[According to Ryuen's plan, I have to pretend to have had a falling-out with him, then infiltrate Class C, and create chaos from within them.]
'Yare yare, just as expected, huh, I knew it would be something like this.'
[And I can also find a chance to obtain information about Class C's leader… It's just that those troublesome guys from Class A insist on evidence, and I have to take photos for it to count…]
'So the cooperation between Ryuen and Class A is just like this, right? Class A provides points to Class D, and people from Class D are supposed to obtain information about the leaders of the other two classes for them. But Ibuki, there's no way you'll be able to take a photo.'
Saiki responded in his heart like this.
Because to prevent anything from happening, Saiki had already secretly teleported his key card back to his home.
After all, if this exam fails, there's a chance he'll be blamed by everyone, now that would be a bit troublesome.
[Right, right, right, I remembered, this person seems to be called Saiki, yes, Saiki!]
'Remembering my name isn't something worth being proud of, you know.'
[He looks very honest and decent. After seeing me, he probably wouldn't just ignore me. I'll use this chance to infiltrate Class C's inside.]
Ibuki's gaze met with Saiki's, and she had already begun thinking about how to act next.
Saiki directly turned his gaze to the other side, pretending not to see her, and walked straight away.
[Hey hey hey! Are you serious? You totally saw me just now, didn't you?! Pretending you didn't see me is a bit too much, isn't it?!!]
No matter how many calculations Ibuki made, she never expected that Saiki would pretend not to see her, and it even seemed like he was walking away faster.
"Saiki, Saiki, where are you!"
At that moment, another voice came from not far away, it was Yamauchi Haruki.
"Huh? Why is there a girl here? Which class are you from?"
Yamauchi Haruki was planning to meet up with Saiki and came this way, just in time to see Ibuki's presence.
"Are you looking for a boy with glasses? He just walked past this way!"
Ibuki, sitting on the ground, immediately said this to Yamauchi Haruki while pointing in Saiki's direction.
Saiki had no choice. At this point, he couldn't continue pretending not to know anything. He had to pretend he heard the voice, turn around, and go stand next to Yamauchi Haruki. Sakura Airi was also beside Haruki.
[Saiki-kun… So he was really here… I was a bit worried about Saiki-kun earlier, and also, there were a lot of people around the camp… So I thought of coming to look for Saiki-kun… But I didn't expect Yamauchi-kun to come with me too…]
Because of others being present, Sakura Airi's face seemed a bit flustered and awkward, but when she saw Saiki, she still greeted him softly, "Saiki-kun…"
But inside Yamauchi Haruki's heart, it was a completely different picture.
[I can use the excuse of looking for Saiki to be alone with Sakura! I didn't notice it before, but Sakura is actually really pretty too! Kushida's personality is better but she's too hard to deal with. By comparison, Sakura should be easier to win over…]
'Please stop with your disgusting delusions. Also, do you fall in love with every girl you see? In this aspect, you're worse than Ike.'
Saiki shifted his gaze to Ibuki. Now he really couldn't continue ignoring her.
"You, you saw me earlier and just walked past, didn't you?!"
Strong-willed Ibuki didn't want to pretend to be weak and be discovered by Class C, but being directly ignored by Saiki still annoyed her inside.
"Sorry, I'm extremely nearsighted."
Saiki pointed at his glasses and casually came up with a reasonable excuse.
These glasses were only meant to suppress his petrification-eye ability; otherwise, anyone he saw would turn into stone.
Ibuki frowned slightly, but given the current situation, she couldn't refute him for now.
"How did you get injured?" Yamauchi Haruki asked immediately, looking very concerned.
"I… had a disagreement with someone in my class, so it ended up like this." Ibuki slowly said.
'To go this far just to deceive us… in a sense, she's pretty impressive.' Saiki looked at Ibuki's injuries and thought in his heart.
"I can't just leave an injured girl in the forest!"
Yamauchi Haruki acted full of righteousness and said to the others around him.
[Sakura must be thinking I'm such a kind person after seeing this! Her impression of me must be going up like crazy!]
'Yep, your intentions are impure as expected. But sorry, Sakura isn't even paying attention to you at all.'
Saiki turned his head to look at Sakura Airi. Right now, her attention was bouncing between the sky and the ground because she had no idea how to handle the situation.
'As a classmate, I'll just check Sakura's favorability level toward you a little…'
While thinking that, Saiki opened the Favorability Display and looked at Sakura Airi's favorability rating toward Yamauchi Haruki, then quickly closed it again.
'Forget it. It's better if you never find out.'
"Come back to the camp with us! You must not have eaten or drunk anything, right!"
Yamauchi Haruki smiled and said to Ibuki, convinced that he was now oozing charm.
"You sure? We're enemies right now, you know? Taking an enemy back to your camp, are you guys just hopeless good guys or what?" Ibuki said that.
The more she said things like that, the more believable her story became.
Saiki's gaze fell on Ibuki's backpack. With his X-ray vision, he immediately saw the digital camera hidden among the various items.
Not only that, buried beneath the spot where Ibuki had just been sitting was a wireless radio.
"What do you guys think?"
Yamauchi Haruki turned and asked Ayanokoji Kiyotaka and Sakura Airi for their opinions.
"I-I-I…"
Sakura Airi looked at Saiki, not knowing what to do. And of course, he was against the idea in his heart.
'Ibuki is clearly a spy sent by Ryuen. There's no way we can just let her into our camp like this.'
As Saiki thought that, he prepared to directly broadcast Ibuki's inner thoughts. That way, even someone like Yamauchi would know she was up to no good.
But just as he was about to do so, Saiki suddenly stopped, he had a new idea.
'No, no, no. Bringing Ibuki back might actually be a good thing. If Ryuen's plan fails, he might stir up even more trouble, but if we bring Ibuki back, Ryuen will temporarily think his plan succeeded.'
'If I deliberately let Ibuki discover I'm the leader, at least Class D will think so. Then, if I manage to guess all the other classes' leaders, our class could finish second or third in this special exam. That wouldn't be bad. I wouldn't be blamed by others and could avoid standing out too much.'
Thinking that, Saiki's mouth involuntarily curled upward. For the sake of his peaceful life later, he needed to borrow a little of Ibuki's power.
"I think it's fine." Saiki nodded.
"That's great!"
Yamauchi Haruki immediately smiled and looked again at Ibuki.
"Since it's fine, I'm Yamauchi Haruki. Nice to meet you!"
"Even though you guys seem like good people… in the end, you're just a bunch of idiots."
Ibuki shook her head. "My name is… Ibuki."
[Even though I don't quite agree with Ryuen's methods, if I want the class to rise higher, I must rely on Ryuen's power. Class C, I hope in the future you understand, good guys can't survive in this school!]
Ibuki's inner voice was loud and clear.
Very soon, Ibuki just followed Saiki and the others and returned to the camp, however, she took "not wanting to cause trouble for people from other classes" as a reason, and sat down at a spot that had a certain distance from Class C's main group.
As for Saiki and the others, next they were going to prepare to start a fire.
"I'll do it, I'll do it!"
Yamauchi Haruki seemed to very much want to show his own presence, took out the matches obtained from Hirata Yousuke, and after rubbing several times with effort, finally ignited it.
He immediately, cautiously pinched the lit match, wanting to light the branches, but after trying a few times, Yamauchi Haruki didn't succeed, instead the matches inside the matchbox became fewer and fewer.
'Yare yare…..'
Saiki already felt a trace of helplessness toward Yamauchi Haruki, could only secretly activate his superpower, and at the moment Yamauchi Haruki brought the match close to the branches, ignited the branches.
"Success, success!"
After seeing the flame successfully ignite, Yamauchi Haruki excitedly danced and waved, hurriedly turned his head and looked around, however, very unfortunately, from beginning to end, no one put their attention on his body.
Saiki then arrived at a corner where no one was, used clairvoyance to observe the situation of the others in the class.
Kushida and Hirata and a few of them had gone out to search for food, and Saiki didn't want some inexplicable things to happen again in the class, so just to be safe, first used clairvoyance to observe their situation.
'Looks like they've already found some fruits that can be used as food, they're still considered going smoothly.'
After Saiki confirmed their situation, finally let out a breath of relief. Now, he could take a bit of a rest.
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After half an hour, the others one after another returned to the camp. This place already somewhat had some form and appearance, everyone was also sharing their own findings, everything was proceeding in a good direction.
There were fruit trees nearby, and their camp was near the river, which was also convenient for fishing. Even if they couldn't successfully catch fish, they could still look for Chabashira Sae, spend points and let the school provide food.
The homeroom teachers of each class would also follow each class to act together, but at most they only played the role of supervising and providing supplies, usually wouldn't participate in the actions.
And at the end, the topic eventually still shifted to how to handle Ibuki.
"A person from another class suddenly came here, isn't it too much of a coincidence? There's the possibility of being a spy."
"I agree with what you said, it's all Yamauchi's fault for bringing someone back on his own!"
"But no matter what, the other party's injury seems really quite severe, maybe we can take advantage of this, and obtain information from Class D from her body."
Everyone chattered and discussed, and only now did Yamauchi Haruki start to consider the possibility that the other party was a spy.
Hirata Yousuke, for a time, also couldn't be certain. After asking again about some situations regarding Ibuki, and seeing the serious injuries on the other party's body, Hirata Yousuke ultimately still decided to let Class C's people take care of the other party first.
Although in the class there were not a few people who opposed, but after all Hirata Yousuke basically counted as the leader in the class, so everyone also obeyed this arrangement.
"By the way, where's Koenji?"
And at this moment, only then did someone notice that Koenji had not returned to the camp.
"As for Koenji, he has already returned to the ship oh." Chabashira Sae said with a smile.
"And also because of Koenji's withdrawal from the exam due to physical discomfort, your class has already been deducted 30 points!"
Chabashira Sae said with a smile. She had already known about this matter long ago, but if no one asked, she also didn't plan to proactively say it.
"What?!"
"That bastard Koenji!"
"Damn it, too damn much!"
Complaints in the class were unending, and Saiki secretly used clairvoyance to observe Koenji a bit, this guy didn't look sick at all, was currently enjoying top-class spa on the cruise ship.
'This guy…..'
Saiki's brow slightly twitched a bit. The other party's current behavior was exactly what he most wanted to do earlier. It's just that now he not only couldn't do that, even the burden on his own body was becoming heavier and heavier,
'Afterwards, your entire summer vacation's drinks won't be cold.' Saiki, in his heart, gave Koenji a curse.
Although Koenji's actions provoked strong dissatisfaction among the other students, but now they had no way to deal with that person either, could only first cope with the island's exam here.
When the sky completely turned dark, everyone then one after another returned to the tents to rest. Earlier, considering the whole class's living conditions, Hirata Yousuke ultimately still decided to also arrange two tents for the boys.
The weather was somewhat stuffy, the space in the tent was also limited, which made it stuffy and crowded in the tent, but the fatigue accumulated throughout the day let them quickly still enter the dreamland.
And after confirming the surrounding people had all already fallen asleep, Saiki then used teleportation to return to his own home, the first moment being to turn on the air conditioner.
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