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Baka to Tesuto to Syokanju:Volume1 The Fourth Question

2009-05-31T15:19:26Z

CatBiteMouse:

=== Fourth Question ===

'''Please answer the following questions:'''

(1) What value of ''X'' satisfies the equation ''4 sin X + 3 cos 3X = 2'' and is found in the first quadrant?

(2) Which one of the following expressions is equivalent to ''sin (A+B)''?

① ''sin A + cos B''

② ''sin A – cos B''

③ ''sin A cos B''

④ ''sin A cos B + cos A sin B''

'''Himeji Mizuki's Answer'''

(1) X = π/6

(2) ④

'''Teacher's Comment:'''

That's right. You can write the angle with the symbol π instead of °. Your answer is perfect.

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'''Kouta Tsuchiya's Answer'''

(1) X = probably 3

'''Teacher's Comment:'''

I think you're trying to slack off by saying 'Probably'. Even though you're close, I can't give you credit.

'''Akihisa Yoshii's Answer'''

(2) probably ③

'''Teacher's Comment:'''

I have seen plenty of students' attempts before, but you're the first who tried to slack off in a multiple choice question like this.

“Yoshii! Kinoshita's troop started the fight with Class D in the corridor!”

Swinging her ponytail behind her back, the person running towards me was Shimada, who was placed in the same troop as me. Under careful observation, you could see that she was tall, with long legs; 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 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 on the frontlines was the vanguard led by Kinoshita. The backup troop we were in was located between the frontlines and Class F. I didn't remember accepting an offer to be troop leader, but now I had to take the responsibility to lead everyone, so I needed to focus.

First we need to get a feel for the atmosphere of battle. If I listened closely, I think I could hear sounds of battle coming from the vanguard troop.

“Show me what you got! Loser!”

“Iron... Iron Man? No! I don't want to go to the tuition room!”

“Shut up! The prisoners of war will be staying in the tuition room and will be specially tutored until the battle ends! I'm not sure how long it will take for the war to end, but it looks like I'll have enough time to tutor you!”

“Ple… Please, let me go! I don't have the confidence to get through the torture!”

“Torture? That's not true. It's just a marvelous educational tuition. By the time it's over, I'll have educated you into a standard student whose hobby is studying, just like 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-----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 coward!”

I got hit, and she was using the hidden art that attacked both eyes!

“Ouch, my eyes!”

“Did it wake you up, you big idiot! You're the troop leader! How can you run away without putting up a good fight?”

Was the pain in my eyes necessary to clear my mind? If she wanted to say something like this, she should have just punched or slapped me instead of stabbing my eyes!

“Listen up, Yoshii. Our mission is to back up Kinoshita's vanguard troop, right? During the time that they replenish their test scores, we need to hold the frontline. If our troop runs away from our important mission, then they won't be able to replenish their scores smoothly.”

It was rare to see Shimada give a 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 of suffering from tuition...

Shimada, you were so brave! I don't know why, but I'm even shedding tears (maybe from the pain of being stabbed?).

“I'm sorry, I was wrong. I'll throw away the fear of the tuition room, and focus on winning the fight.”

“Good. About this, I don't think we have anything to worry about. Although we may be weak in fighting one-on-one, fighting one enemy at a time together should be fine.”

That's right. Even though we have lower scores, it's not the deciding factor in the war. Depending on our tactics, we still have a good chance of winning this war.

“You're right. OK, I'm full of energy!”

“That's the spirit, Yoshii!”

We all raised our fists: No problem, we could do this!

As our morale rose, a scout went up to 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 had a feeling this might cause a big problem, but maybe it was just me.

“OK, we should run away first! It's too difficult to fight 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 message from the class leader.”

Yokoda looked at the memo, and read out the message loudly:
“'If you dare to run away, I will kill you!'”

“Everyone charge---”

When I came to my senses, I was on the way to 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're 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, I somehow managed to survive. But my score is greatly reduced.”

“I see, then how about your syokanju?”

“Too tired to move, it can't continue fighting anymore.”

“OK, then you better do some tests to replenish your score!”

“You're right. There may not be enough time to have tests for each subject, but it still helps to have even one or two subjects' scores replenished.”

He immediately ran towards the classroom, and following behind him were the members of the vanguard troops. It seemed that their numbers were fewer than when they left. 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's not around, you can't summon your syokanju!”

“I know that!”

It was just as Shimada advised. When we were using our test scores to fight, we needed to comply with the rules on the following page.

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|align="left"| <center>'''The Fumitsuki Gakuen Rules for The Fights related to'''</center>

<center>'''The Classroom Facilities and The Summoning War'''</center>

1. In principle, the fight is between classes. Under the supervision of a teacher of any subject, students may activate the summoning system to summon syokanjus. Also, a fight using the sum of all the subjects must be supervised by the Educational Administration Director.

2. Every student may only have one syokanju. The syokanju will have power equal to the last test result. The sum of all the subjects will be the sum of the latest test score of each 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 receive tuition in the tuition room.

4. Students may replenish their score infinitely if his / her syokanju is not dead.

5. If the opponent summons a syokanju, a student who fails to perform the summoning will be considered as forfeiting the fight, and therefore will receive tuition in the tuition room as 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 vary between teachers).

7. The fight may only be carried by the syokanjus. Summoners who are involved in actual fighting will be punished.

8. The war will only end when the opposing class leader is defeated. As long as under teacher supervision, students may use any methods or tactics in order to win the war. This is the 'War' that uses test scores as weapons. Those who wish to participate must be mentally prepared.
|}

Those are are probably all of the rules! Although there were some changes, and some more specific rules, but overall those are 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 mentioned 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 supervising, in our case the school’s educational administration director, so they were trying to increase the number of supervisors 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?”

“Not at all, I only get around sixty every time.”

That's what could be expected from Class F. No matter how much 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 fight 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 go 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 observe 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 the summoning system under a 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 a ponytail and strong looking eyes that were exactly the same as Shimada, but its height was just around eighty centimeters. 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!”

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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 filled the corridors.

Their syokanjus held their weapons 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, your opponents 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 well enough 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, this 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?”

“Death to all who try to 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 many points in the fight just now, which made her lose the fight instantly.

“Shimada, are you alright?”

“Ya, I am saved, thanks Sugawa. 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 tutoring, 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 battlefield. 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 taken away. For now I am safe.

“Good, while Hideyoshi's troop is replenishing their scores, 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 the commander from Class D gave out an order 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 to hang on 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 good use of 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 realize 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's 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 Mathematics teacher Kiuchi-sensei.”

Sugawa, who had just taken Shimada away, came and gave me the report. It seemed that he brought new information after he reached the main troop. That Kiuchi-sensei right?

Mathematics 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 to steer the situation towards 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 realize it immediately right? The Class D frontline commander has a loud voice so even if the tactic succeeds, he can immediately reorder the formation.”

Just as Sugawa said, Class D's 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 teamwork!”

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 Mathematics 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 fight now.

Just as I was thinking this…

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 line between students and teachers, and speak 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 make her go 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 gave such a command!

“Oi, have you heard the broadcast just now?”

“Yeah. I didn't know that Class F really wants 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 make the situation about me! It only makes it harder to deny!

“Everyone, we cannot 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 strength was starting to affect the situation; bad information was flowing back now.

Kudo and Morigawa were dead now (sent to the 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. 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's their back up troops! Defeat Yoshii and his men before they combine their forces! Or else it will be dangerous for us!”

Class D's 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.

“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 strength.

“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 appeared 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 really hurt!

“The commander is an idiot! I can handle him alone, everyone step back!”

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 trip and fall on the ground.

“What?”

Shibazaki's split self easily tripped over.

“Ah! Kirishima's skirt flips!”

I pointed to a spot behind 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 turned around but 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.

Although my brain was thinking about this sort of useless stuff, my movements 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 are you going to do with that?”

In order to avoid 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 are you doing that!”

I shouted another line 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 graduates!”

“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 silent to pray for her sacrifice, I turned back and saw Yuuji and the others were just meters away from me.

Good, we finally joined forces!

“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 forces with Akihisa and return to the classroom.”

This was the command from the Class F's 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 it hard to look at 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 a 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.

“Didn't he come back a while ago?”

With respect to my determination to kill, Yuuji said something out of my expectation.

Oooo! He 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 was 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 the blind spot on Yuuji's head----

“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's 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.

<nowiki>-----</nowiki>Lying?

I peeped out from the gap of the cupboard.

There was no one there.

<nowiki>-----</nowiki>I was cheated!

I kicked the cupboard door open, and dashed out to the corridors.

Since we were starting our final attack 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 this guy with mathematics!”

“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 meant 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 towards 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's class leader Hiraga?

“That’s Class D main troop! They finally acted!”

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.

Also, I couldn't even get close to Yuuji, who was being surrounded by layers of enemies. 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 voice 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 was 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 the 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 Traditional Japanese scores.

“Damn! I am that close to defeating Class D by 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 was no personal guard around me, a minion like you wouldn'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, and counter attacked with one of my eyes closed and said,

“I feel the same way. It is too hard to do it all by myself. Therefore ----”

I purposely stopped and took a breath.

“Himeji, it 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, and immediately got close to the opponent.

Without giving the opponent any chance to counter attack, she defeated Class D's class leader in one hit, and ended the war.

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Baka to Tesuto to Syokanju:Volume1 The Fourth Question

2009-05-31T15:13:33Z

CatBiteMouse:

=== Fourth Question ===

'''Please answer the following questions:'''

(1) What value of ''X'' satisfies the equation ''4 sin X + 3 cos 3X = 2'' and is found in the first quadrant?

(2) Which one of the following expressions is equivalent to ''sin (A+B)''?

① ''sin A + cos B''

② ''sin A – cos B''

③ ''sin A cos B''

④ ''sin A cos B + cos A sin B''

'''Himeji Mizuki's Answer'''

(1) X = π/6

(2) ④

'''Teacher's Comment:'''

That's right. You can write the angle with the symbol π instead of °. Your answer is perfect.

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'''Kouta Tsuchiya's Answer'''

(1) X = probably 3

'''Teacher's Comment:'''

I think you're trying to slack off by saying 'Probably'. Even though you're close, I can't give you credit.

'''Akihisa Yoshii's Answer'''

(2) probably ③

'''Teacher's Comment:'''

I have seen plenty of students' attempts before, but you're the first who tried to slack off in a multiple choice question like this.

“Yoshii! Kinoshita's troop started the fight with Class D in the corridor!”

Swinging her ponytail behind her back, the person running towards me was Shimada, who was placed in the same troop as me. Under careful observation, you could see that she was tall, with long legs; 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 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 on the frontlines was the vanguard led by Kinoshita. The backup troop we were in was located between the frontlines and Class F. I didn't remember accepting an offer to be troop leader, but now I had to take the responsibility to lead everyone, so I needed to focus.

First we need to get a feel for the atmosphere of battle. If I listened closely, I think I could hear sounds of battle coming from the vanguard troop.

“Show me what you got! Loser!”

“Iron... Iron Man? No! I don't want to go to the tuition room!”

“Shut up! The prisoners of war will be staying in the tuition room and will be specially tutored until the battle ends! I'm not sure how long it will take for the war to end, but it looks like I'll have enough time to tutor you!”

“Ple… Please, let me go! I don't have the confidence to get through the torture!”

“Torture? That's not true. It's just a marvelous educational tuition. By the time it's over, I'll have educated you into a standard student whose hobby is studying, just like 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-----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 coward!”

I got hit, and she was using the hidden art that attacked both eyes!

“Ouch, my eyes!”

“Did it wake you up, you big idiot! You're the troop leader! How can you run away without putting up a good fight?”

Was the pain in my eyes necessary to clear my mind? If she wanted to say something like this, she should have just punched or slapped me instead of stabbing my eyes!

“Listen up, Yoshii. Our mission is to back up Kinoshita's vanguard troop, right? During the time that they replenish their test scores, we need to hold the frontline. If our troop runs away from our important mission, then they won't be able to replenish their scores smoothly.”

It was rare to see Shimada give a 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 of suffering from tuition...

Shimada, you were so brave! I don't know why, but I'm even shedding tears (maybe from the pain of being stabbed?).

“I'm sorry, I was wrong. I'll throw away the fear of the tuition room, and focus on winning the fight.”

“Good. About this, I don't think we have anything to worry about. Although we may be weak in fighting one-on-one, fighting one enemy at a time together should be fine.”

That's right. Even though we have lower scores, it's not the deciding factor in the war. Depending on our tactics, we still have a good chance of winning this war.

“You're right. OK, I'm full of energy!”

“That's the spirit, Yoshii!”

We all raised our fists: No problem, we could do this!

As our morale rose, a scout went up to 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 had a feeling this might cause a big problem, but maybe it was just me.

“OK, we should run away first! It's too difficult to fight 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 message from the class leader.”

Yokoda looked at the memo, and read out the message loudly:
“'If you dare to run away, I will kill you!'”

“Everyone charge---”

When I came to my senses, I was on the way to 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're 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, I somehow managed to survive. But my score is greatly reduced.”

“I see, then how about your syokanju?”

“Too tired to move, it can't continue fighting anymore.”

“OK, then you better do some tests to replenish your score!”

“You're right. There may not be enough time to have tests for each subject, but it still helps to have even one or two subjects' scores replenished.”

He immediately ran towards the classroom, and following behind him were the members of the vanguard troops. It seemed that their numbers were fewer than when they left. 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's not around, you can't summon your syokanju!”

“I know that!”

It was just as Shimada advised. When we were using our test scores to fight, we needed to comply with the rules on the following page.

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|align="left"| <center>'''The Fumitsuki Gakuen Rules for The Fights related to'''</center>

<center>'''The Classroom Facilities and The Summoning War'''</center>

1. In principle, the fight is between classes. Under the supervision of a teacher of any subject, students may activate the summoning system to summon syokanjus. Also, a fight using the sum of all the subjects must be supervised by the Educational Administration Director.

2. Every student may only have one syokanju. The syokanju will have power equal to the last test result. The sum of all the subjects will be the sum of the latest test score of each 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 receive tuition in the tuition room.

4. Students may replenish their score infinitely if his / her syokanju is not dead.

5. If the opponent summons a syokanju, a student who fails to perform the summoning will be considered as forfeiting the fight, and therefore will receive tuition in the tuition room as 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 vary between teachers).

7. The fight may only be carried by the syokanjus. Summoners who are involved in actual fighting will be punished.

8. The war will only end when the opposing class leader is defeated. As long as under teacher supervision, students may use any methods or tactics in order to win the war. This is the 'War' that uses test scores as weapons. Those who wish to participate must be mentally prepared.
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That's probably all of the rules! Although there were some changes, and some more specific rules, but overall those are 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 mentioned 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 supervising, in our case the school’s educational administration director, so they were trying to increase the number of supervisors 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?”

“Not at all, I only get around sixty every time.”

That's what could be expected from Class F. No matter how much 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 fight 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 go 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 observe 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 the summoning system under a 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 a ponytail and strong looking eyes that were exactly the same as Shimada, but its height was just around eighty centimeters. 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!”

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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 filled the corridors.

Their syokanjus held their weapons 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, your opponents 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 well enough 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, this 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?”

“Death to all who try to 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 many points in the fight just now, which made her lose the fight instantly.

“Shimada, are you alright?”

“Ya, I am saved, thanks Sugawa. 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 tutoring, 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 battlefield. 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 taken away. For now I am safe.

“Good, while Hideyoshi's troop is replenishing their scores, 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 the commander from Class D gave out an order 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 to hang on 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 good use of 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 realize 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's 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 Mathematics teacher Kiuchi-sensei.”

Sugawa, who had just taken Shimada away, came and gave me the report. It seemed that he brought new information after he reached the main troop. That Kiuchi-sensei right?

Mathematics 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 to steer the situation towards 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 realize it immediately right? The Class D frontline commander has a loud voice so even if the tactic succeeds, he can immediately reorder the formation.”

Just as Sugawa said, Class D's 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 teamwork!”

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 Mathematics 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 fight now.

Just as I was thinking this…

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 line between students and teachers, and speak 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 make her go 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 gave such a command!

“Oi, have you heard the broadcast just now?”

“Yeah. I didn't know that Class F really wants 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 make the situation about me! It only makes it harder to deny!

“Everyone, we cannot 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 strength was starting to affect the situation; bad information was flowing back now.

Kudo and Morigawa were dead now (sent to the 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. 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's their back up troops! Defeat Yoshii and his men before they combine their forces! Or else it will be dangerous for us!”

Class D's 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.

“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 strength.

“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 appeared 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 really hurt!

“The commander is an idiot! I can handle him alone, everyone step back!”

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 trip and fall on the ground.

“What?”

Shibazaki's split self easily tripped over.

“Ah! Kirishima's skirt flips!”

I pointed to a spot behind 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 turned around but 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.

Although my brain was thinking about this sort of useless stuff, my movements 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 are you going to do with that?”

In order to avoid 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 are you doing that!”

I shouted another line 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 graduates!”

“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 silent to pray for her sacrifice, I turned back and saw Yuuji and the others were just meters away from me.

Good, we finally joined forces!

“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 forces with Akihisa and return to the classroom.”

This was the command from the Class F's 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 it hard to look at 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 a 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.

“Didn't he come back a while ago?”

With respect to my determination to kill, Yuuji said something out of my expectation.

Oooo! He 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 was 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 the blind spot on Yuuji's head----

“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's 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.

<nowiki>-----</nowiki>Lying?

I peeped out from the gap of the cupboard.

There was no one there.

<nowiki>-----</nowiki>I was cheated!

I kicked the cupboard door open, and dashed out to the corridors.

Since we were starting our final attack 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 this guy with mathematics!”

“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 meant 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 towards 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's class leader Hiraga?

“That’s Class D main troop! They finally acted!”

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.

Also, I couldn't even get close to Yuuji, who was being surrounded by layers of enemies. 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 voice 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 was 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 the 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 Traditional Japanese scores.

“Damn! I am that close to defeating Class D by 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 was no personal guard around me, a minion like you wouldn'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, and counter attacked with one of my eyes closed and said,

“I feel the same way. It is too hard to do it all by myself. Therefore ----”

I purposely stopped and took a breath.

“Himeji, it 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, and immediately got close to the opponent.

Without giving the opponent any chance to counter attack, she defeated Class D's class leader in one hit, and ended the war.

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Baka to Tesuto to Syokanju:Volume1 The Fourth Question

2009-05-31T15:12:11Z

CatBiteMouse: Added of to "That's probably all the rules"

=== Fourth Question ===

'''Please answer the following questions:'''

(1) What value of ''X'' satisfies the equation ''4 sin X + 3 cos 3X = 2'' and is found in the first quadrant?

(2) Which one of the following expressions is equivalent to ''sin (A+B)''?

① ''sin A + cos B''

② ''sin A – cos B''

③ ''sin A cos B''

④ ''sin A cos B + cos A sin B''

'''Himeji Mizuki's Answer'''

(1) X = π/6

(2) ④

'''Teacher's Comment:'''

That's right. You can write the angle with the symbol π instead of °. Your answer is perfect.

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'''Kouta Tsuchiya's Answer'''

(1) X = probably 3

'''Teacher's Comment:'''

I think you're trying to slack off by saying 'Probably'. Even though you're close, I can't give you credit.

'''Akihisa Yoshii's Answer'''

(2) probably ③

'''Teacher's Comment:'''

I have seen plenty of students' attempts before, but you're the first who tried to slack off in a multiple choice question like this.

“Yoshii! Kinoshita's troop started the fight with Class D in the corridor!”

Swinging her ponytail behind her back, the person running towards me was Shimada, who was placed in the same troop as me. Under careful observation, you could see that she was tall, with long legs; 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 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 on the frontlines was the vanguard led by Kinoshita. The backup troop we were in was located between the frontlines and Class F. I didn't remember accepting an offer to be troop leader, but now I had to take the responsibility to lead everyone, so I needed to focus.

First we need to get a feel for the atmosphere of battle. If I listened closely, I think I could hear sounds of battle coming from the vanguard troop.

“Show me what you got! Loser!”

“Iron... Iron Man? No! I don't want to go to the tuition room!”

“Shut up! The prisoners of war will be staying in the tuition room and will be specially tutored until the battle ends! I'm not sure how long it will take for the war to end, but it looks like I'll have enough time to tutor you!”

“Ple… Please, let me go! I don't have the confidence to get through the torture!”

“Torture? That's not true. It's just a marvelous educational tuition. By the time it's over, I'll have educated you into a standard student whose hobby is studying, just like 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-----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 coward!”

I got hit, and she was using the hidden art that attacked both eyes!

“Ouch, my eyes!”

“Did it wake you up, you big idiot! You're the troop leader! How can you run away without putting up a good fight?”

Was the pain in my eyes necessary to clear my mind? If she wanted to say something like this, she should have just punched or slapped me instead of stabbing my eyes!

“Listen up, Yoshii. Our mission is to back up Kinoshita's vanguard troop, right? During the time that they replenish their test scores, we need to hold the frontline. If our troop runs away from our important mission, then they won't be able to replenish their scores smoothly.”

It was rare to see Shimada give a 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 of suffering from tuition...

Shimada, you were so brave! I don't know why, but I'm even shedding tears (maybe from the pain of being stabbed?).

“I'm sorry, I was wrong. I'll throw away the fear of the tuition room, and focus on winning the fight.”

“Good. About this, I don't think we have anything to worry about. Although we may be weak in fighting one-on-one, fighting one enemy at a time together should be fine.”

That's right. Even though we have lower scores, it's not the deciding factor in the war. Depending on our tactics, we still have a good chance of winning this war.

“You're right. OK, I'm full of energy!”

“That's the spirit, Yoshii!”

We all raised our fists: No problem, we could do this!

As our morale rose, a scout went up to 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 had a feeling this might cause a big problem, but maybe it was just me.

“OK, we should run away first! It's too difficult to fight 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 message from the class leader.”

Yokoda looked at the memo, and read out the message loudly:
“'If you dare to run away, I will kill you!'”

“Everyone charge---”

When I came to my senses, I was on the way to 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're 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, I somehow managed to survive. But my score is greatly reduced.”

“I see, then how about your syokanju?”

“Too tired to move, it can't continue fighting anymore.”

“OK, then you better do some tests to replenish your score!”

“You're right. There may not be enough time to have tests for each subject, but it still helps to have even one or two subjects' scores replenished.”

He immediately ran towards the classroom, and following behind him were the members of the vanguard troops. It seemed that their numbers were fewer than when they left. 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's not around, you can't summon your syokanju!”

“I know that!”

It was just as Shimada advised. When we were using our test scores to fight, we needed to comply with the rules on the following page.

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<center>'''The Classroom Facilities and The Summoning War'''</center>

1. In principle, the fight is between classes. Under the supervision of a teacher of any subject, students may activate the summoning system to summon syokanjus. Also, a fight using the sum of all the subjects must be supervised by the Educational Administration Director.

2. Every student may only have one syokanju. The syokanju will have power equal to the last test result. The sum of all the subjects will be the sum of the latest test score of each 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 receive tuition in the tuition room.

4. Students may replenish their score infinitely if his / her syokanju is not dead.

5. If the opponent summons a syokanju, a student who fails to perform the summoning will be considered as forfeiting the fight, and therefore will receive tuition in the tuition room as 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 vary between teachers).

7. The fight may only be carried by the syokanjus. Summoners who are involved in actual fighting will be punished.

8. The war will only end when the opposing class leader is defeated. As long as under teacher supervision, students may use any methods or tactics in order to win the war. This is the 'War' that uses test scores as weapons. Those who wish to participate must be mentally prepared.
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That's probably all of 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 mentioned 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 supervising, in our case the school’s educational administration director, so they were trying to increase the number of supervisors 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?”

“Not at all, I only get around sixty every time.”

That's what could be expected from Class F. No matter how much 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 fight 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 go 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 observe 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 the summoning system under a 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 a ponytail and strong looking eyes that were exactly the same as Shimada, but its height was just around eighty centimeters. 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!”

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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 filled the corridors.

Their syokanjus held their weapons 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, your opponents 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 well enough 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, this 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?”

“Death to all who try to 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 many points in the fight just now, which made her lose the fight instantly.

“Shimada, are you alright?”

“Ya, I am saved, thanks Sugawa. 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 tutoring, 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 battlefield. 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 taken away. For now I am safe.

“Good, while Hideyoshi's troop is replenishing their scores, 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 the commander from Class D gave out an order 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 to hang on 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 good use of 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 realize 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's 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 Mathematics teacher Kiuchi-sensei.”

Sugawa, who had just taken Shimada away, came and gave me the report. It seemed that he brought new information after he reached the main troop. That Kiuchi-sensei right?

Mathematics 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 to steer the situation towards 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 realize it immediately right? The Class D frontline commander has a loud voice so even if the tactic succeeds, he can immediately reorder the formation.”

Just as Sugawa said, Class D's 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 teamwork!”

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 Mathematics 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 fight now.

Just as I was thinking this…

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 line between students and teachers, and speak 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 make her go 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 gave such a command!

“Oi, have you heard the broadcast just now?”

“Yeah. I didn't know that Class F really wants 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 make the situation about me! It only makes it harder to deny!

“Everyone, we cannot 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 strength was starting to affect the situation; bad information was flowing back now.

Kudo and Morigawa were dead now (sent to the 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. 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's their back up troops! Defeat Yoshii and his men before they combine their forces! Or else it will be dangerous for us!”

Class D's 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.

“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 strength.

“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 appeared 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 really hurt!

“The commander is an idiot! I can handle him alone, everyone step back!”

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 trip and fall on the ground.

“What?”

Shibazaki's split self easily tripped over.

“Ah! Kirishima's skirt flips!”

I pointed to a spot behind 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 turned around but 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.

Although my brain was thinking about this sort of useless stuff, my movements 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 are you going to do with that?”

In order to avoid 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 are you doing that!”

I shouted another line 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 graduates!”

“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 silent to pray for her sacrifice, I turned back and saw Yuuji and the others were just meters away from me.

Good, we finally joined forces!

“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 forces with Akihisa and return to the classroom.”

This was the command from the Class F's 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 it hard to look at 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 a 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.

“Didn't he come back a while ago?”

With respect to my determination to kill, Yuuji said something out of my expectation.

Oooo! He 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 was 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 the blind spot on Yuuji's head----

“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's 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.

<nowiki>-----</nowiki>Lying?

I peeped out from the gap of the cupboard.

There was no one there.

<nowiki>-----</nowiki>I was cheated!

I kicked the cupboard door open, and dashed out to the corridors.

Since we were starting our final attack 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 this guy with mathematics!”

“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 meant 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 towards 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's class leader Hiraga?

“That’s Class D main troop! They finally acted!”

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.

Also, I couldn't even get close to Yuuji, who was being surrounded by layers of enemies. 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 voice 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 was 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 the 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 Traditional Japanese scores.

“Damn! I am that close to defeating Class D by 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 was no personal guard around me, a minion like you wouldn'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, and counter attacked with one of my eyes closed and said,

“I feel the same way. It is too hard to do it all by myself. Therefore ----”

I purposely stopped and took a breath.

“Himeji, it 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, and immediately got close to the opponent.

Without giving the opponent any chance to counter attack, she defeated Class D's class leader in one hit, and ended the war.

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Baka to Tesuto to Syokanju:Volume1 The Second Question

2009-05-30T01:39:19Z

CatBiteMouse: Replacing "Since he didn't wear an uniform," with "Since he didn't wear a uniform,"

===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 a monkey can fall from a tree”  

(2) “Having 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,” and “Even fishes may drown”; other answers for the second part would be, “Good things don't start coming, bad things never stop happening,” and “A year full of misfortune,” etc.
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'''Kouta Tsuchiya's Answer'''

(1) “Even horses will drop from a tree”

'''Teacher's Comment:'''

That would be an incredible scene.

'''Akihisa Yoshii's Answer'''

(2) “Have both a leaking rooftop and landslide occur”

'''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 visit last year, I saw a classroom five times larger than usual 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 the front of the classroom. She had her hair tied up at the back of her head and was dressed up neatly in a suit.

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 you were given. Everyone should have a laptop, personal air-conditioner, fridge, adjustable chairs, etc. Are they working properly?”

There was more than enough space, facilities, and equipment. It was easily enough for 50 students to use.

The fridges were filled with drinks and snacks. Every student had their own air-conditioner, which they could adjust to whatever temperature he/she wanted.

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, and there were ornamental plants around the room. The interior design looked like the lobby of a five-star hotel.

“Besides the text books and reference books, the food and drinks in the fridge are provided by the school, free of charge. If you need any other facilities or equipment, feel free to let us know.”

I could smell the fragrance of red tea, it seemed some students had made some.

“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. Her outlook resembled a Japanese doll.

She was a gentle looking girl who had a beautiful face, and a dignified aura 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; this explained why she was receiving so much 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, all of them were actually female. It seemed the rumors were true!

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, none of them ever succeed.

Since then, there were rumors 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 'til 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 at a very fast pace.

<center>☆</center>

I stood below the sign with "Year 2 Class F" written on it, and hesitated.

Would being late to class give my classmates a bad impression?

Was anyone in the classroom disgusting, scary, or hard to deal with?

What kind of comrades will I have for the rest of the year? The more I thought about it, the more nervous I became.

“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, if I was late because I wasn't 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'm late ♪.”

“Hurry up and sit down, you idiot!”

My perfect image was ruined!

“Didn't you hear what I just said?”

Come to think of it, this person was being rude. Being a teacher doesn't grant you the right to speak like this.

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 look like a ruthless boxer. Slowly looking up, I saw a pair of eyes filled with willpower, a wild looking, handsome face, and short hair on his head that looked like a '''mane.'''

“Yuuji, what the hell are you doing?”

This guy was not a teacher; he was my so-called friend, Sakamoto Yuuji.

“Because the teacher's late, I'm taking his place.”

“You are replacing the teacher? You? Why?”

“Somehow, my score is the highest in Class F.”

“So that makes you the class leader?”

“That's right.”

Yuuji cunningly smiled. After listening to what he said, I smiled as well. In other words, if I could take care of Yuuji, no one could stop me from doing anything in this class.

“Therefore, everyone in this class is my subordinate.”

Yuuji proudly overlooked the classmates who were sitting on the ground.

<nowiki>----</nowiki>Yes, everyone was sitting on the ground.

Why? The answer is simple, there were no chairs.

“On the other hand... This classroom really befits the name Class F.”

I should find a place and sit down first.

“Sorry, please let me through.”

Suddenly, a weak voice came from behind me.

A stupid looking old man, dressed in a wrinkled shirt with untidy hair is standing there.

“It is homeroom meeting now; can I put a chair there?”

Since he didn't wear a uniform, and looked far from being a teenager, I thought he might be our homeroom teacher.

“Roger that.”

“Okay.”

Yuuji and I answered him separately and returned to our seats.

The teacher waited until 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 wasn't able to. Oh my god! The school didn't provide chalk?

“Does everyone have a Japanese-styled table and a cushion? Please raise your hand if you don't have one.”

There were around fifty students squeezing in this small little classroom, without writing tables. There were only tatamis, Japanese-styled tables and cushions. What new and luxurious facilities! I had known about this since my first year, but seeing it firsthand still shocked me.

“Sensei-----My cushion doesn't have any cotton in it.”

There were a number of students who complained about the faulty equipment.

“I see. Bear with it.”

“Sensei, the leg of my table is broken.”

“Did they give you some glue? Glue it yourself later.”

“Sensei, cold air is blowing in from the broken window..”

“I see. I'll report it to the school and request for plastic bags and tape to repair it.”

In the corner of the room, there were spiders freely making webs, and there wasn't a single spot on the wall that was clean or without graffiti. This is terrible; is this an abandoned house?

“If you need anything else, try to take care of it yourself...”

There was a smell of mildew filling up the classroom; it must be coming from below these old tatamis.

“Let's begin the self-introductions! We will start from the person sitting beside the corridor.”

When Fujihara-sensei finished his speech, one of the students in the circle stood up and started to introduce himself.

“My name is Kinoshita Hideyoshi, a member of the drama club.”

It was Hideyoshi speaking.

He had a unique way of talking. With a slim body and loosely tied shoulder-length hair, at a glance ----- No, even when I looked at him carefully, his cuteness could easily make me, someone who knew him, think that he was a girl. That's right, that was Kinoshita Hideyoshi, my classmate from 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 like a girl. This could happen easily in a class filled with smelly guys like this.

“So then, nice to see you.”

Hideyoshi smiled subtly, and ended his self-introduction. So... so CUTE! Wait a second, Yoshii Akihisa, don't fall for it! He's a guy!

“Tsuchiya Kouta…”

I was still mumbling the warning I had to give myself numerous times last year, when the next student had 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 at 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 get into trouble? Well, there were all sorts of people in the world.

However, I could only see guys in the classroom. Are there always so few girls in the worst class?

“...is my name. I grew up overseas. Although I can speak Japanese, reading is still a bit hard for me.”

While I was thinking, another introduction began.

“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 special, extreme, 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 I knew, and my natural enemy from last year---Shimada Minami.

Why? Why were so many people I knew in the same class as me? Wasn't it strange? Was this an example of, "Birds of feathers flock together?" I couldn't believe I was actually on the same level as these people!

“Nice to see you.”

Okay, it seemed the person in front of me had just finished, and now it was my turn.

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 made sure to stress that I was a positive and optimistic person.

Suddenly, an idea ran through my mind. 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>

The chorus of rough voices was more disgusting than I could ever imagine.

“Sorry, I take back what I 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 never imagined that they would really call me that. Class F was really horrible.

Because of my feelings, the self-introductions never seemed to end.

Just when I nearly fell asleep from the monotonous introductions and names, someone opened the door. A girl stood at the entrance, putting her hand on her chest trying to catch her breath.

“I, I am sorry...I am la-late.”

“What?”

Everyone shouted, but this was expected. When something like this happens, anyone would be shocked.

“Actually, you're coming at just the right time. We are introducing ourselves now. Please introduce yourself to the class, Himeji.”

“O-OK! My name is Himeji Mizuki, nice to meet you...”

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Himeji used a voice even smaller than her petite body.

Her skin was as white as new snow. The long and soft hair at her back showed the gentle nature of the owner. With her cute appearance, she truly stood out in a class filled with guys.

However, her beautiful outlook was not why everyone was shocked.

“I have a question!”

One of the guys who had already introduced himself raised his right hand.

“Ah, ye...yes, what is your question?”

Being questioned immediately after stepping into the classroom, Himeji couldn't hide her surprise and nervousness, but her actions were reminiscent of a cute little animal. It was so cute.

“Why are you here?”

What an impolite first question.

But this was the same question everyone in the class wanted to ask.

Her cute outlook did attract attention, but more importantly her marks were very high. She had the second highest score on the enrollment examination, and she was always among the top ten.

A good student like her shouldn't be in Class F. No matter whom you ask, the answer would be that she belongs in Class A.

“About this...”

With a nervous look on her face, her body stiffened up, and she said:

“I had a fever during the class division examination...”

After hearing that, the entire class nodded as if to say “So that's why.”

Leaving in the middle of the exam would result in a failing grade. In other words, she didn't finish the class division examination last year, so she was allocated to Class F.

Listening 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.”

These guys were more idiotic than I could imagine.

“Nice... nice to see you.”

During the noisy discussion, she ran to the space beside Yuuji and me. I never thought that I would be in the same class as her, never mind sit next to her. To be honest, my heart was beating wildly. She was really very cute, and it made me think that welcoming her in a lousy classroom like this should be a serious crime.

“I am so scared...”

Himeji sighed and lay on the table when she got to her seat.

Great! Since we were sitting so close together, this was a great chance to talk! Our love would start from this incident, and eventually we would become destined lovers. That's right; this first sentence would be the key to the door of our happiness and future together.

“Hime-”

“Himeji.”

Yuuji, who was sitting beside me, spoke and raised his voice over mine. Damn you Yuuji! My future plan “From classmates to the red carpet of marriage---Our springtime meeting---Six hundred and fifty four episodes” ended without playing for more than two minutes! What am I supposed to show to the audience for the next six hundred fifty three hours and fifty eight minutes!?

“Y-Yes? Is anything wrong?”

Himeji looked at Yuuji, panicked, and carefully straightened out her skirt. Was it because sitting on cushion could easily wrinkle it?

“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. Her family education must had been very good.

“Well are you still feeling sick?”

“I would like to know too.”

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 for me, but he was only making it worse.

“That... That's not true! You see, my eyes are filled 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! Actually, I know someone who's interested in you!”

What? I'd never imagined that Yuuji would have such good information. I needed to confirm this.

“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 was a joke.”

“What? What about the other half?”

“Oh right, Himeji, are you feeling well?”

“I am fine now.”

“Yuuji, what about the other half?”

Since Yuuji was ignoring me, I raised my voice to catch his attention.

“You over there, silence.”

The teacher knocked the table a few times, the knocking sound served as a warning.

“Sorry---”

(Crashing sound)

Suddenly, the teacher's wooden table collapsed into wood chips. The table couldn't even take a few knocks, how bad did we have it here?

“...I'll 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 our equipment was.

“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 a student like her.

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 a strength as well. But being allocated to Class F just because of leaving the exam due to a fever was ridiculous. They should have at least given her another chance.

Anger towards the unfairness of the class division examination swirled up inside me. If that's the case, we should try our best in getting some better equipment 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 somehow made eye contact.

“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 I meant this one.

“The Class F classroom? It's worse than what I imagined.”

“You also think so, right?” 

“Of course.”

“Have you looked at Class A's equipment?”

“Yeah, it's so different from ours. I've never seen a classroom like that before.”

On one side was a classroom with a blackboard full of cracks, without even any chalk to write on it with. On the other side was a classroom with an expensive plasma TV. Nobody can accept a difference in treatment like this, right?

“I have an idea. Since we are second years now, let's have a 'Test Summoning War!'”

“A war?”

“Yes, and the enemy is Class A.”

“Why?”

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 like you, who has no interest in studying, now wants to have a war over the equipment? We'd be more likely to win the lottery.”

Damn! His sixth sense was still as good as ever.

“No... No, that's not right! If I didn't want to study, I wouldn't have chosen this school---”

“You chose this school because it's cheap and has a good reputation in universities, right?"

No! I explained my reason to him before.

“Ah---That's----It's because....”

What should I do? I couldn't think of anything better.

“It's because of Himeji, right?”

Shock!

Since my real intention was actually for him to see through me, I unwittingly straightened my back.

“How... How do you know that?”

“You're so simple! I just tested you a bit, and you gave it away yourself.”

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.”

“I just told you, it's not what you think!”

Damn! I couldn't even communicate with this guy.

“Don't worry; even if you hadn't suggested it, I had already planned to declare war against Class A.”

“Huh? Why? Yuuji, you're not studying either, are you?”

That's why he didn't care about the class equipment.

“I just want to prove that grades don't mean everything.”

“?”

“I even came up with a plan to defeat Class A----Oh, the teacher's back! Let's get into the classroom.”

Yuuji urged me to get in the classroom.

“Let's continue with the self-introductions.”

After bringing in the new table (this one was lousy too), the homeroom meeting continued.

“My name is Sugawa Ryou. My hobby is---”

The monotonous introductions continued as usual.

“Sakamoto, you're 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, 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 the perfect match, the worst class leader for the worst class. Instead of saying it's an honor, it might actually be a shame.

But Yuuji didn't think like that. He stood confidently on the podium and looked down 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 he was, since he was only the least idiotic of the idiots in Class F. Most thought it was like the pot calling 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-conditioners, 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!”

Complaints 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 war.

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Talk:Hidan no Aria:Volume1 Prologue

2009-02-19T03:31:35Z

CatBiteMouse:

Major edit. I changed weird diction choices, corrected tenses, corrected sentence structures, and added some extra adjectives and adverbs here and there so as to help the reader understand what's being said in context. I tried to retain the original meaning of the initial translation, but I don't really know how successful I was. If this was a rough draft, and you were planning to edit it yourself, revert the changes back to the initial translation, and edit yourself. If you feel this is an incompetent edit, again, revert back to pre-edit page. Anyways, good luck with the translation. I appreciate it, even if I've only read the prologue (which wasn't the most interesting or inspiring thing in the world).

:I would disagree with some of the edits, like:

''"But that's none of your concern."'' to ''"But that shouldn’t be of any of your concern."''

''...donned...'' to ''...wore...''

since there are nothing wrong with them. But overall your edits are not too bad, so it's all right to leave it as it is.

--[[User:Zyzzyva165|Zyzzyva165]] 13:15, 12 February 2009 (UTC)

Hmmmm, you're right when you say there's nothing wrong with them grammatically. Those were more of diction choices/style changes I made based on the context in an attempt to make it flow better.

"But that's none of your concern" <-- Not wrong grammatically, but it just felt more offensive than it should have been, and I don't think that's what he was trying to go for based on the context of what I read.

"...donned..." to "...wore..." <--- I've never heard anyone say go don your shirt, or I donned my shirt before getting out of bed. For me the word don has a more majestic and fanciful connotation/feel to it. I'd use it to describe putting on a suit of armor <--- ie. "I donned my armor, and stepped forward onto the battlefield" or something like that. In that context, the word don sounds natural, as opposed to overblown. However, here, it just sounds too fanciful, since the character putting on his uniform to greet someone at the door really a grand enough moment to entail the usage of the word "don". That said, although there was nothing wrong with it grammatically, the word just felt out of place due to its connotation for me.

I do understand where you're coming from though, seeing as making too many unnecessary changes will ultimately result in an unfaithful translation. I understand that. However, I felt that those changes were necessary, which is why I made them. Literal translations are okay in the beginning stages, as they are ultimately the most faithful kinds of translations, but imo, a translation should still be readable when faithful, and it should still have a distinct style that flows well in order to be consistent for readers to be able to read. Translators who are proficient in both English and the language they're translating from tend to be able to adapt a style that flows well while consistently remaining faithful to the original text (they are also able to do a literal translation, and make faithful stylistic changes themselves later). However, in the case of a super rough draft, or a translator who's not as proficient in English as they are in the language they're translating from, vice versa, there's no consistency or conformity to the writing style; the writing style is all over the place, and just that makes the work both awkward and hard to read.

Those are the reasons I made the changes. That aside though, I'm not going to undermine the translator's work by rewriting everything just because I think his/her style sucks; I'd only change words that I feel are out of place, leaving as much intact as possible, while making it easy to read. Still, a translation check/edit by translator would be nice, since it'd ensure accuracy and faithfulness, and it might even add a consistent style to the work. It'd also make editing a lot easier, since it took me about 2 hours to edit just 7 pages (It's not that I read slow, it was just that HARD to edit/read).

Talk:Hidan no Aria:Volume1 Prologue

2009-02-15T01:19:50Z

CatBiteMouse:

Major edit. I changed weird diction choices, corrected tenses, corrected sentence structures, and added some extra adjectives and adverbs here and there so as to help the reader understand what's being said in context. I tried to retain the original meaning of the initial translation, but I don't really know how successful I was. If this was a rough draft, and you were planning to edit it yourself, revert the changes back to the initial translation, and edit yourself. If you feel this is an incompetent edit, again, revert back to pre-edit page. Anyways, good luck with the translation. I appreciate it, even if I've only read the prologue (which wasn't the most interesting or inspiring thing in the world).

:I would disagree with some of the edits, like:

''"But that's none of your concern."'' to ''"But that shouldn’t be of any of your concern."''

''...donned...'' to ''...wore...''

since there are nothing wrong with them. But overall your edits are not too bad, so it's all right to leave it as it is.

--[[User:Zyzzyva165|Zyzzyva165]] 13:15, 12 February 2009 (UTC)

Hmmmm, you're right when you say there's nothing wrong with them grammatically. Those were more of diction choices/style changes I made based on the context in an attempt to make it flow better.

"But that's none of your concern" <-- Not wrong grammatically, but it just felt more offensive than it should have been, and I don't think that's what he was trying to go for based on the context of what I read.

"...donned..." to "...wore..." <--- I've never heard anyone say go don your shirt, or I donned my shirt before getting out of bed. For me the word don has a more majestic and fanciful connotation/feel to it. I'd use it to describe putting on a suit of armor <--- ie. "I donned my armor, and stepped forward onto the battlefield" or something like that. In that context, the word don sounds natural, as opposed to overblown. However, here, it just sounds too fanciful, since the character putting on his uniform to greet someone at the door really a grand enough moment to entail the usage of the word "don". That said, although there was nothing wrong with it grammatically, the word just felt out of place due to its connotation for me.

I do understand where you're coming from though, seeing as making to many unnecessary changes will ultimately result in an unfaithful translation. I understand that. However, I felt that those changes were necessary, which is why I made them. Literal translations are okay in the beginning stages, as they are ultimately the most faithful kinds of translations, but imo, a translation should still be readable when faithful, and it should still have a distinct style that flows well in order to be consistent for readers to be able to read. Translators who are proficient in both English and the language they're translating from tend to be able to adapt a style that flows well while consistently remaining faithful to the original text (they are also able to do a literal translation, and make faithful stylistic changes themselves later). However, in the case of a super rough draft, or a translator who's not as proficient in English as they are in the language they're translating from, vice versa, there's no consistency or conformity to the writing style; the writing style is all over the place, and just that makes the work both awkward and hard to read.

Those are the reasons I made the changes. That aside though, I'm not going to undermine the translator's work by rewriting everything just because I think his/her style sucks; I'd only change words that I feel are out of place, leaving as much intact as possible, while making it easy to read. Still, a translation check/edit by translator would be nice, since it'd ensure accuracy and faithfulness, and it might even add a consistent style to the work. It'd also make editing a lot easier, since it took me about 2 hours to edit just 7 pages (It's not that I read slow, it was just that HARD to edit/read).

Talk:Hidan no Aria:Volume1 Prologue

2009-02-12T18:33:32Z

CatBiteMouse:

Major edit. I changed weird diction choices, corrected tenses, corrected sentence structures, and added some extra adjectives and adverbs here and there so as to help the reader understand what's being said in context. I tried to retain the original meaning of the initial translation, but I don't really know how successful I was. If this was a rough draft, and you were planning to edit it yourself, revert the changes back to the initial translation, and edit yourself. If you feel this is an incompetent edit, again, revert back to pre-edit page. Anyways, good luck with the translation. I appreciate it, even if I've only read the prologue (which wasn't the most interesting or inspiring thing in the world).

:I would disagree with some of the edits, like:

''"But that's none of your concern."'' to ''"But that shouldn’t be of any of your concern."''

''...donned...'' to ''...wore...''

since there are nothing wrong with them. But overall your edits are not too bad, so it's all right to leave it as it is.

--[[User:Zyzzyva165|Zyzzyva165]] 13:15, 12 February 2009 (UTC)

Hmmmm, you're right when you say there's nothing wrong with them grammatically. Those were more of diction choices/style changes I made based on the context in an attempt to make it flow better.

"But that's none of your concern" <-- Not wrong grammatically, but it just felt more offensive than it should have been, and I don't think that's what he was trying to go for based on the context of what I read.

"...donned..." to "...wore..." <--- I've never heard anyone say go don your shirt, or I donned my shirt before getting out of bed. For me the word don has a more majestic and fanciful connotation/feel to it. I'd use it to describe putting on a suit of armor <--- ie. "I donned my armor, and stepped forward onto the battlefield" or something like that. In that context, the word don sounds natural, as opposed to overblown. However, here, it just sounds too fanciful, since the character putting on his uniform to greet someone at the door really a grand enough moment to entail the usage of the word "don". That said, although there was nothing wrong with it grammatically, the word just felt out of place due to its connotation for me.

I do understand where you're coming from though, seeing as making to many unnecessary changes will ultimately result in an unfaithful translation. I understand that. However, I felt that those changes were necessary, which is why I made them. Literal translations are okay in the beginning stages, as they are ultimately the most faithful kinds of translations, but imo, a translation should still be readable when faithful, and it should still have a distinct style that flows well in order to be consistent for readers to be able to read. Translators who are proficient in both English and the language of they're translation from tend to be able to adapt a style that flows well while consistently remaining faithful to the original text (they are also able to do a literal translation, and make faithful stylistic changes themselves later). However, in the case of a super rough draft, or a translator who's not as proficient in English as they are in the language they're translating from, vice versa, there's no consistency or conformity to the writing style; the writing style is all over the place, and just that makes the work both awkward and hard to read.

Those are the reasons I made the changes. That aside though, I'm not going to undermine the translator's work by rewriting everything just because I think his/her style sucks; I'd only change words that I feel are out of place, leaving as much intact as possible, while making it easy to read. Still, a translation check/edit by translator would be nice, since it'd ensure accuracy and faithfulness, and it might even add a consistent style to the work. It'd wlso make editing a lot easier, since it took me about 2 hours to edit just 7 pages (It's not that I read slow, it was just that HARD to edit/read).

Talk:Hidan no Aria:Volume1 Prologue

2009-02-12T03:53:18Z

CatBiteMouse: New page: Major edit. I changed weird diction choices, corrected tenses, corrected sentence structures, and added some extra adjectives and adverbs here and there so as to help the reader understand...