Uninhabited Island Survival Test!

After hearing the whole story from Ayanokoji, Suzune suddenly felt much happier, though she did not know why.

And events proved that Ayanokoji's guess had been right.

In the midterm exams that followed, every student in Class D passed, much to everyone's surprise. Even Sudo, who had fallen one point short of the passing average in the original story, passed this time.

Their homeroom teacher, Sae Chabashira, was quite surprised by the results, but she soon realized that the two monsters in her class had intervened.

She had been right to pin her hopes on them after all. This year's Class D was arguably the worst she had ever taught.

But even so, with those two around, surpassing Class A might not be impossible!

Once the results came out, Kei Karuizawa's reputation in Class D soared to an all-time high for helping everyone, even surpassing that of their class representative, Hirata, and Kikyo Kushida.

Watching everyone crowd around Kei Karuizawa, Kikyo Kushida smiled on the surface, but dark clouds gathered in her heart.

Kikyo Kushida was not Suzune Horikita. She had connections in the class, so naturally, she had long since learned that Kei Karuizawa had won over their classmates by giving them the exam questions.

My excellent reputation and popularity are my best weapons for bringing down Yang Cheng, Suzune Horikita, and the others.

But now, Kei Karuizawa is gradually taking that advantage away from me.

Whatever the other idiots in class thought, Kikyo Kushida could plainly see that a stupid girl like Kei Karuizawa could never have obtained the exam questions herself.

Considering that Yang Cheng had recently started dating her, even someone thinking with their breasts could tell that he was pulling all the strings behind the scenes.

And every time Kikyo Kushida thought about that, she grew furious.

Kikyo Kushida did not really understand Yang Cheng's desire to keep a low profile, but if he wanted to avoid getting himself into trouble, he could have left this sort of thing to her.

He has leverage over me, yet instead of using the ready-made pawn he already has, he went and found another one, damn it!

And he did all that just to keep me from benefiting?

Kikyo Kushida had also figured out long ago that Yang Cheng and Kei Karuizawa were only pretending to be a couple.

Although Kei Karuizawa acted very intimate with Yang Cheng in front of others, there was still something restrained about her.

She had not even given Yang Cheng as many little perks as Kushida had.

And you call that a relationship? Probably only a girl with zero romantic experience, like Suzune Horikita, would believe it.

Kikyo Kushida had considered reporting Kei Karuizawa, but remembering that Yang Cheng still had leverage over her, she reluctantly abandoned the idea.

Even if she reported the cheating, only Kei Karuizawa would be expelled. It would not hurt so much as a hair on Yang Cheng's head.

Besides, if she had to come forward to testify, her own involvement would be exposed too.

Reporting Kei Karuizawa after she had helped Class D would offend far too many people. Kushida would probably have no place left in the entire class afterward.

A few months after the midterm exams, the Advanced Nurturing High School held their first competition between classes.

The school arranged a two-week voyage aboard a luxury cruise ship for the first-year students.

At first, the first-years thought it was a summer vacation treat the school had prepared for them.

But only after the luxury cruise ship reached the uninhabited island did the school's representative officially announce that this was their first special exam-wilderness survival on an uninhabited island!

Rule one: upon landing on the island, each of the four participating first-year classes would receive 300 exam points.

The school would provide no supplies. Students could use their exam points to purchase survival equipment.

Any exam points remaining at the end of the exam would be added directly to their class points.

Rule two: there were many sites scattered across the uninhabited island. Finding and occupying these sites would earn them a certain number of exam points.

Occupying a site required a key card, which had to be registered to the leader selected by the class.

Rule three: at the end of the exam, Classes A, B, C, and D could guess the identities of the other classes' leaders.

Correctly identifying another class's leader would earn them 100 points, while an incorrect guess would cost them 50 points.

To be honest, Yang Cheng himself did not remember the uninhabited island storyline very clearly.

After all, as a school anime centered on battles of wits, Classroom of the Elite was packed with scheming and special exams with complicated rules.

Still, if this was a survival challenge, then with his current physical abilities, he really had no reason to lose in this environment.

Honestly, back at school, his off-the-charts strength had hardly had any chance to shine. On this uninhabited island, however, things were entirely different.

After hearing the rules for this end-of-term test, the students of Class D gathered to discuss which supplies they would purchase with their points.

For a group of students with no wilderness survival experience, surviving on an uninhabited island without any outside assistance was clearly unrealistic.

Essentials such as tents and fire-starting tools were therefore indispensable.

However, disagreements arose in Class D when they began deciding how to spend their points.

Most of the girls in Class D also wanted to use exam points to buy a portable toilet.

The class's utterly insensitive boys strongly objected.

They believed exam points should not be spent on something so pointless.

This was an uninhabited island. If they needed to relieve themselves, why not just find some random spot? They could consider it fertilizer for the island's plants.

Those remarks infuriated the girls, however, leaving Class D locked in an endless argument almost as soon as they landed.

Watching the girls led by Kei Karuizawa and the boys led by Ike argue furiously, Suzune, Ayanokoji, and the others standing off to the side could only look on helplessly.

"Hirata seems unable to handle this by himself. Aren't you going to try talking them down?"

Ever since learning that Yang Cheng and Kei Karuizawa were only pretending to be a couple, Suzune had gone back to acting as naturally around him as before.

"You want me to help? Whose side am I supposed to take here?"

"Karuizawa is your girlfriend, at least in name, isn't she? Besides, I think the girls' request is reasonable. Girls are different from boys, after all..."

"So, Suzune,

"you can't accept going to the toilet outdoors either?"

"Don't get the wrong idea. I'm not some pampered girl. I just think arguing over something like this is bad for class unity."

Faced with Suzune's stubborn denial, Yang Cheng said nothing more and walked over.

Seeing Yang Cheng approach, Kei Karuizawa assumed he had come to back her up. Looking delighted, she said, "Yang Cheng, you agree that we should get the girls a portable toilet, right?"

"Kei, as far as the girls are concerned, you'll be satisfied as long as you have a toilet, right?

"In that case, there's no need to waste exam points at all."