I'm in a real religion, why are all the people who confess to me girls?

Tianyin rubbed her stomach in frustration. If she had known she would have to run 1200 meters right away, she would have restrained herself a little. But it was too late to say anything now.

"Hey? I just can't do anything with you. Try to eat less in the morning from now on. We've had PE class as our first class for several days now. It seems like the boys' classes are scheduled differently from ours."

Ichinose had only intended to rub Amane's stomach to help her digestion, seeing that Amane looked uncomfortable, but the moment her hand touched Amane's abdominal skin, she quickly withdrew it as if she had been electrocuted.

Then, he carefully placed his hand on Tianyin's stomach and gently massaged it, but...

"Fan, Fanbo, is there smoke coming out of your head?"

"How could such a thing happen! I'm just an ordinary girl, I don't have those kinds of special effects."

As Ichinose spoke, he couldn't help but glance at Amane's abs, which were covered in abs.

When attending the forest school, everyone was required to wear sportswear. However, since a running test was about to take place, even though it was cold, everyone took off their sportswear jackets and put them aside for easier movement, and wore matching white leotards. If it were summer, it would definitely be a scene that makes your heart race at first glance.

However, it is early spring now, and the cold of winter has not yet passed. Seeing girls shivering or stiffening in the cold wind, almost frozen to the bone, makes it impossible to feel any romantic feelings.

Well, except for Tianyin.

The reason why the feeling of fullness is more pronounced might be because the food looks delicious.

While enjoying Ichinose's attentive massage, Amane was completely unaware that she was also being secretly taken advantage of.

To be honest, Ichinose Honami had no experience with abdominal massage. After all, she had never experienced the enviable feeling of being stuffed since she was a child, and she didn't need massage skills at all. So when she massaged Amane, Ichinose tried to keep the strength of her hands as gentle as possible. However... that firm body, which seemed to have long been free of fat, made Ichinose have some wild thoughts while massaging her.

It seemed even more captivating than her father's muscular chest from her distant memories. Although she couldn't see inside his clothes, the outline of his leotard revealed his well-defined abdominal muscles, which looked no less impressive than those of some boys who exercised regularly.

Perhaps I was a little distracted or my attention was drawn to something else.

In short, Ichinose's hand was gradually deviating from its original path, and finally her fingers stopped and rubbed back and forth on Amane's hard muscles.

Amane naturally saw all of this, but since touching wouldn't make her pregnant, Ichinose could just let her touch her if she wanted, especially from this angle...

Tianyin lowered her head slightly, her pretty face blushing. After looking around and finding no one paying attention, she continued to keep her head slightly lowered, as if admiring something beautiful.

"First group, assemble!"

With the sound of a whistle, Ichinose snapped back to her senses. Realizing what she had done stupidly, she quickly looked up at Amane. Coincidentally, Amane was also looking in her direction. Their eyes met briefly, and Ichinose's face instantly turned red.

"Um, I, I'm not... I..."

Ichinose tried to explain incoherently, but she knew that her blatant behavior was useless to explain, so she simply gave up thinking and stayed there without moving.

"Fanbo, you like me that much... huh?"

"No, that's not it. I'm just... I'm just curious, yes, I'm just curious..."

Looking at Amane's ambiguous expression, Ichinose couldn't bring himself to say the rest of the words.

"I'll satisfy you properly tonight—"

"Eee-ah?!"

"It's good for your curiosity."

"Hmph... Tianyin, can't you just say what you mean all at once? Don't you know that this can easily cause misunderstandings?"

Ichinose patted her chest lightly. When she heard the first half of Amane's ambiguous words, she had already imagined the scene that would be severely censored. Just thinking about that muscular body pressing down on her...

Ichinose couldn't help but let her imagination run wild, but after Amane said the second half of her sentence, Ichinose realized that Amane was deliberately teasing her.

But if it's true...

No, no, I can't think about this anymore!!!

clap clap!

Ichinose slapped her cheeks hard, trying to clear her head. She had a test coming up soon, and if she kept thinking about eight-pack abs...

Ichinose couldn't help but glance at Amane's abdomen again, while Amane quickly lifted a corner of her gym uniform when no one was looking at her.

"Oh—um."

Ichinose quickly covered her mouth, her face flushed, and lowered her head as she quickened her pace toward the starting line, afraid that if she stayed with Amane for even a second longer, she would succumb to her charm.

She admitted that she had always lacked a sense of security and had absolutely no resistance to a body like Amane's. However, if things continued like this, Ichinose was afraid that she would do something shameful. Therefore, the best way was to distract herself.

Amane strolled leisurely to the starting line. Ninomiya and several other girls cast reproachful glances at her, but Amane didn't care. Although she wasn't in the best shape right now, 1200 meters? They really underestimated her.

This route is completely different from the track on the plastic track where you can run carefree on the school playground. The forest school also has more than one professional track.

However, this test was conducted to assess the students' physical fitness for future training. Teachers who were not familiar with the physical fitness of first-grade students needed to obtain data on the girls' general physical fitness through this test. This would help them adjust their training plans and determine whether the final day's exam would be a physical burden for the girls.

With a crisp whistle.

Tianyin took a quick start and immediately put a distance between herself and the girls in her group behind her.

The girls chasing behind were unsure whether they should sprint with Tianyin when they saw her start so quickly. As everyone knows, the person who starts in front expends a lot of energy, while the person behind her can reduce wind resistance and make it a little easier for themselves.

But the problem is... if you want the other person to take the lead and you can reap the benefits, there is a very hard condition, that is... you have to be able to keep up with the other person, otherwise, the long distance in between will not only fail to make things easier with the help of the Heavenly Sound, but will also increase your resistance and greatly consume your physical strength due to the stronger airflow brought by the Heavenly Sound's running.

Ninomiya wanted to follow Amane, since Amane's wildly charging running style made it incredibly easy to just follow behind her.

However, Tianyin didn't give her a chance to hitch a ride. Even though it was a rugged mountain path with loose rocks, tree trunks, and even potholes and 'traps' in the middle, Tianyin could still run as fast as she could, as if she were walking on flat ground. Others might not dare to take such a risk.

While Ninomiya was still hesitating, Amane had already run five or six hundred meters, leaving the girls behind her dumbfounded.

Ninomiya was completely dumbfounded when she saw this, and had no choice but to give up the idea of ​​following Amane and hitching a ride. However, she was not willing to slow down and be at the bottom, so she suddenly accelerated and overtook Ichinose Honami, who was in second place.

Ichinose kept a close eye on everyone's steps the whole time, afraid that someone might fall on the road. Falling on a mountain path is extremely dangerous, especially when running. If someone were to roll down a cliff or bump into something, it could cause great harm to others or themselves.

Therefore, Ichinose never sought to compete for any ranking from the beginning; she simply hoped that everyone could finish the test safely.

Ichinose naturally noticed Ninomiya's rather provocative overtaking maneuver. Ichinose had no intention of competing with Ninomiya for second place, so she let Ninomiya pass her by, and was happy to hitch a ride on her coattails.

Ninomiya was somewhat annoyed after realizing that Ichinose had no intention of competing with her, but since things had come to this point, she had no better way than to keep increasing her speed in an attempt to shake her off.

The journey was only 1200 meters long. Before she could shake off Ichinose's hitchhiking, she saw the marker with a small flag in the distance and Amane sitting next to her. It seemed that Amane had arrived much earlier than her.

Despite being mentally prepared, seeing Tianyin so easily and casually complete the 1200-meter test still made it hard for me to accept the gap between myself and Tianyin.

"Miyako, are you just going to run around by yourself? There are still quite a few people who have fallen behind and haven't caught up with the group."

Ninomiya couldn't find anything to criticize about Amane, so in the end he could only find fault with her in terms of team unity.

Right now, only the three of them have crossed the finish line; the remaining eleven groups of girls are still struggling to keep up.

For someone who has practiced a little, 1200 meters is nothing, but for someone who is not good at physical fitness, 1200 meters is pure torture.

"So what do you want me to do? Carry them and run away? Hahahaha, Ninomiya, you're really funny."

Tenon's slightly mocking laughter made Ninja feel embarrassed. Her face flushed red, and she could only raise her voice to bolster her courage.

"I don't understand what's so funny. Since the test is conducted in groups, shouldn't everyone work together as a team to complete it...?"

"Alright, alright, stop talking about the group. Didn't you abandon them yourself? I entrusted them to you because I believed you could lead them here, but I didn't expect you to leave them halfway. A leader of a group should never easily abandon those who follow him, no matter what happens. You abandoned them in a mere 1200 meters. I don't even want to think about what will happen in the future."

After finishing her sentence, Amane didn't even bother to look at Ninomiya again. She pulled Ichinose, who was planning to go back and check if anyone was injured, and they decided to go down the mountain via another path.

"Tianyin, should we wait for everyone? I'm scared..."

"Isn't Ninomiya over there? We can just let her stay here and wait for those people. Since she cares about those girls so much, she shouldn't just ignore them, right?"

Tenon deliberately amplified her voice, and Er Gong's face had already turned ashen, but he couldn't find any words to refute her and could only stand there sulking.

Of course, it wasn't that she was truly speechless, but rather that in a place without surveillance, she didn't dare to challenge Tianyin.

Ichinose looked at the two of them thoughtfully before finally making her choice.

"Alright, then let's do as you say, Tianyin. Let's go back."

……

On the way down the mountain, Ichinose would occasionally look back, seemingly worried that Ninomiya would really abandon his companions and follow them down.

Amane didn't say much about this; Ichinose's original intention in forming this group was to protect these people.

Conversely, why protect these people? While the fact that they are all classmates certainly plays a role, these individuals have extremely obvious shortcomings in terms of physical fitness.

Ichinose was afraid that if they dragged down other groups, they would be criticized or even subjected to passive-aggressive treatment, so she got them together for one occasion.

But physical fitness is different from learning. In learning, everyone can find a solution by working together. Even the most insignificant person can contribute their share when exploring knowledge and answers.

However, physical fitness is not something that can be achieved by simply putting a few people with poor physical fitness together.

After all, you can't ride on someone else's back to participate in a physical fitness test; ultimately, it's all affected by your own ability.

Moreover, it's extremely difficult for someone to make any breakthrough in physical fitness in just seven days, so from the moment the groups were formed, there was absolutely no need to consider those who were lagging behind in physical fitness during the exam.

Because Tianyin simply couldn't manage them. The exam was a relay race, and Tianyin couldn't possibly run for them. With Tianyin's physical abilities, she could run the distance of several people without any problem, but the rules didn't allow it. So even Tianyin could only tell them to fend for themselves.

Are you still worried about them?

Unable to bear Ichinose's constant turning back as he descended the mountain, Amane couldn't help but ask.

"Hmm, I'm wondering if there's any way to help everyone pass the exam smoothly."

Even now, Ichinose is still thinking about helping Class D go further. Although I don't want to discourage Ichinose, it's better to prepare her mentally for some things in advance.

"Fanbo, if... I mean, if you were to be expelled from school because you were last in our group, what would you do?"

Chapter 123: I Want to Stay (6K)

drop out.

When Tenon uttered this word, which felt both familiar and unfamiliar to Ichinose, even Ichinose, who had been fighting at this school for almost a year, was taken aback.

The familiarity stemmed from the fact that the word "dropout" never disappeared from their sight or ears during every special exam. After experiencing Shiranami's dropout, Ichinose felt an even deeper hatred for the word "dropout," and she did not want to see anyone leave school in this way again.

Even though... Ichinose knew that Shiranami's dropping out of school was definitely related to her.

In order to prevent more familiar names from disappearing from the attendance list, Ichinose used every means at her disposal, and even after being abruptly stripped of power like this, she had no intention of retaliating against them.

Ichinose was just that pure, but... even she never imagined that dropping out of school would one day happen to her. Now, when she tries to savor this familiar word, she finds it has become incredibly unfamiliar to her.

It represents an end.

"I don't want to leave this school, but if everyone thinks that sacrificing myself will allow us to get into Class A and ultimately achieve our own dreams, then I'm willing to sacrifice myself for everyone's dreams."

Ichinose spoke these sorrowful words to Amane, one by one, but Amane only showed a faint smile, her confident expression as if she had already guessed Ichinose's answer.

"I don't want to hear Ichinose Honami's answer as the leader of Class D, but rather Ichinose Honami's answer as an ordinary high school girl in this school. I'll ask you one more time: what would you do if you faced expulsion one day?"

Amane's gaze was so clear that every time Ichinose looked up to answer Amane, she would be so ashamed by Amane's gaze that she would lower her head.

Her lies were all seen through by Tianyin, who was standing in front of her.

Ichinose, who is the least likely to lie, had her first lie easily exposed.

No one could accept leaving school at this time.

Being expelled at this point would mean that all the suffering she had endured in the past year would have been for nothing. She had put in tremendous effort for the class, and no one had ever contributed more to the class than her. Therefore, expelling was an unacceptable choice for Ichinose.

Moreover, once expelled, one will forever bear the label of being rejected by the university, and will be treated differently no matter what school one goes to, which will certainly not be in a friendly way.

She also felt ashamed to answer the new students' questions about how she was expelled from school.

But how should she answer Tianyin's question?

Should we just tell her directly that she wants to stay?

In that case, how would Tianyin view the lies she told?

One is Honami Ichinose, a moral exemplar who is willing to sacrifice himself for everyone's dreams, and can be called a saint.

One is Ichinose Honami, who is somewhat selfish and wants to stay at all costs. How will Amane view her?

Ichinose fell silent. She couldn't give Amane an answer to this question. She could lie again, but... she already knew that her lies would be exposed in front of Amane.

"I see."

"Tianyin, what do you know?"

Ichinose asked the question almost instinctively, as if it were a conditioned reflex.

“I heard you say you wanted to stay.”

Amane smiled brightly, but Ichinose stared wide-eyed at her in surprise.

"How could that be? I clearly didn't say anything, Tianyin..."

Ichinose stopped abruptly, then shook his head and gave a wry smile.

"I didn't expect you to trick me, Tianyin... I do want to stay, but if it really comes down to me having to drop out, I'm afraid... they won't give me the chance to stay."

Now, Class D's class points have become completely in deficit due to the previous decision, and this is naturally related to Ichinose. However, since it was not announced that the points would be deducted to the deficit, Ichinose could only use that method to earn points to maintain everyone's expenses. At that time, no one in Class D opposed Ichinose's decision at all.

But just after the school announced that points would be deducted to a deficit during this special exam, the winds of change instantly shifted.