The competition had already been going on for nearly half a month. Uchiha Hiko felt that they needed to speed up the process now; otherwise, it would seriously delay the things that came afterward.
"Murong Si, how is your summary of the competition format coming along? I had you taking notes earlier. I've seen you writing here all this time, but I didn't know how much progress you'd made, so I wanted to ask how things were going today."
"A rather serious problem has come up that I need to discuss with you. I want to hear what you think, and then we can help them resolve it."
"The first issue I want to bring up is that our progress is very slow. Of course, part of the reason lies with me. When I established this competition system, I was too particular about it, so it has been rather difficult for them, and the process has slowed down."
"Another serious issue is that I feel the slow progress is partly because of you. Whenever you're taking notes, I always see you thinking about other things."
"Of course, I'm not criticizing you for thinking. I just want to tell you that doing this makes things especially slow. When I ask you to take notes, hurry up and take them so we can speed things along. If there's something you can't figure out, you can think about it by yourself in private later."
Uchiha Hiko had been considering where exactly the problem behind the slow progress lay. During this time, he had been observing carefully, not only reflecting on himself but also looking into what problems Murong Si might have had.
Since the current work was being done by the two of them together, they could not consider only one person. Both