Chainsaw Man: Mangekyo Sharingan

Chapter 153: Chapter 153: Monthly Exam

It was clear that Power’s Affinity toward Kotone Asaba was not romantic, but leaned more toward friendship.

After all, Power did not understand what love was at all. Her fondness for Kotone Asaba was very simple, no more than the fact that Kotone Asaba had let her eat a lot of delicious food.

Because of that, Power had no particular reaction toward Reze and Makima, who were both very close to Kotone Asaba. She did not understand those things in the first place.

After dinner, Power, Pingtsi, and the others rested on the couch and watched TV for quite a while before going downstairs and returning to their own dorm.

After that night, Power’s Affinity rose a little more.

[Power Affinity +5%]

[Power Affinity progress has reached 50%. Achievement reward obtained: Constitution +1]

With Power’s Affinity reaching fifty percent, the second page of the second section of the Affinity Codex should now be unlocked.

Kotone Asaba immediately moved his thoughts and flipped to the new page. Sure enough, as expected, the new page had been unlocked.

And the new page was Kishibe.

It could also be seen that Kishibe’s current Affinity was already at forty percent. Obviously, this was friendship-based Affinity that had accumulated earlier. The first time Kotone Asaba came into contact with Kishibe had already been a long time ago.

Kotone Asaba planned to directly go find Kishibe first thing tomorrow morning and activate Kishibe’s Codex entry first.

Whether back in the Devil Extermination Division or now in the Special Division, Kishibe always looked like he had nothing to do. He spent every day moving around Tokyo Public Safety, but he always had a flask in his hand, ready to take a sip at any moment.

Therefore, Kotone Asaba easily found Kishibe at Tokyo Public Safety.

At this moment, Kishibe was carrying a flask with him as usual.

"Is there something you need, Captain Asaba?"

Seeing Kotone Asaba suddenly appear in front of him, Kishibe’s expression did not change much. He merely took a calm sip of alcohol and spoke in an even tone.

"Nothing major. I just came to ask Captain Kishibe how the atmosphere in Special Division 2 is."

Kotone Asaba casually found a topic. He simply needed a reason to meet Kishibe.

[Codex activated: Kishibe]

[Reward obtained: Constitution +1]

[Current Affinity: 40%]

[Kishibe Affinity progress has reached 10%. Achievement reward obtained: Constitution +1]

[Kishibe Affinity progress has reached 20%. Achievement reward obtained: Constitution +1]

[Kishibe Affinity progress has reached 30%. Achievement reward obtained: Constitution +1]

[Kishibe Affinity progress has reached 40%. Achievement reward obtained: Constitution +1]

"The atmosphere... In short, it’s fine. Those Fiends aren’t hard to get along with, Fang Rou is obedient, and as for Quanxi... old partners are old partners. There’s nothing good or bad to say."

That was what Kishibe said.

"All right. Then I’m relieved."

Kotone Asaba said.

Incidentally, he had not assigned Power to Special Division 2. Because that girl was troublesome, he had inserted Power into Special Division 1 instead.

After that, they chatted casually for a while longer before Kotone Asaba went back.

After Kotone Asaba left, Kishibe felt that Kotone Asaba’s actions just now had been a little strange, but he could not figure out why they were strange, so he stopped thinking about it and continued drinking, carefree and relaxed.

Time passed quickly, and almost in the blink of an eye, the high school division’s monthly exam was about to begin.

In reality, Japanese high schools also separated liberal arts and sciences, and Kotone Asaba’s class happened to be a liberal arts class. Coincidentally, he had also been a liberal arts student in his previous life.

Because of that, the monthly exam’s content was also focused on liberal arts subjects.

"That will be all for today’s class. The monthly exam begins tomorrow. Everyone, make sure to rest well tonight. Only by having enough energy for the exam will you be able to perform well."

This was the last class of the day, and the teacher for this class was their homeroom teacher, Reiko Harano. After saying this, she left the classroom.

After class, the students began discussing it.

"The monthly exam starts tomorrow. I haven’t reviewed enough yet. I’m seriously panicking..."

"That’s what you get for always cramming at the last minute. Though I’m the same, at least I memorized everything I was supposed to in time."

"That makes sense, but whether you can actually do it is another matter. Anyway, I’ve stopped caring."

"..."

Most of the students were worried about tomorrow’s monthly exam. Very few of them felt happy about it.

Aside from the few students who originally had the best grades in the class, Kotone Asaba, Reze, and Makima had the calmest moods.

They did not care about exams in the first place. After all, they had another purpose for being at this school and had absolutely no academic pressure.

Moreover, even if they did care about tomorrow’s monthly exam, with their abilities, it would not be a problem at all.

"Asaba, how do you feel? Are you confident about tomorrow’s monthly exam? It must have been hard trying to catch up during your first month after transferring here. You should work hard to keep up with everyone’s progress."

At that moment, a quiet girl wearing glasses, holding a book in her arms, walked over and asked Kotone Asaba.

This fair-skinned, attractive, quiet-looking girl was the class representative of Class 2-4, Shizufumi Asada.

Ever since they enrolled, Shizufumi Asada had taken good care of the three transfer students, Kotone Asaba, Reze, and Makima. Wherever she could help, she would do her best to help them. She was very willing to lend a hand.

Although another girl had come over to interact with Kotone Asaba, Reze and Makima were not so unreasonable. After all, this class representative treated them the same way and was not especially close to Kotone Asaba alone.

"I’m fine. I have a little confidence."

Kotone Asaba spoke very modestly.

"Mm-hmm. Don’t force yourself, Asaba. Remember to rest well tonight."

Shizufumi Asada said.

"All right. I know."

Kotone Asaba immediately nodded.

After that, Shizufumi Asada went to check on Reze and Makima too.

When facing Shizufumi Asada, Makima was not that cold either and would give her a few simple responses.

As for Reze, she was comparatively enthusiastic and chatted and laughed with Class Representative Asada.

In fact, it was not only the class representative. A while ago, their homeroom teacher had also told Kotone Asaba, Reze, and Makima not to put too much pressure on themselves.

She had said things like their scores and rankings on the first monthly exam did not matter that much, since they were transfer students.

At the time, Kotone Asaba had merely smiled modestly and had not said much.

The next day, the monthly exam officially began.

Kotone Asaba was already taking the exam in the testing room.

Aside from math, the other subjects were all liberal arts subjects. They mainly depended on memorization, along with enough comprehension ability.

There was naturally nothing to say about Kotone Asaba’s memory. It could be said that he could read ten lines at a glance. As for comprehension, having lived two lives, he was more than capable.

Math was easy for him too. He remembered all the formulas very firmly, had already done a large pile of practice problems, and an ordinary monthly exam in the second year of high school would not contain any questions that required especially wild thinking. To him, practically all the questions felt very familiar.

Basically, for each subject, Kotone Asaba spent less than half the allotted time. That was even after checking his answers once or twice. He spent the remaining time sitting there in a daze.

In reality, once he finished, he could directly leave the testing room, but he did not want to stand out too much.

After the monthly exam ended, the students had mixed reactions. Most people’s expressions did not look very good. After all, only a small portion of them were good at studying.

Kotone Asaba, however, had a calm expression, as if he had not done particularly well but had not done badly either.

"I feel like this monthly exam was pretty hard. I’ll probably do really badly this time."

"Same here. If I’d known, I would’ve reviewed seriously. Once the scores come out, my parents are probably going to lecture me again."

"The papers were harder this time. The good students will probably be fine, but for bad students like us, this is miserable."

"I’m leaving it up to fate. My parents will probably force me to go to cram school."

"..."

As he left the testing room, Kotone Asaba could hear the students around him talking.

They were saying this exam was rather difficult, but he did not feel anything in particular. He only thought it had all been quite simple, without much difficulty.

After the exam, they could go straight home or participate in club activities.

Kotone Asaba soon met up with Reze and Makima, preparing to go to the Devil Hunter Club for club activities, which meant patrolling the high school division.

"How do you two feel? This exam definitely wasn’t a problem for you, right?"

Kotone Asaba casually asked Reze and Makima.

"About the same. It felt pretty easy. I feel like we might have taken all three top spots for the year?"

Reze said with a smile.

"Probably. Though there might still be an academic monster somewhere. That wouldn’t be strange either."

Kotone Asaba said.

"We’ll know once the rankings are posted."

Reze said.

Soon, the day the rankings were posted arrived.

The school posted the rankings for each year’s monthly exam in several places around the high school division’s teaching building.

A crowd of students packed around those places to check their own rankings.

Naturally, the most eye-catching spots were the top three.

First place, Kotone Asaba.

As for second and third place, they had the same score, so they were tied for second. They were Reze and Makima.

In reality, Kotone Asaba’s score was only a few points higher than Reze’s and Makima’s, so they were very close.

Specifically, the difference was in math. The other subjects were all close to full marks too, mainly because it was very hard to get full marks on subjective questions in liberal arts subjects.

Aside from Kotone Asaba, Reze, and Makima themselves, who did not feel surprised at all, everyone who saw the rankings was stunned.

Most of the students had heard about the three new transfer students.

The top three in the liberal arts year had actually been taken entirely by three new transfer students!

"Why do those three names feel kind of familiar? Don’t tell me they’re the three new transfer students from Class 4?"

"They really are them. How did they do this? They just got here a month ago, and they directly swept the top three?!"

"Maybe this is what top students are like. It’s completely beyond my understanding. But if they’re this good, why didn’t they go to the advanced class when they transferred here?"

"Maybe they thought the regular college-prep class would be easier. After all, the advanced class’s schedule really is pretty tight."

"..."

Kotone Asaba and the others immediately became the hot topic of discussion.

However, Kotone Asaba and the girls only glanced at the rankings and left. They did not stay there for long. Otherwise, they would probably have been surrounded and questioned endlessly.

During class, the gazes of the surrounding students were strange. That included their homeroom teacher, Reiko Harano.

No matter what, Reiko Harano never would have expected Asaba, Reze, and Makima to directly dominate the year’s rankings.

Earlier, she had still been worried that these three new transfer students would not be able to keep up with the pace. Now it seemed that she had been worrying for nothing.

However, with these three transfer students having such good grades, the fact that they had actually come to her class was also very surprising to her.

After school that afternoon, just as Kotone Asaba was preparing to go to the Devil Hunter Club, he received a call from Yuki Kirisu.

"I finally managed to ask the Future Devil for the specific details. Seven days from now, the first Devil will appear on the high school division’s sports field. For now, it’s unclear exactly what Devil it will be, but with your strength, I don’t think you need to care too much about that."

"All right. I’ll remember that."

After receiving the information from Yuki Kirisu, Kotone Asaba thought to himself that the Devil incidents were finally about to happen. He had already waited for a month.

Reze and Makima were beside him at the moment and had also heard what Yuki Kirisu said to Kotone Asaba, so they were mentally prepared too.

Just as Yuki Kirisu had said, Kotone Asaba and the others did not need to care too much about what Devil it was exactly.

Unless the one that came was a primal Devil, that truly would be a huge problem. However, that situation was basically impossible.

Because the current timeline had not yet reached the point where primal Devils would appear, and even if one did appear, it would not appear at this school. The ones likely to appear would probably be Devils of ordinary but slightly stronger strength.

Kotone Asaba also did not say anything to the members of the Devil Hunter Club, so as to avoid accidentally spreading the news and causing unnecessary panic at school.

As for the principal, Yuki Kirisu had already personally called the principal and told him, so Kotone Asaba did not need to make a special trip.

The principal would make preventive preparations in advance and do everything possible to avoid any casualties.

If even one child was injured or killed, it would put tremendous pressure on the school.

Of course, the most important thing was still the children’s safety. No matter how great the cost, they had to guarantee the children’s safety.

Even knowing that a Devil would appear seven days later, Kotone Asaba and the others went about everything as usual, without any sense of urgency at all.

At Power’s request, Kotone Asaba took Power out for a feast.

Power’s paycheck had happened to be paid recently. She had no real concept of money, so she was not stingy at all and directly said she would treat him.

Whenever Power saw something she wanted to eat, she ordered it directly. In reality, she had no idea whether many of the dishes were actually tasty or not. She simply wanted to try them because they looked good.

Kotone Asaba also ate some, but about ninety percent of the food was eaten by Power.

And that was when Power was not trying to stuff herself too much.

After finishing this feast, Kotone Asaba also took Power around to have some fun.

[Power Affinity +5%]

[Power Affinity +5%]

[Power Affinity progress has reached 60%. Achievement reward obtained: Constitution +1]

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