"Class D cheated!"
"Every base we passed had been occupied by Class D!"
"And we couldn't find anywhere to rest at all."
In other words.
Class B's students kept searching for bases, only to keep discovering that each one had already been occupied by Class D.
Then that base had been occupied by Class D too.
At the same time.
They had been worried about losing Points.
So they had kept... walking.
They did not dare rest at bases belonging to Class D.
So it was not that they had been particularly driven; they had been forced to keep moving forward.
So.
Had they been walking continuously from the very beginning?
Judging by the students' near-tearful expressions.
Five thousand steps? Eight thousand steps?
No.
By that calculation, it was probably twenty thousand steps already.
"Ha ha ha—"
Ryuuen and the others from Class C had already been resting here on the beach for two hours.
Although losing fifty Points had annoyed him, seeing Class B's students emerge looking utterly miserable—
At the sight, Ryuuen burst into laughter.
"Weren't you trying to save supplies?"
"When we got off the cruise ship, I told you to just exchange for two hundred Points' worth of supplies. But you wanted to look around, look some more, and wait a little longer."
"And now you've spent most of the day walking for nothing!"
"You haven't even had a sip of water!"
"Ichinose, you're sunburned already—"
Class B's students really did look pitiful.
They probably had not expected the Deserted Island exam to be so brutal. Although sunscreen had been handed out, no one had applied it—or rather, everyone had been walking to avoid wasting time.
As a result, after making the trip around the Deserted Island, their necks and hands had all turned bright