Toilet

"Absolutely not. No way."

"Yeah, exactly. We'd die."

"Uh... this makeshift toilet is just..."

The girls all voiced their objections to the makeshift toilet.

"If I could, I'd hold it in too, but I'm sure there are girls in our class who can't."

Karuizawa tossed the question directly to all the girls, trying to get their opinions.

Almost all the girls nodded in agreement with Karuizawa. The makeshift toilet was still hard for them to accept.

"What's the big deal? We can just make do with this. It's not that serious."

Ike pointed at the makeshift toilet beside them, unconcerned.

"No, no. Absolutely not."

Shinohara shot the makeshift toilet Ike had pointed at a look of disgust, vehemently rejected it, then huddled together with the girls in her little group.

"Actually, you can buy a toilet with points."

Hirata said it in his usual casual tone, and every girl in the class immediately gathered around him to look at the toilet in the rulebook.

"This one's good."

"We absolutely need it."

"Let's just buy this."

"To spend points, we need the approval of more than half the class, right?"

"Nicely said, Yukimura. This is a great chance to save up Class Points. We can't waste them on this."

Ike gave Yukimura a thumbs-up as he said this.

"Huh? What do you mean?"

Shinohara was already starting to see red. She adopted an aggressive tone, bringing out her gyaru side.

"It's something we can endure. We can't lose our chance to move up just because you girls are being fussy."

Yukimura wasn't intimidated by her aggressive tone. He pushed up his glasses with his middle finger and replied rationally.

"You! It's only 20 points!"

"Oh? You think 20 points aren't points? That's 20 points."

"How are you expecting us girls to put up with this? I'm just trying to get us what we deserve!"

"What you deserve? Hmph. This is an era of gender equality. If the boys can put up with it, why can't the girls? Why should the class's interests be harmed just because you're being selfish? You're unbelievable."

The boys all nodded in agreement. For them, it just meant being more careful when they peed standing up, and putting up with a bit more stink when they went number two. It wasn't hard to accept.

The girls, on the other hand, found it hard to accept.

"You're the ones who are unbelievable! We have 300 points to spend! We'd only be using 20!"

"Only 20 points? Hah. This is exactly why we're Class D. I have no intention of staying in Class D. If we want to surpass the upper classes, we shouldn't waste even 20 points."

Yukimura merely pushed up his glasses again and calmly stated his thoughts, even though Shinohara was clearly seething in front of him.

"Either way, it's only 20 points, right? You think that alone will help us surpass the upper classes? You've got to be kidding me. No matter what, we're not backing down on this toilet!"

Shinohara cleverly used the word "we" to bring all the girls over to her side. They stayed silent, but their expressions told the boys that they weren't willing to back down on the toilet.

"Hah. Don't you get it? You're in Class D because you think like that."

"What!? You're in Class D too! And don't force your desire to move up to an upper class on us! What's it got to do with us? If you're really that capable, why not move up by paying the 20 million pr the teacher mentioned?"

Shinohara kept saying "we." Some of the girls wanted to object—they did want to move up to an upper class too—but they held back. If they got involved now, they'd only be inviting trouble.

"What did you say!?"

Shinohara had successfully gotten under Yukimura's skin. It was as if she'd hit a sore spot. He still seemed to have some feelings about being placed in Class D.

At that moment, one boy stood apart from the rest. It was Hirata. Look, he stepped forward.

"Both of you, stop arguing. Fighting like this won't solve anything. Yukimura, right? And Shinohara too."

"...Since Hirata's putting it that way... Still, I'm not backing down on the toilet. I really can't accept that makeshift one."

"You think I'm going to back down?"

Yukimura pushed up his glasses again. His tone and expression both showed that he'd calmed down.

"Hah?"

Shinohara had gone right back to her aggressive mode, as though she were ready to enter the second phase of the battle.

Qiuyue: (...Tch... I can't watch this anymore. I can guess who'll win in the end, but seeing this makes me think Class D really is beyond saving.)

(It's just a makeshift toilet. How can they not even put up with it? There are 40 people in the class. Using this would obviously take longer, and they'd have to deal with the waste in the plastic bags. No matter how you look at it, a toilet is a necessary expense.)

(Yukimura too. There's no need to fight over such a small gain right in front of him. It's only 20 points. Besides, no girl in modern society could accept that makeshift toilet.)

(If it were me, I'd reject their request at first, then accept it tactfully. The girls would feel like they'd gotten something out of it and be reassured, so they wouldn't keep making more unreasonable demands.)

(They've been arguing over this for so long. The other classes have already gone into the forest, and Class D is the only one still here. Finding a base is what matters right now. They could earn those 20 points back in no time. They've got their priorities completely backwards.)

Qiuyue stopped watching the farce. He checked the time, saw that it was getting late, and prepared to slip into the forest while no one was paying attention.

"Qiuyue, where are you going?"

"Don't worry, Kushida. I'm just going to find somewhere to use the toilet. I'll be right back."

Once Qiuyue was out of sight of the Class D students, he took off his jacket. A map was attached underneath—the map Class C hadn't bought. He quickly ran toward his destination.

Qiuyue stopped beneath a tree, a little to the left of a nearby base, and looked up at the bundle in its branches.

He climbed the tree and opened the bundle. Inside was a high-collared outfit, a hat, a mask, shoes, sunglasses, a voice changer, and a contract waiting to be signed.

All of these had been delivered little by little by drone.

Qiuyue didn't take off his tracksuit. He put on the clothes over it and fitted the voice changer around his neck.

(Note: Refer to Subaru Okiya's voice changer in Detective Conan. Conan science.)

He quickly made his way to the destination mentioned in the extra letter he'd included when giving Class B its map.

Class B's map had an extra marker showing where they should meet up.

Ichinose Honami and Ryuji Kanzaki had been waiting there for some time.

"Yo, sorry for the wait."

[Name: None

Student ID: None

Gender: None

Class: None

Private Account: 8.7 million pr]

[Name: Qiuyue Qi

Student ID: 203458478287

Gender: Male

Class: First-Year Class D

Private Account: 56,870 pr]