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Is there even a question? There's definitely no going to change. To be honest, we never expected anything to change, since we all know how bad our grades were before.

I have absolutely no idea what Hayakawa is wallowing in self-pity for. Does he really think he can improve the scores of several people in a single night? That's impossible.

It's certainly impossible, but for Hayakawa, having someone he taught get such a bad score is a slap in the face, and he absolutely cannot accept it.

Therefore, he prefers to use the methods he despises the most.

"It seems..."

Hayakawa turned his back and said slowly, "We can only use some quick methods."

"A quick fix?!"

……

Meanwhile, in Miku's room.

"It's so noisy downstairs."

Nakano Miku lay in bed, listening to the faint sounds outside and thinking to herself.

It wasn't actually that noisy. After all, the soundproofing in upscale residential areas is quite good. The sound from the living room, which is half a floor away, wasn't very loud.

But Miku's heart was in turmoil.

Chapter 503 Hayakawa Provides Cheat Sheets

Miku's mind was in turmoil, clamoring for her to go down.

The five sisters all knew that Nino liked Hayakawa, and Miku knew it too. Originally, she thought that Hayakawa's offer to come over for tutoring was just an excuse. She thought that Ichika and Yotsuba were just making up a reason to invite Hayakawa over, whether it was to help them or something. Miku didn't care or have any interest, so she went back to her room early and closed the door, showing that she didn't want to get involved in their affairs.

However, an unexpected situation occurred. Miku thought that no one would really study. No matter how many people were at the beginning, at most Hayakawa and Nino would pretend to study while actually just enjoying their time together.

However, it seems that they are really studying. In fact, all four of the sisters except myself are listening to the lesson in the living room, and Hayakawa is lecturing very seriously. All I can hear through the door is stuff that I can't understand. What else could it be but textbook knowledge?

"No way…"

Miku was filled with worry, and without thinking, she stood up and went to the door to secretly listen to the sounds outside.

Although she was usually quite reserved, she didn't really want to be an outsider, especially among her most important sisters. But now all four of her sisters were listening to the lesson downstairs, while she was the only one resting upstairs. Wouldn't that make her feel isolated?

And if their grades actually improve while I'm still stuck in the same place, it would feel even more like I'm being isolated, and I might even be mocked by that annoying Nino...

"Oh ho ho, is Miku's grades still the same? As expected, someone who's always gloomy and doesn't talk to anyone will never change."

No, just thinking about it makes my heart ache.

Involuntarily, Miku pictured Nino haughtily covering her mouth and laughing at her, and her fists hardened instantly.

"Immovable as a mountain, swift as thunder, unfathomable as the shadows..."

Miku remained silent for a long time, a glint of light flashing in her eyes.

Since the situation has changed, I must also change.

In conclusion (II), should we first open the door and listen to what they are saying upstairs? After listening more clearly, we can then decide whether or not to go downstairs to listen to the class.

Having made up her mind, Miku opened the door a crack, first pulling it open cautiously, then crouching down and tiptoeing to the outside, using the second-floor railing to block any possible view from below, before earnestly pricking up her ears to eavesdrop.

"A quick fix!"

Hayakawa Road.

Is this how you start teaching?

Miku was stunned. Everyone knows that learning cannot be rushed. You will get back what you learn. It is impossible to achieve success overnight. Otherwise, what would be the point of those who study hard every day?

But Hayakawa immediately said he could learn quickly... Could it be a frivolous man's lie?

Miku definitely wants to listen to it first.

"A quick fix?"

Of the four girls downstairs, May was the most shocked. She stared wide-eyed and exclaimed, "How could such a thing exist?"

If there were shortcuts to learning, she wouldn't work so hard every day and still get such poor grades.

Wait a minute... Could this be the reason why my grades are always at the bottom? Thinking about it carefully, I've tried so hard, but the fact that I still get single-digit scores every time the test papers are handed back is even stranger. Is it because I don't know the quick ways that top students know, so I can't become a top student?!

"..."

May's pupils contracted sharply, and she was instantly shaken, as if a door to a new world had been opened.

At that moment, the question that had plagued her throughout her academic career seemed to have found its answer.

Yotsuba couldn't help but say, "Yeah, Hayakawa-kun, it's good that you want us to get good grades tomorrow, but it's a bit too rushed. Let's be patient and take it slow, there's no need to be so impatient."

Yotsuba looked worried. He knew that Hayakawa was prone to getting stuck on things when it came to studying, so he offered a few words of comfort to try and ease his mind.

"I wasn't lying to you guys, okay?"

Hayakawa lowered his head and said in a deep voice, "This is... my ultimate move."

"A deadly technique?!"

The four girls spoke in unison, all looking at Hayakawa expectantly, and even Miku upstairs couldn't help but look over with curious eyes.

Hayakawa raised her head, her eyes vacant, and pulled out a small piece of paper, showing it to the five sisters. She exclaimed in a booming voice, "Cheat sheet!"

"what?!"

The women were all horrified and rose to their feet, creating a commotion.

"Even if you get good grades this way, it's meaningless."

Nakano Satsuki was taken aback at first, then said with a strange expression.

"Yeah yeah."

Yotsuba looked at Hayakawa with concern, fearing that he might go astray.

"Then you guys should try your best to write down everything I'm going to write tonight."

Hayakawa put the note away, his face expressionless.

"Write it down?"

Yihua blinked, confused: "Remember what?"

"What I'm about to say, you all need to remember it well."

Hayakawa stood up and went to the board behind him. Then he turned around to face the girls and said with a very serious expression, "As you all know, the content of each exam paper has a scope."

"Of course we know that." Upon hearing this, May's ahoge (cowlick) twitched as if it had received a signal, and she nodded repeatedly.

"Yes, and tomorrow our first exam is math."

Hayakawa nodded, then drew a long line on the board with a marker: "The scope of the exam is... the entire first semester of the first year of high school."

The beginning and end of Hayakawa Online are marked with the two knowledge points that were taught in class the earliest and latest this semester, respectively, and they span the entire first semester of the first year of high school.

"Of course we know that."

Nino crossed her arms, looking somewhat impatient. What Hayakawa said wasn't exactly common knowledge, but it was common sense for students. Nino didn't know what the point of saying it now was.

"Now I'm going to talk about the important part." Hayakawa coughed lightly and said seriously, "That is, each teacher who sets the exam has a different focus on the exam scope. And the teacher who is responsible for setting the math exam for the first semester of the first year of high school at Ichinose High School is our math teacher, Mr. Tanashita."

"...Is that so?"

Nino was slightly taken aback. The image of the bespectacled teacher who always muttered to himself and whose body was as thin as a withered leaf, as if a gust of wind could blow him away, came to mind. So, he was in charge of setting the final exam questions?

But what's the point of knowing this? Ichinose Trivia Explained?

"Correct."

Hayakawa nodded, then turned back to write again. This time, he began to write a long, incoherent piece, the contents of which shocked and bewildered the girls.

"And then there are the types of questions that Professor Tanashita would typically ask,"

Hayakawa quickly wrote a few lines, then turned his head and said expressionlessly, "First are twenty multiple-choice questions. Based on my understanding of him, the first question will be... then the second question will be... question 610... then the last five questions are quite difficult. Although the scope is basically fixed, they are not yet something you can answer."

"So even though I don't want to, I'll just give up. That way, I can save time for the questions later. I'll just skip them and guess. There are five multiple-choice questions. If I'm lucky, I can get one right. If I'm even luckier, I might get two right."

Hayakawa said somewhat reluctantly, feeling uncomfortable with the opportunistic method of guessing multiple-choice questions, but he had no other choice but to use the most efficient method since he was dealing with the Nakano Five Sisters.

"Then there are the multiple-choice questions. The first five... well, the first ten, are all fairly basic questions that I think you should be able to answer correctly. So I'll write down some question types that I think the examiners will likely ask, which you should be able to answer correctly, maybe just change the numbers a bit."

Hayakawa continued, "Then the remaining five questions... to be honest, I don't think you guys can really solve them, but I'll still write them down for you. You can guess and you should be able to get some points."

"Let's work on the multiple-choice questions first. I'll tell you about the rest after I finish writing this."

As Hayakawa was speaking, he noticed that the girls in front of him were staring at him with wide eyes, their mouths agape like Tyrannosaurus Rex hunting for food. He frowned and said, "Why are you looking at me? Look at what's on the board."

"..."

There was no reply; the living room was silent.

Hayakawa looked puzzled: "Is there something you don't understand?"

Hayakawa's words seemed to give the air the ability to carry sound again, and the girls' exclamations and disbelief rose and fell.

"How can it be?!"

"Amazing!"

"How could someone guess the question setter's answer? How is that possible? Isn't that a plot from a manga?"

"This... no matter how good your grades are, it's impossible to do something like this. This falls into the category of mind reading..."

Some of the girls were shocked, some admired Hayakawa, and some didn't quite believe what Hayakawa said. May, on the other hand, looked like she was questioning the meaning of life; she couldn't accept that the gap between people could be so vast.

"..."

Miku stood on the second floor, her hands gripping the railing tightly, staring blankly down at Hayakawa in front of the whiteboard below, her beautiful eyes sparkling with wonder.

"It's not that exaggerated, it's just a rough guess of what the question setter was thinking,"

Hayakawa said, "If you do a lot of his problems, you'll find that the content of his monthly exams is either the homework he assigns every night or the workbooks he recommends. Even if it's not the exact same questions, at most the numbers are changed. Otherwise, you don't think that those teachers come up with the exact same questions and then set the exams themselves, do you? Don't think that's possible. That's not something ordinary teachers can do. Most of them still have to rely on the internet and textbooks."

"So as long as you do enough practice questions, the exam papers set by the school will basically contain content that you have already done, and then you will gradually have a vague sense of what the exam papers will contain."

Hayakawa remained calm. He had done far too many practice problems. He had seen every problem the teachers had seen, and even problems the teachers who set the problems hadn't seen. In terms of sheer volume of practice problems, all the first-year high school teachers in Ichinose combined couldn't match him. By doing so many practice tests, he naturally learned how to set them. Moreover, the teacher who set the problems, Takashita, was a lazy problem setter who relied on formulas, so he naturally understood even better.

The five sisters seemed to understand Hayakawa's explanation, but not quite. They looked at each other, and May blushed and stammered, "I still don't quite believe it. How could someone possibly guess what the teacher is thinking?"

"How is that impossible?"

Hayakawa looked at May: "May, you must have heard your classmates say things like, 'See, I told you Mr. XX would ask this question,' more than once after an exam. In fact, after spending a long time with teachers, students can sense the different focuses of each teacher's questions. It's just that these subtle feelings are hard to turn into actual experience."

"..."

May was stunned by what she heard. She had indeed heard these words in class more than once after exams. The noisy students were arguing about the exam questions, and some of them really seemed to have guessed what questions would be on the exam beforehand...

Even setting aside other students, she herself, having recently spent a lot of time reading textbooks, did seem to have the thought, "Hey? I feel like I've seen this question somewhere before," during a monthly exam, though it was rare, it did happen.

"That's it. Then I'll write down my feelings and experiences for you. Then you can write down as much as you can tonight."

Hayakawa added, "However, this is just a test paper based on normal conditions. It is possible that the school will suddenly change the test paper, or that Mr. Tanashita will suddenly ask a high school in another region for a set of test papers. So if my guess is wrong in the end, there is nothing I can do. But since it is the test paper he chose, the content should be roughly the same."

"In short, I'll write down the possible answers for the multiple-choice questions first, and you can memorize the ones you want to see."

Hayakawa turned his back again, writing as he spoke: "The first question is 100% guaranteed to be on the test... I think there will be three types of questions. The first type is... The second and third types are variations of each other, which can also be considered as one type. The solution method is also very formulaic... That way, I can get five points."

The four girls looked at each other, and then simultaneously took out pens and notebooks and began to take notes. Even Miku, who had come downstairs at some point, sat in the corner of the sofa and took notes seriously.

This was the first time the five sisters had encountered such a learning method. Although they felt ashamed of cheating by using cheat sheets, it seemed like there was a real chance to improve their grades, which made it impossible for them to refuse.

"Then the second multiple-choice question, in my opinion, will only test one type of question, which is..."

Hayakawa didn't turn around to check the five girls' notes. After all, he had practically fed them. If they weren't serious even at this point, it meant they weren't suited for studying and there was no way to save them.

All you need to do is try your best. In the end, learning something like this requires personal perseverance.

Hayakawa thought to himself silently, his pen never stopping.

In fact, he wouldn't have been able to do this much in the past. He could only vaguely grasp the content of the teacher's questions, but it would have been very difficult for him to put it into practice, let alone write it down and explain it to others.

Chapter 504 Which Room to Sleep In

However, after teaching Fumino Furuhashi and Rizu Ogata, even though I was the one giving the lessons, I also learned some things from them. Their genius thinking and their completely different perspectives on things, and imitating their way of looking at textbooks, really made me feel enlightened.

Hayakawa quickly wrote down the multiple-choice questions on the whiteboard, a barely perceptible smile on his face.

When it comes to predicting the examiners' thoughts, I'm no match for Furuhashi and Ogata. They are the real mind readers. Furuhashi Fumino is a little better; at most, she can guess what kind of reading comprehension questions the humanities examiners will ask and what the questions will be about. Ogata Rizu is truly outrageous; sometimes she can even roughly sense how the science examiners will change numbers, which is simply unbelievable to Hayakawa.

Perhaps this is what genius is all about—extraordinary.

Hayakawa felt a pang of emotion, but unlike before, he didn't complain or blame others. So much time had passed that he had grown accustomed to accepting the injustice of fate and trying to change it.