Pass Announcement and Class Placement

Author: Unicoon
Raw: https://ncode.syosetu.com/n8138gc/21/
Translator: Lilia v4
Editor: Yuriko AYA

A few days after the entrance exam.
Many young people had gathered on the schoolyard of Romulus Academy.
The examinees who had sat the exam.

“I did it! I passed!!”

“No way… my name isn’t there…”

“The advanced class! Look, the advanced class!!”

What was happening that day was the announcement of pass and fail, and class placement.
A large paper had been posted on the bulletin board, listing the names of those who had passed and their classes.

The examinees rose and fell with the results.
Then Lady Ulrika arrived too.

“Over there! I’m looking forward to this!!”

“Please wait, Lady Ulrika!”

Lady Ulrika pattered off; Olivia hurried after her.
Charlotte and Natasha followed slowly behind.

“Uuu… I’m so nervous…”

“You’ll be fine, Natasha. Have confidence.”

“Lottie! Sasha! Come quickly!!”

They stood before the bulletin board, all four checking the results.

“Hmm… ‘advanced class,’ ‘general class,’ ‘lower class’? What are these?”

“You’re placed into classes according to your exam scores. The advanced class is the top twenty percent, the honor students.”

“Hmm, hmm.”

“The general class is the other seventy percent. Ordinary students, so to speak.”

“So the bottom ten percent is the lower class?”

“That’s right. Those who barely passed can enroll in the lower class… however…”

Olivia looked a little reluctant to say it.

“If you end up in the lower class, you’re treated coldly inside the academy. The classrooms and dorms are falling apart, and I hear the other students bully you…”

“I see. I understand it well!”

Lady Ulrika took in the full explanation.
She did not seem to care at all about how the lower class was treated.
She leaned in to check the exam results.

“Ohh, Lottie is advanced class! That’s amazing!!”

“Yes, thank you…”

Charlotte put a hand to her cheek, shy.
Her face was red; she looked pleased.

“Next is the general class. Natasha’s name is there!”

“Haa… I passed. I’m so glad…”

“Now then, where is my name…”

“Ah, over there.”

Where Olivia pointed, Lady Ulrika’s name was written.
The class placement said lower class.

“Found it! I’m lower class!!”

Hearing lower class, the examinees around them turned cold eyes on her.
Lady Ulrika paid those eyes no mind at all.

“I did it! I really did pass~!!”

“Lady Ulrika, is the lower class all right?”

“A pass is a pass!”

Watching Lady Ulrika at her own pace, Olivia let out a breath.
Then an old man arrived.

“You there! You are about to become students of our school. It will not do to make such a vulgar racket.”

“Headmaster Neumann!”

“It’s the Sage!”

The examinees cheered at Headmaster Neumann’s appearance.
To them, Headmaster Neumann, called the Sage, was an object of longing.

“Really now, which students are making that—hieeeee!? Lady Ulrikaaa!!”

Spotting Lady Ulrika, Headmaster Neumann let out a strange cry.
To him, Lady Ulrika was an object of worship, close to a god.

“I’m terribly sorry! I’m terribly sorry!! We discussed the exam results at some length, but it came out as the lower class…”

No one had said a word to him, yet Headmaster Neumann flattened himself to the ground in apology.
Lady Ulrika looked worried at the uneasy air.

“What? Don’t tell me… I can’t go to school?”

“No, no! Of course you may attend. It’s only the lower class…”

“Then there’s no problem! Thank you.”

Lady Ulrika patted Headmaster Neumann’s head.

“Fuooooh!! What a generous heart! What kindness! A goddess~”

Headmaster Neumann, called the Sage and gathered respect.
That headmaster was prostrating himself before a single girl.
A complete abnormality.

Then a further abnormality occurred.

“Headmaster Neumann! Please put me in the lower class as well!!”

“Haa!?” the examinees cried.
Charlotte, royalty, had passed into the advanced class—and was deliberately asking for the bottom, the lower class.
And then—

“Me too! I want the lower class too!!”

Natasha’s hand shot up.
Passers into the advanced and general classes asking for the lower class: an abnormal situation.
The examinees froze, their thoughts stopped.

Headmaster Neumann, addressed, looked troubled too.

“Why the lower class? Class changes cannot be made to begin with…”

“But! I want to attend the same class as Ulrika. We’re friends!”

“Me too! Ulrika and I are friends!!”

Hearing that, Lady Ulrika bounced with joy.

“Is it true! I’m so glad!! Lottie and Sasha in the same class~”

“No, no, Lady Ulrika, changing classes is impossible…”

“It’s no good? That’s a shame… but if it’s decided, it can’t be helped…”

Lady Ulrika drooped.
Her brows drew together; she looked terribly disappointed.
Seeing that, Headmaster Neumann hurled himself at the bulletin board.

“I wouldn’t dream of it! I’ll repost the class placement at once!!”

Rip, rip—Headmaster Neumann tore the results paper to shreds.
Those were no longer an old man’s movements.

“Is it all right? Truly? Neumann is kind!!”

Lady Ulrika patted the prostrate headmaster’s head.
Headmaster Neumann trembled, shedding tears.

“Fuooooh! Lady Ulrikaaa~”

And so, in that bizarre atmosphere, class placement was decided.