Sudo still slept in the class.

Nobody tried to wake him up because everyone knew he was going to be mad with anyone daring to wake him.

No one could do something with that. We're just waiting until Sudo being expelled after the midterm exam.

When you got appendicitis. Just cut the appendix.

Not like their friend. Ike and Yamauchi tried to be good boys for a while. They and Sudo were called the idiot trio. But they knew there was a high risk that it would become the idiot duo.

Even they despaired with Sudo.

Everyone despaired with Sudo.

Except for Horikita.

After class. Hirata announced that he would found a study group for students who are bad at studying. He and other academic students in the class would teach them.

"If you fail this test, you will be expelled. So I want everyone to join." He looked at Sudo. But a red-hair guy ignored him.

I decided to ask Sudo when he was walking out.

"Hey, Sudo. Will you join the study group?"

"Nah, I have to practice basketball. They will audition for on-ground players soon."

"But if you didn't pass--"

Sudo stared at me with threatening eyes. So I shut my mouth.

Same with Sudo. Ike and Yamauchi didn't join Hirata's study group, too.

"We believe in a one-night miracle," said Yamauchi. "Do you know? If you do something with the rush hour, your adrenaline will rush and give you a superpower. This's my trick when I play baseball, I always practice a night before the match..."

I ignored his words and walked to my desk to pack my bag.

"So you worried about them?" Horikita asked me from the side.

"Not much. Just the thing that humans should do." I said.

"Sudo-Kun won't join for sure. Yamauchi-Kun and Ike-Kun didn't get along with Hirata-Kun so they won't join too." Horikita sighed. "What a troublesome."

"About getting along. How are you and Kushida? She said she tried to be friends with you."

"I think. I have told you. Friends're useless." Horikita said coldly.

"Come on. Just gave her your phone number. Kushida won't bother you. I gave her a phone number and she called me only---. No, she never calls me."

Suddenly, I felt the arrow at my chest.

"What a pitiful."

"Anyway. I thought she won't annoy you more than I did."

"Don' forget yourself. Ayanokouji-Kun. You aren't my friend. Just the genius pervert sexually harasser who falls on the girl every 2 minutes and hides his ability that I knew."

Why is my suffix longer? At least she admitted that she knew me.

"Ok. I maybe your---No, I won't repeat that. But you can say I'm your acquaintance. You can do the same with Kushida. She is a good girl."

Horikita hooked her head. "You didn't know her."

"You, too."

"Hi, Ayanokouji-Kun, Horikita-San."

Speak of evil. No, speak of an angel. Kushida came to my desk with the polite shy girl whose name was Inogashira Kokoro.

"Hello. Kushida. Can I help you?"

"Yes. Ayanokouji-Kun got the 100 scores at the last exam, right?" Kushida asked me with a smile. Horikita stared at me.

"No, actually yes. But it's just my luck." I told her the truth.

"Don't be so modest," Kushida said. "Here, Kokoro-Chan. She's kind of worry about her grade."

Inogashira nodded. "I'm not good at English."

"Why don't you joined Hirata's study group?" I asked her.

"It's complicated." Kushida seemed that she didn't want to talk about it. But Inogashira said softly.

"I'm in love with Hirata-Kun." Her face turned red.

I raised my eyebrows. It's normal. Almost the whole class liked Hirata. If I was a girl. I would too.

But Kuruizawa had crushed our dreams.

"I see. You feel uncomfortable, right?"

She shook her head. "No, I want to get close to him. But the one who teaches English is Mii-Chan."

Mii-Chan or Wang Mei-Yu was a Chinese girl who lives in Japan for a long time. She was very good at English. I didn't understand what a problem was with her.

"Mii-Chan liked Hirata-Kun too," Inogashira said. "I feel uncomfortable with her because she told me before Hirata-Kun go on date with Karuizawa-San that she like him. But I still fall in love with him. She knew it a week ago. And we've not talked to each other for a while."

"I see. I think I understand now." No, I don't understand at all. The girl's world was complicated I guess.

"So I want you to teach Kokoro-Chan," Kushida told me her request.

"No no no, I can't teach anyone. I told you. IJAC. It's just a coincidence."

"Please, Ayanokouji-Kun. Help me for a once." Kushida made a cute puppy face to me.

"Yes, help me, please." Inogashira tried to make the same face as Kushida. Oh, she was so cute, too.

(Cute + Puppy face) * 2 = Nirvana.

"If you said that." I shook my head. "No, I still can't. But I knew someone that can help."

I glanced at Horikita.

"What's wrong?"

"I just think about ask you to help Inogashira," I said.

"What? No way, I didn't have time that much."

I whispered in her ears. "Come on, you told me this midterm test may be the key, right? What if the class's average point increase makes the class point increase too."

Horikita thought for a while.

"If you said so. I will help Inogashira-San." She sighed.

"Yeah! Thank you, Horikita-San, Ayanokouji-San." Inogashira smiled and shook my hand.

Ah, the girl's hand's so soft.

No, stay cool! You're dead eyes cold character, remember?

"But I have a condition for you, Ayanokouji-Kun," said Horikita.

"What condition?"

"I want you to make Ike-Kun, Sudo-Kun, and Yamauchi-Kun join our study group. We should increase their scores, too."

Understandable.

"Understood," I said. It should be easy. Who didn't want want to study with the beautiful girl?

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They didn't.

The idiot trio used the same pretext.

Sudo threatened me if I asked him again, we will make sure I couldn't ask anyone for my whole life.

I understood, good day, sir.

So there're just I and Horikita in the library.

"You try your worst." Horikita soothed(?) me.

"It should be your best, shouldn't it?"

"No, " She stressed the word. "Okay, your mission failed."

"We'll get 'em next time."

"No, there is no next time for you, I will go home." Horikita stood up. Meanwhile, I heard Kushida's cheerful sound.

"Ayanokouji-Kun! Horikita-San!"

"Shhh!" The little white-haired girl warned Kushida. She said sorry and walked toward us.

"I'm sorry for keep you waiting." She apologized to us with a pitiful face.

"No, we're sorry for come early."

"What?"

"Nothing."

Horikita sighed. "No need to apologize. I'm going to---"

She stopped when see someone followed Kushida.

They were the Idiot trio and Inogashira.

"What's up?" Ike shouted.

"Shhh!" The same little white-haired girl warned him too. He bowed as apologize.

After she walked away. Ike said to Yamauchi. "She's extremely cute!"

"Yes, So you get her. I will take Kushida-Chan."

"Dream on!"

Horikita looked at them with surprise.

"Why do they come with you?" She asked Kushida.

"Oh, I just told them that I will study with you, and then they said they want to study with you, too."

Sudo glanced at me for a while. He probably felt uncomfortable. He just rejected me but said yes a cute girl in the same question.

Don't worry, buddy. I would do the same thing.

"I didn't say I allow you to study with me," Horikita said in the bad mood. But I pulled her shirt and said softly.

"If you don't accept Kushida, then that three won't study with you."

"So you're telling me to accept her? She's good enough to pass the midterm exam by herself."

"Then you won't too tired, right? Kushida can teach those three too."

Horikita looked at me with disgust. "How long you turn from pervert to a simp?"

"Oi, Don't call me a simp. Call me the knight. Praise his lady as his life."

Horikita sighed.

"I don't want to get close with someone who hates me."

What? Kushida hated Horikita? Come on, it's impossible----right?

I looked at Kushida. She returned my sight with the prettiest smile in the world.

Therefore. As the man who considers everything logically without emotion or personal bias. I said--

"No way. It's impossible for a pretty girl like Kushida to hate someone." Yes, I'm the knight who praised his lady as his life though. " Come on, Just accept Kushida, we'll be fine. I'll buy you 5 waffles if you agree."

I make an offer.

"Ok, Kushida-San, Inogashira-San, You three. Let's start studying!"

Horikita clapped her hand and called her student.

I wondered if she was lying when she told Chabashira-Sensei that she had got therapy.

I sat down and peeked at Kushida.

Kushida hated Horikita?

Why did she tried to be friends with someone you hate? It didn't make sense.

Although I thought it was impossible. But when I looked at Kushida smiled. I found it wasn't smiling that someone who does a good thing without expecting a return belongs.

It'll be like my smile. If I could smile.

I could felt the same feeling with I felt myself from that smile.

The feeling of a human who does a good thing because of something.

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"Horikita-Chan, how can I solve this problem?" asked Ike.

"You have to make an equation---"

"What is an equation?" asked Yamauchi

"a statement that the values of two mathematical expressions are equal"

"What is equal?" asked Sudo.

"You're joking me right now."

This kind of situation came from the side table for a while. I and Kushida were trying to teach Inogashira about grammar.

I didn't an expert in English, But I was better than Inogashira, so I could teach her something at least.

Finally, I stood up.

"I want to take some breath," I told the girls and then walked out of the library.

The sky is orange as the sun almost kissed the land. I was surprised that the time went so fast. We're here for 2 hours. And Sudo still couldn't solve a problem.

As I observed. He wasn't too stupid and Horikita wasn't a bad teacher. But between them, there was a strong wall. I didn't know why, but Sudo seemed to not try at all.

"A-Ya-No-Kou-Ji-Kun."

I heard the high-pitched voice when I turned in that direction I saw Kuruizawa Kei walking to me.

She smiled with some kind of expression that make me felt weird. It was like she was going to sell me something. I thought she hated me after my joke about Nakano province.

"Good evening. Kuruizawa." I said.

"Wow, what a cold voice. It made you cool, you know?"

Ok, she tried to do something with me. She said like the scammer who compliments her victim till they trust completely, then she could do anything to them.

"Thank you, where are you going?" I asked her with caution.

"Oh, I try to find you. I've heard that you do a little charity, don't you?"

I knew it! I knew it! It's about my foundation to help my poor friend, the project for increase my luck.

"So you asked me some points?" I asked her directly.

She made a weird face. Maybe my question made her sound like a beggar. "You can say in that way---"

I didn't have a problem giving her a point, till now, I gave 4000 points to 5 people. I didn't mind with gave another 4000.

But---

"I have to ask you. How many points do you have now?"

Karuizawa flinched. "Ahh---15,000."

"You couldn't call that poor."

"It's poor for me!" She said.

I realized something.

"When I hung out with your group on the last day of April, you said you outed of your money, right?"

Kurosawa didn't answer me.

"How do you get that 15,000?"

"M---my friend." She stuttered.

"Well, if you have a friend you could lend the money, I should keep my points to someone who really needs it."

"I need it!" Her sound was louder.

"15,000 is enough to live for a month," I said.

"It wasn't enough for me!" She said. "I have to buy a new cloth, new perfume, new cosmetics. Do you know? That girl stuff."

"No, I don't know. They were luxury goods. You don't need to buy them. If you're a little more strict---"

"I can't!" Kuruizawa almost screamed."Do you think I will be I if I don't buy all of this? Do you think I will live at the crown without pay anything? If I don't do this, then I will turn back to---"

She suddenly stopped her words. Then glanced at me.

Then ran away without saying anything.

What's just happened?

"What the---?"

"Langues. Ayanokouji-Kun." Kushida said behind me.

I turned around and saw Kushida, Inogashira, Horikita, and the idiot trio walked out of the library.

"Are you guy finish studying?" I asked them a bit surprisingly.

"Not exactly." Kushida seemed to be in a dilema.

"Horikita insulted us!" Sudo shout with anger.

"Yes, she called us an idiot." Ike said. Yamauchi nodded.

"I didn't said something like that. I just said you're lack of effort. When faced a little wall, you just told it's too high and give up. People like you won't be success. It's a fact." Horikita said calmly.

"You just refer to an idiot!" Sudo yelled.

"So it's that the fact that you are idiot."

"You bit--" Sudo rushed in Horikita but Kushida stood in away.

"Sudo-Kun, calm down. Horikita-San didn't said it on purpose."

Sudo spat. "If Kushida didn't stop me. You would taste the pain, Horikita. God damn it. I went out on my way to skip the practice. I didn't get anything back!"

"It's because you're too weak to get somethin back. If I was your couch, I wouldn't let someone no intention like you play in a match for sure."

Sudo almost punched Horikita but when he saw the sight from Kushida, he tried to calm himself and walked away.

He kicked the trash under the tree before he was gone.

"S--So Kushida-Chan. See you tomorrow." Ike said. Kushida returned his words with smile. Ike and Yamauchi walked away.

"Kikyo-Chan, I will straight to the dorm. Do you go with me?" Inogashira asked her friend.

"Oh, I have some business to do. You can go first."

"Ok. Ah, Do you have Sato-San's phone number? I have something to talk with her."

"Yeah, hear."

Kushida took her phone off, I peeked at her screen a bit but Horikita stared at me.

"What?" I asked her.

"You won't say anything?"

"If I have to say. Both of you are wrong."

"I'm wrong?" Horikita asked.

"Yes, Studying is 2-side communicate. The teacher and the student have a responsibility to each other"

"If I have him as student, so I understand now why school'll expel him if he fail. Sudo-Kun is the class cancer. He will damage class D more and more. Maybe he should be expelled this time. And we could recover the class after that."

No mercy.

I understood Horikita and I understood Sudo too. Horikita was on the edge of abyss, she thought abyss was too deep to reach her hand and Sudo was in the abyss, thought abyss was too hight to climb.

"Anyway. I believed in your ability." I told Horikita. "You can deal with it."

"What a selfish words." Horikita satirize me. "Won't you do anything?"

"If I do, I will do."

The conversation ended now.

I turned around to say thank you to Kushida. But she and Inogashira was gone.

"Where is Kushida?"

"I saw her going to the school building." Horikita pointed to the direction.

"Thank you, see you."

I said good bye but she didn't respond. Horikita walked to the dorm. So I just ran to the school building. Although we didn't gain anything today. But I had to thank Kushida anyway.

When I reached the school, I saw Kushida's back went into the building so I followed her. I heard the sound of footstep above me.

That sound went to the top floor so I ran following it.

Until I saw Kushida standing at the stairs to rooftop.

She did nothing just stared and saw the rooftop's door.

I hid myself and thought. Why she came here? Or she waited for someone?

Or she had a secret boyfriend and this place is their rendezvous?

I was going to retreat when Kushida pushed her bag down.-----

She said with the low-pitched voice that I never expected from Kushida.

Kushida pretty face became the center of hate and anger. She kicked railing.

"Go to hell, why don't just die!?"

Kushida that I saw now---she's no more class D's angel. She was the girl full with anger and savage. Her imagine image in my mind was destroyed right there.

"That Horikita-bitch! Do you thing you pretty? You're granddaughter of a bitch! You're just an ugly waffle addict!"

Horikita? I didn't hear wrong,did I?

"You idiot Horita! Die! Die! You cattle in human from. Prideless Parasite. All that nuitration to your head, not to your brain. Do you thing you so majestic? Damn you! Die! Die! Die!"

I remembered that Horikita told me.

I don't want to get close with someone who hates me.

She was right. Kushida really hated her. But why? Since school starting, Horikita never participated with Kushida. Why Kushida hated her so much?

And if Kushida hated, why she try to be friend with Horikita?

I decided to retrat today. I walked softly to the downstairs. Luckily Kushida was busy with kicking railing and cursing people.