"There will be 50 short questions of each subject, summing up to 250 questions. You have 2 hours to solve them. After completion, exchange your paper with your partner, and evaluate them, based on the answer sheet, I would provide later. The questions have been framed by Chabashira sensei herself, so the level of questions would be very uch similar to that of the actual exam. Good luck everyone.", Horikita said, as she distributed the question papers to everyone.
I was paired up with Ayanokouji.
It would be a good chance to talk with him after the exam is over.
But, let's decide my stance in this special exam.
I don't really care if Ayanokouji gets expelled or not, cause I want to live a peaceful life here too.
So, I decided not to get involved further in special exams as much as I used to, at first.
But, as a deal with Tsukishiro, I promised to help him in expelling Ayanokouji.
Then, what should be my stance?
There was a time, when I wanted to be like Ayanokouji.
You know, when a fictional character becomes your idol or something like that.
Everyone must have felt that way towards the character they love so much, right?
I also thought of being calculating, cold and composed like Ayanokouji.
Deep down, I knew that imitating a fictional character is not possible.
Cause, there situation and ours is completely different.
The environment Ayanokouji was born and brought up with, made him like that, which is not possible to achieve completely.
Well, I was an immature brat at that time, so I never thought about all that.
But, as enough time passes, you get to realize that many of our ambitions and goals are far out of our reach.
Everything you had ever dreamt of would seem impossible and you will just have to flow with the path of time, and end up somewhere ordinary, where most of the ordinary people end up at, like myself.
Anyway, when I reincarnated here, got to see him in the flesh, it was like a dream come true for me.
Even if I am adult, there was a childish part of me, living inside me, who would dance in joy seeing his idol in action.
Yet, eventually, as I got to see him more often, I realized, he is just as human as myself too.
Now that I have come this far, I don't feel that way anymore.
Nor do I have the drive to get excited over it.
Considering the story went on to year 2 volume 10, when I died in my original world, Ayanokouji must have survived Tsukishiro's attacks, and emerged victorious.
So, it's not like he needs my help to survive or anything.
But, should I try to expel him, was the biggest question standing in front of me.
From a more objective point of view, Ayanokouji would be helpful in removing chaos causing elements like Tsukishiro, and the other white room students of first year.
As I have gotten myself in this mess, he would be very useful in that respect.
Also, even if I tried to expel him, my success chances are very low, considering it's Ayanokouji I am up against.
So, it's better if I make him an ally through this special exam, though I know that he perceives others nothing more than pawns of his own game.
That's not a problem though, cause I am also using him for my own benefit.
Now that I decided to help him in this exam, it was time to decide what role I should play in Tsukishiro's scheme.
As the exam went on, I wrote the answers to the questions I knew the answers to.
It's not like I am dumb enough to fail in a mere high school exam.
In my time, I was the topper of my school too.
Now that I think about it, there is a chance of my expulsion.
That girl, Rika, I paired up with, might have some bad intentions, offering to pair up with me.
If she scores zero deliberately, then no matter how much I score, I would be expelled.
Although, she would also be expelled in suspicion of malpractice.
For that too, I should remain vigilant.
Now on to the main focus of the matter, after writing the answers, I just had a few minutes to spare, so I wrote my message for Ayanokouji in my answer sheet.
Let's see how he reacts.
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[Someone's POV]
I don't like light novels.
Nor the manga or anime, that is famous among children.
As a child, I hated them, in fact, cause they never depict the reality.
Just a bunch of fantasy filled fictional characters, to satisfy the target audience.
Literature books are far greater than them.
Yet, for some reason, I was always exposed to such fictions.
My father was a mangaka himself.
A famous one at that.
He would go onto passionately describe his story and plots to me, when I was a child too.
I listened to him reluctantly, as he never talked about anything else.
Literally nothing, after mom left us.
That was the reason, my father started writing such fictions, which I hate to the core.
I hate such 'fantasies'.
Until I saw someone else who was also infatuated with such things.
He loved this particular light novel, almost as much as I hate such things.
He also formed a club, and named it the COTE fan club, as the title of the light novel was COTE.
I never knew the full form, but I enjoyed watching him explaining every detail of it to me.
Nevertheless, my life was getting slightly better, slowly but surely.
And he must be the reason of it.
Yet, things change.
People change.
Thus, he changed too.
And, so did I.
Now, if you ask me what I hate, then such fantasy stories would be the second most preceded by that boy.
The same boy, who changed my life for the better, has become someone I hate the most.
As I was reminiscing on the past, a man named, Tsukishiro, entered the chamber, I was sitting in.
"As an elite student of the White Room, I didn't expect you to behave like that.", he said to me, in a serious expression.
"I beg your apology, Director."
"Nothing serious has happened, so I will let this slide. Be careful next time."
"Understood."
"And let me remind you that your primary goal is to expel two students. Kiyotaka Ayanokouji...... and Yamauchi Haruki."
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