Honami Ichinose's Everyday

"Honami Ichinose's Everyday" (一之瀬帆波の日常) is a short story published on the official light novel website to commemorate its renew and luxurious updates.

Summary
On the day the results of the Mock Exam were to be announced, Class 1-B (1st Year)'s Homeroom Teacher, Chie Hoshinomiya is late to class. The students begin speculating over the reason her being late, when Hoshinomiya-sensei enters the classroom, yawning sleepily. She greets the class, admitting that she'd had too much alcohol the day before, thus her her drowsy state. Chihiro Shiranami states that she stank of the same, to which Chie replies that the odour would probably be gone by noon. Honami Ichinose admits to herself that she was indeed an unpresentable teacher, but it could also be the reason for Class-B's "easy-going" atmosphere and unity. Chie proceeds to stick the results of the mock exam on the board, following which she also explained whatever would happen in the future moving forward, before then proceeding to leaving the classroom in a nauseous state. Honami relays the information in her head, remembering that if any student scored below the minimum passing score in the mid-term exams, they would be immediately expelled. The results could also influence the class points.

After Chie returns to the class in a more refreshed state, Honami asks her to reveal the results of the other classes as well, considering that the school seemed to be based on a meritocracy where the tests could influence the class points of the class later as well as since the individual scores had been made public, it was only fair to ask the results of the other classes in order to compete in the cram school-like system. Chie compliments her sharp line of thought, but states that while the average scores of each class would indeed be revealed, the same could not be said for the individual scores of students of the other classes. She then posts a slip bearing the average scores of the other classes on the board.

Honami observes that the school was very complex-to get information one had to specifically ask for it, since only the bare, minimum details were freely shared by the teachers. After observing the result, Shibata says that their class was objectively a very strong one, considering they only fell short of Class-A's average score by two marks. Honami optimistically believes that since their class was pretty much on par with Class A, they should certainly be able to overtake them if they worked hard enough for mid-terms. Even though Shibata then made a loose statement about the classes lower than them being "idiots", Honami does not believe so, knowing from the school's system that it was not that simple. Observing that her classmates were starting to be too proud of their good result, she decides to test the waters by rhetorically questioning whether that was all the results hid.

She then explains that if the division of the classes was solely based on Academic Ability of students, then the lower classes would never be able to fight back or compete with the higher ones, since they would fundamentally already be too weak, leaving no chance of reversal. However, she tells her classmates to not be pessimistic, since the result was in the end, in their favour as well. Another unidentified classmate agrees with her, stating that while there was indeed a clear difference between Class A and Class D, the class distribution did not seem to be completely based on Academics, in the process revealing that Honami had ranked first in the entrance exams, and should have been placed in Class A with that relation.