Ryunosuke stroked Rizu's dejected head to provide comfort.
"There, there~ you don't need to be sad. You just haven't found the right method to teach them."
"The right method?" Rizu didn't care about Ryunosuke's action of stroking her head, but felt curious about the method that man meant. "Is there a better way to teach them to study?"
Ryunosuke didn't want to beat around the bush and intended to give a direct demonstration in front of her. His first target was Itsuki who was busy sneakily eating a meat bun.
Aware she was being watched, Itsuki secretly put her meat bun into her bag as if nothing happened.
Everyone: "..."
(Oi, oi, oi, we all saw it! What's the use of hiding it now!!!) Their minds screamed in unison.
However, Hiyori's focus wasn't on that. She felt slightly annoyed seeing Ryunosuke stroking Rizu's head. Under the table, she kicked Ryunosuke's leg annoyedly.
Ryunosuke of course felt it, but he didn't retaliate. After all, the most important thing now was teaching the quintuplets to at least reach the passing limit of 40 points. If not, next month's class points could be wiped out to zero.
Because of Tsukishiro's special targeting, the rules changed to a reduction of 500 points per student who failed. Five people failing meant 2500 points; two people alone were enough to use up their points, let alone five?
So toward Hiyori's blatant jealous action, Ryunosuke could only say resignedly: "Don't be jealous anymore, I'll give you compensation later. I'll send you drafts of two volumes of my new novel at once, so don't be angry anymore, Hiyori..."
Facing Ryunosuke's attitude like coaxing a small child, Hiyori's brain instantly went blank. She withdrew her leg and no longer bothered him. Her face turned bright red; to prevent others from seeing, she covered her face with a book.
But actually everyone had already seen it, covered or not made no difference. Anyone with eyes could see that Hiyori liked Ryunosuke, even to the point of not hiding it anymore.
However, Ryunosuke's attitude confused everyone. There was clearly such a good girl showing interest, why didn't he give a clear response?
Playing dumb or really didn't want to accept?
They didn't know, and didn't intend to think about it further. That was their personal business, why should others trouble themselves?
Meanwhile, Yotsuba who was leaning on the desk looked at Hiyori full of envy. (How nice, I also want to joke around like that with Ryunosuke... like when we were kids.)
The light in her eyes dimmed again.
Ryunosuke didn't realize the affection in Yotsuba's eyes at all. He immediately brought out his ultimate move to Itsuki:
"Question! 1750 meat buns multiplied by 213 plus 765, what's the result?"
Itsuki's eyes instantly sparkled. She stood up while slamming the desk and shouted loudly: "The result is 373,515 meat buns!!!"
Everyone: "..."
That answer came out in an instant, not even half a second.
Rizu gaped in shock. Ryunosuke patted her shoulder. "How about that? Now you know what you need to do, right? Itsuki loves eating the most. If you make problems using food analogies, that's the best teaching method for her."
Rizu nodded stiffly with an idolizing gaze. She looked at him as if looking at an idol, her eyes sparkling.
It seemed another girl had been charmed... who knows which number this was.
Ryunosuke flipped his hair with a cool style and continued his question. Meanwhile, the still innocent Itsuki scratched her head while looking around searching for where her 370 thousand meat buns were.
Next, Ryunosuke pointed toward Miku. "Question! On the scale armor of a Warring States commander, there are a total of 32,000 scale pieces. I remove 18,000 pieces, then attach 2,400 pieces back. How many remain?"
Miku answered instantly. "16,400 pieces remain!!!"
Everyone: "..."
Alright, now everyone knew how to deal with these two sisters. Three more to go...
Everyone looked with curiosity toward Yotsuba, Ichika, and Nino. The three shuddered and looked at Ryunosuke warily.
Miku covered her face with both hands, feeling she had no face left. Her hobby of liking Warring States Commanders seemed to be completely exposed.
(Akasaka-kun is guilty! Seppuku! Die! Huwaaa~) Miku cried sobbingly on the desk.
Ryunosuke ignored her and intended to attack three people at once to save time. He said to Ichika who wanted to become an actress:
"Question: An actress's preparation time before going on stage is half an hour. She spends 15 minutes on makeup, 7 minutes going to the toilet, and needs 6 minutes to walk back and forth. She also eats an apple for 32 seconds, then throws it in the trash in 27.58 seconds. How much time remains before the show starts?"
Ichika raised her small hand. "I know, I know! The remaining time is only 1 minute 0.02 seconds!"
The "teachers" like Fumino, Rizu, Yukino, Meiyu, and Hiyori began taking notes in their small books.
(So that's how it is... this is how to deal with them. Now it's much easier...) all five of them thought in unison.
Ichika sat back down with awkward feelings. She didn't expect the other party understood her so well, as if she were a worm in his stomach. Ichika looked at Ryunosuke annoyed for embarrassing her in public.
Ryunosuke didn't care about Ichika's annoyed gaze and continued attacking Nino.
Nino folded her arms, challenging that man—she wasn't as easy as her other sisters to trick.
Ryunosuke took out a personal photo of Hirata's, waving it in front of Nino's eyes, and threatened: "I'll give a problem now. If you deliberately don't answer correctly, I'll tear this photo."
Nino drew a sharp breath.
(How does he know I have a crush on Hirata? This is just the early stage, I only have a little feeling for him. Is he really a worm in my stomach?!) Nino screamed in her heart, but was forced to accept that challenge and prepared to answer seriously.
Seeing that photo, Meiyu thought: (I want that photo too~)
But outwardly she remained calm even though her eyes kept eyeing that photo to steal.
Ryunosuke then began reading the problem.