“Kent, welcome home. Is what you’re holding related to why I called you here?”
“Well, I suppose it is.”
“Wow, getting a heart-shaped box from the Queen is amazing!”
“The Queen gave me this square box.”
“I see.”
Kent returned to the classroom and put the two boxes he brought home into a tote bag, trying not to be seen. However, Patty, who sat next to him, saw him and mistakenly believed he had received a heart-shaped box from the Queen. To avoid any problems, Kent told her that he had actually received a square box. Just then, the bell rang, signaling the start of class, and the first period began.
“Phew, done.”
After the first period ended, Kent stretched, cracking his neck, and entered a short break.
“Hey, Kent. What was the principal calling you for?”
“Tell us what happened.”
Bobby and other male students gathered around Kent’s desk, trying to find out what had been discussed in the principal’s office during the previous break.
“Th-that is…”
Kent was troubled, as telling the truth might lead to various problems.
“Everyone, Kent is in trouble. Today’s event was proposed by the principal, and Kent is heavily involved in procuring materials and such. It’s just a brief meeting about that. It’s not a big deal.”
“I see, if Patty says so, it must be true.”
“I thought we’d hear an interesting story, but that’s what it is then.”
Patty, sitting next to him, offered Kent a helping hand upon seeing his troubled expression. Since Patty had connections to royalty, everyone believed her and lost interest, dispersing from Kent’s desk.
“Patty, thank you for helping me.”
“Oh no, Kent always helps me, so this is just a small favor.”
Kent was very grateful to Patty for helping him out of his predicament.
“Next is Teacher Tia’s class. The bell is about to ring, so we should get ready.”
“Yeah. She usually enters the classroom the moment the bell rings, so it’s best to just sit and wait.”
Kent and Patty decided to wait in their seats for the next class.
“Alright, let’s begin class.”
As expected, Tia entered the classroom the moment the bell for the next class rang. A few students who had let their guard down were not in their seats, but they quickly hurried to their desks upon seeing her.
“Suddenly, we’re having a test today. If you recall what you’ve learned so far, it won’t be difficult. Also, anyone scoring below 40 will have after-school remedial lessons, so be prepared.”
“”Ehhhh!””
Tia announced a surprise test and that scoring below 40 would result in after-school remedial lessons, leading to groans throughout the classroom.
“Alright, alright, no complaining. Now, pass these to the back. Keep them face down and do not read the questions until I give the signal. Do you understand?”
Telling them so, Tia distributed the test papers to the students in the front row, who then passed them to those behind them, including the number of students in the back rows.
“Okay, Patty, please pass these to the back.”
“Yes.”
Patty received the required number of test papers from Tia, including those for the students in the back. After taking her own copy, Patty passed the rest to the back.
“I’ll leave Kent’s here, so please pass the rest to the back.”
“Yes, I understand.”
Tia placed one test paper face down on Kent’s desk and instructed him to send the rest to the back.
“Here you go.”
“Yes!”
After distributing the test papers sequentially to the front-row students, Tia returned to the teacher’s desk.
“Are they all distributed? If anyone needs writing utensils, I have pencils prepared, so please let me know.”
The pencils were items sold at Marie’s Bakery No. 2. Due to their convenience, pencils, erasers, and notebooks had become common writing supplies, and Tia, who had connections with Rachel, actively used them in her classes. While traditional feather pens and ink were perfectly fine, Tia even prepared loaner pencils for students who didn’t have writing tools.
“It seems everyone has writing utensils now. The test will end five minutes before the bell rings. Now, begin!”
Having confirmed that everything was ready, Tia gave the signal, and the surprise test commenced.
(Now, what kind of questions will there be? Huh?)
Kent flipped over the test paper as soon as the test began and looked at the questions. However, he was surprised by what he saw.
(It’s a fill-in-the-blank question, not multiple choice.)
The tests at this academy were basically multiple-choice, but this test consisted of fill-in-the-blank questions where answers were to be written directly.
(More importantly, what is this question? I don’t understand it at all because it’s so difficult…)
Kent was troubled by the questions. Until now, only questions used in games had appeared, but the quality of these was clearly different, approaching university-level questions or higher from his previous world. Naturally, it was difficult for the high school-educated Kent to solve them, leaving him with no choice but to randomly fill in answers or leave them blank.
“Okay, that’s all. Now, pass your test papers from the back seats to the front.”
After the test, the completed papers were collected under Tia’s instruction.
“Alright, good job, everyone. It’s a bit early, but we’ll end class now.”
Without waiting for the end-of-class bell, Tia concluded the lesson and left the classroom with the collected test papers.
“Kent, how was it?”
“I didn’t understand any of it.”
“Huh?”
Patty, sitting next to him, asked Kent about his performance, but her expression turned to surprise when she saw his gloomy face.
“It was a very easy question, but perhaps you had an off day?”
Patty asked, concerned about Kent.
“That question was very easy? They were all fill-in-the-blank, and the difficulty level was quite high?”
Kent frankly answered his impression of the test.
“That’s strange. All the questions were multiple-choice and straightforward, with no tricks.”
“What do you mean? It was multiple-choice?”
“Yes.”
Patty didn’t seem to be lying, and she stated that the test she took was easy, multiple-choice questions.
“What is going on? Hey, Bobby.”
“What is it, Kent?”
“How was the test just now?”
Kent called out to Bobby to confirm and asked about the test content.
“Even I could solve those easy multiple-choice questions. You should have gotten a pretty good score.”
“Is that so? That’s great then.”
“Yeah. I’m going to the restroom.”
Bobby, confident in his test results, headed to the restroom.
“What in the world is happening?”
Kent concluded that only his test questions were different, but he couldn’t understand the meaning behind it.
“I see. So, only my older brother had different test questions.”
It was lunchtime, and Kent was eating lunch with his usual group of Josette, Caro, and Rachel in their usual spot behind the school building. The topic of the surprise test in Teacher Tia’s class came up. When Kent mentioned that his questions were different and he couldn’t answer any of them, Rachel asked for confirmation.
“I’ll definitely get below 40, so I’ll probably have to attend remedial lessons. I’ll be late for my part-time job, so I need to let Marie know.”
“Kent, if that’s the case, I’ll inform Marie for you. So please attend your remedial lessons thoroughly.”
Kent, who knew his self-assessment was a definite zero, thought remedial lessons were unavoidable and said so. Josette then reassured him by offering to inform Marie.
“Could this be related to the time Kent’s test results were falsified before? If so, it’s possible that someone still under that person’s influence is involved, and Teacher Tia might have been bribed or threatened by someone.”
Hearing this, Caro recalled the incident where Kent’s score was unjustly altered.
“Caro, concerning this test, that’s not possible. It’s likely that different questions were accidentally mixed in, and they just happened to be placed on Kent’s desk.”
“Josette, you’re strangely defending Teacher Tia. Do you know something?”
Rachel, suspicious, questioned Josette, who was trying to pacify Caro, who seemed ready to act immediately.
“I-I don’t know. I don’t know anything.”
Josette replied nervously to Rachel’s words.
“You’re hiding something, aren’t you? If you don’t tell me the truth, I’ll squeeze those big breasts of yours!”
“R-Rachel, ah, it hurts when you squeeze so hard. No, no, to show such a shameful sight… nnn, ah, ah!”
“Rachel, Lady Josette is in trouble.”
“Alright, alright.”
Rachel’s hands locked onto Josette’s large breasts and began to squeeze. Kent’s eyes were glued to the swelling breasts moving up, down, left, and right under Rachel’s hands, even through her clothes. Caro, seeing this, intervened, and Rachel stopped squeezing.
“Older brother, you’ve been staring at Josette’s breasts since a while ago, haven’t you?”
“Guh, i-it can’t be helped!”
“Kent, you’re perverted.”
Accused by Rachel and Caro, Kent was troubled.
“An-anyway, I don’t know anything. Ah, the afternoon classes are about to start. Rachel, let’s go.”
“Huh? It’s me you’re pulling, not my older brother? Ca-Caro, older brother, I’ll see you later~”
Realizing that lunchtime was coming to an end, Josette, instead of Kent, pulled Rachel’s hand and headed back to the school building.
