#13 "Sae-chan"

I spent half of the night by writing down exam questions and answers and the next day I went to the school library to copy and print those questions and answers. I and Matsushita-san met up in my room early in the morning and I gave her papers I printed and instructed her what she should do. She had a quite surprised expression when she saw all the papers filled with questions and answers.

I guess she already figured out that I have a slightly better memory than others but if I want someone to trust and be loyal to me I need to show that I have a bit of trust in them too. Showing her part of my abilities served the purpose very well.

----After school----

Everyone was getting ready to leave.

"Everyone, could you give me a minute?!" Matsushita-san said aloud and everyone stopped doing their things and looked towards her with questioning faces.

"..." She appeared to be nervous before so many eyes so she looked at me and I nodded at her with a smile. She took a deep breath and started talking.

"I have something very important to give to every one of you." She said and waved with papers in her hand.

"Hmm, what is that Matsushita-san?" One of her friends asked her.

"These papers contain questions and answers for the upcoming midterm exam." (Matsushita)

"What?!!" Everyone was extremely surprised and the class turned into chaos for the next few seconds.

"Won't we get into trouble by doing this? And are you sure that these questions are legit?" Hirata asked her right after the commotion stopped.

"Of course they are. I bought them from a 2nd-year student and they weren't really surprised by our request so I think that doing such a thing is normal at this school." Matsushita-san answered every question from her classmates without any problems.

It seems that I made the right choice by choosing Matsushita-san as my helper. I could use someone like Kushida-san which would make it easier for others to believe her words but I don't like her and I don't want her popularity to go even higher. Matsushita-san might be an average girl in this class but they won't be able to just ignore these questions without looking at them. They will give them chance and once the midterm exam is over, all the glory will go to Matsushita-san, making her more popular and even more useful in the future.

Matsushita-san handed the papers over to everyone except for Koenji-kun who said that he has no need for that. I already told her that if someone rejects, then leave them be.

"Thanks, Matsushita-san!" Everyone thanked her but obviously they had their doubts.

I also got up, took my bag and I was ready to leave but before I could exit the classroom someone called out to me.

"Walker-kun, do you have any idea from whom these questions are?" It was Horikita-san who was looking at me with suspicion

"Huh, why would you think I know such information?" I asked her with a confused look

"I know that you are hiding something and I also know that you have been getting along with Matsushita-san recently." Horikita frankly told me reasons for her suspicion.

"So you think I have hands in this just based on my relationship with Matsushita-san?" I asked her without showing any signs of nervousness.

"...So it wasn't you?" It was apparent that Horikita started to doubt her suspicion.

"Look Horikita-san, I don't mind you being suspicious of me... To tell the truth, I don't care at all so you can think whatever you want. Now if you will excuse me I am leaving." I told her about my disinterest in what she thinks about me and I started walking towards exit once again.

"Wait!"

"What is it?" I turned around and asked her.

"Chabashira-sensei wants you to meet her in the guidance room" She said and left the classroom before me.

She always needs to have the last word but I wonder what does that woman wants to talk about with me...I guess I should go meet her before it's too late

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I was feeling pretty frustrated by the conversation I had with Chabashira-sensei so I decided to take a walk around the school grounds. I was walking near the tennis courts where the tennis club was currently practicing. I wanted to watch for a while but then I noticed that most of the members of the club were girls. They weren't wearing shorts but skirts so every time they served the ball their panties became visible.

How can school even allow this...? I didn't want to be considered as pervert so I started to leave but I stopped due to a commotion near me.

There were 4 students arguing. I didn't know 3 of them but I knew very well the last one.

It was Sudo and it seemed that he was being provoked by those 3 unknown students.

I don't think this is going to end well... I should go hold Sudo back in case he would decide to do something stupid.

I sighed and started to walk slowly towards them.

Why do I feel like a nanny in this school?

2 students grabbed Sudo's hands and made him kneel and the 3rd one started talking about how he can't wait to see how many from our class will get expelled.

I guess he is the leader of the group and also a quite arrogant one seeing his stance. This is getting too out of hand...

I coldly glared at that guy and he seemed to notice someone looking at him. When our eyes met he appeared a bit startled but he immediately smiled.

"I guess your savior is here, let him go" The guy said to Sudo and then ordered his lackeys to let Sudo go.

"You!" Sudo screamed and wanted to start a fight with them but I quickly caught his shoulder and shook my head.

"Walker-kun what do you want?!" Sudo asked me with a displeased expression

"First, I want you to calm down..." I said

"Alright, both sides please stop or I will be forced to report this fight to school" a girl who appeared out of nowhere ordered us to stop. She was also someone I knew.

"Ichinose, this can't be considered a fight, we were just playing around and this guy tried to jump at us. We are the victims here." The leader of the group said and pointed his finger at Sudo, he didn't even bother with honorifics.

"Really? To me, it looks more like you provoked him to do it, Ryuen-kun" Ichinose said.

So this guy's name is Ryuen.

"Whatever... Hey you, what is your name?" Ryuen just brushed off her comment and asked me for my name while looking at me.

"Walker"

"Walker huh? You have good eyes, it's a pity you weren't sorted into class C. We could have a lot of fun." The way Ryuen said this with his arrogant smile made me think of it as a challenge.

When Ryuen left, Ichinose came to us and tried to talk some sense into Sudo but I doubt it will help him.

"I didn't expect you to be here too, Walker-kun. It's been quite a time since our last encounter."

"It's nice to see you too, Ichinose-san. If you will excuse me I should go back." I said to her and turned around.

"Wait! Are you going to the dorms?" Ichinose asked me a bit weird question.

Why do you want to know where I go?

"Yes, is there some kind of problem?" I asked her with a confused expression.

"No, no but would you mind if I tag along?" Ichinose waved her hands.

I don't care what you do as long as it doesn't bother me.

"Do whatever you want..." I answered her shortly and started walking towards the dorms.

Ichinose quickly caught up with me and she started talking about various things. It wasn't annoying but to say I enjoyed it, that was far away from it. I couldn't figure out the reason for her friendliness.

-----Day after the midterm exam-----

When Chabashira-sensei showed us our results from the midterm exam I almost became deaf.

Everyone was screaming at the top of their lungs. A lot of people achieved great score but there were still average scores. How can you even score average when you know questions and answers beforehand.

"I truly didn't expect such high scores from you, however" She came near Sudo-kun's name and draw a red line above his name.

You got to be kidding me... How can you score so low?

"You didn't get enough points, Sudo" She said aloud, making the entire classroom quiet.

"Although we knew each other for a short time, I still appreciate the effort you made in my class. I already brought papers for your expulsion here." Chabashira-sensei mercilessly said and showed papers in her hands.

"Wait, isn't there anything we can do?!" Hirata immediately got up and tried to save Sudo from expulsion. Soon enough, even Kushida got up and pleaded the Chabashira-sensei

"Rules are rules... accept it" (Chabashira)

Wait, why did she bring expulsion papers here... Why not solve that after the lesson?

?! THAT WOMAN!!! I gritted my teeth as I thought about the last talk I had with Chabashira-sensei.

----(Start of Flashback)----

"I heard you wanted to meet me Chabashira-sensei." I walked into the guidance room.

"That's true, I have some bad news for you." (Chabashira)

"What do you mean?"

"Do you know that school investigated your background but they couldn't find anything. The school determined that you are harmless, however, if anyone powerful would want you to get expelled, the school wouldn't protect you since you have no backer." Chabashira-sensei said to me with a sly smile.

"I see... What's your point?"

"You see, every class wants to advance to a higher one and the same can be said about us, teachers. I know that you are quite smart, you aren't taking any notes during the classes and you still have average scores at exams." (Chabashira)

"I always remember the topic and then I find the book about it in the library."

"That would be fine if you didn't solve a few hard questions while having wrong answers for easier questions. You also had an average score in this midterm exam while others had much better than their standard" (Chabashira)

"I just happened to see those hard questions in the book. I still don't get your point in this..."

"I know that the rumor that spread out in your classroom at the start of the school originated from you I also had a small talk about you with your classmate Horikita." (Chabashira)

"..." I stayed quiet but my expression was slowly becoming colder and colder. I looked around the room for any cameras and I couldn't find any.

"You see, I want you to help class D climb up into class A. I know that you have already done a few things but I also know that you aren't doing your best. If you knew that your class will be losing points by demerits then why haven't you done something to stop these demerits from appearing?" Chabashira-sensei continued talking without minding my expression.

I narrowed my eyes and stomped my feet, with an almost inhuman speed I appeared right before Chabashira. Our noses were touching each other and our lips were just a few centimeters apart, however, there was no romantic atmosphere around us.

She seemed surprised by my action but she didn't move a bit. She didn't want to show any weakness before me.

"...If you will help the class I can become your backer" (Chabashira)

I glared straightly into her eyes.

"Are you threatening me?" I asked her in a toneless voice

"I don't know what you mean... I am just offering you protection" (Chabashira)

I ignored her words and took some distance from her.

"If you have nothing else to discuss I would like to leave"

"I will give you some time to consider my offer, Walker" (Chabashira)

I turned around to leave but I stopped for a moment right before the door.

"Sae-chan, you are playing with fire, please be careful" I sarcastically told her without any respect in my voice, I even used her first name.

I took the last glance at her and she appeared to be frozen by how I called her earlier.

----(End of Flashback)----

I quickly took out my phone and send a message to Matsushita-san. She noticed that she got a message, however, she didn't want to look at it in this situation. So I had to fake cough for her to notice it was from me. A few people looked at me but nothing more happened.

"Wait for a minute, please" Matsushita-san said and got up from her seat, I didn't have time to type a long message so hopefully, she will be able to improvise.

Everyone looked at her with a bit of hope in their eyes, after all, they were able to get through this exam with her help so they naturally thought that she has a plan.

"Chabashira-sensei, you said that we can buy anything with points right? How about we buy Sudo-kun's expulsion off."

"Ooh!" Everyone looked with hope in their eyes towards the teacher after hearing Matsushita-san's words.

She looked at me and slightly smiled.

"You can buy anything, that includes this, however, you don't have enough points to buy it"(Chabashira)

"And what if we buy only 1 point?" Horikita got up and asked the teacher.

"Hmm, that's also possible. 1 point equals 100.000 points"

"What? 100.000 points?" A slight commotion started in class but the entire class was able to put together 100.000 points in the end. Students weren't happy with parting with their points but Hirata and Kushida were able to persuade everyone. I only lost 5.000 points which was all thanks to that rumor at the beginning of school, if students had no savings at all I would be forced to pay much more.

We all were able to avoid the expulsion for the price but this price might even bring us more together as a class.