Ghost School

Life of Izumi: Mathematics

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First day of High School...

As in general, there are welcome ceremony events for new students, and the upperclassmen are busy promoting their exkul and trying to attract new students to get into their exkul as much as possible.

No exception to me, the upperclassmen swarmed me everywhere.

"Yo, brother! Your body is tall and very athletic. How about getting into our basketball?"

"Basketball what? He's better suited to football! Let's get into our group"

"No! She is very beautiful, fit into exkul models and fashion"

"A real man is a man who is good at cooking. So, let's get into our cooking!"

"Child of a special class! You're fit for OSIS. Join us!"

"...."

I just kept quiet while staring flat at the upperclassmen until they felt uncomfortable.

"Eems... Forget that... Looks like you're not very interested in our excursion..." Grumbling big sister from soccer exkul

"A... Ahahaha... It seems like it is... All right, we're leaving. If you change your mind, you can go straight to our excursion room, yes" said a nervous upperclassman from the OSIS excul.

Afterwards, they all left stiffly, and I resumed my journey to class.

Along the corridor there are many brochures, and promotional boards for each excul, along with the work of the exkul. (Excut photo of colab with fashion exkul, showing aesthetic photos of fashion exkul photographed by photographic exkul; hand work of artisan exkul on display with promotional board; Paintings made by art exculus; Poems and pantuns made by literary excerpts, and more).

I paid no heed to any of it and had absolutely no interest in entering into any exculpation.

I kept walking towards class. As soon as I arrived, I immediately saw the position of my seat on the paper taped to the entrance of the classroom.

One thing I am grateful for, my seat position is in the corner of the room to the left of the back and next to the window to the field. Plus, my seat was a bit far apart from the four Young Masters of Hazuki.

I went to class and sat in my chair.

While my classmates were noisily getting to know each other, I just sat in my chair staring out the window and enjoying the gentle breeze from outside.

At that time I did not know that there was a disaster approaching.

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This school is an elite school.

Although on the first day of school, in this school has directly done teaching-learning activities.

The first subject we learned today was math, and the teacher who taught him was the teacher who corrected the math answer from the school entrance test.

Incidentally, the teacher was also our homeroom teacher, who did emphasize us for good math scores as a special class.

"August, everyone. My father's name is Kaisen. You are your homeroom teacher who will teach mathematics. Before you start your lesson, how about you introduce yourself first?"

Everyone yells "Yes!" with passion.

"Alright, start from the far right"

The student sitting at the far right front immediately stood up and introduced himself.

After he finished, the disciple next to him introduced himself, and it kept repeating until finally my turn came.

"The last one on the left, introduce yourself"

I stood up slowly with a flat face.

"I'm Arato Izumi, 13 years old" I said flat in a soft voice, and returned to my seat.

"Is that all he said?" Whisper them

"Wait, she's 13?! Even in a special class? I didn't hear wrong, did I?" Ask the others in surprise

"...." - ".The teacher was silent for a moment, then called me.

"You, your name is Arato Izumi, right?" Ask the teacher.

"Yes..." Mumbles

The man went back to silence while thinking.

After the teacher found the answer from what he was thinking, the teacher walked up to the blackboard and began the lesson.

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After writing down some questions from the previous entrance test, the teacher asked us.

"From what you see, no one has answered this question perfectly before. You want to look back, if now you can do it" said Mr. Kaisen

"Now, try to find an answer to this"

Everyone was busy looking for the answer. I also searched.

"It seems difficult, but if you know the key, it's actually easy" I thought

Only 5 minutes, and I have got the right answer, while what I filled in the previous test was wrong, only the right path.

Time passed, until 10 minutes still no student found the answer.

"Is nothing finished yet?" Ask Mr. Kaisen

Everyone fell silent while bowing their heads in fear.

Mr. Kaisen kept waiting until 15 minutes passed.

Mr. Kaisen let out a long sigh while folding his hands in front of his chest.

"First rank before if not wrong Hazuki Kirian, right. Are you still not finished?" Ask Mr. Kaisen

"Ma... Sorry, Mr. Kaisen..." Kirian

"Maeru? Is it not finished yet?" Ask Mr. Kaisen

"Really, right! It's too hard!" The other shouted in support of Maeru

"You know for yourself that no one can answer it, so why test it again?" Ask other students

"Father never said that" replied Mr. Kaisen

Everyone was instantly confused while glancing at each other.

"Taa... But sir said..." Murmuring a student

"The father just said no one answered perfectly, doesn't mean no one answered correctly" he said

The students are more confused by the words of teacher Kaisen.

In between that, Kaisen sir looked at me who was glancing out the window.

"Izumi Alato"

I flinched and directly stared at Kaisen sir in a hurry.

"Y... Yea? Me?" Much

"You can answer that, right?" Ask Mr. Kaisen.

"...." - ".I just kept quiet while bowing my head.

"He's ranked 20th, right? I, who is ranked 5, can't. No, not even Kirian who was ranked first, and Maeru who was the principal's son alone could not, let alone him" Whispered the other students

"Why not answer your question?" Ask Mr. Kaisen

The center of attention began to focus on me.

"No. Don't draw any more attention" I thought

"I... Nor can I..." Mumbles

"Forward" flat-footed Mr. Kaisen.

"Yes? But..." Mumbles

"Keep forward to where you can"

I can't go against teacher's orders. I don't want to go ahead and answer that.

In order not to be suspected, I only made it half way from the answer.

"Only... That's what I can" I murmured

"No. Continue until it's done"

"What's wrong with this sir? And why did he ask me to do it?" Thought

I doubtfully continued with my answer.

I wanted to answer it wrong, but the teacher helped and justified my wrong answer.

"That's 6.25, not 6.75"

"Ah, yes sir..." Mumbles

After I finished answering, I hurriedly wanted to return to my desk, but Mr. Kaisen called me back.

"Arato, wait here first"

Finally I'm still standing in front of Mr. Kaisen.

"Arato, you can actually do everything, right?" Ask Mr. Kaisen

I jerked.

"No... I'm not that good..." Mumbles

"I remember, there was 1 student who should have his math test score perfect because all the roads were right, only some of the answers were wrong because the end result was wrong"

"That's you, Arato. You actually understand all this, right?" Ask Mr. Kaisen

"Are you so nervous on the test that you don't concentrate?"

I just kept my head down and clenched my hands.

"Can't draw attention. Don't look like you stand out from the rest"

"Can't make the teacher have high expectations of me" I thought

"No. I still need to learn more..." Mumbles

"Don't go low. If you can, say you can. It seems like this year there is a unique student"

"No. Don't look at me!" I thought and clenched my hands stronger.

"Alright, you can go back to your desk"

I walked back to my desk and I was still the center of attention for the class.

"He's the only student this year who can score perfectly on a math test? Can a score above 75 be grateful, but this can be perfect?"

"In addition, he could defeat Kirian. I heard that Kirian continued to be ranked first in the special class during Junior High"

"Yes! And that Arato Izumi did indeed continue at the first rank, but he was in the general grade. I don't understand why he's smart even in the general classroom"

"What possible... Kirian isn't as good as the rumors?"

"Sst! Lower your voice!"

"Mom... It's not Kirian's fault, but it's hard, right?" The others were nervous

"I... Aye, aye! I don't know how that answers either"

My body began to tremble at the sight of the doubting class student Kirian.

"He's... It'll hit me..." Thought