Before the sixth day of preparations had even begun, laughter came from the other side of the stands. Ishizaki set up a whiteboard beside Class C's marker. There was only one line on it.
`If you can repeat it, you can run it`
That line was neither a school announcement nor the original wording on Class D's public board.
Gu Heng recognized where it had come from: the "repeatability" assessment left behind during Class D's training a few days ago had been broken down by Ryuuen into a more easily spread phrase.
Sudo set his water bottle on the ground. "They're copying us." "They're rewriting us," Kushida said.
"What's the difference?"
"Copying means taking the method." She pointed at the whiteboard. "Rewriting means making everyone remember their version first."
Horikita walked over to the public board. "Delete that sentence from our records." "It wasn't on the public board to begin with," Gu Heng said.
"Then delete everything related to it." "If we delete it, Class C will keep the right to define it."
Horikita raised her eyes. "You want to fight Ryuuen over a sentence?"
"I want to return that sentence to its original scope."
Gu Heng added a line beneath the public board: `Class D self-managed movement observations; not representative of event or competition standards`.
Hirata looked at the line. "Won't that make it easier for people to notice?"
"They've already noticed." Gu Heng handed the pen to Horikita. "At least now, what they notice is the boundary."
Ichinose came over from Class B's preparation area. She looked at Class C's whiteboard first, then at Class D's public board. "Did that sentence come from your internal records?"
"It was an assessment of movement," Hirata said. "Not an official Sports Festival standard?" "No," Horikita answered.
Ichinose nodded. "There are people