NOVEL NEXT Chapter 86
Chapter 86 – The Principal’s Teaching
The flag capturing competition felt like it lasted three days.
The time for scoring was approaching.
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□Ishtar Warrior Team (B) – Total: 65
□Oknodie Senior Team (A) – Total: 62
□Jezel Team (A) – Total: 15
□Andersen Team (A) – Total: 11
□Princess Masugaki Team (B) – Total: 9
□Princess Arcadia Team (A) – Total: 7
□Kasia Team (C) – Total: 5
□Fried Young Master Team (B) – Total: 4
□Princess Yayoi Team (B) – Total: 3
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Students were surprised by the unexpectedly high score of the Ishtar Warrior Team.
“When did the hero gather so many flags?”
“Guess being a senior has its perks.”
“What a shame… If only we’d pressed the Oknodie team a bit more, they wouldn’t have been able to gather so many flags.”
“At least we got to witness some good action.”
“True.”
“I’ll never forget what I saw today.”
The boys, swept up in emotion as if they had seen a World Heritage site, were met with cold looks from the girls, who regarded them like trash.
“What’s wrong with those guys?”
“Who knows.”
“Why is everyone looking at me with pity? I’m in the second place team!”
Even Lotto was bewildered, but who cares?
“Don’t worry about it. After all, we’re in first place!”
Hestia and Lotto looked disheartened.
“Oknodie… I’m sorry. We couldn’t defend our first place because we’re not good enough. If I had blocked the singing, we could have gathered more flags until the end.”
“You miscounted the flags, Oknodie. We gathered 62 and the warrior team gathered 65.”
Unlike the two’s gloomy mood, Jigoku scratched his side with a bullet-less revolver, looking bored.
‘Honestly, I didn’t care about flags; I just had fun shooting. Now I could go for a drink, smoke a bit, and slack off.’
That was probably the kind of thought displayed on his face—shooting, drinking, slacking. You can’t forget those if you’re a pirate!
“Now, I’ll announce the scores.”
Skola from the warrior team, flustered, raised his hand to protest.
“Scores? You already showed us the rankings. Aren’t we first?”
“Clearly, you lack attention, as expected of an inferior student. Did you think the flags of different colors were collected for fun?”
“….”
Good thing he didn’t volunteer to speak up. Son Ohchun, Andersen, and a few others lowered their raised hands in relief.
“The flags are red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, and violet. Each flag’s value varies by difficulty of acquisition.”
“But the most prevalent flag wasn’t the red one, but the orange one!”
“Oh, that’s because I only had orange fabric to use for the flags.”
“….”
Arcadia glared reproachfully at Jezel.
“Should I make them purple next time?”
“That’s unnecessary!”
Sudden realization flashed across the face of Warrior Ishtar. The flags in her basket didn’t take color into account.
Naturally, the flags gathered were easy to obtain and had low scoring value: red and orange flags.
Whereas her team’s basket?
It was filled with every color flag imaginable.
They had shoved responsibility for low-scoring flags onto other students, and taking advantage of resets to gather the higher-scoring flags was just a bonus!
“What?! So, we could’ve just avoided the orange flags from the start??”
“Why did you take off the stockings?”
“Anyway, thanks to that, we got some good memories.”
The boys nodded. Did the color of the flags really matter?
They had just witnessed the rare sight of girls hurriedly taking off their stockings!
“Why are they acting like this when they’ve even swum together?”
“Who knows? Maybe they’re just perverts?”
Among the disgusted girls, one girl with a whip chuckled softly.
“All men are inherently dogs. Women are the masters. You might as well pick a pet man. Surprisingly, it’s more fun than keeping a real dog, you know?”
“Oh my, how horrifying.”
“How can anyone think of treating a person as a pet? It’s such an inhumane thought. It’s impressive, really! I want to try it too!”
“My father’s right. Men are all beasts and perverts. So, training a wild dog-man into a pet dog might not be such a bad thing after all.”
Some noble ladies were starting to open their eyes to a twisted world, while a few boys were shocked yet secretly shooting glances at the girls.
“Hmph. Those lesser males. A man should build muscles and become strong enough to claim his woman, not want to become a pet!”
If even the upper-class boys were in such a state, how easily could the lower-class boys, who were lagging behind in skill and wealth, be swayed by the offers from upper-class girls?
The chapter boss, set to unfold next year from the second year of the first semester, already showed signs of sprouting.
“It’s still too early to step in. Looking at all this, maybe there’s no need to intervene.”
Knowing the events to unfold due to the future Do-S girl and their consequences, it was quite mad.
However, I couldn’t deny the desires of those teenage boys wishing to get close to those beautiful girls.
Well, as long as Jezel and Son Ohchun don’t end up like that, it’s not my problem.
“The scoring based on flag colors is now complete. Here are the scores for each team.”
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□Oknodie Senior Team (A) – Total: 101, Flags: 62
□Ishtar Warrior Team (B) – Total: 82, Flags: 65
□Kasia Team (C) – Total: 30, Flags: 5
□Jezel Team (A) – Total: 28, Flags: 15
□Andersen Team (A) – Total: 17, Flags: 11
□Princess Masugaki Team (B) – Total: 11, Flags: 9
□Princess Arcadia Team (A) – Total: 8, Flags: 7
□Fried Young Master Team (B) – Total: 4, Flags: 4
□Princess Yayoi Team (B) – Total: 3, Flags: 3
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As a result of the scoring, the ranks of two teams rose.
Our team, previously in second, became first, and the struggling Kasia team surprisingly shot up to third place.
“C Group had their scores that high?!”
“They only had 5 flags. Does that mean each flag was worth 6 points?”
Students from Groups A and B were in shock.
The students from Group C had merely watched quietly from the corner while the fighting happened.
They didn’t offer their flags during the resets, nor did they try to interfere in the competition.
Despite their last-ranked status, they were left alone out of pity.
But the result had turned out that those who sat idly by had shot up to third place.
“Are you starting to sense the meaning behind working in teams at the academy?”
“Teamwork is for weaklings!”
“True strength uses the unity of the weak as bait to feast.”
“This assignment was a victory for the crafty flag merchant and the innocent-looking brat who deceived everyone, as well as those who quietly enjoyed the value of their prey!”
“Principal, the second place is the party of heroes!”
“Is it not embarrassing to be second with the name of a hero attached? If it were me, I’d be kicking my blanket for a week.”
“….”
Faced with the principal’s merciless mockery, mostly the students had no choice but to comply with the visible results.
[[The Principal's Teaching] First assignment completed with first place.]
[Observation Experience +30]
[Trick Experience +20]
[Color Acquisition Experience +10]
[Isolation Experience +10]
[Visual Experience +10]
[As a bonus for achieving first place, 3000 points have been awarded to team leader Oknodie.]
[Each team’s points can be distributed arbitrarily by the team leader.]
The cost-effectiveness of the flags rests here.
With every team ranking dropping down, the points awarded to each team leader decrease by 100 points!
Typically, a single flag decides team ranks, marking a maximum price of 100 points per flag.
‘In this round, perhaps because of me, the warriors gathered an unusual amount of flags.”
There was indeed some inflation, but in any case, team leaders received a massive amount of points.
This is where the principal’s wickedness begins to show.
The reason why the notifications only flew to the team leaders, not the team members, was to ignite human greed.
Don’t form teams.
Living together is foolish.
The middle managers and leaders will swindle your rewards.
It’s a deliberately designed, lax distribution system to reveal this brutal reality!
‘When I first took this exam, I thought the reward was 10 points per person and was thrilled!’
A lecture means two meals a day!
But when I found out that each person in a group got to share 500 points, but the team leader gulped it down, only to generously sprinkle 10 points each, I felt like I should’ve smashed that guy’s head with a great sword.
I passionately committed a single murder and moved on to the next round—best decision ever!
‘Still, my kids are nice and hard-working, so I should distribute it fairly.’
[750 points have been sent to Hestia.]
[750 points have been sent to Lotto.]
[750 points have been sent to Jigoku.]
Finished transferring coolly, I declared loudly to everyone.
“I divided the 3000 points among you! Everyone, check it out!”
Other team leaders glanced at us with resentment.
Hmph. You think I’m scared of that?
“Oknodie. You have to be part of the hero party.”
“Ew. No way, why would I?”
“Heh. Does it still seem lacking in your eyes? Alright. Watch closely. I, hero Ishtar, will continue my studies in the academy. One day, I will be acknowledged by you.”
As she vowed to herself, the image of Ishtar walking away felt overwhelmingly burdensome.
If there’s a fool who wants to be a hero after listening to Professor Destroyer, you should doubt their intellect.
“Oknodie, the lecture is over, what will you do now?”
“I’ve listened to the lecture, so for now, I’ll roam around the club activities.”
The girl I talked to, Isabel, turned back with a bored expression.
“Quite a bit of stamina left in you. I’m tired, so I’ll head back first. I’m also irritated by all the boys staring at my legs.”
Instead of wasting time on all sorts of weird adventures starting from the second year, she should focus on eliminating hidden bombs in the academy and preparing for a comfortable school life.
This academy filled with crazy professors also contains many wildly insane seniors, and this time, the bomb to be eliminated was set up by one of those seniors in their club!