Spreading Rumors to Rattle Them / Morishita Strikes Back

Soon, after the scores of the first five groups of ten arrows were released, the person in charge notified Aoyama and his group to go on stage first, with the girls' archery target practice starting.

With encouragement from Aoyama, Shiraishi managed to shoot two arrows, one hitting the two rings and the other hitting the seven rings by chance, earning a score of nine, which is a mid-range result for a girl.

"Looks like first place is ours, Aoyama."

Through Miyake's wooden, serious face, Yagami smiled gently once again.

In the archery competition just now, his partner Amasawa Ichika hit all five targets, and all of them were in the center of the target, scoring 45 points.

Based on Amasawa Ichika's performance alone, their group has already secured a top-three position.

"Ah, yes, yes, yes."

In his first response to Yagami, Aoyama, following the instructions of the staff, nocked an arrow into the bowstring.

However, he wasn't looking at his target; he was looking at Yagami.

"Fire!" The staff waved the starting red flag.

Under Amasawa Ichika's watchful eye, sensing something was amiss, Aoyama immediately sprang into action after Yagami released his arrow.

The bow was drawn as straight as a full moon, and the aiming time was probably less than half a second.

With a sharp cracking sound, Amasawa Ichika saw the arrow, which paused for a moment before becoming clearly visible to the naked eye.

After knocking someone's arrow away, the arrow that was shot with great force accurately and deeply embedded itself in the target that was not meant for its master.

"Aoyama Shiki's arrow scores zero, Miyake Akito ten, Yagami Takuya scores zero..." With Yagami's extremely unpleasant expression, the person in charge hesitated for a few seconds before announcing the scores.

The rules did not explicitly prohibit Aoyama's actions, and between wronging the Student Council President and wronging Yagami, he chose to wrong Yagami.

"I don't believe you can hit the target every time."

From the person in charge's actions, Yagami knew that arguing was pointless.

Gritting his teeth, he withdrew his gaze from Aoyama, intending to use all his strength to shoot an arrow that Aoyama could not catch up with.

"Shoot!"

Under the guidance of the staff, Yagami focused all his attention and unleashed a fully charged arrow.

"Snap."

The sound of arrows colliding once again echoed in the dull space.

Once could be attributed to good luck, but twice it can only be described as a matter of skill.

Amidst the astonished gazes of the students, Aoyama calmly drew another arrow.

Chapter 347 Spreading Rumors and Manipulating Mentality

Five shots, five hits – this is the answer sheet that Aoyama has submitted.

However, all five arrows hit Yagami's target, and naturally, they also knocked down the five arrows shot by Yagami along the way.

With a total score of nine points, they were last in their group, but with a score of forty-five points, Amasawa Ichika's group also failed to make the top three and finished fourth.

For those starting from fourth place and counting towards the end, there are no prizes for participating.

"It seems my strength is a tiny bit higher than Yagami's." Aoyama with his thumb and forefinger, indicating a slight difference in distance.

Anyone with eyes to see can see that the difference between the two in archery is like heaven and earth, there is no comparison at all.

No matter how hard Yagami tries, his arrows always miss the target and are shot down.

"How malicious of you to bully your junior like that."

Walking up to Yagami, who was quietly clenching his fist, Amasawa Ichika blocked Aoyama's view of Yagami and placed his hand on the back of Aoyama's hand.

"I'm just teaching him to respect his elders and not to be arrogant." Following the pressure from Amasawa Ichika's palm, Aoyama lowered his raised hand.

A lose-lose situation is better than a lose-lose situation.

If things were done normally, he could only get third place, while Amasawa Ichika's team would get first place.

"If you want to challenge me, maybe you'll be able to challenge me in about ten years."

Knowing that Yagami wasn't in a good mood, Aoyama left a message for Yagami before turning back to Shiraishi's side.

Urgent situations can lead to unpredictable changes, and a confused mind is prone to making mistakes.

He hoped that Yagami could bring him a little surprise.

"Senior is deliberately trying to annoy you, I think you've probably realized that by now." Seeing Yagami's uncertain expression as he watched Aoyama's departing figure, Amasawa Ichika frowned and said, "If we follow him now, we'll be the ones who suffer."

Are you teaching me how to do things?

A low, suppressed voice came from Yagami's mouth, clearly conveying his anger.

He wasn't stupid; how could he not see that Aoyama was deliberately embarrassing him to provoke him and make him lose his composure?

But knowing it is one thing, being angry is another;

Especially when Amasawa Ichika, who only came in second place in the fifth round, dared to lecture him, who came in first place.

"Then go catch up with your senior now and continue your one-on-one challenge with him in the next project." Amasawa Ichika opened his tablet, tapped on the map, and immediately deduced the next project he would be participating in based on the direction Aoyama had left in.

"The grip strength challenge is limited to one person, so now is your chance to shine!"

After looking at the tablet, Yagami fell silent.

Then, he walked in the exact opposite direction from Aoyama.

It was almost noon.

After winning first place in the recruitment task, Aoyama led Shiraishi all the way back to the starting point.

In the tent at Class A's Base, he quickly found Sakayanagi, who was busy and giving instructions from time to time.

Because of the newly added task of recruiting personnel, the amount of intelligence to be processed has increased significantly.

"Katsuragi, you go to area C4 to meet up with Hashimoto and the other two, and participate in the three-person exam."

"The H5 area is full, Miki, you guys go back to the H3 area."

"C7's recruitment target is already full."

After taking over the task of relaying instructions from Nishikawa, Aoyama sat down next to Sakayanagi and waved, telling her to go play with Shiraishi outside the tent.

After the girl with braided pigtails disappeared, a little princess appeared in his arms.

Sitting sideways on his lap, Sakayanagi leaned against his chest and continued issuing commands. The sound from the walkie-talkie gradually decreased to almost nothing after midnight.

"Looks like I'll be able to have Shiki's cooking for lunch." Putting down the walkie-talkie, Sakayanagi sat up straight and gave Aoyama a light kiss on the corner of his mouth.

"What do you want to eat? As a reward, I'll make what you want to eat right now."

Aoyama placed his hand on Sakayanagi's smooth silver hair and Aoyama ruffled it, intending to reward this class hero.

Although it was just sitting in a cool tent giving orders, the mental exertion was no less than that of people running around outside.

"A team brought back a carton of eggs this morning, and I want to eat the dish you used to make called Five Willow Fried Eggs." After trying it once, Sakayanagi fell in love with its sweet and sour taste.

Five-Willow Fried Eggs is a dish made primarily with eggs, featuring a sweet and sour flavor that is very appetizing.

"Okay, I'll go to the store to buy some ingredients and then come back to make it for you."

"But let's form a team first."

Following the instructions taught at school, Aoyama switched his electronic watch to team mode and placed it next to Sakayanagi's watch, which was also in team mode, for ten seconds. The team formation was then complete.

"I'll be right back." Aoyama kissed Sakayanagi's delicate cheek and left the tent amidst her smile.

"Do you need me to cook lunch?"

Outside the tent, Aoyama encountered Shiraishi, who was chatting and laughing with Nishikawa, holding a stainless steel pot filled with rice in her hands.

A campfire for cooking has been lit in an open space a little away from the tents.

"I'll go to the store first to buy some ingredients, and I'll cook it when I get back."

"I feel that Shiraishi has the potential to be a good wife and mother," Aoyama replied with a smile.

After buying the ingredients and cooking for about half an hour, a delicious meal was ready and served. The four of us sat around the table to eat.

"Why are there so many groups in the bottom ten of the first grade?"

After finishing their meal and teaming up with Aoyama, Nishikawa noticed that his spot, which originally belonged to him in the bottom ten, had been taken by a first-year student, just like Sakayanagi, and couldn't help but ask a question.

Including Kamuro and Ishida, who haven't teamed up yet, three of the bottom ten spots are still occupied by second- Class 2-A, while six of the remaining seven spots are occupied by first-year students.

"For this Special Exam, Class 3BCD of Grade 3 gave up forming a top-three combined team, while Third-Year Class A was already quite strong."

"The same principle applies to the second year. Moreover, we have much more experience dealing with Special Exam than the first year, and we've also experienced the Uninhabited Island Exam once, so we have some understanding of it."

"The physical advantages of being older, coupled with a lack of experience, mean that the first-year students, who are unable to cooperate effectively, are now engaged in internal strife. It's only natural that they've ended up in this situation."

Amasawa Ichika, Yagami, and Hosen, these three class leaders, have one thing in common: they don't really care about the well-being of their students.

They each had their own priorities.

"Arisu, this afternoon, if any of the students in your class run into any of the first-year students, please spread the word for me." Aoyama suddenly thought of a little underhanded trick.

Sakayanagi looked up curiously. "No problem, Shiki, you go ahead."

"Amasawa Ichika, Hosen, Nanase, and Yagami —each of these four has one million personal points stored on their Personal Terminal, enough to avoid expulsion. They're saying this because they listened to me."

Of the first-grade teams that fell into the bottom ten, only one group consisted of students from Class 1-C.

The reason for this is that Tsubaki Sakurako gave up on the top three comprehensive teams, and the six teams that possessed the precious walkie-talkies were the weakest teams in the class.

Thanks to the intelligence and clear command, all six groups performed exceptionally well.

"Are you trying to manipulate a first-grader's mentality? But if a first-grader asks you directly, won't you get exposed?"

"Shiki, you wouldn't risk losing your credibility over something so trivial, would you?"

Sakayanagi quickly realized that Aoyama wanted to disrupt the first-year students, but the gains and losses were not proportional at all.

"I'll only acknowledge that Amasawa Ichika, Hosen, Nanase actually have it, because it's true." Aoyama smiled slightly. "As for whether Yagami has a million, I think they'll just imagine he does."

Chapter 348 Morishita's Decisive Morishita

"What? A mere first-year student dares to target our class's uncrowned king?"

"Class 1-B are no ordinary juniors; we must strike hard."

On the evening of the eighth day of the exam, in the Central Class 2-A Base on the Uninhabited Island, Morishita slammed his fist on the table.

According to the message she brought back from Kamuro, her and Aoyama's last assignment of the day was successfully ambushed by Yagami and Amasawa Ichika, who arrived unexpectedly.

Because it was an academic exam topic, the Aoyama group, which was dragged down by Kamuro, could only come in second place.

"How do you plan to launch a powerful attack, Commander Morishita?" Aoyama had just finished showering, came out of the shower and heard Morishita's words.

Starting on the fourth day, he took a different girl with him to participate in the project each day; today it was Kamuro's turn.

After three days of hard work, their group also managed to escape the bottom ten of the leaderboard.

Currently, first-year students occupy seven of the bottom ten spots in the group, while only one spot is in the top ten.

However, this position is for the first place.

On the afternoon of the fourth day, they became the complete Amasawa Ichika Team, a seven-member group. Amasawa Ichika and Yagami Hosen Nanase, and together they launched a sniping attack on the Ichinose Team.

Having gained an intelligence advantage over the Ichinose team and being stronger than Ichinose, the Amasawa Ichika team's score quickly rose.

Finally, on the afternoon of the eighth day, Amasawa Ichika's team successfully reached the summit.

"You've come at the perfect time, Aoyama Shiki. The people I called have also arrived at just the right moment." Morishita smiled slightly as he turned his gaze to Aoyama's back.

Looks like I'll have to cook again tonight.

Following Morishita's gaze, Aoyama turned around and saw Ichinose waving at her from afar, as well as Shiina, Horikita, and Amikura behind her.

All four leaders from the second grade were present.

"What's your intention in calling us here?"

Inside the tent, Horikita coldly stared at Morishita, who remained calm, while Aoyama sat comfortably between Ichinose and Shiina, his arms around both of them.

Around noon, they received a notification from the students of Class 2-A that Morishita wanted to discuss something with them.

"Without your help, the first-year students wouldn't have caught up with us so quickly," Morishita said calmly.