The Uninhabited Island Special Exam Ends (6k) / Which Event Should We Cover? (5k5)

If the previous class rankings were divided into three distinct tiers: Class A and Class B were neck and neck, Class D was slightly behind, and Class C was at the bottom, then as the final project progressed, Class D' s score immediately began to catch up rapidly.

The 17,000 points (nine plus eight) gained from wiping out Class A twice were doubled because all members of Class D survived the first day and retained Double Resurrection opportunity. This allowed Class D to overtake Class B, who had performed poorly the previous day, and successfully take second place in the overall class score. Since Class A and Class B were already evenly matched, they were now less than 1,000 points behind Class A, who was in first place.

In the group rankings, the rise of Class D has also propelled a number of other Class D groups forward several places. Looking at the top positions, the Karuizawa Group is still in first place. Although Class B's performance is worrying, Karuizawa Kei and Sakura Airi have each made some gains, barely maintaining their first place position. The Shiina Group, which scored a whopping 4,000 points yesterday, is closely following in second place. The Katsuragi Group, which has not scored in two days, has naturally fallen to fifth place, and has been replaced by the Kitagawa Group, which rose from sixth place.

Later on, Ayanokoji Group, which was originally in fourth place, also fell to sixth place due to a lack of points, and was replaced by Ken Sudō's team, which moved up one place.

If we consider the Karuizawa Group as part of Class D, Class 1-D actually occupied three of the top four spots in the group rankings, which surprised and drew attention from many school staff.

After cornering Class A at the edge of the poison circle, Class 1-D, under the command of Sakayanagi Arisu, began to move. However, it seemed that they had no intention of stopping there like yesterday, and instead charged straight north towards E7.

Perhaps wanting to intentionally avoid Class D, who had wiped out Class A twice and was now at the peak of their morale and strength, or perhaps for some other reason, Class 1-B once again clashed with Class C in this increasingly shrinking safe zone, and the two sides quickly entered a chaotic state of firefight.

But unlike yesterday, this time—

Someone came to mediate (in a physical sense).

Chapter 238: The Uninhabited Island Special Exam Ends (6k)

Compared to yesterday's helplessness, today's Class B and Class C were clearly more experienced. At least they didn't panic and nearly empty all their magazines at once, becoming sitting ducks and useless.

Although Class B was outnumbered, they had more students eliminated yesterday, including five who had taken advantage of the school's tents for meals and shelter – a significant advantage over Class C's three. Furthermore, while Class C had more surviving students, most were not at full strength, having been shot once or twice in their limbs, making them more cautious in their attacks. Add to that Shiina Hiyori, who was essentially defenseless, and with Class B constantly on guard against Ibuki Mio's flanking maneuvers, the two classes were evenly matched, with no clear victor for a time.

However, when Class D, whose total number of students already exceeded the sum of the two classes, joined in, the stalemate was broken again. After wiping out Class A, the students of Class D, who only had eyes for scores, didn't care whether you were from Class B or Class C. They saw everyone as a walking thousand points. Under the command of Sakayanagi Arisu, they began to fiercely guard the intersections of several familiar paths and start searching and advancing.

With Ayanokoji Kiyotaka having given up on the final task, Kitagawa Ryo, no longer needing to waste time entangled with him, could also freely begin the solo combat plan he had envisioned from the beginning. With agile movements and accurate marksmanship, he moved through the jungle, mercilessly taking down all the students from Classes B and C he witnessed, and his score soared rapidly.

It has to be said that the helmet, protective mask, and camouflage uniform completely obscured the basic features of each person's face and body. Otherwise, if Kitagawa Ryo were to shoot at familiar faces like Karuizawa Kei or Shiina Hiyori, it would seem that he would indeed have some difficulty doing so.

The chaotic battle between the three classes lasted until noon that day, ending with a perfect victory for Class D. Afterwards, Kitagawa Ryo immediately tallied the results using the score increase on his wristwatch.

On the second day of the final project Class 1-A suffered another complete defeat, with all nine members eliminated. Class 1-B, while also suffering a complete defeat, at least managed to defeat four members of Class C and one member of Class D, earning a reward of nearly 4,000 points. The reason it wasn't a full 5,000 points was because several of their defeated opponents were eliminated in the chaos of attacks from the other two classes, resulting in the points being split among them. Class 1-C fared similarly to Class B, with Ishizaki Daichi and Ibuki Mio's final counterattack bringing them some gains, defeating three members of Class B and two members of Class D, also earning around 4,000 points.

After confirming that only the students of Class D remained in the safe zone of the Uninhabited Island, Kitagawa Ryo made a special trip to Sakayanagi Arisu's hiding place, preparing to welcome this well-deserved hero and commander of Class D back to the class's camp.

Since she hadn't done much long-distance travel in the two days since the final project started, Sakayanagi Arisu's physical recovery was much better than in the previous days. In addition, with the conspicuous Amasawa Ichika by her side, she didn't intend to let Kitagawa Ryo repeat the princess carry or horseback riding. She walked briskly beside Kitagawa Ryo while keeping an eye on the two current rankings.

Although it's only noon on the thirteenth day of the Uninhabited Island Special Exam, since all three classes (A, B, and C) have been eliminated, today's final task has effectively come to an end, leaving only tomorrow for the entire Special Exam on the Uninhabited Island.

Considering that the final deadline for the project is 3 PM tomorrow, there are only seven hours left, from 8 AM to 3 PM tomorrow.

However, even at the last minute before this Special Exam was about to end, the two leaderboards had undergone a dramatic change compared to before, perfectly illustrating the saying that the outcome is still uncertain and anyone could be a dark horse.

On the group rankings, after the first day of the Uninhabited Island Special Exam, Kitagawa Group finally returned to its loyal first place, while Karuizawa Group dropped to second place. After all, Amasawa Ichika, who possessed the powerful weapon of the Chosen One Card, had been guarding Sakayanagi Arisu for two days without scoring a single point, so they were naturally no match for Kitagawa Ryo, who scored like crazy today.

The Shiina Hiyori Group and the Sudo Group, which also slipped one place, ranked third and fourth respectively. This was mainly because although Class D scored more points in the past two days, due to the large number of people, the members of the Sudo Group, who acted with the main group, often only received a quarter or half of the score reward from a certain opponent. They were somewhat inferior to Ibuki Mio, who had been scoring almost single-handedly in the past two days.

However, Ken Sudō and the others didn't take it too seriously. Firstly, there was still one day left until the final assignment, and the outcome was still uncertain. Secondly, something even more exciting had happened: Class D Class 1-D had topped the class rankings.

Although Class D' s ranking had already risen to second place when Class A was wiped out again in the early morning, with only a hair's breadth between them and first place, when Class 1-B and Class 1-C of the first year were wiped out one after another, and Class 1-D was finally ranked first, all the students of Class D who were still holding on on this Uninhabited Island couldn't help but burst into a huge cheer in an instant.

Considering that there was still one day left before the end of the Uninhabited Island Special Exam, this seemed a bit like popping champagne halfway through, but Kitagawa Ryo didn't intend to spoil the mood. After all, for Class D, who had been suppressing their emotions for almost an entire semester, this was indeed a hard-won honor.

Just as Kitagawa Ryo was getting a little caught up in the cheerful atmosphere of the students at the camp, Ken Sudō, who had somehow appeared behind him, suddenly patted him on the shoulder:

"Beichuan."

"What's wrong?"

Kitagawa Ryo turned around with a bit of confusion and saw Ken Sudō, who habitually touched the back of his head whenever he talked to someone. Behind him were his groupmates Yamada Albert and Yukimura Teruhiko. Miyake Akito, on the Miyake Akito, had been unlucky enough to be defeated by Ishizaki Daichi, who had been sent there yesterday and was now trying his best to atone for his sins, in the recent melee with Classes B and C. He was sent back to the school headquarters to wait for his Resurrection at eight o'clock tomorrow morning.

It has to be said that luck is a rather mysterious thing, and Miyake's luck has never seemed to be very good. Even though Yukimura Teruhiko is the weakest in the group, has survived to this day.

"Um, there's something I wanted to tell you."

Although Yukimura Teruhiko seems to be more suitable than Ken Sudō in terms of negotiation, perhaps because of the past ten days of living together in the same group, Yukimura, who was originally somewhat at odds with Sudo, now has no intention of interjecting. It seems that he also acknowledges the performance of Ken Sudō, as the group leader, in this Special Exam.

"Okay, you go ahead."

"Although I don't know what kind of agreement you made with Shiina from Class C, what I mean—no, what our group means—is that it doesn't really matter whether we make it into the top three, because everyone believes in you, Kitagawa."

Because Kitagawa Ryo had previously arranged for the girls in his class to form a group to help Shiina Hiyori gain points, the students in Class D were generally aware of some kind of mutual assistance agreement between the two, or rather, between the two classes. After seeing that their group's score was almost the same as Shiina Group's, which was a particularly sensitive position of third and fourth place, Sudo Group was also worried that it might affect Kitagawa Ryo's plan, so they took the initiative to come over.

"Besides, this Uninhabited Island Special Exam was already a wonderful memory for us; we even ranked first in our class..."

As he spoke, Ken Sudō couldn't help but laugh heartily, and Yukimura Teruhiko and Yamada Albert behind him nodded in agreement, with the former even adding a thoughtful remark:

"Akito thought the same thing."

"I see."

Kitagawa Ryo Ken Sudō's group had approached him at this time, and he was somewhat moved. After all, even without mentioning the 100 Class Points difference between third and fourth place, each member of the third-place group would receive a full 300,000 Private Points as a reward, while the fourth-place group would only receive the minimum of 50,000 Private Points, which is the top 50% of the group ranking, just like the fifth, sixth, seventh, and eighth place groups. The difference was still quite significant.

"I do have some agreements with Class C and Hiyori, but the battle plan for tomorrow has already been drafted. Sudo, Sudo, Yamada, and Yukimura who will Resurrection tomorrow, you guys just need to follow Arisu and my specific Miyake. Don't worry too much about the rest."

"Yes, Kitagawa, if you say that, then I'm relieved."

After hearing Kitagawa Ryo's words, Ken Sudō and the other two breathed a sigh of relief, then cheerfully waved goodbye and went to help the other students in the class set up their tents.

After nearly a semester of rigorous training, and after a brief period of joy, the students who remained on the Uninhabited Island all demonstrated restraint and self-discipline.

Everyone silently munched on the not-so-good-tasting baguettes, half of which came from Ichinose Honami and a few other students' Supply cards, and the other half from Supply in the airdrop crates.

Thus, the afternoon and evening of the thirteenth day of the Uninhabited Island Special Exam passed silently amidst the quiet rest of the students in Class D.

Each of them saved their grandest cheers for the moment when everything was finally settled, when all their efforts had finally borne fruit, and when they could celebrate to their hearts' content in front of all their classmates and their homeroom teacher Mashima Tomoya.

The morning of the fourteenth day of the Uninhabited Island Special Exam.

Perhaps realizing that Class 1-D could still replicate yesterday's strategy, easily trapping students from other classes the moment they emerged from the Resurrection point, thus quickly eliminating all suspense in the final challenge, in the final few minutes of waiting for Resurrection, Katsuragi Kohei, the Leader of Class 1-A, finally couldn't resist and walked towards Classes Class B and Class C, seeking temporary cooperation among the three classes, at least to break through Class D' s ambush and compete fairly.

As Katsuragi Kohei prepared his negotiation arguments, he approached Karuizawa Kei and Shiina Hiyori. However, before he could even speak, the two women shook their heads in unison, indicating that they were not interested in any of his proposals.

It wasn't until eight o'clock that Katsuragi Kohei, who was leading Class 1-A in their desperate breakout attempt, witnessed firsthand how the students from Class B and Class C, who had been relocated to two other areas by the school, seamlessly joined Class D' s ambush. Only then did he belatedly realize what was happening.

Although the four classes seemed to be fighting tooth and nail in the final project, from the latter half of the Uninhabited Island Special Exam, the entire exam situation was consistently a battle between Class 1-A and the combined forces of Class 3 and their own internal geniuses...

Just as Katsuragi Kohei was feeling utterly hopeless and turned back to look at Ayanokoji Kiyotaka, who was following behind him, as if hoping for a final miracle, he discovered that Kiyotaka was flamboyantly charging forward with a paintball gun, only to be shot several times in the face like a passerby, and then cleanly and neatly fall to the ground like a traitor.

With mixed feelings, Katsuragi Kohei was once again beaten into a human rainbow, three times over, and Class 1-A was soon wiped out again.

"Alright--now it's time for some fun scoring!"

After the entire Class 1-A left the field, Kitagawa Ryo, who was in the center of the defense line, clapped his hands, took off his protective mask, and announced the early end of this final assignment in a lighthearted tone.

Then, he began to systematically arrange for the students in each class to tackle the last bug in the final project, which wasn't really a bug.

According to the school's rules, students' final scores on the final assignment will be Double based on the number of Resurrection opportunities they have. However, the last Resurrection was at 8:00 AM this morning. This means that it doesn't matter if the students in Class D who survived until now are defeated at this point in terms of Double their total score, because whether they are defeated or survive until 3:00 PM when the exam ends, they still have two Resurrection opportunities, and the Double will be doubled.

"Hiyori first, we are second, and Megumi is third. That's how the group rankings are set."

Based on the rankings that the group had agreed upon beforehand, the Leader of the three classes began to divide the cake in an orderly manner.

"If we're talking about the bottom-ranked groups, Ryuen will be last, then we'll move the last-ranked group from Class A —I think it's Totsuka —to second to last. And for third and fourth to last, Hiyori and Megumi will each take one."

After quickly organizing the group rankings, Kitagawa Ryo shrugged and said helplessly:

"There's nothing we can do about the class rankings. The gap between Class C and the top classes is just too large; it can't be bridged by a single final project."

"It's alright, it's already good that the Class Points increased in the end."

After mentally calculating the increase or decrease in Class Points, Shiina Hiyori smiled serenely. Next to her Karuizawa Kei nodded in agreement, as Class B would also benefit greatly from this allocation plan.

"Okay, once Arisu calculated and organized the specific procedures, we can start racking up scores."

After another half hour of busy work, Kitagawa Ryo and Sakayanagi Arisu, who had looked up from their drafts, compiled a detailed schedule based on the scores of all the groups. Under the joint arrangement and announcement of the Leader of the three classes, accompanied by commands such as "Please send one person from Sudo Group to shoot three shots at the limbs of Shibata Group" Shibata Sō "Please send one person from Shibata Group to shoot one shot at the chest and abdomen of Ishizaki Daichi 'Ishizaki Group," the scores of each group began to fluctuate according to the plan. The eliminated students chatted and laughed as they voluntarily followed the school staff to area D9 to change clothes or take showers, waiting for the Special Exam to end.

In no time, only three groups remained on the field.

"Finally... please have one person from each of the Karuizawa Group and Shiina Group shoot two times at each of the four limbs of any member of the Kitagawa Group to eliminate them. That way, the three teams can face off against the first, second, and third place teams respectively."

As soon as Kitagawa Ryo, who was acting as a guest host, uttered those words, the three people standing behind him, Sakayanagi Arisu, took a step back in perfect unison, laughing without hesitation as they sold their group leader status to Shiina Hiyori Karuizawa Kei, who were carrying paintball guns.

Kitagawa Ryo, who felt a strange sense of familiarity with this scene, quickly recalled a scene from a few years ago. It was after the three of them, who were still elementary school students, finished watching a stage play called "The Little Mermaid." It was a beautiful and memorable memory for him after his rebirth.

Karuizawa Kei and Shiina Hiyori seemed to have also recalled this incident, so the two of them took turns aiming their paintball guns at close range, one on each side. Amidst the slightly complicated gazes and speechless twitches of the school staff who had already disembarked from the helicopter, they fired their paintballs together, accompanied by a simultaneous, cold snort:

"Scumbag--"

Colorful paintballs spread across Kitagawa Ryo's shoulders like fireworks, and he once again cooperated by lying back on the ground, raising his hands in surrender with a slight chuckle.

His gaze traveled upwards through the transparent protective mask, where large clumps of white clouds casually nestled in the azure sky, and a seagull spread its white wings.

The Uninhabited Island Special Exam has now concluded.

"Now, I will announce the results of this Special Exam. Please note that we will not accept any questions regarding the results. The school hopes that you will accept the results, analyze them, and use this information in the next exam."

Although the teacher in charge on the podium was trying very hard to read from the script in a serious tone, considering that the students below already knew the final result in advance through their respective watches, the speech still felt a bit like a pretentious attempt to create mystery.

Of course, for the class that succeeded in this exam, they probably wouldn't get tired of hearing these words no matter how many times they heard them.

"Group ranking first: Shiina Group, members are Shiina Hiyori and Ibuki Mio. Each of them will gain one million Private Points and will also add three hundred Class Points to their class. Since Shiina Hiyori has met the trigger conditions for her special card 'Double-Edged Blade', the three hundred Class Points will be increased to four hundred and fifty."

"Second place in the group rankings: Kitagawa Group, members Kitagawa Ryo, Sakayanagi Arisu, Horikita Suzune, and Ichinose Honami, each received 500,000 Private Points, and their class gained 200 Class Points."

"Third place in the group rankings: Karuizawa Group, members Karuizawa Kei, Amasawa Ichika, and Sakura Airi, each received 300,000 Private Points, and their class received an additional 100 Class Points. Since this group is a mixed group, Class B and Class D each received an additional 50 Class Points."

"Last in the group: Ryuen Group, member Ryuen Kakeru. Because this student possessed and chose to use a special card for Resurrection, the expulsion penalty is invalid."

"Second to last in the group: Totsuka Group (Class A), member is Totsuka Yahiko... The Class Points will have 200 points deducted."

"Third to last in the group: Manabe Group (Class C), member is Manabe Shiho... The Class Points will have 100 points deducted."

"Fourth from the bottom in the group: Sumida Group (Class B), member is Sumida Makoto... The Class Points will have 50 points deducted."

After reading out the group rankings, the teacher in charge took a short break before continuing with the class rankings.

"Ranked first in the class: Class 1-D 1, gain 300 Class Points."

"Ranked second in the class: Class 1-B, Grade 1, gain 100 Class Points."

"Ranked third in the class: Class 1-A, deduct 100 Class Points."

"Ranked fourth in the class: Class 1-C, deduct 300 Class Points."

"After this special exam, the Class Points for each class are as follows:"

"Class 1-A: 248 points (originally 548 points)."

"Class 1B: 601 (formerly 501)."

"Class 1-C: 322 points (originally 272 points)."

"Class 1-D: 550 points (formerly 0 points)."

"Since Class 1-B's points have surpassed those of Class 1-A, Class 1-D's points have surpassed those of Class 1-C, and Class 1-C's points have surpassed those of Class 1-A, Class A will be downgraded to Class D, Class B will be promoted to Class A, and Class D will be promoted to Class B. Please be aware of this."

This seemed to be the first time we'd encountered Special Exam where three classes had swapped seats. The school staff thoughtfully re-listed the classes according to their current Class Points.

"Class 1-A 1 (formerly Class B): 601."

"Class 1-B (formerly Class D): 550 points."

"Class 1-C (formerly Class C): 322 points."

"Class 1-D (formerly Class A): 248 points."

Just as the school staff were about to smile, clap their hands, and say a few words of greeting like, "The exam has ended smoothly, everyone has worked hard," they suddenly heard another teacher in charge shout:

"Help! The homeroom teacher of Class A—no, Class D, Chabashira-sensei, has fainted!"

"... Hoshinomiya, the Hoshinomiya teacher, has also fainted!"

I need to take a day off to work out the plot outline.

Finally, the Uninhabited Island is over. To be honest, I breathed a sigh of relief when I finished writing it yesterday. This long chapter actually originated from something I said when I was writing about Karuizawa Kei's second mock exam, something like, "I hope the next Uninhabited Island Special Exam will be better than this one." So when I was arranging the outline for this Uninhabited Island Exam, I did start by writing a long, epic storyline, trying to involve and highlight the main characters from all four classes (A, B, C, and D), and not neglecting the romantic storylines and the power struggles with other classes. In the end, I managed to create this long, perhaps somewhat drawn-out, epic storyline.

Of course, I take the blame and stand at attention. The poor quality of this piece is also largely due to my own interruption in updating it. I apologize again to all readers.

Regardless, I still quite liked some of the smaller scenes on the Uninhabited Island, and I will continue to use the feelings and inspiration from that time to create subsequent stories. I definitely won't have such a long Special Exam again.

So, let's begin our First Year summer vacation routine!

Chapter 239: Which venue should we book for the two of us? (5k5)

Because of the little incident where both homeroom teachers Chabashira Sae and Hoshinomiya Chie, fainted, the originally jubilant atmosphere was slightly dampened. The students from the former Class B, who had just been promoted to Class A and hadn't even had time to celebrate, were still very concerned about their beautiful homeroom teacher. They rushed over to check on her and, together with other school staff, hurriedly lifted Hoshinomiya Chie onto a stretcher, carefully escorting her to the infirmary on the cruise ship.

Although the original Class A was a step behind, everyone knew that their homeroom teacher's inability to catch his breath was definitely due to the class's performance in the Uninhabited Island Special Exam. Therefore, each of them felt guilty and circled around the group, as if they had finally found an excuse to quickly escape from this place. Under Katsuragi Kohei's command, they somewhat awkwardly carried their homeroom teacher and followed behind the original Class B's group.

Just two weeks ago, these two groups of students were in Class A and Class B respectively. Unexpectedly, just one Special Exam caused their identities and rankings to be completely reversed. One group rose to the top, while the other fell into the abyss, becoming A and D respectively.

After Class A and Class B left in a hurry, the atmosphere on site immediately returned to a happy mode. After all, Class C and Class D can be considered winners of this Special Exam, especially Class D, which finally unleashed its accumulated strength.

Although on the surface Class 1-B was promoted to the new Class A through this Special Exam, it's clear to everyone that Class D, which obtained 550 Class Points. After all, Class B and Class C only received 100 and 50 Class Points respectively.