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

Building a wooden cabin in the forest during the sweltering summer might seem like a reasonable idea at first glance; a forest school certainly has no shortage of trees, so building a small cabin seems logical. However, in reality, besides teaching students some basic wilderness survival skills and bringing them closer to nature, the most important function of this forest school is to provide them with a cool respite from the heat.

Indeed, forest schools are often built in places where it doesn't feel too hot even in summer. For example, the forest school that Gao Yu chose is built on a mountain several hundred meters high, and it is also close to the sea on the left. There are no industrial facilities within a 30-kilometer radius, and the entire mountain has been covered with greenery with a coverage rate of over 85%.

It was a perfect summer retreat, but Tianyin and her friends were assigned by the school to build wooden houses under the blazing sun, which in itself felt subtly incongruous.

"I know you're trying to get something useful out of me, but don't worry, the information I'm about to share is all with the school's permission. On the first day of your special exam this summer, you must complete the construction of this wooden house. Its purpose is a secret for now, but this wooden house must be completed before the check-in on the first night. Classes that fail to complete it will face severe punishment, and it's not impossible for the entire class to be eliminated at once."

The instructor told the second-year students everything he knew without reservation. Judging from his tone, he must have had permission from the school, otherwise he would never have acted so relaxed. Perhaps this was a way for the school to motivate the students to seriously learn how to build a wooden house.

Tianyin glanced back and saw that many people had taken out their phones to record the rule.

Horikita looked thoughtfully at the rules she had just jotted down on her phone's notes, but in the end she shook her head. She really couldn't understand the connection between the cabin and the special exam.

Compared to building a wooden house, tents and sleeping bags are clearly the best choice. Moreover, building a wooden house is not an easy task for high school students. This kind of physically demanding activity is mostly undertaken by boys. However, apart from some boys in Class A who are not very physically fit and a very few who may not cooperate, the number of boys who can be directed is no more than eight.

Building a wooden hut with just a few people is a pipe dream, and Horikita doesn't believe a wooden hut can accommodate more than thirty people, especially one that has separate living areas for male and female students. It's a huge undertaking no matter how you look at it, and I don't know what the school is thinking.

After noticing that Amane was looking at her, Horikita raised her head and shook her head helplessly, indicating that she had no ideas.

The students from other classes also seemed clueless, with most of them displaying an indifferent expression. In their view, it was just building a wooden house, right? It didn't matter if they didn't know how; the school would definitely teach them, and the class leaders would lead a few dozen people to build a small wooden house—it would be a piece of cake. There was no need to worry too much.

"Tianyin, do you feel like something's not right?"

Ichinose noticed that Amane's brows were constantly furrowed, so she leaned closer to Amane and whispered a question.

"Hmm, the more obvious something is, the more suspicious it is. Hey! Uncle, if I'm not mistaken, this wooden hut is probably used to store food, right?"

Tianyin was speaking when she suddenly turned to the instructor and asked a question.

The instructor was taken aback. He was the only one among all the instructors who knew the true purpose of the wooden hut—that it was used as a storage room. He never expected a little girl to point it out so readily. How could this be? It was a fluke! Yes, she must be…

The instructor took out a thick stack of documents from his briefcase and began to quickly flip through them.

"Second-grade Class A, Miyako Amane? So you're the she-devil who broke the bones and caused incontinence of that first-grade girl this morning?"

When Tianyin heard the instructor's evaluation, she couldn't help but raise her eyebrows.

"The 'female demon' thing is too exaggerated. Even if you go to hell, you'll never find a female demon as cute as me. I can understand Hayasaka's broken bones, since I used almost half my strength. But what's with the incontinence? I don't remember doing anything that outrageous."

Hayasaka seemed perfectly fine when Amane left, so how did he end up in such an embarrassing situation?

"Phew, you really dare to say that. Fifty percent of your strength? Hey, if that girl hadn't been wearing a gauntlet, your slap would have broken her arm. When my colleague took her to the hospital for a checkup, the hospital staff praised her for being lucky and even asked if she had encountered a bear or tiger. As for the urinary incontinence, it was an unconscious behavior caused by lack of oxygen and fear. But just that alone is enough to scare people. Are you even human?"

Even the instructors couldn't help but take a good look at Tianyin, who had become a star at the forest school on the first day of special training.

"Pah, pah, pah! Uncle, you're not human! You still haven't answered my question. This wooden hut is for storing food, right?"

Amane noticed that the people around her were looking at her strangely, so she quickly changed the subject. She hadn't meant to bully Hayasaka on purpose. Amane hadn't expected that Hayasaka, who usually acted like a 'professional agent,' would be so weak in a real fight, even getting so scared that she wet herself. Her willpower was truly impressive...

How about I go apologize to Hayasaka tonight?

However, apologizing for something like this would probably make Hayasaka feel even more embarrassed...

I'd like to visit her again sometime.

"You guessed right, but I bet you can't guess why a wooden 'granary' was built, and why it's related to the elimination of contestants."

The instructors planned to test Tianyin's abilities to see if she lived up to the high evaluation given in the materials.

It's important to understand that simply being strong in terms of physical strength doesn't mean you can solve everything, especially since this special exam at the school almost completely eliminates the possibility of a student with exceptional individual strength dominating the exam.

"Honestly, you adults just love to test things out all the time. The reason for prioritizing the construction of granaries on the first day is definitely related to food distribution. If I'm not mistaken, the school won't provide food to the classes that don't build granaries well on the first day, and they probably won't be provided with food even after they build them. The school's actions will naturally force classes without granaries to find ways to get food from their peers or rivals, and the methods they use to get food probably won't be very gentle... The school staff will definitely be hiding somewhere watching this farce, and then pretend to stop it when the conflict breaks out. Then they'll start an internal vote to reduce the number of participants to meet the food supply requirements. If I'm not mistaken, the innocent students who are attacked by violence will definitely vote out all the people who used violence. In this way... the camp without armed protection will become lambs to the slaughter. Am I right?"

"..."

The instructor stood there, stunned.

Are you kidding me? How could something so contrary to common sense actually happen?

Although he only knew the first half of the arrangement, that is, the classes that failed to complete the construction of the 'granary' on the first day would not have food supplies and would not be able to buy them with points.

But if the girl in front of him could guess the first half, then the second half would probably be pretty much the same as what she guessed.

"Are you kidding me? You think we'll fight each other over a log cabin school?"

“When a person cannot even guarantee their survival, it is not surprising that they will do anything; plunder is human nature.”

Tenon casually interrupted Hime's somewhat naive statement.

When Himeko heard Amane say this, she bit her lip tightly. If Amane's guess was true, Class D would be in big trouble.

After losing Ichinose, Class D lost many of its outstanding core members. Now, the majority of the remaining members are girls, and their numbers cannot compare with those of the other classes. Moreover, there are no boys with outstanding physical abilities. Without the help of other classes, it is absolutely impossible for them to build a food bank on their own. In fact, what is even more terrifying is yet to come.

Unlike Class C, Class D is not full of martial spirit. If Class C had no food, they could try to use force to threaten or steal it. But if Class D lost the food they depended on for survival, they wouldn't even have the right to steal it.

Whether it's Ryuen, Albert, and Ishizaki Ibuki from Class C, Hashimoto and Kito from Class B, or Amane and Koenji from Class A...

None of them were people that Class D could afford to mess with.

Therefore, they must start thinking of a way now and complete the construction of the granary within a day.

"Hmm, Tianyin, I think your analysis is more than 80% accurate. Judging from the instructor's dumbfounded expression, it must have hit the bullseye."

Horikita had a lot of faith in Amane's judgment, and given the instructor's current blank expression, Horikita was almost certain that the school would adopt this approach, which was consistent with their usual style.

"Um... there's something I'm wondering about, and I hope you can answer it for me, Tianyin."

Hirata raised his hand in confusion.

"No problem, Hirata, do you think there's anything I didn't explain clearly?"

"Tianyin, why are you so sure the school will let students vote to select those who stay?"

If Amane's deduction is correct, after the violent conflict, everyone would vote to decide who stays and who goes. Hirata finds this a bit strange. Although it makes sense logically, wouldn't it be better to just disqualify the students who participated in the food grab? This would be a faster way to resolve the problem. Why would Amane think that a vote, which could lead to unexpected problems, should be used?

"This problem is simple. If we only eliminate those who make mistakes, we can solve the problem in the shortest time. However, Hirata, you have overlooked the most crucial point. The name of this special exam is 'Survival.' To survive, one can do anything. In other words, those who steal food are right in the special exam because they are stealing food to survive."

Amane paused for a moment, feeling a bit thirsty. Just as she was about to reach for her bottled water, Karuizawa handed her his. Amane took it without hesitation and drank a couple of sips. Feeling a bit better, Amane was about to give her bottle to Karuizawa when Karuizawa insisted on keeping the half-finished bottle. Amane shrugged helplessly and had no choice but to return the bottle to Karuizawa.

Seeing that everyone's attention was still focused on her, and they all seemed to be listening attentively to Tenon's analysis, Tenon didn't want to joke around with Karuizawa at this time, so she could only cough twice and continue her analysis.

"Since the theme of the special test is survival, in addition to defeating competitors, it is also crucial to allocate food reasonably and find useful partners. So the question is, when food is limited, will you give food to the strong or the team's burdens?"

A subtle smile appeared on Tianyin's face.

In an instant, everyone understood what Tianyin meant. After a year of fighting, no one was a fool to still be standing here.

When food is limited, priority should not necessarily be given to the weakest students in the class. Each class can use the food ration quota to attract strong students to join the class, thereby improving the class's strength.

For example, if Class B runs out of food, Amane can use a relief approach to discard all the students who are lagging behind or have poor physical abilities, and then introduce people like Hashimoto and Kito. By constantly changing the class members, the strength of the entire class can overwhelm the competing classes.

If you don't want to be eliminated, you must have a special skill, a good relationship with the class leaders, or play an irreplaceable role in some aspect, etc.

The school has truly turned special exams into a mini-society where the law of the jungle prevails, and only the fittest survive.

If Tianyin's guess is correct, then after securing the food, the school will definitely use other means to incite competition between grades, and then use the competition to continuously filter out the top group from both sides, and then let these people stand in the spotlight to compete and become propaganda tools for the school.

Even... who knows, the next special exam might be broadcast live in its entirety, after all, the school tried this before during the Command Tower exam.

In order to salvage its poor image from the sports festival and expand the influence of the high school, the school has no choice but to keep tormenting these unfortunate students.

Hirata fell silent after Amane's explanation. This special exam was different from the previous ones. Even Hirata could not ask Amane to keep all of his students. After all, forcing students with poor physical fitness to stay would put them in danger and might be a form of torture for them.

However, Hirata quickly came to terms with it. As long as he didn't drop out of school, he could accept being separated from everyone temporarily for the sake of victory.

"I didn't expect you guys to have mastered this special exam at school to this extent. Well then, I have nothing more to say. The tools are all here, and the blueprints are over there. If you don't understand anything, just come and ask me. Now let's get to work!"

Seeing that everyone understood the importance of building the granary without him having to mobilize them, the instructor simply handed the construction task over to Tianyin and sat down under the shade of a tree, watching the bewildered crowd with great interest.

"What an irresponsible old man."

Tianyin casually picked up the blueprints beside her, and after just a glance, she knew that this was not her area of ​​expertise.

Various data were marked on it with pencils of different colors. Tianyin could roughly understand the basic structure of the wooden house, but he couldn't guarantee that he could restore it according to the blueprints.

In layman's terms, Tianyin can command everyone to create things that look similar on the outside, but he cannot guarantee that every piece of data will meet the requirements.

This kind of thing should be handled by professionals.

"Who among us should make arrangements?"

Tenon symbolically sought the opinions of Ryuen, Himeno, and Hashimoto.

Long Yuan glanced at the densely drawn blueprints and felt overwhelmed. He turned around and walked back to the group.

"You can call upon anyone from Class C, including me, as long as they can build this thing."

Longyuan was the first to relinquish leadership, and Jiye stared at the blueprints for a long time before finally shaking his head.

"This requires a professional to direct, and Class D is willing to follow your instructions, Miyako-kun."

"Hey, our princess already instructed us before we came..."

The next second, Hashimoto's voice came to an abrupt end.

"Hashimoto, what's wrong?"

When Kamuro saw Hashimoto suddenly stop speaking halfway through his sentence, he couldn't help but lean over and ask him what was wrong.

From the very beginning, Sakayanagi gave everyone an order: unless she appeared in the special exam competition, all the students in Class B must unconditionally obey Amane's commands.

Actually, even without Sakayanagi's emphasis, almost no one in Class B was dissatisfied with Amane. The fight between Kito and Amane shattered all of Class B's confidence.

From that moment on, they secretly began to feel that they would eventually fall from their position in Class A, and sure enough...

Tianyin will not give them any chance.

After being given a casual glance by Amane, Hashimoto immediately felt a sharp, piercing pain spread throughout his body.

Hashimoto initially didn't understand why Amane was hostile towards him, until he remembered his choice of words...

"Excuse me, what I meant was that Sakayanagi-san instructed us to obey Miyako-san's orders."

"Ah."

Amane gave a soft "hmm" in response to Hashimoto.

Even if Sakayanagi is a princess, the only people who can protect her are Amane, Hashimoto, and Kito. Hmph.

If an ordinary person were treated so rudely, they might have angrily left with their class, since Tianyin's arrogant behavior was completely inhumane.

Hashimoto, however, was completely convinced and instead lowered his head with a hint of envy, awaiting Amane's command.

Hashimoto admires Amane, the leader of Class A, for her charisma and resourcefulness, as well as her domineering authority that rivals any man's. If Sakayanagi had Amane's presence or strength, Hashimoto wouldn't have fallen to the point of envying the leaders of other classes. As for arrogance? If you have the ability, then forget about arrogance. Even if you're a tyrant, countless people will still flock to your side, praising you like a star surrounded by the moon.

Kamuro keenly noticed that Hashimoto's condition was not quite right, but she didn't understand what it meant. Morishita Ai, on the other hand, looked thoughtfully at Amane.

"By the way, please allow me to introduce you. This is Morishita-san, one of Sakayanagi-san's trusted key members. He is mainly responsible for maintaining relationships between classmates and mediating conflicts."

That is, to take on the role that Ichinose currently plays in Class A.

"Although this is not our first meeting, I still hope that you will take good care of me, Miyako."

"Don't worry, I love taking care of others. The moonlight should be nice tonight, Morishita-kun, would you like to...?"

"Please allow me to refuse."

"Well, that's a real shame."

Tianyin shrugged indifferently.

Kamuro's suspicious gaze began to shift back and forth between Morishita and Amane. Why did he get the feeling that Morishita and Amane knew each other?

After firmly grasping the leadership of the second grade, Tianyin began to build a wooden house. Originally, Tianyin planned to bite the bullet and go straight to it.

Anyway, if they look similar, there shouldn't be any major problems. Tianyin is better at destruction than construction.

Her coursework didn't teach her how to build houses, so she had to rely on intuition.

Just as they were about to start work, Ichinose came over mysteriously.

"Tianyin, are you worried about not being able to find someone skilled in architecture?"

As soon as Ichinose spoke, Amane knew that Ichinose must have been recommended by someone. However, Amane did not rush to agree, because this thing really needed a professional to direct it. Although Amane could not fully understand it, she had already mastered the basics. At least she could build a wooden house with a similarity of more than 90% as a granary according to the blueprints.

This level of skill is beyond the reach of ordinary high school students or those who have only scratched the surface of the construction industry. If the person recommended by Ichinose is not as good as her, there is no need to even try.

Moreover, in Tianyin's memory, there didn't seem to be any talents in the second year who were good at architecture.

However, directly refusing Ichinose would be inappropriate. After all, Ichinose had kindly recommended the talent to help her solve her problem. If she refused without letting the other person try, it would seem like she was disrespecting Ichinose. But letting those who only knew a little bit give random orders would only waste time and cause dissatisfaction among everyone. This put Amane in a dilemma.

In the end, Amane decided to first listen to who Ichinose was going to recommend.

“If you don’t mind, Amane, I think we can let Kanzaki-san oversee the construction of the granary.”

Chapter 98: The New General Wooden Axe

Kanzaki Ryuji?