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

Furthermore, since the competition was being broadcast live, Sato was curious to see what kind of expression Ayanokouji would make when she heard that the person she liked was Hirata Yosuke.

Unfortunately, it seems that the participants have to go to a special venue, and Sato couldn't help but feel regretful at the thought of not being able to see Ayanokouji's devastated expression.

"Sato-kun, do you really want to take on this special challenge? There are other uses for paper..."

"Really, I remember I allowed you to call me Maya before, right? As for the method you mentioned, I know it too, but it seems that you can only ask one question per piece of paper, and you can't ask any question. You have to use two pieces to specify one question, right? I know which is more profitable, one question or ten questions."

Sato's words left Hirata speechless for a moment.

Isn't this clearly aimed at him?

A normal person would want the quiz game to end as quickly as possible, so why is Sato still thinking about who can ask more questions?

Does she really not intend to cover it up at all?

……

A luxurious ward located in the Miyako family's private hospital.

Hayasaka, as always, stood outside the ward with breakfast in hand. Hayasaka, who should have brought the breakfast into the ward as soon as possible and told Amane to eat it quickly, was looking at the note stuck outside the door with a strange expression.

"Just leave your breakfast and lunch outside the door when it's mealtime. No one is allowed to enter the room without my permission."

Hayasaka carefully compared the handwriting and confirmed it was indeed Amane's. But... she clearly remembered not seeing the note when she woke up in the morning. When exactly did Amane stick it on?

Hayasaka knew that Kiryuin had stayed overnight here yesterday, but no matter how much fun he had yesterday... he couldn't skip meals, otherwise his body wouldn't be able to handle it.

"Miss Tianyin, I have something to report to you."

Hayasaka said, then gently knocked on the door.

"I'm not available right now."

A slightly hoarse voice came from inside the room.

Hayasaka, standing outside the door, immediately turned strange upon hearing the sound. She hadn't expected that her screams yesterday would be so loud…

"wrong!"

Hayasaka pushed open the door without saying a word.

"Miss Tianyin?!"

Hayasaka rushed to the window and immediately raised his hand to shield his eyes.

"Hey!! Hayasaka, didn't you say it was inconvenient?"

It wasn't Amane who spoke, but Kiryuin, who was completely naked and wrapped in a blanket, who reprimanded Hayasaka.

Hayasaka, who had covered his eyes, instinctively apologized to Kiryuin after hearing his reprimand.

"I'm so sorry, I was just worried that something might have happened to Miss Tianyin..."

Hayasaka could vaguely see through her fingers that someone in pajamas was lying next to Kiryuin, but with their back to her...

Recalling the sound from just now, Hayasaka's face suddenly darkened.

"Miss Kiryuin! Don't you have anything to explain to me?"

Looking at Hayasaka's eyes, which were practically spitting fire, Kiryuin shrugged helplessly.

"Sigh, I told you this trick wouldn't fool you, but Tianyin just wouldn't believe me."

Kiryuin turned the 'person' next to him over, and when he saw that the pajamas were stuffed with rolls of toilet paper, Hayasaka was furious.

"Was this Miss Tianyin's idea? But how did she leave here? Only I and the security guard downstairs have the key cards to ride the elevator, how could she..."

Hayasaka's gaze quickly swept across the room and finally settled on the balcony window. In an instant, Hayasaka's eyes widened, and then she rushed to the balcony window.

A makeshift rope, made of strips of quilt cut into pieces and tied back together, was clearly tied to the balcony railing. The other end of the rope was thrown out of the window. Hayasaka broke out in a cold sweat at the thought of how high up the building was. Although it wasn't a very tall building, if Amane had left in the dark, there was a risk of an accident. At this height, a fall could easily kill a person. She never imagined that Amane would actually escape in such an predictable way.

The reason it was expected is because Hayasaka had discovered this loophole long ago. She even tried to prove that it was indeed possible to escape from here. But the problem was that she couldn't find a reason for Amane to escape. There was food, drink, and various services provided, and someone would accompany her at night.

Why did she run away?!

Hayasaka couldn't understand this problem, and perhaps the answer could only be found when Amane returned, but before that, Hayasaka needed to face another problem.

Should she truthfully report to her superiors that Tianyin escaped from the ward?

If he didn't report it, he might lose his life if something went wrong. But if he did report it... he might be targeted by Amane. Hayasaka was caught in a real dilemma.

"Damn it! Miss Tianyin, you've really given me a huge... Ah!!!"

Before Hayasaka could finish speaking, he felt a sudden pain in the back of his neck, and then everything went black, and he completely lost consciousness.

"Hehe, I got the elevator card."

After groping Hayasaka all over, Amane proudly showed off the elevator key card in her hand to Kiryuin.

"Tch, I didn't expect Hayasaka to be so stupid. I even gave her hints, but she still lost."

Kiryuin, true to his word, got out of bed, cupped Tenon's face, examined her carefully for a long time, and then kissed her deeply.

a long time.

Kiryuin, still not satisfied, was reluctant to part ways.

"Go quickly, and remember not to tear your clothes, because I need to wear them back."

"Then I'll be going now~ mua~ By the way, Maple, when did you shave your head clean?"

Chapter 163: The First Eliminated Player

"Sae~ Since you're free tonight, why don't you come with me to a place closer to the sea?"

"No way! I have a mission to supervise and execute special challenges, how can I leave here without permission? Besides, the beach isn't far from here, you can get there in just a few minutes' walk, right?"

Chabashira tried to shake her arms twice, but still couldn't get Hoshinomiya off her like an octopus. She was just going to the beach to see the scenery, but she insisted on taking her along. Could this little girl be crazy about men?

"Huh? Who goes for a walk on the beach alone at night? Besides, Saeko, you yourself said the beach isn't far from here, so you can get back immediately if anything happens. If it really doesn't work out, we can go after eight o'clock. Special challenges aren't allowed after eight o'clock at night~"

Hoshinomiya, with a smug look on her face, tried to persuade Chabashira by bringing up the rules of the quiz game, while also winking at Chabashira.

"Can't you just ask someone to come with you for something like this?"

Seeing Hoshinomiya's suggestive gestures, Chabashira knew that Hoshinomiya's offer to accompany her for a walk on the beach was actually a ploy to find a secluded place for Chabashira to drink with her.

The school does not restrict teachers from purchasing alcohol, but during special exam periods, in order to prevent accidents from happening that prevent students from contacting their class advisors in time and ultimately lead to tragedy, the school has strictly prohibited teachers from drinking alcohol.

Although the special test wasn't a formal special exam, it was still quite strict. Chabashira didn't have much of a need for it and was able to control herself, but Hoshinomiya was different. Hoshinomiya had a love for alcohol but had terrible drinking habits, so she found it very difficult to suppress her cravings. She would often sneak out by herself to have a little drink, and although she wouldn't be discovered, she still found it hard to satisfy her cravings.

Therefore, whenever Hoshinomiya wants to sneak out for a good drink, she will call Chabashira along, so that Chabashira can keep her from doing anything embarrassing while drunk.

"I can't just ask anyone to accompany me for something like this. If someone reports me, I'll lose my bonus again this month. Wait, why did I say again? Besides, aren't all the homeroom teachers here male except for you, Saeko? What if I space out and do *that* with a guy? Saeko wouldn't really want me to *do that*, would she?"

Hoshinomiya looked pitifully at the tea pillar.

However, Chashu's expression hardly changed.

"If that's the case, it might be a good thing. It would save you from numbing yourself with alcohol every day. By the way, aren't you really planning to find someone? Even just dating someone first..."

Before Chazhu could finish speaking, there was a knock on the door.

Chazhu sighed helplessly and looked towards the door.

"See? I told you I'd had a lot of trouble all day. If all else fails, you should drink less tonight. How about we get drunk together when we get back?"

Seeing that another student had come to see Chabashira so soon, Hoshinomiya knew that Chabashira had been very busy these past two days and would definitely need to rest well at night, so she wouldn't have the energy to get drunk with her. She could only nod in disappointment.

"Then you go ahead and do your work, Saeko. I'll sneak out for a drink tonight. Honestly, I was thinking of having a good drink tonight..."

After greeting everyone, Hoshinomiya opened the door for Chabashira.

When Hirata saw Hoshinomiya at the tea shrine outside the door, he quickly greeted her.

"Hello, Ms. Hoshinomiya."

"Oh, it's Hirata-kun. You're looking for... Chabashira, right? She's inside, just go find her yourself. I'll be going now, bye~"

"Okay, Hoshinomiya-sensei, take care."

Hirata looked at Hoshinomiya-sensei, who was full of energy and acted just like a high school girl, and felt envious. How wonderful it would be if he could still keep a pure heart when he grew up? But such a thing was probably just wishful thinking for him.

"Hey, Hirata, Sato, what brings you two here?"

When Chabashira saw that the people who came to see her were Hirata and Sato, she was a little surprised. She really couldn't understand why the two of them would appear in front of her in such a strange combination.

"Chabashira-sensei, Sato-kun likes to have special challenges with me, so we'd like to trouble you to arrange one for us."

Special challenges?

Now, Chabashira looks conflicted whenever he hears this word. The reason for his conflict is that he is pleased to be able to gossip about the students, but he is also dissatisfied with the warning he received from the school's higher-ups. It's just that they turned a blind eye to the question review, is it really necessary to have such a big reaction?

Because the school leadership emphasized the protection of privacy, the special challenges that followed were not allowed to be too explicit. How could she listen to gossip and gossip then?

Just as Chashu was pondering whether there was a way to skirt the rules, Chashu suddenly realized a problem.

She remembered that Hirata and Sato were holding mostly slips of paper with the word "question" on them. If that meant starting the special challenge would involve answering questions non-stop, what else was there to see?

Considering that their special challenge wouldn't offer anything worth watching, Chabashira decided to skip the live stream segment and just let them do the problems anywhere.

"No problem, you two come with me."

After Chabashira finished speaking, he walked out of the room and headed into the distance. Hirata and Sato quickly followed behind Chabashira. But to their surprise, Chabashira took them to the parking lot at the foot of the mountain and then drove them back to the forest school.

Although he hitched a ride, Sato was still speechless at this behavior.

"If I had known the special challenge was going to take place at school, Yosuke and I would have just waited here for Chabashira-sensei, wouldn't we?"

Chabashira didn't care about Sato's complaints. She knew that Hirata's campsite was on the playground of the forest school. It wasn't easy for the two of them to come down from the mountain, and now she was taking them back. It made people feel like they had made a wasted trip, so it was understandable that they would complain a little.

But what really bothered Chabashira was Sato's way of addressing Hirata.

She couldn't remember when Sato and Hirata's relationship had become so good. Recalling the messages she saw in the group chat, Chabashira had already roughly guessed what the current situation was between Hirata and Sato in just a few blinks of an eye.

'No wonder Hirata agreed to this troublesome and torturous competition format.'

Unlike the special challenge where both sides hold slips of paper with the word "Answer," the challenge begins when both sides hold slips of paper with the word "Question." This is an unlimited question-and-answer challenge with no time limit. Instead of using the number of slips of paper with the word "Answer" to answer questions, both sides compete for the highest score based on the number of questions answered.

The purpose of the question slips is to add more questions to the other person's question and to create custom questions. A random question is one question slip, while a custom question requires two question slips.

It seems much easier than asking each other ten questions, but many people overlook the fact that the result of this competition is determined by points. Both people have to think about how to use the question paper under the premise that the school keeps giving them questions. Even if you use two question paper to ask a custom question, as long as the other person answers enough questions, they can choose not to answer by deducting points. In this way, the person who uses the question paper first will accelerate their defeat.

In addition, although the questions are supposed to be unlimited, once the score difference between the two players exceeds five points, the judges will ask the other player if they want to continue answering questions. Knowing that they cannot win, the losing side will often choose to concede.

Therefore, the special competition with unlimited quizzes was not as exciting as one might imagine, with its back-and-forth exchanges.

Before long, the three arrived at a classroom in the forest school. The staff inside were already prepared and, upon seeing the contestants enter, began to take out a large number of pre-prepared questions and subject names and walked towards the two.

"Before the competition begins, you can choose a subject. If you don't have a subject you're particularly good at, you can choose to choose a mixed subject. This way, the difficulty of the questions will be slightly lower, but the types of questions will involve various subjects."

When preparing the questions, the school also considered the possibility that students with average grades might participate in this special competition, so they specially prepared a mixed-selection format.

"I'll choose mathematics."

Hirata didn't hesitate much and chose math directly. Sato, standing next to him, stared blankly at the thick sea of ​​questions in front of her, feeling a little helpless for a moment.

"Wait a minute, I seem to remember that in my competition with Yosuke, we were supposed to set our own questions, like Horikita did... I've never heard of having to choose our own questions before."

The staff in front of them were also taken aback by Sato's words, because they were only responsible for providing the props for the physical fitness test according to regulations, and they were not very clear about the specific content of the physical fitness test. Therefore, after hearing Sato's question, they all looked at Teacher Chabashira.

"Sato, didn't you listen carefully to the rules I read out on the playground? Horikita was in a special challenge where he had to have three answer slips. Look at the slips of paper in your hand now."

Chabashira's dissatisfied tone made Sato sense something was wrong. She quickly flipped over her paper, and all three of them were questions. This answer was obvious, because Sato knew from the beginning that she had three questions in her hand. However, she did not know that to play the Horikita-style question-and-answer game, she actually needed three answers.

"But...Yosuke!"

Sato realized he was in trouble and couldn't help but look at Hirata beside him.

Hirata, who was originally kind, suddenly revealed an utterly cold indifference in his eyes.

"Sato-kun, this is the special challenge you wanted. Quickly choose a subject you like and let's start answering questions."

"Yosuke! What are you talking about! Didn't we agree to cheat together?"

As soon as Sato uttered the words, he knew something was wrong and quickly covered his mouth.

But it was too late; Sato could speak carelessly without thinking.

However, Chaba couldn't pretend he hadn't heard in front of all the staff.

"Sato-kun, is what you just said true?"

"Of course not! I just misspoke..."

"Are you still trying to fool me at this point? I'm warning you, Sato, you must answer my questions truthfully from now on, or I will have the right to disqualify you from the special exam."

Chazhu's tone became stern.