Gu Heng did not read the message at the public confirmation point.
He pressed the terminal into his palm and waited until Horikita finished submitting the current status before stepping back to an area beside the base where the public page was not visible.
It was not to avoid people.
It was to keep anyone from mistaking his presence there for part of Class D's public status.
When the terminal lit up again, only three lines remained.
`I know the submission wording for Class D's final-phase leader.`
`I also know the route to your final public base.`
`If you want to know which one is true, come alone to the old observation point on the west side before the next status refresh.`
The sender field was blank.
The message retained the timestamp of an ordinary school account, but displayed no class affiliation.
There was no price attached to it, either.
This seemed more like a way to pull someone away from their original position.
Ryuuen was merely the first name that came to mind.
Gu Heng noted the time he had received the message, then pulled up the timestamp from Class A's public reply just now.
The two records were less than a minute apart.
That did not make him list Hashimoto as the sender.
Class A had reason to watch Class D, but no reason to write him an unverified claim like "knowing the internal route."
It was more likely that someone had used Class A's public move to hide their own message within the same time frame.
Or perhaps the real sender wanted him to think of Class A first.
After reading the three lines, Gu Heng did not immediately conclude that the message had come from Class C.
Class C knew quite a lot.
They had seen