Ryūen Shō: "?"

She quickly skimmed over the diary entries she hadn't been able to continue reading because of Kushida Kikyo's reaction.

As a result, Horikita Suzune saw something quite subtle.

What does it mean to put it in your crotch?

What kind of operation is it to dress it up as a hair accessory?

Why bring up underwire bras?

What does "... it's disgusting" mean?

How can I compare to someone whose bottom line is so low?!

Honestly, the moment she saw the diary, she realized something was wrong.

The content that could make Kushida Kikyo laugh so wildly, even forgetting to pretend to be gentle in front of the masseuse, could hardly be mundane.

Although it was just a casual self-deprecating remark, the contrast with Ryuen was stark.

I lost.

A complete defeat.

Whether in terms of mental agility or moral depravity, I am far inferior.

But I don't want to win either.

If Horikita Suzune won this race to smuggle things off the ship, she felt like she had actually lost.

I'm sorry, but she really couldn't put anything in that kind of place.

"... Ugh."

I buried my head slightly in the hole specially made on the SPA bed, and felt for a moment the feeling of my surroundings narrowing.

Horikita Suzune calmed down a bit and continued reading her diary.

Today's diary entry is surprisingly long.

After returning to the topic of 'how to do it perfectly', the Diary abruptly changed the subject, mentioning a name that was of great significance to Horikita Suzune.

'Pseudo-human'.

This led her to make a misjudgment at the beginning, causing her to embarrass herself in front of her brother, and to this day she still doesn't dare to go to see him... Pseudo-human.

At first, she thought the Pseudo-human was Yamauchi Haruki.

But you guessed wrong.

It was because of this mistake that she selectively avoided the question of who the Pseudo-human really was.

Even now, after many days, the diary mentions the Pseudo-human again.

Actually, the Pseudo-human wasn't completely ignored in the middle. At least in one of the diary entries in July, it was mentioned that Koenji's physical abilities were second only to a certain Pseudo-human.

But there was absolutely no additional information.

Unlike this time, he almost specifically named the other party and verbally abused them.

... How to be a perfect pig?

Why do this?

Horikita Suzune couldn't understand.

She can understand people's progress and upward mobility, and she can also understand incompetent people like Yamauchi who fall into depravity.

But I can't understand why Pseudo-human is 'capable of doing the same thing' would willingly play the role of a... 'pig'?

This Pseudo-human was so humiliated by the Diary, and even dubbed the 'greatest masterpiece of the pigsty'.

Who exactly is it?

Yamauchi Haruki... not Yamauchi.

Kanji Ike? That shouldn't be it either.

That reclusive guy from the Sotomura? Miyake? Hondo?

Or is it actually a girl?

No, the more I think about it, the more my head aches.

My head feels like it's about to catch fire.

I can't think about it anymore.

Taking a deep breath and inhaling the surrounding aromatherapy, Horikita Suzune coughed several times before finally cooling down.

"Cough cough..."

This is the last bit of my diary today.

This diary entry reveals information about another person.

Her name is 'Shiina Hiyori'.

This is the library NPC that I've mentioned many times before.

She remembered it.

I could see him every time I was in the library during midterm exam preparation.

She was a very quiet girl, so quiet that Horikita Suzune felt she was out of place in the atmosphere of Class C.

But are there many Shiina?

He flipped through his memories, reviewing his incredibly limited list of interpersonal relationships.

Horikita Suzune felt that Shiina was more or less important was none of her business.

As for this information about Shiina Hiyori... she could only treat it as supplementary knowledge.

"Reading completed for today, Reading Points +1"

A sound reached her ears, and the Diary in front of her closed itself. Horikita Suzune let out a long breath and closed her eyes.

With a small hand behind her back relaxing her shoulders, her mind began to reorganize the entire diary entry.

"..."

However, the more she thought about it, the clearer she became about it.

As expected, the Uninhabited Island Exam was no longer relevant to them.

As a loser who exits on the first day, all you can do is reflect and introspect.

There wasn't any particularly useful intelligence, but today's diary wasn't entirely useless either.

After reading this diary entry, Horikita Suzune felt that her thinking had suddenly broadened considerably.

I never knew you could do it this way. I never knew you could think about it this way.

The fact that she realized this meant she hadn't come away empty-handed.

"Have you finished reading the diary?" Turning her head, Horikita Suzune looked at Kushida Kikyo, who had been silent since laughing at her, and asked softly.

Surprisingly calm, Kushida Kikyo responded:

"Ah, I've finished reading it."

What are your thoughts?

"Hmm... 'As expected, everyone likes what I like'?"

Kushida Kikyo said so.

Chapter 210 Ryuen Kakeru: "?"

Four o'clock in the morning.

Uninhabited Island.

The Uninhabited Island Special Exam continues, and sounds have once again arisen on this island that should have been quiet in the dead of night.

That's right, Asakusa Toru got up and checked in.

The graduates from the White Room are undeniably impressive.

It's simply because they have good physical fitness.

Whether you're a pile driver or an extreme time management coordinator, physical fitness is always of paramount importance.

To this, Asakusa Toru could only feel grateful.

Amen.

A chilly wind swept past her sides as her nimble figure repeated the same path she had taken during the day.

That's right, Asakusa Toru abandoned his original route plan and stuck to the most basic, yet most effective, route for perfectly continuing the capture of outposts before the reset.

The reason is quite simple, of course.

To protect oneself from people.

They're guarding against Ryuen Kakeru.

He knew Dragon Boy's nature all too well. With Class D' s elimination completely eliminating their chance to play the Zero Point Plan by trading with Class B, Ryuen Kakeru would inevitably come up with other crooked ideas to profit himself.

There was absolutely no way he could continue taking the exam in the usual way.

So, although it's a bit tedious and might add some workload.

However, Asakusa Toru felt it necessary to nip any potential trouble at Ryuen in the bud.

And as it turns out...

He guessed right.

"... You really aren't leaving me any way out at all!"

Standing in the way of capturing the stronghold, or rather, standing directly in front of the stronghold's capture facilities, with the leader card pressed against the reading area, was Ryuen Kakeru.

On the terminal device screen, the countdown had a dozen seconds left.

The faintly red words 'This facility is currently under occupation' prevented him from taking possession of the key card in his hand.

"You're the one who's still awake at four in the morning, aren't you?" Asakusa Toru shrugged, slowing his pace slightly, but still heading straight for Ryuen Kakeru, or more precisely, approaching the base facility behind Ryuen Kakeru.

"Ha, maybe, but..." Ryuen Kakeru laughed, clearly showing some fatigue, but the next moment, his eyes sharpened. "If I were you, I wouldn't go any closer."

Even as he said this, Ryuen Kakeru kept his key card firmly pressed against the facility.

The countdown has reached its final ten seconds.

"If a student commits acts of violence, looting, or damage to equipment against other classes, the class to which the student belongs will immediately be disqualified, and all Private Points of the individual will be confiscated." With a grin, Ryuen Kakeru repeated the exam rules that the homeroom teacher had announced during the day:

"Are you willing to take a gamble? To defend this outpost by using 'violence' against me?"

He extended the arm that was still extended, making an undisguised threatening gesture.

Ryuen Kakeru's mind raced, but he remained remarkably calm.

Threaten?

Yes, of course, the only recourse is to threaten.

He had no doubt about the extent to which the school would scrutinize this rule, nor did he doubt that the school would have any objection even if Asakusa Toru punched him here and reclaimed his base.

That's why he didn't try to provoke Asakusa Toru into attacking him, but instead chose to state the rule directly as a threat.

After all, exam rules aren't some kind of unwritten rule that leads to certain death; all rules will be based on the school's standards.

What exactly constitutes violence?

Is hitting someone considered violence? A punch is violence, like what he did to Ishizaki Daichi and Kaneda Satoru.

Ha, these aren't really acts of violence, just minor squabbles between students.

True violence is physical assault that leaves a lasting mark on medical records and cannot be easily ignored by the school.

More importantly, 'violence' and 'mutual fighting' are not the same thing.

The only means he could use was threats; he couldn't force Asakusa Toru beat him up.