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"Now for the main topic…"
Kitahara Makoto interlaced his fingers and looked at the golden-haired girl with a side ponytail:
"Nijika-senpai, are the things ready?"
"They're all ready." Ijichi Nijika nodded lightly, "After getting up this morning and having breakfast with Ryo, I went to the convenience store and bought everything."
A sturdy and durable canvas backpack, drinking water, compressed biscuits, chocolate, first-aid medicine, a flashlight, a lighter... both backpacks were packed to the brim.
Who knows if they would be useful, but it's always better to be prepared.
Yamada Ryo said expressionlessly:
"We prepared too much food. We could actually just eat grass. I'm quite good at telling which kind of grass is edible..."
"That kind of knowledge is useless!" Ijichi Nijika couldn't help but retort, "I have chocolate and biscuits, I'm not eating grass!"
Kitahara Makoto said from the side:
"I support Nijika-senpai. Eating grass is completely unnecessary."
Yamada Ryo clutched her chest, a wronged expression on her face: "It hurts so much."
"Eh?"
"Sure enough, once a boy gets what he wants, he stops cherishing it."
Ijichi Nijika: "..."
Ignoring Ryo-senpai's comments, Kitahara Makoto pointed to the Beast Eared Girl eating a small cake next to them:
"I asked Hana last night. Hana has the ability to 'open doors.' As long as it's the Hour of Twilight, she can directly take us into the Otherworld, so we don't need to go to the abandoned building."
Ijichi Nijika looked down, her voice instantly softening:
"Hana is amazing."
"Besides Hana, I'll also bring the answer book." Kitahara Makoto continued, "With the guidance of the answer book, we can save a lot of trouble."
After a pause, Kitahara Makoto continued:
"The answer book can be consulted a maximum of five times a day, so it's best to form a five-person team..."
"Let's not." Ijichi Nijika gently shook her head, "The Otherworld is too dangerous. Ryo has no choice, but I really don't want Kita and Bocchi to risk it again."
"Understood." Kitahara Makoto nodded slightly, "Then I won't bring it up."
"..."
After organizing their supplies, the three discussed how to handle unexpected situations in the Otherworld, and the pre-battle meeting temporarily concluded.
Kitahara Makoto glanced at the time. It was four in the afternoon, and his desire to complete a task suddenly became active.
"There's only one 'Good Teacher' task left. It would be a shame to give up on it..."
Kitahara Makoto turned his head, setting his sights on Nijika:
"Nijika-senpai, how are you at studying?"
"Eh?" Ijichi Nijika was slightly taken aback, looking over in confusion, "Kitahara-kun, why are you asking about my studies?"
Kitahara Makoto said openly and honestly:
"I want to study together with Nijika-senpai."
Wait, they're about to enter the super dangerous Otherworld, and he actually wants to study together? Could it be that kind of improper studying?
"Is it studying lewd knowledge?" Yamada Ryo tilted her head and looked over, "I want to join too."
Ijichi Nijika's pretty face quickly flushed, and she couldn't help but shout in embarrassment and annoyance:
"How could I possibly study such messed-up things with you!"
"Senpai misunderstood. I'm talking about proper studying." Kitahara Makoto intertwined his fingers and said earnestly, "Recently, we learned trigonometric functions in math class, and I feel it's a bit difficult, so I want to study together to fill in the gaps."
"I see." Ijichi Nijika secretly breathed a sigh of relief, "Ryo and I have already studied trigonometric functions, so we know a little..."
A moment later.
Looking at Ijichi Nijika skillfully solving problems using various trigonometric function formulas, Kitahara Makoto was stunned.
What happened to 'knowing a little'?
She clearly mastered it super proficiently!
Kitahara Makoto silently opened the System; the 'Good Teacher' task had indeed not been completed.
"Ryo-senpai, don't sit so far away." Kitahara Makoto turned to Yamada Ryo, shifting his target, "Come over and study together."
To complete the task, he still had to pin his hopes on Ryo-senpai.
Yamada Ryo sat in the corner of the sofa, crossing her arms in a gesture of refusal: "Sorry, we can't study together."
"Reason?"
"Mathematical symbols are like the devil's writing. Looking at them for too long makes me feel uncomfortable all over, nauseous, and I worry that Satan will crawl out of my stomach..."
"Don't say such horrifying things!" Ijichi Nijika retorted, "Math isn't that scary. I remember in the math mock exam a few days ago, Ryo scored over sixty points, right?"
"Ah..."
Yamada Ryo looked up at the sky, "That day, I deliberately folded the test paper."
"Eh, what do you mean?"
Ijichi Nijika didn't understand for a moment.
Yamada Ryo's tone was faint: "...Actually, I only scored six points."
Kitahara Makoto: "..."
Ijichi Nijika: "..."
Goodness, she actually only scored six points in math?
Her score was truly impressive!
"Impossible." Ijichi Nijika subconsciously shook her head, her face full of disbelief, "I saw Ryo's test paper, it was clearly fine... Eh, wait!"
Ijichi Nijika suddenly widened her eyes: "I've seen the language and history test papers, but for the math test paper, it seems I only saw the score from beginning to end... Did you really only score six points in math?"
Yamada Ryo lifted her pretty face, revealing a stretch of fair, slender neck: "No cheating, I scored six points based on my own ability."
Ijichi Nijika raised a hand to her forehead, unable to hold back any longer: "...What are you so proud of!"
Nijika-senpai couldn't believe that such a super academic slacker was hiding beside her, and still unwilling to give up, she pulled Yamada Ryo over for a test.
A moment later.
Ijichi Nijika was utterly despairing.
"You can't even do math problems from the first year of junior high..."
Yamada Ryo said expressionlessly: "Because from junior high onwards, there were more mathematical symbols, and I couldn't understand them, truly couldn't understand them."
Kitahara Makoto said softly from the side:
"It's good that we found out early. There's a chance to catch up."
He only vaguely remembered that Ryo-senpai's grades weren't good, but he never expected them to be this bad. It was truly terrifying.
"That's right, there's still a chance." Ijichi Nijika took a deep breath, her gaze firm, "We are in our second year of high school, and there's still over a year until the national standardized test. There's definitely a chance to improve math."
"Impossible, give up." Yamada Ryo said expressionlessly, "When people are pushed, they can do anything, but math is an exception."
"It seems I need to give Ryo-senpai some confidence first..." Kitahara Makoto stood up, opened the drawer, and took out the magical biscuit, "Have a magical biscuit."
"Eh?" Ijichi Nijika asked in confusion, "Isn't this just an ordinary animal biscuit?"
"It looks ordinary, but Hana has given it magical abilities." Kitahara Makoto said without changing his expression, continuing to let the Beast Eared Girl take the blame, "After eating the biscuit, one's learning ability can be greatly enhanced, but one of the biscuits will turn a person into an animal for a short time, so it's best not to eat it outside."
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