Before the eleventh day of preparation began, a blank space had appeared on Class D's public board. Horikita had left it there for the final official line.
Gu Heng copied yesterday's two explanations onto paper again.
`Last night's internal review has been completed; this does not represent official event results.`
`Remaining under observation does not mean failing the first round.`
The first registrant stood beside the table and looked at those two sentences. "Do I still need to write a short observation segment today?"
"First, check the time slot you personally confirmed," Hirata replied. "What if I want to make up what I didn't finish yesterday?"
Gu Heng did not turn through the forms for her. He merely pushed the confirmation field toward her. "You can apply."
"And after applying, I can make it up directly?" "No," Horikita said. "It needs to be reconfirmed."
The first registrant gripped her pen, her gaze falling on the blank space on the public board. "Then who gives the final official line?"
Horikita looked at Gu Heng. "Will you write it, or will I say it?"
Gu Heng laid his pen across the paper. "I can make the scope clear."
"A clear scope does not mean others will understand it within that scope." "That's why someone has to bear the part that gets misunderstood."
Horikita turned the public board toward herself and wrote in the blank space:
`Class D only confirms individual status; no public comparisons.`
After reading it, Hirata pressed the explanation of the internal review beneath it. "This way, people outside will only see one sentence."
"Then let them see one sentence first," Horikita said. Gu Heng watched where she set down her pen.
"You confirm this sentence?" "Class D confirms it."
"Then who answers externally?" Horikita raised her head. "For now,