Selling

Totsuki Academy’s curriculum was tightly packed. The opening ceremony had barely ended when the first day of classes began, before they had even returned to their dorms.

As transfer students, Xu Yue and the other three were naturally assigned to the same classroom.

Yeah, that was right. The two Reincarnators had paid their way in.

A thousand Reincarnation Points to pass such a difficult entrance exam—wasn’t that a huge bargain?

Yet whenever the two who had passed looked at Xu Yue and Yukihira Soma, their faces remained full of suspicion. They seemed to suspect that these two transfer students might be Reincarnators as well.

Before class began, the two whispered among themselves for quite a while. Finally, the guy with dry yellow hair who looked like a delinquent worn out by excessive indulgence approached them.

"Brother, do you know about the Reincarnation Space?"

"Huh?"

After Yukihira Soma gave him a baffled look, Blondie’s expression visibly darkened. He had probably received a deduction notice from the Space.

Then he shook his head at his companion.

Xu Yue could not help admiring their cleverness.

In other Spaces, he could carry an intelligent Summoning Snake with him. If anyone carelessly mentioned the Reincarnation Space to him, they would definitely get deducted to death.

But in this Space, where using the Summoning Technique counted as a violation, he really had to make use of story characters.

Still, after "confirming" their identities, the two immediately let down their guard around Xu Yue and Yukihira Soma.

After all, their entire style was completely different from theirs. They had luxury cars picking them up and dropping them off, so the possibility of them being Reincarnators was minuscule.

It was all because they had been too cautious. Seeing them take the assessment mission together, fail together, and then receive admission notices together had made them suspicious.

As a result, they had lost quite a few points, turning what should have been a huge profit into a modest one.

Fortunately, now that they had completely confirmed their identities, they could relax. They had seen the two of them cook during the assessment. Those were some truly incredible thighs to cling to!

If they wanted to safely make it through these harsh assessments, they needed to latch onto them!

The two had already been quite cautious, yet they had not expected that among the two natives they had briefly suspected of being Reincarnators, one really was a native—but the other was genuinely a Reincarnator…

The classroom group lottery results came out as well. This time, perhaps because four transfer students had been added, the total number of students had become odd, so one group needed three members.

For Xu Yue, whose cooking skills were still at their weakest stage, it was naturally best to have Yukihira Soma cover for him first. It would have been ideal if he could join Yukihira Soma and the country girl Tadokoro Megumi.

But whether it was the Space’s will or simply the course arrangements, Xu Yue and the other two unlucky Reincarnators ultimately ended up in the same group.

Watching the country girl crouched beside Yukihira Soma, repeatedly writing the character for "person" on her hand and swallowing it to calm herself, looking pitiful like a small animal, Xu Yue found it rather amusing.

Although this adorably foolish girl was not very skilled at cooking yet, her potential was at the level of the Elite Ten.

Unfortunately, there were no thick thighs to cling to, nor were there any cute girls. Beside him were only a yellow-haired delinquent and a pervert with Glasses.

These two were clearly the random extras A and B from **, and they were his teammates. It really was the worst possible outcome.

Although his group had three people, it was undoubtedly the weakest group.

Fortunately, he had the advantage of knowing the plot. During the seven days, just in case, he had specifically learned how to make Beef Bourguignon.

It was just a pity that Yukihira Soma did not know how to make it either. Xu Yue could only consult the recipe in a book while urging Yukihira Soma to study it.

They had achieved some results, but this dish took far too long to prepare. He did not know whether they would have enough time.

Hmm…

The instructor for this class was Roland Shaper, one of the senior teachers in the story. He was a good teacher, but he was exceptionally strict when it came to cooking. Any dish that failed to earn an A from him received an E.

It was said that once, all fifty students in a single class had received E grades, and eighteen of them had withdrawn from school because of it.

If he had a suitable classmate to assist him, even just any student who had come up from the middle school division, then with what he had developed by pushing Yukihira Soma to research it, combined with some of his own experimental work, there would really have been no problem.

But with these two deadweights, Xu Yue felt he needed to think of another solution. Otherwise, there was still a risk…

Tap, tap~

Accompanied by grave footsteps, Roland Shaper, his blond hair framing the expression of a man perpetually owed money by everyone in the world, entered the classroom.

"Today, you will be making Beef Bourguignon, the most basic standard French dish. In my class, any dish that does not reach an A rating will receive an E."

His stern words drew a chorus of wails.

Only Yukihira Soma looked openly delighted.

"Haha, I know Beef Bourguignon!"

In the original story, he had not even known what the dish was called and had only researched it on the spot based on the recipe. But this time, after Xu Yue had asked him about it in advance, his understanding of the dish was undoubtedly much deeper.

But since they were not in the same group, it was completely useless to Xu Yue. This was an ingredient dish that usually needed to stew for an hour. He could not keep using the Sharingan to copy things for that long, and Yukihira Soma had the cute country girl Tadokoro Megumi assisting him, while Xu Yue only had two guys…

Still, he had prepared a backup plan.

In his original expectations for today, teaming up with Yukihira Soma would naturally have been the best and most perfect option. The next best option would have been teaming up with any student who had graduated from the middle school division, which would also have been enough to complete the lesson.

What he faced now was the third and worst possibility.

He had estimated six possible solutions. Based on the actual circumstances before him, Xu Yue naturally chose the one that fit best…

"Teacher, I have an objection."

Xu Yue raised his hand and spoke.

His rashness surprised everyone who knew how strict Roland Shaper was.

"That transfer student actually interrupted Instructor Roland Shaper."

"He’s done for. He’ll definitely be punished."

"The teacher is so scary."

Not only the other students, but the two guys grouped with Xu Yue also began to feel that this teammate was rather unreliable.

The teacher was obviously this stern, so why provoke him?

What if he held it against them as well?

Natives really could not be relied upon!

Yet after Xu Yue interrupted him with a question, Roland Shaper did not punish him immediately. Instead, he asked,

"What is the problem?"

Although Roland Shaper always wore a grim expression and carried considerable authority among these first-year students, Xu Yue knew the full story and understood that this teacher was cold on the outside but warm-hearted within. He was confident about raising the issue.

"Teacher, I took the entrance exam together with these two. They have no foundation whatsoever, and I truly do not know how they were admitted. They will seriously affect my progress."

Xu Yue asked with a bright, sunny smile, looking every bit like a diligent and studious model student. But his words made the two Reincarnators want to curse.

What the hell was this?!

Did we provoke you or something?

What grudge do you have against us?!

Did you know we spent Reincarnation Points to get in?!

It was one thing if you were not taking us along for the first round of the Gate of Opening, but now you were directly attacking us?

At first, the two had feared that he would anger the teacher and implicate them.

But this was no longer a matter of being implicated.

He was trying to screw them over!

Believe it or not, once we release our power, we can punch you flat in one blow!

Gasp!

Xu Yue could not directly question the assignment itself.

Because the middle school division’s foundational curriculum definitely included the relevant cooking techniques. Once students reached high school, the classes focused more on cultivating their creativity.

So the instructors merely provided the ingredients and the theme, while the students mainly had to improvise on the spot!

If transfer students did not even possess that basic foundation, what kind of transfer students were they?

Under such circumstances, raising any other objections would have been meaningless and would only provoke resentment.

But!

When it came to teammates, transfer students definitely had grounds to say something!

First, we are unfamiliar with the other students. They all came up from the middle school division, and may know one another to some extent.

Second, I took the entrance exam with these two transfer students. I saw their performance firsthand. In the egg test, each of them merely fried an egg.

I question your favoritism. I question whether you bowed to the Space.

Although he did not know what legitimate method the Space had used to get the two admitted, it was certain that the back door had been opened rather wide. On this matter, the school was in the wrong…

Weren’t Reincarnators meant to be sold out…

Two updates today. Since it was the last day of 2017, let’s end it with the standard conclusion~