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

As for why Kanzaki is an assassin? In Kanzaki's view, the woman approached Amane either to assassinate the Miyako family's eldest daughter or to settle a debt of gratitude. As for him? He guessed he was just an unlucky guy who accidentally got dragged into this. If the other party were to take advantage of him before leaving, he would be extremely unlucky.

Now that the identity of the other party has been preliminarily confirmed, the next step is to consider whether Tianyin can be used as immediate combat power. There is bloodstain on the iron cone of that woman, but it seems to have been dried for a long time, which means that the other party has definitely not killed Tianyin yet, and it is very likely that she has been hiding in the vicinity for a long time, thus avoiding the school's monitoring facilities and security system.

Could Tianyin withstand such skill? They were currently less than 100 meters from the rest area. If Tianyin and she could hold off the enemy for a few minutes, someone would surely come to their aid.

The problem is whether Tianyin can immediately transform into an effective fighting force after waking up.

After much deliberation, Kanzaki finally made up his mind. He would buy time and make noise to wake Amane. With Amane's intelligence, she would surely sense the danger around her. Once Amane recovered and started fighting the woman, he could call for help and launch a sneak attack on her at the same time. With his black belt in karate and Amane's monstrous abilities, he figured it wouldn't be too difficult to hold off the woman for a few minutes.

Of course, this is on the premise that the other side does not have firearms.

Kanzaki was very efficient and decisive. Once he had set up a plan, he immediately began to execute it. He picked up the axe that Amane had used to cut down trees from the ground and quietly stopped not far from the woman.

Who are you?

Kanzaki questioned the woman in white in a voice that was neither too loud nor too soft.

The reason Kanzaki didn't immediately confront Amane loudly and try to wake her up was because he was afraid that Amane would discover his plan and become desperate. If Amane was actually killed, even if he shouted for help immediately, he would not be able to escape being killed.

So Kanzaki deliberately kept his volume low, trying his best to make Amane hear him without seeming forced.

Upon hearing the question, the woman slowly stood up. After gently brushing the dust and wood chips off her body, she turned to look at Kanzaki, who had dared to interrupt her.

hiss--!

The moment the other person turned around, Kanzaki couldn't help but gasp.

The other person looked like a woman in her thirties, but because she was very well-maintained, she looked like she was only in her early thirties. Her long silver hair was tied into a high ponytail, which made her look capable while adding a sense of sternness to her appearance.

The white-haired woman took two light steps towards Kanzaki. Her unique lightness, yet steady gait, gave Kanzaki a sense of dignified and noble beauty. That graceful and elegant demeanor was something that an 'assassin' should possess, and it was something that could not be learned simply by imitation.

If you only look at these things, Kanzaki might just think that the woman is a noble lady with some special hobbies.

But when Kanzaki met the white-haired girl's golden eyes, which looked incredibly alluring in the night, he became certain that the woman in front of him was definitely not just an ordinary noblewoman.

But what truly made Kanzaki gasp wasn't the invisible pressure from the other person, but rather...

The other person's face was almost identical to Amane's. If Amane hadn't been lying right next to him and occasionally snoring softly, Kanzaki would have almost thought that Amane had grown twenty years older overnight.

The two figures seemed to gradually overlap in Kanzaki's eyes, especially the suffocating sense of oppression, they were so similar!

Is the person standing in front of me really not Miyako Amane from ten or twenty years in the future?

"Are you..."

"..."

The white-haired woman lightly touched her lips with her finger, making a shushing gesture.

next second.

Ode!

The sound of something cutting through the air was heard in an instant, and the white-haired woman's figure disappeared from Kanzaki's sight, leaving Kanzaki staring in astonishment at the empty space in front of him. Then, almost instinctively, Kanzaki raised his hand to try to protect his right neck.

Snapped! !

A particularly crisp sound suddenly rang out in the quiet of the night.

Kanzaki's features contorted instantly, and it was clear to the naked eye that his face was filled with pain. Kanzaki had no doubt that his opponent had held back, otherwise that one blow would have been enough to tear his hand open.

"what?"

A gasp came from beside me.

Taking advantage of Kanzaki's blink, Marina quickly seized Kanzaki's blind spot, perfectly making herself appear to be almost teleporting. Marina originally planned to use the back of her sword to strike with all her might and knock her opponent unconscious. However, at the moment of striking, she remembered that she had broken a bear's bones with the same blow before, so she quickly dissipated the force, leaving only less than 10% of her strength. But this didn't matter to Marina, because she was determined to win this attack.

But just as the attack was about to hit, the boy somehow knew the direction of his attack first.

It's important to know that only two seconds passed between Marina taking her first step and launching her attack and Kanzaki being hit. This means that Kanzaki guessed the direction and target of the attack before Marina even made her move.

This surprised Marina slightly.

"Please wait, I didn't... I didn't..."

Before Kanzaki could finish speaking, another whooshing sound rang out, and Kanzaki's left neck was struck by the back of a blade that sliced ​​through the air.

"They're using this trick again..."

Kanzaki struggled helplessly for two seconds before his body fell heavily backward. Marina's eyes narrowed, and with a flick of her wrist, she gently tapped the bottom of the scabbard, which supported Kanzaki's falling body.

As Marina slowly released her strength, Kanzaki lay unharmed on the cold ground.

"I thought I'd met a tough opponent, but I didn't expect him to be so easily defeated. What just happened? Was it the Mind-Bending Knife or the Sharp Cut? I didn't expect that a mere high school student could block my knife."

Marina sighed for a while, and just as she was about to stay with Amane a little longer, Marina suddenly realized an extremely serious problem.

Did he just see what I look like?

Marina's gaze toward Kanzaki gradually hardened, and she placed her left hand on the hilt of her sword.

There shouldn't be anyone willing to kill someone to cover it up now...

After noticing a faint red light appearing intermittently on a nearby tree, Marina had to abandon the dangerous idea.

Just as Marina was pondering how to clean up the mess, a sound suddenly came from behind her.

Marina turned around in a panic and ran a few steps towards the school like a startled rabbit.

But after the voice behind her disappeared, Marina couldn't help but turn around and look at Amane.

"Fortunately, he just rolled over, but it's almost dawn, it's time to say goodbye to this child."

Marina quietly walked to Amane's side, pinched the bear skin between her fingertips and covered Amane with it. After taking a long, reluctant look at the sleeping Amane, Marina tiptoed away.

However, what she didn't know was that at that moment, Chairman Fujiwara was sitting in the monitoring room, watching her every move clearly.

"Sigh, this adds to the troublesome work."

Chairman Fujiwara gently swirled the porcelain cup in his hand, then picked it up and drank the black coffee inside in one gulp.

"I should go to sleep too. Thank goodness I have a habit of staying up late, otherwise I would have missed such a good show. But... Marina, how long are you going to hide from that child? Some things, if you don't break through that barrier, you'll never know the answer in your whole life."

Ugh.

Chairman Fujiwara sighed deeply.

Just as I was about to get up and leave, my gaze was drawn to a scene on the surveillance camera.

Amane, who had just been fast asleep, paused for a few seconds while looking in the direction Marina had left, then went to Kanzaki's side to check if Kanzaki had been killed. After confirming that everything was alright, Amane continued to lie motionless on the wood, still wearing the bearskin, as if she were asleep.

"Tsk tsk... I can only say they're truly mother and daughter."

……

"What? Tianyin didn't come home all night? Why didn't you tell us about something so important?"

Horikita Suzune glared angrily at the girl in front of her. Horikita had come early in the morning to inquire about how things were going and whether the strike should continue, but to her surprise, Kushida told her that Amane had not returned home all night.

If Horikita hadn't returned from school overnight, he would have a general idea of ​​what had happened and wouldn't have said much. But this was in the wild! Even though the forest school was less than a hundred meters from the campsite, it was still the wild!

He had even heard that bears and wild boars were seen around. In such a dangerous place, it was obvious that someone might have run into trouble if they didn't return home overnight. How could Horikita not be extremely anxious?

Compared to Horikita's anxious expression, Kushida, leaning against the tent flap support, was much calmer, a playful smile appearing on his composed face as he looked at Horikita.

"Am I obligated to report Amane's whereabouts to you? Besides... if I remember correctly, Amane is your girlfriend, Horikita-kun, isn't she? You don't even know where your girlfriend is? Oh dear, Horikita-kun, you're such a failure as a girlfriend. No wonder Amane was so cruel to me the other night. Eek~ Just thinking about that night makes me blush and my heart pound..."

Kushida's extremely provocative words did not change Horikita's expression at all; instead, they made Shiina and Kamuro blush.

"Hey! Can't you guys discuss this kind of thing somewhere a little further away?"

"I had no choice. I only wore a jacket when I came out. What if I accidentally exposed myself if I went too far away?"

Kushida shyly pressed down the hem of her tracksuit, her two snow-white legs crossed, a posture that made Kamuro frown slightly.

"You look just like..."

"Is it the same as those young girls who can easily flirt with men and earn pocket money?"

"Tsk..."

Kamuro made no attempt to hide her dislike for Kushida, but Kushida seemed completely unconcerned about what others thought of her.

"But Amane likes this kind of thing. Pounce on an innocent girl and Amane will feel guilty, but bullying a promiscuous girl like me allows her to release her stress to her heart's content. This is something you, Horikita, can never do. Instead of wasting time here with me, why don't you hurry up and go to the other girls' tents to see whose warm and soft body Amane was lying in last night?"

After Kushida finished speaking, he ignored Horikita's expression and walked into the tent on his own.

"Horikita-kun..."

Shiina was afraid that Horikita would be angered by Kushida's words and do something rash.

"It's okay. I'm not the same Horikita Suzune I used to be. I'm not that fragile. Since Amane isn't here, I'll go look for her."

"Um……"

After bidding farewell to Shiina, Horikita headed straight for the cabin.

She didn't believe Tianyin would be interested in sneaking into that girl's tent late at night. If that had really happened, it would have caused a huge uproar in various group chats yesterday.

But she didn't hear a word of it.

If Tianyin didn't stay overnight in anyone's tent last night, based on her understanding of Tianyin, the most likely scenario is that she went to dismantle the wooden house by herself.

Sure enough, as soon as they arrived at the cabin, Horikita saw Amane wrapped in something, fast asleep on her tracksuit.

"Tianyin, Tianyin?"

Horikita gently shook Tenon a few times, and Tenon, still sleepy, rubbed her eyes and instinctively snuggled into Horikita's arms.

Horikita did not use any method that could immediately wake Tenon up, but instead let Tenon rub against him until she was awake before pinching her cheek.

"Why don't you go back to the tent to sleep after you've taken it down? It's so cold outside, what if you catch a cold?"

"It's okay, I think I have something to cover me..."

After speaking in a daze, Tenon tried to continue rubbing against him, but this time Horikita didn't let her succeed. He reached out and grabbed Tenon's ear to bring her back to her senses.

"It hurts..."

Amidst Amane's cries of pain, Horikita picked up the things Amane had covered with the night before.

When she saw clearly what Tianyin was covering, her pupils suddenly contracted.

"Tianyin, how did you get this bearskin?"

Horikita looked at Amane with a serious expression. She didn't believe that anyone could cover Amane with a bearskin right under her nose and leave without Amane noticing.

"Bear skin?"

Tianyin stopped her performance of crying out in pain, tilted her head and stared at the bear skin for a moment, then hugged it tightly.

"Waaaaah, what happened to my bear? Waaaaah..."

"..."

Horikita helplessly covered her forehead. She knew that Amane loved bears, but she didn't expect Amane's reaction to be so strong.

"Don't cry, next time I'll take you to the zoo to see real bears."

"Really?"

Tianyin's bright eyes were filled with tears as she looked at Tianyin pitifully.

"Of course it's true."

"Can I keep a bear as a pet in my dorm?"

Chapter 109: Let Me Help You Cool Down

"Tianyin, did you just say something?"

"I'm saying, Rin, we can't exactly keep a bear as a pet in the dorm..."

"Bear? Tianyin, you mean that kind of very large creature that weighs several hundred kilograms, right?"

Horikita squatted down beside Amane, gently tidying up the wood chips and debris stuck in her hair as she asked with a smile.

To outsiders it might seem like a beautiful and harmonious scene, but Amane could sense the 'if you dare answer yes, I'll kill you' in Horikita's smile.

"Yes, we can raise a small one first. Little bears are very cute too~"

"Oh, I see, Tianyin."

"Ok?"

Seeing Horikita waving at her, Amane instinctively stretched her head over, and the next second she was lightly tapped by Horikita with the back of her finger.

"Idiot Tianyin! Are you daydreaming like this? Don't you know that pets are not allowed in the dorm? You actually want to raise a bear? Besides, it's already hard enough taking care of you, and you want to add another glutton to the mix?"