4-22: Is This an Exam? A Class? Training? or Just Straight Up Bullying? (1/2)

4-22: Is This an Exam? A Class? Training? or Just Straight Up Bullying? (1/2)

Since the three classes started their exam, the long hand of the clock has revolved once.

The examiner sat himself on an appropriately-sized boulder and watched the students.

Yes, make no mistake, he was indeed watching over them responsibly like any respectable examiner

Please ready yourselves, Senpais.

What was that!? You think wed lose to a bunch of first years What!?

Nooo!! An eight-legged frog is falling from the sky, what!?!?

Is that a tyrannosaurus!? What the hell is going on!?

Why are there so many of them? Wait, is that!?

Youre kidding, right? Isnt this a C Class area!?

Ahahaha, welcome to Examiner Nakamuras Bizarre Exam!!

Oh, Im sure were just getting started! Seriously, screw that guy!!

Uh, various raybeasts are tumbling down!

Dont mind me! Ill be taking your crystals now!!Updated from novelbIn.(c)om

Wait, Ill give you as many as you want, so can you help out UGYAAH!!

Although the scouts barely did a satisfactory job, they still managed to complete their job, and 1 D finally made their move.

Meanwhile, the examiners side of the field was also starting to produce results, as noted by the screams resounding from the fields.

For better or for worse, the class of 1 D had already been baptized yesterday, so they werent as surprised, but for the two 2nd year classes that were having their first time with Nakamura today, screams resounded abound.

Those are some nice screams, huh, Shinichi remarked.

Kyukyukyu, the fox-like creature laughed.

Examiner Shinichi laughed as he watched the monitors floating before him.

That smile plastered on his face was so refreshing that if the people on the receiving end of his mischief were here, they would surely beat him up.

As the students bustled about hectically, Shinichi watched them and graded them accordingly.

H-How about you pay attention to our screams too? UGA!!

Your screams arent really screams, though. Theyre more like the bellows of a beast.

A desperate cry resounded from below him. Evidently, the source of that cry was not pleased with him.

Unfortunately, Shinichi didnt think it resembled anything like a scream, so he couldnt help but throw a teasing remark.

The giant boulder that Shinichi sat on stood vertically like a long pillar. Below him were his two assistants playing bat.

Screw you! Which part of this is baseball!? Ryou said.

You need to apologize to everyone related to baseball right now! And to us too!! Tomoe said.

The two assistants angrily swung their weapons.

The way Shinichi phrased his question made it seem as though they would be catching balls, so the two assistants couldnt be blamed for imagining a similar form of special training.

To their surprise, Shinichi asked them to take on the batting role instead.

They couldnt really complain about that since they didnt have any balls in the first place, so if they were asked to just hit something similar, then it would still make perfect sense.

Just ignore the fact that theyre using a great sword and a sheathed katana in place of the bats.

With the ever increasing horde of raybeasts around them and the incomprehensible but difficult task they had to perform, their minds were gradually pushed into a corner.

Hence, it was only normal for them to become frustrated and lose their calm.

Ahaha, kids these days sure are lively.

Despite that Shinichi intentionally acted like an old man and drank his tea while watching from the sidelines.

He was, however, paying attention to them and the students shown on the floating monitors.

Umm, those two are older than you, though.

Ah.

Shinichi let out a breath in response to the voice coming from the new monitor that just appeared.

On that monitor could be seen a wryly smiling noble lady with a magnificent ringlet curls.

Icchi always forgets his own age, doesnt he?

Another monitor appeared beside that monitor, but this time a girl with fox ears was shown on it.

This girl wore a look of amusement on her as she watched Shinichi with interest.

Leave it. Besides, what happened to your own exams?

Im in the middle of it right now, actually. 3 A has been divided into two classes and made to compete with each other.

Were officially competing on the number of raybeasts defeated and recovery rate of crystals, but the heart of the exam lies in ones ability to command his forces and ability to understand the movement of the enemy forces.

Its a big responsibility as someone whos been put in charge of the two teams. As for the opposing team, its being led by

Aristel spoke calmly, but yells and thunderous sounds could be heard from the backdrop.

Her hesitation at the end of her speech suggests that the opposing team has failed to offer much of a challenge.

Ahaha, if youve been made the commander, then there must be a world of difference in morale.

Our class of 2 A is ranking its students according to the number of raybeasts hunted individually.

But the test area has been made even smaller, so its really a free-for-all where were all fighting for scraps. Ah! Ill be taking that, thank you!

The sound of a weapon being swung and flesh being cut resounded from the monitor.

That was quickly followed by the fervent scream of a student whod been robbed.

As expected of the Special Class. Communicating with someone while in the middle of an exam must be a piece of cake to you two.

Coming from someone who can look at so many monitors simultaneously, that just comes off as sarcasm to my ears. Besides, in a real battle, you have to move around in an exoskeleton while receiving orders. Its really reckless, Myuhi said.

They had to listen to orders while dealing with whatever was in front of them.

So it wouldnt be wrong to say that being able to communicate while fighting was an indispensable skill to them.

The production of equipment that made that easier was similarly important.

Well, its only really possible because theres a Fake Face Screen and a Communication-by-Thought Function, Aristel said.

The image Shinichi was seeing didnt actually match the sounds he was hearing.

There was a white backdrop, and on top of that were the faces of the girls with appropriate expressions.

Moreover, while it might still be possible for Myuhi, in Aristels case, having to give orders to orders, while talking to Shinichi wasnt something that could be done.

After all, no matter how impressive she may be, she still had only one mouth.

Hence, their communication was only possible by taking advantage of this technology that took advantage of the photons ability to respond to thought.