Demon Slayer: I was taken home by Shinobu Kocho at the beginning.

Chapter Twenty-Five: The End-of-Month Mini-Test

After swimming lessons ended, life returned to normal, and the students in Class D became increasingly unruly, with sleeping in class and chatting loudly becoming commonplace.

For example, right now, Ike and Yamauchi are talking and laughing loudly in class, but Sudo, who is right next to them, is fast asleep on his desk. It's amazing that he can sleep in such a noisy environment.

Thanks to this, the class secretly called the three of them the "Three Idiots," or simply "The Three Fools."

Faced with this chaotic situation, the teacher lecturing on the podium made no attempt to stop them.

Tatsuya Kamio even saw pity in the substitute teacher's eyes.

Meanwhile, a group of girls in the neighborhood were already enthusiastically discussing their plans after school.

Even if they are late or leave early, the teachers won't say much. The students in Class D can be said to be in a completely free state.

In addition, there were 100,000 private points distributed by the school, which made for a very happy life.

But happy times always pass quickly, and before you know it, it's the end of the month.

The third period was Chabashira-sensei's social studies class, and Chabashira-sensei arrived at the classroom as usual, just as the bell rang.

However, even after the teacher arrived, the atmosphere in the classroom remained chaotic, and the high spirits did not diminish at all.

However, Chabashira-sensei ignored this phenomenon, causing Kamio Tatsuya to shake his head inwardly.

"Quiet down, you need to pay a little more attention in class today."

"Sae-chan-sensei, what's going on?"

Some students have already started calling the teacher by this title, but even so, Mr. Chabashira still doesn't react at all.

In Tatsuya Kamio's view, Sae Chabashira's outward appearance is very similar to Suzune Horikita's.

Imagine if one day someone called Horikita Suzune "Suzune-chan"... and the other person didn't even react.

There are only two possible outcomes: one is that the relationship between this person and her has become quite close, such as her idolized older brother, student council president Horikita Manabu.

Another possibility is that when you call her that, she's already thinking about how to get back at you.

Kamio Tatsuya believes the current situation is similar to the second scenario.

While Chabashira-sensei wouldn't go so far as to kill the student who called her that, she'd probably still retaliate in some small way.

"Because it's the end of the month, there will be a quiz, and the test papers will be passed on to the back."

After dividing the exam paper into five equal parts, they were given to the students in the first row. Soon, Tatsuya Kamio also received his exam paper.

After receiving it from the student in front of him, Tatsuya Kamio quickly scanned it and found that it was a quiz containing questions from five main subjects.

"How could this be? I've never heard of requiring an exam. How cunning!"

As students, it's natural to be afraid of exams, so it's normal for some to complain.

"Don't say that. This exam is just for future reference and won't be reflected on your transcript. Even if you get a zero, there's no risk, so just do it without worry. But cheating is prohibited."

Generally speaking, grades only affect the transcript; otherwise, the exam would be meaningless.

Based on a month of observation, the school is unlikely to do anything meaningless.

In other words, although this exam will not be reflected on the transcript, it is not without significance.

I remember that at the beginning of the semester, Ms. Chabashira said that as a teacher, she could not lie, which meant that everything she said was the truth.

However, the real meaning was actually hidden in what she just said.

So the key point in that sentence wasn't that there would be no risk, but rather... is it meant to be used as a reference for the future?

It's a bit complicated, so Tatsuya Kamio decided to stop here for now.

Then, Tatsuya Kamio began answering the questions.

Each subject has four questions, for a total of twenty questions. Each question is worth five points, for a total of one hundred points.

However, the questions were very strange; some of them were even answered by Tatsuya Kamio, who hadn't studied much.

However, the three questions on the back of the exam paper are clearly from another dimension.

Even calculus came up, which is clearly not a question that a first-year high school student who has only been in school for a month can answer.

Damn it, in his previous life, even when Tatsuya Kamio was in college, he only came into contact with calculus.

It has now appeared on a high school student's exam paper.

Just kidding, no.

But since it's an exam, let's give it our all and answer the questions.

Kamio Tatsuya is very familiar with exam-oriented education.

Although I don't know the answer to this question, I can still give you the correct answer.

By the end of the class, Tatsuya Kamio had done everything he could.

I estimate I'll get around 50 points.

Unfortunately, although some questions seem very simple, the foundation of the original students is just too weak, such as Mandarin.

After the bell rang, Kamio Tatsuya handed the test paper to the student in front of him and then asked him to pass it to the podium.

Then he stretched and relaxed thoroughly.

Ever since he beat up Yamauchi in the classroom, many people in the class have kept their distance from Kamio Tatsuya.

So for two weeks, Tatsuya Kamio ate lunch alone, and even Ayanokouji, whom he had once invited, kept his distance from him.

"How pathetic."

Tatsuya Kamio turned his head, and Suzune Horikita took out a bento box from the drawer.

Although it still looks quite lavish, it has become noticeably more meager compared to the beginning of the month.

"Really? A guy who's about to run out of money for food has no right to talk to me like that."

What's the point of not hitting someone in the face or insulting someone by revealing their weaknesses?

Kamio Tatsuya has a penchant for rubbing salt into other people's wounds.

However, Horikita Suzune seemed to have gotten used to Kamio Tatsuya's routine, and simply picked up her chopsticks and started eating on her own.

Ignore me? No problem. When you finally decide to buy ingredients and eat a wild vegetable set meal, I'll sit across from you with a lobster set meal.

You idiot, it smells so good!

Perhaps because it was the end of the month, there were quite a few people queuing at the mountain vegetable set meal window, much more than at other windows.

As usual, Tatsuya Kamio ordered a tonkatsu (fried pork cutlet) rice bowl.

To be honest, there are quite a few things in Japanese cuisine that are very similar to Chinese cuisine, such as this tonkatsu (fried pork cutlet) rice bowl.

In China, it would be called fried pork chop rice bowl.

After thinking for a moment, Tatsuya Kamio took out his phone, took a picture, and sent it to Suzune Horikita.

I also included a line of text.

The fried pork cutlet smells so good!

Horikita Suzune's contact information was added when the information was sold to her.

Even though I sold her the information so early on, she didn't do anything about it.

What on earth is that guy doing?

Don't you believe the information I gave you?

Chapter Twenty-Six: The Unrest in Early May

Early in the morning, under the overload of the alarm clock, Tatsuya Kamio opened his eyes. Today is May 1st, the day the school distributes points.

Tatsuya Kamio rubbed his eyes and then opened the student ID page on his phone.

Student ID: S01T004915

Name: Tatsuya Kamio

Birthday: May 10

Affiliation: Advanced Educational High School

Private Points: 3,158,755 ppt

Unfortunately, although the points seem like a lot, it's not much different from what I had when I went to bed last night.

In other words, as expected, Class D did not gain any points, and the class's points became zero.

It shouldn't be a negative score, since no points were deducted from Kamio Tatsuya's score.

After washing up, Tatsuya Kamio found an unread message on his phone.

It was sent by Sakayanagi Arisu; it was a thank-you letter, thanking Kamio Tatsuya for keeping his promise not to sell the information to Class B and Class C.

She also sent over the points that Class B and Class C had earned.

Each student in Class B received 65,000 private points, and each student in Class C received 49,000 private points.

Wow, you're really quick.

They found out about information from other classes so quickly.

Oh, and I have more news for you: Class D didn't get any points. That means Class D's class points are now zero. Aren't you happy?

Upon seeing the message from Tatsuya Kamio, Arisu Sakayanagi, who was already sitting in her classroom seat, frowned.

Was this said in anger?

Of course I wasn't saying this out of anger; there's nothing to be angry about.

[Congratulations, but I'm not really happy because this is so boring. Actually, I've been hoping that Kamio-kun would give me a surprise.]

"You're overthinking it. I'm just an ordinary person; I can't create something as difficult as a surprise. Besides, there's really nothing to congratulate about Class D's points reaching zero."

After replying, Tatsuya Kamio packed his things and went to school.

Although teachers don't care about being late, Tatsuya Kamio felt that since he was now a student, he should act like one and do his job as a student.

Being too indulgent is not a good thing.

As he walked, Tatsuya Kamio suddenly remembered something: he didn't seem to have asked Class A how many personal points they had received this month.

Then he took out his phone and sent a text message to Masumi Kamuro.

How many points did you earn today?

The message was sent and received a response very quickly.

【99400】

99400, does that mean Class A has 994 class points?

Wow, are these the elites of Class A?

It was so terrifying.

Upon arriving at Class D, Tatsuya Kamio immediately noticed that the atmosphere was noticeably different today.

Although it seemed noisy as usual at first glance, it wasn't just Yamauchi and Ike who were making a ruckus; quite a few other students from Class D were also quite disruptive.

"Why haven't I received my points yet? Isn't today the 1st?"

"That's right, I've already used up all my points. I've had several free mountain vegetable meals recently, and the taste is simply indescribable."

Kamio Tatsuya ignored them and sat back down in his seat. Spending 100,000 yen in a month, Kamio Tatsuya didn't know how to describe these guys.

That's 100,000 yen, which is less than the monthly disposable income of many Tokyo salaried workers who have just entered the workforce.

However, a group of high school freshmen spent all the money in a month or even less.

The school really treats you guys too well.

Because it's free, it's a waste, right?

Have you received your points?

As soon as she sat down, Horikita Suzune, who was to her left, turned her head and asked a question.