"Uesugi, what are you looking at?"
A sweet voice with a hint of smile came quietly from behind.
Uesugi Hara turned around, only to see Sakayanagi Arisu leaning on a cane, standing behind him at some point, her light-colored skirt swaying gently with her breathing, and her eyes filled with amusement.
"Don't ask meaningless questions, Sakayanagi." Uesugi Hara looked back and spoke calmly.
Sakayanagi Arisu followed his line of sight and happened to see the commotion over White Group - Ichinose Honami was blocking Ryuen Kakeru who was about to leave, with a sincere look on his face, while Ryuen Kakeru looked impatient.
She chuckled, "After watching Ichinose and the others, I also encountered troubles."
"It's not necessarily a problem." Uesugi Hara raised his eyebrows, "Class B and Class C already have many conflicts, and the two classes may not be able to truly cooperate."
Sakayanagi Arisu curled his lips noncommittally and said no more.
On the other side, White Group's negotiations have apparently reached a deadlock.
Ichinose Honami took the initiative and issued a cooperation invitation to Ryuen Kakeru, who was about to lead the team away. He said in a sincere tone, "Ryuen, we are both White Group, why don't we discuss Sports Festival's strategy together? Only by allocating manpower reasonably can White Group's points be maximized."
Ryuen Kakeru put his hands in his pockets and did not stop, but glanced back at her disdainfully. Class C's students also stopped.
"I want to leave out of good intentions." He chuckled, with a sarcastic tone, "Even if we sit down and 'cooperate', do you think you Class B will really trust us Class C? The so-called discussion is just a boring drama of spying on each other. I have no interest in wasting time on this kind of thing."
He paused and glanced at the Class B students behind Ichinose, and his tone became more contemptuous. "Do you want to accompany me in acting? Why don't you go back and think about how to lose less on Sports Festival, so as not to hold us back."
The smile on Ichinose Honami's face froze, and then he showed a look of realization and nodded gently. "I see... you are thinking about our class..."
She still refused to give up, and took a step forward to ask, "But Ryuen, are you confident that Class C can drive White Group to win this exam without cooperation? Sports Festival has many group projects, and it may be difficult to rely on the strength of one class alone..."
"That's long." Ryuen Kakeru interrupted her impatiently, not even bothering to look at her. He turned around and waved, "Let's go."
Class C The crowd immediately followed, leaving the frustrated Ichinose Honami and a group of Class B students standing there.
"Ryuen is really rude." Sakayanagi Arisu looked away, with a hint of emotion in his tone, as if he was commenting on an insignificant matter.
Uesugi Hara turned his head to look at her, raised his eyebrows and joked, "Then you are going to comfort Ichinose? Maybe you can get some information along the way."
"Shouldn't Uesugi be the one to go?" Sakayanagi Arisu blinked and said in a sly tone, "Ichinose is so popular, so if Uesugi goes to talk to her, she won't be rejected."
"It doesn't seem necessary." Uesugi Hara pursed his lips in the direction of Ichinose.
Sure enough, in just a few seconds, Ichinose Honami had already been surrounded by three circles of people - some of Class B's classmates comforted her softly, and there were also students from other classes who stood up for her and scolded Ryuen Kakeru for her arrogance and rudeness.
She soon smiled again and thanked everyone. She seemed to have adjusted to her condition.
"That's right." Sakayanagi Arisu chuckled, "But we, Class A, don't seem to have the need to cooperate in depth with Class D."
"So you're done having fun?" Uesugi Hara exposed her mercilessly.
In his opinion, Sakayanagi Arisu just took the initiative to talk to Class D about cooperation just to have fun.
Based on her understanding of Class D's current situation, it's impossible not to know what Class D's current situation is. It's just a formality to see Class D's miserable appearance - what a vicious little brat.
"Haha, I'm just going through the necessary procedures." Sakayanagi Arisu defended calmly, his tone still elegant, "After all, it is a cross-grade exam, so you still need to have enough superficial skills."
"What if Class D really agrees to cooperate?" Uesugi Hara asked.
A glimmer of confidence flashed in Sakayanagi Arisu's eyes, and a calm smile appeared on the corner of his mouth, "Then let's cooperate. No matter what, we Class A will take first place in every project."
"Class A has so many capable people?" Uesugi Hara pretended to be surprised, "There are many top sportsmen in other classes, such as Class D, even Ken Sudō was expelled, and they still have classmates Hirata and Horikita, Class B also has Kanzaki and Ichinose."
Sakayanagi Arisu did not answer immediately, but looked at him with a smile, his eyes filled with deep meaning, and remained silent.
Uesugi Hara felt a little uncomfortable when she looked at him. He stretched out his hand, gently pinched her cheek full of collagen, and with a slight force, turned her face to the side - Hashimoto Masayoshi was standing upright not far away "on guard", like a statue ready for action.
Sakayanagi Arisu, whose cheek was pinched, frowned slightly.
Hashimoto Masayoshi seemed to have received the signal, and immediately puffed up his chest, his eyes were firm, and he looked like he was "ready to fight for the class at any time."
He knew in his heart that he did not reprimand Uesugi Hara for his rude behavior at this time - after all, he was also competent in those sports.
"Pfft..."
Kamuro Masumi on the side wanted to take the opportunity to add insult to injury to Uesugi Hara, but when he saw Uesugi Hara's sudden move, coupled with Hashimoto Masayoshi's "righteous and awe-inspiring" look, he couldn't hold it back after all, and laughed out loud with his shoulders twitching.
Sakayanagi Arisu's face turned dark instantly. He raised his hand and slapped away Uesugi Hara's evil hands, and rubbed his cheeks which were slightly red from pinching.
She first glared at Kamuro Masumi, who was smiling twitchingly. She was so frightened that he immediately stopped laughing and lowered his head obediently.
Then, she returned her gaze to Uesugi Hara, took a deep breath to adjust her mentality, and put an elegant smile on her face again, but her tone was provocative. "I'm really happy for Uesugi. In all projects, Uesugi can win glory for the class."
"You don't need to envy me." Uesugi Hara said in one breath without showing any signs of weakness, with an expressionless face, "You can also block fatal blows for others in the throwing competition; you can also block the fatal blow for others in the obstacle race and 200-meter race. When running with two people, three... er... four legs, you can walk with a cane as fast as you can; you can also ride Kamuro during a horse-riding battle, and hold your cane to go in and out of the battlefield seven times, sweeping the entire field."
What he said was really shocking.
Sakayanagi Arisu The elegance on his face froze for an instant, the smile on his lips froze, and a trace of unbelievable astonishment flashed in his eyes.
Behind her, Hashimoto Masayoshi and Kamuro Masumi, who had just raised their heads, opened their eyes even more, opened their mouths slightly, and looked like they had been struck by lightning. They couldn't believe what they just heard.
The noise in the space around them seemed to have stopped for an instant, leaving only the petrified figures of the three people.