After returning to their original resting spot, most of the Student Council members he had left behind had finally managed to climb up.
But they were all equally weak. They had been exhausted for an entire day and had not had a single drop of water or bite of food.
Nakamachi Chika and Orito Kaori were also sitting on the ground resting, complaining nonstop.
"How did you people who got up here first manage this? You didn't even find any food?" Orito Kaori said unhappily.
"Exactly! We haven't even held you accountable for abandoning us and leaving on your own, yet you didn't even complete the first few steps of the plan?" Nakamachi Chika said. "Make a ladder, gather food and water—you accomplished none of it!"
"We only got here a little earlier than you," the remaining two boys said, looking at each other.
At that moment, Orito Kaori suddenly looked up, then let out her signature mocking snicker.
"Oh my, President, what happened to you? Why is your face all bruised up? Both sides are swollen like a pig's head! Hahaha!"
"President, did you go steal honey from a beehive or something? It really is pretty funny," Nakamachi Chika said, clutching her stomach as she laughed.
Under the noisy fussing of those two emotionally intelligent masters who spoke without thinking, everyone finally noticed Tama-na, the president who was barely hanging onto half his life.
"You're still laughing!"
Tama-na was furious.
"By the way, where's the other person who was with you?" someone asked.
Tama-na did not answer, nor did he have the strength to. He was so weak that he had slumped down onto the ground.
"He's dead," Tama-na said.
"D-Dead?"
Everyone was in disbelief.
"That can't be right. Our plan should have been flawless. How could he have