In fact, after the information is refreshed, they always want to attack me!

Just last Friday, he coldly rejected her request for protection, his tone as hard as a rock, telling her to apologize properly.

Unexpectedly, just a few days later, because she lent him her phone for a few tens of minutes and helped him move a laptop, he not only agreed to protect her for a month for free, but also offered to fulfill one of her requests.

Looking at Shimizu Akira's profile as he looked down at his phone to edit messages, she suddenly felt that this person was like a riddle hidden in the fog—one second he was keeping people at arm's length, and the next second he would suddenly reveal an unexpected side.

"Then I'll have to think about it carefully." Karuizawa Megumi crossed her arms, but a hint of curiosity crept into her eyes. "After all, this kind of opportunity is rare."

“However, I’ll set up the phone myself.” Karuizawa said, taking Shimizu Akira’s phone out of her pocket and handing it back to him. “By the way, your phone just received a few text messages. I didn’t check them. Take a look yourself.”

"Okay." Shimizu Akira took his phone and handed hers back.

"Then I'll be going now." Karuizawa Kei thought for a moment. Now that she had confirmed that Shimizu Akira would protect her this month, there seemed to be nothing else to say. So she turned around, closed the door, and left.

Akira Shimizu picked up his phone, and the moment the screen lit up, several unread messages popped up, with the sender's name clearly marked as "Miaomiao Cat".

Miaomiao Cat: How did it go? Did that detective catch you?

Miaomiao Cat: I reminded you two hours in advance. If this is still discovered, I will really look down on you.

Akira Shimizu paused on the screen with his fingertips, then slowly typed out a line of text.

Yueqing: Thanks to your reminder, I managed to get away with it in the end.

Miaomiao Cat: ? What did you do? Tell me.

Yueqing: I simply used the tactic of "changing the phone" to dispel her suspicions.

Yueqing: In addition, the student council's authority blocked the inference that "accounts must be purchased from the homeroom teacher".

Miaomiao Cat: Hehehe, that's interesting. I didn't expect you to target the phone—you've certainly exploited a vulnerability in this common school device quite cleverly.

Miaomiao Cat: Now that you owe me a favor, how do you plan to repay it?

Yueqing: I really appreciate your reminder this time. Thank you so much.

Akira Shimizu's words of thanks at this moment were truly heartfelt.

Regardless of who this Miaomiao Cat really is, if it weren't for the other party's reminder, he would probably have been caught red-handed by that detective lady long ago.

Yueqing: So, what do you want? Points?

Miaomiao Cat: Don't count, just tell me your thoughts on this month's special exam. What interesting things did you discover? Consider it a return gift to me.

Akira Shimizu pondered that the other party had indeed helped him a great deal, and since it was just a matter of sharing his thoughts, he revealed all about his discovery of the ancient scroll.

Miaomiao Cat: That's all? Nothing else? This doesn't do justice to the kindness I showed you by specifically reminding you.

Akira Shimizu was taken aback, then added: "In the midterm exam, you can use 100,000 points to buy one point, and the questions on the test can be modified—up to five major questions, for a total of fifty points! This way, it can probably reduce the class points of each class by about ten points, but only one person per grade can be affected."

Miaomiao Cat: That's more like it. Judging from this, you've gone to the student council again, haven't you? Could it be that you've already finished grading the exam questions?

Yueqing: Not yet. After all, this strategy doesn't earn any points at all; it's a team-oriented tactic.

Yueqing: But I've already told you these two pieces of information, so that should make up for the favor I owe you, right? Speaking of which, doesn't the school explicitly forbid students from tampering with the surveillance cameras? How did you get the surveillance footage?

Miaomiao Cat: You really can't buy or rent them, especially those two surveillance cameras in each classroom. Thanks to you, they're practically non-saleable now. But you can still get surveillance footage from other places, though the points are ridiculously expensive. I've spent a lot of points on them.

Miaomiao Cat: Of course, I've completely deleted that video.

Yueqing: So that's how it is... You really deleted it?

Miaomiao Cat: You really believed that?

Yueqing: Whether I believe it or not is not important, after all, the initiative is in your hands.

Yueqing: As for the video recording, you can handle it yourself. I told you this information not to buy any video recording, but simply to repay the favor of reminding me.

Ultimately, Akira Shimizu didn't care about his identity being exposed.

He always felt that this Miaomiao cat was probably Sakayanagi Arisu—even this woman knew, so what did he have to be afraid of?

Miaomiao Cat: Don't worry, I won't reveal your alternate account to anyone.

Yueqing: What's the reason? And who exactly are you?

Miaomiao Cat: Guess.

Yueqing: I can't guess. Give me a hint.

Miaomiao Cat: Stupid.

As Akira Shimizu typed his reply, the corners of his mouth twitched almost uncontrollably.

With that tone of voice and that cryptic manner, who else could it be but Sakayanagi Arisu?! He couldn't find a second person.

He simply couldn't understand how the other party had found out his identity.

However, this time he might as well pretend he didn't recognize the other person.

After all, in a sense, it was thanks to her that we were able to fool Hiyori Shiina this time.

Miaomiao Cat: That's right! The two pieces of information you provided are really good! Hehe, since you don't plan to tamper with anything, then I'm going to start taking action.

Miaomiao Cat: Just wait and see, the midterm exam questions this time are going to be very "exciting"!

As soon as he finished speaking, the other person's avatar went completely offline, clearly indicating that they had logged off.

Chapter 170: 167 Midterm Exams -- Of the four first-year classes, who will graduate in Class A?

Time flies, and the day of the midterm exams arrived in no time.

All the students in Class D, including Haruki Yamauchi and Kanji Ike, were eager to try their best and looked very confident.

The reason is simple: they had already memorized those midterm exam papers from their second year of high school perfectly.

This also includes Takeshi Sudo.

Although he doesn't particularly enjoy studying, he can still manage to memorize test papers.

After all, failing to meet the standards means being expelled from school.

What's more, his two good brothers, Haruki Yamauchi and Kanji Ike, under the instruction of Kikyo Kushida, even dragged him along to memorize the exam papers.

In the third week, Akira Shimizu specifically attended a book club meeting hosted by Kikyo Kushida, where Takeru Sudo was also present.

Kikyo Kushida also made him memorize English multiple-choice questions, which he memorized quite well, guaranteeing him at least 50 points.

A subject is worth 100 points, so Sudo Ken's English score should at least be passing.

Although this will lower the class average, at least he won't be expelled for failing.

It is worth mentioning that the number of people attending Hirata Yosuke's study group was the highest in the second month.

Akira Shimizu thought about it and concluded that it was probably because Yukimura Teruhiko's trio had joined Hirata Yosuke's side.

After all, Karuizawa Megumi and her group had always been with Kushida Kikyo, and it was only natural that this situation would arise between the two groups because of the unpleasant things that had happened before.

This indirectly resulted in Kikyo Kushida having three fewer spots, while Yosuke Hirata had three more.

Excluding Rokusuke Koenji and Suzune Horikita, who did not join the study group, Yosuke Hirata's group had 20 members, and Kikyo Kushida's group had 18 members.

Therefore, Hirata Yosuke was elected class monitor for the second month.

At the time, Kikyo Kushida smiled naturally and readily accepted the result.

But behind their backs, they've probably cursed the other person countless times already.

Akira Shimizu understood her thoughts very well—he knew her personality all too well.

To be honest, if it weren't for the fact that Karuizawa Megumi and the other three suddenly cast four votes for Kushida Kikyo on the last day of the first month, Hirata Yosuke should have been the class monitor in the first month.

As for the second month, the result was actually a more normal development in a sense.

It's worth mentioning that in the first few weeks, Akira Shimizu barely touched those ancient scrolls.

After all, it was just a test paper from the first year of high school. Apart from Chinese, his scores in the other subjects in the monthly exam were actually quite good.

As for Mandarin, since he had nothing to do for the next two weeks, he spent the time attending study sessions organized by Horikita Suzune.

He wasn't the only one who attended the study session.

Satsuki Shinohara and two or three other girls from her class also came a few times.

These are the classmates who probably changed their opinion of her because Horikita Suzune suggested in the first month that they should check the surveillance footage to find out who had the most deductions.

Of course, there was no one else besides them.

Furthermore, these people later went to the study group of Hirata Yosuke and Kushida Kikyo, and never voted for Horikita Suzune—after all, strictly speaking, she hadn't explicitly said she wanted to run for class president at that time.

Horikita Suzune didn't react in any particular way; at least in Shimizu Akira's eyes, her expressionless face revealed nothing of what she was thinking.

However, Shimizu Akira felt that she was probably in a good mood.

After all, being recognized by classmates is always a happy thing.

His own Mandarin scores have improved rapidly, and he can now score 50 points.

In other words, even if other students get full marks, he can still avoid failing.

As for the other classes, things have been relatively calm these past few weeks.

There was no activity from Class A; in Class B, Ichinose regularly organized study sessions at the library.

Akira Shimizu later heard about Class C from Shiina; they seemed to be studying desperately—everyone was putting in their utmost effort, frantically cramming under Ryuen Sho's violent pressure.

For the midterm exams, this school has a strict rule: if a student fails even one subject, they will be expelled.

For the entire class, losing one student undoubtedly diminishes their fighting strength.

Simply put, regardless of a person's skill level, as long as they are still in the class, the school will at least give the class an extra point for each person.

If the school were to hold some dangerous special exam, they might just use him as a scapegoat—just like how Haruki Yamauchi is important to Class D.

This kind of ingredient is like emergency supplies; it always comes in handy at crucial moments.

The more Shimizu Akira thought about it, the more disrespectful it seemed to Yamauchi Haruki that he was to say it that way.

After all, strictly speaking, this classmate had also helped him—Yamachi had put in a lot of effort to help him get a date with Kikyo Kushida.

Unlike last month, Kikyo Kushida didn't organize any recruitment events or competitions this month.

Yesterday, Haruki Yamauchi and Kanji Ike approached him with frustrated expressions and silently complained about the matter for a long time.

Akira Shimizu didn't actually have any particular thoughts on this.

As he was thinking this, the exam time arrived quickly.

The first test was in math.

Akira Shimizu sat in his exam seat, checked his pen to make sure it was in order, and then the exam papers were quickly passed around. As the bell rang, the first exam officially began.

He glanced at the front of the exam paper; it was all basic questions, and he could almost recite the answers off the top of his head.

Turning to the other side, the questions were significantly more difficult, but it wasn't too bad for him; he could figure out the correct answer after a little thought.

But when he saw the last short-answer question, he suddenly couldn't hold back anymore—

Of the four first-grade classes, which one will ultimately graduate as an A student?

This is clearly not a math problem, nor can it be considered a language arts problem; it's more like a casually posed question.

However, its score is surprisingly high, a full ten points.

(So, it seems they really did choose to resort to underhanded tactics?!)

He suddenly remembered that two weeks ago, he was the one who personally told Miaomiao Cat that the test questions could be changed.

Of course, although he suspected that the other person was Sakayanagi Arisu, he didn't say anything too definitive out of caution.

It's worth mentioning that Miaomiao Cat sent her the answer yesterday.

Miaomiao Cat: When you encounter a problem you don't know how to solve, just select C for all of them.

That sounds more like a riddle.

Only when he saw the question did he belatedly realize that the correct answer set by the other party could be Class C of the first year?

It's important to know that the midterm exam papers are not completely collected by the school; they will be returned to the students later, and other students will naturally know which questions they answered incorrectly.

Imagine how people from other classes would feel if they saw that the correct answer to this question was "Grade 1, Class C"?

Chapter 171: 168 June -- Class Points for Grade 1, Class D (4k)

And just like that, a few days passed quietly, and the first day of the first week of June arrived.

Last Friday, Teacher Chazhu announced the exam results for Class D. The average score was 88, which is considered average.

Because the ancient scrolls were introduced in the first week of the second month, no one in the class failed any subject.