Kitagawa Ryo, Avoiding Risks / The First Group Dinner

When Karuizawa Kei arrived at the specific location, there were indeed quite a few groups already there, scattered in small groups discussing with each other.

I glanced around and saw that about four groups had arrived, but Class B wasn't among them, and I didn't see any other familiar faces.

Realizing that there might only be one spot left to register, Karuizawa Kei quickly went to the third-year student in charge of registration and promptly filled the last spot.

Since the registration was full, the teacher in charge announced without any delay that the project was about to begin and asked the participants in each group to go to the starting point.

A running track about 400 meters long had been cleared out on the beach, with a box placed about 200 meters in the middle, presumably where people would draw the borrowing slips.

As Karuizawa Kei had predicted, all the participants in this challenge, except for her, were boys, each rubbing their hands together and warming up at the starting line.

However, Karuizawa Kei didn't care. Ever since she realized at the age of seven that she had a second chance at life, she had been intentionally working on her physical fitness. In addition, with the years of training in the theater troupe, her physical fitness had already been rated as B by the school when she entered school. She was definitely one of the best among the girls, only slightly inferior to the more energetic Horikita Suzune.

As the teacher in charge fired the starting gun, the five participants immediately rushed out of the starting line. Perhaps because they hadn't warmed up their bodies yet, or perhaps because it was their first time running on a beach track, one boy stumbled and fell to the ground after running only a few meters.

Unfortunately, as he fell, his wildly flailing hands, desperately trying to maintain his balance, accidentally pulled another boy next to him, causing him to stumble and nearly fall as well.

Because of this unexpected little incident, Karuizawa Kei seized the opportunity and, with a fraction of a second's difference in speed, rushed to the box where the borrowing slips were placed.

Karuizawa Kei quickly pulled out a slip of paper:

[Cola].

Does this mean I have to go to the designated place to exchange supplies in person?

Without hesitation, Karuizawa Kei threw away the slip of paper and started drawing new ones.

The first slip of paper that the other two boys who came with her also seemed to give them a headache. After a brief hesitation, they also chose to give up and start drawing the second one.

[Dress].

How could anyone bring something like this to Uninhabited Island? Although the school allows students to bring their own clothes, considering the intensity of this Special Exam, almost everyone brought lightweight short-sleeved sweatshirts and long pants to cover their legs and protect against mosquitoes, with the most likely addition being the swimsuit they had been longing for.

But Karuizawa Kei suddenly realized something.

It seems she really did bring a dress with her, even though it's been tucked away in the corner of her backpack until now. She did buy a dress at Keyaki Mall and did bring it here.

I can't even remember what I was feeling when I packed my bags.

But Karuizawa Kei immediately ran back to where she had left her backpack, pulled out the neatly folded dress, and sprinted towards the finish line ahead of the other contestants who were still borrowing their items.

"The borrowed item is acceptable."

At the finish line, another teacher in charge quickly checked the note and dress in Karuizawa Kei's hand, raised her right hand, and announced the winner of this project.

Another minute passed before the others finally found the right items and rushed to the finish line.

However, when distributing the rewards, the teacher in charge secretly called Karuizawa Kei aside and explained the mechanism of the special cards to her, namely the hidden mechanism that when a normal card upgrade opportunity is obtained, it can be transferred to any student.

After thinking for a moment, Karuizawa Kei walked to a corner, used the communication function on her wristwatch, and called Kitagawa Ryo, completely ignoring the 100-point fee.

"Benefit?"

After only two beeps, the call was connected, and Kitagawa Ryo's familiar voice came from the wristwatch. It was a bit noisy around, but you could hear Ichinose Honami and the others.

"Wait a moment, I need to take this call."

Karuizawa Kei heard Kitagawa Ryo say something to the other side, and then his voice came closer again:

Is there something you need?

"I just got an upgrade opportunity for a regular card. What level is your current Discount Card?"

"That's pretty impressive. My card level is currently level five."

"... How about I transfer this opportunity to you?"

"Is this Hui giving me a gift? Then I should return the favor. Hmm... how about this, where are you now?"

Karuizawa Kei was a little stunned for a moment, but quickly checked her location using her watch:

"I8."

"Oh, it's on the coast. That's perfect. Wait a moment, I'll hang up now."

After saying this cryptic remark, Kitagawa Ryo hung up the phone. Karuizawa Kei had no idea what he was up to. Was he nearby and planning to come find her?

Clutching her dress, Karuizawa Kei stood there for a moment, somewhat bewildered, before suddenly realizing that she hadn't showered since yesterday. On the Uninhabited Island, students either showered in the makeshift shower rooms provided by the school or in the temporary shower rooms set up at each project site.

Because the latter environment is slightly better than the former, most students usually go to the location of a research project every morning to take a shower.

Knowing that Kitagawa Ryo might be coming soon, Karuizawa Kei quickly ran to the temporary shower room attached to the [Borrowing Race] project. Fortunately, because the teacher in charge had called her away to explain the hidden mechanism, the other groups of students had already left.

With mixed feelings of anxiety that Kitagawa Ryo might have already arrived and the desire to take a longer shower, Karuizawa Kei hurriedly took a shower and put on the dress she had been holding.

It was that sleeveless, pure white dress.

Standing on the beach again, with her skirt fluttering in the sea breeze Karuizawa Kei even had the subtle illusion that she was here on vacation.

Just as Karuizawa Kei was lost in thought, a considerable commotion arose on the sea.

Kitagawa Ryo sped along on his Jet Ski.

Because it was rented out around noon yesterday, it hasn't actually been 24 hours yet, and Kitagawa Ryo still retains the right to use it.

He whistled lightly at the girl on the beach.

Kitagawa Ryo held the handlebars of the Jet Ski with one hand, and extended the other towards Karuizawa Kei:

Want to go for a drive?

"Beautiful lady."

Chapter 158: Risk Avoidance -Kitagawa Ryo

"Jet Ski? Where did Liang get that?"

Karuizawa Kei was genuinely surprised that Kitagawa Ryo would come sailing from the sea. Somewhat astonished, she ran over to Kitagawa Ryo and took the orange life jacket that he tossed to her. This was a free gift when she exchanged the Jet Ski.

"What do you mean 'where did you get it from'? Of course, it was obtained by exchanging points."

Kitagawa Ryo patted the back seat of the motorcycle, gesturing for Karuizawa Kei to get on.

"I remember this was particularly expensive, maybe a thousand or two thousand points, and it was a daily rental."

Karuizawa Kei hurriedly put on her own clothes

Touching the day at the beginning of the month

As usual, I'm taking a day off at the beginning of the month. Since Classroom of the Elite has absolutely no screen Hiyori in the latest volume of Classroom of the First Class, I've copied a few jokes Hiyori her from the forum:

When Hiyori dropped out of school in third grade, the entire Classroom of the Elite forum was in an uproar, with everyone discussing who Hiyori was.

Some people are spreading rumors that Hiyori hasn't appeared in a long time. I'm here to clarify that this is not a rumor.

New readers may not have seen Hiyori's home turf before, and in fact, even veteran readers haven't seen it before.

_(:з"∠)_

Chapter 159: The First Dinner

Around noon on the fourth day of the Uninhabited Island Special Exam, Chabashira Sae teacher of Class 1-A, was eating the staff's boxed lunch while looking at the computer screen in front of her.

Today, Chabashira Sae's job is to coordinate the GPS coordinates and resource allocation of all 100+ students. The four homeroom teachers for the First Year take turns each day, and today it happens to be her turn.

Because the school invested a lot of manpower and resources in this Uninhabited Island Special Exam, and in order to ensure the safety of the students as much as possible, there were even more school staff on the island than students. Under these circumstances, although there were sufficient supplies, the teachers' meals were all prepared by the school in a set menu to ensure efficiency.

Although the taste was only so-so due to its semi-industrialized fast food, and much worse than the school's staff canteen, the thought that most students on the Uninhabited Island were still eating hard baguettes every day to save points made the rice in Chabashira Sae's mouth seem acceptable.

Moreover, as the Uninhabited Island Special Exam has progressed, her Class A has consistently taken the lead in both group and class rankings.

Thinking of this, the originally bland miso soup, once brewed, seemed quite appetizing. Just as Chabashira Sae had picked up the bowl and taken a sip, she heard a sound coming from the school staff's personal radio in front of her.

"G4 area, G4 area Supply depot, requesting immediate replenishment of supplies. List as follows: fresh beef, fresh pork..."

"Okay, received."

Because the other party's tone was quite urgent, Chabashira Sae didn't delay. She put down the bento she was eating halfway through and started taking the printed list to the cruise ship to check the supplies. Then she called a helicopter to airlift them to the G4 area to hand them over to the other party.

All of them were fresh ingredients of all kinds, from fresh meat to vegetables to canned goods. Chabashira Sae them and secretly clicked her tongue in amazement. The total points required for these ingredients were even more than the current number one group, Katsuragi Kohei's group. It must be that several groups had exchanged the ingredients at G4 together, which is why they were forced to request allocation from headquarters.

The packaged ingredients were loaded onto the helicopter. Since a face-to-face handover was required, Chabashira Sae also sat in the co-pilot's seat. The helicopter took off quickly and soon landed in the G4 area.

After handing over the supplies to the teacher in charge of the G4 area, Chabashira Sae noticed a group of about a dozen students making quite a racket nearby, and casually asked:

"What's going on today? Several groups have come here together to exchange for ingredients?"

But the teacher in charge shook his head with a strange expression, pointed to the students who were working enthusiastically, and said:

"Although there are indeed several groups gathered here, only one of them is exchanging these supplies."

"One group? Where did they get so many points? You mean several groups each used their points to exchange for ingredients together?"

"Scores cannot be transferred between groups," Chabashira Sae asked, frowning.

She had specifically looked into it before coming, and although she had only done a rough calculation, she knew that the total price of these ingredients was definitely not something a single group could afford.

Besides, who would use so many points to exchange for ingredients for no reason?

"See for yourself."

The teacher in charge didn't bother to explain further, and simply swiped the tablet in her hand to show the page to Chabashira Sae.

[Exchange History]

[At 11:20 AM, Kitagawa Ryo's group applied to exchange for a certain amount of ingredients, totaling 5120 points.]

[A member in the group was found to hold a [Discount] (lv8). A total of 5120 × 0.4 = 2048 points were deducted from the group's score, and the redemption was successful.]

"A level 8 Discount Card?"

Chabashira Sae subconsciously raised her voice, glancing at the text record again in disbelief:

"This is only the fourth day of the Uninhabited Island Exam, right? Where did he get an eight-level card? Getting upgrade rewards twice a day on average? How is that possible?"

A series of questions, especially after discovering that this group belonged to Class 1-D, caused Chabashira Sae's good mood, which was due to her good grades in Class A, to vanish without a trace.

As a school official, Chabashira Sae was very clear about what a Level 8 Normal Card meant at this time. In the daily assignments broadcast by Tokyo Advanced Nurturing High School, only one-tenth of the assignments would have a Normal Card upgrade reward, and all of them were exclusive to the first-place winner.

Under such demanding conditions, if Kitagawa Ryo's team could achieve level eight on the fourth day, their score must have been quite high.

Chabashira Sae frantically pulled up the current leaderboard on her tablet, but it wasn't until she was almost at the bottom that she found Kitagawa Ryo's group in the thirtieth position.

"They just redeemed two thousand points worth of supplies."

The teacher in charge on the other side seemed to have noticed Chabashira Sae's thoughts. She sat down, opened her own bento box, and casually remarked something, but then looked over there with a slightly melancholic expression:

"If I were their class advisor, seeing such a group spending so many points on ingredients so extravagantly, I'd probably faint from anger."

He picked up some rice with his chopsticks, stuffed it into his mouth, and muttered:

"But I am not."

The aroma of barbecue gradually wafted over.

Both of them swallowed hard.

"Damn, it smells so good!"

"Come on, eat as much as you want. Don't be shy with me, and don't ask how much it cost. Just eat whatever you want. This is ready again. Suzune, come and help me bring it over."

Kitagawa Ryo skillfully flipped the meat skewers on the grill, placing a handful of cooked meat on a plate. Horikita Suzune walked over and shook her head.

"You really know how to greet people."

"Call me someone? What do you mean, call me someone? We just bumped into each other on the road, right, Sudo?"

While enjoying his meal, Ken Sudō laboriously lifted his head from the plate in front of him and nodded quite obediently.

"Yes, we ran into Kitagawa on the way. It was lunchtime, so we suggested we have lunch together. Then we ran into Matsushita and Hasebe."

"It's alright, it's more lively with more people."

Kitagawa Ryo flexed his wrists while brushing oil onto the skewers, then, estimating the time, hurried over to the rice cooker next to him and called out:

"The rice is ready. Come and get some if you want."

Perhaps because they had been eating too much bread on the Uninhabited Island for the past few days, a whole pot of rice was quickly devoured by more than a dozen people, and some girls even looked like they were about to cry while eating.

"I never knew Beichuan had such excellent craftsmanship."