Because he had remained behind, some students gradually arrived as well.
Among them were students from the same year, naturally, as well as first-years and two third-years whom Nagumo Miyabi had specifically arranged to confirm the situation.
The reason for saying that was that the two third-years did not take out their tablets to have Hoshinomiya Chie scan them for points.
In other words, they were not on this route.
"Hello," Oreki said.
The one who greeted him was a student from Class 2-D.
It was Kanji Ike.
He was in the same group as Ayanokouji.
Apparently, yesterday, Yukimura from Class 2-D had chosen to withdraw.
He was Class D's top student, but his physical fitness was abysmal.
Since he had been dragging Ayanokouji and Kanji Ike down as their teammate, he chose to leave.
He hoped Ayanokouji and Ike would continue doing their best.
"What a shame! We were the fourth group to arrive," Kanji Ike said, clearly in a poor mood.
The third group had just received their points, so even with Yukimura, whose physical fitness was terrible, gone, they had still arrived too late.
They had failed to get the group bonus points.
Oreki understood that Ike had intended to work hard after Yukimura withdrew.
In other words, he wanted to prove himself—but why was he in such a hurry?
Because he often studied with the popular girls... no, because they came to Oreki for tutoring, they had mentioned Kōenji's tutoring from before. At the time, the students in their class had rejected Kōenji's extra lessons.
Later, they wanted to cling to Kōenji for tutoring again.
But how could the proud Kōenji possibly accept them?
And one of those people was Kanji Ike.
In other words, Kanji Ike was not normally such a diligent person.
So it