COTE: Daily Life of Saiki K

"I will first deny the matter of controlling scores, but listening to the teacher's words, it seems there really is someone who can control the results of this exam?"

Ayanokoji asked, and his gaze also projected onto the entrance exam transcript on Chabashira Sae's desk.

"Who?" And at the side, Horikita Suzune also immediately issued a question.

"You two, are you familiar with Saiki Kusuo?"

"???"

Saiki's brows instantly furrowed. He did not expect that Chabashira Sae actually mentioned his name.

'As expected, is it still me? But it shouldn't be like this. I should not have revealed any flaws. Why would Teacher Chabashira mention my name?'

In Saiki's heart there was some incomprehension. He should have acted extremely ordinary. Why would Chabashira Sae still fix her gaze on him?

'No no no, with Teacher Chabashira's personality, it is very likely she is just speaking casually, deliberately making others suspect me… Now that I cannot use telepathy, I don't know what she is thinking, what a troublesome fellow… It must be because of that Kusuke guy.'

Saiki knew very clearly, he did not enter the school through formal channels, but because Saiki Kusuke used his network of connections to open a back door for him. In a certain sense, it was not much different from the way Ayanokoji entered, so he would be suspected by Chabashira Sae.

Moreover, the people who came to this school all at least had extraordinary talents in some aspect. Even Sudo Ken, who was a complete mess in academics, had very high attainments in basketball. Compared to them, Saiki seemed somewhat too ordinary.

If Chabashira Sae made any little moves afterwards, it could bring not a small amount of trouble.

Saiki first used clairvoyance to check whether there was anyone in the men's restroom near the office, then immediately used teleportation ability, arriving in a cubicle of the restroom near the office.

Each teleportation had a three-minute interval between uses, but for Saiki this time was more than enough.

'There is still some distance from the office here. Telepathy cannot completely hear clearly.'

While Saiki spoke in his heart, he again activated his psychic power.

Invisibility.

His body performed optical invisibility, becoming completely transparent to human vision. Casting took one minute, and it could be maintained for up to ten minutes. However, if someone else touched him, it would immediately be lifted. Before school started, Saiki had used this ability to avoid the countless cameras in the school and observe the environment inside.

After activating invisibility, Saiki immediately walked quickly toward the vicinity of the office.

"Saiki?"

Horikita Suzune's tone was full of doubt. She did not expect Chabashira Sae would actually mention this name.

[Saiki, that guy who in class basically had no sense of presence, right? I've only spoken a few words with him. If I remember correctly, his quiz results were fairly good, though that was because he obtained the questions in advance. In the class ranking he was only mid-tier.]

'Looks like ordinary students really did not notice anything unusual.'

Saiki nodded, and at the same time shifted his gaze onto Ayanokoji at the side.

"Saiki? I haven't spoken much with him either, but if compared to others, I suppose it counts as relatively familiar."

Ayanokoji answered slowly. In terms of class interpersonal relationships, his situation was not much different from Saiki's.

[Saiki? Previously it seems I really somewhat overlooked him.]

[According to the teacher's words, Saiki's entrance exam results should be around mid-tier, and this test was also a relatively middle ranking.]

[This kind of score theoretically isn't particularly special. There indeed should be high school students who are quite ordinary in all aspects. But since the teacher deliberately mentioned Saiki's name, it shows she noticed something special about Saiki. Did the school investigate Saiki in advance, or is there some other reason?]

[If what Teacher Chabashira said is true, then Saiki might really be a somewhat special existence. I also was not able to sense anything strange from him before. Is he also hiding himself?]

After hearing Chabashira Sae's words, Ayanokoji's brain began spinning rapidly, thinking over all kinds of details from interacting with Saiki previously.

'Yare yare, looks like there may be some trouble in the future.'

Hiding nearby, Saiki's brows furrowed slightly. Compared to other students, Ayanokoji really seemed somewhat more outstanding in powers of observation and other aspects.

He shifted his gaze onto Chabashira Sae and also could hear the other party's inner voice.

[As of now, I still don't know whether that guy Saiki is hiding himself. No matter if it's his usual behavior or exam scores, there don't seem to be any problems.]

[But I can't so easily make a judgment. After all, he, like Ayanokoji, was a person temporarily added to the entrance list later on. I absolutely cannot casually ignore him.]

[According to the information provided by Chairman Sakayanagi, Ayanokoji himself is a very special existence. Perhaps I can use him to further probe into Saiki's background… For me, this year's students are very special. If I want to rise to Class A, this year is the best opportunity. I absolutely cannot miss it! I must properly make use of these guys!]

'What a nasty personality teacher.'

Saiki's brows twitched slightly. As things stood now, he indeed had not revealed any flaws. Chabashira Sae was only suspecting him, without holding any substantial evidence.

Just as Saiki feared, Chabashira Sae precisely wanted to use her students to search for his weaknesses.

Saiki knew very clearly that all of this was related to Saiki Kusuke. Maybe it was even intentional on his part, deliberately entrusting special contacts to get him enrolled and placed in Class D, forcing the teachers to pay attention to him.

After all, his older brother and super genius Saiki Kusuke already seemed to have an abnormal mental state.

But perhaps Chabashira Sae was somewhat curious about Saiki's identity, guessing he might be a little different, but she would definitely never imagine that Saiki might be a psychic.

"That's right, it's Saiki. Every exam of his is mid-tier in the class, without any subject bias. In a sense, he's somewhat similar to you, Ayanokoji."

Chabashira Sae's face had a profound smile, as if she had grasped the details of all the students in the school.

"I didn't sense anything different about Saiki. He feels too ordinary."

Horikita Suzune shook her head. If it weren't for the previous matter with Kushida, she probably wouldn't have had any exchanges with Saiki at all.

"I was just casually mentioning it, but if you want to rise to Class A, perhaps this will become a very important hint."

Chabashira Sae waved her hand. "Soon the staff will have a meeting. The office must be locked up. You two should leave."

As if her purpose was already achieved, Chabashira Sae waved her hand, letting them leave.

[For now, not to mention what Saiki's true strength is, Ayanokoji should be able to become a very important asset. But for the time being, I'll observe his true abilities first, to see to what extent he can perform.] Chabashira Sae thought in her heart.

Ayanokoji and Horikita Suzune then walked out of the office, and Saiki hid to the side as quickly as possible, avoiding them unintentionally touching him.

[Ayanokoji got exactly fifty points in every subject? Is he hiding his strength?]

[Every day he doesn't seem very serious.]

[Besides him, what exactly is Saiki's situation? Why did Teacher Chabashira even specially mention his name? Where is he special? Every exam is mid-tier. If he were deliberately maintaining his ranking, then it isn't just controlling scores, he would also need to know everyone else's scores. How is that possible?]

After leaving the office, Horikita Suzune felt extremely agitated, partly because she had originally been assigned to Class D, and partly because she could not fully understand the meaning within Chabashira Sae's words.

"Ayanokoji, did you get exactly fifty points on every subject?" Horikita Suzune asked.

"I said it already, coincidence is a very frightening thing. I don't have any ambition, nor that kind of ability." Ayanokoji casually replied.

Similar to Horikita Suzune, at this moment, Ayanokoji was also thinking about matters related to Saiki.

[According to Teacher Chabashira's meaning, I'm afraid she wants to use us to investigate Saiki.]

[Can Saiki really hide so deeply that even I couldn't see it? Using the questions obtained earlier to predict the class average, then scoring a mid-tier score, for me, even that might not be possible, because I also cannot accurately know everyone else's academic level.]

[If true, Saiki is definitely an existence that cannot be ignored… Could he have been sent by that man? The White Room Project should have been stopped, but with that man's character, he probably would restart it very quickly, and inserting other White Room students into the school would also be his style.]

[Although for now I don't want to attract too much attention, I must first judge whether Saiki really is hiding, as the teacher said.]

The two of them walked while chatting casually.

They completely did not realize that Saiki was actually within five meters of them at this very moment.

"I want to confirm whether being assigned to Class D was really the school's true decision. If it is, I will regard rising to Class A as my goal." Horikita Suzune said very seriously.

"You have an unusual obsession with rising to Class A."

Ayanokoji used the corner of his eye to look toward Horikita Suzune, and in his gaze there did not seem to be any other emotion present.

"Could it be that you don't want to rely on your own two hands to change something?"

Without waiting for Horikita Suzune to finish speaking, Ayanokoji gave an extremely affirmative answer.

However, Horikita Suzune directly ignored Ayanokoji's words, "Looks like you are willing to help. If we want to rise to Class A, then we have to work hard to improve the class's situation. Things like leaving early or arriving late absolutely cannot happen, and in the midterm exam, absolutely no one can fail. If someone is expelled, our class points might even be deducted."

"There should be a way, right? After all, previously Kushida discovered that exam questions from the previous year's students could be purchased."

While Ayanokoji spoke, he began to recall the matter about buying last year's test questions.

Although Saiki was together with Kushida when going to interact with the senior students, that was because Kushida had proactively invited Saiki to participate together.

Kushida seemed to have discovered by accident that the senior students' test questions could be purchased.

[In theory, the senior students should not proactively reveal school rules to first-year students. Kushida claimed she accidentally overheard the senior students' conversation and thus learned of these matters. It is a bit too much of a coincidence.]

[Could all of this have been done by Saiki?]

[If it was Saiki who did it, then just what kind of method did he use? Being able to guide Kushida's actions? This is something only supernatural abilities could accomplish.]

'Hey hey hey…'

Saiki, who had been following beside them the entire time, felt his heart slightly thump painfully.

Ayanokoji also would not have thought that a casual thought he produced was already extremely close to the truth.

Ayanokoji's powers of observation and reasoning ability seemed to exceed those of other students. Saiki thought that he needed to be even more cautious, to avoid revealing any slip-ups in front of the other party.

"No, because you can't guarantee that every time the exam questions will be exactly the same as last year's. Besides, in the class there are people who, even after seeing the test questions, still achieved extremely terrible scores."

"Feels like you are pointing at the mulberry tree to scold the locust and actually talking about me."

"Perhaps we should do the same as Hirata and gather the classmates together. But as for the specific method, I haven't thought it through yet."

"If that's the case, then why don't you just come with me to attend tonight's celebration party?"

"What is the point of attending that kind of thing? Obviously, it was only getting second to last place, and you actually still want to celebrate... Truly ridiculous..."

"If you want to improve the class's situation, at the very least you should slightly improve your relationships with the other classmates, right?"

Ayanokoji spoke slowly. It sounded as if he was concerned about Horikita Suzune's interpersonal relationships.

[Although for now, I don't intend to take any special actions, in order to prevent anything before it happens, I will also slightly polish Horikita Suzune into a tool that can be used. For now, in this class, Horikita is the most suitable tool.]

[I am not certain what Saiki's identity is. If he is someone sent by that man, then he probably will think up every possible method to make me drop out... However, I have no intention of letting myself be captured without resistance.]

[I need to first figure out Saiki's true identity.]

'Now I've completely been targeted by Ayanokoji… From here on, my actions need to be even more careful. But whatever this White Room or that man are, they have nothing to do with me.'

Saiki thought in his heart, 'Also, Ayanokoji actually regards other people directly as tools? On this point, compared to Kushida, he surpasses her and is even worse.'

And at this moment, Saiki felt that his invisibility ability was about to end. Although he could continuously release invisibility, the invisibility skill each time could only last ten minutes at most, and before taking effect there was also about one minute of preparation time, so he quickly left the vicinity and once again used teleportation ability to return to the restroom in the school building.

'From now on, when using supernatural powers, I must be even more careful.'

Saiki was thinking this in his heart while heading toward the location of the classroom, but he had not even walked a few steps when he saw Kushida and Ike Kanji and the others just happen to leave the classroom.

'Looks like the meeting on Hirata's side has already ended. Perfect, finally I can return to the dorm to rest.'

But before Saiki could be happy, Ike Kanji quickly came over in front of Saiki, "Saiki, tonight we are having a celebration party. Each of us has to go separately buy a bit of snacks, don't forget!"

'Oi oi oi, from beginning to end it was you few people yourselves saying you wanted to have a celebration party, right? I never said I wanted to participate, okay.'

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