Is the Average High School Student's Grip Strength 60 kg?
The safest place to talk is certainly not the classroom, but Shuichi Kanda's room.
Would you like something to drink?
"I'm fine with anything."
Karuizawa sat on the bed, feeling somewhat awkward, or rather, nervous.
After handing her a bottle of oolong tea, Shuichi Kanda explained the purpose of his visit.
"Did Ryuen ask you to give them the list of participants from Class D?"
"That's right, but why did he come to me?" Karuizawa clearly very anxious.
Although Shuichi Kanda gave her the seed to rebel, she was still afraid of her past being revealed.
Not to mention that the person who knew her secret was Ryuen.
"It's simple. It was I who told Ryuen to deal with Manabe and the others when we were on the ship." Shuichi Kanda unscrewed the bottle cap. "And with Ryuen's keen insight, once he heard about you from Manabe, he could easily deduce your situation."
"Then, what should we do? You, you'll protect me, right?" Karuizawa looked at Shuichi Kanda with hopeful eyes.
"Of course, this is something I promised you." Shuichi Kanda gave her a reassuring look. "And you don't need to worry about Ryuen. He's the kind of person who won't act until he sees a benefit. Now that he knows about your past, he'll make good use of you."
"You mean, he asked me for the class's order of appearance?"
Yes, that's what the two of them have been talking about.
While on the ship, Shuichi Kanda instructed Ryuen to order Manabe and the others to stop causing trouble for Karuizawa, Ryuen complied.
However, this also exposed Karuizawa's predicament to Ryuen.
Based on Manabe and the others' descriptions, it's not hard for Ryuen to deduce that Karuizawa was a victim of bullying in the past.
Therefore, he used this as leverage to demand the appearance order of Class D from Karuizawa.
"Okay, just remember to give him the things later," Shuichi Kanda said casually.
"But wouldn't that be admitting his speculation?"
"Just because you don't admit it doesn't mean he won't know. Don't worry, even if he does know, it won't matter. In fact, you'll be safer if he finds out, because once your past is exposed, it will be much harder for him to get any more information from Class D."
To put it bluntly, Karuizawa is still a very useful pawn for Ryuen won't easily let this pawn self-destruct.
However, this requires Karuizawa's cooperation. Only useful pieces are good pieces; useless pieces will be discarded by Ryuen, who will squeeze out their last bit of value before discarding them.
Therefore, sometimes Ryuen is really too easy to understand.
Since you want to use Karuizawa, I'll let you. You want to take action against Horikita? Then I'll give you a hand.
Because I'm also curious to see what kind of expression you'll have when you find out that all of this was my arrangement.
"But wouldn't that be betraying the class?"
"It's okay, the Red Team is bound to win this Sports Festival anyway, and Class A's overall quality is not as good as ours, so at most we'll only lose fifty Class Points, no need to worry about it."
"Besides, if we don't give him the right information, how will we trick him next time?" Shuichi Kanda smiled.
"You... you're still planning to screw him over?"
Karuizawa was shocked. "If you trick him, what if he gets angry and exposes all my secrets?"
"Don't worry, even if you trick him, he won't reveal your secrets immediately. A trump card is a trump card because it hasn't been played yet; once it's played, it's too easy to figure out."
Karuizawa nodded as if she understood, but in reality she knew very well that all of this was part of Shuichi Kanda's plan.
Whether it was about exposing her secrets to Ryuen, or Ryuen asking her to become a spy.
Since he's already thought so far ahead, he must have a way to deal with Ryuen! Kei Karuizawa believed this.
At the same time, she also felt that choosing to believe Shuichi Kanda at the time might have been the right thing to do; would most people consider things that far ahead?
In his hands, Ryuen was like a toy, to be manipulated at will.
You think you discovered the loophole in Class D and then recruited a spy?
No, that's something I made you discover so you could find it.
Impressive, no, Karuizawa sensed something beyond just impressive in Shuichi Kanda; it was terrifying.
After deciding on a plan that prioritizes those with special abilities, the students of Class D began preparing for the smooth running of the Sports Festival.
So the first thing to do... is to practice the class lining up to enter the field, the competition entrance, and the exit. This seems to be the same in every country.
Shuichi Kanda moved mechanically in sync with the chants. There was no need to practice to the extreme in this kind of thing; as long as the formation was relatively neat, that was enough. After all, the people he was dealing with were students, so their tolerance was quite high.
These past two days, besides practicing formations, we've been arranging the order of appearance. Since we need to bring out the full potential of the class's athletic best players, this has been a real headache.
Moreover, apart from Sudo, most of the boys were inexplicably confident in their abilities and all wanted to become the top performers in the class in order to win the top three prize.
Because of this, the students in the class were arguing fiercely, and as a result, the order of the boys' participation in the competition has remained undecided for the past two days.
However, the girls are making good progress. In addition to Horikita Suzune, the class also has Onodera, who has excellent athletic ability, and Kushida Kikyo, who has outstanding athletic ability.
As for the boys' eligibility to participate, that decision will be made after the match in PE class on the second day.
Chapter 170: Is the average grip strength of a high school student 60KG?
The following day in PE class, the boys will compete for a spot as seeded players.
So, the first thing to be measured was... strength?
It doesn't seem like it's impossible; Cavalry Battle requires a lot of strength.
"Everyone, I borrowed a hand gripper from the PE teacher."
As soon as class started, Hirata negotiated with the physical education teacher and obtained the strength measuring device.
"Let's proceed in order. Just measure with your dominant hand, and then tell me the results. I'll record them. I borrowed two in total. Let's work in groups, but I hope everyone can be efficient. We'll be practicing the project later."
As he was speaking, he was about to hand the hand grip strengthener to Yukimura and Hondo next to him, but before Hondo could take it, Sudo, who appeared out of nowhere, snatched it away.
"I'll start, Hirata. I'll take the measurements first, and then everyone will know the high-standard values."
If you want to show off your strength, just say so. Why resort to such fallacies?
"Watch closely, this is the power of a man who leads his class!"
Sudo laughed confidently, making no attempt to hide his ambition to win.
"Ugh!"
Sudo roared furiously, his right hand gripping the measuring device tightly, his shoulders trembling violently from the force.
Correspondingly, the electronic readings on the hand grip strengthener in his hand also began to rise steadily, instantly exceeding fifty and rising to sixty or seventy.
Then it stopped at 80.2. When the onlookers from Class D saw this number, they were silent for a moment, and then the scene instantly became chaotic.
"This power is ridiculous!"
"That's right, I've never seen any student with such a strong grip!"
"Hmph, because I train regularly, of course." Facing his classmate's surprise, Sudo didn't hide his smugness, and at the same time verbally provoked someone, "Hey, you're taking the test too, Kouenji."
"I'm not interested, so just ignore me."
Kouenji was filing his nails with a small tool when he blew on his fingertips.
"Are you afraid of losing to me? Oh well, seeing this number makes it understandable."
"I don't want to do things that don't bring me any benefit."
"Then let's bet 100,000 points. If you win, I'll give you 100,000; if you lose, you'd better participate in the Sports Festival obediently."
When Sudo said those words, Shuichi Kanda special look.
Is this Sudo?
You've made progress, my friend!
They've actually learned to use bribery and provocation?
Sure enough, Kouenji turned his head to look at Sudo, then picked up another hand grip strengthener.
"Remember what you said, Red-Haired Guy."
Then, Kouenji casually gripped the strength gauge to over 75, and the numbers started to change, finally reaching 80.2, then jumped slightly, and stopped at 80.3.
Sudo gave it his all to achieve a score of 80.2, but Kouenji casually stopped at 80.3. It's no longer necessary to say who was stronger.
This cannot be called a battle at all; it's a dimensional attack. Anyone with eyes can see that Kouenji is toying with Sudo.
"Red-Haired Guy, don't forget the 100,000 points you lost to me."
As Kouenji spoke casually, he tossed the hand grip strengthener to Sudo.
"Damn it! Is this hand grip strengthener broken?"
Sudo took the hand gripper that Koenji threw to him and gripped it with all his might again, but this time the peak value didn't even exceed 80.2, stopping at 80.
"Damn it, Ayanokoji, it's your turn."
Sudo grabbed Ayanokoji, who was trying to quietly retreat behind the crowd, and shoved a hand grip strengthener into his hand, as if he had forgotten about being upset by Kouenji.
"Hey, Sudo. What's the average high school student's weight?" Ayanokoji, holding the hand gripper somewhat awkwardly, asked Sudo a common-sense question.
"Huh? I don't know, maybe around sixty?"
Sixty?
You two are really something, one dares to ask and the other dares to say!
Are you kidding me?! How many high school students can have a grip strength of 60?
So, Ayanokoji took the hand gripper and began to adjust his posture. After exerting some force, the value instantly exceeded 40. Then the value began to change slowly, reaching 55. Then the rate of increase slowed down again, and finally stopped at 60kg.
Seeing the other person's expressionless face and even the fact that his shoulders weren't trembling, Shuichi Kanda became certain of one thing: this bastard was also an actor.
His true strength is definitely more than 60. If he goes all out, he might even be stronger than Sudo, and at least a monster on par with Kouenji.
After Ayanokoji finished taking the measurements, he looked up and saw Shuichi Kanda's speechless expression.
Then a thought struck me: Had I gone too far?
Sure enough, before he could even speak, Ike ran over and said to Hirata, "Hirata —I'm 42.6. Can you give me some extra, and I'll give you 50?"
Ayanokoji immediately realized he'd been tricked by Sudo, but since the values had already been seen by others, there was no way to change them. It was all Sudo's fault.
"Hirata, I am sixty."
"Huh... Ayanokoji, you're quite strong."
Hirata looked at Ayanokoji with admiration.
What else can we do? We can't exactly say we were tricked by Sudo!
Then the students arrived one after another. The next Sotomura, was forty-two, and the next one to arrive, Miyamoto, was forty-eight. They were all basically under fifty.
However, his close friend Akito Miyake gave Shuichi Kanda surprise.
At 65kg, he's the strongest guy in the class, aside from Koenji and Sudo.
"See? This is the result of my training these past few days. I wasn't just hanging out with Hashikura every day, you know."
"Yes, yes, yes, Akito, you're really great."
Finally, it was Shuichi Kanda's turn. Even with all his strength, he still came in last in the class, weighing 36.6 kg.
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Not bad. Although she's at the bottom of the class of boys, she's at least better than most of the girls. Of course, she can't compare to someone like Horikita.
That's like a human-shaped gorilla. Have you ever seen a high school girl with a grip strength of 55KG?
That's almost Hirata's 58kg, it's absolutely outrageous.
Then Shuichi Kanda realized something: what if this guy finds out I helped Kushida scheme against her? Won't he storm into my room and beat me up?
Next, based on the statistics of all the students in the class, Hirata began to write down the recommended places for the competition, starting with the Four-Way Tug-of-War.
"Tug of War, Four-Way Tug-of-War, we can just follow the order of the measuring instrument readings, right? Sudo, Miyake- kun, Ayanokoji, and me."
Hirata wisely didn't include Kouenji, because that guy would definitely not participate in the recommended matches. Rather than spending 100,000 points to change the list later, it was better not to put his name on it in the first place.
"But what is that Four-Way Tug-of-War? I've never heard of it before, I'm a little curious."
"I didn't know at first, so I tried to investigate. It's just like the name suggests, it's like a tug-of -Tug of War in four directions. It's a competition where four students from each of the four classes, a total of sixteen people, Tug of War against each other at the same time."