Early the next morning, Eikura Yohei took two students out to buy supplies.
Of the five who remained, everyone except Kento Nanami had dark circles of varying severity under their eyes.
Shoko Ieiri wearily rubbed her hair, then gave her two classmates a kindly smile.
"Did you really have to bring your lunacy all the way to Wakkanai City? Are you going to let anyone sleep?"
Suguru Geto soothed her with a cheerful smile.
"It won't happen again."
Satoru Gojo merely gave a soft snort.
Seeing that Kento Nanami looked perfectly normal, Miwa Chisei asked curiously.
"Nanami, didn't you hear those rabid dogs fighting last night?"
Kento Nanami fell silent for a moment as he grasped what Miwa Chisei meant.
"I wore earplugs."
"You certainly learned from experience."
At Miwa Chisei's words, Suguru Geto casually let his gaze settle on her face. The conspicuous wound on her lip seemed to be accusing someone.
Suguru Geto gave Satoru Gojo a meaningful look.
Feeling that gaze prickling against his back, Satoru Gojo stared right back without a trace of courtesy.
"Want another fight?"
Suguru Geto shook his head and asked Miwa Chisei instead.
"What happened to your lip, Miwa? Did you bite it?"
Miwa Chisei saw nothing wrong with the question and simply nodded helplessly.
"Yes, by accident."
After speaking, she shot Satoru Gojo a merciless glare with her red eyes.
Seeing that, Suguru Geto was astonished. So his best friend was that aggressive. No wonder Miwa Chisei was so angry. She was a girl, after all.
It really was quite a misunderstanding.
In any case, neither Miwa Chisei nor Satoru Gojo wanted anything to do with the other. They barely exchanged a word on the way to Rishiri-Rebun-Sarobetsu National Park, leaving Suguru Geto's imagination plenty of room to roam.
Perhaps his