The Uninhabited Island Exam, Day Six.
...Today was destined to be a miserable day.
Uesugi Hara got up that morning, just as he had every day before.
Only today, he got up a little later—he hadn't slept well the night before.
He washed up, ate breakfast, checked in, and started another new day.
According to the plan Sakayanagi had revealed earlier, today was supposed to be the day he withdrew from the exam. But even now, she hadn't made a move. It was as if she'd given up on the plan entirely.
But the calm only made Uesugi Hara more wary. On top of that, the others at camp kept looking at him with a strange, knowing air.
It made him so cautious that he was even afraid to take a sip of water, worried someone might have drugged it.
In that strange atmosphere, noon arrived.
The sky had been fairly clear, but at some point, a thick layer of clouds rolled in, and a light drizzle began to fall.
Everyone started moving the supplies outside into the cave.
Uesugi Hara looked up at the raindrops growing denser in the sky, then turned to Morishita Ai, who was watching the rain beside him. "You really can make it rain?"
Morishita Ai was even more surprised than he was.
Her so-called "ritual" was nothing more than a few things she'd picked up online, mixed with some made-up gestures and muttering. She'd done it on a whim, never expecting it to actually rain.
She frowned and gave a soft snort. "Hmph. You foolish mortal. If you hadn't interrupted my ritual yesterday, this rain wouldn't have taken so long to arrive! It could've come this morning!"
Uesugi Hara watched her go from stunned to smug, and immediately understood. The rain probably had nothing