Although he was curious how she had done it, there was no time to waste.
Suzuki Tsubame stopped dwelling on it.
He immediately set off toward the first checkpoint.
He darted through the dense jungle, branches and leaves brushing against his sleeves as his feet sank into the mud.
Suzuki Tsubame did not pause for a moment. Fortunately, the flashlight provided by the school was powerful enough.
Otherwise, traveling through the jungle at night would have been harder than climbing to the heavens.
Before long, a familiar clearing came into view. There was no one from any other class nearby.
Perhaps because the camp was too far away, everyone had voluntarily given up on this checkpoint.
"Class D has successfully occupied the checkpoint. Time limit: 00:05:13."
Looks like he would have to wait a while.
Switching off his flashlight, Suzuki Tsubame leaned against a nearby tree trunk, his fingers brushing over the watch on his wrist.
Even if no one from another class had arrived yet, he could not let down his guard so easily.
Just then, an extremely faint set of footsteps came from the distance, soft and cautious.
An ordinary person would never have noticed them. Whoever could conceal their presence so thoroughly was clearly no weakling.
Suzuki Tsubame took out the Presence Regulator, intending to see who the newcomer was.
After approaching the edge of the clearing, the faint footsteps suddenly stopped without warning.
It seemed the other party was not here to check in.
Suzuki Tsubame rose onto his toes and carefully moved toward where the footsteps had vanished.
Parting the overlapping branches and leaves, he saw a slender figure pressed tightly against the shadows cast by a tree trunk.
She had long light chestnut hair, with the ends deliberately curled into waves. Combined with her