Chapter 469 – Episode 53. Test Results and Awards.
After arriving in Miya City early in the morning, I went to work tired and couldn’t sleep much. I felt like if I slept more, I would get too sleepy and be late, so today I arrived earlier than Kirie Kurayama and sat down.
While I was sitting there drinking coffee, I received a fax call from the teacher’s office, and it said that the midterm exam scores would be released around lunchtime today. Perhaps because there is no hand scoring, the results come out quite quickly.
When the test results come out, there will be another uproar. We decided to give awards to students who ranked 6th in the class and whose grades improved significantly, so everyone studied hard for the test.
Although our class was a special class that was overlooked by other students, there were many students with good abilities, so we couldn’t know exactly who would be at the top.
My prediction was that Erika Oofuchi, who is known to be good at studying, would be the top student in the class, and for some reason, I had a prejudice that characters with glasses are intelligent characters, so I thought Tsubaki Shido would take second place. Of course, it was a rough estimate rather than a detailed analysis, so there was a high possibility of it being wrong.
Yes! Ugh!
As I was looking at the fax and predicting the students’ rankings, my phone vibrated and I received a text message. When I checked, it was sugar digestion.
Dang So-hwa: That’s what Ryuta told me to look into. I did a little research?
What did I ask you to find out? . I don’t know what it is because I asked Dang So-hwa not just one favor, but several.
Tyra Ryuta: What are you talking about that I asked you to find out?
Dangsohwa: This is information about Jinildang.
Ah… ! Yes. I heard from Rena Sakagami that fighters belonging to the Jinil Party had moved towards Yamanashi Prefecture, where St. Francis Girls’ Academy was located, and I tried to find out from the party’s side.
Kurotsuki Doo had its own information line in the underworld and back alleys, and its successor, Ryuto Construction, also inherited that information line, so it had its own information power.
Dan So-hwa: First, I don’t know the exact reason why Jin Il-dang went to Yamanashi Prefecture. It looks like Jinildang is cracking down hard. Instead, according to what our sources have learned…
Tyra Ryuta: According to?
Dang So-hwa: When I see the Jinil Party terrorists moving around, it looks like they are looking for some sort of relic.
Relics? It was clear that the relics that Dang So-hwa was talking about were not just historical relics. I’m guessing you’re talking about an artifact that has some kind of ability. Since it is an artifact sought after by a large terrorist group such as Jinildang, there is a high possibility that it is a fairly powerful artifact.
I don’t know much about hidden items in Japan, so I don’t know what artifact Jinildang is looking for, but I figured out that they were looking for something, so I thought I could start here. Or you can secretly ask Kirie Kurayamada…
“Good morning.”
As soon as she started thinking about Kirie Kurayamada, as if her classmate was no good, Kirie Kurayamada came into her training room to greet her in the morning. She said hello to Kirie Kura Yamada, looking at me with her usual glare.
“Good morning.”
“Looks like the grades came out today.”
Kirie Kurayamada opened her mouth as she scanned the official document that came to her via fax. She seemed secretly curious about who would get good grades.
“Who do you think will be first?”
“Wouldn’t Erika Oofuchi, who has consistently had good grades, take first place? Personally, I hope second place goes to Ms. Minamoto.”
For first place, she chose Erika Oofuchi just like me, but second place was different. She is Minamoto Risa. Even though she didn’t come to school much, she had good grades last year, so she was worthy of being a second-place candidate. This is not the first time, but the second test.
“Let’s go do the morning ritual first.”
“Yes.”
We left the education preparation room and headed to the special class classroom. The door opens, and I feel the students looking at me. The students seemed to be aware that today was the day for the release of grades, and their eyes looked slightly expectant. Of course, some problem children looked like they were not expecting anything at all.
“Yaho~☆ Ryutachi~! Good morning!”
“Sir, what did you do this weekend?”
“Hello, teacher!”
I stood at the teacher’s table, greeted by lively students.
“The results will probably come out around lunch today. “Everyone worked hard, so I hope the grades aren’t bad.”
Students’ reactions to my story were mixed. Naturally, the confident students looked expectant, and the less confident students looked anxious.
“Ah! The results are already out… ?”
“I’m going to listen to what my brothers and sisters say.”
“Getting grades… “I don’t like it.”
Unlike the loud reactions of students who were afraid of their grades, the students who were confident about their grades sat quietly with confident expressions. I felt like I wanted the results to come out quickly.
“Ryuutachi~! “Are you going to keep your promise?”
“Huh? “What promise?”
Seiza and Shii raised their hands and asked me, and I felt like they were being naughty, so I pretended not to know, but of course that didn’t work.
“We decided to go on a date and buy gifts for 6th place~!”
“You just said you were going together to buy a gift, but that wasn’t a date.”
“If we go shopping alone, it’s a date.”
However, since I am a teacher, I was not in a position to say this openly. Of course, Seiza and Shii were right. You can’t say it’s not a date because you’ll walk around with the student, choose a gift, and not only that, but you’ll also have a meal together, but as a teacher, I can’t directly say it’s a date.
“Anyway, I’ll keep my gift promise, so don’t worry. Even if you don’t make it to the top 6, don’t be too disappointed because if your score improves a lot, I’ll give you a simple gift.”
I told the students who did not make it to the top 6 not to be disappointed and finished the assembly after talking about a few more things.
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“Big… !”
Kazuma Kurayama, the head of Jinildang, was sitting in his seat, sobbing. Because things were not going as well as he expected.
“Have you not found it yet?”
“Yes, it doesn’t seem to be present in the primary analysis.”
Kazuma Kurayama showed signs of discomfort at his subordinate’s report. The item Jinildang was looking for was such a great item. Several forces had already noticed that they were looking for something. If you don’t find it quickly, the identity of the object will soon be revealed.
“Then go to the secondary analysis site and look for it.”
“I understand!”
The subordinate quickly got up and disappeared at Kazuma Kurayama’s command. It’s been quite a while since Kazuma Kurayama noticed that there were incredible artifacts among the documents he took with him when he left the family.
However, because the document was made up of extremely difficult to decipher ciphertext and took a long time to decipher, it was only recently that the identity and approximate location of the relic were discovered.
The description of the artifact written in the deciphered document was as follows.
■■■God cut off the root of the earthquake and hid it on the right side of Mount Fuji, so no one could find it. Anyone who finds the root of an earthquake can control it at will…
Kazuma Kurayama is looking for Shinne, which is said to be the root of this earthquake. Of course, others would say that this story is just part of a forgotten legend or myth and that the root of the earthquake does not exist, but Kazuma Kurayama thought that there was no reason to write this story in code if it was just a folk tale.
And she showed the document to a shrine maiden who was a member of the Jin gang and had the Eye of Truth. The shaman told Kazuma Kurayama that the contents of the document were true and that the item called Earthquake Root really existed.
Kazuma Kurayama had absolute trust in the shrine maiden with the Eyes of Truth, as she had helped the Jin clan countless times with her own ability to see the truth.
Lastly, the reason Kazuma Kurayama was convinced that this story was true was because he personally saw items from other stories in the document.
In this story, I saw with my own eyes a swordsman holding the sword of a god called ■■■ that cut the root of the earthquake. It was a tsurugi (劍) type weapon used in ancient Japan, and it looked exactly like the document he had. I came to completely believe this story after seeing the swordsman cut down a tank on the battlefield.
If the root of an earthquake could truly control earthquakes as written, he could become a Japanese god.
On the surface, it was the Jinil Party, a far-right terrorist force that supported the emperor’s rule of the country, but in reality, it was nothing more than an excuse for Kazuma Kurayama to increase his power his. Kazuma Kurayama had a secret ambition.
“I guess I’ll have to talk to Kirie soon. “If it’s near Mt. Fuji, it could be St. Francis Girls’ Academy, where Kirie is located.”
Kazuma Kurayama opened his mouth quietly. It was something she kept secret from her daughter, Kirie Kurayamada, but since she was working near Mt. Fuji, her daughter had to know the truth.
