Baka to Tesuto to Syokanju:Volume9 The Fourth Question
The Fourth Question
Question: Please read the following passage from the tale of Genji and answer the following question.
Using the underlined part, please state what kind of relationship between Lady Fujitsubo and Genji.
“At this moment, Lady Fujitsubo unfortunately fell ill and temporarily went back to rest in her mother’s house. The emperor was worried about this and sighed all day long. Prince Genji saw it, and felt uneasy. However, he couldn’t endure it, wanting to take a chance to meet Lady Fujitsubo ever-familiar profile secretly. He was completely dazed, never went to where his lovers lived, never went to the staff office in the palace, and was always depressed. At night, he was still thinking about that royal concubine.”
Kinoshita Hideyoshi’s answer:
“Stepmother and Stepson.”
Teacher’s comment:
Well answered. Absolutely correct. I’ve always thought that Kinoshita-kun’s not very good at classics, but this is much better than expected when you did study hard. Sensei heard that the drama club is going to present the tale of Genji, so sensei’s is happy that you can use this chance to have an interest in classics. Sensei hopes that you can work hard on both your studies and club activities.
Yoshi Akihisa’s answer.
“An urgent situation where they were almost together.”
Teacher’s comment:
To put it directly, that’s what happened after.
Tsuchiya Kouta’s answer:
“It’s like the relationship between Fukanoshi-sensei and Fuse-sensei.”
Teacher’s comment:
Wait a second. What in the world happened between the two of them!?
“Alright! Those who are done with the maths replenishing are to rush out! Don’t let the enemy get into the classroom!”
The language now at the scrimmage in front of F class’ entrances are modern language at the front and history at the back. Muttsurini, who just finished his replenishing, joined in at the back, so there isn’t any problem, but modern language should be used up at lot…it’s about time for the maths teacher to come here. If we switch the subjects, Shimada’s points should be able to hang on. During this time, we’ll let Himeji rest and then plan a counterattack!
I again reupdated everyone’s scores as things got really confusing, and got ready to make a breakthrough. Shimada that panicked and came over.
“Sa, Sakamoto!”
“Nn? What is it, Shimada? Did you mess up the digits in your maths score or something?”
“Impossible, I’m not like that idiot Aki, but this—”
Shimada looks over at the front entrance, and I look over as well. It’s normal over there, and the scores of the summoned beast I’m used to seeing are indicated.
“What is it? It’s not like the enemies have abnormally high scores—”
“C class, Okajima Kumi, Japanese History, 101 points.
Vs
F class, Himuro Tadashi, Japanese History, 45 points.”
“! Japanese history!?! Japanese history!?” Impossible! We should have set the maths teacher over there! We did change the subjects, but it’s unexpected that it changed to Japanese history. Did the enemy do something…
“Yuuji! It looks like class A and class B are having a summoning war too!”
“B class…is it that bastard Nemoto!?”
In other words, the maths teacher got taken over by them too? They took the teacher away once we’re done with the replenishing, and we’re in a tight spot here, both in terms of points and mentally.
“It seem that B class said that they had to use maths to replenish their tests scores no matter what t get ready for their battle and brought the teacher over!”
At this timing, in this situation, and with that Nemoto as an enemy, there’s no doubt that he’s working together with Koyama. We’ve been had…! The enemy had an intention of limiting the subjects over here. As long as our summoning field is limited, we’ll be in a disadvantage since we’re the weaker side here. It’s my mistake to end up caught in the enemy’s plan…!
“Anyway, I can’t help in this case. What should we do?”
The subjects are Japanese history and health education? Shimada’s good subjects are all sciences, so she can’t do much if we send her here.
“Get everyone whose scores in Japanese history are more than 60 to the frontlines, even if we have to end the replenishing tests.
“Understood.”
Once I gave Shimada the instructions, my mind was thinking of a new plan.
The enemy’s not an idiot. They’re using this strategy to remove our subject choices, so it’s pointless to remain caged here.
In that case—we can only attack, is it?
Amongst the rules of the summoning war, there’s the instruction for the class rep to clearly indicate where they are. Since there’s no reason to defend on, we can only launch an attack and beat the class rep.
“Hideyoshi, where’s Koyama now?”
“They’re moving from C class in the new building to the roof of the old school building.”
“Damn it. They’re not letting their guard down until the end.”
I can’t just recklessly attack the enemy’s general now.
If we consider the positions, since A class and B class have a summoning war between each other, the area in front of C class will become a battlefield. In that case, the teachers will be around, and it’ll be easier to sneak into the crowd. It’s not a bad idea to launch a surprise attack there—but it seem that Koyama understands this very well and moved her base from there to the roof where it’s hard to launch a surprise attack. It’s impossible to go through replenishing tests as there aren’t any tables and chairs, but they can limit the exit and prevent an ambush from above. To C class that had replenished their points thoroughly, they just got a solid and steady position.
“Where’s the guy directing the attacks? Do you know?”
“From how he’s giving the instructions from time to time, it’s likely that he’s near the stairs. I can see some people on the stairs platform between the third level and the fourth level.”
“Is that so…”
As expected of Koyama who always does things cautiously. She set up people who’re in charge of defense at the area between the fourth level and the roof. She set up her guards to deal with the surprise attacks.
“She’s really tough to deal with…”
They have twice the number of people we have, and in terms of scores, it’s really hard to imagine the difference. Also, the enemy commander set up attack squads and guards here. We can’t even fight with the enemy commander if we don’t get by them. This is way too grim.
—However.
“It’s not like there’s no way to win.”
Even we have a chance of winning. I’ll show you guys that points alone can’t determine victory.
“Himeji, Shimada!”
“Yes!”
“You got a new plan already?”
“Ahh, there’s something I want to ask you two. Shimada, get to the office now and ensure that we have teachers to replenish our scores. The time for the replenishing will be 14:00. As for you, Himeji—”
I explained the plan to both of them,
“—That’s about how it is. Can you do it?”
I tried to check with Himeji and Shimada, and both of them responded with answers that reflected their personality.
“It’s not about whether I can do it or not now, is it? We can only do this now.”
“Don’t worry. I’ll try my best.”
Both of them stared back at me with confident and sturdy eyes. At this situation, I find that these two are much more reliable than those useless guys.
“Well answered. I’ll leave it to you then.”
““Understood!””
Both them nodded their heads hard and got ready to take action.
And then…
Wait and see, C class. I’ll definitely give you a taste of your own medicine…!”
