novelzi Chapter 62 - 62: 60: Practice Exam
Chapter 62 - 62: 60: Practice Exam
For a while, time passed without much happening.
It's only been a few weeks so I didn't expect much to happen, but that's how it is.
School life continued as usual for the most part, with something somewhat eventful being that Minami decided to enrol Selina in Weinstell Junior High School since the close proximity with me would allow me to more easily watch out for her security―or so Minami's thought process went.
I didn't think much was going to happen to her in the meantime anyway, so I wasn't too bothered about it.
She doesn't usually trust me, but that part is easily solved thanks to the conditions of the Absolute Contract relieving her worries.
That also meant I am forced to have her accompany me in the morning and afternoon journeys to and from school respectively, but since Selina was smart enough to stay quiet most of the time, it was tolerable.
Weinstell Junior High School, by the way, is just the lower Junior High School of the Senior High School I attend; less than five minutes away from my school.
Currently, the world is in late October. This means two things are about to take place:
Practice exams and Halloween.
Next week, the first set of practice examinations of the year will start, but that isn't something I'm concerned about in the slightest; it's more about what will happen at the end of said exams―that is October 31st, or Halloween, which will occur on Friday.
Right after the end of the final exam, mathematics, the Wardens will launch their attack.
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Entering the hall which had a very hushed and serious atmosphere, I placed my bag at one end of the room where a sea of other students' bags rested and made my way to my designated seat, where the test question paper waited for me on my desk, alongside a standard graphical calculator.
The bags were separated far away from the students to ensure there was no possibility of cheating in that regard, but it was a pretty slight measure.
I took out a pen from within my pocket and waited patiently for the test to begin.
In the meantime, I subtly looked around the hall. The air was full of tension and felt rather heavy despite the fact that these were only practice exams and held no real bearing on our end-of-year results.
Of course, I would score 100% either way, but that was a given.
Students were sorted alphabetically rather than class and entered the exam hall in that order, so by looking at the end of the room where all the 'A' surnames were seated, I could easily spot Sophie Asanami just two rows down.
She didn't look particularly concerned about the exam, whether it be the test itself or the subsequent results. I don't think she was the type of person to study, and her intelligence was about average, so I briefly wondered where that confidence of hers originated from.
Or perhaps, it wasn't confidence―just that she didn't care one way or the other.
Turning my gaze more, I watched as the other students continued to enter the hall in dead silence, apprehension dominating the majority of their expressions.
For example, that's... Hm? Yuu Shimura just entered the exam hall, but despite not having a great precedent for good exam results, doesn't appear to be that worried in comparison to the other students.
No, it would be more accurate to say that he was more concerned with something else; his eyes were frantically scanning the entire room, as if in
Finally, the exam concluded.
Listening to the collective sighing of dozens of students around me as the sound of flipping paper and clacking pens resounded, I waited for the invigilators to go down the rows and collect everyone's test paper.
Once the papers were collected, each row of students was let go in reverse alphabetical order, the opposite way we came in.
"Surname I through A, you may leave."
As soon as my turn came around, I got up from my desk, tucked the chair in, and made my way to collect my bag from the end of the hall.
Just beside me, Sophie Asanami approached and gave me a strange look and a nod. Since students weren't allowed to communicate whilst still inside the exam hall, this was all she could do to send me a message.
"..."
Staring at her for a second as she hung her bag over her shoulder, I acknowledged what she was trying to say and together we exited the hall alongside a few dozen enervated students.
First things first, I'll get some lunch.