Classroom Of The Elite 2nd Year - Full Volume
Chapter 2's
"But you should also know that my plans are different from Katsuragi's, other than that a serious-chan-type woman like you would definitely not be able to strategize like an exam on the island."
"I don't care either, but how do you know my strategy during the trials on this island? All that was announced was just the result" Horikita told him. Against the calm Horikita, Ryuuen only smirked at her. He seems to be saying
"Katsuragi doesn't know the method you're using" which he might as well say that he knows how the results of the island's exam can be achieved by our class.
"I wonder if you can explain how we did it?" Horikita asked. Ryuuen only laughed before saying,
"At the end of the exam when the leader's name was written, the only reason why we answered the wrong answer was because the leader had been changed to someone else before the end of the exam and not you anymore"
"Nothing is impressive, anyone who can think of something that simple with a little thought, not even Katsuragi you just made a joke of"
"No, no, he thinks you're the one who planned it all. But from my point of view, even you shouldn't be able to predict that you're going to be the leader or that you should be absent before the end of the exam "
"It was just a guarantee to prepare for the most basic hurdles, I took everything into account when Ibuki-san infiltrated our class. There's nothing surprising about what you just said"
“After all, the important thing is that the new leader of this island test, the one who turns on you is ultimately the one who pulls your strings from behind the scenes" Ryuuen said as she looked straight at Horikita and also quietly observed me as I stood right behind Horikita. I don't know how serious he was about that statement, but if he pointed me here, he would definitely attack me at once.
“Aku tidak tahu apa yang sedang kau bicarakan, lagipula aku hampir tidak punya teman untuk melakukan rencana bersamanya . Satu-satunya yang dapat aku anggap sedikit dekat denganku adalah Ayanokouji-kun di sini tapi dia baru saja menahanku dan tidak banyak berkerja sama." Dengan menarik perhatian ke kehadiranku, Horikita benar-benar mampu membuatku keluar sebagai seseorang yang tidak sesuai dengan rencana besar dari berbagai hal.
"Maybe it was him who pulled my strings" Horikita told Ryuuen.
"I understand" Ryuuen gently looked at me once before turning her eyes away. It seems like the actions we took were successful and Ryuuen no longer paid attention to me.
Believing that he had grasped my status in terms of academic ability, physical ability and communication ability from Horikita's actions. After all, such parameters can be easily used to assess a person's threat level in most cases without any misunderstanding. It turned out that something did not go as planned in this meeting, but Ryuuen still smiled at us without any shame or anger in her speech.
"It's a shame, when I thought I finally found someone who was planning the way I liked, but too bad, that the Suzune pulling strings made their move a little too quickly. The cards they used in the exam on the island should have been kept for this exam, but they ended up showing their hands too early into Suzune's game, if you meet up with the one pulling your strings later on, but they ended up showing their hands too early into Suzune's game, please send her this message for me "
"Thank you for the advice" Horikita said coldly to Ryuuen.
"No need to thank me"
"You really think someone pulled my strings, don't you"
Ryuuen did not answer his question. He definitely had no doubts about his beliefs even though there was no evidence or confirmation from Horikita's side. After all, the man named Ryuuen believed in himself above all else and did not look like the other type of person to accept the advice of others. He seemed to have overcome this failure and seemed to be happy to talk to Horikita. Suddenly, Ryuuen pulls her phone without warning and before anyone can react, quickly takes a photo of Horikita without her permission.
"Don't take pictures of me!"
"Don't say things like that, I'll tell you something nice,” Ryuuen said as she looked at a photo of Horikita taken on her phone.
"There's someone else in Class D who's sneaky other than you"
"That's a good thing, instead of asking me for everything that should be disconnected by myself"
"Anyway, I'm glad to be able to talk to you, Suzune, remember, this is a game, I will definitely find someone sneaking around in the shadows .Everything is a target for me"
"Let me ask you the last thing, I understand that you're very careful, but why are you so obsessed with me? Isn't there anyone else you care about? Like Ichinose-san in Class B or Katsuragi-kun in Class A and then there is the person known as Sakayanagi according to the rumors. There should be men above Class C that you usually worry about. You said you were gonna tell me
something good so at least answer my question "Horikita asked Ryuuen the reason why she focused so much on Class D.
"That's because I already know more or less their abilities and no one is capable enough to be my enemy. If I want to destroy them, I can destroy them whenever I want"
"What about the rumored Sakayanagi?" The one who asked that question was not Horikita but Ibuki. It seemed like Ibuki herself wanted to confirm this fact with Ryuuen. And Ryuuen, who had spoken so fluently until now, waited for a while before replying.
"I saved that woman last for dessert. It would be useless for me to eat Sakayanagi now" Ryuuen then walked over and along with Ibuki, left our table.
"Are you perhaps dissatisfied?" I asked Horikita as soon as Ryuuen left.
"No, I don't have that feeling, I don't like the way you handle this situation. First, on our way to Class A, I'm the one who should be attracting attention and not you"
“Maybe so, but this guy is Ryuuen. He's an unexpected person"
I thought to myself despite what he showed us earlier, Ryuuen already suspected me a little in his mind. From there there there is almost no doubt. Of course I don't know what Ryuuen is thinking. But the time when he appeared here was not the slightest bit of danger.
"It could have been him spying on us from the beginning, but the timing of his appearance was very good” Maybe
Ibuki is involved in this. The fact that Ryuuen brought him to the meeting with us could be so we need to assume that he will also try to gather information about us in our group.
"I doubt anyone would really suspect you were the one working behind the scenes. The reputation you build up all semester as a 'ordinary' person will be very hard to shake,"
I'm not sure if I take it as a compliment or an insult, but it's true that no matter who investigates me, they definitely don't find anything special. Usually no sane person would deliberately lower themselves to mediocrity like I did, so I should have been more or less safe from Ryuuen's suspicions.
However, the fact that I was close to Horikita had to put me on her attention list. Also, the fact that Ibuki is in the same group as me means that I will be under close supervision. One time I saw the disciple start to come out onto the deck, I got up from my seat.
"The conversation's over for now, right? Then I'll go back to my room
to sleep" I said to Horikita.
"Yes, for now there is nothing left to talk about, all we have to do is proceed to our own group. Good job today. Be sure to tell me if anything comes up" Horikita told me as I left.
At least I've seen that when faced with adversity, Horikita has shown a willingness to fight back. But regardless of personal fit, Hirata and Kushida must be able to control it. I think I'll go back to my room and sleep until noon. Despite the fact that the exam had officially started, nothing could be done until then.
"Sorry to make you wait for Geppu, geppu, if you eat three heavy meals for lunch, you will definitely be full. I was thinking of a diet, but it seemed like it was failing"
Sotomura came up to me while rubbing her swollen belly due to all the food she had eaten before. This is a completely different picture of someone who claims to want to go on a diet. He came to my location and Yukimura who was waiting in front.
"It was really troublesome when the exam had already started, I just wanted to eat"
"What's ‘ right now I can't use my full strength'?"
"... I've been wanting to say it for a long time now, but can't you just not cut it off in a weird way of speaking?"
Of course, from the point of view of someone who didn't quite understand Sotomura, his words might look like a spell. But you just need to get used to it, I guess. On the contrary, sometimes speaking in such an unusual way can be interesting. But if I speak now, I might incur Yukimura's anger, so I let her continue her abuse.
"Pofu ~ Don't you like the way I talk? Then, What will suit you, Yukimura-dono?”
"Speak normally"
"Well, from now onwards I'll be a weak, strong protagonist, I usually have no motivation to do anything but the truth is, I don't, I have a power capable of destroying a world worthy of naming me Cheat-kun. Like the current trend" Yukimura, after
giving up on Sotomura's beliefs, started walking in front of us. Because we were a little late, we started
walk faster towards our destination.
"Ayanokouji, there's something I want to ask you, answer me" He spoke in a tone that matched the protagonist-type character.
"What do you want to ask?"
"I wonder, what's your favorite dialect? because you'd be happy if a cute heroine spoke in such a dialect" The way she said it herself sounded cool, but the content of the dialogue was always the same as her.
"No. .. There's no particular dialect I like" Since I was born and raised in Tokyo, there's no way I've known about such a dialect.
"Have you not had a chance on the 'moe' dialect experience yet'?"
How many students in this school do he think have such dialect nature? I could've kept his mouth shut by now but until we reached the designated meeting room, I guess I could
I wasted a while talking to him.
"Do you have a favorite dialect?" I asked him.
"Of course, I'll tell you through my own ranking system for dialects. In third place is the Kansai dialect, giving a firm yet rough impression. Second place is the beautiful dialect in the snow, the Hokkaido dialect. The use of dialects in the 2D world is also widespread so this is the more deadly moe dialect”
I said that I wanted to waste time talking to her, but nothing made sense to me, but before I could reply in some way, Sotomura started whistling by mimicking a strange sound that sounded like a 'doururururururu'.
"Number one in my dialect rank must be that the loli dialects for Oneesan are all used in a multifunctional way, the Hakata dialect. It is said to be the main dialect with a wide variety of popular dialects. These three dialects are the 3 best"
unfortunately, I could not understand what he wanted to say to me even though I realized that he was quite excited about this topic, but at least this managed to waste some time for a while. As we finished the conversation, we came to the front of the meeting room shown with the name of our group (Rabbit) written on the board in front of it, on the 2nd floor. Since the exam had already begun, the students crowded the corridor and gave me a claustrophobic feeling.
T/N: Claustrophobia is a disease of fear of cramped and trapped places.
"Game time is over yesterday. From now onward, hoping to be able to fight for yourself and for your class" Yukimura mainly directed those words to Sotomura, but I also nodded to him as approval.
"Haaa.no matter how many times I see it, this is the miserable group I have"
the statement came from one of the girls who entered the room, looked at us and sighed. She is one of the pretty girls in Class D (though a bit flashy). Karuizawa Kei's. Including him, 11 people were currently inside the room sitting on chairs arranged in a circular formation. Given the number of seats that are still empty, I think we might be the last to come. I wasn't able to identify them from the list alone but, there were a few students other than Ichinose and Ibuki in the room that I knew.
There was a male student from Class A who approached me during the exam on the island who proposed an alliance to sabotage Class D. But I didn't recognize most of the other male and female students in the room. It looks like those of us who were rivals some time ago will be forced to cooperate in this test.
Of course not only our classes, but other classes who also felt confused and awkward about this sudden arrangement. We chose to sit on the chair because standing up would make us more and more
stand out. The students almost naturally sat in groups based on their class, but Karuizawa and Ibuki both sat further away from the circle of disciples almost as if they were both isolated from the group.
"Hmm ... What's wrong?"
"Have you noticed something, Ayanokouji?"
"... no, it's nothing"
I thought Karuizawa would face Ibuki when she saw him. After all, it is Ibuki Mio in front of us who is responsible for theft***************** on the island exam. I thought he would take revenge soon, but maybe Karuizawa is more mature than I thought, or is he done with his revenge? After all, the fact that Karuizawa did not even look disappointed was unnatural. But before I could voice that question, an announcement came from the speakers attached at the
ship room.
"From this second onwards, we'll start with the first group discussion" Just that brief announcement, but since no one group from the different classes knows each other well, it's just that, no one wants to start a discussion.
Thus, an awkward air approached the room. Then, the girl named Ichinose Honami stepped up with a glowing smile after making sure that no one else would take the initiative step to speak.
Seriate......