Practical teaching: Starting from the soul traveling through Dragon Garden

Chapter 452 Calculation
Ryuen was filled with unease. Where exactly had he slipped up and was he being manipulated by Sakayanagi?

The most painful thing is not that Ryuen was tricked by Sakayanagi, but that the exam is now over, which means that Ryuen has completely lost any chance of being saved.

Now that Sakayanagi has provided a clue, let's see who's in the last-place group. Ryuen took a deep breath, feeling uneasy, with a vague feeling that the image of that white-haired girl was lingering in his heart.

At 8 p.m., the students waited in their rooms for the school to announce their exam results.

Ryuen immediately opened the document released by the school, which recorded the scoring rules and rankings for each group. However, Hime saw that the first place was the Kogenji group, and Kanzaki's name was marked in red. Only those who need to be expelled are marked in red.

Hime was so happy she wanted to jump for joy. One less obstacle to her dominating the class had been removed. This time, Ryuen hadn't lied to her. She wanted to share this joy with Ryuen as soon as possible. Sending a message couldn't express how happy she was, so she wanted to call Ryuen.

"Hey, Ryuen, did you see that? Kanzaki got expelled! Hahaha! We did it! We did it!"

"Oh, I see. Is there anything else? If not, I'll hang up."

"what?"

Ji Ye was still wondering why Long Yuan sounded unhappy when Long Yuan had already hung up the phone.

"Tch, what kind of attitude is that!"

Hime was venting her anger on thin air, all the joy she had felt earlier vanished. Faced with Kanzaki's expulsion, she suddenly felt a pang of sadness. If even Kanzaki had been forced to drop out by Ryuen, then if Ryuen wanted to expel Hime, wouldn't it be an easy task? The thought filled Hime with dread.

On the other side, Long Yuan had no interest in seeing who was in first place. His attention was focused on the group that was last. No matter which group was last, someone from each class would be expelled. So Long Yuan had already made preparations. For the class, sacrifice was inevitable. Long Yuan would not spend points to save the bottom-ranked class.

However, the name highlighted in red is none other than Hiyori Shiina!

"Using this move, Sakayanagi!"

In the class, the most important person to Ryuen is Shiina, which is why Sakayanagi has his eye on Shiina. In the current situation, no matter what Ryuen chooses, it will be a blow to the class. If Ryuen doesn't spend points to save Shiina, the trust built up in the class will collapse in an instant, and the other students will find it difficult to trust Ryuen again. After all, Ryuen can even abandon Shiina, so how can they trust Ryuen?

If Ryuen were to spend 20 million points to save Shiina, putting aside the loss of 20 million points, Ryuen could afford to spend 20 million points, since the 20 million points prepared for Ichinose hadn't been spent. However, in this group, besides Shiina, there is another student from Class A, Ibuki.

Ryuen was in a real bind. If the devil in this group were Ibuki or Shiina, the 20 million yen reward from the school would have been enough to prevent both of them from being expelled. Unfortunately, the devil in this group was Mafuyu from Class B. And just one minute after the rankings were announced, the school released another announcement: Mafuyu used the 20 million yen reward from the school to offset the expulsion penalty of her classmate Fukada.

After the rankings were announced, neither Ibuki nor Shiina contacted Ryuen, which angered Ryuen! He sent messages to both of them.

"Now, immediately, come to the equipment room on the fifth floor and find me!"

The equipment room on the fifth floor was where Long Yuan found the basketball during the afternoon free play session. At that time, no one was there.

As soon as Ibuki and Shiina entered, they saw Ryuen with a gloomy expression.

Shiina didn't dare to look Ryuen in the eye, and Ibuki also moved away, trying to hide behind Shiina.

"Come in! Close the door!"

Long Yuan had planned everything meticulously, but he never expected to follow in Nan Yun's footsteps and have the girl beside him schemed against.

"Given your abilities, how could you be ranked last in the group?" Seeing that Ryuen didn't immediately blame them but instead inquired about the reason, Ibuki breathed a sigh of relief and said indignantly, "This...this isn't my or Hiyori's fault, it's all that Fukada's fault! That's why she schemed against us! That's why neither of us got any points in the competitions we participated in. I already told her I don't know anything about ice sculpting, but she still encouraged me to participate!"

Fukada and Mafuyu are both students in Class B, so it seems they had received instructions from Sakayanagi beforehand, which is why they plotted against Ibuki and Shiina.

Ryuen ignored the angry Ibuki and looked at Shiina, who was standing to the side with her head down, and said in as gentle a tone as possible: "Ibuki is stupid. It's one thing if you can't see the clues, but Hiyori, don't you have any suspicions at all?"

When Ryuen suddenly called her stupid, Ibuki wanted to retort immediately, but before she could open her mouth, Ryuen glared at her and shut her up.

"I, I, at first, I felt something was wrong, but, but, I didn't want to cause trouble for Ryuen-kun."

Hiyori's voice was choked with sobs. Even though she had her head down and her face was hidden, tears still fell to the ground. Hiyori knew how big a mistake she and Ibuki had made, so she felt very guilty. She didn't expect Ryuen to save her, or rather, she didn't want Ryuen to save her at all, as that would only make her feel more guilty.

"Why are you crying? Ibuki isn't even crying."

Ryuen wanted to take out a tissue from her pocket to wipe Hiyori's tears, but all she had in her pocket was a Sagami tissue she had bought at the supermarket at noon. After awkwardly putting it away, Ibuki handed her the tissue from her pocket.

"There's nothing to cry about. It's just dropping out of school. At worst, you can just stop going. It's not that interesting anyway."

Ryuen knew that Ibuki was trying to comfort Shiina, but the words of comfort were worse than nothing, and Ryuen's comforting skills were inferior.

"Shut up, you."

Ryuen took the tissue from Ibuki and wiped Hiyori's tears with his own hands. However, the gentler Ryuen was, the more Hiyori felt. She felt that she had done something wrong and that Ryuen should punish her and scold her. That way, she would feel better.

How many tears can a tissue hold?

At least one girl's tears could not be contained.

Do you know where you went wrong?

Ryuen cupped Hiyori's face in his hands, forcing her to look at him. In just a moment, Hiyori's eyes were swollen from crying, making her look truly pitiful.

"No, I didn't see through Fukada's scheme."

“She has Sakayanagi behind her, it’s normal that you can’t see through her, and you’ve noticed the clues, haven’t you? You’re not completely being led by the nose. Your biggest mistake is that you’re afraid of bothering me.”

The tissues were soaked through, and Ibuki didn't have any more, so Ryuen could only use his own sleeve to wipe Hiyori's tears.

"Why would you trouble me, whether it's for the class or for your own sake? Hiyori, your problems are not trouble for me. It's only natural for you to ask me for help. I know you must be regretting it now, regretting not telling me sooner. It's okay, just remember to do it next time."

After Ryuen finished speaking, Ibuki's eyes lit up. Although she was sometimes a bit slow, she understood what Ryuen meant: they were saved. Ryuen intended to save them.

However, Hiyori shook her head. As the class's treasurer, she knew very well how many points the class had. Forty million points were simply out of reach. Even if they could, Hiyori knew very well how much of an impact losing forty million points would have on the class. She would never allow the dynasty that Ryuen had built to decline because of her mistakes.

(End of this chapter)