test Summoning War? If a teacher is not around, you can't summon your syokanju!”

“I know that!”

It was just as what Shimada advised. When we were using our test scores to fight, we needed to comply with the rules on the left page.

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'''The Fumitsuki Gakuen Rules for The Fights related to The Classroom Facilities and The Summoning War'''

1. In principle, the fight is between classes. Under the supervision of the teacher teaching any subject, students can activate summoning system to summon syokanjus. Also, the fight using the sum of all the subjects must be supervised by the educational administration director.

2. Every student can only have one syokanju. The syokanju will have the power equal to the last test result. The sum of all the subjects will be the sum of the latest test score of every subject.

3. The score will be reduced proportional to the power that the syokanju loses in the fight. Once the score is reduced to zero, the syokanju will die and the student will need to receive tuition in the tuition room.

4. Students can replenish their score infinitely if his / her syokanju is not dead.

5. If the opponent summons a syokanju, the student who fails to perform the summoning will be considered as forfeiting the fight, and therefore will result in the student receiving the tuition in the tuition room as the punishment. This punishment also applies to those students whose syokanjus die during the fight.

6. The valid range of summoning the syokanju is a circle with a radius of ten meters from the supervising teacher (may differ among different teacher).

7. The fight can only be carried by the syokanjus, the summoners who are involved in the actual fight will be punished.

8. The war will only end when the opposing class leader is defeated. As long as it is supervised by the teacher, the students can use any methods or tactics in order to win the war. This is the 'War' that uses test scores as weapons, those who wants to be involved in the war need to be mentally prepared.

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That's probably all the rules! Although there were some changes, and some more specific rules, but overall that's the rules for this war. If you didn't read through them carefully, you might miss the main point of the war -- 'basically the war uses the syokanjus to decide the result of the war. But the students can use other methods or tactics beside the test scores'.

It seemed that the educational administration director was supervising now, so the subjects we were fighting now were the total result mention in the first rule....

“Yoshii, look!”

Shimada who was running beside me shouted loudly. What happened?

“It's Igarashi sensei and Fuse sensei! Those Class D bastards, they brought the chemistry teachers here.”

I looked carefully. The chemistry teachers for Year 2, Igarashi sensei and Fuse sensei were standing at the corridor that links the new and the old school building.

I see. The duration of the war would be much longer if there was only one teacher, in our case the school’s educational administration director, supervising so they were trying to increase the number of the supervisor and finish us off in one shot?

That's why Hideyoshi needed to retreat earlier than we had originally planned.

“Shimada, are you confident with your chemistry result?”

“None at all, I only get around sixty every time.”

That's what we expect from Class F. No matter how you lower down the standard, sixty was not a good result.

“OK then, we will need to stay away from Iragashi sensei and Fuse sensei, and head towards the educational administration director.”

“Head towards Takahashi sensei? Understood.”

Shimada and I sneaked through the corridor and headed towards the corner.

Everyone, look! This was the heroic back up troop leader and his subordinates.

“Ah, isn't the one sneaking over there my Minami onee-sama from Class F? Igarashi sensei, hurry here!”

“Damn, I am being careless.”

One of the students in Class D discovered Shimada, and brought one of the teachers, Igarashi sensei, here. Oh no, if we didn't summon our syokanju and fought, it would only take one hit to send us to the tuition room.

“OK Shimada, I leave this to you, I will be on my way.”

“Wait a... Normally it is not like this right? It should be 'Leave this to me, you better leave now' right?”

“These lines are useless in real world!”

“Yo..Yoshii! You are so mean!”

“Onee-sama! I won't let you run away!”

“It's Miharu! It seems I need to fight with my life....”

I stood more than ten meters away from Igarashi sensei, so now I could rest and observed how Shimada fails. The girl from Class D had already summoned her syokanju.

Shimada also prepared to counter attack; she stared at Miharu and shouted:
“Syokanju Summoning!”

Along with Shimada’s shout, a magical circle with some geometric shapes was formed below her feet. This was the proof of activating summoning system under teacher's supervision. After that, her syokanju appeared.

The syokanju that appeared, besides wearing military uniform with a military styled sabre on its hand, had the ponytail and the strong looking eyes that were exactly the same as Shimada, but its height was just around eighty centimetres. If I put the description in one sentence, it would be the 'chibi version of Shimada Minami'. And the opposing syokanju was also the chibi version of its owner; however it was just holding a normal sword.

“I have been waiting for this moment for a long time, ever since I was dumped by onee-sama....”

“Wait a second! You should give up already!”

The battle would start any moment now. Although I was not the one on the battlefield, I couldn't stop shaking when I thought about it.

“Shimada, about the onee-sama thing she mentions...”

“I don't want. Onee-sama will only be Miharu onee-sama no matter what!”

“Don't get close to me! I am just a normal girl who likes boys.”

“You are lying! Onee-sama should love Miharu as well!”

“You don't know anything about me!”

Somehow, I had a feeling that Shimada was in a world far away from me.

“Onee-sama, I am coming!”

Both syokanjus went close to each other, and finally the battle started.

“HAAAAA!”

“YAAAAA!”

Their shouts were filling the corridors.

Their syokanjus held their weapon high and fought head on, and started to fight with brute forces.

“You!”

“Miharu won't lose!”

Both syokanjus were challenging their forces using their swords, even those who were watching the fight were thrilled.

“Shimada, the opponent score is higher; fighting head on is not good for you.”

“I don't need you to remind me that, but I can't control my syokanju to do any special techniques.”

The sword fight was broken immediately. Shimada's syokanju did not have enough power, and its weapon dropped on the ground.

“That's it!”

“Damn!”

The opponent immediately pushed Shimada's syokanju to the ground and their fighting ability values (scores) appeared above their head.

Class F Shimada Minami VS Class D Shimizu Miharu

Chemistry 53 marks VS 94 marks

Shimada, how could you have inflated your score? Actually could you even score up to sixty?

“Onee-sama, the victory is mine.”

The opponent's sword was just beside Shimada's syokanju. If it was just the wrist or the leg being attacked, the score would only reduced a little bit, but if the neck or the heart was stabbed then the syokanju would be dead----which meant that she would be sent to tuition room. Now Shimada couldn't move at all.

“N..No! I don't want to go to tuition room!”

“Tuition room? Huhu...”

Shimizu had a happy looking smile on her face; she dragged Shimada's hand and left the scene.

Eh? Shimizu, that's the direction to the Health Care Room right?

“Huhuhu. Onee-sama, there should be an empty bed available in the Health Care Room now.”

“Yo..Yoshii. Back me up now! I have a feeling that there it is more dangerous than going to tuition room!”

That's right, I had the same feeling as well. But----

“I will kill you....Those who stand against Miharu's love with onee-sama, I will kill you all...”

I am sorry, Shimada. I didn't have the courage to rush forward.

“Shimada, I will never forget about you!”

“Ahh! Yoshii! Why do you say that before you fight?”

“Deaths to all who stop me!”

Shimada's syokanju's hands and legs had been attacked and could not move at all. Now the enemy was rushing towards me! I am going to die!

“Yoshii, danger---Syokanju summoning!”

A voice came from my side, it was Sugawa from my class! Thank you! You looked like Messiah now!

Class F Sugawa Ryou VS Class D Shimizu Miharu

Chemistry 76 marks VS 41 marks

Sugawa's syokanju slashed the enemy into the ground.

OH Yeah, Sugawa won! It seemed Shimizu lost too much scores in the fight just now, which made her lost the fight instantly.

“Shimada, are you alright?”

“Ya, I am saved, thanks Sugawa. Tuition Iron--- No, Nishigawa sensei, hurry up and bring this dangerous person to tuition room.”

“Oh, isn't it Shimizu? I will give you a good tuition, come with me.”

Different from Shimada, Shimizu's syokanju was dead so she was sent to tuition room, this was the condition we called ‘Die in Fight’.

“Onee-sama! Miharu will never give up! Don't you think you can graduate from this school safely!”

After leaving some lines which were filled with some dangerous meanings, Shimizu was forcefully sent to the tuition room.

In many different points of view, this really was a dangerous duel.

“Yoshii.”

“Shimada, you must be tired. You should head back and replenish your chemistry scores!”

“Yoshii.”

“Then, Sugawa, we should be on our way now. The war is still continuing!”

“Yoshii!”

“Y..Yes?”

“How can you leave me alone and run away just now?”

“....I don't remember doing such thing.”

This really was a battle field. The presence of killing made my skin hurt----But, there was only Shimada behind me.

“......”

“......”

A short moment of silence. Wh..What now? Why did I have a feeling that this was not good?

“DIE, Yoshii Akihisa! Syokanju Summo....”

“Someone help, Shimada is mad now! Bring her to the main force troop immediately!”

Sugawa stopped Shimada's action and tried to persuade her at the same time.

“That's not true! He is the enemy! My greatest enemy!”

I couldn't argue with what she said.

“Su...Sugawa, sorry to bother you.”

“Understood.”

“Let me go, Sugawa! Yoshii! I will not forgive you!”

“Quick, quickly bring her back! I am going to be killed by her scary eyesight!”

“Wait, let go---I am going to kill you!”

After leaving some lines which were filled with some threatening meanings, the scary figure was brought back. For now I am safe.

“Good, during the time that Hideyoshi's troop is replenishing the score, we need to hold the frontline! We can't let the enemy take another step forward!”

Angry shouts and cries never stopped coming from the corridors.

“I won't let you do that! If we can get through the frontline, there will be only troops that are replenishing score! We need to get through here now!”

To counter my commands, someone who looked like commander in Class D gave out a command as well.

This is my battlefield; I needed to gather my courage together!

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“Commander Yoshii! The troops at the corridors on both sides have been defeated! We only have two men left around Fuse sensei!”

“I am the only man standing at the corridor where Igarashi sensei is! Need backup as soon as possible!”

“Todo's syokanju can't make it, please help us!”

Damn, the situation was worse than I thought.

I felt like requesting help from the main troop, but that would reduce the number of people needed to execute our plans. We could only rely on ourselves and hung on to it here!

“Tell those around Fuse sensei to stay in guarding status! Swap the guys around Igarashi sensei with those fighting using the total result, make use of the time and defeat the enemy! As for Todo, I am sorry but we have to give up on him!”

“Understood!”

Everyone changed the formation as I told; it seemed that they still treated me as a leader.

“Those bastards in Class F, clearly they are wasting time!”

“What are they waiting for?”

Looking at our fighting methods, those in Class D should have started to realise what we were trying to do. That's not good, it was getting harder to carry on our mission now....

“Damn! The scout brings the report; Class F will bring the world history teacher Tanaka here.”

“The world history teacher Tanaka?”

“Class F bastard, do they want to have an extended battle?

It seemed that Class D scout troops discovered that our class brought Tanaka sensei to mark the score.

Tanaka sensei was teaching world history, he was old and had slow reaction, and his marking standard was pretty loose, which was welcomed by the students. However, his marking speed was not very fast. If we wanted a longer war, bringing Tanaka was the right choice.

“Yoshii, Class D brought the Mathematic teacher Kiuchi sensei.”

Sugawa, who had just brought Shimada away, came and gave me the report. It seemed that he brought a new information after he reached the main troop. That Kiuchi sensei right?

Mathematic teacher Kiuchi sensei had a strict standard in marking, but his marking speed was very fast. It seemed that Class D was using a totally different tactic, and wanted to finish us off quickly.
However, to accomplish our mission, we couldn't be beaten so easily.

Yuuji only entrusted one mission to me. That was to maintain the frontline and to hold up the blockage line and to drag the battle as long as possible, at least drag it until those classes which were not involved in the Test Summoning War finished their classes.

To achieve this target----

“Sugawa!”

“What's up?”

We could only use tactics instead of brute force, at least steer the situation to a direction that benefited us.

“In order to win more time, go and spread false information immediately.”

“False information? Fine by me, but the enemy will realise it immediately right? The Class D frontline commander has a loud voice so even if the tactics succeed, he can immediately reorder the formation.”

Just as what Sugawa said, Class D commander Tsukamoto's was really loud. Although it was really convenient to overhear their tactics, giving false information to confuse them was not easy at all.

“No problem, the target of the false information is not Class D.”

“What are you trying to say?”

“I want you to spread the false information to the teachers, and make them go to other places.”

“......I see, that will definitely have some effect.”

“Right?”

“Yeah, leave the content of the false information to me. I will think of a good lie to tell them.”

“I will leave it to you.”

After Sugawa had said that, he ran off the scene. Sugawa loved to do this sort of things right? He seemed really happy doing so.

“If we can't win in one on one fight, we will have to rely on team work!”

Anyway, as a commander, I stayed at the back of the troop. It was a mission as a troop commander to stay safe, not because I was timid.

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“Tsukamoto, there is no end to this!”

“Just hold on a bit longer, I will go to bring Funakoshi sensei here!”

The bad information for us Class F came when the situation was stalled.

Class D brought the Mathematic teacher Funakoshi sensei (Age 45, female, single). Their aim was to have her become another supervisor, instead of marking papers. To tell the truth, this was not good for us at all. If the battle range was to be increased, the difference in our troop force would be even larger.

What should I do? Probably it was time for me to join the frontline and fought now.

Just when I was thinking so…

Dang dang dang dang 'School Announcement, School Announcement.'

A familiar voice came from the school broadcast.

It was Sugawa's voice! I see, if he headed directly to the teacher's office, he might be spotted by Class D students, that's why he headed to the broadcast room instead. Good job, Sugawa!

“Funakoshi sensei, Funakoshi sensei.”

In addition, the broadcast was talking about the Funakoshi sensei that everyone wanted to get their hands on now. Excellent work, Sugawa!

“Yoshii Akihisa is waiting for you behind the sporting hall.”

......Huh? Sugawa? What's going on?

“He wants to cross the border line of students and teachers, and speaks to you as a man.”

Oi! This is too dangerous! She is Miss Funakoshi right? Are you sure? The Funakoshi sensei that used scores to threaten students into dating her right? Doing this could definitely made her went straight to the sporting hall, but she would be waiting there forever before she saw me, which meant my virginity was in danger!

“Commander Yoshii...You are too manly!”

“Oh my god, I am so touched. I can never imagine that you can sacrifice so much for our class!”

The vanguard troop members were all being really touched and cried, they even wanted to shake my hand to show their respects.

No, that's not right! I never give such command!

“Oi, have you heard the broadcast just now?”

“Yeah. I didn't know that Class F really want to win this war.”

“Can we win against a class with such strong determination?”

The murmuring sounds from Class D kept coming through. Please! Don't turn the situation towards me! It only made me harder to deny it!

“Everyone, we can not let Commander Yoshii's sacrifice go in vain!”

“We must win!”

Ah! Even our morale rose dramatically! Give me a break!

“Commander, we are getting the upper hand now! Let's take this chance and defeat them!”

“......”

“Commander?”

“.....Su”

“Su?”

“SUGAWAAAAAAAAAAA!”

There was one more name added into my death note.

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“Kudo Shinya, dead!”

“Nishimura Yuyichiro, total result left only 40 marks!”

“Morigawa is not back yet! Is he defeated?”

Our side was able to temporarily fight against the enemy due to the morale boost. However, the lack of troop force was starting to affect the situation; bad information was flowing back now.

Kudo and Morigawa were dead now (sent to tuition room), now our number went down from originally eighteen people to only five. This was probably our limit.

“Akihisa, just hold on a little bit longer!”

Just when I started to think about retreating, an encouraging voice came.

I looked around, and saw Yuuji and the others at the far back. The support had finally come!

But come to think of it, how could their sound travel so far? They were so far away from me, why could I hear what they said so clearly?

“It is their back up troops! Defeat Yoshii and his men before they combine their force! Else it will be dangerous for us!”

Class D frontline commander---Tsukamoto's voice was clear as well.

Damn! Even if Yuuji's troop was here, they were still far away from where I am. If we were to be defeated before they arrived, we would all be sent to tuition room!

“Nishimura Yuyichiro, dead!”

Four people left.

Yuuji, they all were.....still very far away from us!

What should I do? What should I do? Yoshii Akihisa!

“Igarashi sensei, I am Suzuki from Class D, activating summoning system!”

“I am not going to lose! I am Tanaka from Class F. Show yourself, my syokanju!”

Damn! Tanaka is caught as well?

Class D Suzuki Ichiro VS Class F Tanaka Akira

Chemistry 93 marks VS 67 marks

Tanaka immediately turned into a lost soul.

There were only three people left.

It seemed that Yuuji and the others couldn't make it in time.

Damn it, damn it, damn it!

“Forward!”

The enemy army was rushing to us fiercely; could it be that they also felt that it was important time now?

Class D Suzuki Ichiro VS Class F Shibazaki Takumi

Chemistry 25 marks VS 66 marks

Although we had successfully defeated Suzuki, we were not in good shape as well.

“Teacher, Sasajima Keigo from Class D is here! Syokanju summoning!”

Class D Sasajima Keigo VS Class F Shibazaki Takumi

Chemistry 99 marks VS 41 marks

After defeating Shibazaki, Sasajima brought his syokanju and rushed towards me. I was in the range of summoning, if I didn't summon my syokanju now, I would be sent to the tuition room.

“Yoshii Akihisa! Your head is mine!”

There is no other way! I can only fight him head on!

I took a deep breath, gathered all my strengths together.

“I am not going to lose to you!”

Making use of the time space made when the enemy syokanju rushed towards me, I shouted out loud:
“Syokanju summoning!”

After that, a magical circle appeared below my legs.

Some sort of material was taken out from my body, and I was filled with a feeling of being freed.

What appear besides me was another me which was wearing a special attack uniform.

“Class F troop commander Yoshii Akihisa is here waiting, where is my-----Ouch, it hurt!”

My shoulder suddenly suffered immense pain.

It really hurts! Don't appear right in front of the enemy! The pain that bounced back felt really hurt!

“The commander is an idiot! I can handle him alone, everyone step down!”

Additionally, I was humiliated as well! It was just because the position where I summoned my syokanju was a little bit bad!

“Die, Yoshii!”

The enemy rushed towards my syokanju on the ground.

“Not so easy!”

First, rush to the enemy and maintain low position, and then----

(Dashing sound)

Making use of the time lag, I made the enemy tripped and fell on the ground.

“What?”

Shibazaki's split self easily tripped over.

“Ah! Kirishima's skirt flips!”

I pointed to the back of Class D and shouted out loudly.

“What?”

This was surprising. She was really famous, the beautiful and talented Class A class leader-----Year 2 representative Kirishima. Not only had the Class D boys, even the Class D girls had also turned around to look.

Female students, since we are studying together, please have a little bit more interest in guys! Come to think of it, Kirishima was interested in girls as well.

While my brain was thinking about this sort of useless stuff, my movement didn't stop because of it. I made use of the time when everyone's focus was diverted; I took off one of my shoes and threw it towards the window with all my force.

(Window breaking sound)

Along with the breaking sound, the window glass scattered around.

“What? What happened?”

The sudden accident shocked everyone. Good, then there is no problem now!

“Wa, Shimada! What do you want to do with that?”

In order to avoid the punishment later, I performed this show, and then I grabbed the fire extinguisher and pulled off the safety ring.

(Spraying sound)

The powder was sprayed along with the sound.

“Wa! What's going on?”

“(Clearing mouth) Isn’t it the dry powder from fire extinguisher?”

“I can't see a thing in front of me!”

With the low visibility, it was quite impossible to continue the fight.

“Shimada, why do you want to do that!”

I shouted another line of words just to be safe. Now everyone would think that Shimada was the culprit right?

“Shimada from Class F! You are such a mean girl!”

“Unforgivable! I am going to add her into the 'Most Unwilling to be Her Boyfriend' top ten rank!”

“That's right! Make her unable to find any boyfriend before she graduate!”

“But, it is so cool... onee-sama....”

......I think I had done something that couldn't be settled by breaking only one or two ribs.

I...I am sorry, Shimada. I won't let your sacrifice go in vain!

I lowered my head and stayed silence to pray for her sacrifice, I turned back and saw Yuuji and the others were just meters away from me.

Good, we finally joined force!

“HAAA!”

I held the empty fire extinguisher and threw it towards the water spray on the ceiling.

Right on target! Then there should be no problem....

(Water spraying sound)

Just as I thought, the water sprayed and the power fog was fading away with the water droplet.

“Sorry to keep you waiting, Yoshii! Igarashi sensei, Kondo Yoshimune from Class F is here!”
The person who appeared in the scene with the clear view and who gave out the challenge was Kondo, one of the members of the main troop lead by Yuuji.

“Syokanju summoning!”

Class D Nakano Kenta VS Class F Kondo Yoshimune

Chemistry 43 marks VS 91 marks

“Damn! Retreat first! Everyone keep up the pace!”

Enemy troop commander Tsukamoto's retreat command came from not far away.

“Don't chase after them, combine force with Akihisa and return to the class.”

This was the command from the Class F class leader Sakamoto Yuuji. He gave this passive command because he was probably afraid that stepping too deeply into the enemy territory would attract the enemy’s main force. Otherwise he should have been laughing out loud crazily and going after the retreating enemy.

“You looks like you are fine, Akihisa.”

“Yeah, not too bad!”

Somehow, I managed to avoid the danger.

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After I had a chemistry test to replenish my score back in class…

“Akihisa, good work!”

General Yuuji actually said something nice, and honestly praised me? Did he just have the wrong medicine?

I looked at his face with questions.

He had a bright smile that made people hard to look at on his face, which made me a bit unhappy.

The guy in front of me----

“Did you hear the school broadcast?”

“Yeah, I listened to it very clearly.”

Just as I thought, he was laughing at my misfortune! Unforgivable!

Although I felt like throwing him out of the window, I didn't have time to deal with him now, because there was a more important person I had to eliminate immediately.

“Yuuji, do you know where Sugawa is now?”

Where was the cute little Sugawa that I wanted to see the most now? He could be hiding somewhere; in that case I am going to find him even if I had to dig into the ground.

“Hasn’t he come back since a long time ago?”

With respect to my determination to kill, Yuuji said something out of my expectation.

Oooo! He had came back? I felt my heart was beating very fast!

There was no need to hurry, I needed to calm down. No problem, there was no problem at all. I had just grabbed a knife from the household management classroom; my sock was filled with sand and rock as well.

“I can do it; I can definitely kill him...”

“Are you going to kill him?”

Ah, Sugawa.... I want, I want to see you sooner.

“By the way, I have something that I forget to tell you.”

It seemed that Yuuji had something to say, but leave it for later! The most important thing now is-----

“The content in the broadcast is my idea.”

You bastard!

(Akihisa yelling)

I dashed towards Yuuji, pulled out the knife, the target was the liver that was hard to defend but could easily become a deadly wound, my right hand held the sock with sand and rocks and aimed at Yuuji's head blind spot----

“Ah, Funakoshi sensei.”

Damn! I needed to retreat first. Eliminating Yuuji was important, but my virginity mattered even more!

I kicked the Japanese style table along the way, rushed into the cupboard with the cleaning tools and closed the door tightly. Now she doesn't know where I am right?

“Don't bother with that idiot; it is about time to finish the war.”

“That's right. There are students leaving the school now, now is the time.”

“......(nodded)”

“Good! Let's go to get the head of Class D class leader!”

“OH!”

I could feel that everyone was leaving the classroom.

Actually I needed to go together with him. But Funakoshi was outside; I could not just jump out and die.

Damn! At this rate Yuuji would run away!

“Ah, Akihisa.”

“I was lying when I said Funakoshi sensei was here.”

Along with the footsteps, the classroom was now empty.

-----Lying?

I peeped out from the gap of the cupboard.

There was no one there.

-----I was cheated!

I kicked the cupboard door open, and dashed out to the corridors.

Since we were starting our final attacks on Class D, the enemy should be at the corridors linking the old and the new school building.

I moved cleverly, stayed out of sight of those who had finished the school and dashed towards the destination. Now, the enemy and our troop were mixing among the students and fought against each other.

“Hide well among the students going home! Try to create a situation to fight one enemy together!”

My enemy's voice was spreading across the battlefield.

“You, go around that way! I am going to challenge mathematic with this guy!”

“Then I will use Traditional Japanese to challenge---”

“I will use Japanese History----”

From where I was standing, I could see my classmates were surrounding the student from Class D individually. Our side used the lowly tactics that made use of the chaotic situation when the school had finished in order to get close to the enemy, and then to surround them and to attack together.

“I have defeated Tsukamoto from Class D.”

A really loud voice rang.

It seemed that the Tsukamoto who had been giving us a hard time had been beaten. Now the entire homeroom meeting in each class has ended, it was much easier to get a teacher to supervise the battle, which was why this plan could go more smoothly.

But, all of this mean nothing to me now---- if I don't kill Yuuji now!

“Yuuji, where are you!”

I headed towards the direction where the sound was coming from just now.

Mixing among the students made it harder to find him, but he was very tall, I could definite find him in a----Here you are!

“Yuuji, wash your neck and prepare----”

I rushed toward him, and at the same time…

“The backup troops are here! Don't worry everyone! Calm down and look around you before you act, make sure that you don't get surrounded!”

Darn! Isn't that Class D class leader Hiraga?

“That’s Class D main troop! They finally act!”

It sounded like someone from my class.

Now the main troops from both sides were gathering in the corridors.

“Half of the main force aims for Sakamoto's head! The rest go to help our classmates who are being surrounded!”

“OO---”

Hiraga gave the command, immediately Yuuji was surrounded by Class D’s main troop.

Yuuji placed the main troop around him. Although he wouldn't be in any immediate danger, the whole situation was getting very complicated however.

Also, I couldn't even get close to Yuuji, who were being surrounded by layers of enemy. Damn!

Can’t I get revenge for what happened to me?

“Class F retreat first! Blend into the students to disturb the enemy's movement.”

Yuuji's sound was still as clear as ever.

The situation was really bad now, we better retreat now.

“Don't let them get away! Fighting one on one is definitely to our advantages! Hunt all of them down!”

This tactic could only be carried by Class D because they were stronger individually.

Now their main troop was separated and started hunting down our troop individually. At the moment the defence beside Hiraga was much weaker, but Hiraga was the class leader for Class D, which means his score was highest in the class. To deal with Class F, as long as they didn't get surrounded, they wouldn't be in danger. Splitting the force now was quite a good judgement.
I was running around in the battlefield, Hiraga suddenly appeared in front of me. The defence around him was so weak that there was no personal guard around him.

“Chance!”

Since I couldn't kill Yuuji, I would just do what I needed to do in this Test Summoning War.

I quickly ran towards Hiraga. Luckily there were the Modern Japanese teacher Takeuchi sensei and the Traditional Japanese teacher Mukai sensei there, so even if I couldn't finish him in one hit, it would still do some decent damage to him!

“Mukai sensei! Yoshii from Class F will----”

“Tamano Miki from Class D, syokanju summoning!”

“What! A personal guard?”

Although we were hiding among the students going home, they would still look out for suspicious people, for example Class F students!

“Too bad, Funakoshi sensei's boyfriend?”

Hiraga's face was filled with smile of victory.

“You, you are wrong! That's just bullshit from Yuuji!”

“Don't be shy. Go Tamano, show him our most sincere wishes.”

“Understood.”

Tamano already summoned her syokanju, armoured with the Traditional Japanese scores.

“Damn! I am that close to defeating Class D myself!”

“What are you talking about, Funakoshi's boyfriend? Even if the defence around me looks weak, my personal guard will appear when Class F students approach. Besides, even if there is no personal guard around me, a minion like you won't be able to defeat me anyway.”

Hiraga had a show of disgust on his face, and looked down on me. That is driving me mad!

So I learned from him, counter attacked with one of my eye closed and said:
“I feel the same as well. It is too hard to do it all by myself. Therefore ----”

I purposely stopped and took a breath.

“Himeji, it is all depends on you now.”

“What?”

Hiraga's face had 'what the hell are you talking about, you idiot?' written on his face.

“Er...”

Himeji shyly tapped on Hiraga's shoulder from his back.

“Huh? Himeji? What's up? This is not the corridor heading to Class A right?”

Hiraga still didn't know what was going on until now. That's understandable; normally no one would think that she was in Class F, isn't it?

“It... it's not like that.”

Himeji was shy and feeling uneasy, which made her looked even cuter. Hmm, she was really cuter than Hideyoshi. Wait, it was wrong enough to think Hideyoshi was cute.

“Himeji Mizuki from Class F, nice to meet you.”

“Ah, nice to see you as well.”

“Er...I would like to challenge Hiraga with Modern Japanese.”

“....I see, OK.”

“”Er... syo...Syokanju summoning.”

Class F Himeji Mizuki VS Class D Hiraga Genji

Modern Japanese 339 marks VS 129 marks

“Huh? What?”

The confused Hiraga made his syokanju pose, and both of them were confronting each other.

However, he didn’t stand a chance....Clearly, Himeji's syokanju was much stronger, and easily held a long sword which was two times longer than its height.

“I...I am sorry.”

Himeji's split self used the speed that didn't fit its huge weapon, immediately got close to the opponent.

Without giving the opponent any chance of counter attack, she defeated Class D class leader in one hit, and ended the war.

Baka to Tesuto to Syokanju:Volume1 The Fourth Question

2008-12-28T07:54:46Z

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Question 4

i) What is the X value that satisfied the function 4sinX + 3coxX = 2 and lied in the first quadrant?

ii) Which one of the following equation is equivalent to sin(A+B)?

(1)sinA + cosB

(2)sinA – cosB

(3)sinAcosB

(4)sinAcosB+cosAsinB

Himeji Mizuki's Answer

i) X = π/6

ii) (4)

Teacher's Comment:

That's right. The symbol for angle is π and not °, the answer is perfect.

Kouta Tsuchiya's Answer

i) X = probably 3

Teacher's Comment:

I understand you are trying to slack off by using 'probably', although your answer is very close to the correct answer, I can't give you any mark.

Akihisa Yoshii's Answer

ii) probably (3)

Teacher's Comment:

I have seen a lost of students’ attempts before and you are the first who tries to slack off in multiple choice questions using this method.

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“Yoshii! Kinoshita's troop has started the fight with Class D at the corridor!”

Swinging her ponytail behind her back, the person running towards me was Shimada, who was placed in the same troop as me. Looking at her outlook carefully, you could see that she was tall and her legs were long, then why didn’t she look like a girl? Which part of her was wrong?

“Ah, maybe because of the flat chest?”

“Let me break your fingers one by one! Evenly!”

Oh no, I think I had just stepped on a landmine.

“Let... Let's just stop there. We need to focus on the Test Summoning War!”

The troop that was fighting at the frontline was the vanguard lead by Kinoshita, and the backup troop which we were in was located between the frontline and the Class F’s classroom. Although I couldn't recall that I accepted the offer, since I had become the troop leader now, I had to take the responsibility to lead everyone, so I needed to focus my mind now.

First of all let's have the feel of the battlefield’s atmosphere. It seemed that I could hear the sounds of fighting coming from the vanguard troop if I listened carefully.

“Show me what you got! You loser!”

“Iron... Iron Man? No! I don't want to go to tuition room!”

“Shut up! The prisoners of war will be staying in the tuition room and will have special tuitions before the battle ends! I am not sure how much time it will take for the war to end, but it seems that I should have enough time to tutor you!”

“Ple… Please, let me go! I don't have the confident to get through the torture!”

“Torture? That's not true. It is just a marvellous educational tuition. When it ends, I will educate you into a standard student whose hobby is studying, and the idol is Ninomiya Kinjiro[http://www.baka-tsuki.net/project/index.php?title=Baka_to_Tesuto_to_Syokanju:Volume1_Translator%27s_Notes#Question_4]”

“De..Devil! Someone help me out of this-----No----(door closing sound)”

OK, now I had a good understanding of what a Test Summoning War was.

“Shimada, give the order to the troop.”

“OK? What order? What do you want me to say?”

During a dangerous time like this, there was only one order I could give.

“Retreat!”

“You cowards!”

I got hit, and she was using the hidden art that attacked both of my eyes!

“Ouch, my eyes!”

“Does it wake you up, you big idiot! You are the troop leader! How can you run without putting up a good fight?”

Was the pain in the eyes come along with a clearer mind? If she wanted to say something like this, she should have just punched or slapped me instead of stabbing my eyes before saying it!

“Listen up, Yoshii. Our mission is to back up Kinoshita's vanguard troop right? Then during the time that they replenish their test scores, we need to hold the frontline. If our troop with an important mission like this run away first, then they can't replenish their scores smoothly.”

It was rare to see Shimada gave some serious opinion.

What she had just said was true, the mission we carried was very important. Our performance could greatly affect the result of this war. Instead, I was thinking about running away just because I was afraid to suffer the pain from having the tuition....

Shimada, you were so brave! I didn't know why, but my tears were just bursting out of my eyes (maybe because of the pain from getting stabbed in the eye)?

“I am sorry, I was wrong. I will throw away the fear of the tuition room, and focus on how to win in this fight.”

“Good. About this, I think there is nothing to worry about. Although we are weak in one on one fight, but if we are fighting one enemy together at a time, we should be fine.”

That's right. Even though our scores were lower, it was not the only factor that decided the result of this war. Depending on how we used our tactics, we still had a good chance of winning this war.

“You are right. Alright, I am filled with energy!”

“That's the spirit, Yoshii!”

All of us raised our fist: No problem, we could do this!

When our morale was high, a scout went towards Shimada.

“Shimada, the vanguard troop is losing!”

“Retreat!”

Wait a minute, that was totally different from those righteous speeches you just gave!

“Yoshii, we can retreat first right?”

I felt that this would cause a very big problem, or maybe it was just me?

“OK, we should run away first! It is too difficult for us now.”

“That's right, we already did our best.”

I looked back towards the direction where Class F was.

Yokoda(Class F) who was supposed to be staying in the class, was standing right behind me.

“Isn't it Yokoda? Why are you here?”

“I am here to give you a command from the class leader.”

Yokoda looked at the memo, and read out the message loudly:
“ 'If you dare to run, I will kill you!' ”

“Everyone charge---”

When I came back to my mind, I was on the way towards the battlefield. It was all for the victory of Class F!

Suddenly, there was a pretty girl in front of me running in my direction.

“Yoshii, you are here to support me!”

Oh, it was Hideyoshi. What should I say; this guy looked so cute no matter when or where he was....

“Hideyoshi, are you ok?”

“Yeah, somehow I managed to survive. But my score is greatly reduced.”

“I see, then how about your syokanju?”

“Too tired to move, can't continue fighting anymore.”

“Ok, then you better get some test to replenish your score!”

“You are right. There may not be enough time to have tests for every single subject, it still helps to have just one or two subjects score replenished.”

He immediately ran towards the class room after he said that, following behind him were the members of the vanguard troops. It seemed that their number was less than when they left to fight just now, a lot of people must have been sent to the tuition room.

“Yoshii, do you still remember the rules for Test Summoning War? If a teacher is not around, you can't summon your syokanju!”

“I know that!”

It was just as what Shimada advised. When we were using our test scores to fight, we needed to comply with the rules on the left page.

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'''The Fumitsuki Gakuen Rules for The Fights related to The Classroom Facilities and The Summoning War'''

1. In principle, the fight is between classes. Under the supervision of the teacher teaching any subject, students can activate summoning system to summon syokanjus. Also, the fight using the sum of all the subjects must be supervised by the educational administration director.

2. Every student can only have one syokanju. The syokanju will have the power equal to the last test result. The sum of all the subjects will be the sum of the latest test score of every subject.

3. The score will be reduced proportional to the power that the syokanju loses in the fight. Once the score is reduced to zero, the syokanju will die and the student will need to receive tuition in the tuition room.

4. Students can replenish their score infinitely if his / her syokanju is not dead.

5. If the opponent summons a syokanju, the student who fails to perform the summoning will be considered as forfeiting the fight, and therefore will result in the student receiving the tuition in the tuition room as the punishment. This punishment also applies to those students whose syokanjus die during the fight.

6. The valid range of summoning the syokanju is a circle with a radius of ten meters from the supervising teacher (may differ among different teacher).

7. The fight can only be carried by the syokanjus, the summoners who are involved in the actual fight will be punished.

8. The war will only end when the opposing class leader is defeated. As long as it is supervised by the teacher, the students can use any methods or tactics in order to win the war. This is the 'War' that uses test scores as weapons, those who wants to be involved in the war need to be mentally prepared.

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That's probably all the rules! Although there were some changes, and some more specific rules, but overall that's the rules for this war. If you didn't read through them carefully, you might miss the main point of the war -- 'basically the war uses the syokanjus to decide the result of the war. But the students can use other methods or tactics beside the test scores'.

It seemed that the educational administration director was supervising now, so the subjects we were fighting now were the total result mention in the first rule....

“Yoshii, look!”

Shimada who was running beside me shouted loudly. What happened?

“It's Igarashi sensei and Fuse sensei! Those Class D bastards, they brought the chemistry teachers here.”

I looked carefully. The chemistry teachers for Year 2, Igarashi sensei and Fuse sensei were standing at the corridor that links the new and the old school building.

I see. The duration of the war would be much longer if there was only one teacher, in our case the school’s educational administration director, supervising so they were trying to increase the number of the supervisor and finish us off in one shot?

That's why Hideyoshi needed to retreat earlier than we had originally planned.

“Shimada, are you confident with your chemistry result?”

“None at all, I only get around sixty every time.”

That's what we expect from Class F. No matter how you lower down the standard, sixty was not a good result.

“OK then, we will need to stay away from Iragashi sensei and Fuse sensei, and head towards the educational administration director.”

“Head towards Takahashi sensei? Understood.”

Shimada and I sneaked through the corridor and headed towards the corner.

Everyone, look! This was the heroic back up troop leader and his subordinates.

“Ah, isn't the one sneaking over there my Minami onee-sama from Class F? Igarashi sensei, hurry here!”

“Damn, I am being careless.”

One of the students in Class D discovered Shimada, and brought one of the teachers, Igarashi sensei, here. Oh no, if we didn't summon our syokanju and fought, it would only take one hit to send us to the tuition room.

“OK Shimada, I leave this to you, I will be on my way.”

“Wait a... Normally it is not like this right? It should be 'Leave this to me, you better leave now' right?”

“These lines are useless in real world!”

“Yo..Yoshii! You are so mean!”

“Onee-sama! I won't let you run away!”

“It's Miharu! It seems I need to fight with my life....”

I stood more than ten meters away from Igarashi sensei, so now I could rest and observed how Shimada fails. The girl from Class D had already summoned her syokanju.

Shimada also prepared to counter attack; she stared at Miharu and shouted:
“Syokanju Summoning!”

Along with Shimada’s shout, a magical circle with some geometric shapes was formed below her feet. This was the proof of activating summoning system under teacher's supervision. After that, her syokanju appeared.

The syokanju that appeared, besides wearing military uniform with a military styled sabre on its hand, had the ponytail and the strong looking eyes that were exactly the same as Shimada, but its height was just around eighty centimetres. If I put the description in one sentence, it would be the 'chibi version of Shimada Minami'. And the opposing syokanju was also the chibi version of its owner; however it was just holding a normal sword.

“I have been waiting for this moment for a long time, ever since I was dumped by onee-sama....”

“Wait a second! You should give up already!”

The battle would start any moment now. Although I was not the one on the battlefield, I couldn't stop shaking when I thought about it.

“Shimada, about the onee-sama thing she mentions...”

“I don't want. Onee-sama will only be Miharu onee-sama no matter what!”

“Don't get close to me! I am just a normal girl who likes boys.”

“You are lying! Onee-sama should love Miharu as well!”

“You don't know anything about me!”

Somehow, I had a feeling that Shimada was in a world far away from me.

“Onee-sama, I am coming!”

Both syokanjus went close to each other, and finally the battle started.

“HAAAAA!”

“YAAAAA!”

Their shouts were filling the corridors.

Their syokanjus held their weapon high and fought head on, and started to fight with brute forces.

“You!”

“Miharu won't lose!”

Both syokanjus were challenging their forces using their swords, even those who were watching the fight were thrilled.

“Shimada, the opponent score is higher; fighting head on is not good for you.”

“I don't need you to remind me that, but I can't control my syokanju to do any special techniques.”

The sword fight was broken immediately. Shimada's syokanju did not have enough power, and its weapon dropped on the ground.

“That's it!”

“Damn!”

The opponent immediately pushed Shimada's syokanju to the ground and their fighting ability values (scores) appeared above their head.

Class F Shimada Minami VS Class D Shimizu Miharu
Chemistry 53 marks VS 94 marks

Shimada, how could you have inflated your score? Actually could you even score up to sixty?

“Onee-sama, the victory is mine.”

The opponent's sword was just beside Shimada's syokanju. If it was just the wrist or the leg being attacked, the score would only reduced a little bit, but if the neck or the heart was stabbed then the syokanju would be dead----which meant that she would be sent to tuition room. Now Shimada couldn't move at all.

“N..No! I don't want to go to tuition room!”

“Tuition room? Huhu...”

Shimizu had a happy looking smile on her face; she dragged Shimada's hand and left the scene.

Eh? Shimizu, that's the direction to the Health Care Room right?

“Huhuhu. Onee-sama, there should be an empty bed available in the Health Care Room now.”

“Yo..Yoshii. Back me up now! I have a feeling that there it is more dangerous than going to tuition room!”

That's right, I had the same feeling as well. But----

“I will kill you....Those who stand against Miharu's love with onee-sama, I will kill you all...”

I am sorry, Shimada. I didn't have the courage to rush forward.

“Shimada, I will never forget about you!”

“Ahh! Yoshii! Why do you say that before you fight?”

“Deaths to all who stop me!”

Shimada's syokanju's hands and legs had been attacked and could not move at all. Now the enemy was rushing towards me! I am going to die!

“Yoshii, danger---Syokanju summoning!”

A voice came from my side, it was Sugawa from my class! Thank you! You looked like Messiah now!

Class F Sugawa Ryou VS Class D Shimizu Miharu
Chemistry 76 marks VS 41 marks

Sugawa's syokanju slashed the enemy into the ground.

OH Yeah, Sugawa won! It seemed Shimizu lost too much scores in the fight just now, which made her lost the fight instantly.

“Shimada, are you alright?”

“Ya, I am saved, thanks Sugawa. Tuition Iron--- No, Nishigawa sensei, hurry up and bring this dangerous person to tuition room.”

“Oh, isn't it Shimizu? I will give you a good tuition, come with me.”

Different from Shimada, Shimizu's syokanju was dead so she was sent to tuition room, this was the condition we called ‘Die in Fight’.

“Onee-sama! Miharu will never give up! Don't you think you can graduate from this school safely!”

After leaving some lines which were filled with some dangerous meanings, Shimizu was forcefully sent to the tuition room.

In many different points of view, this really was a dangerous duel.

“Yoshii.”

“Shimada, you must be tired. You should head back and replenish your chemistry scores!”

“Yoshii.”

“Then, Sugawa, we should be on our way now. The war is still continuing!”

“Yoshii!”

“Y..Yes?”

“How can you leave me alone and run away just now?”

“....I don't remember doing such thing.”

This really was a battle field. The presence of killing made my skin hurt----But, there was only Shimada behind me.

“......”

“......”

A short moment of silence. Wh..What now? Why did I have a feeling that this was not good?

“DIE, Yoshii Akihisa! Syokanju Summo....”

“Someone help, Shimada is mad now! Bring her to the main force troop immediately!”

Sugawa stopped Shimada's action and tried to persuade her at the same time.

“That's not true! He is the enemy! My greatest enemy!”

I couldn't argue with what she said.

“Su...Sugawa, sorry to bother you.”

“Understood.”

“Let me go, Sugawa! Yoshii! I will not forgive you!”

“Quick, quickly bring her back! I am going to be killed by her scary eyesight!”

“Wait, let go---I am going to kill you!”

After leaving some lines which were filled with some threatening meanings, the scary figure was brought back. For now I am safe.

“Good, during the time that Hideyoshi's troop is replenishing the score, we need to hold the frontline! We can't let the enemy take another step forward!”

Angry shouts and cries never stopped coming from the corridors.

“I won't let you do that! If we can get through the frontline, there will be only troops that are replenishing score! We need to get through here now!”

To counter my commands, someone who looked like commander in Class D gave out a command as well.

This is my battlefield; I needed to gather my courage together!

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“Commander Yoshii! The troops at the corridors on both sides have been defeated! We only have two men left around Fuse sensei!”

“I am the only man standing at the corridor where Igarashi sensei is! Need backup as soon as possible!”

“Todo's syokanju can't make it, please help us!”

Damn, the situation was worse than I thought.

I felt like requesting help from the main troop, but that would reduce the number of people needed to execute our plans. We could only rely on ourselves and hung on to it here!

“Tell those around Fuse sensei to stay in guarding status! Swap the guys around Igarashi sensei with those fighting using the total result, make use of the time and defeat the enemy! As for Todo, I am sorry but we have to give up on him!”

“Understood!”

Everyone changed the formation as I told; it seemed that they still treated me as a leader.

“Those bastards in Class F, clearly they are wasting time!”

“What are they waiting for?”

Looking at our fighting methods, those in Class D should have started to realise what we were trying to do. That's not good, it was getting harder to carry on our mission now....

“Damn! The scout brings the report; Class F will bring the world history teacher Tanaka here.”

“The world history teacher Tanaka?”

“Class F bastard, do they want to have an extended battle?

It seemed that Class D scout troops discovered that our class brought Tanaka sensei to mark the score.

Tanaka sensei was teaching world history, he was old and had slow reaction, and his marking standard was pretty loose, which was welcomed by the students. However, his marking speed was not very fast. If we wanted a longer war, bringing Tanaka was the right choice.

“Yoshii, Class D brought the Mathematic teacher Kiuchi sensei.”

Sugawa, who had just brought Shimada away, came and gave me the report. It seemed that he brought a new information after he reached the main troop. That Kiuchi sensei right?

Mathematic teacher Kiuchi sensei had a strict standard in marking, but his marking speed was very fast. It seemed that Class D was using a totally different tactic, and wanted to finish us off quickly.
However, to accomplish our mission, we couldn't be beaten so easily.

Yuuji only entrusted one mission to me. That was to maintain the frontline and to hold up the blockage line and to drag the battle as long as possible, at least drag it until those classes which were not involved in the Test Summoning War finished their classes.

To achieve this target----

“Sugawa!”

“What's up?”

We could only use tactics instead of brute force, at least steer the situation to a direction that benefited us.

“In order to win more time, go and spread false information immediately.”

“False information? Fine by me, but the enemy will realise it immediately right? The Class D frontline commander has a loud voice so even if the tactics succeed, he can immediately reorder the formation.”

Just as what Sugawa said, Class D commander Tsukamoto's was really loud. Although it was really convenient to overhear their tactics, giving false information to confuse them was not easy at all.

“No problem, the target of the false information is not Class D.”

“What are you trying to say?”

“I want you to spread the false information to the teachers, and make them go to other places.”

“......I see, that will definitely have some effect.”

“Right?”

“Yeah, leave the content of the false information to me. I will think of a good lie to tell them.”

“I will leave it to you.”

After Sugawa had said that, he ran off the scene. Sugawa loved to do this sort of things right? He seemed really happy doing so.

“If we can't win in one on one fight, we will have to rely on team work!”

Anyway, as a commander, I stayed at the back of the troop. It was a mission as a troop commander to stay safe, not because I was timid.

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“Tsukamoto, there is no end to this!”

“Just hold on a bit longer, I will go to bring Funakoshi sensei here!”

The bad information for us Class F came when the situation was stalled.

Class D brought the Mathematic teacher Funakoshi sensei (Age 45, female, single). Their aim was to have her become another supervisor, instead of marking papers. To tell the truth, this was not good for us at all. If the battle range was to be increased, the difference in our troop force would be even larger.

What should I do? Probably it was time for me to join the frontline and fought now.

Just when I was thinking so…

Dang dang dang dang 'School Announcement, School Announcement.'

A familiar voice came from the school broadcast.

It was Sugawa's voice! I see, if he headed directly to the teacher's office, he might be spotted by Class D students, that's why he headed to the broadcast room instead. Good job, Sugawa!

“Funakoshi sensei, Funakoshi sensei.”

In addition, the broadcast was talking about the Funakoshi sensei that everyone wanted to get their hands on now. Excellent work, Sugawa!

“Yoshii Akihisa is waiting for you behind the sporting hall.”

......Huh? Sugawa? What's going on?

“He wants to cross the border line of students and teachers, and speaks to you as a man.”

Oi! This is too dangerous! She is Miss Funakoshi right? Are you sure? The Funakoshi sensei that used scores to threaten students into dating her right? Doing this could definitely made her went straight to the sporting hall, but she would be waiting there forever before she saw me, which meant my virginity was in danger!

“Commander Yoshii...You are too manly!”

“Oh my god, I am so touched. I can never imagine that you can sacrifice so much for our class!”

The vanguard troop members were all being really touched and cried, they even wanted to shake my hand to show their respects.

No, that's not right! I never give such command!

“Oi, have you heard the broadcast just now?”

“Yeah. I didn't know that Class F really want to win this war.”

“Can we win against a class with such strong determination?”

The murmuring sounds from Class D kept coming through. Please! Don't turn the situation towards me! It only made me harder to deny it!

“Everyone, we can not let Commander Yoshii's sacrifice go in vain!”

“We must win!”

Ah! Even our morale rose dramatically! Give me a break!

“Commander, we are getting the upper hand now! Let's take this chance and defeat them!”

“......”

“Commander?”

“.....Su”

“Su?”

“SUGAWAAAAAAAAAAA!”

There was one more name added into my death note.

------

“Kudo Shinya, dead!”

“Nishimura Yuyichiro, total result left only 40 marks!”

“Morigawa is not back yet! Is he defeated?”

Our side was able to temporarily fight against the enemy due to the morale boost. However, the lack of troop force was starting to affect the situation; bad information was flowing back now.

Kudo and Morigawa were dead now (sent to tuition room), now our number went down from originally eighteen people to only five. This was probably our limit.

“Akihisa, just hold on a little bit longer!”

Just when I started to think about retreating, an encouraging voice came.

I looked around, and saw Yuuji and the others at the far back. The support had finally come!

But come to think of it, how could their sound travel so far? They were so far away from me, why could I hear what they said so clearly?

“It is their back up troops! Defeat Yoshii and his men before they combine their force! Else it will be dangerous for us!”

Class D frontline commander---Tsukamoto's voice was clear as well.

Damn! Even if Yuuji's troop was here, they were still far away from where I am. If we were to be defeated before they arrived, we would all be sent to tuition room!

“Nishimura Yuyichiro, dead!”

Four people left.

Yuuji, they all were.....still very far away from us!

What should I do? What should I do? Yoshii Akihisa!

“Igarashi sensei, I am Suzuki from Class D, activating summoning system!”

“I am not going to lose! I am Tanaka from Class F. Show yourself, my syokanju!”

Damn! Tanaka is caught as well?

Class D Suzuki Ichiro VS Class F Tanaka Akira
Chemistry 93 marks VS 67 marks

Tanaka immediately turned into a lost soul.

There were only three people left.

It seemed that Yuuji and the others couldn't make it in time.

Damn it, damn it, damn it!

“Forward!”

The enemy army was rushing to us fiercely; could it be that they also felt that it was important time now?

Class D Suzuki Ichiro VS Class F Shibazaki Takumi
Chemistry 25 marks VS 66 marks

Although we had successfully defeated Suzuki, we were not in good shape as well.

“Teacher, Sasajima Keigo from Class D is here! Syokanju summoning!”

Class D Sasajima Keigo VS Class F Shibazaki Takumi
Chemistry 99 marks VS 41 marks

After defeating Shibazaki, Sasajima brought his syokanju and rushed towards me. I was in the range of summoning, if I didn't summon my syokanju now, I would be sent to the tuition room.

“Yoshii Akihisa! Your head is mine!”

There is no other way! I can only fight him head on!

I took a deep breath, gathered all my strengths together.

“I am not going to lose to you!”

Making use of the time space made when the enemy syokanju rushed towards me, I shouted out loud:
“Syokanju summoning!”

After that, a magical circle appeared below my legs.

Some sort of material was taken out from my body, and I was filled with a feeling of being freed.

What appear besides me was another me which was wearing a special attack uniform.

“Class F troop commander Yoshii Akihisa is here waiting, where is my-----Ouch, it hurt!”

My shoulder suddenly suffered immense pain.

It really hurts! Don't appear right in front of the enemy! The pain that bounced back felt really hurt!

“The commander is an idiot! I can handle him alone, everyone step down!”

Additionally, I was humiliated as well! It was just because the position where I summoned my syokanju was a little bit bad!

“Die, Yoshii!”

The enemy rushed towards my syokanju on the ground.

“Not so easy!”

First, rush to the enemy and maintain low position, and then----

(Dashing sound)

Making use of the time lag, I made the enemy tripped and fell on the ground.

“What?”

Shibazaki's split self easily tripped over.

“Ah! Kirishima's skirt flips!”

I pointed to the back of Class D and shouted out loudly.

“What?”

This was surprising. She was really famous, the beautiful and talented Class A class leader-----Year 2 representative Kirishima. Not only had the Class D boys, even the Class D girls had also turned around to look.

Female students, since we are studying together, please have a little bit more interest in guys! Come to think of it, Kirishima was interested in girls as well.

While my brain was thinking about this sort of useless stuff, my movement didn't stop because of it. I made use of the time when everyone's focus was diverted; I took off one of my shoes and threw it towards the window with all my force.

(Window breaking sound)

Along with the breaking sound, the window glass scattered around.

“What? What happened?”

The sudden accident shocked everyone. Good, then there is no problem now!

“Wa, Shimada! What do you want to do with that?”

In order to avoid the punishment later, I performed this show, and then I grabbed the fire extinguisher and pulled off the safety ring.

(Spraying sound)

The powder was sprayed along with the sound.

“Wa! What's going on?”

“(Clearing mouth) Isn’t it the dry powder from fire extinguisher?”

“I can't see a thing in front of me!”

With the low visibility, it was quite impossible to continue the fight.

“Shimada, why do you want to do that!”

I shouted another line of words just to be safe. Now everyone would think that Shimada was the culprit right?

“Shimada from Class F! You are such a mean girl!”

“Unforgivable! I am going to add her into the 'Most Unwilling to be Her Boyfriend' top ten rank!”

“That's right! Make her unable to find any boyfriend before she graduate!”

“But, it is so cool... onee-sama....”

......I think I had done something that couldn't be settled by breaking only one or two ribs.

I...I am sorry, Shimada. I won't let your sacrifice go in vain!

I lowered my head and stayed silence to pray for her sacrifice, I turned back and saw Yuuji and the others were just meters away from me.

Good, we finally joined force!

“HAAA!”

I held the empty fire extinguisher and threw it towards the water spray on the ceiling.

Right on target! Then there should be no problem....

(Water spraying sound)

Just as I thought, the water sprayed and the power fog was fading away with the water droplet.

“Sorry to keep you waiting, Yoshii! Igarashi sensei, Kondo Yoshimune from Class F is here!”
The person who appeared in the scene with the clear view and who gave out the challenge was Kondo, one of the members of the main troop lead by Yuuji.

“Syokanju summoning!”

Class D Nakano Kenta VS Class F Kondo Yoshimune
Chemistry 43 marks VS 91 marks

“Damn! Retreat first! Everyone keep up the pace!”

Enemy troop commander Tsukamoto's retreat command came from not far away.

“Don't chase after them, combine force with Akihisa and return to the class.”

This was the command from the Class F class leader Sakamoto Yuuji. He gave this passive command because he was probably afraid that stepping too deeply into the enemy territory would attract the enemy’s main force. Otherwise he should have been laughing out loud crazily and going after the retreating enemy.

“You looks like you are fine, Akihisa.”

“Yeah, not too bad!”

Somehow, I managed to avoid the danger.

------

After I had a chemistry test to replenish my score back in class…

“Akihisa, good work!”

General Yuuji actually said something nice, and honestly praised me? Did he just have the wrong medicine?

I looked at his face with questions.

He had a bright smile that made people hard to look at on his face, which made me a bit unhappy.

The guy in front of me----

“Did you hear the school broadcast?”

“Yeah, I listened to it very clearly.”

Just as I thought, he was laughing at my misfortune! Unforgivable!

Although I felt like throwing him out of the window, I didn't have time to deal with him now, because there was a more important person I had to eliminate immediately.

“Yuuji, do you know where Sugawa is now?”

Where was the cute little Sugawa that I wanted to see the most now? He could be hiding somewhere; in that case I am going to find him even if I had to dig into the ground.

“Hasn’t he come back since a long time ago?”

With respect to my determination to kill, Yuuji said something out of my expectation.

Oooo! He had came back? I felt my heart was beating very fast!

There was no need to hurry, I needed to calm down. No problem, there was no problem at all. I had just grabbed a knife from the household management classroom; my sock was filled with sand and rock as well.

“I can do it; I can definitely kill him...”

“Are you going to kill him?”

Ah, Sugawa.... I want, I want to see you sooner.

“By the way, I have something that I forget to tell you.”

It seemed that Yuuji had something to say, but leave it for later! The most important thing now is-----

“The content in the broadcast is my idea.”

You bastard!

(Akihisa yelling)

I dashed towards Yuuji, pulled out the knife, the target was the liver that was hard to defend but could easily become a deadly wound, my right hand held the sock with sand and rocks and aimed at Yuuji's head blind spot----

“Ah, Funakoshi sensei.”

Damn! I needed to retreat first. Eliminating Yuuji was important, but my virginity mattered even more!

I kicked the Japanese style table along the way, rushed into the cupboard with the cleaning tools and closed the door tightly. Now she doesn't know where I am right?

“Don't bother with that idiot; it is about time to finish the war.”

“That's right. There are students leaving the school now, now is the time.”

“......(nodded)”

“Good! Let's go to get the head of Class D class leader!”

“OH!”

I could feel that everyone was leaving the classroom.

Actually I needed to go together with him. But Funakoshi was outside; I could not just jump out and die.

Damn! At this rate Yuuji would run away!

“Ah, Akihisa.”

“I was lying when I said Funakoshi sensei was here.”

Along with the footsteps, the classroom was now empty.

-----Lying?

I peeped out from the gap of the cupboard.

There was no one there.

-----I was cheated!

I kicked the cupboard door open, and dashed out to the corridors.

Since we were starting our final attacks on Class D, the enemy should be at the corridors linking the old and the new school building.

I moved cleverly, stayed out of sight of those who had finished the school and dashed towards the destination. Now, the enemy and our troop were mixing among the students and fought against each other.

“Hide well among the students going home! Try to create a situation to fight one enemy together!”

My enemy's voice was spreading across the battlefield.

“You, go around that way! I am going to challenge mathematic with this guy!”

“Then I will use Traditional Japanese to challenge---”

“I will use Japanese History----”

From where I was standing, I could see my classmates were surrounding the student from Class D individually. Our side used the lowly tactics that made use of the chaotic situation when the school had finished in order to get close to the enemy, and then to surround them and to attack together.

“I have defeated Tsukamoto from Class D.”

A really loud voice rang.

It seemed that the Tsukamoto who had been giving us a hard time had been beaten. Now the entire homeroom meeting in each class has ended, it was much easier to get a teacher to supervise the battle, which was why this plan could go more smoothly.

But, all of this mean nothing to me now---- if I don't kill Yuuji now!

“Yuuji, where are you!”

I headed towards the direction where the sound was coming from just now.

Mixing among the students made it harder to find him, but he was very tall, I could definite find him in a----Here you are!

“Yuuji, wash your neck and prepare----”

I rushed toward him, and at the same time…

“The backup troops are here! Don't worry everyone! Calm down and look around you before you act, make sure that you don't get surrounded!”

Darn! Isn't that Class D class leader Hiraga?

“That’s Class D main troop! They finally act!”

It sounded like someone from my class.

Now the main troops from both sides were gathering in the corridors.

“Half of the main force aims for Sakamoto's head! The rest go to help our classmates who are being surrounded!”

“OO---”

Hiraga gave the command, immediately Yuuji was surrounded by Class D’s main troop.

Yuuji placed the main troop around him. Although he wouldn't be in any immediate danger, the whole situation was getting very complicated however.

Also, I couldn't even get close to Yuuji, who were being surrounded by layers of enemy. Damn!

Can’t I get revenge for what happened to me?

“Class F retreat first! Blend into the students to disturb the enemy's movement.”

Yuuji's sound was still as clear as ever.

The situation was really bad now, we better retreat now.

“Don't let them get away! Fighting one on one is definitely to our advantages! Hunt all of them down!”

This tactic could only be carried by Class D because they were stronger individually.

Now their main troop was separated and started hunting down our troop individually. At the moment the defence beside Hiraga was much weaker, but Hiraga was the class leader for Class D, which means his score was highest in the class. To deal with Class F, as long as they didn't get surrounded, they wouldn't be in danger. Splitting the force now was quite a good judgement.
I was running around in the battlefield, Hiraga suddenly appeared in front of me. The defence around him was so weak that there was no personal guard around him.

“Chance!”

Since I couldn't kill Yuuji, I would just do what I needed to do in this Test Summoning War.

I quickly ran towards Hiraga. Luckily there were the Modern Japanese teacher Takeuchi sensei and the Traditional Japanese teacher Mukai sensei there, so even if I couldn't finish him in one hit, it would still do some decent damage to him!

“Mukai sensei! Yoshii from Class F will----”

“Tamano Miki from Class D, syokanju summoning!”

“What! A personal guard?”

Although we were hiding among the students going home, they would still look out for suspicious people, for example Class F students!

“Too bad, Funakoshi sensei's boyfriend?”

Hiraga's face was filled with smile of victory.

“You, you are wrong! That's just bullshit from Yuuji!”

“Don't be shy. Go Tamano, show him our most sincere wishes.”

“Understood.”

Tamano already summoned her syokanju, armoured with the Traditional Japanese scores.

“Damn! I am that close to defeating Class D myself!”

“What are you talking about, Funakoshi's boyfriend? Even if the defence around me looks weak, my personal guard will appear when Class F students approach. Besides, even if there is no personal guard around me, a minion like you won't be able to defeat me anyway.”

Hiraga had a show of disgust on his face, and looked down on me. That is driving me mad!

So I learned from him, counter attacked with one of my eye closed and said:
“I feel the same as well. It is too hard to do it all by myself. Therefore ----”

I purposely stopped and took a breath.

“Himeji, it is all depends on you now.”

“What?”

Hiraga's face had 'what the hell are you talking about, you idiot?' written on his face.

“Er...”

Himeji shyly tapped on Hiraga's shoulder from his back.

“Huh? Himeji? What's up? This is not the corridor heading to Class A right?”

Hiraga still didn't know what was going on until now. That's understandable; normally no one would think that she was in Class F, isn't it?

“It... it's not like that.”

Himeji was shy and feeling uneasy, which made her looked even cuter. Hmm, she was really cuter than Hideyoshi. Wait, it was wrong enough to think Hideyoshi was cute.

“Himeji Mizuki from Class F, nice to meet you.”

“Ah, nice to see you as well.”

“Er...I would like to challenge Hiraga with Modern Japanese.”

“....I see, OK.”

“”Er... syo...Syokanju summoning.”

Class F Himeji Mizuki VS Class D Hiraga Genji
Modern Japanese 339 marks VS 129 marks

“Huh? What?”

The confused Hiraga made his syokanju pose, and both of them were confronting each other.

However, he didn’t stand a chance....Clearly, Himeji's syokanju was much stronger, and easily held a long sword which was two times longer than its height.

“I...I am sorry.”

Himeji's split self used the speed that didn't fit its huge weapon, immediately got close to the opponent.

Without giving the opponent any chance of counter attack, she defeated Class D class leader in one hit, and ended the war.

Baka to Tesuto to Syokanju:Volume1 The Third Question

2008-12-06T10:04:24Z

Andisan:

'''Third Question'''

'''Please translate the following sentence into English'''[http://www.baka-tsuki.net/project/index.php?title=Baka_to_Tesuto_to_Syokanju:Volume1_Translator%27s_Notes#Question_3]:

これは私の祖母が愛用していた本棚です。

'''Himeji Mizuki's Answer'''

“This is the bookshelf that my grandmother had used regularly.”

'''Teacher's Comment:'''

Correct answer. Himeji is really hard working!

'''Kouta Tsuchiya's Answer'''

“My grandmother” ”

'''Teacher's Comment:'''

You only know how to translate 私の祖母?

'''Akihisa Yoshii's Answer'''

“!@#%^$&“ ”

'''Teacher's Comment:'''

Please use human language to answer the question.

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Declare a war against Class A.

This suggestion sounded too unrealistic for Class F.

“It is impossible to win!”

“I don't want to get even worse facility.”

“I am satisfied as long as I have Himeji in the class.”

Cries like this were filling up the room.

Well, even a blind man could see the difference in fighting ability between Class A and Class F.

It had been four years since Fumitsuki Gakkuen adopted the examination system without the highest score limited to 100.
Under this system, students could answer as many question as they could in an hour. As a result, there was no limit to how many marks a student could score. As long as the student was smart enough, the score could increase indefinitely.

Besides that, there was a 'Syokanju[http://www.baka-tsuki.net/project/index.php?title=Baka_to_Tesuto_to_Syokanju:Volume1_Translator%27s_Notes#Question_3] Summoning System' which was accidentally created by combining the science and supernatural power. Under the teachers' supervision, students could summon their syokanju with the power equal to their result and fought against each other.

Nowadays, the overall result was really bad, and this was the latest system invented to encourage the students to study. With this system as the core, students were allowed to have an inter-class war, called 'Test Summoning War', which used the syokanjus to fight against each other.

The result of this test was very important in the war. However the difference in result between Class A and Class F was huge. If we fought head on, one student from Class A could probably beaten three students from Class F at the same time. Actually, if the student was good enough, he or she might be able to take four or five of us out at the same time.

“We will win for sure. No, I will show you that we will win.”

Knowing that the difference in our fighting ability was huge, Yuuji still confidently declared that we would win.

“You’ve got to be kidding me.”

“That's impossible right?”

“What make you so sure about this?”

Objections came from every corner of the room.

Well, no matter how you looked at it, this was not a winnable war. I couldn't deny that although I promised Yuuji to start the war together. But I wouldn't give up just because we would definitely lose!

“Of course I have my theory. I said that because we have every factor that can make us win the war in this class.”

The whole class were on rage after Yuuji said that.

Was it possible that we could win? Even though we were Class F, the worst class in Year 2?

“Let me explain it.”

My bad friend stood on the podium and showed a daring smile on his face; overlooked us from above the ground.

“Kouta, stop leaning on the tatami and peeping Himeji's underwear. Come here for a while.”

“!(kept shaking his head)”

“What!”

The male student called Tsuchiya Kouta desperately shook both his head and hands, trying to show that he didn't commit such crime.
Himeji pressed down her skirt and hid far away; that male student hid the mark of tatami on his face, and walked towards the podium.
He was simply amazing. He was the only person who dared to use that shameless and inappropriate pose to peep girl's underwear; this was at a higher level from someone like me who could only think of using a small mirror to peep.

“Tsuchiya Kouta, this guy is the famous 'Silent Pervert'.”

“!(fiercely shaking his head)”

Tsuchiya Kouta might not be a very well-known name, but 'Silent Pervert' was different. This name held the respect and fear from the male students; the despise and disdain by the female student.

“He is THE silent pervert...”

“How's that possible? The silent pervert looks like THIS?”

“But there is the evidence that he was brazenly peeping!”

“Well, he does live up to his name!”

He was hiding the mark of tatami on his face using his hand, with a sorrowful look on his face. I heard he never admitted what he had done under every circumstance. Well, one eyewitness was better than ten hearsays.

“?”

Himeji looked like she had a lot of question marks above her head.

Could it be that she didn't know where the nickname 'Silent Pervert' came from? Should I explain it to her?

“As for Himeji, there is no need for explanation right? Everyone should know how good she is.”

“Yes? Are you talking about me?”

“Yeah, you are our main force; I am looking forward to your performance!”

If we were really going to start the Test Summoning War, I thought nobody would be more trustworthy than her.

“You are right; we have Himeji on our side!”

“If she is here, we won't lose to those nerds from Class A.”

“Nothing matters anymore as long as Himeji is here.”

Who was it? Who was the person that kept sending love messages to Himeji?

“We also have Kinoshita Hideyoshi.”

Kinoshita Hideyoshi, although his result was not very outstanding, he was very famous in other areas, such as the star of drama club, had a twin sister etc.

“Oooo....”

“He is Kinoshita Yuuko's ...”

“Of course I will give it my best shot.”

“I know you are the guy who meant what he said.”

“Wasn't Sakamoto called 'Whiz Kid' when he was in primary school?”

“So that means he is not feeling well during class division examination like Himeji?”

“Then we have two people with Class A ability in our class.”

We might be able to win! This kind of atmosphere was roaming in the class now.
That's right; somehow the morale of the class had increased a lot.

“Also, we have Yoshii Akihisa.”

Total silence.

Then the morale dramatically dropped.

What! Was my name so destructive? Also, I didn't see why my name should be mentioned now!

“Wait a second Yuuji! Why do you want to mention my name now! There is no need for it!”

“Yoshii Akihisa? Who is it?”

“Never heard of it.”

“You see! The morale that you hardly raise is gone now. I am different from Yuuji and the others, I am just a normal peasant. Please treat me as how you treat normal person---Wait, why staring at me? It is not my fault that the morale drops!”

(Sigh) Even if someone in the class had heard of my name, it would not be anything good anyway. Since they didn't know about me, I didn't have to purposely make things worse.

“If you don't know, then let me tell you! His title is the ‘Kansatsu Shobunsha’[http://www.baka-tsuki.net/project/index.php?title=Baka_to_Tesuto_to_Syokanju:Volume1_Translator%27s_Notes#Question_3].”

Oh no, he said it.

“Isn't it another word for idiot?”
Someone in the class gave a fatal opinion.

“N..No! That is just a small nick name for a sixteen years old mischievous teenager.”

“Yes, it is another word for idiot.”

“Can you please don't agree so surely, idiot Yuuji!”

'Kansatsu Shobunsha' was a punishment given to those students who had some small problem in studying. Actually I was one of them. But, it was only because I was not as good in studying as others!

“Excuse me; may I know what does it mean?”
Himeji slightly leaned her head one side, looked like she was confused. To the students who always stood at the top of the pyramid like her, it was reasonable that she was unfamiliar with this title.

“To put it simpler, it is a student that helps the teacher to do miscellaneous work. Their syokanju have the privilege to touch other objects, and can be used to do those tiring task.”

That was right; normally a syokanju could not touch any normal objects. All they could touch or interact with were the other syokanjus; In other words, it was the same as a phantom. By the way, the floor in the school had been specially made, so the syokanju could stand on the ground.
But my syokanju was different. Just as what Yuuji said, it was a special version that could touch normal objects.

“Oh I see, that's magnificent! I heard that the syokanjus have incredible powers aside from their cute outlook, being able to touch normal object will be very convenient.”
Himeji gazed at me using her shiny eyes with admiration and respect; to tell the truth, it made me feel itchy all over my body.

“Ha ha, that's nothing special!”
Anyway, I denied her thought by waving my hand.

Actually, this really was nothing special. If I could order my syokanju freely, that would really be a convenient skill to have. That was because even the syokanju that was summoned by a person with bad result like me, had much stronger power than a normal person could have. If I wished to, crushing a rock was as easy as ABC.
However, my life had never been able to be benefited by this special ability; it was actually totally the opposite.
It was because the syokanju could only be used under the teacher's supervision. In other words, I could summon it to help me do stuff whenever I wanted. Teachers would only call me when they needed to use the syokanju to do heavy task, and let me summoned it to help them. That was the truth. And to me, there was no benefit at all. Since it was under teacher's supervision, I almost never use the syokanju to do anything that benefited me.

Besides, part of the effort that the syokanju spent in doing the work, would be transferred onto me. For example, my syokanju carried a heavy object and ran around in the school; part of its tiredness would be transferred to me. Also if the heavy object dropped onto my syokanju leg while working, the pain would also be transferred to me. Not only it couldn't be used for personal advantages, the pain and tiredness would be transferred to me as well, it was just plain punishment.

Therefore being a 'Kansatsu Shobunsha' was nothing that worth to be proud of, and made nothing more convenient. It was just given to those students with bad results and lacked the will to study as punishment. This was why it was treated as another word for idiot.

“Wait a minute, since he is the 'Kansatsu Shobunsha', then if he was beaten in the war, he would suffer as well right?”

“That's right, and then we will lose one fighter immediately.”

They found out now. That was why I didn't really want to join the fight. It was because if my syokanju was beaten up badly, I would feel the pain as well!

“Don't worry about it, having or losing a worthless lowlife like him will not change the result.”

“Yuuji, is that what you should say to help me?”

“Anyway, to show our ability, I plan to conquer Class D first.”

“What! You are actually ignoring me like this!”
We were standing so close together, and my dissatisfaction just couldn't reach his heart, that was so hateful!

“Everyone is unsatisfied with the current treatment right?”

“What we want is the systematic tables and chairs from Class A, not the Japanese style table!”

“Of course!”

“Then everyone take your pen in your hand, we are preparing to go to battle!”

“Ooo----”

“Oo,oo...”

Affected by the astonishing momentum in the class, Himeji also raised her small knuckles. Looking at her, I had a will of protecting her. But, it should be me being protected by her right?

“Akihisa, you can be a messenger and declare war to Class D, you must succeed it, even if it means your life.”
Yuuji words were so caring! If it was that important, why didn't he do it himself?

“But the lower rank class messenger will be beaten up badly right?”

“No worry, they won't hurt you, you just do it as being cheated by me.”

“Really?”

“Of course, who do you think I am?”
Yuuji gave an unchangeable conclusion without hesitation.

That was right, although Yuuji loved to joke around, he was not a person who like to lie.

“Don't worry, believe in me. I never tell lies to my friend.”
That was a very encouraging sentence.
In that case, I still thought he was up to something, but I could only believe in him now, I just had to do it.

“OK, leave the messenger job to me.”

“I am counting on you.”

The classmates' cheers and applauses sent me out of the classroom; I left the classroom and headed toward Class D with a solemn and stirring atmosphere around me.

“I am tricked!”

I escaped and ran in the corridor for my life, eventually rolled and crawled back into the classroom.
Nearly, I was nearly killed! Those bastards in Class D, they were rushing towards me with scary momentum! I sat on the ground without energy, tried to catch my breath and stared at Yuuji.

“It is just as I thought.”

You dared to say this so calmly? You bastard, I would cut you into pieces!

“What does it mean by just as I thought?! You knew the messenger would be treated like that right?”

“Of course, else how can I be a class leader?”

“At least feel guilty about it!”
Although I had known him since last spring, I still didn't quite understand him now.

“Yoshii, are you alright?”
Himeji quickly ran towards me when she saw my clothes were scattered apart.

“Yeah, I am fine; it is just some small wounds.”

Shimada also came close to me. Even though I was in immense pain now, being cared about by others did make me feel good.

“Oh I see, that's good ...... There are still places that I can punch.”

“Ahh! Give me a break! I am dying!”

I quickly held my hand around my chest and rolled around on the ground. I really couldn't be careless with Shimada even though she was a girl.

“Don't bother about him, we are having a meeting now.”

Yuuji opened the door and walked out of the room after he finished speaking, it seemed like he was going to find another location to have a meeting. You should at least show some concern to your friend you knew? Come to think of it, was Yuuji really my friend? This question was asked from a long time ago, I would think about it up to seven times every week.

“If you still feel painful, please let me know.”
Himeji said and quickly followed Yuuji's pace.

“You still feel very painful right?”
A guy with a small body, might make people think that he was a young girl----Hideyoshi, tapped on my shoulder and walked out.

“.....(walking sound)”

Silent pervert rubbed his face and walked towards me.

“Silent pervert, have the mark of tatami left over from peeping disappear?”

“....(kept shaking his head)”

“There is no use denying it now, I knew you are a pervert.”

“....(kept shaking his head)”

“In some sense, it is quite impressive that you can deny it under this circumstance.”

“....(kept shaking his head)”

“What colour is it?”

“....(kept shaking his head)”

“Sky blue.”

He answered it instantly.

“Silent pervert, you really lived up to your name.”

“....(kept shaking his head)”

Just when I was casually talking cock with the silent pervert in the classroom---

“Yoshii, you need to go as well.”

Shimada grabbed my wrist with huge force and dragged me out.
Here I was thinking it was a good chance to be lazy.

“Yes, yes, yes”

“Once is enough.”

“Yes madam.”

“One day I will ''das brechen'' you, how should I say it in Japanese?”
Shimada's mouth suddenly slowed down.

What was ''das brechen''? I think that's German right?

“...train”

Silent pervert's voice came from the side.

“That's right. I need to train you.”

“Train? You should use words like educate or tutor isn't it?”

“Then I will pick the middle value, use ''zuchtigung'' then.”

“....I don't know what it means.”

“In Japanese I think it should be torture?”

“That's even worse.”

“Is it?”
How come she didn't know many normal words and knew these kinds of strange words?

“By the way, silent pervert. Why you know the word 'train' in German?”

“.....learnt from normal life and moral principles.”

Weren't your moral principles too abnormal? Which moral principles made you learn about words like 'torture'?

“Silent pervert, you never change! Your brain is only rich in knowledge related to sex.”

“....(kept shaking his head)”

We continued this useless conversation and walked around in the school, Yuuji who was walking in front of the team had reached the top floor, he opened the door and got under the sun.

The sunlight was dazzling, shining from the cloudless sky.

The blinding sunlight and the wind in spring made everyone besides the silent pervert cover their eyes, silent pervert didn't do so because he was busy staring at Himeji's skirt which was blown by the wind.

“Akihisa, you already declared war with Class D right?”

Yuuji sat on the stairs in front of the iron fence.

“Generally I have told them that we will start attacking this afternoon.”

“So we need to have lunch first right?”

“That's right, Akihisa, can you please eat something normal this afternoon?”

“If you really think so, then treat me to bread.”

I was a person who could put anything into my stomach, anything besides feeling of course.

“Huh? Yoshii never eats lunch?”

Himeji looked at me in shock. Her life must be really regular, and it seemed that she grew up well because of that.

“Of course I will eat something for lunch!”

“Does that counts eating something?”

Yuuji cut into the conversation.

“What are you trying to say?”

“Well I mean, isn't your main food-----just salt and water?”

Yuuji's sound filled with sorrow and sympathy.

That was so rude. There was a limit to how you treat me as an idiot you know!

“I do eat sugar every meal as well!”

“Yoshii, water and sugar shouldn't use eat as the verb.”

“That's right, you should use lick.”

Everyone was looking at me with a strange gentleness, but it didn't make me feel good.

“Who tell you not to plan before spending money, served you right.”

“That's because the, the money I have for living expenses is too little!”

Actually my parents were working overseas, so I was living alone. Of course they would send money to me every month.... it was just that most of the money were spent on games and manga. Hobby really cost a lot of money!

“Well, if you don't mind, let me make lunch for you.”

“Eh?”

The gentle words came so suddenly and I couldn't help thinking that I heard something wrong.

Lunch? From a girl? Handmade?

“Really? I haven't eaten anything other than salt and sugar for a long time.”

“Yeah. If you don't mind I will start tomorrow.”

“That's great, Akihisa. That's handmade lunch with love right?”

“Yeah!”

In a situation like this, I needed to honestly show that I was glad. Even if Yuuji's tease was pleasant to hear now.

“.....Haha. Mizuki you are so nice, making lunch ONLY for Akihisa.”

I was not sure why Shimada used a boring voice and said something a little bit spiteful. What if Himeji said “I won't do it then” or something like that, how were you going to compensate me?

“Ah, no! Actually, I can make it for everyone...”

“We can have it as well? Really?”

“Yes, if you don't mind.”

Ooo, even Yuuji had it as well, she was too kind. However I felt a bit sad that I couldn't enjoy it alone.

“......(nod)”

“......let me see how good you are in cooking!”

Now including Himeji herself, she had to make six person's lunch, it must be tiring.

“OK, then I will bring everyone's lunch to school.”

Even in situation like this, she never showed any bit of unwillingness on her face.

“Himeji is very kind.”

This was coming from the bottom of my heart. It was really difficult just to bring the lunch for six people to school; I simply couldn't understand this action.

What a selfless and attractive person she was!

“There, there's nothing like...”

“Although I am saying this so late, but when I first saw you in class, I felt like I----”

“Oi Aikihisa, if you are dumped now, you won't have any lunch tomorrow.”

“---- have known you before”

Successfully avoided being dumped. Luckily I changed 'I fall in love with you' before I finished the sentence. My judgement was simply amazing.

“Akihisa, confessing because of own desire, like you, is an action of a normal pervert.”

I hated my judgement now.

“Akihisa, sometimes you will do something out of my imagination.”

“But... lunch with love....”

That was just an action necessary for me to live. It was all because of poverty!

“That's off the topic for a while; let's continue discussing about the Test Summoning War now!”

Oh that was right. I had completely forgotten about our purpose of being here.

“Yuuji, I have a question. Why do we fight Class D? If we are fighting in order, our first target should be Class E right? If we want to fight once and for all, shouldn't we pick Class A?”

“Now that you mention it, it is really like what you said!”

“That's true! But I have a different plan.”

Yuuji boldly nodded his head.

“What plan?”

“Although there are a lot of reasons, but the reason for not attacking Class E is simple. It's just because it's not worth our time fighting with them.”

“Huh? But they are at a higher rank than us right?”

Since the class division was based on the result, then of course Class E would be better than we Class F right? Why did he say it was not worth our time fighting with them?

“Ha, that's true according to class division examination result, but the actual situation is different. Have a look, who do you have around you?”

“Er....”

I did as Yuuji said, looked around the partners around me. Hmm, who we had here now were----

“Two beautiful girls, two idiots, and a silent pervert.”

“Who are the beautiful girls you referring to?”

“What? Yuuji, you are reacting to the words beautiful girls?”

“......(face getting red)”

“Silent pervert, not you as well? What should I do? I can't correct their thinking all by myself.”

“Everyone, calm down! Just let the silent pervert represent it.”

“That..That's right.”

“Wait a minute, before we continue the meeting, I want to protest that beautiful girls are affecting people's mind.”

“Anyway.”

Yuuji cleared his throat, and continued his explanation. Was he trying to ignore my existence?

“If Himeji can perform normally, Class E is not our match even if we fight them head on. Since our final target is Class A, it is meaningless to waste our time fighting with Class E.”

“Then how about fighting Class D head on?”

“That, we don't have a hundred percent chance of winning.”

“If that's the case, we should target Class A in the beginning.”

My target was Class A, not Class D. My aim for having this Test Summoning War was different from Yuuji's.

“That's because it's our first battle, you guys want to have a great fight, and grab everyone's attention right? Also as I said just now, this is what we need to defeat Class A.”

This was the plan for wining Class A? But Yuuji didn't want to let us know the details of his plan.

“Ex..Excuse me!”

It was not often you see Himeji used such a loud voice to speak. What was going on?

“Himeji? What's wrong?”

“Err, that... what you are talking just now was the Test Summoning War that Yoshii and Sakamoto discussed about before right?”
“Oh you are talking about that. Just now Akihisa come to talk to me for you Himeji about---”

“So that means!”

To stop Yuuji continuing his needless speech, I purposely raised my voice.

“If we can't win Class D, then what we said before is meaningless.”

Facing my doubt, Yuuji laughed out loud.

“With all of you helping me, we can definitely win against Class D.”

Won against Class D? With our help? In the Test Summoning War?

This was a strange feeling.

The words just gave us the momentum to do things even though there was no proof for them.

Yuuji's words seemed to have this kind of magical power.

“Great. It looks like it is going to get interesting!”

“Let us pull those proud nerds in Class A down to earth!”

“....(praise)”

“I...I will try my best.”

Defeat Class A.

It might sound crazy; it might be a dream that would never come true.

But, if we never do anything, dreams would never come true.

Since we were allocated in the same class, it was not bad to just try to do something together.

“All right, let me explain the battle strategy!”

We stayed at the top floor, enjoyed the cozy wind and listened to the strategy that would bring us to victory.

Baka to Tesuto to Syokanju:Volume1 The Third Question

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Andisan:

Baka to Tesuto to Syokanju:Volume1 The Third Question

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Andisan:

Baka to Tesuto to Syokanju:Volume1 The Third Question

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Andisan:

'''Third Question'''

'''Please translate the following sentence into English'''[http://www.baka-tsuki.net/project/index.php?title=Baka_to_Tesuto_to_Syokanju:Volume1_Translator%27s_Notes#Question_3]:
これは私の祖母が愛用していた本棚です。

'''Himeji Mizuki's Answer'''
“This is the bookshelf that my grandmother had used regularly.”

'''Teacher's Comment:'''
Correct answer. Himeji is really hard working!

'''Kouta Tsuchiya's Answer'''
“My grandmother” ”

'''Teacher's Comment:'''
You only know how to translate 私の祖母?

'''Akihisa Yoshii's Answer'''
“!@#%^$&“ ”

'''Teacher's Comment:'''
Please use human language to answer the question.

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Declare a war against Class A.

This suggestion sounded too unrealistic for Class F.

“It is impossible to win!”

“I don't want to get even worse facility.”

“I am satisfied as long as I have Himeji in the class.”

Cries like this were filling up the room.

Well, even a blind man could see the difference in fighting ability between Class A and Class F.

It had been four years since Fumitsuki Gakkuen adopted the examination system without the highest score limited to 100.
Under this system, students could answer as many question as they could in an hour. As a result, there was no limit to how many marks a student could score. As long as the student was smart enough, the score could increase indefinitely.

Besides that, there was a 'Syokanju[http://www.baka-tsuki.net/project/index.php?title=Baka_to_Tesuto_to_Syokanju:Volume1_Translator%27s_Notes#Question_3] Summoning System' which was accidentally created by combining the science and supernatural power. Under the teachers' supervision, students could summon their syokanju with the power equal to their result and fought against each other.

Nowadays, the overall result was really bad, and this was the latest system invented to encourage the students to study. With this system as the core, students were allowed to have an inter-class war, called 'Test Summoning War', which used the syokanjus to fight against each other.

The result of this test was very important in the war. However the difference in result between Class A and Class F was huge. If we fought head on, one student from Class A could probably beaten three students from Class F at the same time. Actually, if the student was good enough, he or she might be able to take four or five of us out at the same time.

“We will win for sure. No, I will show you that we will win.”

Knowing that the difference in our fighting ability was huge, Yuuji still confidently declared that we would win.

“You’ve got to be kidding me.”

“That's impossible right?”

“What make you so sure about this?”

Objections came from every corner of the room.

Well, no matter how you looked at it, this was not a winnable war. I couldn't deny that although I promised Yuuji to start the war together. But I wouldn't give up just because we would definitely lose!

“Of course I have my theory. I said that because we have every factor that can make us win the war in this class.”

The whole class were on rage after Yuuji said that.

Was it possible that we could win? Even though we were Class F, the worst class in Year 2?

“Let me explain it.”

My bad friend stood on the podium and showed a daring smile on his face; overlooked us from above the ground.

“Kouta, stop leaning on the tatami and peeping Himeji's underwear. Come here for a while.”

“!(kept shaking his head)”

“What!”

The male student called Tsuchiya Kouta desperately shook both his head and hands, trying to show that he didn't commit such crime.
Himeji pressed down her skirt and hid far away; that male student hid the mark of tatami on his face, and walked towards the podium.
He was simply amazing. He was the only person who dared to use that shameless and inappropriate pose to peep girl's underwear; this was at a higher level from someone like me who could only think of using a small mirror to peep.

“Tsuchiya Kouta, this guy is the famous 'Silent Pervert'.”

“!(fiercely shaking his head)”

Tsuchiya Kouta might not be a very well-known name, but 'Silent Pervert' was different. This name held the respect and fear from the male students; the despise and disdain by the female student.

“He is THE silent pervert...”

“How's that possible? The silent pervert looks like THIS?”

“But there is the evidence that he was brazenly peeping!”

“Well, he does live up to his name!”

He was hiding the mark of tatami on his face using his hand, with a sorrowful look on his face. I heard he never admitted what he had done under every circumstance. Well, one eyewitness was better than ten hearsays.

“?”

Himeji looked like she had a lot of question marks above her head.

Could it be that she didn't know where the nickname 'Silent Pervert' came from? Should I explain it to her?

“As for Himeji, there is no need for explanation right? Everyone should know how good she is.”

“Yes? Are you talking about me?”

“Yeah, you are our main force; I am looking forward to your performance!”

If we were really going to start the Test Summoning War, I thought nobody would be more trustworthy than her.

“You are right; we have Himeji on our side!”

“If she is here, we won't lose to those nerds from Class A.”

“Nothing matters anymore as long as Himeji is here.”

Who was it? Who was the person that kept sending love messages to Himeji?

“We also have Kinoshita Hideyoshi.”

Kinoshita Hideyoshi, although his result was not very outstanding, he was very famous in other areas, such as the star of drama club, had a twin sister etc.

“Oooo....”

“He is Kinoshita Yuuko's ...”

“Of course I will give it my best shot.”

“I know you are the guy who meant what he said.”

“Wasn't Sakamoto called 'Whiz Kid' when he was in primary school?”

“So that means he is not feeling well during class division examination like Himeji?”

“Then we have two people with Class A ability in our class.”

We might be able to win! This kind of atmosphere was roaming in the class now.
That's right; somehow the morale of the class had increased a lot.

“Also, we have Yoshii Akihisa.”

Total silence.

Then the morale dramatically dropped.

What! Was my name so destructive? Also, I didn't see why my name should be mentioned now!

“Wait a second Yuuji! Why do you want to mention my name now! There is no need for it!”

“Yoshii Akihisa? Who is it?”

“Never heard of it.”

“You see! The morale that you hardly raise is gone now. I am different from Yuuji and the others, I am just a normal peasant. Please treat me as how you treat normal person---Wait, why staring at me? It is not my fault that the morale drops!”

(Sigh) Even if someone in the class had heard of my name, it would not be anything good anyway. Since they didn't know about me, I didn't have to purposely make things worse.

“If you don't know, then let me tell you! His title is the ‘Kansatsu Shobunsha’[http://www.baka-tsuki.net/project/index.php?title=Baka_to_Tesuto_to_Syokanju:Volume1_Translator%27s_Notes#Question_3].”

Oh no, he said it.

“Isn't it another word for idiot?”
Someone in the class gave a fatal opinion.

“N..No! That is just a small nick name for a sixteen years old mischievous teenager.”

“Yes, it is another word for idiot.”

“Can you please don't agree so surely, idiot Yuuji!”

'Kansatsu Shobunsha' was a punishment given to those students who had some small problem in studying. Actually I was one of them. But, it was only because I was not as good in studying as others!

“Excuse me; may I know what does it mean?”
Himeji slightly leaned her head one side, looked like she was confused. To the students who always stood at the top of the pyramid like her, it was reasonable that she was unfamiliar with this title.

“To put it simpler, it is a student that helps the teacher to do miscellaneous work. Their syokanju have the privilege to touch other objects, and can be used to do those tiring task.”

That was right; normally a syokanju could not touch any normal objects. All they could touch or interact with were the other syokanjus; In other words, it was the same as a phantom. By the way, the floor in the school had been specially made, so the syokanju could stand on the ground.
But my syokanju was different. Just as what Yuuji said, it was a special version that could touch normal objects.

“Oh I see, that's magnificent! I heard that the syokanjus have incredible powers aside from their cute outlook, being able to touch normal object will be very convenient.”
Himeji gazed at me using her shiny eyes with admiration and respect; to tell the truth, it made me feel itchy all over my body.

“Ha ha, that's nothing special!”
Anyway, I denied her thought by waving my hand.

Actually, this really was nothing special. If I could order my syokanju freely, that would really be a convenient skill to have. That was because even the syokanju that was summoned by a person with bad result like me, had much stronger power than a normal person could have. If I wished to, crushing a rock was as easy as ABC.
However, my life had never been able to be benefited by this special ability; it was actually totally the opposite.
It was because the syokanju could only be used under the teacher's supervision. In other words, I could summon it to help me do stuff whenever I wanted. Teachers would only call me when they needed to use the syokanju to do heavy task, and let me summoned it to help them. That was the truth. And to me, there was no benefit at all. Since it was under teacher's supervision, I almost never use the syokanju to do anything that benefited me.

Besides, part of the effort that the syokanju spent in doing the work, would be transferred onto me. For example, my syokanju carried a heavy object and ran around in the school; part of its tiredness would be transferred to me. Also if the heavy object dropped onto my syokanju leg while working, the pain would also be transferred to me. Not only it couldn't be used for personal advantages, the pain and tiredness would be transferred to me as well, it was just plain punishment.

Therefore being a 'Kansatsu Shobunsha' was nothing that worth to be proud of, and made nothing more convenient. It was just given to those students with bad results and lacked the will to study as punishment. This was why it was treated as another word for idiot.

“Wait a minute, since he is the 'Kansatsu Shobunsha', then if he was beaten in the war, he would suffer as well right?”

“That's right, and then we will lose one fighter immediately.”

They found out now. That was why I didn't really want to join the fight. It was because if my syokanju was beaten up badly, I would feel the pain as well!

“Don't worry about it, having or losing a worthless lowlife like him will not change the result.”

“Yuuji, is that what you should say to help me?”

“Anyway, to show our ability, I plan to conquer Class D first.”

“What! You are actually ignoring me like this!”
We were standing so close together, and my dissatisfaction just couldn't reach his heart, that was so hateful!

“Everyone is unsatisfied with the current treatment right?”

“What we want is the systematic tables and chairs from Class A, not the Japanese style table!”

“Of course!”

“Then everyone take your pen in your hand, we are preparing to go to battle!”

“Ooo----”

“Oo,oo...”

Affected by the astonishing momentum in the class, Himeji also raised her small knuckles. Looking at her, I had a will of protecting her. But, it should be me being protected by her right?

“Akihisa, you can be a messenger and declare war to Class D, you must succeed it, even if it means your life.”
Yuuji words were so caring! If it was that important, why didn't he do it himself?

“But the lower rank class messenger will be beaten up badly right?”

“No worry, they won't hurt you, you just do it as being cheated by me.”

“Really?”

“Of course, who do you think I am?”
Yuuji gave an unchangeable conclusion without hesitation.

That was right, although Yuuji loved to joke around, he was not a person who like to lie.

“Don't worry, believe in me. I never tell lies to my friend.”
That was a very encouraging sentence.
In that case, I still thought he was up to something, but I could only believe in him now, I just had to do it.

“OK, leave the messenger job to me.”

“I am counting on you.”

The classmates' cheers and applauses sent me out of the classroom; I left the classroom and headed toward Class D with a solemn and stirring atmosphere around me.

“I am tricked!”

I escaped and ran in the corridor for my life, eventually rolled and crawled back into the classroom.
Nearly, I was nearly killed! Those bastards in Class D, they were rushing towards me with scary momentum! I sat on the ground without energy, tried to catch my breath and stared at Yuuji.

“It is just as I thought.”

You dared to say this so calmly? You bastard, I would cut you into pieces!

“What does it mean by just as I thought?! You knew the messenger would be treated like that right?”

“Of course, else how can I be a class leader?”

“At least feel guilty about it!”
Although I had known him since last spring, I still didn't quite understand him now.

“Yoshii, are you alright?”
Himeji quickly ran towards me when she saw my clothes were scattered apart.

“Yeah, I am fine; it is just some small wounds.”

Shimada also came close to me. Even though I was in immense pain now, being cared about by others did make me feel good.

“Oh I see, that's good ...... There are still places that I can punch.”

“Ahh! Give me a break! I am dying!”

I quickly held my hand around my chest and rolled around on the ground. I really couldn't be careless with Shimada even though she was a girl.

“Don't bother about him, we are having a meeting now.”

Yuuji opened the door and walked out of the room after he finished speaking, it seemed like he was going to find another location to have a meeting. You should at least show some concern to your friend you knew? Come to think of it, was Yuuji really my friend? This question was asked from a long time ago, I would think about it up to seven times every week.

“If you still feel painful, please let me know.”
Himeji said and quickly followed Yuuji's pace.

“You still feel very painful right?”
A guy with a small body, might make people think that he was a young girl----Hideyoshi, tapped on my shoulder and walked out.

“.....(walking sound)”

Silent pervert rubbed his face and walked towards me.

“Silent pervert, have the mark of tatami left over from peeping disappear?”

“....(kept shaking his head)”

“There is no use denying it now, I knew you are a pervert.”

“....(kept shaking his head)”

“In some sense, it is quite impressive that you can deny it under this circumstance.”

“....(kept shaking his head)”

“What colour is it?”

“....(kept shaking his head)”

“Sky blue.”

He answered it instantly.

“Silent pervert, you really lived up to your name.”

“....(kept shaking his head)”

Just when I was casually talking cock with the silent pervert in the classroom---

“Yoshii, you need to go as well.”

Shimada grabbed my wrist with huge force and dragged me out.
Here I was thinking it was a good chance to be lazy.

“Yes, yes, yes”

“Once is enough.”

“Yes madam.”

“One day I will ''das brechen'' you, how should I say it in Japanese?”
Shimada's mouth suddenly slowed down.

What was ''das brechen''? I think that's German right?

“...train”

Silent pervert's voice came from the side.

“That's right. I need to train you.”

“Train? You should use words like educate or tutor isn't it?”

“Then I will pick the middle value, use ''zuchtigung'' then.”

“....I don't know what it means.”

“In Japanese I think it should be torture?”

“That's even worse.”

“Is it?”
How come she didn't know many normal words and knew these kinds of strange words?

“By the way, silent pervert. Why you know the word 'train' in German?”

“.....learnt from normal life and moral principles.”

Weren't your moral principles too abnormal? Which moral principles made you learn about words like 'torture'?

“Silent pervert, you never change! Your brain is only rich in knowledge related to sex.”

“....(kept shaking his head)”

We continued this useless conversation and walked around in the school, Yuuji who was walking in front of the team had reached the top floor, he opened the door and got under the sun.

The sunlight was dazzling, shining from the cloudless sky.

The blinding sunlight and the wind in spring made everyone besides the silent pervert cover their eyes, silent pervert didn't do so because he was busy staring at Himeji's skirt which was blown by the wind.

“Akihisa, you already declared war with Class D right?”

Yuuji sat on the stairs in front of the iron fence.

“Generally I have told them that we will start attacking this afternoon.”

“So we need to have lunch first right?”

“That's right, Akihisa, can you please eat something normal this afternoon?”

“If you really think so, then treat me to bread.”

I was a person who could put anything into my stomach, anything besides feeling of course.

“Huh? Yoshii never eats lunch?”

Himeji looked at me in shock. Her life must be really regular, and it seemed that she grew up well because of that.

“Of course I will eat something for lunch!”

“Does that counts eating something?”

Yuuji cut into the conversation.

“What are you trying to say?”

“Well I mean, isn't your main food-----just salt and water?”

Yuuji's sound filled with sorrow and sympathy.

That was so rude. There was a limit to how you treat me as an idiot you know!

“I do eat sugar every meal as well!”

“Yoshii, water and sugar shouldn't use eat as the verb.”

“That's right, you should use lick.”

Everyone was looking at me with a strange gentleness, but it didn't make me feel good.

“Who tell you not to plan before spending money, served you right.”

“That's because the, the money I have for living expenses is too little!”

Actually my parents were working overseas, so I was living alone. Of course they would send money to me every month.... it was just that most of the money were spent on games and manga. Hobby really cost a lot of money!

“Well, if you don't mind, let me make lunch for you.”

“Eh?”

The gentle words came so suddenly and I couldn't help thinking that I heard something wrong.

Lunch? From a girl? Handmade?

“Really? I haven't eaten anything other than salt and sugar for a long time.”

“Yeah. If you don't mind I will start tomorrow.”

“That's great, Akihisa. That's handmade lunch with love right?”

“Yeah!”

In a situation like this, I needed to honestly show that I was glad. Even if Yuuji's tease was pleasant to hear now.

“.....Haha. Mizuki you are so nice, making lunch ONLY for Akihisa.”

I was not sure why Shimada used a boring voice and said something a little bit spiteful. What if Himeji said “I won't do it then” or something like that, how were you going to compensate me?

“Ah, no! Actually, I can make it for everyone...”

“We can have it as well? Really?”

“Yes, if you don't mind.”

Ooo, even Yuuji had it as well, she was too kind. However I felt a bit sad that I couldn't enjoy it alone.

“......(nod)”

“......let me see how good you are in cooking!”

Now including Himeji herself, she had to make six person's lunch, it must be tiring.

“OK, then I will bring everyone's lunch to school.”

Even in situation like this, she never showed any bit of unwillingness on her face.

“Himeji is very kind.”

This was coming from the bottom of my heart. It was really difficult just to bring the lunch for six people to school; I simply couldn't understand this action.

What a selfless and attractive person she was!

“There, there's nothing like...”

“Although I am saying this so late, but when I first saw you in class, I felt like I----”

“Oi Aikihisa, if you are dumped now, you won't have any lunch tomorrow.”

“---- have known you before”

Successfully avoided being dumped. Luckily I changed 'I fall in love with you' before I finished the sentence. My judgement was simply amazing.

“Akihisa, confessing because of own desire, like you, is an action of a normal pervert.”

I hated my judgement now.

“Akihisa, sometimes you will do something out of my imagination.”

“But... lunch with love....”

That was just an action necessary for me to live. It was all because of poverty!

“That's off the topic for a while; let's continue discussing about the Test Summoning War now!”

Oh that was right. I had completely forgotten about our purpose of being here.

“Yuuji, I have a question. Why do we fight Class D? If we are fighting in order, our first target should be Class E right? If we want to fight once and for all, shouldn't we pick Class A?”

“Now that you mention it, it is really like what you said!”

“That's true! But I have a different plan.”

Yuuji boldly nodded his head.

“What plan?”

“Although there are a lot of reasons, but the reason for not attacking Class E is simple. It's just because it's not worth our time fighting with them.”

“Huh? But they are at a higher rank than us right?”

Since the class division was based on the result, then of course Class E would be better than we Class F right? Why did he say it was not worth our time fighting with them?

“Ha, that's true according to class division examination result, but the actual situation is different. Have a look, who do you have around you?”

“Er....”

I did as Yuuji said, looked around the partners around me. Hmm, who we had here now were----

“Two beautiful girls, two idiots, and a silent pervert.”

“Who are the beautiful girls you referring to?”

“What? Yuuji, you are reacting to the words beautiful girls?”

“......(face getting red)”

“Silent pervert, not you as well? What should I do? I can't correct their thinking all by myself.”

“Everyone, calm down! Just let the silent pervert represent it.”

“That..That's right.”

“Wait a minute, before we continue the meeting, I want to protest that beautiful girls are affecting people's mind.”

“Anyway.”

Yuuji cleared his throat, and continued his explanation. Was he trying to ignore my existence?

“If Himeji can perform normally, Class E is not our match even if we fight them head on. Since our final target is Class A, it is meaningless to waste our time fighting with Class E.”

“Then how about fighting Class D head on?”

“That, we don't have a hundred percent chance of winning.”

“If that's the case, we should target Class A in the beginning.”

My target was Class A, not Class D. My aim for having this Test Summoning War was different from Yuuji's.

“That's because it's our first battle, you guys want to have a great fight, and grab everyone's attention right? Also as I said just now, this is what we need to defeat Class A.”

This was the plan for wining Class A? But Yuuji didn't want to let us know the details of his plan.

“Ex..Excuse me!”

It was not often you see Himeji used such a loud voice to speak. What was going on?

“Himeji? What's wrong?”

“Err, that... what you are talking just now was the Test Summoning War that Yoshii and Sakamoto discussed about before right?”
“Oh you are talking about that. Just now Akihisa come to talk to me for you Himeji about---”

“So that means!”

To stop Yuuji continuing his needless speech, I purposely raised my voice.

“If we can't win Class D, then what we said before is meaningless.”

Facing my doubt, Yuuji laughed out loud.

“With all of you helping me, we can definitely win against Class D.”

Won against Class D? With our help? In the Test Summoning War?

This was a strange feeling.

The words just gave us the momentum to do things even though there was no proof for them.

Yuuji's words seemed to have this kind of magical power.

“Great. It looks like it is going to get interesting!”

“Let us pull those proud nerds in Class A down to earth!”

“....(praise)”

“I...I will try my best.”

Defeat Class A.

It might sound crazy; it might be a dream that would never come true.

But, if we never do anything, dreams would never come true.

Since we were allocated in the same class, it was not bad to just try to do something together.

“All right, let me explain the battle strategy!”

We stayed at the top floor, enjoyed the cozy wind and listened to the strategy that would bring us to victory.

Baka to Tesuto to Syokanju:Volume1 The Third Question

2008-12-06T09:57:05Z

Andisan: New page: Third Question Please translate the following sentence into English[http://www.baka-tsuki.net/project/index.php?title=Baka_to_Tesuto_to_Syokanju:Volume1_Translator%27s_Notes#Question_3]: ...

Third Question

Please translate the following sentence into English[http://www.baka-tsuki.net/project/index.php?title=Baka_to_Tesuto_to_Syokanju:Volume1_Translator%27s_Notes#Question_3]:
これは私の祖母が愛用していた本棚です。

Himeji Mizuki's Answer
“This is the bookshelf that my grandmother had used regularly.”

Teacher's Comment:
Correct answer. Himeji is really hard working!

Kouta Tsuchiya's Answer
“My grandmother” ”

Teacher's Comment:
You only know how to translate 私の祖母?

Akihisa Yoshii's Answer
“!@#%^$&“ ”

Teacher's Comment:
Please use human language to answer the question.

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Declare a war against Class A.

This suggestion sounded too unrealistic for Class F.

“It is impossible to win!”

“I don't want to get even worse facility.”

“I am satisfied as long as I have Himeji in the class.”

Cries like this were filling up the room.

Well, even a blind man could see the difference in fighting ability between Class A and Class F.

It had been four years since Fumitsuki Gakkuen adopted the examination system without the highest score limited to 100.
Under this system, students could answer as many question as they could in an hour. As a result, there was no limit to how many marks a student could score. As long as the student was smart enough, the score could increase indefinitely.

Besides that, there was a 'Syokanju[http://www.baka-tsuki.net/project/index.php?title=Baka_to_Tesuto_to_Syokanju:Volume1_Translator%27s_Notes#Question_3] Summoning System' which was accidentally created by combining the science and supernatural power. Under the teachers' supervision, students could summon their syokanju with the power equal to their result and fought against each other.

Nowadays, the overall result was really bad, and this was the latest system invented to encourage the students to study. With this system as the core, students were allowed to have an inter-class war, called 'Test Summoning War', which used the syokanjus to fight against each other.

The result of this test was very important in the war. However the difference in result between Class A and Class F was huge. If we fought head on, one student from Class A could probably beaten three students from Class F at the same time. Actually, if the student was good enough, he or she might be able to take four or five of us out at the same time.

“We will win for sure. No, I will show you that we will win.”

Knowing that the difference in our fighting ability was huge, Yuuji still confidently declared that we would win.

“You’ve got to be kidding me.”

“That's impossible right?”

“What make you so sure about this?”

Objections came from every corner of the room.

Well, no matter how you looked at it, this was not a winnable war. I couldn't deny that although I promised Yuuji to start the war together. But I wouldn't give up just because we would definitely lose!

“Of course I have my theory. I said that because we have every factor that can make us win the war in this class.”

The whole class were on rage after Yuuji said that.

Was it possible that we could win? Even though we were Class F, the worst class in Year 2?

“Let me explain it.”

My bad friend stood on the podium and showed a daring smile on his face; overlooked us from above the ground.

“Kouta, stop leaning on the tatami and peeping Himeji's underwear. Come here for a while.”

“!(kept shaking his head)”

“What!”

The male student called Tsuchiya Kouta desperately shook both his head and hands, trying to show that he didn't commit such crime.
Himeji pressed down her skirt and hid far away; that male student hid the mark of tatami on his face, and walked towards the podium.
He was simply amazing. He was the only person who dared to use that shameless and inappropriate pose to peep girl's underwear; this was at a higher level from someone like me who could only think of using a small mirror to peep.

“Tsuchiya Kouta, this guy is the famous 'Silent Pervert'.”

“!(fiercely shaking his head)”

Tsuchiya Kouta might not be a very well-known name, but 'Silent Pervert' was different. This name held the respect and fear from the male students; the despise and disdain by the female student.

“He is THE silent pervert...”

“How's that possible? The silent pervert looks like THIS?”

“But there is the evidence that he was brazenly peeping!”

“Well, he does live up to his name!”

He was hiding the mark of tatami on his face using his hand, with a sorrowful look on his face. I heard he never admitted what he had done under every circumstance. Well, one eyewitness was better than ten hearsays.

“?”

Himeji looked like she had a lot of question marks above her head.

Could it be that she didn't know where the nickname 'Silent Pervert' came from? Should I explain it to her?

“As for Himeji, there is no need for explanation right? Everyone should know how good she is.”

“Yes? Are you talking about me?”

“Yeah, you are our main force; I am looking forward to your performance!”

If we were really going to start the Test Summoning War, I thought nobody would be more trustworthy than her.

“You are right; we have Himeji on our side!”

“If she is here, we won't lose to those nerds from Class A.”

“Nothing matters anymore as long as Himeji is here.”

Who was it? Who was the person that kept sending love messages to Himeji?

“We also have Kinoshita Hideyoshi.”

Kinoshita Hideyoshi, although his result was not very outstanding, he was very famous in other areas, such as the star of drama club, had a twin sister etc.

“Oooo....”

“He is Kinoshita Yuuko's ...”

“Of course I will give it my best shot.”

“I know you are the guy who meant what he said.”

“Wasn't Sakamoto called 'Whiz Kid' when he was in primary school?”

“So that means he is not feeling well during class division examination like Himeji?”

“Then we have two people with Class A ability in our class.”

We might be able to win! This kind of atmosphere was roaming in the class now.
That's right; somehow the morale of the class had increased a lot.

“Also, we have Yoshii Akihisa.”

Total silence.

Then the morale dramatically dropped.

What! Was my name so destructive? Also, I didn't see why my name should be mentioned now!

“Wait a second Yuuji! Why do you want to mention my name now! There is no need for it!”

“Yoshii Akihisa? Who is it?”

“Never heard of it.”

“You see! The morale that you hardly raise is gone now. I am different from Yuuji and the others, I am just a normal peasant. Please treat me as how you treat normal person---Wait, why staring at me? It is not my fault that the morale drops!”

(Sigh) Even if someone in the class had heard of my name, it would not be anything good anyway. Since they didn't know about me, I didn't have to purposely make things worse.

“If you don't know, then let me tell you! His title is the ‘Kansatsu Shobunsha’[http://www.baka-tsuki.net/project/index.php?title=Baka_to_Tesuto_to_Syokanju:Volume1_Translator%27s_Notes#Question_3].”

Oh no, he said it.

“Isn't it another word for idiot?”
Someone in the class gave a fatal opinion.

“N..No! That is just a small nick name for a sixteen years old mischievous teenager.”

“Yes, it is another word for idiot.”

“Can you please don't agree so surely, idiot Yuuji!”

'Kansatsu Shobunsha' was a punishment given to those students who had some small problem in studying. Actually I was one of them. But, it was only because I was not as good in studying as others!

“Excuse me; may I know what does it mean?”
Himeji slightly leaned her head one side, looked like she was confused. To the students who always stood at the top of the pyramid like her, it was reasonable that she was unfamiliar with this title.

“To put it simpler, it is a student that helps the teacher to do miscellaneous work. Their syokanju have the privilege to touch other objects, and can be used to do those tiring task.”

That was right; normally a syokanju could not touch any normal objects. All they could touch or interact with were the other syokanjus; In other words, it was the same as a phantom. By the way, the floor in the school had been specially made, so the syokanju could stand on the ground.
But my syokanju was different. Just as what Yuuji said, it was a special version that could touch normal objects.

“Oh I see, that's magnificent! I heard that the syokanjus have incredible powers aside from their cute outlook, being able to touch normal object will be very convenient.”
Himeji gazed at me using her shiny eyes with admiration and respect; to tell the truth, it made me feel itchy all over my body.

“Ha ha, that's nothing special!”
Anyway, I denied her thought by waving my hand.

Actually, this really was nothing special. If I could order my syokanju freely, that would really be a convenient skill to have. That was because even the syokanju that was summoned by a person with bad result like me, had much stronger power than a normal person could have. If I wished to, crushing a rock was as easy as ABC.
However, my life had never been able to be benefited by this special ability; it was actually totally the opposite.
It was because the syokanju could only be used under the teacher's supervision. In other words, I could summon it to help me do stuff whenever I wanted. Teachers would only call me when they needed to use the syokanju to do heavy task, and let me summoned it to help them. That was the truth. And to me, there was no benefit at all. Since it was under teacher's supervision, I almost never use the syokanju to do anything that benefited me.

Besides, part of the effort that the syokanju spent in doing the work, would be transferred onto me. For example, my syokanju carried a heavy object and ran around in the school; part of its tiredness would be transferred to me. Also if the heavy object dropped onto my syokanju leg while working, the pain would also be transferred to me. Not only it couldn't be used for personal advantages, the pain and tiredness would be transferred to me as well, it was just plain punishment.

Therefore being a 'Kansatsu Shobunsha' was nothing that worth to be proud of, and made nothing more convenient. It was just given to those students with bad results and lacked the will to study as punishment. This was why it was treated as another word for idiot.

“Wait a minute, since he is the 'Kansatsu Shobunsha', then if he was beaten in the war, he would suffer as well right?”

“That's right, and then we will lose one fighter immediately.”

They found out now. That was why I didn't really want to join the fight. It was because if my syokanju was beaten up badly, I would feel the pain as well!

“Don't worry about it, having or losing a worthless lowlife like him will not change the result.”

“Yuuji, is that what you should say to help me?”

“Anyway, to show our ability, I plan to conquer Class D first.”

“What! You are actually ignoring me like this!”
We were standing so close together, and my dissatisfaction just couldn't reach his heart, that was so hateful!

“Everyone is unsatisfied with the current treatment right?”

“What we want is the systematic tables and chairs from Class A, not the Japanese style table!”

“Of course!”

“Then everyone take your pen in your hand, we are preparing to go to battle!”

“Ooo----”

“Oo,oo...”

Affected by the astonishing momentum in the class, Himeji also raised her small knuckles. Looking at her, I had a will of protecting her. But, it should be me being protected by her right?

“Akihisa, you can be a messenger and declare war to Class D, you must succeed it, even if it means your life.”
Yuuji words were so caring! If it was that important, why didn't he do it himself?

“But the lower rank class messenger will be beaten up badly right?”

“No worry, they won't hurt you, you just do it as being cheated by me.”

“Really?”

“Of course, who do you think I am?”
Yuuji gave an unchangeable conclusion without hesitation.

That was right, although Yuuji loved to joke around, he was not a person who like to lie.

“Don't worry, believe in me. I never tell lies to my friend.”
That was a very encouraging sentence.
In that case, I still thought he was up to something, but I could only believe in him now, I just had to do it.

“OK, leave the messenger job to me.”

“I am counting on you.”

The classmates' cheers and applauses sent me out of the classroom; I left the classroom and headed toward Class D with a solemn and stirring atmosphere around me.

“I am tricked!”

I escaped and ran in the corridor for my life, eventually rolled and crawled back into the classroom.
Nearly, I was nearly killed! Those bastards in Class D, they were rushing towards me with scary momentum! I sat on the ground without energy, tried to catch my breath and stared at Yuuji.

“It is just as I thought.”

You dared to say this so calmly? You bastard, I would cut you into pieces!

“What does it mean by just as I thought?! You knew the messenger would be treated like that right?”

“Of course, else how can I be a class leader?”

“At least feel guilty about it!”
Although I had known him since last spring, I still didn't quite understand him now.

“Yoshii, are you alright?”
Himeji quickly ran towards me when she saw my clothes were scattered apart.

“Yeah, I am fine; it is just some small wounds.”

Shimada also came close to me. Even though I was in immense pain now, being cared about by others did make me feel good.

“Oh I see, that's good ...... There are still places that I can punch.”

“Ahh! Give me a break! I am dying!”

I quickly held my hand around my chest and rolled around on the ground. I really couldn't be careless with Shimada even though she was a girl.

“Don't bother about him, we are having a meeting now.”

Yuuji opened the door and walked out of the room after he finished speaking, it seemed like he was going to find another location to have a meeting. You should at least show some concern to your friend you knew? Come to think of it, was Yuuji really my friend? This question was asked from a long time ago, I would think about it up to seven times every week.

“If you still feel painful, please let me know.”
Himeji said and quickly followed Yuuji's pace.

“You still feel very painful right?”
A guy with a small body, might make people think that he was a young girl----Hideyoshi, tapped on my shoulder and walked out.

“.....(walking sound)”

Silent pervert rubbed his face and walked towards me.

“Silent pervert, have the mark of tatami left over from peeping disappear?”

“....(kept shaking his head)”

“There is no use denying it now, I knew you are a pervert.”

“....(kept shaking his head)”

“In some sense, it is quite impressive that you can deny it under this circumstance.”

“....(kept shaking his head)”

“What colour is it?”

“....(kept shaking his head)”

“Sky blue.”

He answered it instantly.

“Silent pervert, you really lived up to your name.”

“....(kept shaking his head)”

Just when I was casually talking cock with the silent pervert in the classroom---

“Yoshii, you need to go as well.”

Shimada grabbed my wrist with huge force and dragged me out.
Here I was thinking it was a good chance to be lazy.

“Yes, yes, yes”

“Once is enough.”

“Yes madam.”

“One day I will ''das brechen'' you, how should I say it in Japanese?”
Shimada's mouth suddenly slowed down.

What was ''das brechen''? I think that's German right?

“...train”

Silent pervert's voice came from the side.

“That's right. I need to train you.”

“Train? You should use words like educate or tutor isn't it?”

“Then I will pick the middle value, use ''zuchtigung'' then.”

“....I don't know what it means.”

“In Japanese I think it should be torture?”

“That's even worse.”

“Is it?”
How come she didn't know many normal words and knew these kinds of strange words?

“By the way, silent pervert. Why you know the word 'train' in German?”

“.....learnt from normal life and moral principles.”

Weren't your moral principles too abnormal? Which moral principles made you learn about words like 'torture'?

“Silent pervert, you never change! Your brain is only rich in knowledge related to sex.”

“....(kept shaking his head)”

We continued this useless conversation and walked around in the school, Yuuji who was walking in front of the team had reached the top floor, he opened the door and got under the sun.

The sunlight was dazzling, shining from the cloudless sky.

The blinding sunlight and the wind in spring made everyone besides the silent pervert cover their eyes, silent pervert didn't do so because he was busy staring at Himeji's skirt which was blown by the wind.

“Akihisa, you already declared war with Class D right?”

Yuuji sat on the stairs in front of the iron fence.

“Generally I have told them that we will start attacking this afternoon.”

“So we need to have lunch first right?”

“That's right, Akihisa, can you please eat something normal this afternoon?”

“If you really think so, then treat me to bread.”

I was a person who could put anything into my stomach, anything besides feeling of course.

“Huh? Yoshii never eats lunch?”

Himeji looked at me in shock. Her life must be really regular, and it seemed that she grew up well because of that.

“Of course I will eat something for lunch!”

“Does that counts eating something?”

Yuuji cut into the conversation.

“What are you trying to say?”

“Well I mean, isn't your main food-----just salt and water?”

Yuuji's sound filled with sorrow and sympathy.

That was so rude. There was a limit to how you treat me as an idiot you know!

“I do eat sugar every meal as well!”

“Yoshii, water and sugar shouldn't use eat as the verb.”

“That's right, you should use lick.”

Everyone was looking at me with a strange gentleness, but it didn't make me feel good.

“Who tell you not to plan before spending money, served you right.”

“That's because the, the money I have for living expenses is too little!”

Actually my parents were working overseas, so I was living alone. Of course they would send money to me every month.... it was just that most of the money were spent on games and manga. Hobby really cost a lot of money!

“Well, if you don't mind, let me make lunch for you.”

“Eh?”

The gentle words came so suddenly and I couldn't help thinking that I heard something wrong.

Lunch? From a girl? Handmade?

“Really? I haven't eaten anything other than salt and sugar for a long time.”

“Yeah. If you don't mind I will start tomorrow.”

“That's great, Akihisa. That's handmade lunch with love right?”

“Yeah!”

In a situation like this, I needed to honestly show that I was glad. Even if Yuuji's tease was pleasant to hear now.

“.....Haha. Mizuki you are so nice, making lunch ONLY for Akihisa.”

I was not sure why Shimada used a boring voice and said something a little bit spiteful. What if Himeji said “I won't do it then” or something like that, how were you going to compensate me?

“Ah, no! Actually, I can make it for everyone...”

“We can have it as well? Really?”

“Yes, if you don't mind.”

Ooo, even Yuuji had it as well, she was too kind. However I felt a bit sad that I couldn't enjoy it alone.

“......(nod)”

“......let me see how good you are in cooking!”

Now including Himeji herself, she had to make six person's lunch, it must be tiring.

“OK, then I will bring everyone's lunch to school.”

Even in situation like this, she never showed any bit of unwillingness on her face.

“Himeji is very kind.”

This was coming from the bottom of my heart. It was really difficult just to bring the lunch for six people to school; I simply couldn't understand this action.

What a selfless and attractive person she was!

“There, there's nothing like...”

“Although I am saying this so late, but when I first saw you in class, I felt like I----”

“Oi Aikihisa, if you are dumped now, you won't have any lunch tomorrow.”

“---- have known you before”

Successfully avoided being dumped. Luckily I changed 'I fall in love with you' before I finished the sentence. My judgement was simply amazing.

“Akihisa, confessing because of own desire, like you, is an action of a normal pervert.”

I hated my judgement now.

“Akihisa, sometimes you will do something out of my imagination.”

“But... lunch with love....”

That was just an action necessary for me to live. It was all because of poverty!

“That's off the topic for a while; let's continue discussing about the Test Summoning War now!”

Oh that was right. I had completely forgotten about our purpose of being here.

“Yuuji, I have a question. Why do we fight Class D? If we are fighting in order, our first target should be Class E right? If we want to fight once and for all, shouldn't we pick Class A?”

“Now that you mention it, it is really like what you said!”

“That's true! But I have a different plan.”

Yuuji boldly nodded his head.

“What plan?”

“Although there are a lot of reasons, but the reason for not attacking Class E is simple. It's just because it's not worth our time fighting with them.”

“Huh? But they are at a higher rank than us right?”

Since the class division was based on the result, then of course Class E would be better than we Class F right? Why did he say it was not worth our time fighting with them?

“Ha, that's true according to class division examination result, but the actual situation is different. Have a look, who do you have around you?”

“Er....”

I did as Yuuji said, looked around the partners around me. Hmm, who we had here now were----

“Two beautiful girls, two idiots, and a silent pervert.”

“Who are the beautiful girls you referring to?”

“What? Yuuji, you are reacting to the words beautiful girls?”

“......(face getting red)”

“Silent pervert, not you as well? What should I do? I can't correct their thinking all by myself.”

“Everyone, calm down! Just let the silent pervert represent it.”

“That..That's right.”

“Wait a minute, before we continue the meeting, I want to protest that beautiful girls are affecting people's mind.”

“Anyway.”

Yuuji cleared his throat, and continued his explanation. Was he trying to ignore my existence?

“If Himeji can perform normally, Class E is not our match even if we fight them head on. Since our final target is Class A, it is meaningless to waste our time fighting with Class E.”

“Then how about fighting Class D head on?”

“That, we don't have a hundred percent chance of winning.”

“If that's the case, we should target Class A in the beginning.”

My target was Class A, not Class D. My aim for having this Test Summoning War was different from Yuuji's.

“That's because it's our first battle, you guys want to have a great fight, and grab everyone's attention right? Also as I said just now, this is what we need to defeat Class A.”

This was the plan for wining Class A? But Yuuji didn't want to let us know the details of his plan.

“Ex..Excuse me!”

It was not often you see Himeji used such a loud voice to speak. What was going on?

“Himeji? What's wrong?”

“Err, that... what you are talking just now was the Test Summoning War that Yoshii and Sakamoto discussed about before right?”
“Oh you are talking about that. Just now Akihisa come to talk to me for you Himeji about---”

“So that means!”

To stop Yuuji continuing his needless speech, I purposely raised my voice.

“If we can't win Class D, then what we said before is meaningless.”

Facing my doubt, Yuuji laughed out loud.

“With all of you helping me, we can definitely win against Class D.”

Won against Class D? With our help? In the Test Summoning War?

This was a strange feeling.

The words just gave us the momentum to do things even though there was no proof for them.

Yuuji's words seemed to have this kind of magical power.

“Great. It looks like it is going to get interesting!”

“Let us pull those proud nerds in Class A down to earth!”

“....(praise)”

“I...I will try my best.”

Defeat Class A.

It might sound crazy; it might be a dream that would never come true.

But, if we never do anything, dreams would never come true.

Since we were allocated in the same class, it was not bad to just try to do something together.

“All right, let me explain the battle strategy!”

We stayed at the top floor, enjoyed the cozy wind and listened to the strategy that would bring us to victory.

Baka to Tesuto to Syokanju:Volume1 The First Question

2008-12-06T09:31:30Z

Andisan:

“Eh---”

“What's wrong?”

“What Yuuji said just now, it's the Taika Reform, right?”

“You're a third year now, and you still don't know this? Shouko, you really are stupid.”

“We haven't been taught about that part yet, Yuuji you're just too smart.”

“It's easy to memorize, just remember: the 'Accident Free Reform'[http://www.baka-tsuki.net/project/index.php?title=Baka_to_Tesuto_to_Syokanju:Volume1_Translator%27s_Notes#Question_1]”

“Accident Free?”

“It's because no accidents occurred during the Taika Reform; make sure you remember that.”

“Okay.”

“It happened in the year 625.”

“Alright, I memorized it.”

“Good, make sure you remember.”

“Don't worry, I won't forget.”

------

First Question

Please answer the following questions:

When manufacturing a frying pan, magnesium is used as the raw material to reduce the weight of the pan. However, an accident occurs when it is used in cooking. Describe what happens, and name an alloy that could be used to replace magnesium.

Mizuki Himeji's Answer

“Using a flame to heat up magnesium will cause a violent chemical reaction, in which the magnesium catches fire; aluminum may be used to replace magnesium.”

Teacher's Comment:

Correct. The question asks for an alloy, so you can't answer “iron”. You weren't tricked.

Kouta Tsuchiya's Answer

“Because the gas bill wasn't paid.”

Teacher's Comment:

That is not the point of this question.

Akihisa Yoshii's Answer

“An alloy made in the future can be used (Because it is very hard).”

Teacher's Comment:

Even if it is very hard, you can't find it now, can you?

------

We were welcoming the arrival of the second spring since we started at Fumitsuki Gakuen.

To welcome new students, both sides of the slope leading to the school building were filled with dazzling, flowering cherry blossoms. Even though I was not an elegant person who could appreciate flowers, I couldn't stop myself from being attracted to the beautiful scenery before me.

However, it was only for a very short time.

My mind was filled with thoughts of spring, not of cherry blossoms, but of the new classroom and students who will be with me throughout the year. In another words, it was all about my new class after the class divisions.

“Yoshii, you're late.”

In front of the entrance, a strong low voice called me. I turned my head and looked towards the source. An athletic man with light dark skin and short hair was standing there.

“Ah, Iron... no, Nishimura-sensei[http://www.baka-tsuki.net/project/index.php?title=Baka_to_Tesuto_to_Syokanju:Volume1_Translator%27s_Notes#Question_1]. good morning!”

“You almost called me 'Iron Man' just now, didn't you?”

“Ha ha, you're thinking too much.”

“Oh, am I?”

That was close; I nearly called him "Iron Man," just like before.

By the way, Nishimura-sensei got his nickname "Iron Man" was because of his hobby of entering triathlons. Of course, his habit of wearing short sleeves during winter also contributed to the name.

“A normal person shouldn't say 'good morning' in this situation!”

“Ah, I am sorry. Err...Your skin is very dark today as well.”

“What! Is my skin color more important than you being late for school?”

“I see, you're talking about that... Sorry I'm late.”

“You... you just never learn your lesson.”

He sighed and mumbled. From what he said, you would think I was usually late for school.

“Sir, I'm not usually late for school, am I?”

Nishimura-sensei was our homeroom teacher last year, so he should know that I was very punctual.

“Forget it, just take this.”

He took an envelope out of a box and handed it over to me. My name, “Akihisa Yoshii”, was clearly written on it.

“Ah, thank you.”

I simply nodded and took the envelope.

“But why does the school need to post the class divisions in such a troublesome way? Isn't posting it on the announcement board a better idea?”

Putting the results into individual envelopes, and handing them out one by one seemed very inconvenient.

“It is troublesome, but our school uses the most advanced system in the world, and this is required for it.”

“I see.”

I answered him and tried to open the envelope. Which class would I be placed in? I started to get a little nervous.

Here at Fumitsuki Gakuen, starting from second year, students are allocated into different classes, from Class A to Class F, depending on the class division examinations. To put it simply, geniuses would study in Class A, and idiots would study in Class F, with everyone else in between. You would know how smart someone is just by knowing his or her class placement. To protect my pride, I must not be placed into Class F.

“Yoshii, to tell you the truth...”

“What?”

The envelope was glued shut, and I was still working on opening it.

“After observing you, I've been wondering: 'Could it be that Yoshii is an idiot?'.”

“Sir, you can't be serious. If you are, you should change your nickname to 'Moron'.”

It's not that I was overconfident. Though I didn't work very hard, I still did pretty well in the class division examination last year. I assumed that when he saw my results he would immediately change his opinion.

“Have you seen my results? I feel pretty good about it.”

“I do hope I was wrong.”

I gave up on opening it neatly, so after it was opened with a smooth tearing sound, I found a folded piece of paper inside.

Which class will I be in? Is it Class D? Maybe Class C?

“Yoshii, you should be glad right? My opinion is really correct.”

As I unfolded the paper, I read the all-important result:

“Akihisa Yoshii... ... ... Class F”

“You really are an idiot.”

And so, my sorrowful school life began.

Baka to Tesuto to Syokanju:Volume1 The Second Question

2008-12-05T12:04:23Z

Andisan:

Second Question

Please write down the idioms which fit the following meanings:

(1)Fail to do something you are good at

(2)Encounter consecutive unfortunate events

Mizuki Himeji's Answer

(1)“Even monkey will drop from the trees”

(2)“Have a leaking rooftop in a rainy day”

Teacher's Comment:

Correct. There are other answers for the first part of the question, such as “Horses losing their front hooves”, “Even fishes may drown”; other answers for the second part would be “Good things don't start coming, bad things never stop happening”, “A year full of misfortune” etc.

Kouta Tsuchiya's Answer

(1)“Even horse will drop from the tree”

Teacher's Comment:

That would be an incredible scene.

Akihisa Yoshii's Answer

(2)“Have a leaking rooftop and landslide occurs”

Teacher's Comment:

Aren't you too unlucky?

----

“What the... Isn't this room too large to be a classroom?”

Stepping into the third floor that I never had a chance to get to last year, a classroom which was five times larger than usual was located right in front of me.

Maybe this was the Class A that people had been talking about? Let's see what's in there.

“Congratulations to everyone for making it to the second year. My name is Takahashi
Youko and I am the homeroom teacher for Class A. Nice to meet you.”

I stopped and looked into the classroom through the big window, there was an intelligent looking woman with spectacles standing in front of the classroom. She had her hair tied up together at the back of her head and dressed up neatly in suits.

When she stopped her speech, her name didn't show on the blackboard. Instead, it showed up on a plasma TV which was huge enough to cover the whole wall. How luxurious! How much money did they spend on that?

“First of all, please check the things that are given to everyone. Everyone should have a laptop, personal air-conditioner, fridge, adjustable chairs etc. Are they working properly?”

There were more than enough space, and facilities and equipments that were enough for 50 students to use.

The fridges were filled with drinks and snacks. Every student had their own air-conditioner which temperature could be changed however they want.

If you looked around in the classroom, you would notice that the ceiling was made of glass, high class drawings were hung on the walls with ornamental plants around the room, the interior design looked like the lobby of a five-star hotel.

“Beside the text books and the reference books, the food and drinks in the fridge are provided by the school, free of charge. If you need any other facilities or equipments, feel free to let us know.”

I could smell the fragrance of the red tea, it seemed some students had started using the facilities and made some red tea.

“Now, let me introduce the class leader. Kirishima Shouko, please come forward.”

“Yes.”

The person, who stood up and answered the call, was a girl with a black long hair and her outlook resembled a Japanese doll.

She was a gentle looking girl who had a beautiful face, along with a dignified aura around her which made her look like she was free of secular affairs.

Everyone in the classroom was looking at her.

Class leader ---- the person who scored the highest in the class division examination in this class.

In other words, the smartest person in Class A was also the smartest person among the second years, that was why she was getting all the attention.

“My name is Kirishima Shouko, nice to meet you.”

Although everyone was looking at her, she still introduced herself as usual.

It seemed everyone was staring at her eye, but when I looked carefully, actually all of them were female. It seemed the rumours were real!

She was very famous as soon as she enrolled into this school. Everybody knew how beautiful she was, and a lot of guys confessed to her. However, no one ever succeed.

Since then, there were rumours around saying she liked girls-----I see, the tide didn't start without wind.

“Everyone in Class A, please work together with Kirishima from now on till the end of second year and study hard together! The 'WAR' starts now, please don't lose to anyone else. ”

The homeroom teacher concluded the speech, Kirishima bowed and returned to her seat.

Oh no, I should hurry to my classroom.

I quickly walked along the corridors with the extremely fast pace.

I stood below the sign with 'Year 2 Class F' written on it, stopped there with some hesitation.

Would being late to class gave my classmate a bad impression?

Was anyone in the classroom disgusting, scary or hard to deal with?

What kind of comrades was I going to have for the rest of the year? I was beginning to worry about this when I thought about it.

“Well, maybe I just worry too much.”

It was just being late; there was nothing to worry about.

Come to think of it, we were classmates; there was nothing to be afraid of! Maybe they would start to worry about me that I was late because I was not feeling well (actually it was because I overslept).

Calm down, there was nothing to worry about. I needed to trust the comrades whom I would have to work together with from now on.

After I made up my mind, I pushed the door open and greeted the classmates in the room with my most sincere voice.

“Sorry, I am a bit late.”

“Hurry up and sit down, you Itsuki!”

My perfect image was ruined!

“Didn't you hear what I have just said?”

Come to think of it, this person spoke really rudely. Being a teacher didn't grant you the right to speak in this impolite way.

I glared fiercely at the guy who was standing on the podium.

He was unexpectedly tall, probably close to 180 cm! His body was slim but not thin, which made him looked like a ruthless boxer. Slowly looking up, I saw a pair of eyes filled with will power, wild looking handsome face, and the short hair on his head looked like '''mane'''.

“Yuuji, what the hell are you doing?”

This guy was not a teacher; he was my bad friend, Sakamoto Yuuji.

“I am taking the place of the teacher on the podium because the teacher is late.”

“You are taking the place of the teacher? You? Why?”

“Somehow, my score is the highest among all of us in Class F.”

“So that makes you the class leader?”

“Yes, that's right.”

Yuuji cunningly smiled. After listening to what he had just said, I smiled as well. In other words, if I could take care of Yuuji, no one could stop me doing anything in this class.

“Therefore, everyone in this class is my subordinates.”

Yuuji proudly overlooked the classmates who were sitting on the ground.

----

Yes, everyone was sitting on the ground.

Why? The answer was very simple, because there were no chairs.

“On the other hand ... This classroom really befits the name of Class F.”

I should found a place and sat down first.

“Sorry, please let me through.”

Suddenly, a weak voice came from my back.

A stupid looking old man, with untidy hair, dressed in a wrinkled shirt, is standing there.

“It is homeroom meeting now; can I put a chair there?”

Since he didn't wear an uniform, and looked far from being a teenager, I thought he should be this class homeroom teacher.

“Roger that.”

“OK.”

Yuuji and I answered him separately and returned to our seats.

The teacher waited till we were seated, then stood on the podium and spoke slowly:

“Good morning everyone, my name is Fujihara Shin; I will be the homeroom teacher for Year 2 Class F. Nice to meet you.”

Fujihara sensei originally planned to write his name on the dirty board, but he failed to do so. Oh my god! The school didn't provide chalks?

“Does everyone have a japanese-styled table and a cushion? Please raise your hand if you don't have any of them.”

There were around fifty students squeezing in this small little classroom, without writing tables. There were only tatamis, japanese-styled tables and cushions. What a brand new and luxury set of facilities! Although I had been informed about this since my first year, but seeing the real thing still shocked me.

“Sensei-----My cushion doesn't have any cotton in it.”

There were numbers of students’ reported to the teacher with regards to the faulty equipments.

“I see. Bear with it”

“Sensei, the leg of my table breaks into half.”

“Did they give you the glue? Stick it back yourself later.”

“Sensei, the wind is blowing in from the broken window, it is very cold here.”

“I see. I will report to the school and request for plastic bags and cellophane tape to repair it.”

In the corner of the room, spiders were webbing around freely, and you couldn't find any place on the wall that was clean and free from drawing or writing. This was terrible, was this an abandoned house?

“If you need anything else, try your best getting it yourselves.”

The smell of mildew coming from somewhere was filling up the classroom; it must be caused by the mildew below these old tatamis.

“Let's start the self-introductions! We will start from the person sitting beside the corridor.”

When Fujihara sensei finished his speech, among the students who were sitting in a circle, one of them stood up and started the self-introduction by telling his name.

“My name is Kinoshita Hideyoshi, a member of the drama club.”

I was wondering who was speaking, so it was Hideyoshi.

He had a unique way of speaking, with a slim body and a loosely tied shoulder-length hair at the back of the head, even I who already knew him had a glimpse at ----- No, even when I looked at him carefully, his cuteness could easily made me think that he was a girl. That's right, that was Kinoshita Hideyoshi, my classmate last year.

On the other hand, if he dressed up in a female uniform, and changed his way of speaking, he would definitely be treated as a girl. This could happen easily in a class full of smelly guys like this.

“Therefore, nice to see you.”

Hideyoshi smiled subtly, and ended his self-introduction. So... so CUTE! Wait a second Yoshii Akihisa, don't fall for the trick! He is a guy!

“Tsuchiya Kouta…”

I kept mumbling the same warning I had been telling myself numerous time from last year, and the next student already started his self-introduction.

Who was it? Ah, I knew this guy as well.

He was still as reticent as usual. He didn't have a huge body, but you could see that he was good in sports from the muscles he had. I didn't know why he was so shy, was it because he didn't want to stand out too much and got into troubles? Well, there were all sorts of people in the world.

However, I could only see guys in the classroom. Was it the same in the world that there were hardly any girls in the last class?

“...is my name. I grew up overseas. Although I can speak Japanese, reading is still a bit hard for me.”

When I was thinking about other things, someone already started the self-introduction.

“My English is very poor because I grew up in Germany. My hobby is ---”

OH! It was a girl this time; it was a precious treasure to the whole class. Finally, at least there was one girl in the class.

“My hobby is beating Yoshii Akihisa.”

Who was it? Who had this extreme, special and dangerous hobby?

“Hello---”

The person who was smiling and waving at me is---

“Ah, Shi---Shimada, it is you!”

“Yoshii, nice to see you again this year”

Another person that I knew, and my natural enemy from last year---Shimada Minami.

Why? Why so many people that I knew of were in the same class? Wasn't it strange? Was it what we called birds of feathers flocked together? I couldn't believe I actually was in the same level as these people!

“Nice to see you.”

OK, it seemed the person in front of me had just finished his self-introduction, it was my turn now.

I took a breath and rose up from the ground.

Let's start my self-introduction! The first impression was very important, in order to make a lot of good friends, I must stressed that I was a positive and optimistic person.

Suddenly an idea just ran through my mind, so I decided to use a relaxing joke to start my speech. I tried my best to speak in a funny way, and started my self-introduction.

“Er, my name is Yoshii Akihisa; feel free to call me 'Darling'.”

<big>'''“DAR--LING!”'''</big>

It sounded like a huge chorus formed by rough voices, it was more disgusting than I could ever imagine.

“Sorry, I take back what I have just said! Nice to see you.”

Although I had a fake smile on my face and returned to my seat, I still felt like I was going to vomit. I'd never imagined that they would really use that to call me, Class F was really horrible.

The self-introduction didn't seem to stop because of my feeling.

Just when I nearly fell asleep because the self-introduction seemed to continue endlessly with just stating the names, someone opened the door. A girl stood at the entrance, putting her hand on her chest and trying to catch her breath.

“I, I am sorry...I am la..late.”

“What?”

Everyone shouted out in shock, this was normal. Normally when this kind of things happened, everyone would be shocked.

“Actually you are coming at the right time, we are having self-introduction now. Please introduce yourself to the class, Himeji.”

“O..OK! My name is Himeji Mizuki, nice to meet you....”

Himeji used a smaller voice than her small body and said that.

Her skin was as white as the new snow, the long and soft hair at the back showed the gentle nature of the owner. With the cuteness of her appearance, she really stood out in the class full of guys.

However, her beautiful outlook was not the reason that caused everyone to be shocked.

“I have a question!”

One of the guys who had finished his self-introduction raised his right hand.

“Ah, ye...yes, what is your question?”

Being questioned immediately after stepping into the class room, Himeji couldn't hide that she was in shock of what was happening, but her action was similar to a cute little animal, it was so cute.

“Why are you here?”

The first question was very impolite.

But this was the same question everyone in the class wanted to ask.

Her cute outlook did attract others attention, more importantly her result was very good. Her result of the enrollment examination was the 2nd highest, and she was always among the top ten.

A good student like her shouldn't be in the lousy class like Class F. No matter whom you ask, the answer would be that she belonged to Class A.

“About this...”

With a nervous look on her face, Himeji’s body stiffed up and she said:

“I had a fever during a class division examination...”

After hearing that, everyone in the class nodded and said “So that's why.”

Leaving in the middle of the examination would result in zero marks. In other words, she didn't finish the class division examination last year, so she was allocated to class F.

Listened to Himeji's answer, many people in the class started to say their own excuses.

“Now that I think of it, I am allocated to Class F because of '''fever''' as well.”

“Yeah, it was chemistry right? That was hard.”

“I didn't do well because I heard that my brother was involved in an accident.”

“Shut up you singleton.”

“My girlfriend didn't let me sleep the night before examination.”

“Yeah right, that's the biggest lie I ever heard of this year.”

These guys were more idiot than I could imagine.

“Nice..nice to see you.”

Among the noisy discussion, she ran to the space beside me and Yuuji. I never thought that I could stay in the same classroom and sat so close to her. To be honest, my heart beat wildly. She was very cute; it made me think that welcoming her in a lousy classroom like this was a serious crime.

“I am so scared...”

Himeji instantly sighed and lay on the table when she got to the seat.

Great! Since we were sitting so close together, this was a great chance to talk to her! Our love would start from this incident, and eventually we would become the destined lovers. That's right; this first sentence would be the key to the door of our happiness and future.

“Hime... ...”

“Himeji.”

Yuuji, who was sitting beside me spoke up first and covered my voice. Damn you Yuuji! My future plan “From classmate heading towards the red carpet of marriage---The spring that we met---Six hundred and fifty four episodes” ended without playing more than two minutes! What did you want me to show the audiences for the rest of the six hundred fifty three hours and fifty eight minutes!

“Y...Yes. Is anything wrong?”

Himeji looked toward Yuuji in panic and carefully straighten her skirt. Was it because sitting on cushion could easily wrinkled the skirt?

“My name is Sakamoto, Sakamoto Yuuji, nice to meet you.”

“Ah, my name is Himeji, nice to meet you.”

She bowed her head deeply and gave a salute greeting. From how she gave the greeting, her family education must had been very good.

“Well, are you still feeling sick?”

“I would like to know as well.”

I unwittingly cut into the conversation. I was sitting beside her during the class division examination, she didn't look too well at the time. I wondered if she felt better now.

“Yo..Yoshii?”

Himeji was shocked when she saw my face. Did you have to be so shocked like that? Was I that ugly? No way, this was impo----

“Himeji, sorry that Akihisa's ugly face scares you.”

What? What was going on here? Maybe Yuuji was trying to cover up for me, but I was not happy at all.

“That..That's not true! You see my eyes are filling with energy, my face is slim and beautiful, I am not ugly at all! Actually I...”

“Now that you mention it, your face doesn't look bad at all! I know someone who is interested in you!”

What? I'd never imagined that Yuuji would have such good information. I better confirmed this with him.

“Eh? Who is ...”

“Who...Who is it?”

Himeji's voice covered my voice. Well it didn't really matter since we were asking the same question. It seemed like girls in this age were interested in topics like this.

“I remember the name is Kubo---”

Kubo? Who was the girl with the surname Kubo?

“Toshimitu I think!”

Kubo Toshimitu --> (Sex/MALE)

“......”

“Akihisa, are you crying secretly?”

I was stained now; I couldn't be a bridegroom anymore.

“Don't worry, half of that is a joke.”

“What? How about the other half?”

“Oh right, Himeji are you feeling well?”

“I am fine now.”

“Yuuji, how about the other half?”

Since Yuuji was ignoring me, I raised my voice to catch his attention.

“You over there, silent.”

The teacher knocked the table a few times, the knocking sound served as a warning.

“I am sorry---”

(Crashing sound)

Suddenly, the teacher's wooden table turned into wood chips. The table couldn't even withstand a few knocks, how bad were the things we had here?

“....I will go and get a new table to replace it. Please be patient.”

The teacher felt embarrassed and quickly stepped out of the classroom.

Once again I realized how lousy were the equipments we had in this class.

“Ah ha ha...”

Himeji had a forced smile on her face.

Looking at her like this reminded me that, people like Yuuji and I deserved to study in a classroom like this, but it must be hard for her to study in a classroom like this.

Well, it was our own fault for not performing well in the examination. Being able to take care of our own health was a kind of strengths as well. However, just because leaving the examination due to illness, and ended up being allocated to Class F was just too ridiculous, they should have at least gave her another chance right?

The anger towards the unfairness of the class division examination swirled up inside of my heart. If that's the case, we should try our best in getting some better equipments for her.

I talked to the class leader who was yawning at the moment: “Yuuji, come here.”

“What do you want?”

“We can't talk here, let's go to the corridor.”

“Fine by me.”

I stood up and walked towards the corridor. At that time, Himeji and I accidentally looked at each other.

“Well, what's up?”

It was homeroom meeting now and no one was in the corridor, so we could speak freely.

“About this classroom...”

Of course it meant the class F classroom.

“The class F classroom? It is worse than what I can imagine.”

“You also think so right?”

“Of course.”

“Have you looked at Class A equipments?”

“Yeah, it is so different from ours. I have never seen a classroom as good as that before.”

On one side was a classroom that didn't even have a chalk, with a blackboard full of cracks, on the other side was a classroom with an expensive plasma TV; nobody could accept the treatment difference like this right?

“I have an idea. Since we are second year now, let's have a 'Test Summoning War'!”

“A war?”

“Yes, and the opponent is Class A.”

“What is your purpose?”

Suddenly, Yuuji looked at me with wariness.

“Nothing special, it is just that our classroom is really lousy.”

“Don't lie to me. A person who is not interested in studying like you, now wants to have war over the equipment for studying? The possibility is lower than winning lottery.”

Damn! His sixth sense was still as good as ever.

“No..No, that's not right! If I don't want to study, I won't choose this school---”

“You chose this school because it has a high chance of getting to university, and the school fee is cheap right?”

Oh no! I talked to him about my reason of coming to studying in this school before.

“Ah---That's----It's because....”

What should I do? I couldn't think of any better reason.

“It is because of Himeji right?”

Shock!

My real intention was being seen through, I unwittingly straightened my back.

“How..How do you know that?”

“You are really simple! I just tested you a bit, and you just gave yourself out.”

The wary looking eyes disappeared, replaced by Yuuji's smile. I was cheated!

“That's not the only reason---”

“Yeah yeah, you don't have to explain anymore, I totally understand the situation.”

“Just as I say before, it is not what you think!”

Damn! I couldn't communicate with this guy.

“Don't worry; even if you didn't suggest it, I have already planned to declare war against Class A.”

“Huh? Why? Yuuji, you are not studying at all right?”

That's why he was not interested in the class equipments like me.

“I just want to prove that, result doesn't mean everything in this world.”

“ ? ”

“Also, I have just thought a plan that we can use to defeat Class A----Oh, the teacher is back! Let's get into the class room.”

I walked into the classroom when Yuuji urged me to get in.

“Let's continue with the self-introduction.”

After changing the table (which was still a lousy one), the homeroom meeting continued.

“My name is Sugawa Ryou. My hobby is---”

The plain self-introduction continued as usual.

“Sakamoto, you are the last.”

“Roger.”

Yuuji answered the teacher's call and rose up from the seat.

He kept his usual kidding mode and walked slowly towards the podium; it looked like he was filled with the dignity of class leader.

“Sakamoto is the class leader for Class F right?”

Facing Fukuhara sensei's question, Yuuji replied with a nod.

It was just the class leader for the worst class. Instead of saying it's an honour, it might actually be a shame.

But Yuuji didn't think like that, he stood on the podium with self confidence and overlooked at us.

“I am the class leader of Class F Sakamoto Yuuji, you can either call me Sakamoto or class leader.”

Most of the students in the class didn't really care about who Yuuji was, because he was just the smartest among the idiots in Class F. For most people, it was just the same as the pot called the kettle black.

“Now, I have a question for everyone.”

He looked into everyone's eyes, and spoke slowly.

Maybe it was because he got the timing right, everyone was looking at him now.

When he confirmed that he had everyone's attention, he moved his eyes to every corner of the classroom.

A classroom with the smell of mildew.

Old and dirty cushions.

Japanese tables with dirt left from sweats

We followed his sight, looking at these one by one.

“Class A not only has air-conditioner, it also has adjustable chairs.”

He took a deep breath, and calmly said:

“Are you dissatisfied?”

<big>'''“Of course!”'''</big>

The cries from the souls of every member in class F rang through the corridor.

“Aren't you? Even I am dissatisfied with the current situation. As the class leader, I can see a big problem in here.”

“That's right!”

“No matter how cheap the school fee is, it is unthinkable to let us use such equipment! We must tell the school to improve it!”

“We pay the same fee as Class A, but the treatment is too different!”

Complains were coming from everywhere in the class.

“You are right. Therefore...”

Satisfied with the reaction of the classmates, Yuuji showed a fearless smile on his face.

“As a class leader, I have a suggestion.”

Showing his tiger-tooth to his fellow comrades, he stated:

“I plan to declare a 'Test Summoning War' against Class A.”

Class F leader, Sakamoto Yuuji, had ignited the flame of the war.

Baka to Tesuto to Syokanju:Volume1 The Second Question

2008-12-05T12:03:25Z

Andisan:

Second Question

Please write down the idioms which fit the following meanings:

(1)Fail to do something you are good at

(2)Encounter consecutive unfortunate events

Mizuki Himeji's Answer

(1)“Even monkey will drop from the trees”

(2)“Have a leaking rooftop in a rainy day”

Teacher's Comment:

Correct. There are other answers for the first part of the question, such as “Horses losing their front hooves”, “Even fishes may drown”; other answers for the second part would be “Good things don't start coming, bad things never stop happening”, “A year full of misfortune” etc.

Kouta Tsuchiya's Answer

(1)“Even horse will drop from the tree”

Teacher's Comment:

That would be an incredible scene.

Akihisa Yoshii's Answer

(2)“Have a leaking rooftop and landslide occurs”

Teacher's Comment:

Aren't you too unlucky?

----

“What the... Isn't this room too large to be a classroom?”

Stepping into the third floor that I never had a chance to get to last year, a classroom which was five times larger than usual was located right in front of me.

Maybe this was the Class A that people had been talking about? Let's see what's in there.

“Congratulations to everyone for making it to the second year. My name is Takahashi
Youko and I am the homeroom teacher for Class A. Nice to meet you.[http://www.baka-tsuki.net/project/index.php?title=Baka_to_Tesuto_to_Syokanju:Volume1_Translator%27s_Notes#Question_2]”

I stopped and looked into the classroom through the big window, there was an intelligent looking woman with spectacles standing in front of the classroom. She had her hair tied up together at the back of her head and dressed up neatly in suits.

When she stopped her speech, her name didn't show on the blackboard. Instead, it showed up on a plasma TV which was huge enough to cover the whole wall. How luxurious! How much money did they spend on that?

“First of all, please check the things that are given to everyone. Everyone should have a laptop, personal air-conditioner, fridge, adjustable chairs etc. Are they working properly?”

There were more than enough space, and facilities and equipments that were enough for 50 students to use.

The fridges were filled with drinks and snacks. Every student had their own air-conditioner which temperature could be changed however they want.

If you looked around in the classroom, you would notice that the ceiling was made of glass, high class drawings were hung on the walls with ornamental plants around the room, the interior design looked like the lobby of a five-star hotel.

“Beside the text books and the reference books, the food and drinks in the fridge are provided by the school, free of charge. If you need any other facilities or equipments, feel free to let us know.”

I could smell the fragrance of the red tea, it seemed some students had started using the facilities and made some red tea.

“Now, let me introduce the class leader. Kirishima Shouko, please come forward.”

“Yes.”

The person, who stood up and answered the call, was a girl with a black long hair and her outlook resembled a Japanese doll.

She was a gentle looking girl who had a beautiful face, along with a dignified aura around her which made her look like she was free of secular affairs.

Everyone in the classroom was looking at her.

Class leader ---- the person who scored the highest in the class division examination in this class.

In other words, the smartest person in Class A was also the smartest person among the second years, that was why she was getting all the attention.

“My name is Kirishima Shouko, nice to meet you.”

Although everyone was looking at her, she still introduced herself as usual.

It seemed everyone was staring at her eye, but when I looked carefully, actually all of them were female. It seemed the rumours were real!

She was very famous as soon as she enrolled into this school. Everybody knew how beautiful she was, and a lot of guys confessed to her. However, no one ever succeed.

Since then, there were rumours around saying she liked girls-----I see, the tide didn't start without wind.

“Everyone in Class A, please work together with Kirishima from now on till the end of second year and study hard together! The 'WAR' starts now, please don't lose to anyone else. ”

The homeroom teacher concluded the speech, Kirishima bowed and returned to her seat.

Oh no, I should hurry to my classroom.

I quickly walked along the corridors with the extremely fast pace.

I stood below the sign with 'Year 2 Class F' written on it, stopped there with some hesitation.

Would being late to class gave my classmate a bad impression?

Was anyone in the classroom disgusting, scary or hard to deal with?

What kind of comrades was I going to have for the rest of the year? I was beginning to worry about this when I thought about it.

“Well, maybe I just worry too much.”

It was just being late; there was nothing to worry about.

Come to think of it, we were classmates; there was nothing to be afraid of! Maybe they would start to worry about me that I was late because I was not feeling well (actually it was because I overslept).

Calm down, there was nothing to worry about. I needed to trust the comrades whom I would have to work together with from now on.

After I made up my mind, I pushed the door open and greeted the classmates in the room with my most sincere voice.

“Sorry, I am a bit late.”

“Hurry up and sit down, you Itsuki!”

My perfect image was ruined!

“Didn't you hear what I have just said?”

Come to think of it, this person spoke really rudely. Being a teacher didn't grant you the right to speak in this impolite way.

I glared fiercely at the guy who was standing on the podium.

He was unexpectedly tall, probably close to 180 cm! His body was slim but not thin, which made him looked like a ruthless boxer. Slowly looking up, I saw a pair of eyes filled with will power, wild looking handsome face, and the short hair on his head looked like '''mane'''.

“Yuuji, what the hell are you doing?”

This guy was not a teacher; he was my bad friend, Sakamoto Yuuji.

“I am taking the place of the teacher on the podium because the teacher is late.”

“You are taking the place of the teacher? You? Why?”

“Somehow, my score is the highest among all of us in Class F.”

“So that makes you the class leader?”

“Yes, that's right.”

Yuuji cunningly smiled. After listening to what he had just said, I smiled as well. In other words, if I could take care of Yuuji, no one could stop me doing anything in this class.

“Therefore, everyone in this class is my subordinates.”

Yuuji proudly overlooked the classmates who were sitting on the ground.

----

Yes, everyone was sitting on the ground.

Why? The answer was very simple, because there were no chairs.

“On the other hand ... This classroom really befits the name of Class F.”

I should found a place and sat down first.

“Sorry, please let me through.”

Suddenly, a weak voice came from my back.

A stupid looking old man, with untidy hair, dressed in a wrinkled shirt, is standing there.

“It is homeroom meeting now; can I put a chair there?”

Since he didn't wear an uniform, and looked far from being a teenager, I thought he should be this class homeroom teacher.

“Roger that.”

“OK.”

Yuuji and I answered him separately and returned to our seats.

The teacher waited till we were seated, then stood on the podium and spoke slowly:

“Good morning everyone, my name is Fujihara Shin; I will be the homeroom teacher for Year 2 Class F. Nice to meet you.”

Fujihara sensei originally planned to write his name on the dirty board, but he failed to do so. Oh my god! The school didn't provide chalks?

“Does everyone have a japanese-styled table and a cushion? Please raise your hand if you don't have any of them.”

There were around fifty students squeezing in this small little classroom, without writing tables. There were only tatamis, japanese-styled tables and cushions. What a brand new and luxury set of facilities! Although I had been informed about this since my first year, but seeing the real thing still shocked me.

“Sensei-----My cushion doesn't have any cotton in it.”

There were numbers of students’ reported to the teacher with regards to the faulty equipments.

“I see. Bear with it”

“Sensei, the leg of my table breaks into half.”

“Did they give you the glue? Stick it back yourself later.”

“Sensei, the wind is blowing in from the broken window, it is very cold here.”

“I see. I will report to the school and request for plastic bags and cellophane tape to repair it.”

In the corner of the room, spiders were webbing around freely, and you couldn't find any place on the wall that was clean and free from drawing or writing. This was terrible, was this an abandoned house?

“If you need anything else, try your best getting it yourselves.”

The smell of mildew coming from somewhere was filling up the classroom; it must be caused by the mildew below these old tatamis.

“Let's start the self-introductions! We will start from the person sitting beside the corridor.”

When Fujihara sensei finished his speech, among the students who were sitting in a circle, one of them stood up and started the self-introduction by telling his name.

“My name is Kinoshita Hideyoshi, a member of the drama club.”

I was wondering who was speaking, so it was Hideyoshi.

He had a unique way of speaking, with a slim body and a loosely tied shoulder-length hair at the back of the head, even I who already knew him had a glimpse at ----- No, even when I looked at him carefully, his cuteness could easily made me think that he was a girl. That's right, that was Kinoshita Hideyoshi, my classmate last year.

On the other hand, if he dressed up in a female uniform, and changed his way of speaking, he would definitely be treated as a girl. This could happen easily in a class full of smelly guys like this.

“Therefore, nice to see you.”

Hideyoshi smiled subtly, and ended his self-introduction. So... so CUTE! Wait a second Yoshii Akihisa, don't fall for the trick! He is a guy!

“Tsuchiya Kouta…”

I kept mumbling the same warning I had been telling myself numerous time from last year, and the next student already started his self-introduction.

Who was it? Ah, I knew this guy as well.

He was still as reticent as usual. He didn't have a huge body, but you could see that he was good in sports from the muscles he had. I didn't know why he was so shy, was it because he didn't want to stand out too much and got into troubles? Well, there were all sorts of people in the world.

However, I could only see guys in the classroom. Was it the same in the world that there were hardly any girls in the last class?

“...is my name. I grew up overseas. Although I can speak Japanese, reading is still a bit hard for me.”

When I was thinking about other things, someone already started the self-introduction.

“My English is very poor because I grew up in Germany. My hobby is ---”

OH! It was a girl this time; it was a precious treasure to the whole class. Finally, at least there was one girl in the class.

“My hobby is beating Yoshii Akihisa.”

Who was it? Who had this extreme, special and dangerous hobby?

“Hello---”

The person who was smiling and waving at me is---

“Ah, Shi---Shimada, it is you!”

“Yoshii, nice to see you again this year”

Another person that I knew, and my natural enemy from last year---Shimada Minami.

Why? Why so many people that I knew of were in the same class? Wasn't it strange? Was it what we called birds of feathers flocked together? I couldn't believe I actually was in the same level as these people!

“Nice to see you.”

OK, it seemed the person in front of me had just finished his self-introduction, it was my turn now.

I took a breath and rose up from the ground.

Let's start my self-introduction! The first impression was very important, in order to make a lot of good friends, I must stressed that I was a positive and optimistic person.

Suddenly an idea just ran through my mind, so I decided to use a relaxing joke to start my speech. I tried my best to speak in a funny way, and started my self-introduction.

“Er, my name is Yoshii Akihisa; feel free to call me 'Darling'.”

<big>'''“DAR--LING!”'''</big>

It sounded like a huge chorus formed by rough voices, it was more disgusting than I could ever imagine.

“Sorry, I take back what I have just said! Nice to see you.”

Although I had a fake smile on my face and returned to my seat, I still felt like I was going to vomit. I'd never imagined that they would really use that to call me, Class F was really horrible.

The self-introduction didn't seem to stop because of my feeling.

Just when I nearly fell asleep because the self-introduction seemed to continue endlessly with just stating the names, someone opened the door. A girl stood at the entrance, putting her hand on her chest and trying to catch her breath.

“I, I am sorry...I am la..late.”

“What?”

Everyone shouted out in shock, this was normal. Normally when this kind of things happened, everyone would be shocked.

“Actually you are coming at the right time, we are having self-introduction now. Please introduce yourself to the class, Himeji.”

“O..OK! My name is Himeji Mizuki, nice to meet you....”

Himeji used a smaller voice than her small body and said that.

Her skin was as white as the new snow, the long and soft hair at the back showed the gentle nature of the owner. With the cuteness of her appearance, she really stood out in the class full of guys.

However, her beautiful outlook was not the reason that caused everyone to be shocked.

“I have a question!”

One of the guys who had finished his self-introduction raised his right hand.

“Ah, ye...yes, what is your question?”

Being questioned immediately after stepping into the class room, Himeji couldn't hide that she was in shock of what was happening, but her action was similar to a cute little animal, it was so cute.

“Why are you here?”

The first question was very impolite.

But this was the same question everyone in the class wanted to ask.

Her cute outlook did attract others attention, more importantly her result was very good. Her result of the enrollment examination was the 2nd highest, and she was always among the top ten.

A good student like her shouldn't be in the lousy class like Class F. No matter whom you ask, the answer would be that she belonged to Class A.

“About this...”

With a nervous look on her face, Himeji’s body stiffed up and she said:

“I had a fever during a class division examination...”

After hearing that, everyone in the class nodded and said “So that's why.”

Leaving in the middle of the examination would result in zero marks. In other words, she didn't finish the class division examination last year, so she was allocated to class F.

Listened to Himeji's answer, many people in the class started to say their own excuses.

“Now that I think of it, I am allocated to Class F because of '''fever''' as well.”

“Yeah, it was chemistry right? That was hard.”

“I didn't do well because I heard that my brother was involved in an accident.”

“Shut up you singleton.”

“My girlfriend didn't let me sleep the night before examination.”

“Yeah right, that's the biggest lie I ever heard of this year.”

These guys were more idiot than I could imagine.

“Nice..nice to see you.”

Among the noisy discussion, she ran to the space beside me and Yuuji. I never thought that I could stay in the same classroom and sat so close to her. To be honest, my heart beat wildly. She was very cute; it made me think that welcoming her in a lousy classroom like this was a serious crime.

“I am so scared...”

Himeji instantly sighed and lay on the table when she got to the seat.

Great! Since we were sitting so close together, this was a great chance to talk to her! Our love would start from this incident, and eventually we would become the destined lovers. That's right; this first sentence would be the key to the door of our happiness and future.

“Hime... ...”

“Himeji.”

Yuuji, who was sitting beside me spoke up first and covered my voice. Damn you Yuuji! My future plan “From classmate heading towards the red carpet of marriage---The spring that we met---Six hundred and fifty four episodes” ended without playing more than two minutes! What did you want me to show the audiences for the rest of the six hundred fifty three hours and fifty eight minutes!

“Y...Yes. Is anything wrong?”

Himeji looked toward Yuuji in panic and carefully straighten her skirt. Was it because sitting on cushion could easily wrinkled the skirt?

“My name is Sakamoto, Sakamoto Yuuji, nice to meet you.”

“Ah, my name is Himeji, nice to meet you.”

She bowed her head deeply and gave a salute greeting. From how she gave the greeting, her family education must had been very good.

“Well, are you still feeling sick?”

“I would like to know as well.”

I unwittingly cut into the conversation. I was sitting beside her during the class division examination, she didn't look too well at the time. I wondered if she felt better now.

“Yo..Yoshii?”

Himeji was shocked when she saw my face. Did you have to be so shocked like that? Was I that ugly? No way, this was impo----

“Himeji, sorry that Akihisa's ugly face scares you.”

What? What was going on here? Maybe Yuuji was trying to cover up for me, but I was not happy at all.

“That..That's not true! You see my eyes are filling with energy, my face is slim and beautiful, I am not ugly at all! Actually I...”

“Now that you mention it, your face doesn't look bad at all! I know someone who is interested in you!”

What? I'd never imagined that Yuuji would have such good information. I better confirmed this with him.

“Eh? Who is ...”

“Who...Who is it?”

Himeji's voice covered my voice. Well it didn't really matter since we were asking the same question. It seemed like girls in this age were interested in topics like this.

“I remember the name is Kubo---”

Kubo? Who was the girl with the surname Kubo?

“Toshimitu I think!”

Kubo Toshimitu --> (Sex/MALE)

“......”

“Akihisa, are you crying secretly?”

I was stained now; I couldn't be a bridegroom anymore.

“Don't worry, half of that is a joke.”

“What? How about the other half?”

“Oh right, Himeji are you feeling well?”

“I am fine now.”

“Yuuji, how about the other half?”

Since Yuuji was ignoring me, I raised my voice to catch his attention.

“You over there, silent.”

The teacher knocked the table a few times, the knocking sound served as a warning.

“I am sorry---”

(Crashing sound)

Suddenly, the teacher's wooden table turned into wood chips. The table couldn't even withstand a few knocks, how bad were the things we had here?

“....I will go and get a new table to replace it. Please be patient.”

The teacher felt embarrassed and quickly stepped out of the classroom.

Once again I realized how lousy were the equipments we had in this class.

“Ah ha ha...”

Himeji had a forced smile on her face.

Looking at her like this reminded me that, people like Yuuji and I deserved to study in a classroom like this, but it must be hard for her to study in a classroom like this.

Well, it was our own fault for not performing well in the examination. Being able to take care of our own health was a kind of strengths as well. However, just because leaving the examination due to illness, and ended up being allocated to Class F was just too ridiculous, they should have at least gave her another chance right?

The anger towards the unfairness of the class division examination swirled up inside of my heart. If that's the case, we should try our best in getting some better equipments for her.

I talked to the class leader who was yawning at the moment: “Yuuji, come here.”

“What do you want?”

“We can't talk here, let's go to the corridor.”

“Fine by me.”

I stood up and walked towards the corridor. At that time, Himeji and I accidentally looked at each other.

“Well, what's up?”

It was homeroom meeting now and no one was in the corridor, so we could speak freely.

“About this classroom...”

Of course it meant the class F classroom.

“The class F classroom? It is worse than what I can imagine.”

“You also think so right?”

“Of course.”

“Have you looked at Class A equipments?”

“Yeah, it is so different from ours. I have never seen a classroom as good as that before.”

On one side was a classroom that didn't even have a chalk, with a blackboard full of cracks, on the other side was a classroom with an expensive plasma TV; nobody could accept the treatment difference like this right?

“I have an idea. Since we are second year now, let's have a 'Test Summoning War'!”

“A war?”

“Yes, and the opponent is Class A.”

“What is your purpose?”

Suddenly, Yuuji looked at me with wariness.

“Nothing special, it is just that our classroom is really lousy.”

“Don't lie to me. A person who is not interested in studying like you, now wants to have war over the equipment for studying? The possibility is lower than winning lottery.”

Damn! His sixth sense was still as good as ever.

“No..No, that's not right! If I don't want to study, I won't choose this school---”

“You chose this school because it has a high chance of getting to university, and the school fee is cheap right?”

Oh no! I talked to him about my reason of coming to studying in this school before.

“Ah---That's----It's because....”

What should I do? I couldn't think of any better reason.

“It is because of Himeji right?”

Shock!

My real intention was being seen through, I unwittingly straightened my back.

“How..How do you know that?”

“You are really simple! I just tested you a bit, and you just gave yourself out.”

The wary looking eyes disappeared, replaced by Yuuji's smile. I was cheated!

“That's not the only reason---”

“Yeah yeah, you don't have to explain anymore, I totally understand the situation.”

“Just as I say before, it is not what you think!”

Damn! I couldn't communicate with this guy.

“Don't worry; even if you didn't suggest it, I have already planned to declare war against Class A.”

“Huh? Why? Yuuji, you are not studying at all right?”

That's why he was not interested in the class equipments like me.

“I just want to prove that, result doesn't mean everything in this world.”

“ ? ”

“Also, I have just thought a plan that we can use to defeat Class A----Oh, the teacher is back! Let's get into the class room.”

I walked into the classroom when Yuuji urged me to get in.

“Let's continue with the self-introduction.”

After changing the table (which was still a lousy one), the homeroom meeting continued.

“My name is Sugawa Ryou. My hobby is---”

The plain self-introduction continued as usual.

“Sakamoto, you are the last.”

“Roger.”

Yuuji answered the teacher's call and rose up from the seat.

He kept his usual kidding mode and walked slowly towards the podium; it looked like he was filled with the dignity of class leader.

“Sakamoto is the class leader for Class F right?”

Facing Fukuhara sensei's question, Yuuji replied with a nod.

It was just the class leader for the worst class. Instead of saying it's an honour, it might actually be a shame.

But Yuuji didn't think like that, he stood on the podium with self confidence and overlooked at us.

“I am the class leader of Class F Sakamoto Yuuji, you can either call me Sakamoto or class leader.”

Most of the students in the class didn't really care about who Yuuji was, because he was just the smartest among the idiots in Class F. For most people, it was just the same as the pot called the kettle black.

“Now, I have a question for everyone.”

He looked into everyone's eyes, and spoke slowly.

Maybe it was because he got the timing right, everyone was looking at him now.

When he confirmed that he had everyone's attention, he moved his eyes to every corner of the classroom.

A classroom with the smell of mildew.

Old and dirty cushions.

Japanese tables with dirt left from sweats

We followed his sight, looking at these one by one.

“Class A not only has air-conditioner, it also has adjustable chairs.”

He took a deep breath, and calmly said:

“Are you dissatisfied?”

<big>'''“Of course!”'''</big>

The cries from the souls of every member in class F rang through the corridor.

“Aren't you? Even I am dissatisfied with the current situation. As the class leader, I can see a big problem in here.”

“That's right!”

“No matter how cheap the school fee is, it is unthinkable to let us use such equipment! We must tell the school to improve it!”

“We pay the same fee as Class A, but the treatment is too different!”

Complains were coming from everywhere in the class.

“You are right. Therefore...”

Satisfied with the reaction of the classmates, Yuuji showed a fearless smile on his face.

“As a class leader, I have a suggestion.”

Showing his tiger-tooth to his fellow comrades, he stated:

“I plan to declare a 'Test Summoning War' against Class A.”

Class F leader, Sakamoto Yuuji, had ignited the flame of the war.

Baka to Tesuto to Syokanju:Volume1 The Second Question

2008-12-03T09:03:57Z

Andisan:

Second Question

Please write down the idioms which fit the following meanings:

(1)Fail to do something you are good at

(2)Encounter consecutive unfortunate events

Mizuki Himeji's Answer

(1)“Even monkey will drop from the trees”

(2)“Have a leaking rooftop in a rainy day”

Teacher's Comment:

Correct. There are other answers for the first part of the question, such as “Horses losing their front hooves”, “Even fishes may drown”; other answers for the second part would be “Good things don't start coming, bad things never stop happening”, “A year full of misfortune” etc.

Kouta Tsuchiya's Answer

(1)“Even horse will drop from the tree”

Teacher's Comment:

That would be an incredible scene.

Akihisa Yoshii's Answer

(2)“Have a leaking rooftop and landslide occurs”

Teacher's Comment:

Aren't you too unlucky?

----

“What the... Isn't this room too large to be a classroom?”

Stepping into the third floor that I never had a chance to get to last year, a classroom which was five times larger than usual was located right in front of me.

Maybe this was the Class A that people had been talking about? Let's see what's in there.

“Congratulations to everyone for making it to the second year. My name is Takahashi
Youko and I am the homeroom teacher for Class A. Nice to meet you.[http://www.baka-tsuki.net/project/index.php?title=Baka_to_Tesuto_to_Syokanju:Volume1_Translator%27s_Notes#Question_2]”

I stopped and looked into the classroom through the big window, there was an intelligent looking woman with spectacles standing in front of the classroom. She had her hair tied up together at the back of her head and dressed up neatly in suits.

When she stopped her speech, her name didn't show on the blackboard. Instead, it showed up on a plasma TV which was huge enough to cover the whole wall. How luxurious! How much money did they spend on that?

“First of all, please check the things that are given to everyone. Everyone should have a laptop, personal air-conditioner, fridge, adjustable chairs etc. Are they working properly?”

There were more than enough space, and facilities and equipments that were enough for 50 students to use.

The fridges were filled with drinks and snacks. Every student had their own air-conditioner which temperature could be changed however they want.

If you looked around in the classroom, you would notice that the ceiling was made of glass, high class drawings were hung on the walls with ornamental plants around the room, the interior design looked like the lobby of a five-star hotel.

“Beside the text books and the reference books, the food and drinks in the fridge are provided by the school, free of charge. If you need any other facilities or equipments, feel free to let us know.”

I could smell the fragrance of the red tea, it seemed some students had started using the facilities and made some red tea.

“Now, let me introduce the class leader. Kirishima Shouko, please come forward.”

“Yes.”

The person, who stood up and answered the call, was a girl with a black long hair and her outlook resembled a Japanese doll.

She was a gentle looking girl who had a beautiful face, along with a dignified aura around her which made her look like she was free of secular affairs.

Everyone in the classroom was looking at her.

Class leader ---- the person who scored the highest in the class division examination in this class.

In other words, the smartest person in Class A was also the smartest person among the second years, that was why she was getting all the attention.

“My name is Kirishima Shouko, nice to meet you.”

Although everyone was looking at her, she still introduced herself as usual.

It seemed everyone was staring at her eye, but when I looked carefully, actually all of them were female. It seemed the rumours were real!

She was very famous as soon as she enrolled into this school. Everybody knew how beautiful she was, and a lot of guys confessed to her. However, no one ever succeed.

Since then, there were rumours around saying she liked girls-----I see, the tide didn't start without wind.

“Everyone in Class A, please work together with Kirishima from now on till the end of second year and study hard together! The 'WAR' starts now, please don't lose to anyone else. ”

The homeroom teacher concluded the speech, Kirishima bowed and returned to her seat.

Oh no, I should hurry to my classroom.

I quickly walked along the corridors with the extremely fast pace.

I stood below the sign with 'Year 2 Class F' written on it, stopped there with some hesitation.

Would being late to class gave my classmate a bad impression?

Was anyone in the classroom disgusting, scary or hard to deal with?

What kind of comrades was I going to have for the rest of the year? I was beginning to worry about this when I thought about it.

“Well, maybe I just worry too much.”

It was just being late; there was nothing to worry about.

Come to think of it, we were classmates; there was nothing to be afraid of! Maybe they would start to worry about me that I was late because I was not feeling well (actually it was because I overslept).

Calm down, there was nothing to worry about. I needed to trust the comrades whom I would have to work together with from now on.

After I made up my mind, I pushed the door open and greeted the classmates in the room with my most sincere voice.

“Sorry, I am a bit late.”

“Hurry up and sit down, you Itsuki!”

My perfect image was ruined!

“Didn't you hear what I have just said?”

Come to think of it, this person spoke really rudely. Being a teacher didn't grant you the right to speak in this impolite way.

I glared fiercely at the guy who was standing on the podium.

He was unexpectedly tall, probably close to 180 cm! His body was slim but not thin, which made him looked like a ruthless boxer. Slowly looking up, I saw a pair of eyes filled with will power, wild looking handsome face, and the short hair on his head looked like '''mane'''.

“Yuuji, what the hell are you doing?”

This guy was not a teacher; he was my bad friend, Sakamoto Yuuji.

“I am taking the place of the teacher on the podium because the teacher is late.”

“You are taking the place of the teacher? You? Why?”

“Somehow, my score is the highest among all of us in Class F.”

“So that makes you the class leader?”

“Yes, that's right.”

Yuuji cunningly smiled. After listening to what he had just said, I smiled as well. In other words, if I could take care of Yuuji, no one could stop me doing anything in this class.

“Therefore, everyone in this class is my subordinates.”

Yuuji proudly overlooked the classmates who were sitting on the ground.

----

Yes, everyone was sitting on the ground.

Why? The answer was very simple, because there were no chairs.

“On the other hand ... This classroom really befits the name of Class F.”

I should found a place and sat down first.

“Sorry, please let me through.”

Suddenly, a weak voice came from my back.

A stupid looking old man, with untidy hair, dressed in a wrinkled shirt, is standing there.

“It is homeroom meeting now; can I put a chair there?”

Since he didn't wear an uniform, and looked far from being a teenager, I thought he should be this class homeroom teacher.

“Roger that.”

“OK.”

Yuuji and I answered him separately and returned to our seats.

The teacher waited till we were seated, then stood on the podium and spoke slowly:

“Good morning everyone, my name is Fujihara Shin; I will be the homeroom teacher for Year 2 Class F. Nice to meet you.”

Fujihara sensei originally planned to write his name on the dirty board, but he failed to do so. Oh my god! The school didn't provide chalks?

“Does everyone have a washiki table[http://www.baka-tsuki.net/project/index.php?title=Baka_to_Tesuto_to_Syokanju:Volume1_Translator%27s_Notes#Question_2] and a cushion? Please raise your hand if you don't have any of them.”

There were around fifty students squeezing in this small little classroom, without writing tables. There were only tatamis[http://www.baka-tsuki.net/project/index.php?title=Baka_to_Tesuto_to_Syokanju:Volume1_Translator%27s_Notes#Question_2], washiki tables and cushions. What a brand new and luxury set of facilities! Although I had been informed about this since my first year, but seeing the real thing still shocked me.

“Sensei-----My cushion doesn't have any cotton in it.”

There were numbers of students’ reported to the teacher with regards to the faulty equipments.

“I see. Bear with it”

“Sensei, the leg of my washiki table breaks into half.”

“Did they give you the glue? Stick it back yourself later.”

“Sensei, the wind is blowing in from the broken window, it is very cold here.”

“I see. I will report to the school and request for plastic bags and cellophane tape to repair it.”

In the corner of the room, spiders were webbing around freely, and you couldn't find any place on the wall that was clean and free from drawing or writing. This was terrible, was this an abandoned house?

“If you need anything else, try your best getting it yourselves.”

The smell of mildew coming from somewhere was filling up the classroom; it must be caused by the mildew below these old tatamis.

“Let's start the self-introductions! We will start from the person sitting beside the corridor.”

When Fujihara sensei finished his speech, among the students who were sitting in a circle, one of them stood up and started the self-introduction by telling his name.

“My name is Kinoshita Hideyoshi, a member of the drama club.”[http://www.baka-tsuki.net/project/index.php?title=Baka_to_Tesuto_to_Syokanju:Volume1_Translator%27s_Notes#Question_2]

I was wondering who was speaking, so it was Hideyoshi.

He had a unique way of speaking, with a slim body and a loosely tied shoulder-length hair at the back of the head, even I who already knew him had a glimpse at ----- No, even when I looked at him carefully, his cuteness could easily made me think that he was a girl. That's right, that was Kinoshita Hideyoshi, my classmate last year.

On the other hand, if he dressed up in a female uniform, and changed his way of speaking, he would definitely be treated as a girl. This could happen easily in a class full of smelly guys like this.

“Therefore, nice to see you.”

Hideyoshi smiled subtly, and ended his self-introduction. So... so CUTE! Wait a second Yoshii Akihisa, don't fall for the trick! He is a guy!

“Tsuchiya Kouta…”

I kept mumbling the same warning I had been telling myself numerous time from last year, and the next student already started his self-introduction.

Who was it? Ah, I knew this guy as well.

He was still as reticent as usual. He didn't have a huge body, but you could see that he was good in sports from the muscles he had. I didn't know why he was so shy, was it because he didn't want to stand out too much and got into troubles? Well, there were all sorts of people in the world.

However, I could only see guys in the classroom. Was it the same in the world that there were hardly any girls in the last class?

“...is my name. I grew up overseas. Although I can speak Japanese, reading is still a bit hard for me.”

When I was thinking about other things, someone already started the self-introduction.

“My English is very poor because I grew up in Germany. My hobby is ---”

OH! It was a girl this time; it was a precious treasure to the whole class. Finally, at least there was one girl in the class.

“My hobby is beating Yoshii Akihisa.”

Who was it? Who had this extreme, special and dangerous hobby?

“Hello---”

The person who was smiling and waving at me is---

“Ah, Shi---Shimada, it is you!”

“Yoshii, nice to see you again this year”

Another person that I knew, and my natural enemy from last year---Shimada Minami.

Why? Why so many people that I knew of were in the same class? Wasn't it strange? Was it what we called birds of feathers flocked together? I couldn't believe I actually was in the same level as these people!

“Nice to see you.”

OK, it seemed the person in front of me had just finished his self-introduction, it was my turn now.

I took a breath and rose up from the ground.

Let's start my self-introduction! The first impression was very important, in order to make a lot of good friends, I must stressed that I was a positive and optimistic person.

Suddenly an idea just ran through my mind, so I decided to use a relaxing joke to start my speech. I tried my best to speak in a funny way, and started my self-introduction.

“Er, my name is Yoshii Akihisa; feel free to call me 'Darling'.”

<big>'''“DAR--LING!”'''</big>

It sounded like a huge chorus formed by rough voices, it was more disgusting than I could ever imagine.

“Sorry, I take back what I have just said! Nice to see you.”

Although I had a fake smile on my face and returned to my seat, I still felt like I was going to vomit. I'd never imagined that they would really use that to call me, Class F was really horrible.

The self-introduction didn't seem to stop because of my feeling.

Just when I nearly fell asleep because the self-introduction seemed to continue endlessly with just stating the names, someone opened the door. A girl stood at the entrance, putting her hand on her chest and trying to catch her breath.

“I, I am sorry...I am la..late.”

“What?”

Everyone shouted out in shock, this was normal. Normally when this kind of things happened, everyone would be shocked.

“Actually you are coming at the right time, we are having self-introduction now. Please introduce yourself to the class, Himeji.”

“O..OK! My name is Himeji Mizuki, nice to meet you....”

Himeji used a smaller voice than her small body and said that.

Her skin was as white as the new snow, the long and soft hair at the back showed the gentle nature of the owner. With the cuteness of her appearance, she really stood out in the class full of guys.

However, her beautiful outlook was not the reason that caused everyone to be shocked.

“I have a question!”

One of the guys who had finished his self-introduction raised his right hand.

“Ah, ye...yes, what is your question?”

Being questioned immediately after stepping into the class room, Himeji couldn't hide that she was in shock of what was happening, but her action was similar to a cute little animal, it was so cute.

“Why are you here?”

The first question was very impolite.

But this was the same question everyone in the class wanted to ask.

Her cute outlook did attract others attention, more importantly her result was very good. Her result of the enrollment examination was the 2nd highest, and she was always among the top ten.

A good student like her shouldn't be in the lousy class like Class F. No matter whom you ask, the answer would be that she belonged to Class A.

“About this...”

With a nervous look on her face, Himeji’s body stiffed up and she said:

“I had a fever during a class division examination...”

After hearing that, everyone in the class nodded and said “So that's why.”

Leaving in the middle of the examination would result in zero marks. In other words, she didn't finish the class division examination last year, so she was allocated to class F.

Listened to Himeji's answer, many people in the class started to say their own excuses.

“Now that I think of it, I am allocated to Class F because of '''fever''' as well.”

“Yeah, it was chemistry right? That was hard.”

“I didn't do well because I heard that my brother was involved in an accident.”

“Shut up you singleton.”

“My girlfriend didn't let me sleep the night before examination.”

“Yeah right, that's the biggest lie I ever heard of this year.”

These guys were more idiot than I could imagine.

“Nice..nice to see you.”

Among the noisy discussion, she ran to the space beside me and Yuuji. I never thought that I could stay in the same classroom and sat so close to her. To be honest, my heart beat wildly. She was very cute; it made me think that welcoming her in a lousy classroom like this was a serious crime.

“I am so scared...”

Himeji instantly sighed and lay on the table when she got to the seat.

Great! Since we were sitting so close together, this was a great chance to talk to her! Our love would start from this incident, and eventually we would become the destined lovers. That's right; this first sentence would be the key to the door of our happiness and future.

“Hime... ...”

“Himeji.”

Yuuji, who was sitting beside me spoke up first and covered my voice. Damn you Yuuji! My future plan “From classmate heading towards the red carpet of marriage---The spring that we met---Six hundred and fifty four episodes” ended without playing more than two minutes! What did you want me to show the audiences for the rest of the six hundred fifty three hours and fifty eight minutes!

“Y...Yes. Is anything wrong?”

Himeji looked toward Yuuji in panic and carefully straighten her skirt. Was it because sitting on cushion could easily wrinkled the skirt?

“My name is Sakamoto, Sakamoto Yuuji, nice to meet you.”

“Ah, my name is Himeji, nice to meet you.”

She bowed her head deeply and gave a salute greeting. From how she gave the greeting, her family education must had been very good.

“Well, are you still feeling sick?”

“I would like to know as well.”

I unwittingly cut into the conversation. I was sitting beside her during the class division examination, she didn't look too well at the time. I wondered if she felt better now.

“Yo..Yoshii?”

Himeji was shocked when she saw my face. Did you have to be so shocked like that? Was I that ugly? No way, this was impo----

“Himeji, sorry that Akihisa's ugly face scares you.”

What? What was going on here? Maybe Yuuji was trying to cover up for me, but I was not happy at all.

“That..That's not true! You see my eyes are filling with energy, my face is slim and beautiful, I am not ugly at all! Actually I...”

“Now that you mention it, your face doesn't look bad at all! I know someone who is interested in you!”

What? I'd never imagined that Yuuji would have such good information. I better confirmed this with him.

“Eh? Who is ...”

“Who...Who is it?”

Himeji's voice covered my voice. Well it didn't really matter since we were asking the same question. It seemed like girls in this age were interested in topics like this.

“I remember the name is Kubo---”

Kubo? Who was the girl with the surname Kubo?

“Toshimitu I think!”

Kubo Toshimitu --> (Sex/MALE)

“......”

“Akihisa, are you crying secretly?”

I was stained now; I couldn't be a bridegroom anymore.

“Don't worry, half of that is a joke.”

“What? How about the other half?”

“Oh right, Himeji are you feeling well?”

“I am fine now.”

“Yuuji, how about the other half?”

Since Yuuji was ignoring me, I raised my voice to catch his attention.

“You over there, silent.”

The teacher knocked the table a few times, the knocking sound served as a warning.

“I am sorry---”

(Crashing sound)

Suddenly, the teacher's wooden table turned into wood chips. The table couldn't even withstand a few knocks, how bad were the things we had here?

“....I will go and get a new table to replace it. Please be patient.”

The teacher felt embarrassed and quickly stepped out of the classroom.

Once again I realised how lousy were the equipments we had in this class.

“Ah ha ha...”

Himeji had a forced smile on her face.

Looking at her like this reminded me that, people like Yuuji and I deserved to study in a classroom like this, but it must be hard for her to study in a classroom like this.

Well, it was our own fault for not performing well in the examination. Being able to take care of our own health was a kind of strengths as well. However, just because leaving the examination due to illness, and ended up being allocated to Class F was just too ridiculous, they should have at least gave her another chance right?

The anger towards the unfairness of the class division examination swirled up inside of my heart. If that's the case, we should try our best in getting some better equipments for her.

I talked to the class leader who was yawning at the moment: “Yuuji, come here.”

“What do you want?”

“We can't talk here, let's go to the corridor.”

“Fine by me.”

I stood up and walked towards the corridor. At that time, Himeji and I accidentally looked at each other.

“Well, what's up?”

It was homeroom meeting now and no one was in the corridor, so we could speak freely.

“About this classroom...”

Of course it meant the class F classroom.

“The class F classroom? It is worse than what I can imagine.”

“You also think so right?”

“Of course.”

“Have you looked at Class A equipments?”

“Yeah, it is so different from ours. I have never seen a classroom as good as that before.”

On one side was a classroom that didn't even have a chalk, with a blackboard full of cracks, on the other side was a classroom with an expensive plasma TV; nobody could accept the treatment difference like this right?

“I have an idea. Since we are second year now, let's have a 'Test Summoning War'!”

“A war?”

“Yes, and the opponent is Class A.”

“What is your purpose?”

Suddenly, Yuuji looked at me with wariness.

“Nothing special, it is just that our classroom is really lousy.”

“Don't lie to me. A person who is not interested in studying like you, now wants to have war over the equipment for studying? The possibility is lower than winning lottery.”

Damn! His sixth sense was still as good as ever.

“No..No, that's not right! If I don't want to study, I won't choose this school---”

“You chose this school because it has a high chance of getting to university, and the school fee is cheap right?”

Oh no! I talked to him about my reason of coming to studying in this school before.

“Ah---That's----It's because....”

What should I do? I couldn't think of any better reason.

“It is because of Himeji right?”

Shock!

My real intention was being seen through, I unwittingly straightened my back.

“How..How do you know that?”

“You are really simple! I just tested you a bit, and you just gave yourself out.”

The wary looking eyes disappeared, replaced by Yuuji's smile. I was cheated!

“That's not the only reason---”

“Yeah yeah, you don't have to explain anymore, I totally understand the situation.”

“Just as I say before, it is not what you think!”

Damn! I couldn't communicate with this guy.

“Don't worry; even if you didn't suggest it, I have already planned to declare war against Class A.”

“Huh? Why? Yuuji, you are not studying at all right?”

That's why he was not interested in the class equipments like me.

“I just want to prove that, result doesn't mean everything in this world.”

“ ? ”

“Also, I have just thought a plan that we can use to defeat Class A----Oh, the teacher is back! Let's get into the class room.”

I walked into the classroom when Yuuji urged me to get in.

“Let's continue with the self-introduction.”

After changing the table (which was still a lousy one), the homeroom meeting continued.

“My name is Sugawa Ryou. My hobby is---”

The plain self-introduction continued as usual.

“Sakamoto, you are the last.”

“Roger.”

Yuuji answered the teacher's call and rose up from the seat.

He kept his usual kidding mode and walked slowly towards the podium; it looked like he was filled with the dignity of class leader.

“Sakamoto is the class leader for Class F right?”

Facing Fukuhara sensei's question, Yuuji replied with a nod.

It was just the class leader for the worst class. Instead of saying it's an honour, it might actually be a shame.

But Yuuji didn't think like that, he stood on the podium with self confidence and overlooked at us.

“I am the class leader of Class F Sakamoto Yuuji, you can either call me Sakamoto or class leader.”

Most of the students in the class didn't really care about who Yuuji was, because he was just the smartest among the idiots in Class F. For most people, it was just the same as the pot called the kettle black.

“Now, I have a question for everyone.”

He looked into everyone's eyes, and spoke slowly.

Maybe it was because he got the timing right, everyone was looking at him now.

When he confirmed that he had everyone's attention, he moved his eyes to every corner of the classroom.

A classroom with the smell of mildew.

Old and dirty cushions.

Washiki tables with dirt left by sweats

We followed his sight, looking at these one by one.

“Class A not only has air-conditioner, it also has adjustable chairs.”

He took a deep breath, and calmly said:

“Are you dissatisfied?”

<big>'''“Of course!”'''</big>

The cries from the souls of every member in class F rang through the corridor.

“Aren't you? Even I am dissatisfied with the current situation. As the class leader, I can see a big problem in here.”

“That's right!”

“No matter how cheap the school fee is, it is unthinkable to let us use such equipment! We must tell the school to improve it!”

“We pay the same fee as Class A, but the treatment is too different!”

Complains were coming from everywhere in the class.

“You are right. Therefore...”

Satisfied with the reaction of the classmates, Yuuji showed a fearless smile on his face.

“As a class leader, I have a suggestion.”

Showing his tiger-tooth to his fellow comrades, he stated:

“I plan to declare a 'Test Summoning War' against Class A.”

Class F leader, Sakamoto Yuuji, had ignited the flame of the war.

Baka to Tesuto to Syokanju:Volume1 The First Question

2008-12-03T03:48:38Z

Andisan:

“Eh---”

“What's wrong?”

“What Yuuji said just now, its the Taika Reform right?”

“You are Year 3 now and you still don't know about this? Shouko you are really stupid.”

“We haven't been taught about that part yet, Yuuji you are too clever.”

“It is very easy to memorize. Just remember 'Accident Free Reform'[http://www.baka-tsuki.net/project/index.php?title=Baka_to_Tesuto_to_Syokanju:Volume1_Translator%27s_Notes#Question_1], you will be able to recall it instantly”

“Accident Free?”

“Because the Taika Reform did not have any accident occur, make sure you remember that.”

“OK.”

“It happened in the year 625.”

“All right, I have memorised it.”

“Good, make sure you remember that.”

“Don't worry, I won't forget about it”

------

First Question

Please answer the following questions:

When manufacturing frying pan, we use magnesium as the raw material to reduce the weight of the pan, however an accident occurs when it is used in cooking. Describe what happened, and name an alloy that could be used to replace magnesium.

Mizuki Himeji's Answer

“Using flame to heat up magnesium will cause fierce burning reaction; aluminium can be used to replace magnesium”

Teacher's Comment:

Correct. The question asks for alloy, so you can't answer “iron”. Himeji didn't fall for the trick.

Kouta Tsuchiya's Answer

“Because the gas bill is not paid.”

Teacher's Comment:

That is not the main point of this question.

Akihisa Yoshii's Answer

“Alloy made in future can be used (Because it is very hard).”

Teacher's Comment:

Even if it is very hard, you can't find that now right?

------

We were welcoming the arrival of the second spring after we started studying in Fumitsuki Gakuen.

To welcome new students, both sides of the slope that lead to the school building were filled with dazzling flowering cherry blossom. Even though I was not an elegant person who could appreciate flowers, I couldn't stop myself to be attracted by the beautiful scenery before me.

However it was only for a very short period of time.

Now, my mind was filled with the symbol of spring, and it was not cherry blossom.
In my mind, it was all about the comrades and the new classroom that would fight with me throughout the year. In another words, it was all about the new class after the class division.

“Yoshii, you are late.”

In front of the entrance, a low and strong voice called me. I turned my head and looked towards the source of the voice, there was a sport type guy with light dark skin and short hair standing there.

“Ah, iron... no, it's Nishimura sensei[http://www.baka-tsuki.net/project/index.php?title=Baka_to_Tesuto_to_Syokanju:Volume1_Translator%27s_Notes#Question_1], good morning!”

“You wanted to call me iron man just now, right?”

“Ha ha, you are thinking too much.”

“Oh, am I?”

That was close; I nearly called him 'iron man' like what I did before.

By the way, iron man was the nickname that the students gave to Nishimura sensei. The reason he got this nickname was because his hobby was triathlon. Of course, his habit of wearing short sleeves during winter time was also one of the reasons that he got this nickname.

“By the way, a normal person shouldn't be saying 'good morning' in this situation!”

“Ah, I am sorry. Err...Your skin is very dark today as well.”

“What! My skin colour is more important than you being late for school?”

“I see, so you are talking about that. Sorry, I am late.”

“You are really....you never learn your lesson.”

He sighed and mumbled at the same time. According to what he said, it sounded like I was usually late for school.

“Sir, I don't usually late for school right?”

Nishimura sensei was our homeroom teacher last year, he should know that I was rarely late for school.

“Leave that matter aside for now, take this first.”

He took an envelope out of a box and handed it over to me. My name, “Akihisa Yoshii”, was written clearly on the envelope.

“Ah, thank you.”

I simply nodded and took the envelope.

“But why does the school need to inform the result of class division through this troublesome method? Isn't posting the result in the announcement board much better?”

Handing over the result of class division one by one and carefully putting them into envelopes were really very troublesome.

“Normally that is true. However we are the school that uses the most advanced system in the world, this strange method is part of the system.”

“Oh, I see.”

I simply answered him and tried to tear open the envelope. Which class would I be placed into? I started to get a little bit nervous.

The reason of getting nervous was that in the Fumitsuki Gakuen I was studying in, students would be allocated into different classes, from class A to class F, depending on the class division examinations from second year onwards. To put it simply, smart people would study in class A, idiots would study in class F. Therefore, you were able to know how smart a person was depending on the class he or she in. As a man with pride, I could not be placed into class F.

“Yoshii, to tell you the truth...”

“What?”

The envelope was glued and was really hard to open.

“From the result of my observation of you, I have been thinking 'Could it be that Yoshii is an idiot?'.”

“Sir, you are totally wrong with this. If you really think so, you might have 'moron' as your new nickname.”

Not that I was overconfident, although I didn't work very hard, I did pretty well in the class division examination last year. When he saw my results, I had believed he would definitely change his opinion.

“When you see my result, you will know that you are wrong.”

“I also hope that I am wrong.”

It was really hard to open; I could only tore the envelope apart.

The envelope opened with a clear tearing sound. I looked into the envelope; there was a small piece of paper in it.

So, which class would I go? Would it be class D? Or class C?

“Yoshii, you should be glad right? My opinion is really correct.”

As I unfolded the paper, the content of the paper could be clearly read.

“Akihisa Yoshii... ... ... class F”

“You really are an idiot.”

And so, my sorrowful school life began.

Baka to Tesuto to Syokanju:Volume1 The First Question

2008-12-03T02:50:09Z

Andisan:

“Eh---”

“What's wrong?”

“What Yuuji said just now, its the Taika Reform right?”

“You are Year 3 now and you still don't know about this? Shouko you are really stupid.”

“We haven't been taught about that part yet, Yuuji you are too clever.”

“It is very easy to memorize. Just remember 'Accident Free Reform'[http://www.baka-tsuki.net/project/index.php?title=Baka_to_Tesuto_to_Syokanju:Volume1_Translator%27s_Notes#Question_1], you will be able to recall it instantly”

“Accident Free?”

“Because the Taika Reform did not have any accident occur, make sure you remember that.”

“OK.”

“It happened in the year 625.”

“All right, I have memorised it.”

“Good, make sure you remember that.”

“Don't worry, I won't forget about it”

------

First Question

Please answer the following question:

When manufacturing frying pan, we use magnesium as the raw material to reduce the weight of the pan, however an accident occurs when it is used in cooking. Describe what happened, and name an alloy that could be used to replace magnesium.

Mizuki Himeji's Answer

“Using flame to heat up magnesium will cause fierce burning reaction; aluminium can be used to replace magnesium”

Teacher's Comment:

Correct. The question asks for alloy, so you can't answer “iron”. Himeji didn't fall for the trick.

Kouta Tsuchiya's Answer

“Because the gas bill is not paid.”

Teacher's Comment:

That is not the main point of this question.

Akihisa Yoshii's Answer

“Alloy made in future can be used (Because it is very hard).”

Teacher's Comment:

Even if it is very hard, you can't find that now right?

------

We were welcoming the arrival of the second spring after we started studying in Fumitsuki Gakuen.

To welcome new students, both sides of the slope that lead to the school building were filled with dazzling flowering cherry blossom. Even though I was not an elegant person who could appreciate flowers, I couldn't stop myself to be attracted by the beautiful scenery before me.

However it was only for a very short period of time.

Now, my mind was filled with the symbol of spring, and it was not cherry blossom.
In my mind, it was all about the comrades and the new classroom that would fight with me throughout the year. In another words, it was all about the new class after the class division.

“Yoshii, you are late.”

In front of the entrance, a low and strong voice called me. I turned my head and looked towards the source of the voice, there was a sport type guy with light dark skin and short hair standing there.

“Ah, iron... no, it's Nishimura sensei[http://www.baka-tsuki.net/project/index.php?title=Baka_to_Tesuto_to_Syokanju:Volume1_Translator%27s_Notes#Question_1], good morning!”

“You wanted to call me iron man just now, right?”

“Ha ha, you are thinking too much.”

“Oh, am I?”

That was close; I nearly called him 'iron man' like what I did before.

By the way, iron man was the nickname that the students gave to Nishimura sensei. The reason he got this nickname was because his hobby was triathlon. Of course, his habit of wearing short sleeves during winter time was also one of the reasons that he got this nickname.

“By the way, a normal person shouldn't be saying 'good morning' in this situation!”

“Ah, I am sorry. Err...Your skin is very dark today as well.”

“What! My skin colour is more important than you being late for school?”

“I see, so you are talking about that. Sorry, I am late.”

“You are really....you never learn your lesson.”

He sighed and mumbled at the same time. According to what he said, it sounded like I was usually late for school.

“Sir, I don't usually late for school right?”

Nishimura sensei was our homeroom teacher last year, he should know that I was rarely late for school.

“Leave that matter aside for now, take this first.”

He took an envelope out of a box and handed it over to me. My name, “Akihisa Yoshii”, was written clearly on the envelope.

“Ah, thank you.”

I simply nodded and took the envelope.

“But why does the school need to inform the result of class division through this troublesome method? Isn't posting the result in the announcement board much better?”

Handing over the result of class division one by one and carefully putting them into envelopes were really very troublesome.

“Normally that is true. However we are the school that uses the most advanced system in the world, this strange method is part of the system.”

“Oh, I see.”

I simply answered him and tried to tear open the envelope. Which class would I be placed into? I started to get a little bit nervous.

The reason of getting nervous was that in the Fumitsuki Gakuen I was studying in, students would be allocated into different classes, from class A to class F, depending on the class division examinations from second year onwards. To put it simply, smart people would study in class A, idiots would study in class F. Therefore, you were able to know how smart a person was depending on the class he or she in. As a man with pride, I could not be placed into class F.

“Yoshii, to tell you the truth...”

“What?”

The envelope was glued and was really hard to open.

“From the result of my observation of you, I have been thinking 'Could it be that Yoshii is an idiot?'.”

“Sir, you are totally wrong with this. If you really think so, you might have 'moron' as your new nickname.”

Not that I was overconfident, although I didn't work very hard, I did pretty well in the class division examination last year. When he saw my results, I had believed he would definitely change his opinion.

“When you see my result, you will know that you are wrong.”

“I also hope that I am wrong.”

It was really hard to open; I could only tore the envelope apart.

The envelope opened with a clear tearing sound. I looked into the envelope; there was a small piece of paper in it.

So, which class would I go? Would it be class D? Or class C?

“Yoshii, you should be glad right? My opinion is really correct.”

As I unfolded the paper, the content of the paper could be clearly read.

“Akihisa Yoshii... ... ... class F”

“You really are an idiot.”

And so, my sorrowful school life began.

Baka to Tesuto to Syokanju:Volume1 The Second Question

2008-12-02T10:11:25Z

Andisan:

Second Question

Please write down the idioms which fit the following meanings:

(1)Fail to do something you are good at

(2)Encounter consecutive unfortunate events

Mizuki Himeji's Answer

(1)“Even monkey will drop from the trees”

(2)“Have a leaking rooftop in a rainy day”

Teacher's Comment:

Correct. There are other answers for the first part question, such as “Horses losing their front hooves”, “Even fishes may drown”; other answers for the second part question will be “Good things don't start coming, bad things never stop happening”, “A year full of misfortune” etc.

Kouta Tsuchiya's Answer

(1)“Even horse will drop from the tree”

Teacher's Comment:

That will be an incredible scene.

Akihisa Yoshii's Answer

(2)“Have a leaking rooftop and landslide occurs”

Teacher's Comment:

Aren't you too unlucky?

----

“What the... Isn't this room too large to be a classroom?”

Stepping into the third floor that I never had a chance to get to last year, a class room which is five times larger than usual is located right in front of me.

Maybe this is the Class A that people has been talking about? Let's see what is in there.

“Congratulations to everyone for making it to the second year. My name is Takahashi
Youko and I am the homeroom teacher for Class A. Nice to meet you.[http://www.baka-tsuki.net/project/index.php?title=Baka_to_Tesuto_to_Syokanju:Volume1_Translator%27s_Notes#Question_2]”

I stop and look into the classroom through the big window, there is an intelligent looking woman with spectacles standing in front of the classroom. She has her hair tied up together at the back of her head and dressed up neatly in suits.

When she stops her speech, her name doesn't show on the blackboard. Instead, it shows up on a plasma TV which is huge enough to cover the whole wall. How luxurious! How much money did they spend on that?

“First of all, please check the things that are given to everyone. Everyone should have a laptop, personal air-conditioner, fridge, adjustable chairs etc. Are they working properly?”

There are more than enough space, facilities and equipment that are enough for 50 students to use.

The fridges are filled with drinks and snacks. Every student has their own air-conditioner which they can change the temperature that they want.

If you look around in the classroom, you will notice that the ceiling is made of glass, high class drawings hanging on the walls with ornamental plants around the room, the interior design looks like the lobby of a five-star hotel.

“Beside the text books and the reference books, the food and drinks in the fridge are provided by the school, free of charge. If you need any other facilities or equipments, feel free to let us know.”

I can smell the fragrance of the red tea, it seems some students have started using the facilities and make some red tea.

“Now, let me introduce the class leader. Kirishima Shouko, please come forward.”

“Yes.”

The person, who stands up and answers the call, is a girl with black long hair and her outlook resembles a Japanese doll.

She is a gentle looking girl who has a beautiful face, along with a dignified aura around her which makes her look like she is free of secular affairs.

Everyone in the classroom is looking at her.

Class leader ---- the person who scored the highest in the class division examination in this class.

In other words, the smartest person in Class A is also the smartest person among the second years, that is why she is getting all the attention.

“My name is Kirishima Shouko, nice to meet you.”

Although everyone is looking at her, she still introduces herself as usual.

It seems everyone is staring at her eye, but when I look carefully, actually all of them are female. It seems the rumours are real!

She was very famous as soon as she enrolled into this school. Everybody knew how beautiful she was, and a lot of guys confessed to her. However, no one ever succeed.

Since then, there were rumours around saying she like girls-----I see, the tide doesn't start without wind.

“Everyone in Class A, please work together with Kirishima from now on till the end of second year and study hard together! The 'WAR' starts now, please don't lose to anyone else. ”

The homeroom teacher concludes the speech, Kirishima bows and returns to her seat.

Oh no, I should hurry to my classroom.

I quickly walk along the corridors with the extremely fast pace.

I stand below the sign with 'Year 2 Class F' written on it, stop there with some hesitation.

Will being late to class give my classmate a bad impression?

Is anyone in the classroom disgusting, scary or hard to deal with?

What kind of comrades am I going to have for the rest of the year? I begin to worry about this when I think about it.

“Well, maybe I just worry too much.”

It is just being late; there is nothing to worry about.

Come to think of it, we are classmates; there is nothing to be afraid of! Maybe they will start to worry about me that I am late because I am not feeling well (actually it's because I overslept).

Calm down, there is nothing to worry about. I need to trust the comrades whom I will have to work together with from now on.

After I make up my mind, I push the door open and greet to the classmate in the room with my most sincere voice.

“Sorry, I am a bit late.”

“Hurry up and sit down, you Itsuki!”

My perfect image is ruined!

“Didn't you hear what I have just said?”

Come to think of it, this person speaks really rudely. Being a teacher doesn't grant you the right to speak in this impolite way.

I glare fiercely at the guy who is standing on the podium.

He is unexpectedly tall, probably close to 180 cm! His body is slim but not thin, which make him looks like a ruthless boxer. Slowly looking up, I saw a pair of eyes filled with will power, wild looking handsome face, and the short hair on his head looks like '''mane'''.

“Yuuji, what the hell are you doing?”

This guy is not a teacher; he is my bad friend, Sakamoto Yuuji.

“I am taking the place of the teacher on the podium because the teacher is late.”

“You take the place of the teacher? You? Why?”

“Somehow, my score is the highest among all of us in Class F.”

“So that make you class leader?”

“Yes, that's right.”

Yuuji cunningly smiles. After listening to what he has just said, I smile as well. In other words, if I can take care of Yuuji, no one can stop me doing anything in this class.

“Therefore, everyone in this class is my subordinate.”

Yuuji proudly overlooks the classmates who are sitting on the ground.

----

Yes, everyone is sitting on the ground.

Why? The answer is very simple, because there are no chairs.

“On the other hand ... This classroom really befits the name of Class F.”

I should find a place and sit down first.

“Sorry, please let me through.”

Suddenly, a weak voice comes from my back.

A stupid looking old man, with untidy hair, dressing in wrinkle shirt is standing there.

“It is homeroom meeting now; can I put a chair there?”

Since he doesn't wear the uniform, and look far from being a teenager, I think he should be the homeroom teacher for this class.

“Roger that.”

“OK.”

Yuuji and I answer him separately and return to our seats.

The teacher waits till we are seated, then stands on the podium and speaks slowly:

“Good morning everyone, my name is Fujihara Shin; I will be the homeroom teacher for Year 2 Class F. Nice to meet you.”

Fujihara sensei originally plans to write his name on the dirty board, but he fails to do so. Oh my god! The school doesn't provide chalk?

“Does everyone have a washiki table[http://www.baka-tsuki.net/project/index.php?title=Baka_to_Tesuto_to_Syokanju:Volume1_Translator%27s_Notes#Question_2] and cushion? Please raise your hand if you don't have any of them.”

There are around fifty students squeezing in this small little classroom, without writing tables. There are only tatami[http://www.baka-tsuki.net/project/index.php?title=Baka_to_Tesuto_to_Syokanju:Volume1_Translator%27s_Notes#Question_2], washiki tables and cushion. What a brand new and luxury set of facilities! Although I have been informed from first year, but seeing the real thing still shock me.

“Sensei-----My cushion doesn't have any cotton in it.”

There are numbers of students’ reports to the teacher with regards to the faulty equipments.

“I see. Bear with it”

“Sensei, the leg of my washiki table breaks into half.”

“Did they give you the glue? Stick it back yourself later.”

“Sensei, the wind is blowing in from the broken window, it is very cold here.”

“I see. I will report to the school and request for plastic bags and cellophane tape to repair it.”

In the corner of the room, spiders are webbing around freely, and you can't find somewhere on the wall that is clean and free from drawing or writing. This is terrible, is this an abandoned house?

“If you need anything else, try your best getting it yourselves.”

The smell of mildew coming from somewhere is filling up the classroom; it must be caused by the mildew below these old tatami.

“Let's start the self-introductions! We will start from the person sitting beside the corridor.”

When Fujihara sensei finishes his speech, among the students who are sitting in a circle, one of them stands up and starts the self-introduction by telling his name.

“My name is Kinoshita Hideyoshi, a member of the drama club.”[http://www.baka-tsuki.net/project/index.php?title=Baka_to_Tesuto_to_Syokanju:Volume1_Translator%27s_Notes#Question_2]

I was wondering who is speaking, so it's Hideyoshi.

He has a unique way of speaking, with a slim body and loosely tying his shoulder-length hair at the back of the head, even I who already know him have a glimpse at ----- No, even when I look at him carefully, his cuteness can easily make me think that he is a girl. That's right, that is Kinoshita Hideyoshi, my classmate last year.

On the other hand, if he dressed up in a female uniform, and changed his way of speaking, he would definitely be treated as a girl. This could happen easily in a class full of smelly guys like this.

“Therefore, nice to see you.”

Hideyoshi has a subtle smile, and ends his self-introduction. So... so CUTE! Wait a second Yoshii Akihisa, don't fall for the trick! He is a guy!

“Tsuchiya Kouta…”

I keep mumbling the same warning I have been telling myself numerous time from last year, and the next student already started his self-introduction.

Who is it? Ah, I know this guy as well.

He is still as reticent as usual. He doesn't have huge body, but you can see that he is good in sports from the muscles he has. I don't know why he is so shy, is it because he doesn't want to stand out too much and get into troubles? Well, there are all sorts of people in the world.

However, I can only see guys in the class room. Is it the same in the world that there are hardly any girls in the last class?

“...is my name. I grew up overseas. Although I can speak Japanese, reading is still a bit hard for me.”

When I am thinking about other things, someone already started the self-introduction.

“My English is very poor because I grew up in Germany. My hobby is ---”

OH! It is a girl this time; it is a precious treasure to the whole class. Finally, at least there is one girl in the class.

“My hobby is beating Yoshii Akihisa.”

Who is it? Who has this extreme, special and dangerous hobby?

“Hello---”

The person smiling and waving at me is---

“Ah, Shi---Shimada, it is you!”

“Yoshii, nice to see you again this year”

Another person that I know, and my natural enemy from last year---Shimada Minami.

Why? Why so many people that I know are in the same class? Isn't it strange? Is it what we call birds of feathers flock together? I can't believe I actually have the same level as these people!

“Nice to see you.”

OK, it seems the person in front of me has just finished his self-introduction, it is my turn now.

I take a breath and stand up from the ground.

Let's start my self-introduction! The first impression is very important, in order to make a lot of good friends, I must stress that I am a positive and optimistic person.

Suddenly an idea just runs through my mind, so I decide to use a relaxing joke to start my speech. I try my best to speak in a funny way, and start my self-introduction.

“Er, my name is Yoshii Akihisa; feel free to call me 'Darling'.”

<big>'''“DAR--LING!”'''</big>

It sounds like a huge chorus formed by rough voices, it is more disgusting than I can ever imagine.

“Sorry, I take back what I have just said! Nice to see you.”

Although I have a fake smile on my face and return to my seat, I still feel like I am going to vomit. I never imagine that they will really use that to call me, Class F is really horrible.

The self-introduction doesn't seem to stop because of my feeling.

Just when I nearly fall asleep because the self-introduction seems to continue endlessly with just stating the names, someone opens the door. A girl stands at the entrance, putting her hand on her chest and trying to catch her breath.

“I, I am sorry...I am la..late.”

“What?”

Everyone shouts out in shock, this is normal. Normally when this kind of things happens, everyone will be shocked.

“Actually you are coming at the right time, we are having self-introduction now. Please introduce yourself to the class, Himeji.”

“O..OK! My name is Himeji Mizuki, nice to meet you....”

Himeji used a smaller voice than her small body and said that.

Her skin is as white as the new snow, the long and soft hair at the back shows the gentle nature of the owner. With the cuteness of her appearance, she really stands out in the class full of guys.

However, her beautiful outlook is not the reason that causes everyone to be shocked.

“I have a question!”

One of the guys who have finished his self-introduction raises his right hand.

“Ah, ye...yes, what is your question?”

Being questioned immediately after stepping into the class room, Himeji can't hide that she is in shock of what is happening, but her action is similar to a cute little animal, it is so cute.

“Why are you here?”

The first question is very impolite.

But this is the same question everyone in the class wants to ask.

Her cute outlook does attract other's attention, more importantly her result is very good. Her result of the enrollment examination is the 2nd highest, and her result is always among the top ten.

A good student like her shouldn't be in the lousy class like Class F. No matter whom you ask, the answer will be she belongs to Class A.

“About this...”

With a nervous look on her face, Himeji’s body stiffen up and she says:

“I had a fever during a class division examination...”

After hearing that, everyone in the class nods and says “So that's why.”

Leaving in the middle of the examination will result in zero. In other words, she didn't finish the class division examination last year, so she was allocated to class F.

Listened to Himeji's answer, many people in the class start to say their own excuses.

“Now that I think of it, I am allocated to Class F because of '''fever''' as well.”

“Yeah, it was chemistry right? That was hard.”

“I didn't do well because I heard that my brother was involved in an accident.”

“Shut up you singleton.”

“My girlfriend didn't let me sleep the night before examination.”

“Yeah right, that's the biggest lie I ever heard of this year.”

These guys are more idiot than I can imagine.

“Nice..nice to see you.”

Among the noisy discussion, she runs to the space beside me and Yuuji. I never thought that I can stay in the same classroom and sit so close to her. To tell the truth, my heart beats wildly. She is very cute; it makes me think that welcoming her in a lousy classroom like this is a serious crime.

“I am so scared...”

Himeji instantly sighs and lies on the table when she gets to the seat.

Great! Since we are sitting so close together, this is a great chance to talk to her! Our love will start from this incident, and eventually we will become the destined lover. That's right; this first sentence will be the key to the door of our happiness and future.

“Hime... ...”

“Himeji.”

Yuuji, who is sitting beside me speaks up and covers my voice. Damn you Yuuji! My future plan “From classmate heading towards the red carpet of marriage---The spring that we met---Six hundred and fifty four episodes” ended without playing more than two minutes! What do you want me to show the audiences for the rest of the six hundred fifty three hours and fifty eight minutes!

“Y...Yes. Is anything wrong?”

Himeji looks toward Yuuji in panic and carefully makes her skirt to be straight. Is it because sitting on cushion can easily make the skirt wrinkle?

“My name is Sakamoto, Sakamoto Yuuji, nice to meet you.”

“Ah, my name is Himeji, nice to meet you.”

She bows her head deeply and gives a salute greeting. From how she gives the greeting, her family education must be very good.

“Well, are you still feeling sick?”

“I would like to know as well.”

I unwittingly cut into the conversation. I was sitting beside her during the class division examination, she doesn't look too well at the time, I wonder if she feels better now.

“Yo..Yoshii?”

Himeji is shocked when she sees my face. Do you have to be shock like that? Am I that ugly? No way, this is impo----

“Himeji, sorry that Akihisa's ugly face scares you.”

What? What is going on here? Maybe Yuuji is trying to cover up for me, but I am not happy at all.

“That..That's not true! You see my eyes are filling with energy, my face is slim and beautiful, I am not ugly at all! Actually I...”

“Now that you mention it, your face doesn't look bad at all! I know someone who is interested in you!”

What? I never imagine that Yuuji will have such good information. I better confirm this with him.

“Eh? Who is ...”

“Who...Who is it?”

Himeji's voice cover my voice. Well it doesn't really matter since we are asking the same question. It seems like girls in this age are interested in topics like this.

“I remember the name is Kubo---”

Kubo? Who is the girl with the surname Kubo?

“Toshimitu I think!”

Kubo Toshimitu --> (Sex/MALE)

“......”

“Akihisa, are you crying secretly?”

I am stained now; I can't be a bridegroom anymore.

“Don't worry, half of that is a joke.”

“What? How about the other half?”

“Oh right, Himeji are you feeling well?”

“I am fine now.”

“Yuuji, how about the other half?”

Since Yuuji is ignoring me, I raise my voice to catch his attention.

“You over there, silent.”

The teacher knocks the table a few times, the knocking sound serves as a warning.

“I am sorry---”

(Crashing sound)

Suddenly, the teacher's wooden table turns into wood chips. The table can't even withstand a few knocks, how bad are the things we have here?

“....I will go and get a new table to replace it. Please be patient.”

The teacher feels embarrassed and quickly steps out of the classroom.

Once again I realise how lousy the equipment we have in this class.

“Ah ha ha...”

Himeji has a forced smile on her face.

Looking at her like this reminds me that, people like Yuuji and I deserve to study in a classroom like this, but it must be hard for her to study in a classroom like this.

Well, it is our own fault for not performing well in the examination. Being able to take care of our own health is a kind of strength as well. However, just because leaving the examination due to illness, and end up being allocated to Class F is just ridiculous, they should at least give her another chance right?

The anger towards the unfairness of the class division examination swirls up inside of my heart. If that's the case, we should try our best in getting some better equipment for her.

I talk to the class leader who is yawning at the moment: “Yuuji, come here.”

“What do you want?”

“We can't talk here, let's go to the corridor.”

“Fine by me.”

I stand up and walk towards the corridor. At that time, Himeji and I accidentally look at each other.

“Well, what's up?”

It is homeroom meeting now and no one is on the corridor, so we can speak freely.

“About this classroom...”

Of course it mean Class F classroom.

“Class F classroom? It is worse than what I can imagine.”

“You also think so right?”

“Of course.”

“Have you looked at Class A equipments?”

“Yeah, it is so different from ours. I have never seen a classroom as good as that before.”

On one side is a classroom that doesn't even have a chalk, with a blackboard full of cracks, on the other side is a classroom with an expensive plasma TV; nobody can accept the treatment difference like this right?

“I have an idea. Since we are second year now, let's have a 'Test Summoning War'!”

“A war?”

“Yes, and the opponent is Class A.”

“What is your purpose?”

Suddenly, Yuuji looks at me with wariness.

“Nothing special, it is just that our classroom is really lousy.”

“Don't lie to me. A person who is not interested in studying like you, now wants to have war over the equipment for studying? The possibility is lower than winning lottery.”

Damn! His sixth sense is still as good as ever.

“No..No, that's not right! If I don't want to study, I won't choose this school---”

“You chose this school because it has a high chance of getting to university, and the school fee is cheap right?”

Oh no! I talked to him about my reason of coming to studying in this school before.

“Ah---That's----It's because....”

What should I do? I can't think of a better reason.

“It is because of Himeji right?”

Shock!

My real intention is being seen through, I unwittingly straighten my back.

“How..How do you know that?”

“You are really simple! I just tested you a bit, and you just gave yourself out.”

The wary looking eyes disappear, replaced by Yuuji's smile. I am cheated!

“That's not the only reason---”

“Yeah yeah, you don't have to explain anymore, I totally understand the situation.”

“Just as I say before, it is not what you think!”

Damn! I can't communicate with this guy.

“Don't worry; even if you didn't suggest it, I already planned to declare war against Class A.”

“Huh? Why? Yuuji you are not studying at all right?”

That's why he is not interested in the equipments of the class like me.

“I just want to prove that, result doesn't mean everything in this world.”

“ ? ”

“Also, I have just thought a plan that we can use to defeat Class A----Oh, the teacher is back! Let's get into the class room.”

I walk into the classroom when Yuuji urges me to get in.

“Let's continue with the self-introduction.”

After changing the table (which is still a lousy one), the homeroom meeting continues.

“My name is Sugawa Ryou. My hobby is---”

The plain self-introduction continues as usual.

“Sakamoto, you are the last.”

“Roger.”

Yuuji answers the teacher's call and stands up from the seat.

He keeps his usual kidding mode and walks slowly towards the podium; it looks like he is filled with the dignity of class leader.

“Sakamoto is the class leader for Class F right?”

Facing Fukuhara sensei's question, Yuuji replies with a nod.

It is just the class leader for the worst class. Instead of saying it's an honour, it might actually be a shame.

But Yuuji doesn't think like that, he stands on the podium with self confidence and overlooks us.

“I am the class leader of Class F Sakamoto Yuuji, you can either call me Sakamoto or class leader.”

Most of the students in the class don't really care about who Yuuji is, because he is just the smartest among the idiots in Class F. For most people, it is just the same as the pot calls the kettle black.

“Now, I have a question for everyone.”

He looks at everyone's eyes, and speaks slowly.

Maybe it's because he got the timing right, everyone is looking at him now.

When he confirm that he have everyone's attention, he move his eye to every corner of the classroom.

A classroom with the smell of mildew.

Old and dirty cushions.

Washiki tables with dirt left by sweats

We follow his sight, looking at these one by one.

“Class A not only has air-conditioner, it also has adjustable chairs.”

He has a deep breath, and calmly says:

“Are you dissatisfied?”

<big>'''“Of course!”'''</big>

The cries from the souls of every member in class F ring through the corridor.

“Aren't you? Even I am dissatisfied with the current situation. As the class leader, I can see a big problem in here.”

“That's right!”

“No matter how cheap the school fee is, it is unthinkable to let us use such equipment! We must tell the school to improve it!”

“We pay the same fee as Class A, but the treatment is too different!”

Complains coming from everywhere in the class.

“You are right. Therefore...”

Satisfied with the reaction of the classmates, Yuuji shows a fearless smile on his face.

“As a class leader, I have a suggestion.”

Showing his tiger-tooth to his fellow comrades, he states:

“I plan to declare a 'Test Summoning War' against Class A.”

Class F leader, Sakamoto Yuuji, ignites the flame of the war.

Baka to Tesuto to Syokanju:Volume1 The Second Question

2008-12-02T10:09:24Z

Andisan:

Second Question

Please write down the idioms which fit the following meanings:

(1)Fail to do something you are good at

(2)Encounter consecutive unfortunate events

Mizuki Himeji's Answer

(1)“Even monkey will drop from the trees”

(2)“Have a leaking rooftop in a rainy day”

Teacher's Comment:

Correct. There are other answers for the first part question, such as “Horses losing their front hooves”, “Even fishes may drown”; other answers for the second part question will be “Good things don't start coming, bad things never stop happening”, “A year full of misfortune” etc.

Kouta Tsuchiya's Answer

(1)“Even horse will drop from the tree”

Teacher's Comment:

That will be an incredible scene.

Akihisa Yoshii's Answer

(2)“Have a leaking rooftop and landslide occurs”

Teacher's Comment:

Aren't you too unlucky?

----

“What the... Isn't this room too large to be a classroom?”

Stepping into the third floor that I never had a chance to get to last year, a class room which is five times larger than usual is located right in front of me.

Maybe this is the Class A that people has been talking about? Let's see what is in there.

“Congratulations to everyone for making it to the second year. My name is Takahashi
Youko and I am the homeroom teacher for Class A. Nice to meet you.[http://www.baka-tsuki.net/project/index.php?title=Baka_to_Tesuto_to_Syokanju:Volume1_Translator%27s_Notes#Question_2]”

I stop and look into the classroom through the big window, there is an intelligent looking woman with spectacles standing in front of the classroom. She has her hair tied up together at the back of her head and dressed up neatly in suits.

When she stops her speech, her name doesn't show on the blackboard. Instead, it shows up on a plasma TV which is huge enough to cover the whole wall. How luxurious! How much money did they spend on that?

“First of all, please check the things that are given to everyone. Everyone should have a laptop, personal air-conditioner, fridge, adjustable chairs etc. Are they working properly?”

There are more than enough space, facilities and equipment that are enough for 50 students to use.

The fridges are filled with drinks and snacks. Every student has their own air-conditioner which they can change the temperature that they want.

If you look around in the classroom, you will notice that the ceiling is made of glass, high class drawings hanging on the walls with ornamental plants around the room, the interior design looks like the lobby of a five-star hotel.

“Beside the text books and the reference books, the food and drinks in the fridge are provided by the school, free of charge. If you need any other facilities or equipments, feel free to let us know.”

I can smell the fragrance of the red tea, it seems some students have started using the facilities and make some red tea.

“Now, let me introduce the class leader. Kirishima Shouko, please come forward.”

“Yes.”

The person, who stands up and answers the call, is a girl with black long hair and her outlook resembles a Japanese doll.

She is a gentle looking girl who has a beautiful face, along with a dignified aura around her which makes her look like she is free of secular affairs.

Everyone in the classroom is looking at her.

Class leader ---- the person who scored the highest in the class division examination in this class.

In other words, the smartest person in Class A is also the smartest person among the second years, that is why she is getting all the attention.

“My name is Kirishima Shouko, nice to meet you.”

Although everyone is looking at her, she still introduces herself as usual.

It seems everyone is staring at her eye, but when I look carefully, actually all of them are female. It seems the rumours are real!

She was very famous as soon as she enrolled into this school. Everybody knew how beautiful she was, and a lot of guys confessed to her. However, no one ever succeed.

Since then, there were rumours around saying she like girls-----I see, the tide doesn't start without wind.

“Everyone in Class A, please work together with Kirishima from now on till the end of second year and study hard together! The 'WAR' starts now, please don't lose to anyone else. ”

The homeroom teacher concludes the speech, Kirishima bows and returns to her seat.

Oh no, I should hurry to my classroom.

I quickly walk along the corridors with the extremely fast pace.

I stand below the sign with 'Year 2 Class F' written on it, stop there with some hesitation.

Will being late to class give my classmate a bad impression?

Is anyone in the classroom disgusting, scary or hard to deal with?

What kind of comrades am I going to have for the rest of the year? I begin to worry about this when I think about it.

“Well, maybe I just worry too much.”

It is just being late; there is nothing to worry about.

Come to think of it, we are classmates; there is nothing to be afraid of! Maybe they will start to worry about me that I am late because I am not feeling well (actually it's because I overslept).

Calm down, there is nothing to worry about. I need to trust the comrades that I will have to work together with from now on.

After I make up my mind, I push the door open and greet to the classmate in the room with my most sincere voice.

“Sorry, I am a bit late.”

“Hurry up and sit down you Itsuki.”

My perfect image is ruined!

“Didn't you hear what I have just said?”

Come to think of it, this person speaks really rudely. Being a teacher doesn't grant you the right to speak in this impolite way.

I glare fiercely at the guy who is standing on the podium.

He is unexpectedly tall, probably close to 180 cm! His body is slim but not thin, which make him looks like a ruthless boxer. Slowly looking up, I saw a pair of eyes filled with will power, wild looking handsome face, and the short hair on his head looks like '''mane'''.

“Yuuji, what the hell are you doing?”

This guy is not a teacher; he is my bad friend, Sakamoto Yuuji.

“I am taking the place of the teacher on the podium because the teacher is late.”

“You take the place of the teacher? You? Why?”

“Somehow, my score is the highest among all of us in Class F.”

“So that make you class leader?”

“Yes, that's right.”

Yuuji cunningly smiles. After listening to what he has just said, I smile as well. In other words, if I can take care of Yuuji, no one can stop me doing anything in this class.

“Therefore, everyone in this class is my subordinate.”

Yuuji proudly overlooks the classmates who are sitting on the ground.

----

Yes, everyone is sitting on the ground.

Why? The answer is very simple, because there are no chairs.

“On the other hand ... This classroom really befits the name of Class F.”

I should find a place and sit down first.

“Sorry, please let me through.”

Suddenly, a weak voice comes from my back.

A stupid looking old man, with untidy hair, dressing in wrinkle shirt is standing there.

“It is homeroom meeting now; can I put a chair there?”

Since he doesn't wear the uniform, and look far from being a teenager, I think he should be the homeroom teacher for this class.

“Roger that.”

“OK.”

Yuuji and I answer him separately and return to our seats.

The teacher waits till we are seated, then stands on the podium and speaks slowly:

“Good morning everyone, my name is Fujihara Shin; I will be the homeroom teacher for Year 2 Class F. Nice to meet you.”

Fujihara sensei originally plans to write his name on the dirty board, but he fails to do so. Oh my god! The school doesn't provide chalk?

“Does everyone have a washiki table[http://www.baka-tsuki.net/project/index.php?title=Baka_to_Tesuto_to_Syokanju:Volume1_Translator%27s_Notes#Question_2] and cushion? Please raise your hand if you don't have any of them.”

There are around fifty students squeezing in this small little classroom, without writing tables. There are only tatami[http://www.baka-tsuki.net/project/index.php?title=Baka_to_Tesuto_to_Syokanju:Volume1_Translator%27s_Notes#Question_2], washiki tables and cushion. What a brand new and luxury set of facilities! Although I have been informed from first year, but seeing the real thing still shock me.

“Sensei-----My cushion doesn't have any cotton in it.”

There are numbers of students’ reports to the teacher with regards to the faulty equipments.

“I see. Bear with it”

“Sensei, the leg of my washiki table breaks into half.”

“Did they give you the glue? Stick it back yourself later.”

“Sensei, the wind is blowing in from the broken window, it is very cold here.”

“I see. I will report to the school and request for plastic bags and cellophane tape to repair it.”

In the corner of the room, spiders are webbing around freely, and you can't find somewhere on the wall that is clean and free from drawing or writing. This is terrible, is this an abandoned house?

“If you need anything else, try your best getting it yourselves.”

The smell of mildew coming from somewhere is filling up the classroom; it must be caused by the mildew below these old tatami.

“Let's start the self-introductions! We will start from the person sitting beside the corridor.”

When Fujihara sensei finishes his speech, among the students who are sitting in a circle, one of them stands up and starts the self-introduction by telling his name.

“My name is Kinoshita Hideyoshi, a member of the drama club.”[http://www.baka-tsuki.net/project/index.php?title=Baka_to_Tesuto_to_Syokanju:Volume1_Translator%27s_Notes#Question_2]

I was wondering who is speaking, so it's Hideyoshi.

He has a unique way of speaking, with a slim body and loosely tying his shoulder-length hair at the back of the head, even I who already know him have a glimpse at ----- No, even when I look at him carefully, his cuteness can easily make me think that he is a girl. That's right, that is Kinoshita Hideyoshi, my classmate last year.

On the other hand, if he dressed up in a female uniform, and changed his way of speaking, he would definitely be treated as a girl. This could happen easily in a class full of smelly guys like this.

“Therefore, nice to see you.”

Hideyoshi has a subtle smile, and ends his self-introduction. So... so CUTE! Wait a second Yoshii Akihisa, don't fall for the trick! He is a guy!

“Tsuchiya Kouta…”

I keep mumbling the same warning I have been telling myself numerous time from last year, and the next student already started his self-introduction.

Who is it? Ah, I know this guy as well.

He is still as reticent as usual. He doesn't have huge body, but you can see that he is good in sports from the muscles he has. I don't know why he is so shy, is it because he doesn't want to stand out too much and get into troubles? Well, there are all sorts of people in the world.

However, I can only see guys in the class room. Is it the same in the world that there are hardly any girls in the last class?

“...is my name. I grew up overseas. Although I can speak Japanese, reading is still a bit hard for me.”

When I am thinking about other things, someone already started the self-introduction.

“My English is very poor because I grew up in Germany. My hobby is ---”

OH! It is a girl this time; it is a precious treasure to the whole class. Finally, at least there is one girl in the class.

“My hobby is beating Yoshii Akihisa.”

Who is it? Who has this extreme, special and dangerous hobby?

“Hello---”

The person smiling and waving at me is---

“Ah, Shi---Shimada, it is you!”

“Yoshii, nice to see you again this year”

Another person that I know, and my natural enemy from last year---Shimada Minami.

Why? Why so many people that I know are in the same class? Isn't it strange? Is it what we call birds of feathers flock together? I can't believe I actually have the same level as these people!

“Nice to see you.”

OK, it seems the person in front of me has just finished his self-introduction, it is my turn now.

I take a breath and stand up from the ground.

Let's start my self-introduction! The first impression is very important, in order to make a lot of good friends, I must stress that I am a positive and optimistic person.

Suddenly an idea just runs through my mind, so I decide to use a relaxing joke to start my speech. I try my best to speak in a funny way, and start my self-introduction.

“Er, my name is Yoshii Akihisa; feel free to call me 'Darling'.”

<big>'''“DAR--LING!”'''</big>

It sounds like a huge chorus formed by rough voices, it is more disgusting than I can ever imagine.

“Sorry, I take back what I have just said! Nice to see you.”

Although I have a fake smile on my face and return to my seat, I still feel like I am going to vomit. I never imagine that they will really use that to call me, Class F is really horrible.

The self-introduction doesn't seem to stop because of my feeling.

Just when I nearly fall asleep because the self-introduction seems to continue endlessly with just stating the names, someone opens the door. A girl stands at the entrance, putting her hand on her chest and trying to catch her breath.

“I, I am sorry...I am la..late.”

“What?”

Everyone shouts out in shock, this is normal. Normally when this kind of things happens, everyone will be shocked.

“Actually you are coming at the right time, we are having self-introduction now. Please introduce yourself to the class, Himeji.”

“O..OK! My name is Himeji Mizuki, nice to meet you....”

Himeji used a smaller voice than her small body and said that.

Her skin is as white as the new snow, the long and soft hair at the back shows the gentle nature of the owner. With the cuteness of her appearance, she really stands out in the class full of guys.

However, her beautiful outlook is not the reason that causes everyone to be shocked.

“I have a question!”

One of the guys who have finished his self-introduction raises his right hand.

“Ah, ye...yes, what is your question?”

Being questioned immediately after stepping into the class room, Himeji can't hide that she is in shock of what is happening, but her action is similar to a cute little animal, it is so cute.

“Why are you here?”

The first question is very impolite.

But this is the same question everyone in the class wants to ask.

Her cute outlook does attract other's attention, more importantly her result is very good. Her result of the enrollment examination is the 2nd highest, and her result is always among the top ten.

A good student like her shouldn't be in the lousy class like Class F. No matter whom you ask, the answer will be she belongs to Class A.

“About this...”

With a nervous look on her face, Himeji’s body stiffen up and she says:

“I had a fever during a class division examination...”

After hearing that, everyone in the class nods and says “So that's why.”

Leaving in the middle of the examination will result in zero. In other words, she didn't finish the class division examination last year, so she was allocated to class F.

Listened to Himeji's answer, many people in the class start to say their own excuses.

“Now that I think of it, I am allocated to Class F because of '''fever''' as well.”

“Yeah, it was chemistry right? That was hard.”

“I didn't do well because I heard that my brother was involved in an accident.”

“Shut up you singleton.”

“My girlfriend didn't let me sleep the night before examination.”

“Yeah right, that's the biggest lie I ever heard of this year.”

These guys are more idiot than I can imagine.

“Nice..nice to see you.”

Among the noisy discussion, she runs to the space beside me and Yuuji. I never thought that I can stay in the same classroom and sit so close to her. To tell the truth, my heart beats wildly. She is very cute; it makes me think that welcoming her in a lousy classroom like this is a serious crime.

“I am so scared...”

Himeji instantly sighs and lies on the table when she gets to the seat.

Great! Since we are sitting so close together, this is a great chance to talk to her! Our love will start from this incident, and eventually we will become the destined lover. That's right; this first sentence will be the key to the door of our happiness and future.

“Hime... ...”

“Himeji.”

Yuuji, who is sitting beside me speaks up and covers my voice. Damn you Yuuji! My future plan “From classmate heading towards the red carpet of marriage---The spring that we met---Six hundred and fifty four episodes” ended without playing more than two minutes! What do you want me to show the audiences for the rest of the six hundred fifty three hours and fifty eight minutes!

“Y...Yes. Is anything wrong?”

Himeji looks toward Yuuji in panic and carefully makes her skirt to be straight. Is it because sitting on cushion can easily make the skirt wrinkle?

“My name is Sakamoto, Sakamoto Yuuji, nice to meet you.”

“Ah, my name is Himeji, nice to meet you.”

She bows her head deeply and gives a salute greeting. From how she gives the greeting, her family education must be very good.

“Well, are you still feeling sick?”

“I would like to know as well.”

I unwittingly cut into the conversation. I was sitting beside her during the class division examination, she doesn't look too well at the time, I wonder if she feels better now.

“Yo..Yoshii?”

Himeji is shocked when she sees my face. Do you have to be shock like that? Am I that ugly? No way, this is impo----

“Himeji, sorry that Akihisa's ugly face scares you.”

What? What is going on here? Maybe Yuuji is trying to cover up for me, but I am not happy at all.

“That..That's not true! You see my eyes are filling with energy, my face is slim and beautiful, I am not ugly at all! Actually I...”

“Now that you mention it, your face doesn't look bad at all! I know someone who is interested in you!”

What? I never imagine that Yuuji will have such good information. I better confirm this with him.

“Eh? Who is ...”

“Who...Who is it?”

Himeji's voice cover my voice. Well it doesn't really matter since we are asking the same question. It seems like girls in this age are interested in topics like this.

“I remember the name is Kubo---”

Kubo? Who is the girl with the surname Kubo?

“Toshimitu I think!”

Kubo Toshimitu --> (Sex/MALE)

“......”

“Akihisa, are you crying secretly?”

I am stained now; I can't be a bridegroom anymore.

“Don't worry, half of that is a joke.”

“What? How about the other half?”

“Oh right, Himeji are you feeling well?”

“I am fine now.”

“Yuuji, how about the other half?”

Since Yuuji is ignoring me, I raise my voice to catch his attention.

“You over there, silent.”

The teacher knocks the table a few times, the knocking sound serves as a warning.

“I am sorry---”

(Crashing sound)

Suddenly, the teacher's wooden table turns into wood chips. The table can't even withstand a few knocks, how bad are the things we have here?

“....I will go and get a new table to replace it. Please be patient.”

The teacher feels embarrassed and quickly steps out of the classroom.

Once again I realise how lousy the equipment we have in this class.

“Ah ha ha...”

Himeji has a forced smile on her face.

Looking at her like this reminds me that, people like Yuuji and I deserve to study in a classroom like this, but it must be hard for her to study in a classroom like this.

Well, it is our own fault for not performing well in the examination. Being able to take care of our own health is a kind of strength as well. However, just because leaving the examination due to illness, and end up being allocated to Class F is just ridiculous, they should at least give her another chance right?

The anger towards the unfairness of the class division examination swirls up inside of my heart. If that's the case, we should try our best in getting some better equipment for her.

I talk to the class leader who is yawning at the moment: “Yuuji, come here.”

“What do you want?”

“We can't talk here, let's go to the corridor.”

“Fine by me.”

I stand up and walk towards the corridor. At that time, Himeji and I accidentally look at each other.

“Well, what's up?”

It is homeroom meeting now and no one is on the corridor, so we can speak freely.

“About this classroom...”

Of course it mean Class F classroom.

“Class F classroom? It is worse than what I can imagine.”

“You also think so right?”

“Of course.”

“Have you looked at Class A equipments?”

“Yeah, it is so different from ours. I have never seen a classroom as good as that before.”

On one side is a classroom that doesn't even have a chalk, with a blackboard full of cracks, on the other side is a classroom with an expensive plasma TV; nobody can accept the treatment difference like this right?

“I have an idea. Since we are second year now, let's have a 'Test Summoning War'!”

“A war?”

“Yes, and the opponent is Class A.”

“What is your purpose?”

Suddenly, Yuuji looks at me with wariness.

“Nothing special, it is just that our classroom is really lousy.”

“Don't lie to me. A person who is not interested in studying like you, now wants to have war over the equipment for studying? The possibility is lower than winning lottery.”

Damn! His sixth sense is still as good as ever.

“No..No, that's not right! If I don't want to study, I won't choose this school---”

“You chose this school because it has a high chance of getting to university, and the school fee is cheap right?”

Oh no! I talked to him about my reason of coming to studying in this school before.

“Ah---That's----It's because....”

What should I do? I can't think of a better reason.

“It is because of Himeji right?”

Shock!

My real intention is being seen through, I unwittingly straighten my back.

“How..How do you know that?”

“You are really simple! I just tested you a bit, and you just gave yourself out.”

The wary looking eyes disappear, replaced by Yuuji's smile. I am cheated!

“That's not the only reason---”

“Yeah yeah, you don't have to explain anymore, I totally understand the situation.”

“Just as I say before, it is not what you think!”

Damn! I can't communicate with this guy.

“Don't worry; even if you didn't suggest it, I already planned to declare war against Class A.”

“Huh? Why? Yuuji you are not studying at all right?”

That's why he is not interested in the equipments of the class like me.

“I just want to prove that, result doesn't mean everything in this world.”

“ ? ”

“Also, I have just thought a plan that we can use to defeat Class A----Oh, the teacher is back! Let's get into the class room.”

I walk into the classroom when Yuuji urges me to get in.

“Let's continue with the self-introduction.”

After changing the table (which is still a lousy one), the homeroom meeting continues.

“My name is Sugawa Ryou. My hobby is---”

The plain self-introduction continues as usual.

“Sakamoto, you are the last.”

“Roger.”

Yuuji answers the teacher's call and stands up from the seat.

He keeps his usual kidding mode and walks slowly towards the podium; it looks like he is filled with the dignity of class leader.

“Sakamoto is the class leader for Class F right?”

Facing Fukuhara sensei's question, Yuuji replies with a nod.

It is just the class leader for the worst class. Instead of saying it's an honour, it might actually be a shame.

But Yuuji doesn't think like that, he stands on the podium with self confidence and overlooks us.

“I am the class leader of Class F Sakamoto Yuuji, you can either call me Sakamoto or class leader.”

Most of the students in the class don't really care about who Yuuji is, because he is just the smartest among the idiots in Class F. For most people, it is just the same as the pot calls the kettle black.

“Now, I have a question for everyone.”

He looks at everyone's eyes, and speaks slowly.

Maybe it's because he got the timing right, everyone is looking at him now.

When he confirm that he have everyone's attention, he move his eye to every corner of the classroom.

A classroom with the smell of mildew.

Old and dirty cushions.

Washiki tables with dirt left by sweats

We follow his sight, looking at these one by one.

“Class A not only has air-conditioner, it also has adjustable chairs.”

He has a deep breath, and calmly says:

“Are you dissatisfied?”

<big>'''“Of course!”'''</big>

The cries from the souls of every member in class F ring through the corridor.

“Aren't you? Even I am dissatisfied with the current situation. As the class leader, I can see a big problem in here.”

“That's right!”

“No matter how cheap the school fee is, it is unthinkable to let us use such equipment! We must tell the school to improve it!”

“We pay the same fee as Class A, but the treatment is too different!”

Complains coming from everywhere in the class.

“You are right. Therefore...”

Satisfied with the reaction of the classmates, Yuuji shows a fearless smile on his face.

“As a class leader, I have a suggestion.”

Showing his tiger-tooth to his fellow comrades, he states:

“I plan to declare a 'Test Summoning War' against Class A.”

Class F leader, Sakamoto Yuuji, ignites the flame of the war.

Baka to Tesuto to Syokanju:Volume1 The Second Question

2008-12-02T10:06:34Z

Andisan:

Second Question

Please write down the idioms which fit the following meanings:

(1)Fail to do something you are good at

(2)Encounter consecutive unfortunate events

Mizuki Himeji's Answer

(1)“Even monkey will drop from the trees”

(2)“Have a leaking rooftop in a rainy day”

Teacher's Comment:

Correct. There are other answers for the first part question, such as “Horses losing their front hooves”, “Even fishes may drown”; other answers for the second part question will be “Good things don't start coming, bad things never stop happening”, “A year full of misfortune” etc.

Kouta Tsuchiya's Answer

(1)“Even horse will drop from the tree”

Teacher's Comment:

That will be an incredible scene.

Akihisa Yoshii's Answer

(2)“Have a leaking rooftop and landslide occurs”

Teacher's Comment:

Aren't you too unlucky?

----

“What the... Isn't this room too large to be a classroom?”

Stepping into the third floor that I never had a chance to get to last year, a class room which is five times larger than usual is located right in front of me.

Maybe this is the Class A that people has been talking about? Let's see what is in there.

“Congratulations to everyone for making it to the second year. My name is Takahashi
Youko and I am the homeroom teacher for Class A. Nice to meet you.[http://www.baka-tsuki.net/project/index.php?title=Baka_to_Tesuto_to_Syokanju:Volume1_Translator%27s_Notes#Question_2]”

I stop and look into the classroom through the big window, there is an intelligent looking woman with spectacles standing in front of the classroom. She has her hair tied up together at the back of her head and dressed up neatly in suits.

When she stops her speech, her name doesn't show on the blackboard. Instead, it shows up on a plasma TV which is huge enough to cover the whole wall. How luxurious! How much money did they spend on that?

“First of all, please check the things that are given to everyone. Everyone should have a laptop, personal air-conditioner, fridge, adjustable chairs etc. Are they working properly?”

There are more than enough space, facilities and equipment that are enough for 50 students to use.

The fridges are filled with drinks and snacks. Every student has their own air-conditioner which they can change the temperature that they want.

If you look around in the classroom, you will notice that the ceiling is made of glass, high class drawings hanging on the walls with ornamental plants around the room, the interior design looks like the lobby of a five-star hotel.

“Beside the text books and the reference books, the food and drinks in the fridge are provided by the school, free of charge. If you need any other facilities or equipments, feel free to let us know.”

I can smell the fragrance of the red tea, it seems some students have started using the facilities and make some red tea.

“Now, let me introduce the class leader. Kirishima Shouko, please come forward.”

“Yes.”

The person, who stands up and answers the call, is a girl with black long hair and her outlook resembles a Japanese doll.

She is a gentle looking girl who has a beautiful face, along with a dignified aura around her which makes her look like she is free of secular affairs.

Everyone in the classroom is looking at her.

Class leader ---- the person who scored the highest in the class division examination in this class.

In other words, the smartest person in Class A is also the smartest person among the second years, that is why she is getting all the attention.

“My name is Kirishima Shouko, nice to meet you.”

Although everyone is looking at her, she still introduces herself as usual.

It seems everyone is staring at her eye, but when I look carefully, actually all of them are female. It seems the rumours are real!

She was very famous as soon as she enrolled into this school. Everybody knew how beautiful she was, and a lot of guys confessed to her. However, no one ever succeed.

Since then, there were rumours around saying she like girls-----I see, the tide doesn't start without wind.

“Everyone in Class A, please work together with Kirishima from now on till the end of second year and study hard together! The 'WAR' starts now, please don't lose to anyone else. ”

The homeroom teacher concludes the speech, Kirishima bows and returns to her seat.

Oh no, I should hurry to my classroom.

I quickly walk along the corridors with the extremely fast pace.

I stand below the sign with 'Year 2 Class F' written on it, stop there with some hesitation.

Will being late to class give my classmate a bad impression?

Is anyone in the classroom disgusting, scary or hard to deal with?

What kind of comrades am I going to have for the rest of the year? I begin to worry about this when I think about it.

“Well, maybe I just worry too much.”

It is just being late; there is nothing to worry about.

Come to think of it, we are classmates; there is nothing to be afraid of! Maybe they will start to worry about me that I am late because I am not feeling well (actually it's because I overslept).

Calm down, there is nothing to worry about. I need to trust the comrades that I will have to work together with from now on.

After I make up my mind, I push the door open and greet to the classmate in the room with my most sincere voice.

“Sorry, I am a bit late.”

“Hurry up and sit down you Itsuki.”

My perfect image is ruined!

“Didn't you hear what I have just said?”

Come to think of it, this person speaks really rudely. Being a teacher doesn't grant you the right to speak in this impolite way.

I glare fiercely at the guy who is standing on the podium.

He is unexpectedly tall, probably close to 180 cm! His body is slim but not thin, which make him looks like a ruthless boxer. Slowly looking up, I saw a pair of eyes filled with will power, wild looking handsome face, and the short hair on his head looks like '''mane'''.

“Yuuji, what the hell are you doing?”

This guy is not a teacher; he is my bad friend, Sakamoto Yuuji.

“I am taking the place of the teacher on the podium because the teacher is late.”

“You take the place of the teacher? You? Why?”

“Somehow, my score is the highest among all of us in Class F.”

“So that make you class leader?”

“Yes, that's right.”

Yuuji cunningly smiles. After listening to what he has just said, I smile as well. In other words, if I can take care of Yuuji, no one can stop me doing anything in this class.

“Therefore, everyone in this class is my subordinate.”

Yuuji proudly overlooks the classmates who are sitting on the ground.

----

Yes, everyone is sitting on the ground.

Why? The answer is very simple, because there are no chairs.

“On the other hand ... This classroom really befits the name of Class F.”

I should find a place and sit down first.

“Sorry, please let me through.”

Suddenly, a weak voice comes from my back.

A stupid looking old man, with untidy hair, dressing in wrinkle shirt is standing there.

“It is homeroom meeting now; can I put a chair there?”

Since he doesn't wear the uniform, and look far from being a teenager, I think he should be the homeroom teacher for this class.

“Roger that.”

“OK.”

Yuuji and I answer him separately and return to our seats.

The teacher waits till we are seated, then stands on the podium and speaks slowly:

“Good morning everyone, my name is Fujihara Shin; I will be the homeroom teacher for Year 2 Class F. Nice to meet you.”

Fujihara sensei originally plans to write his name on the dirty board, but he fails to do so. Oh my god! The school doesn't provide chalk?

“Does everyone have a washiki table[http://www.baka-tsuki.net/project/index.php?title=Baka_to_Tesuto_to_Syokanju:Volume1_Translator%27s_Notes#Question_2] and cushion? Please raise your hand if you don't have any of them.”

There are around fifty students squeezing in this small little classroom, without writing tables. There are only tatami[http://www.baka-tsuki.net/project/index.php?title=Baka_to_Tesuto_to_Syokanju:Volume1_Translator%27s_Notes#Question_2], washiki tables and cushion. What a brand new and luxury set of facilities! Although I have been informed from first year, but seeing the real thing still shock me.

“Sensei-----My cushion doesn't have any cotton in it.”

There are numbers of students’ reports to the teacher with regards to the faulty equipments.

“I see. Bear with it”

“Sensei, the leg of my washiki table breaks into half.”

“Did they give you the glue? Stick it back yourself later.”

“Sensei, the wind is blowing in from the broken window, it is very cold here.”

“I see. I will report to the school and request for plastic bags and cellophane tape to repair it.”

In the corner of the room, spiders are webbing around freely, and you can't find somewhere on the wall that is clean and free from drawing or writing. This is terrible, is this an abandoned house?

“If you need anything else, try your best getting it yourselves.”

The smell of mildew coming from somewhere is filling up the classroom; it must be caused by the mildew below these old tatami.

“Let's start the self-introductions! We will start from the person sitting beside the corridor.”

When Fujihara sensei finishes his speech, among the students who are sitting in a circle, one of them stands up and starts the self-introduction by telling his name.

“My name is Kinoshita Hideyoshi, a member of the drama club.”[http://www.baka-tsuki.net/project/index.php?title=Baka_to_Tesuto_to_Syokanju:Volume1_Translator%27s_Notes#Question_2]

I was wondering who is speaking, so it's Hideyoshi.

He has a unique way of speaking, with a slim body and loosely tying his shoulder-length hair at the back of the head, even I who already know him have a glimpse at ----- No, even when I look at him carefully, his cuteness can easily make me think that he is a girl. That's right, that is Kinoshita Hideyoshi, my classmate last year.

On the other hand, if he dressed up in a female uniform, and changed his way of speaking, he would definitely be treated as a girl. This could happen easily in a class full of smelly guys like this.

“Therefore, nice to see you.”

Hideyoshi has a subtle smile, and ends his self-introduction. So... so CUTE! Wait a second Yoshii Akihisa, don't fall for the trick! He is a guy!

“Tsuchiya Kouta…”

I keep mumbling the same warning I have been telling myself numerous time from last year, and the next student already started his self-introduction.

Who is it? Ah, I know this guy as well.

He is still as reticent as usual. He doesn't have huge body, but you can see that he is good in sports from the muscles he has. I don't know why he is so shy, is it because he doesn't want to stand out too much and get into troubles? Well, there are all sorts of people in the world.

However, I can only see guys in the class room. Is it the same in the world that there are hardly any girls in the last class?

“...is my name. I grew up overseas. Although I can speak Japanese, reading is still a bit hard for me.”

When I am thinking about other things, someone already started the self-introduction.

“My English is very poor because I grew up in Germany. My hobby is ---”

OH! It is a girl this time; it is a precious treasure to the whole class. Finally, at least there is one girl in the class.

“My hobby is beating Yoshii Akihisa.”

Who is it? Who has this extreme, special and dangerous hobby?

“Hello---”

The person smiling and waving at me is---

“Ah, Shi---Shimada, it is you!”

“Yoshii, nice to see you again this year”

Another person that I know, and my natural enemy from last year---Shimada Minami.

Why? Why so many people that I know are in the same class? Isn't it strange? Is it what we call birds of feathers flock together? I can't believe I actually have the same level as these people!

“Nice to see you.”

OK, it seems the person in front of me has just finished his self-introduction, it is my turn now.

I take a breath and stand up from the ground.

Let's start my self-introduction! The first impression is very important, in order to make a lot of good friends, I must stress that I am a positive and optimistic person.

Suddenly an idea just runs through my mind, so I decide to use a relaxing joke to start my speech. I try my best to speak in a funny way, and start my self-introduction.

“Er, my name is Yoshii Akihisa; feel free to call me 'Darling'.”

<big>'''“DAR--LING!”'''</big>

It sounds like a huge chorus formed by rough voices, it is more disgusting than I can ever imagine.

“Sorry, I take back what I have just said! Nice to see you.”

Although I have a fake smile on my face and return to my seat, I still feel like I am going to vomit. I never imagine that they will really use that to call me, Class F is really horrible.

The self-introduction doesn't seem to stop because of my feeling.

Just when I nearly fall asleep because the self-introduction seems to continue endlessly with just stating the names, someone opens the door. A girl stands at the entrance, putting her hand on her chest and trying to catch her breath.

“I, I am sorry...I am la..late.”

“What?”

Everyone shouts out in shock, this is normal. Normally when this kind of things happens, everyone will be shocked.

“Actually you are coming at the right time, we are having self-introduction now. Please introduce yourself to the class, Himeji.”

“O..OK! My name is Himeji Mizuki, nice to meet you....”

Himeji used a smaller voice than her small body and said that.

Her skin is as white as the new snow, the long and soft hair at the back shows the gentle nature of the owner. With the cuteness of her appearance, she really stands out in the class full of guys.

However, her beautiful outlook is not the reason that causes everyone to be shocked.

“I have a question!”

One of the guys who have finished his self-introduction raises his right hand.

“Ah, ye...yes, what is your question?”

Being questioned immediately after stepping into the class room, Himeji can't hide that she is in shock of what is happening, but her action is similar to a cute little animal, it is so cute.

“Why are you here?”

The first question is very impolite.

But this is the same question everyone in the class wants to ask.

Her cute outlook does attract other's attention, more importantly her result is very good. Her result of the enrollment examination is the 2nd highest, and her result is always among the top ten.

A good student like her shouldn't be in the lousy class like Class F. No matter whom you ask, the answer will be she belongs to Class A.

“About this...”

With a nervous look on her face, Himeji’s body stiffen up and she says:

“I had a fever during a class division examination...”

After hearing that, everyone in the class nods and says “So that's why.”

Leaving in the middle of the examination will result in zero. In other words, she didn't finish the class division examination last year, so she was allocated to class F.

Listened to Himeji's answer, many people in the class start to say their own excuses.

“Now that I think of it, I am allocated to Class F because of '''fever''' as well.”

“Yeah, it was chemistry right? That was hard.”

“I didn't do well because I heard that my brother was involved in an accident.”

“Shut up you singleton.”

“My girlfriend didn't let me sleep the night before examination.”

“Yeah right, that's the biggest lie I ever heard of this year.”

These guys are more idiot than I can imagine.

“Nice..nice to see you.”

Among the noisy discussion, she runs to the space beside me and Yuuji. I never thought that I can stay in the same classroom and sit so close to her. To tell the truth, my heart beats wildly. She is very cute; it makes me think that welcoming her in a lousy classroom like this is a serious crime.

“I am so scared...”

Himeji instantly sighs and lies on the table when she gets to the seat.

Great! Since we are sitting so close together, this is a great chance to talk to her! Our love will start from this incident, and eventually we will become the destined lover. That's right; this first sentence will be the key to the door of our happiness and future.

“Hime... ...”

“Himeji.”

Yuuji, who is sitting beside me speaks up and covers my voice. Damn you Yuuji! My future plan “From classmate heading towards the red carpet of marriage---The spring that we met---Six hundred and fifty four episodes” ended without playing more than two minutes! What do you want me to show the audiences for the rest of the six hundred fifty three hours and fifty eight minutes!

“Y...Yes. Is anything wrong?”

Himeji looks toward Yuuji in panic and carefully makes her skirt to be straight. Is it because sitting on cushion can easily make the skirt wrinkle?

“My name is Sakamoto, Sakamoto Yuuji, nice to meet you.”

“Ah, my name is Himeji, nice to meet you.”

She bows her head deeply and gives a salute greeting. From how she gives the greeting, her family education must be very good.

“Well, are you still feeling sick?”

“I would like to know as well.”

I unwittingly cut into the conversation. I was sitting beside her during the class division examination, she doesn't look too well at the time, I wonder if she feels better now.

“Yo..Yoshii?”

Himeji is shocked when she sees my face. Do you have to be shock like that? Am I that ugly? No way, this is impo----

“Himeji, sorry that Akihisa's ugly face scares you.”

What? What is going on here? Maybe Yuuji is trying to cover up for me, but I am not happy at all.

“That..That's not true! You see my eyes are filling with energy, my face is slim and beautiful, I am not ugly at all! Actually I...”

“Now that you mention it, your face doesn't look bad at all! I know someone who is interested in you!”

What? I never imagine that Yuuji will have such good information. I better confirm this with him.

“Eh? Who is ...”

“Who...Who is it?”

Himeji's voice cover my voice. Well it doesn't really matter since we are asking the same question. It seems like girls in this age are interested in topics like this.

“I remember the name is Kubo---”

Kubo? Who is the girl with the surname Kubo?

“Toshimitu I think!”

Kubo Toshimitu --> (Sex/MALE)

“......”

“Akihisa, are you crying secretly?”

I am stained now; I can't be a bridegroom anymore.

“Don't worry, half of that is a joke.”

“What? How about the other half?”

“Oh right, Himeji are you feeling well?”

“I am fine now.”

“Yuuji, how about the other half?”

Since Yuuji is ignoring me, I raise my voice to catch his attention.

“You over there, silent.”

The teacher knocks the table a few times, the knocking sound serves as a warning.

“I am sorry---”

(Crashing sound)

Suddenly, the teacher's wooden table turns into wood chips. The table can't even withstand a few knocks, how bad are the things we have here?

“....I will go and get a new table to replace it. Please be patient.”

The teacher feels embarrassed and quickly steps out of the classroom.

Once again I realise how lousy the equipment we have in this class.

“Ah ha ha...”

Himeji has a forced smile on her face.

Looking at her like this reminds me that, people like Yuuji and I deserve to study in a classroom like this, but it must be hard for her to study in a classroom like this.

Well, it is our own fault for not performing well in the examination. Being able to take care of our own health is a kind of strength as well. However, just because leaving the examination due to illness, and end up being allocated to Class F is just ridiculous, they should at least give her another chance right?

The anger towards the unfairness of the class division examination swirls up inside of my heart. If that's the case, we should try our best in getting some better equipment for her.

I talk to the class leader who is yawning at the moment: “Yuuji, come here.”

“What do you want?”

“We can't talk here, let's go to the corridor.”

“Fine by me.”

I stand up and walk towards the corridor. At that time, Himeji and I accidentally look at each other.

“Well, what's up?”

It is homeroom meeting now and no one is on the corridor, so we can speak freely.

“About this classroom...”

Of course it mean Class F classroom.

“Class F classroom? It is worse than what I can imagine.”

“You also think so right?”

“Of course.”

“Have you looked at Class A equipments?”

“Yeah, it is so different from ours. I have never seen a classroom as good as that before.”

On one side is a classroom that doesn't even have a chalk, with a blackboard full of cracks, on the other side is a classroom with an expensive plasma TV; nobody can accept the treatment difference like this right?

“I have an idea. Since we are second year now, let's have a 'Test Summoning War'!”

“A war?”

“Yes, and the opponent is Class A.”

“What is your purpose?”

Suddenly, Yuuji looks at me with wariness.

“Nothing special, it is just that our classroom is really lousy.”

“Don't lie to me. A person who is not interested in studying like you, now wants to have war over the equipment for studying? The possibility is lower than winning lottery.”

Damn! His sixth sense is still as good as ever.

“No..No, that's not right! If I don't want to study, I won't choose this school---”

“You chose this school because it has a high chance of getting to university, and the school fee is cheap right?”

Oh no! I talked to him about my reason of coming to studying in this school before.

“Ah---That's----It's because....”

What should I do? I can't think of a better reason.

“It is because of Himeji right?”

Shock!

My real intention is being seen through, I unwittingly straighten my back.

“How..How do you know that?”

“You are really simple! I just tested you a bit, and you just gave yourself out.”

The wary looking eyes disappear, replace by Yuuji's smile. I am cheated!

“That's not the only reason---”

“Yeah yeah, you don't have to explain anymore, I totally understand the situation.”

“Just as I say before, it is not what you think!”

Damn! I can't communicate with this guy.

“Don't worry; even if you didn't suggest it, I already planned to declare war against Class A.”

“Huh? Why? Yuuji you are not studying at all right?”

That's why he is not interested in the equipments of the class like me.

“I just want to prove that, result doesn't mean everything in this world.”

“ ? ”

“Also, I have just thought a plan that we can use to defeat Class A----Oh, the teacher is back! Let's get into the class room.”

I walk into the classroom when Yuuji urges me to get in.

“Let's continue with the self-introduction.”

After changing the table (which is still a lousy one), the homeroom meeting continues.

“My name is Sugawa Ryou. My hobby is---”

The plain self-introduction continues as usual.

“Sakamoto, you are the last.”

“Roger.”

Yuuji answers the teacher's call and stands up from the seat.

He keeps his usual kidding mode and walks slowly towards the podium; it looks like he is filled with the dignity of class leader.

“Sakamoto is the class leader for Class F right?”

Facing Fukuhara sensei's question, Yuuji replies with a nod.

It is just the class leader for the worst class. Instead of saying it's an honour, it might actually be a shame.

But Yuuji doesn't think like that, he stands on the podium with self confidence and overlooks us.

“I am the class leader of Class F Sakamoto Yuuji, you can either call me Sakamoto or class leader.”

Most of the students in the class don't really care about who Yuuji is, because he is just the smartest among the idiots in Class F. For most people, it is just the same as the pot calls the kettle black.

“Now, I have a question for everyone.”

He looks at everyone's eyes, and speaks slowly.

Maybe it's because he got the timing right, everyone is looking at him now.

When he confirm that he have everyone's attention, he move his eye to every corner of the classroom.

A classroom with the smell of mildew.

Old and dirty cushions.

Washiki tables with dirt left by sweats

We follow his sight, looking at these one by one.

“Class A not only has air-conditioner, it also has adjustable chairs.”

He has a deep breath, and calmly says:

“Are you dissatisfied?”

<big>'''“Of course!”'''</big>

The cries from the souls of every member in class F ring through the corridor.

“Aren't you? Even I am dissatisfied with the current situation. As the class leader, I can see a big problem in here.”

“That's right!”

“No matter how cheap the school fee is, it is unthinkable to let us use such equipment! We must tell the school to improve it!”

“We pay the same fee as Class A, but the treatment is too different!”

Complains coming from everywhere in the class.

“You are right. Therefore...”

Satisfied with the reaction of the classmates, Yuuji shows a fearless smile on his face.

“As a class leader, I have a suggestion.”

Showing his tiger-tooth to his fellow comrades, he states:

“I plan to declare a 'Test Summoning War' against Class A.”

Class F leader, Sakamoto Yuuji, ignites the flame of the war.

Baka to Test to Shoukanjuu

2008-12-01T10:15:34Z

Andisan: /* Translators */

[[Image:Baka.jpg|300px|thumb|Title Image]]
Baka to Tesuto to Syokanju (バカとテストと召喚獣: Idiots, Tests, summoned monsters)

== Story Synopsis ==
The protagonist is a guy who is among the stupidest of the stupidest in the school. In this school, your grades can, under the supervision of teachers, take a virtual form to do combat! However, if you leave an examination half way, you get zero marks. A bright and cute girl, Mizuki Himeji, was having a high fever during the examination. Despite her potential to be the second highest scorer in the level, she obtained zero marks for having left due to her illness and is thus allocated to the worst class, class F.

Grades mean almost everything. For Class A, they have a smart-looking teacher, a plasma TV as big as the entire wall as their blackboard, personal laptops, personal air-cons, refrigerators, adjustable seats and all kinds of different appliances. Within the refrigerator, there are all kinds of drinks and snacks. Their ceiling is made of glass, the wall lets them put up high-class drawings and plants. As for Class F, the worst class...They have Japanese desks and seat paddings. Their blackboard is dirty and there is no chalk even! Someone complains that the leggings of his desk is broken, so the teacher asks "Didn't we distribute some glue to stick wood together? Glue it back yourself later." Another complains that wind is blowing in from the broken window. The teacher says "I got it. I will apply for plastic bags and invisible glue to fix it later." There are spider webs everywhere, not a patch of the wall is clean. A unique moldy smell spreads across the entire room, it must be from the old tatamis used to tile the floor. This is the status of class F.

The protagonist feels displeased at such an arrangement, and seeks help from his friends to try to make a change through summoning war!! And they devise all kinds of plans to try to beat the famous class A, intending to get class A's classroom and equipment if they win!!

- Translation made about the first volume

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===Volume 1===
::*[[Baka_to_Tesuto_to_Syokanju:Volume1_Illustrations|Novel Illustrations]]
::*[[Baka_to_Tesuto_to_Syokanju:Volume1_The First Question|The First Question]]
::*[[Baka_to_Tesuto_to_Syokanju:Volume1_The Second Question|The Second Question]]
::*[[Baka_to_Tesuto_to_Syokanju:Volume1_The Third Question|The Third Question]]
::*[[Baka_to_Tesuto_to_Syokanju:Volume1_The Fourth Question|The Fourth Question]]
::*[[Baka_to_Tesuto_to_Syokanju:Volume1_The Fifth Question|The Fifth Question]]
::*[[Baka_to_Tesuto_to_Syokanju:Volume1_The Sixth Question|The Sixth Question]]
::*[[Baka_to_Tesuto_to_Syokanju:Volume1_The Seventh Question|The Seventh Question]]
::*[[Baka_to_Tesuto_to_Syokanju:Volume1_The Eighth Question|The Eighth Question]]
::*[[Baka_to_Tesuto_to_Syokanju:Volume1_The Ninth Question|The Ninth Question]]
::*[[Baka_to_Tesuto_to_Syokanju:Volume1_The Final Question|The Final Question]]
::*[[Baka_to_Tesuto_to_Syokanju:Volume1_Author's Notes|Author's Notes]]
::*[[Baka_to_Tesuto_to_Syokanju:Volume1_Translator's Notes|Translation Notes and References]]

===Volume 2===
::*Novel Illustrations
::*Translation Notes and References

===Volume 3===
::*Novel Illustrations
::*Translation Notes and References

=== Translators ===
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=== Editors ===
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User:Andisan

2008-12-01T10:14:26Z

Andisan: New page: * Jobs: Student, editor * Status: On Holiday * Projects: ** Baka to Tesuto to Syokanju

* Jobs: Student, editor

* Status: On Holiday

* Projects:
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Baka to Test to Shoukanjuu

2008-12-01T10:11:16Z

Andisan: /* Editors */

[[Image:Baka.jpg|300px|thumb|Title Image]]
Baka to Tesuto to Syokanju (バカとテストと召喚獣: Idiots, Tests, summoned monsters)

== Story Synopsis ==
The protagonist is a guy who is among the stupidest of the stupidest in the school. In this school, your grades can, under the supervision of teachers, take a virtual form to do combat! However, if you leave an examination half way, you get zero marks. A bright and cute girl, Mizuki Himeji, was having a high fever during the examination. Despite her potential to be the second highest scorer in the level, she obtained zero marks for having left due to her illness and is thus allocated to the worst class, class F.

Grades mean almost everything. For Class A, they have a smart-looking teacher, a plasma TV as big as the entire wall as their blackboard, personal laptops, personal air-cons, refrigerators, adjustable seats and all kinds of different appliances. Within the refrigerator, there are all kinds of drinks and snacks. Their ceiling is made of glass, the wall lets them put up high-class drawings and plants. As for Class F, the worst class...They have Japanese desks and seat paddings. Their blackboard is dirty and there is no chalk even! Someone complains that the leggings of his desk is broken, so the teacher asks "Didn't we distribute some glue to stick wood together? Glue it back yourself later." Another complains that wind is blowing in from the broken window. The teacher says "I got it. I will apply for plastic bags and invisible glue to fix it later." There are spider webs everywhere, not a patch of the wall is clean. A unique moldy smell spreads across the entire room, it must be from the old tatamis used to tile the floor. This is the status of class F.

The protagonist feels displeased at such an arrangement, and seeks help from his friends to try to make a change through summoning war!! And they devise all kinds of plans to try to beat the famous class A, intending to get class A's classroom and equipment if they win!!

- Translation made about the first volume

== Translation ==

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== Baka to Tesuto to Syokanju ==

===Volume 1===
::*[[Baka_to_Tesuto_to_Syokanju:Volume1_Illustrations|Novel Illustrations]]
::*[[Baka_to_Tesuto_to_Syokanju:Volume1_The First Question|The First Question]]
::*[[Baka_to_Tesuto_to_Syokanju:Volume1_The Second Question|The Second Question]]
::*[[Baka_to_Tesuto_to_Syokanju:Volume1_The Third Question|The Third Question]]
::*[[Baka_to_Tesuto_to_Syokanju:Volume1_The Fourth Question|The Fourth Question]]
::*[[Baka_to_Tesuto_to_Syokanju:Volume1_The Fifth Question|The Fifth Question]]
::*[[Baka_to_Tesuto_to_Syokanju:Volume1_The Sixth Question|The Sixth Question]]
::*[[Baka_to_Tesuto_to_Syokanju:Volume1_The Seventh Question|The Seventh Question]]
::*[[Baka_to_Tesuto_to_Syokanju:Volume1_The Eighth Question|The Eighth Question]]
::*[[Baka_to_Tesuto_to_Syokanju:Volume1_The Ninth Question|The Ninth Question]]
::*[[Baka_to_Tesuto_to_Syokanju:Volume1_The Final Question|The Final Question]]
::*[[Baka_to_Tesuto_to_Syokanju:Volume1_Author's Notes|Author's Notes]]
::*[[Baka_to_Tesuto_to_Syokanju:Volume1_Translator's Notes|Translation Notes and References]]

===Volume 2===
::*Novel Illustrations
::*Translation Notes and References

===Volume 3===
::*Novel Illustrations
::*Translation Notes and References

=== Translators ===
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Baka to Tesuto to Syokanju:Volume1 The Second Question

2008-12-01T10:01:52Z

Andisan:

Second Question

Please write down the idioms which fit the following meanings:

(1)Fail to do something you are good at

(2)Encounter consecutive unfortunate events

Mizuki Himeji's Answer

(1)“Even monkey will drop from the trees”

(2)“Have a leaking rooftop in a rainy day”

Teacher's Comment:

Correct. There are other answers for the first part question, such as “Horses losing their front hooves”, “Even fishes may drown”; other answers for the second part question will be “Good things don't start coming, bad things never stop happening”, “A year full of misfortune” etc.

Kouta Tsuchiya's Answer

(1)“Even horse will drop from the tree”

Teacher's Comment:

That will be an incredible scene.

Akihisa Yoshii's Answer

(2)“Have a leaking rooftop and landslide occurs”

Teacher's Comment:

Aren't you too unlucky?

----

“What the... Isn't this room too large to be a classroom?”

Stepping into the third floor that I never had a chance to get to last year, a class room which is five times larger than usual is located right in front of me.

Maybe this is the Class A that people has been talking about? Let's see what is in there.

“Congratulations to everyone for making it to the second year. My name is Takahashi
Youko and I am the homeroom teacher for Class A. Nice to meet you.[http://www.baka-tsuki.net/project/index.php?title=Baka_to_Tesuto_to_Syokanju:Volume1_Translator%27s_Notes#Question_2]”

I stop and look into the classroom through the big window, there is an intelligent looking woman with spectacles standing in front of the classroom. She has her hair tied up together at the back of her head and dressed up neatly in suits.

When she stops her speech, her name doesn't show on the blackboard. Instead, it shows up on a plasma TV which is huge enough to cover the whole wall. How luxurious! How much money did they spend on that?

“First of all, please check the things that are given to everyone. Everyone should have a laptop, personal air-conditioner, fridge, adjustable chairs etc. Are they working properly?”

There are more than enough space, facilities and equipment that are enough for 50 students to use.

The fridges are filled with drinks and snacks. Every student has their own air-conditioner which they can change the temperature that they want.

If you look around in the classroom, you will notice that the ceiling is made of glass, high class drawings hanging on the walls with ornamental plants around the room, the interior design looks like the lobby of a five-star hotel.

“Beside the text books and the reference books, the food and drinks in the fridge are provided by the school, free of charge. If you need any other facilities or equipments, feel free to let us know.”

I can smell the fragrance of the red tea, it seems some students have started using the facilities and make some red tea.

“Now, let me introduce the class leader. Kirishima Shouko, please come forward.”

“Yes.”

The person, who stands up and answers the call, is a girl with black long hair and her outlook resembles a Japanese doll.

She is a gentle looking girl who has a beautiful face, along with a dignified aura around her which makes her look like she is free of secular affairs.

Everyone in the classroom is looking at her.

Class leader ---- the person who scored the highest in the class division examination in this class.

In other words, the smartest person in Class A is also the smartest person among the second years, that is why she is getting all the attention.

“My name is Kirishima Shouko, nice to meet you.”

Although everyone is looking at her, she still introduces herself as usual.

It seems everyone is staring at her eye, but when I look carefully, actually all of them are female. It seems the rumours are real!

She was very famous as soon as she enrolled into this school. Everybody knew how beautiful she was, and a lot of guys confessed to her. However, no one ever succeed.

Since then, there were rumours around saying she like girls-----I see, the tide doesn't start without wind.

“Everyone in Class A, please work together with Kirishima from now on till the end of second year and study hard together! The 'WAR' starts now, please don't lose to anyone else. ”

The homeroom teacher concludes the speech, Kirishima bows and returns to her seat.

Oh no, I should hurry to my classroom.

I quickly walk along the corridors with the extremely fast pace.

I stand below the sign with 'Year 2 Class F' written on it, stop there with some hesitation.

Will being late to class give my classmate a bad impression?

Is anyone in the classroom disgusting, scary or hard to deal with?

What kind of comrades am I going to have for the rest of the year? I begin to worry about this when I think about it.

“Well, maybe I just worry too much.”

It is just being late; there is nothing to worry about.

Come to think of it, we are classmates; there is nothing to be afraid of! Maybe they will start to worry about me that I am late because I am not feeling well (actually it's because I overslept).

Calm down, there is nothing to worry about. I need to trust the comrades that I will have to work together with from now on.

After I make up my mind, I push the door open and greet to the classmate in the room with my most sincere voice.

“Sorry, I am a bit late.”

“Hurry up and sit down you Itsuki.”

My perfect image is ruined!

“Didn't you hear what I have just said?”

Come to think of it, this person speaks really rudely. Being a teacher doesn't grant you the right to speak in this impolite way.

I glare fiercely at the guy who is standing on the podium.

He is unexpectedly tall, probably close to 180 cm! His body is slim but not thin, which make him looks like a ruthless boxer. Slowly looking up, I saw a pair of eyes filled with will power, wild looking handsome face, and the short hair on his head looks like '''mane'''.

“Yuuji, what the hell are you doing?”

This guy is not a teacher; he is my bad friend, Sakamoto Yuuji.

“I am taking the place of the teacher on the podium because the teacher is late.”

“You take the place of the teacher? You? Why?”

“Somehow, my score is the highest among all of us in Class F.”

“So that make you class leader?”

“Yes, that's right.”

Yuuji cunningly smiles. After listening to what he has just said, I smile as well. In other words, if I can take care of Yuuji, no one can stop me doing anything in this class.

“Therefore, everyone in this class is my subordinate.”

Yuuji proudly overlooks the classmates who are sitting on the ground.

----

Yes, everyone is sitting on the ground.

Why? The answer is very simple, because there are no chairs.

“On the other hand ... This classroom really befits the name of Class F.”

I should find a place and sit down first.

“Sorry, please let me through.”

Suddenly, a weak voice comes from my back.

A stupid looking old man, with untidy hair, dressing in wrinkle shirt is standing there.

“It is homeroom meeting now; can I put a chair there?”

Since he doesn't wear the uniform, and look far from being a teenager, I think he should be the homeroom teacher for this class.

“Roger that.”

“OK.”

Yuuji and I answer him separately and return to our seats.

The teacher waits till we are seated, then stands on the podium and speaks slowly:

“Good morning everyone, my name is Fujihara Shin; I will be the homeroom teacher for Year 2 Class F. Nice to meet you.”

Fujihara sensei originally plans to write his name on the dirty board, but he fails to do so. Oh my god! The school doesn't provide chalk?

“Does everyone have a washiki table[http://www.baka-tsuki.net/project/index.php?title=Baka_to_Tesuto_to_Syokanju:Volume1_Translator%27s_Notes#Question_2] and cushion? Please raise your hand if you don't have any of them.”

There are around fifty students squeezing in this small little classroom, without writing tables. There are only tatami[http://www.baka-tsuki.net/project/index.php?title=Baka_to_Tesuto_to_Syokanju:Volume1_Translator%27s_Notes#Question_2], washiki tables and cushion. What a brand new and luxury set of facilities! Although I have been informed from first year, but seeing the real thing still shock me.

“Sensei-----My cushion doesn't have any cotton in it.”

There are numbers of students’ reports to the teacher with regards to the faulty equipments.

“I see. Bear with it”

“Sensei, the leg of my washiki table breaks into half.”

“Did they give you the glue? Stick it back yourself later.”

“Sensei, the wind is blowing in from the broken window, it is very cold here.”

“I see. I will report to the school and request for plastic bags and cellophane tape to repair it.”

In the corner of the room, spiders are webbing around freely, and you can't find somewhere on the wall that is clean and free from drawing or writing. This is terrible, is this an abandoned house?

“If you need anything else, try your best getting it yourselves.”

The smell of mildew coming from somewhere is filling up the classroom; it must be caused by the mildew below these old tatami.

“Let's start the self-introductions! We will start from the person sitting beside the corridor.”

When Fujihara sensei finishes his speech, among the students who are sitting in a circle, one of them stands up and starts the self-introduction by telling his name.

“My name is Kinoshita Hideyoshi, a member of the drama club.”[http://www.baka-tsuki.net/project/index.php?title=Baka_to_Tesuto_to_Syokanju:Volume1_Translator%27s_Notes#Question_2]

I was wondering who is speaking, so it's Hideyoshi.

He has a unique way of speaking, with a slim body and loosely tying his shoulder-length hair at the back of the head, even I who already know him have a glimpse at ----- No, even when I look at him carefully, his cuteness can easily make me think that he is a girl. That's right, that is Kinoshita Hideyoshi, my classmate last year.

On the other hand, if he dressed up in a female uniform, and changed his way of speaking, he would definitely be treated as a girl. This could happen easily in a class full of smelly guys like this.

“Therefore, nice to see you.”

Hideyoshi has a subtle smile, and ends his self-introduction. So... so CUTE! Wait a second Yoshii Akihisa, don't fall for the trick! He is a guy!

“Tsuchiya Kouta…”

I keep mumbling the same warning I have been telling myself numerous time from last year, and the next student already started his self-introduction.

Who is it? Ah, I know this guy as well.

He is still as reticent as usual. He doesn't have huge body, but you can see that he is good in sports from the muscles he has. I don't know why he is so shy, is it because he doesn't want to stand out too much and get into troubles? Well, there are all sorts of people in the world.

However, I can only see guys in the class room. Is it the same in the world that there are hardly any girls in the last class?

“...is my name. I grew up overseas. Although I can speak Japanese, reading is still a bit hard for me.”

When I am thinking about other things, someone already started the self-introduction.

“My English is very poor because I grew up in Germany. My hobby is ---”

OH! It is a girl this time; it is a precious treasure to the whole class. Finally, at least there is one girl in the class.

“My hobby is beating Yoshii Akihisa.”

Who is it? Who has this extreme, special and dangerous hobby?

“Hello---”

The person smiling and waving at me is---

“Ah, Shi---Shimada, it is you!”

“Yoshii, nice to see you again this year”

Another person that I know, and my natural enemy from last year---Shimada Minami.

Why? Why so many people that I know are in the same class? Isn't it strange? Is it what we call birds of feathers flock together? I can't believe I actually have the same level as these people!

“Nice to see you.”

OK, it seems the person in front of me has just finished his self-introduction, it is my turn now.

I take a breath and stand up from the ground.

Let's start my self-introduction! The first impression is very important, in order to make a lot of good friends, I must stress that I am a positive and optimistic person.

Suddenly an idea just runs through my mind, so I decide to use a relaxing joke to start my speech. I try my best to speak in a funny way, and start my self-introduction.

“Er, my name is Yoshii Akihisa; feel free to call me 'Darling'.”

<big>'''“DAR--LING!”'''</big>

It sounds like a huge chorus formed by rough voices, it is more disgusting than I can ever imagine.

“Sorry, I take back what I have just said! Nice to see you.”

Although I have a fake smile on my face and return to my seat, I still feel like I am going to vomit. I never imagine that they will really use that to call me, Class F is really horrible.

The self-introduction doesn't seem to stop because of my feeling.

Just when I nearly fall asleep because the self-introduction seems to continue endlessly with just stating the names, someone opens the door. A girl stands at the entrance, putting her hand on her chest and trying to catch her breath.

“I, I am sorry...I am la..late.”

“What?”

Everyone shouts out in shock, this is normal. Normally when this kind of things happens, everyone will be shocked.

“Actually you are coming at the right time, we are having self-introduction now. Please introduce yourself to the class, Himeji.”

“O..OK! My name is Himeji Mizuki, nice to meet you....”

Himeji used a smaller voice than her small body and said that.

Her skin is as white as the new snow, the long and soft hair at the back shows the gentle nature of the owner. With the cuteness of her appearance, she really stands out in the class full of guys.

However, her beautiful outlook is not the reason that causes everyone to be shocked.

“I have a question!”

One of the guys who have finished his self-introduction raises his right hand.

“Ah, ye...yes, what is your question?”

Being questioned immediately after stepping into the class room, Himeji can't hide that she is in shock of what is happening, but her action is similar to a cute little animal, it is so cute.

“Why are you here?”

The first question is very impolite.

But this is the same question everyone in the class wants to ask.

Her cute outlook does attract other's attention, more importantly her result is very good. Her result of the enrollment examination is the 2nd highest, and her result is always among the top ten.

A good student like her shouldn't be in the lousy class like Class F. No matter whom you ask, the answer will be she belongs to Class A.

“About this...”

With a nervous look on her face, Himeji’s body stiffen up and she says:

“I had a fever during a class division examination...”

After hearing that, everyone in the class nods and says “So that's why.”

Leaving in the middle of the examination will result in zero. In other words, she didn't finish the class division examination last year, so she was allocated to class F.

Listened to Himeji's answer, many people in the class start to say their own excuses.

“Now that I think of it, I am allocated to Class F because of '''fever''' as well.”

“Yeah, it was chemistry right? That was hard.”

“I didn't do well because I heard that my brother was involved in an accident.”

“Shut up you singleton.”

“My girlfriend didn't let me sleep the night before examination.”

“Yeah right, that's the biggest lie I ever heard of this year.”

These guys are more idiot than I can imagine.

“Nice..nice to see you.”

Among the noisy discussion, she runs to the space beside me and Yuuji. I never thought that I can stay in the same classroom and sit so close to her. To tell the truth, my heart beats wildly. She is very cute; it makes me think that welcoming her in a lousy classroom like this is a serious crime.

“I am so scared...”

Himeji instantly sighs and lies on the table when she gets to the seat.

Great! Since we are sitting so close together, this is a great chance to talk to her! Our love will start from this incident, and eventually we will become the destined lover. That's right; this first sentence will be the key to the door of our happiness and future.

“Hime... ...”

“Himeji.”

Yuuji, who is sitting beside me speaks up and covers my voice. Damn you Yuuji! My future plan “From classmate heading towards the red carpet of marriage---The spring that we met---Six hundred and fifty four episodes” ended without playing more than two minutes! What do you want me to show the audiences for the rest of the six hundred fifty three hours and fifty eight minutes!

“Y...Yes. Is anything wrong?”

Himeji looks toward Yuuji in panic and carefully makes her skirt to be straight. Is it because sitting on cushion can easily make the skirt wrinkle?

“My name is Sakamoto, Sakamoto Yuuji, nice to meet you.”

“Ah, my name is Himeji, nice to meet you.”

She bows her head deeply and gives a salute greeting. From how she gives the greeting, her family education must be very good.

“Well, are you still feeling sick?”

“I would like to know as well.”

I unwittingly cut into the conversation. I was sitting beside her during the class division examination, she doesn't look too well at the time, I wonder if she feels better now.

“Yo..Yoshii?”

Himeji is shocked when she sees my face. Do you have to be shock like that? Am I that ugly? No way, this is impo----

“Himeji, sorry that Akihisa's ugly face scares you.”

What? What is going on here? Maybe Yuuji is trying to cover up for me, but I am not happy at all.

“That..That's not true! You see my eyes are filling with energy, my face is slim and beautiful, I am not ugly at all! Actually I...”

“Now that you mention it, your face doesn't look bad at all! I know someone who is interested in you!”

What? I never imagine that Yuuji will have such good information. I better confirm this with him.

“Eh? Who is ...”

“Who...Who is it?”

Himeji's voice cover my voice. Well it doesn't really matter since we are asking the same question. It seems like girls in this age are interested in topics like this.

“I remember the name is Kubo---”

Kubo? Who is the girl with the surname Kubo?

“Toshimitu I think!”

Kubo Toshimitu --> (Sex/MALE)

“......”

“Akihisa, are you crying secretly?”

I am stained now; I can't be a bridegroom anymore.

“Don't worry, half of that is a joke.”

“What? How about the other half?”

“Oh right, Himeji are you feeling well?”

“I am fine now.”

“Yuuji, how about the other half?”

Since Yuuji is ignoring me, I raise my voice to catch his attention.

“You over there, silent.”

The teacher knocks the table a few times, the knocking sound serves as a warning.

“I am sorry---”

(Crashing sound)

Suddenly, the teacher's wooden table turns into wood chips. The table can't even withstand a few knocks, how bad are the things we have here?

“....I will go and get a new table to replace it. Please be patient.”

The teacher feels embarrassed and quickly steps out of the classroom.

Once again I realise how lousy the equipment we have in this class.

“Ah ha ha...”

Himeji has a forced smile on her face.

Looking at her like this reminds me that, people like Yuuji and I deserve to study in a classroom like this, but it must be hard for her to study in a classroom like this.

Well, it is our own fault for not performing well in the examination. Being able to take care of our own health is a kind of strength as well. However, just because leaving the examination due to illness, and end up being allocated to Class F is just ridiculous, they should at least give her another chance right?

The anger towards the unfairness of the class division examination swirls up inside of my heart. If that's the case, we should try our best in getting some better equipment for her.

I talk to the class leader who is yawning at the moment: “Yuuji, come here.”

“What do you want?”

“We can't talk here, let's go to the corridor.”

“Fine by me.”

I stand up and walk towards the corridor. At that time, Himeji and I accidentally look at each other.

“Well, what's up?”

It is homeroom meeting now and no one is on the corridor, so we can speak freely.

“About this classroom...”

Of course it mean Class F classroom.

“Class F classroom? It is worse than what I can imagine.”

“You also think so right?”

“Of course.”

“Have you looked at Class A equipments?”

“Yeah, it is so different from ours. I have never seen a classroom as good as that before.”

On one side is a classroom that doesn't even have a chalk, with a blackboard full of cracks, on the other side is a classroom with an expensive plasma TV; nobody can accept the treatment difference like this right?

“I have an idea. Since we are second year now, let's have a 'Test Summon War'!”

“A war?”

“Yes, and the opponent is Class A.”

“What is your purpose?”

Suddenly, Yuuji looks at me with wariness.

“Nothing special, it is just that our classroom is really lousy.”

“Don't lie to me. A person who is not interested in studying like you, now wants to have war over the equipment for studying? The possibility is lower than winning lottery.”

Damn! His sixth sense is still as good as ever.

“No..No, that's not right! If I don't want to study, I won't choose this school---”

“You chose this school because it has a high chance of getting to university, and the school fee is cheap right?”

Oh no! I talked to him about my reason of coming to studying in this school before.

“Ah---That's----It's because....”

What should I do? I can't think of a better reason.

“It is because of Himeji right?”

Shock!

My real intention is being seen through, I unwittingly straighten my back.

“How..How do you know that?”

“You are really simple! I just tested you a bit, and you just gave yourself out.”

The wary looking eyes disappear, replace by Yuuji's smile. I am cheated!

“That's not the only reason---”

“Yeah yeah, you don't have to explain anymore, I totally understand the situation.”

“Just as I say before, it is not what you think!”

Damn! I can't communicate with this guy.

“Don't worry; even if you didn't suggest it, I already planned to declare war against Class A.”

“Huh? Why? Yuuji you are not studying at all right?”

That's why he is not interested in the equipments of the class like me.

“I just want to prove that, result doesn't mean everything in this world.”

“ ? ”

“Also, I have just thought a plan that we can use to defeat Class A----Oh, the teacher is back! Let's get into the class room.”

I walk into the classroom when Yuuji urges me to get in.

“Let's continue with the self-introduction.”

After changing the table (which is still a lousy one), the homeroom meeting continues.

“My name is Sugawa Ryou. My hobby is---”

The plain self-introduction continues as usual.

“Sakamoto, you are the last.”

“Roger.”

Yuuji answers the teacher's call and stands up from the seat.

He keeps his usual kidding mode and walks slowly towards the podium; it looks like he is filled with the dignity of class leader.

“Sakamoto is the class leader for Class F right?”

Facing Fukuhara sensei's question, Yuuji replies with a nod.

It is just the class leader for the worst class. Instead of saying it's an honour, it might actually be a shame.

But Yuuji doesn't think like that, he stands on the podium with self confidence and overlooks us.

“I am the class leader of Class F Sakamoto Yuuji, you can either call me Sakamoto or class leader.”

Most of the students in the class don't really care about who Yuuji is, because he is just the smartest among the idiots in Class F. For most people, it is just the same as the pot calls the kettle black.

“Now, I have a question for everyone.”

He looks at everyone's eyes, and speaks slowly.

Maybe it's because he got the timing right, everyone is looking at him now.

When he confirm that he have everyone's attention, he move his eye to every corner of the classroom.

A classroom with the smell of mildew.

Old and dirty cushions.

Washiki tables with dirt left by sweats

We follow his sight, looking at these one by one.

“Class A not only has air-conditioner, it also has adjustable chairs.”

He has a deep breath, and calmly says:

“Are you dissatisfied?”

<big>'''“Of course!”'''</big>

The cries from the souls of every member in class F ring through the corridor.

“Aren't you? Even I am dissatisfied with the current situation. As the class leader, I can see a big problem in here.”

“That's right!”

“No matter how cheap the school fee is, it is unthinkable to let us use such equipment! We must tell the school to improve it!”

“We pay the same fee as Class A, but the treatment is too different!”

Complains coming from everywhere in the class.

“You are right. Therefore...”

Satisfied with the reaction of the classmates, Yuuji shows a fearless smile on his face.

“As a class leader, I have a suggestion.”

Showing his tiger-tooth to his fellow comrades, he states:

“I plan to declare a 'Test Summoning War' against Class A.”

Class F leader, Sakamoto Yuuji, ignites the flame of the war.

Baka to Tesuto to Syokanju:Volume1 The First Question

2008-12-01T09:53:34Z

Andisan:

“Eh---”

“What's wrong?”

“What Yuuji said just now, its the Taika Reform right?”

“You are Year 3 now and you still don't know about this? Shouko you are really stupid.”

“We haven't been taught about that part yet, Yuuji you are too clever.”

“It is very easy to memorize. Just remember 'Accident Free Reform'[http://www.baka-tsuki.net/project/index.php?title=Baka_to_Tesuto_to_Syokanju:Volume1_Translator%27s_Notes#Question_1], you will be able to recall it instantly”

“Accident Free?”

“Because the Taika Reform did not have any accident occur, make sure you remember that.”

“OK.”

“It happened in the year 625.”

“All right, I have memorised it.”

“Good, make sure you remember that.”

“Don't worry, I won't forget about it”

------

First Question

Please answer the following question:

When manufacturing frying pan, we use magnesium as the raw material to reduce the weight of the pan, however an accident occurs when it is used in cooking. Describe what happened, and name an alloy that could be used to replace magnesium.

Mizuki Himeji's Answer

“Using flame to heat up magnesium will cause fierce burning reaction; aluminium can be used to replace magnesium”

Teacher's Comment:

Correct. The question asks for alloy, so you can't answer “iron”. Himeji didn't fall for the trick.

Kouta Tsuchiya's Answer

“Because the gas bill is not paid.”

Teacher's Comment:

That is not the main point of this question.

Akihisa Yoshii's Answer

“Alloy made in future can be used (Because it is very hard).”

Teacher's Comment:

Even if it is very hard, you can't find that now right?

------

We are welcoming the arrival of the second spring after we start studying in Fumitsuki Gakuen.

To welcome new students, both sides of the slope that lead to the school building are filled with dazzling flowering cherry blossom. Even though I am not an elegant person who appreciates flowers, I can't stop myself to be attracted by the beautiful scenery before me.

However it is only for a very short period of time.

Now, my mind is filled with the symbol of spring, and it is not cherry blossom.
In my mind, it is all about the comrades and the new classroom that will fight with me throughout the year. In another words, it is all about the new class after class division.

“Yoshii, you are late.”

In front of the entrance, a low and strong voice called me. I turn my head and look towards the source of the voice, there is a sports type guy with light dark skin and short hair standing there.

“Ah, iron... no, it's Nishimura sensei[http://www.baka-tsuki.net/project/index.php?title=Baka_to_Tesuto_to_Syokanju:Volume1_Translator%27s_Notes#Question_1], good morning!”

“You want to call me iron man just now, right?”

“Ha ha, you are thinking too much.”

“Oh, am I?”

That was close; I nearly call him 'iron man' like what I did before.

By the way, iron man is the nickname that the students gave to Nishimura sensei. The reason he got this nickname is because his hobby is triathlon. Of course, his habit of wearing short sleeves during winter time is also one of the reasons that he got this nickname.

“By the way, a normal person shouldn't be saying 'good morning' in this situation!”

“Ah, I am sorry. Err...Your skin is very dark today as well.”

“What! My skin colour is more important than you being late for school?”

“I see, so you are talking about that. Sorry, I am late.”

“You are really....you never learn your lesson.”

He sighs and mumbles at the same time. According to what he says, it sounds like I usually late for school.

“Sir, I don't usually late for school right?”

Nishimura sensei is our homeroom teacher last year, he should know that I rarely late for school.

“Leave that matter aside for now, take this first.”

He takes an envelope out of a box and hands it over to me. My name, “Akihisa Yoshii”, is written clearly on the envelope.

“Ah, thank you.”

I simply nod and take the envelope.

“But why does the school need to inform the result of class division through this troublesome method? Isn't posting the result in the announcement board much better?”

Handing over the result of class division one by one and carefully putting them into envelopes is really very troublesome.

“Normally that is true. However we are the school that uses the most advanced system in the world, this strange method is part of the system.”

“Oh, I see.”

I simply answer him and try to tear open the envelope. Which class will I be placed into? I start to get a little bit nervous.

The reason of getting nervous is that in the Fumitsuki Gakuen I am studying in, students will be allocated into different classes, from class A to class F, depending on the class division examinations from second year onwards. To put it simply, smart people will study in class A, idiots will study in class F. Therefore, you are able to know how smart a person is depending on the class he or she in. As a man with pride, I cannot be placed into class F.

“Yoshii, to tell you the truth...”

“What?”

The envelope is glued and really hard to open.

“From the result of my observation of you, I have been thinking 'Could it be that Yoshii is an idiot?'.”

“Sir, you are totally wrong with this. If you really think so, you might have 'moron' as your new nickname.”

Not that I am overconfident, although I didn't work very hard, I did pretty well in the class division examination last year. When he sees my result, I believe he will definitely change his opinion.

“When you see my result, you will know that you are wrong.”

“I also hope that I am wrong.”

It is really hard to open; I can only tear the envelope apart.

The envelope opens with a clear tearing sound. I look into the envelope; there is a small piece of paper in it.

So, which class will I go? Is it class D? Or is it class C?

“Yoshii, you should be glad right? My opinion is really correct.”

As I unfold the paper, the content of the paper can be clearly read.

“Akihisa Yoshii... ... ... class F”

“You really are an idiot.”

And so, my sorrowful school life begins.

Baka to Tesuto to Syokanju:Volume1 The First Question

2008-12-01T03:11:59Z

Andisan:

“Eh---”

“What's wrong?”

“What Yuuji said just now, its the Taika Reform right?”

“You are Year 3 now and you still don't know about this? Shouko you are really stupid.”

“We haven't been taught about that part yet, Yuuji you are too clever.”

“It is very easy to memorize. Just remember 'Accident Free Reform'[http://www.baka-tsuki.net/project/index.php?title=Baka_to_Tesuto_to_Syokanju:Volume1_Translator%27s_Notes#Note_One], you will be able to recall it instantly”

“Accident Free?”

“Because the Taika Reform did not have any accident occur, make sure you remember that.”

“OK.”

“It happened in the year 625.”

“All right, I have memorised it.”

“Good, make sure you remember that.”

“Don't worry, I won't forget about it”

------

First Question

Please answer the following question:

When manufacturing frying pan, we use magnesium as the raw material to reduce the weight of the pan, however an accident occurs when it is used in cooking. Describe what happened, and name an alloy that could be used to replace magnesium.

Mizuki Himeji's Answer

“Using flame to heat up magnesium will cause fierce burning reaction; aluminium can be used to replace magnesium”

Teacher's Comment:

Correct. The question asks for alloy, so you can't answer “iron”. Himeji didn't fall for the trick.

Kouta Tsuchiya's Answer

“Because the gas bill is not paid.”

Teacher's Comment:

That is not the main point of this question.

Akihisa Yoshii's Answer

“Alloy made in future can be used (Because it is very hard).”

Teacher's Comment:

Even if it is very hard, you can't find that now right?

------

We are welcoming the arrival of the second spring after we start studying in Fumitsuki Gakuen.

To welcome new students, both sides of the slope that lead to the school building are filled with dazzling flowering cherry blossom. Even though I am not an elegant person who appreciates flowers, I can't stop myself to be attracted by the beautiful scenery before me.

However it is only for a very short period of time.

Now, my mind is filled with the symbol of spring, and it is not cherry blossom.
In my mind, it is all about the comrades and the new classroom that will fight with me throughout the year. In another words, it is all about the new class after class division.

“Yoshii, you are late.”

In front of the entrance, a low and strong voice called me. I turn my head and look towards the source of the voice, there is a sports type guy with light dark skin and short hair standing there.

“Ah, iron... no, it's Nishimura sensei[http://www.baka-tsuki.net/project/index.php?title=Baka_to_Tesuto_to_Syokanju:Volume1_Translator%27s_Notes#Note_Two], good morning!”

“You want to call me iron man just now, right?”

“Ha ha, you are thinking too much.”

“Oh, am I?”

That was close; I nearly call him 'iron man' like what I did before.

By the way, iron man is the nickname that the students gave to Nishimura sensei. The reason he got this nickname is because his hobby is triathlon. Of course, his habit of wearing short sleeves during winter time is also one of the reasons that he got this nickname.

“By the way, a normal person shouldn't be saying 'good morning' in this situation!”

“Ah, I am sorry. Err...Your skin is very dark today as well.”

“What! My skin colour is more important than you being late for school?”

“I see, so you are talking about that. Sorry, I am late.”

“You are really....you never learn your lesson.”

He sighs and mumbles at the same time. According to what he says, it sounds like I usually late for school.

“Sir, I don't usually late for school right?”

Nishimura sensei is our homeroom teacher last year, he should know that I rarely late for school.

“Leave that matter aside for now, take this first.”

He takes an envelope out of a box and hands it over to me. My name, “Akihisa Yoshii”, is written clearly on the envelope.

“Ah, thank you.”

I simply nod and take the envelope.

“But why does the school need to inform the result of class division through this troublesome method? Isn't posting the result in the announcement board much better?”

Handing over the result of class division one by one and carefully putting them into envelopes is really very troublesome.

“Normally that is true. However we are the school that uses the most advanced system in the world, this strange method is part of the system.”

“Oh, I see.”

I simply answer him and try to tear open the envelope. Which class will I be placed into? I start to get a little bit nervous.

The reason of getting nervous is that in the Fumitsuki Gakuen I am studying in, students will be allocated into different classes, from class A to class F, depending on the class division examinations from second year onwards. To put it simply, smart people will study in class A, idiots will study in class F. Therefore, you are able to know how smart a person is depending on the class he or she in. As a man with pride, I cannot be placed into class F.

“Yoshii, to tell you the truth...”

“What?”

The envelope is glued and really hard to open.

“From the result of my observation of you, I have been thinking 'Could it be that Yoshii is an idiot?'.”

“Sir, you are totally wrong with this. If you really think so, you might have 'moron' as your new nickname.”

Not that I am overconfident, although I didn't work very hard, I did pretty well in the class division examination last year. When he sees my result, I believe he will definitely change his opinion.

“When you see my result, you will know that you are wrong.”

“I also hope that I am wrong.”

It is really hard to open; I can only tear the envelope apart.

The envelope opens with a clear tearing sound. I look into the envelope; there is a small piece of paper in it.

So, which class will I go? Is it class D? Or is it class C?

“Yoshii, you should be glad right? My opinion is really correct.”

As I unfold the paper, the content of the paper can be clearly read.

“Akihisa Yoshii... ... ... class F”

“You really are an idiot.”

And so, my sorrowful school life begins.

Baka to Tesuto to Syokanju:Volume1 The First Question

2008-11-30T09:02:24Z

Andisan:

“Eh---”

“What's wrong?”

“What Yuuji said just now, its the Taika Reform right?”

“You are Year 3 now and you still don't know about this? Shouko you are really stupid.”

“We haven't been taught about that part yet, Yuuji you are too clever.”

“It is very easy to memorize. Just remember 'Accident Free Reform'[http://www.baka-tsuki.net/project/index.php?title=Baka_to_Tesuto_to_Syokanju:Volume1_Translator%27s_Notes#Note_One], you will be able to recall it instantly”

“Accident Free?”

“Because the Taika Reform did not have any accident occur, make sure you remember that.”

“OK.”

“It happened in the year 625.”

“All right, I have memorised it.”

“Good, make sure you remember that.”

“Don't worry, I won't forget about it”

------

First Question

Please answer the following question:

When manufacturing frying pan, we use magnesium as the raw material to reduce the weight of the pan, however an accident occurs when it is used in cooking. Describe what happened, and name an alloy that could be used to replace magnesium.

Mizuki Himeji's Answer

“Using flame to heat up magnesium will cause fierce burning reaction; aluminium can be used to replace magnesium”

Teacher's Comment:

Correct. The question asks for alloy, so you can't answer “iron”. Himeji didn't fall for the trick.

Kouta Tsuchiya's Answer

“Because the gas bill is not paid.”

Teacher's Comment:

That is not the main point of this question.

Akihisa Yoshii's Answer

“Alloy made in future can be used (Because it is very hard).”

Teacher's Comment:

Even if it is very hard, you can't find that now right?

------

We are welcoming the arrival of the second spring after we start studying in Bungetsu College.

To welcome new students, both sides of the slope that lead to the school building are filled with dazzling flowering cherry blossom. Even though I am not an elegant person who appreciates flowers, I can't stop myself to be attracted by the beautiful scenery before me.

However it is only for a very short period of time.

Now, my mind is filled with the symbol of spring, and it is not cherry blossom.
In my mind, it is all about the comrades and the new classroom that will fight with me throughout the year. In another words, it is all about the new class after class division.

“Yoshii, you are late.”

In front of the entrance, a low and strong voice called me. I turn my head and look towards the source of the voice, there is a sports type guy with light dark skin and short hair standing there.

“Ah, iron... no, it's Nishimura sensei[http://www.baka-tsuki.net/project/index.php?title=Baka_to_Tesuto_to_Syokanju:Volume1_Translator%27s_Notes#Note_Two], good morning!”

“You want to call me iron man just now, right?”

“Ha ha, you are thinking too much.”

“Oh, am I?”

That was close; I nearly call him 'iron man' like what I did before.

By the way, iron man is the nickname that the students gave to Nishimura sensei. The reason he got this nickname is because his hobby is triathlon. Of course, his habit of wearing short sleeves during winter time is also one of the reasons that he got this nickname.

“By the way, a normal person shouldn't be saying 'good morning' in this situation!”

“Ah, I am sorry. Err...Your skin is very dark today as well.”

“What! My skin colour is more important than you being late for school?”

“I see, so you are talking about that. Sorry, I am late.”

“You are really....you never learn your lesson.”

He sighs and mumbles at the same time. According to what he says, it sounds like I usually late for school.

“Sir, I don't usually late for school right?”

Nishimura sensei is our homeroom teacher last year, he should know that I rarely late for school.

“Leave that matter aside for now, take this first.”

He takes an envelope out of a box and hands it over to me. My name, “Akihisa Yoshii”, is written clearly on the envelope.

“Ah, thank you.”

I simply nod and take the envelope.

“But why does the school need to inform the result of class division through this troublesome method? Isn't posting the result in the announcement board much better?”

Handing over the result of class division one by one and carefully putting them into envelopes is really very troublesome.

“Normally that is true. However we are the school that uses the most advanced system in the world, this strange method is part of the system.”

“Oh, I see.”

I simply answer him and try to tear open the envelope. Which class will I be placed into? I start to get a little bit nervous.

The reason of getting nervous is that in the Bungetsu College I am studying in, students will be allocated into different classes, from class A to class F, depending on the class division examinations from second year onwards. To put it simply, smart people will study in class A, idiots will study in class F. Therefore, you are able to know how smart a person is depending on the class he or she in. As a man with pride, I cannot be placed into class F.

“Yoshii, to tell you the truth...”

“What?”

The envelope is glued and really hard to open.

“From the result of my observation of you, I have been thinking 'Could it be that Yoshii is an idiot?'.”

“Sir, you are totally wrong with this. If you really think so, you might have 'moron' as your new nickname.”

Not that I am overconfident, although I didn't work very hard, I did pretty well in the class division examination last year. When he sees my result, I believe he will definitely change his opinion.

“When you see my result, you will know that you are wrong.”

“I also hope that I am wrong.”

It is really hard to open; I can only tear the envelope apart.

The envelope opens with a clear tearing sound. I look into the envelope; there is a small piece of paper in it.

So, which class will I go? Is it class D? Or is it class C?

“Yoshii, you should be glad right? My opinion is really correct.”

As I unfold the paper, the content of the paper can be clearly read.

“Akihisa Yoshii... ... ... class F”

“You really are an idiot.”

And so, my sorrowful school life begins.

Baka to Tesuto to Syokanju:Volume1 The First Question

2008-11-30T09:01:44Z

Andisan:

“Eh---”

“What's wrong?”

“What Yuuji said just now, its the Taika Reform right?”

“You are Year 3 now and you still don't know about this? Shouko you are really stupid.”

“We haven't been taught about that part yet, Yuuji you are too clever.”

“It is very easy to memorize. Just remember 'Accident Free Reform' [http://www.baka-tsuki.net/project/index.php?title=Baka_to_Tesuto_to_Syokanju:Volume1_Translator%27s_Notes#Note_One], you will be able to recall it instantly”

“Accident Free?”

“Because the Taika Reform did not have any accident occur, make sure you remember that.”

“OK.”

“It happened in the year 625.”

“All right, I have memorised it.”

“Good, make sure you remember that.”

“Don't worry, I won't forget about it”

------

First Question

Please answer the following question:

When manufacturing frying pan, we use magnesium as the raw material to reduce the weight of the pan, however an accident occurs when it is used in cooking. Describe what happened, and name an alloy that could be used to replace magnesium.

Mizuki Himeji's Answer

“Using flame to heat up magnesium will cause fierce burning reaction; aluminium can be used to replace magnesium”

Teacher's Comment:

Correct. The question asks for alloy, so you can't answer “iron”. Himeji didn't fall for the trick.

Kouta Tsuchiya's Answer

“Because the gas bill is not paid.”

Teacher's Comment:

That is not the main point of this question.

Akihisa Yoshii's Answer

“Alloy made in future can be used (Because it is very hard).”

Teacher's Comment:

Even if it is very hard, you can't find that now right?

------

We are welcoming the arrival of the second spring after we start studying in Bungetsu College.

To welcome new students, both sides of the slope that lead to the school building are filled with dazzling flowering cherry blossom. Even though I am not an elegant person who appreciates flowers, I can't stop myself to be attracted by the beautiful scenery before me.

However it is only for a very short period of time.

Now, my mind is filled with the symbol of spring, and it is not cherry blossom.
In my mind, it is all about the comrades and the new classroom that will fight with me throughout the year. In another words, it is all about the new class after class division.

“Yoshii, you are late.”

In front of the entrance, a low and strong voice called me. I turn my head and look towards the source of the voice, there is a sports type guy with light dark skin and short hair standing there.

“Ah, iron... no, it's Nishimura sensei [http://www.baka-tsuki.net/project/index.php?title=Baka_to_Tesuto_to_Syokanju:Volume1_Translator%27s_Notes#Note_Two], good morning!”

“You want to call me iron man just now, right?”

“Ha ha, you are thinking too much.”

“Oh, am I?”

That was close; I nearly call him 'iron man' like what I did before.

By the way, iron man is the nickname that the students gave to Nishimura sensei. The reason he got this nickname is because his hobby is triathlon. Of course, his habit of wearing short sleeves during winter time is also one of the reasons that he got this nickname.

“By the way, a normal person shouldn't be saying 'good morning' in this situation!”

“Ah, I am sorry. Err...Your skin is very dark today as well.”

“What! My skin colour is more important than you being late for school?”

“I see, so you are talking about that. Sorry, I am late.”

“You are really....you never learn your lesson.”

He sighs and mumbles at the same time. According to what he says, it sounds like I usually late for school.

“Sir, I don't usually late for school right?”

Nishimura sensei is our homeroom teacher last year, he should know that I rarely late for school.

“Leave that matter aside for now, take this first.”

He takes an envelope out of a box and hands it over to me. My name, “Akihisa Yoshii”, is written clearly on the envelope.

“Ah, thank you.”

I simply nod and take the envelope.

“But why does the school need to inform the result of class division through this troublesome method? Isn't posting the result in the announcement board much better?”

Handing over the result of class division one by one and carefully putting them into envelopes is really very troublesome.

“Normally that is true. However we are the school that uses the most advanced system in the world, this strange method is part of the system.”

“Oh, I see.”

I simply answer him and try to tear open the envelope. Which class will I be placed into? I start to get a little bit nervous.

The reason of getting nervous is that in the Bungetsu College I am studying in, students will be allocated into different classes, from class A to class F, depending on the class division examinations from second year onwards. To put it simply, smart people will study in class A, idiots will study in class F. Therefore, you are able to know how smart a person is depending on the class he or she in. As a man with pride, I cannot be placed into class F.

“Yoshii, to tell you the truth...”

“What?”

The envelope is glued and really hard to open.

“From the result of my observation of you, I have been thinking 'Could it be that Yoshii is an idiot?'.”

“Sir, you are totally wrong with this. If you really think so, you might have 'moron' as your new nickname.”

Not that I am overconfident, although I didn't work very hard, I did pretty well in the class division examination last year. When he sees my result, I believe he will definitely change his opinion.

“When you see my result, you will know that you are wrong.”

“I also hope that I am wrong.”

It is really hard to open; I can only tear the envelope apart.

The envelope opens with a clear tearing sound. I look into the envelope; there is a small piece of paper in it.

So, which class will I go? Is it class D? Or is it class C?

“Yoshii, you should be glad right? My opinion is really correct.”

As I unfold the paper, the content of the paper can be clearly read.

“Akihisa Yoshii... ... ... class F”

“You really are an idiot.”

And so, my sorrowful school life begins.

Baka to Tesuto to Syokanju:Volume1 The First Question

2008-11-30T08:59:27Z

Andisan:

“Eh---”

“What's wrong?”

“What Yuuji said just now, its the Taika Reform right?”

“You are Year 3 now and you still don't know about this? Shouko you are really stupid.”

“We haven't been taught about that part yet, Yuuji you are too clever.”

“It is very easy to memorize. Just remember 'Accident Free Reform'[http://www.baka-tsuki.net/project/index.php?title=Baka_to_Tesuto_to_Syokanju:Volume1_Translator%27s_Notes#Note_One], you will be able to recall it instantly”

“Accident Free?”

“Because the Taika Reform did not have any accident occur, make sure you remember that.”

“OK.”

“It happened in the year 625.”

“All right, I have memorised it.”

“Good, make sure you remember that.”

“Don't worry, I won't forget about it”

------

First Question

Please answer the following question:

When manufacturing frying pan, we use magnesium as the raw material to reduce the weight of the pan, however an accident occurs when it is used in cooking. Describe what happened, and name an alloy that could be used to replace magnesium.

Mizuki Himeji's Answer

“Using flame to heat up magnesium will cause fierce burning reaction; aluminium can be used to replace magnesium”

Teacher's Comment:

Correct. The question asks for alloy, so you can't answer “iron”. Himeji didn't fall for the trick.

Kouta Tsuchiya's Answer

“Because the gas bill is not paid.”

Teacher's Comment:

That is not the main point of this question.

Akihisa Yoshii's Answer

“Alloy made in future can be used (Because it is very hard).”

Teacher's Comment:

Even if it is very hard, you can't find that now right?

------

We are welcoming the arrival of the second spring after we start studying in Bungetsu College.

To welcome new students, both sides of the slope that lead to the school building are filled with dazzling flowering cherry blossom. Even though I am not an elegant person who appreciates flowers, I can't stop myself to be attracted by the beautiful scenery before me.

However it is only for a very short period of time.

Now, my mind is filled with the symbol of spring, and it is not cherry blossom.
In my mind, it is all about the comrades and the new classroom that will fight with me throughout the year. In another words, it is all about the new class after class division.

“Yoshii, you are late.”

In front of the entrance, a low and strong voice called me. I turn my head and look towards the source of the voice, there is a sports type guy with light dark skin and short hair standing there.

“Ah, iron... no, it's Nishimura sensei (2), good morning!”

“You want to call me iron man just now, right?”

“Ha ha, you are thinking too much.”

“Oh, am I?”

That was close; I nearly call him 'iron man' like what I did before.

By the way, iron man is the nickname that the students gave to Nishimura sensei. The reason he got this nickname is because his hobby is triathlon. Of course, his habit of wearing short sleeves during winter time is also one of the reasons that he got this nickname.

“By the way, a normal person shouldn't be saying 'good morning' in this situation!”

“Ah, I am sorry. Err...Your skin is very dark today as well.”

“What! My skin colour is more important than you being late for school?”

“I see, so you are talking about that. Sorry, I am late.”

“You are really....you never learn your lesson.”

He sighs and mumbles at the same time. According to what he says, it sounds like I usually late for school.

“Sir, I don't usually late for school right?”

Nishimura sensei is our homeroom teacher last year, he should know that I rarely late for school.

“Leave that matter aside for now, take this first.”

He takes an envelope out of a box and hands it over to me. My name, “Akihisa Yoshii”, is written clearly on the envelope.

“Ah, thank you.”

I simply nod and take the envelope.

“But why does the school need to inform the result of class division through this troublesome method? Isn't posting the result in the announcement board much better?”

Handing over the result of class division one by one and carefully putting them into envelopes is really very troublesome.

“Normally that is true. However we are the school that uses the most advanced system in the world, this strange method is part of the system.”

“Oh, I see.”

I simply answer him and try to tear open the envelope. Which class will I be placed into? I start to get a little bit nervous.

The reason of getting nervous is that in the Bungetsu College I am studying in, students will be allocated into different classes, from class A to class F, depending on the class division examinations from second year onwards. To put it simply, smart people will study in class A, idiots will study in class F. Therefore, you are able to know how smart a person is depending on the class he or she in. As a man with pride, I cannot be placed into class F.

“Yoshii, to tell you the truth...”

“What?”

The envelope is glued and really hard to open.

“From the result of my observation of you, I have been thinking 'Could it be that Yoshii is an idiot?'.”

“Sir, you are totally wrong with this. If you really think so, you might have 'moron' as your new nickname.”

Not that I am overconfident, although I didn't work very hard, I did pretty well in the class division examination last year. When he sees my result, I believe he will definitely change his opinion.

“When you see my result, you will know that you are wrong.”

“I also hope that I am wrong.”

It is really hard to open; I can only tear the envelope apart.

The envelope opens with a clear tearing sound. I look into the envelope; there is a small piece of paper in it.

So, which class will I go? Is it class D? Or is it class C?

“Yoshii, you should be glad right? My opinion is really correct.”

As I unfold the paper, the content of the paper can be clearly read.

“Akihisa Yoshii... ... ... class F”

“You really are an idiot.”

And so, my sorrowful school life begins.

(1)Accident free in Japanese sounds similar to 625

(2)It sounds strange to write Nishimura teacher, so I just put sensei.