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At C99, Hoshimori Ayane was awarded the MVP!
For Hoshimori Shion, her first academic performance test since entering high school resulted in a class rank of 114th.
Upon seeing her final score, Shion’s lips twitched involuntarily.
To call it good would be an understatement; it was a substantial improvement from her near-last place rank of 190th at enrollment, a truly massive leap forward.
All three subjects had now reached the passing mark, with her most dreaded subject, mathematics, even surpassing it by nearly ten points.
When Shigure saw Shion’s math score, she almost lunged forward to embrace her.
Yet, her shyness held her back, preventing an embrace in such a public setting.
To call it bad… well, there was nothing truly bad about it, save for the numerical rank itself, which for some inexplicable reason caused Shion’s lips to twitch once more.
‘It felt as though scoring one point more or one point less would have been preferable…’
All in all, however, it was quite commendable!
As Sakuya led Shion toward the announcement board displaying the rankings, her emotions embarked on a veritable rollercoaster ride.
Initially, upon glancing at Shion’s scores, Sakuya’s heart sank.
She searched for Shion’s results with more urgency than her own, scanning the top 100 twice without success before reluctantly moving on to the list of the bottom 100.
Before long, she spotted Shion’s name at the 114th position.
Then, her gaze fell upon Shion’s Japanese language score.
That, too, was… a bare pass, exceeding the minimum by a mere single point.
It was difficult not to imagine the teacher had frantically pulled her grade up to just barely pass.
Sakuya had always known Shion’s grades were poor, but she had never truly grasped the concrete extent of their inadequacy.
‘She likely just assumed Shion’s Japanese score hovered around the passing mark.’
The truth was, Shion had never dared to tell Sakuya that merely reaching a passing grade already represented an enormous leap in progress.
After all, her entrance exam scores for all three subjects combined hadn’t even surpassed her sister’s single highest subject score; that was a fact she truly wished to keep from Sakuya.
This revelation, then, led to Sakuya’s profound self-reproach just a few minutes prior.
‘After tutoring Shion for so long, her grades hadn’t improved at all; they might have even declined… My own Japanese scores are quite stellar, yet despite pouring my all into teaching Shion, her grades are still so dreadful…’
When Sakuya finally questioned her, Shion placed both hands on Sakuya’s shoulders, her gaze as resolute as the distant sun—despite the overcast sky that day—and declared: