Chương 112: 67.1 Kamuro's Worries!
Oreki walked out of Karuizawa's room.
This is the girls' dormitory corridor, where one might easily be caught if not careful. Both Karuizawa and Oreki wanted to avoid that as much as possible.
However, Karuizawa had made preparations. She first checked outside and found the elevator going up from the first floor. Seeing that there was no one in the dormitory corridor, she allowed Oreki to leave her room.
After all, her room was filled with girls' slippers, indicating that it was common for girls to visit each other. But it would be different if it were a boy. Although the school had no explicit rules, a boy going to a girl's dormitory could easily lead to various colorful speculations.
Especially for Karuizawa, who had no interest in romance and wanted to avoid such troublesome matters.
However, even so, he needed to confirm whether he needed to find a new location for their weekly meetings. For example, by using points to reapply for a dormitory that nobody knew about. Oreki thought to himself as he headed towards the emergency staircase.
Karuizawa's room was 606, and taking the elevator down might lead to encountering a girl on the fifth floor. Then he would be asked why he was going upstairs if he was deliberately looking for someone.
Just as he was about to continue down the stairs swiftly—
"Thud!"
Oreki stopped at the corner of the staircase.
The person coming up from below also stopped.
"...," Oreki.
"...," the other person.
It was a rather tall girl, always wearing a stern expression, but with long purple hair and bangs tied up with three hair clips. She had long, slender legs but seemed to resist wearing white or black stockings.
And she was Masumi Kamuro.
"Oreki Houtarou?" Masumi paused, looking at him with a strange gaze, seemingly speculating why he, as a boy, would be here.
And Oreki could almost confirm that Kamuro was indeed pondering why he, as a male student, would appear here.
Masumi remembered that a few days ago, Sakayanagi requested her to keep an eye on Oreki Houtarou and the representative of Class B.
"Ichinose is on the fifth floor," Oreki said. "And we're on the sixth floor."
"Oh," Mayumi nodded.
Then she prepared to continue upstairs.
But what does Ichinose have to do with this?
Ichinose is on the fifth floor.
We're on the sixth floor.
Sakayanagi is in room 605, right?
So, Oreki Houtarou came to find Sakayanagi, so why did he specifically mention Ichinose?
After all, Sakayanagi asked her to stop monitoring Oreki Houtarou early on temporarily.
"Wait a minute!" But seeing Oreki seemingly preparing to continue down the stairs, Masumi quickly turned to stop him.
"What?" Oreki looked at her.
Masumi was physically fit and good at sports, which was also why she managed to score enough points to be in Class A.
"Do you have some free time recently?" Mayumi said. "About this month's exam—"
Oh.
Oreki understood.
Masumi must have some thoughts of her own.
So, the two of them walked together towards the bottom of the stairs.
"But why did you take the stairs up when the elevator is working fine?" Oreki was curious.
Masumi seemed a bit out of breath as she climbed the stairs.
Given her athletic talent and physical fitness, she probably ran up the stairs directly from the first floor.
"I was punished by Sakayanagi," Masumi said in a somewhat gloomy tone as if she had stepped into a minefield.
Her face drooped directly, "I lost to her in a game of chess, so she made me go up and down the stairs three times."
Oh.
Playing games, huh?
"So how did she check?" Oreki continued to ask.
"Huh? Check, what check?" Masumi looked at him strangely.
Oh.
It was almost certain.
Sakayanagi didn't supervise Masumi's going up and down the stairs after losing the chess game, but Masumi was used to it. She didn't even consider slacking off.
In other words, with Masumi, there was no need for supervision, not even monitoring.
From this perspective, Masumi seemed to have been trained quite well, right?
It made Oreki kind of interested.
After all, he was different from Sakayanagi. He was someone who reviewed the past.
"If I'm not mistaken, Sakayanagi gives you a certain amount of points every month," Oreki said positively, though it was originally meant to be a question.
"Every 5th of the month," Mayumi said firmly. "She gives me 200,000 points."
"The time is also set, 5 p.m."
So that's it.
Sakayanagi seemed to be someone who kept her promises. When they discussed the Senpai's sponsorship of Oreki she had said, if it were her, she would have sponsored him regularly at a fixed time.
So, Masumi had already been treated like this, right?
Instantly.
Masumi felt Oreki looking at her with an unusual gaze.
...
Masumi probably wanted to talk to him about something, so Oreki took Masumi to the shopping street.
He went to the library after school and then spent about half an hour in Karuizawa's room.
And today, he gained new knowledge, so he didn't feel like cooking himself.
So he decided to go to the bustling shopping street to solve it.
At the same time, he wanted to celebrate, walking on the path of eliminating a weakness.
No one is perfect, but Oreki wanted to improve himself a little more.
"So, what's the reason you wanted to find me?" Oreki ordered his meal and then asked Masumi, but Masumi said she had already eaten, so she just sat across from him.
Then she didn't ask for any drinks or food.
Otherwise, it would be like a date.
She couldn't handle that.
"About this exam," Masumi noticed Oreki had actively brought up the topic, so she immediately said, "From the information I gathered, the score is over 600 points."
"It is said that last year's second-year Class B, where Nagumo Miyabi was, leaped forward by brushing up on points here."
Saying so, her expression became serious.
And now, the evaluation scores of the four classes of first-year students are as follows:
Class A: 1330 points
Class B: 670 points
Class C: 490 points
Class D: 80 points
From the scores, Class A was far ahead. However, if suddenly there was an exam with a score exceeding 600 points, anything could happen.
Both Class B and Class C had the potential to rise.
So, Masumi's current concern is—
"I've confirmed it repeatedly; Sakayanagi won't be able to participate in this exam."
"And she'll have those appointed by Sakayanagi follow Katsuragi's orders," Masumi said. "And if Class B earns a significant amount of class evaluation points in this exam—"
Then Class A's position would be in jeopardy, right?
In other words, she hoped Oreki could contribute here.
This also meant that Masumi didn't think Katsuragi was capable of maintaining Class A's advantage indefinitely.
She even felt that he would lose a lot of points in this exam.
Katsuragi-kun must be too underestimated.
Oreki still has some opinions about Katsuragi, otherwise, he wouldn't regard Katsuragi-kun as a unit of measurement for the class representatives.
Even if Katsuragi-san is incompetent, he will not let other classes exceed 600 points all of a sudden.
As a student of Class A, Oreki feels that no matter what the current class evaluation score is, he can catch up.
Because this is the rule of this school.
Both he and Sakayanagi knew it.
The real core is not an ordinary class confrontation at all, but to become the student council president.
If you fall behind too much, you can directly become the student president and use the privileges of the student president to increase the rewards of each special exam.
Or become the student council president, and as long as your class has the upper hand, you will continue to adjust the rewards of each special test until you graduate.
so.
Even if the current score fluctuates by a thousand or two thousand points, it doesn't matter.
He can make a comeback.
However, for the students in the class, as long as they fall into the lower class, they will feel a huge blow.
So even Kamuro-san feels the need to take some measures to protect the class.
So she came to find him.
"…" Oreki.
Suddenly, he felt that the position of Class A was like poison.
Because if you were in Class A from the beginning, you would have a kind of confidence and be affirmed about your future.
but.
That confidence and certainty are being chased by a bunch of people who want to drive you down.
Once you fall midway, your morale will be greatly reduced.
Therefore, in order to prevent this situation, you need to constantly maintain a leading position.
But it's a long process.
Very energy-consuming.
That's why he wanted to push Sakayanagi out to top the tank.
"You don't have to worry about this," Oreki said. "I'm taking the exam too. I won't let Class B or C get up this time."
"Oh." Kamuro nodded.
There seemed to be some relief.
Just when Oreki was about to use the excuse of taking the exam to regain Kamuro-san's right to use it, he suddenly noticed a tall woman wearing a white shirt and women's suit passing by the window of the store.
She walked in a hurry.
It seemed that she had encountered some trouble, and she almost tripped twice while stepping on high heels.
And this woman is very beautiful, with straight black hair tied into a single ponytail.
At the same time, she was wearing black stockings and high heels.
And similar to Kamuro-kun, they both like hairpins.
If Kamuro-san added 3 hairpins, then the other party added 6.
And this person is considered an acquaintance.
This is Sae Chabashira, the homeroom teacher of Class D.
Oreki-san also completed the other party's mission, but when he was finally preparing to carry out the final blow, she shut herself down.
Then the mission was completed.
She belongs to... the type that loses before she can do anything.
But after Horikita-san's plan to take Class D to Class B was completely denied, didn't this Chabashira-sensei become autistic?
So why is she still so excited now?
Oreki then looked to the other side.
Opposite him sat Kamuro Masumi.
"Kamuro-san," Oreki ordered. "You've already had dinner, right?"
"Yes--"
"Then let's do some after-dinner activities," Oreki said. "Go follow Sae Chabashira and check her whereabouts."
"I'm a little concerned about her actions."
"Report the information obtained to me in real-time."
??
!!
So is Oreki-san ordering her?
This made Kamuro Masumi's eyes widen.
And why did he use Sakayanagi Arisu's tone?
This is annoying, okay.
So, Kamuro Masumi, who felt disgusted, stood up with a straight face.
However, she pretended to look at her phone, and when Sae Chabashira left in a hurry, she quickly followed her.
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