Chapter 66 A person Who Can't Keep a Secret

"I'm sorry..."

Sakura Airi seemed to be overly shaken, masking her shy personality as she quickly turned to face Fang Li.

"C-can I take a look?"

At this point, Sakura Airi's voice carried a hint of pleading.

Fang Li couldn't help but smile wryly at her exaggerated reaction.

"Sure."

Fang Li handed the digital camera in his hand to Sakura Airi.

"T-thank you."

Sakura Airi immediately took it and began operating the camera.

Compared to Fang Li, Sakura Airi's technique was clearly more proficient. She not only pressed the power button several times but also removed and reinstalled the battery before turning it on.

Unfortunately, Fang Li had done the same thing before, but it didn't make the camera work again.

Obviously, just doing this wouldn't be enough to get the camera to start up properly.

Sakura Airi seemed to have noticed this as well.

"No picture...it's not working..."

Suddenly, Sakura Airi murmured in disappointment.

Looking at Sakura Airi like this, Fang Li's bitter smile turned into a sigh.

Then, Fang Li said something.

"As you can see, this digital camera is already damaged and needs to be repaired. Sakura-san, if you know a lot about cameras, can you recommend one and tell me how to fix it?"

Fang Li's voice smoothly awakened Sakura Airi, who was feeling defeated.

Sakura Airi then nervously spoke up.

"If...if you want it repaired, you can go to the electronics store in the Keyaki Mall. The camera is still under warranty, so it can be repaired."

That was really some deep knowledge.

"I understand, let's do that then." Fang Li reached out to Sakura Airi and said, "Can you give me the camera?"

"Umm..." Sakura Airi's body trembled slightly, and the pair of eyes under her glasses looked around nervously, as if she wanted to say something but couldn't.

In the end, Sakura Airi handed the camera over to Fang Li with a mournful expression.

"Thank you."

Fang Li didn't say anything else as he found it amusing, and after taking the camera, he didn't fiddle with it anymore and put it in his backpack.

Throughout this process, Sakura Airi's gaze was fixed on the digital camera, even after it disappeared.

Despite this, Sakura Airi had thought several times about saying something to Fang Li, but in the end, she didn't have the courage to speak up.

Fang Li took out a detective novel from his backpack, and although he seemed to be reading it seriously, he had been observing Sakura Airi's expression all along.

"Ding dong…"

As soon as the bell for class rang, all the students returned to their seats. However, Sakura Airi seemed to have lost all her courage and strength. She couldn't say a word and lowered her head. As always, she sat like hunched over in the corner, unnoticed by anyone.

Fang Li had only one thought about Sakura Airi:

(She's such a girl who can't hide anything…)

However, compared to Kushida Kikyou, who could deceive everyone with ease, Sakura Airi was undoubtedly much more innocent and cute.

While Fang Li was thinking this, their homeroom teacher, Chabashira Sae, entered the classroom with her textbook and the class began.

Fang Li then focused his attention on the teacher.

But he couldn't help feeling that Chabashira Sae glanced in his direction before entering the classroom.

What did that look mean?

Fang Li only found out the next day.

As for that day, it passed without any incident.

Since the next day was the date for private points to be added up, Fang Li did not rush to repair the digital camera. Instead, he waited for the new data on class points to come out tomorrow.

Although Fang Li was not interested in the competition between classes, private points were important. In this school, they might even become the key to understanding the S system.

Therefore, Fang Li had to pay attention to how many class points D class would have and how many private points he could get.

So, he spent this day doing nothing.

...

The Next Day

With the arrival of a new month, the atmosphere at Advanced Nurturing High School was livelier than ever before, especially in the classroom of class D.

Inside the classroom, all the students were more restless and noisy than usual.

After a short while, the classroom door opened.

"It seems like you all are in a hurry," said Chabashira Sae in her usual calm voice as she entered the classroom carrying a poster tube.

The entire class erupted in excitement.

"Chabashira-sensei!"

Ike Kanji stood up urgently and spoke first, "Is our class still zero points this month?"

It was no wonder that Ike Kanji was asking.

Earlier in the morning, the entire class had confirmed their individual point balances and discovered that there were no private points credited to them. Didn't this mean that the class points were also deducted to zero?

"We have worked so hard this month!"

"We even got through midterms!"

"But it's still zero!"

"Isn't this unfair!?"

"We were never late, absent or talked during class!"

One after another, the students in the class expressed their opinions. The greater their expectations, the greater their disappointment. The fact that there were no private points credited this month made some of the students lose control of their emotions.

Only Chabashira Sae remained calm.

"Don't worry, what is yours will be yours," Chabashira Sae said coldly.

"First of all, let me announce this month's class points."

With that, Chabashira Sae took out two pieces of paper from the poster tube. One was labeled with last month's class points, and the other with this month's class points.

A Class: 940

B Class: 650

C Class: 490

D Class: 0

These were the class points of the four first-year classes from last month.

A Class: 1004

B Class: 663

C Class: 492

D Class: 87

These were the class points of the four first-year classes for this month.

"Let me congratulate you all," Chabashira Sae said, pasting the paper onto the blackboard.

"All four first-year classes have increased their class points after the midterm exams, including yours."

In other words, the class points of Class D were not deducted to zero this month and there was still some left.

————「87」.

Although this number was quite small compared to the other classes, it was no longer zero.

"That's great!"

Led by Ike Kanji, including Yamauchi Haruki and Sudou Ken, the students in the class cheered continuously.

After all this time, Class D was no longer a zero-income class.