Practical teaching: Starting from the soul traveling through Dragon Garden

Chapter 120 Strategy
Often rational choices are not humane. Although Meili-ge has been recognized by Horikita, given Horikita's influence in the class, not many people will listen to her opinion when the actual voting takes place.

Brother Meili combed his hair upwards skillfully. In fact, there was another way to avoid being expelled from school, and that was to get votes of appreciation from other classes.

At this moment, a disgusting face appeared in Kouenji's mind—Ryuen.

However, Hirata could not accept the infighting in the class. He called on everyone to calm down and tried desperately to mediate the conflict, but his words only made the conflict worse.

In order to avoid being expelled from school, Yamada and Ike have begun to point out the shortcomings of others one by one.

Chi taunted Hirata from the side: "You talk nicely, but how do you expect us to stay calm? You are so good, after all, you won't be the last one to make sarcastic remarks here!"

Hirata gave a bitter smile, but Yamauchi caught it and said, "Don't smile bitterly, class leader. There is nothing to pretend. Only our Master Hirata is absolutely safe."

Yamauchi's words hit Hirata's soft spot, and the words he wanted to use to comfort him were stuck in his mouth.

This class can't make any progress unless the parasites are eliminated, and Hirata didn't realize this.

The friendships that had been established in the class since the beginning of the school year would most likely be shattered by this exam. The only way to avoid being expelled was the rule that they had been told shortly after the beginning of the school year: 20 million points would allow one to be promoted to any class, or one expulsion penalty would be rescinded.

This is impossible for Class D, even if they emptied every student's pocket. Class B is also far from this number. Class A does not even consider this method. Although they can come up with 20 million points, this method is too cost-effective. 20 million to protect the most useless person in the class, this is a method that Class A will never choose.

Ryuen was naturally not that ashamed. Instead, he wanted to use this exam to eliminate some dissidents.

Before the formal vote, small groups in the class had already started to act. In order to protect the people in their group from being expelled, they could vote for each other in the group. But people from other groups did the same. This was too inefficient and the risk increased. So the smart people had started to rally their companions and form a large group to attack someone together.

The group that Ayanokouji belongs to has decided to vote against Kouenji. Although he promised in class that he would contribute in the future, his credibility is not high. After all, no one in Class D has a good impression of him.

While Ayanokouji's group continued their discussion, Horikita discovered that Ryuen was drinking tea leisurely by himself not far away.

Horikita walked straight to Ryuen and asked straight to the point, "Are you going to do nothing for this exam and just wait for the results?"

"There's nothing wrong with this. After all, the person who is voted out must be the most disliked one. Even if he is expelled from school, he should not have any complaints." Ryuuen did not expect that Horikita would come to talk to him so openly in front of his classmates.

As if she didn't get the answer she wanted, Horikita continued the topic: "What if a lot of criticism votes were cast for you? Although there are some students who feel guilty about this, compared to others, the guilt for voting for you is the least."

Horikita was absolutely sure that there must be many students in Class C who would vote to criticize Ryuuen.

"Lingyin, you care about me so much? Logically speaking, if I am expelled, Class C will have no chance of winning in future exams. You should be very happy to see this happen. What's wrong? Are you reluctant to let me go?"

Ryuuen raised his hand playfully and tried to touch Horikita's cheek, but Horikita slapped his hand away in mid-air.

Horikita didn't intend to end the conversation: "The possibility of you being expelled is actually very low. What I want to know is what you plan to do in this exam. Doing nothing is not your style. Ryuuen, are you going to be the most useless person to be expelled?"

"Who knows? Maybe I'll be the one who drops out. Don't be too confident. There are many people in the class who don't like me."

Horikita couldn't get an answer from Ryuuen. What she really wanted to ask was whether Ryuuen needed her vote of appreciation. Although she couldn't decide whether her classmates would vote for Ryuuen, as Ryuuen's girlfriend, Horikita still felt that her tiny vote should go to Ryuuen, but Ryuuen didn't seem to care.

On the way back to class after drinking tea, Ibuki found Ryuen and pulled him to a secluded corner.

"There are cameras in this place, Ibuki, are you so careless now?"

"The camera is not important! As long as the classmates don't see it, it's fine!" "Ugh, it seems that you are looking for me because of the exam."

Not having to hide from cameras means he's not afraid of being discovered by students from other classes, and hiding from his own classmates means that what Ibuki wants to talk about is related to Class C. Since there's only one special exam that needs to be discussed recently, that doesn't make it that hard to guess.

"I think someone in the class must have approached you and asked you to vote against me."

Ibuki was shocked: "How did you know?"

After coming back to his senses, Ibuki continued to ask, "So what are you going to do?"

"Just follow your heart. If you want to vote for me, then go ahead."

Ryuuen spoke very casually, as if he really didn't care about the exam.

"Why would I vote for you! Even though you're an extremely annoying person, you're still somewhat useful to the class!"

"You're not that annoying, aren't you a bit handsome?"

Ryuuen teased the girl in front of him. The reason why those people chose to win over Ibuki was because she usually showed her dislike for Ryuuen without disguising it. It was a pity that they did not realize that Ibuki was a tsundere.

Ibuki left in a bad mood. After all, Ryuuen didn't take his advice seriously at all, and he even suspected that he would vote for him as a critic.

Long Yuan really doesn't care whether he gets one more or one less vote of criticism, it has no effect on him at all.

When passing by Class B, Ichinose's class had stopped the discussion, or rather, they had never discussed it in the beginning. After all, for the united Class B, giving up any student would be unacceptable.

At this time, Ichinose was standing at the window chatting with Shiranami Chihiro. Because Ichinose had already announced to the class that he had formed an alliance with Class C, the members of Class B were not so averse to Ryuen.

"Hey, Ichinose."

"Hello." Ichinose was a little surprised that Ryuen would come and talk to him.

In the awkward atmosphere, Shiranami Chihiro left on her own accord, leaving the two of them chatting across a window.

Ryuen opened the window to let in some air. "You look so unhappy. It seems that this test was very difficult for you."

"Ryuen-san seems quite relaxed. Did you find a way to deal with it?"

"There's no need to find a solution. Just expel a useless person from school."

“…Ryuen-san is really decisive.” Ichinose looked embarrassed.

"Ichinose, you are going to drop out of school yourself, right?"

Ichinose was a little shocked when his thoughts were guessed.

(End of this chapter)