During the previous Sports Festival, he had misjudged him. At first, he only felt that this kind of Sports Festival was unfair, but President Horikita and Houtarou Oreki's later competition had truly amazed him.
Although President Horikita had already graduated and left, wasn't Oreki, who was evenly matched with President Horikita, still at the school?
So he had also been looking for an opportunity to compete with him.
Therefore, even if Oreki had not come looking for him, he would probably have challenged him himself.
That was what he thought, at least.
"You're an interesting one," Kōenji said. "This is the first time I've met someone who dared challenge me."
"Then I'll take that as your acceptance," Oreki said. "I just came here from the designated A8 area."
Oreki's starting area was A6, and A8 was not far away.
Nearly twenty minutes had passed by now, so perhaps he really had claimed first place in today's first designated area before coming here.
"Heh heh—"
Kōenji smiled.
Then he slid directly down the stair railing.
His movements were extraordinarily agile. He immediately climbed the nearest large tree, leaped through the branches, and swiftly departed, heading for the designated C5 area displayed on his tablet.
Kōenji had directly expressed his acceptance of the challenge through his actions.
Watching Kōenji leave, Oreki quickly climbed the Central Tower and memorized every sight visible from it.
Then.
He took a camera from his backpack.
He snapped a photo in one direction of the A8 area.
He brought up the system.
"Use Teleportation?"
His Teleportation home did not consume any uses. At first, he could only teleport to places he had visited, but later it evolved until he could travel to areas he had seen in photographs as well.
Therefore.
What he needed to do