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

“I think Miyako’s plan is feasible. Although our class has the largest number of members this time, most of them are girls. It would be a bit difficult for them to build a food warehouse by themselves, and there is also the possibility of encountering dangers and accidents. If they get injured here, it basically means they will be eliminated. But if everyone lives together, they can help prepare food or build campsites, which is not a waste of labor.”

"I also think it's feasible."

Ji Ye nodded. Although most of the students selected for the special exam were boys, unfortunately, these boys were more academically inclined and had limited ability to perform physical labor. Rather than having them take on the construction plan of an entire granary, it would be better to hand them over to more professional people to direct the construction of a larger granary.

"Wait a moment!"

Just when all the classes had reached a consensus, Kamuro, who had been silent all along, suddenly spoke up, interrupting their conversation.

"Kamuro-kun, is there something you want to say?"

"What kind of question is that? Isn't it a given? Why would I interrupt you if there wasn't something else? Although I agree with this plan, don't let the topic get swayed. The plan we were asking about isn't just about everyone building a granary together! I think Tianyin, your purpose in allowing Longyuan to become the commander isn't just to make it easier to integrate the second-year students, is it? Longyuan didn't authorize Tianyin to freely purchase goods, and it doesn't seem like that was unintentional... it seems more like Tianyin might not need this function..."

Kamuro successfully drew everyone's attention back. Whether it was Hashimoto, Kanzaki, Himeno, or Shiina, they were all waiting with curiosity for Amane's answer.

"Of course, I wouldn't give up my position as the commander of the main force for such a small matter. The joint construction of the granary that I just mentioned is only the first step in the plan. The reason for building the granary in advance is to buy more precious time. During the day, both sides should have ways to know each other's movements, especially the whereabouts of some key members, which will definitely become the first target of the other side's observation, such as me."

Tianyin pointed to herself.

"I know that I will be monitored after the special exam, which will completely restrict my actions. If I do anything strange, the first-year students will definitely increase their vigilance accordingly, which will affect my real plan - capturing the flag!"

"This special test seems to have many possible winning conditions, such as defeating all the enemies or getting more points than the first-year students... But the fastest way to win is to steal all the opposing flags. However, stealing four flags at once is extremely difficult, almost an unrealistic fantasy. Four flags mean that the opposing class is also defending their flags. With so many defenders and the ability to use long-range paintballs, even if I wanted to escape unscathed, it would be very difficult. Therefore, we can only launch a surprise attack when their flags are scattered to have a chance to steal them. So the question is, under what circumstances will these flags be separated?"

A strange light flickered in Tianyin's eyes, a sign of confidence. It meant that Tianyin had found a solution, but she didn't choose to reveal it directly, probably to test their abilities. If they couldn't even answer a question that already had a solution, Tianyin might look down on them and find a reason to deprive them of the opportunity to discuss tactics. Therefore, the participants from the other classes quickly began to seriously think about how to deal with this tricky situation.

Shiina was the first to react. She got inspiration from the warehouse building that Amane had mentioned at the beginning, and thus realized the trick Amane was going to use.

"According to the special exam rules, each class's flag can only be moved three times, and once the flag is put down, it cannot be moved for a day. However, if members of their own class want to check in, they must be in a place where the flag is. Based on this information, we can know that the only chance to capture their flag is tomorrow. As long as we can take advantage of the rule that all classes must build warehouses, they will definitely have to build warehouses to ensure food supply. And the fact that the number of first-year students is less than ours means that their defensive strength will decrease once they are scattered. This will give us the opportunity to defeat them one by one. However... the most important problem right now is... how can we prevent them from choosing to unite as a group to survive like we have? There is no reason why the first-year students should not have thought of the methods we can think of."

Through her accumulated knowledge, Shiina quickly deduced the steps of the entire plan clearly. Amane's plan can be described as simple and practical. Considering that the students involved in building the granary separately might choose to temporarily keep the flags by their side for convenience when checking in, Amane judged that after a day of physically demanding work building the warehouse, the first-year students' vigilance would be at its lowest. Even those who remained vigilant would likely be exhausted and prone to carelessness. At this time, Amane could launch a surprise attack, and if she was lucky, she might be able to give the first-year students a shock on the first day. If the plan succeeded, it would greatly boost the morale of the second-year students while simultaneously damaging the morale of the first-year students, achieving two goals at once.

However, this plan has one fatal flaw: how can Tianyin ensure that the first-year students will not unite to build the granary collectively, but instead choose to dilute their already small number of students and let each class build the granary separately?

If this condition cannot be met, Tianyin's surprise attack plan will obviously have no chance of success.

Fortunately, Tianyin had already made the necessary preparations.

"Of course I've considered this issue. Tomorrow, when we arrive at the site, we'll play rock-paper-scissors to decide who gets to choose their campsite first. There are only two campsites: one is a flat area on a mountaintop, and the other is a campsite in a treacherous area surrounded by four small hills. As long as we win the rock-paper-scissors game, the plan can be executed smoothly. However, even if we lose the game, it won't matter too much."

"Because...they'll walk right into the trap themselves."

Chapter 182: Do you know Marina?

"trap?"

Everyone looked at each other in bewilderment, and even Long Yuan looked puzzled, as Tianyin had not shared any information about this with him.

However, Longyuan quickly put the matter out of his mind. Since Tianyin was so confident, he decided to leave it to Tianyin to handle. Others might not know, but Longyuan was well aware that in order to ensure the perfect conduct of this special exam, the student council mobilized many volunteers to participate in the early preparation of materials, and to be responsible for the construction of warehouses and accommodations at the special exam site on rest days, as well as to simulate some necessary actions to ensure the safety of the special exam.

This means that the student council must have internal documents related to this special exam, and even secret information such as topographical maps. Currently, Sakayanagi Arisu is the student council president, responsible for the logistical support of the student council and this special exam. At the same time, due to health reasons, she is unable to take the special exam and is instead overseeing the live broadcast matters at the High School Student Council. Heaven knows how many backdoors Sakayanagi has opened for Amane. It is not surprising that she privately disclosed some special information to Amane in advance.

"This plan was originally proposed by Miyako, so he must have already made preparations. To prevent the specific plan from being leaked, none of us are allowed to interfere with or question Miyako's plan. However... there are a few capable guys among the first-year students, so something might happen. If the flag capture plan fails, try to eliminate as many of the opposing boys as possible before retreating. Don't let them leave you behind."

Long Yuan solemnly instructed Tian Yin.

In Longyuan's eyes, even all the first-year classes combined are not as important as Tianyin. Unless the first-year students are willing to pay the price of failure to get Tianyin to leave the stage, Longyuan might consider it. But replacing Tianyin with a few trashy students is absolutely unacceptable to him and the entire second-year students.

"Don't worry, unless the other side mobilizes their entire force, I won't be so easily captured."

Tianyin's slightly arrogant words did not cause any dissatisfaction; on the contrary, they brought a smile to the faces of those who had witnessed Tianyin's true strength.

It's just that this special exam had a paintball elimination system; otherwise, relying solely on the abnormal physical abilities of characters like Amane, Albert, and Kito, they could easily have easily passed it.

Don't be too stubborn.

Horikita's trust in Amane far exceeded that of others, including Ryuen. She had no doubt about the truthfulness of Amane's words. However, Horikita was more worried about Amane's personal safety than about letting her fight alone outside.

Amane's strength was not only known to them, but also to the first-year students. Therefore, Horikita predicted that the other side would do something against the rules to Amane at the beginning of the special exam, such as changing the projectiles to stones. The school rules stipulated that only those who hit three paintballs would be eliminated. That meant that no matter how many stones Amane was hit by, the other side would not violate the rules. Even Amane could only suffer in silence.

Horikita could come up with such a method on a whim, let alone if the first-year students had made careful preparations. Even Amane would probably not be able to act carelessly.

"I knew Rinne cared about me the most~"

Amane was about to give Horikita a loving kiss, but when she saw everyone around her looking at her, she awkwardly sat back down. Although she wasn't afraid of kissing in public, Horikita wasn't as shameless as her. She didn't want to be assigned to sleep in a sleeping bag alone during the special exams.

That would be far too tragic.

"Ahem, now that the flag-capturing task has been handed over to Miyako, we need to discuss the use of special points. We have a total of 1550 special points at the beginning. The fixed points we can earn each day are 40 points from the four flags plus 225 points from the 75 people who check in three times a day, for a total of 265 special points per day."

As soon as Ryuen finished speaking, Hashimoto's face lit up with joy.

"We can earn so many points every day? Doesn't that mean that if we save a little, each class will receive a huge amount of class points after the special exam?"

Hashimoto's statement was what the others wanted to say, but only Ryuen frowned slightly.

"Hashimoto, if you were the school's leader, would you allow the class points between all classes to grow unchecked and insanely?"

Ryuen's questioning left Hashimoto completely bewildered. He knew the school wouldn't let this situation continue. After all, according to Ryuen's report on the point growth, one could earn 265 special points per day, which would amount to 7950 special points per month. If you added the 1555 special points allocated at the start, that would be a total of 9500 special points. Even if half were spent for various reasons, there would still be 4750 special points. If these were divided equally among the four classes, each class would receive 1187.5 class points. This meant that after a special exam, each second-year student would gain an extra 100,000 personal points per month, which was undoubtedly an astronomical sum.

The reason why schools are confident in using points as currency is because they have enough real currency as collateral. However, if the school's points inflate to a certain extent, it is foreseeable that the school's individual points will depreciate significantly, the prices of goods will rise rapidly, and the internal financial system built by the higher education system over the decades will collapse overnight.

Therefore, anyone with a bit of common sense knows that the school's higher-ups will definitely try every means to suppress the rate at which all classes gain points. They might even deliberately arrange some tests that the top classes are not good at, or provoke conflicts between the top classes so that they can use a compromise approach to severely punish the two classes. While deducting a lot of points, this also makes the two classes more competitive, which is what the school wants to see.

However, this time the situation is different. The grade-level confrontation means that the opponent will absolutely not give you time to accumulate points. The reason is simple: if the opponent can accumulate a lot of class points and then win in one go, the class's interests will be maximized. But how could the opponent let you win so easily?

If the first-year students choose to defend themselves rigorously, and use a large number of special points to purchase reinforcement materials from the manual to build a mountain fortress, it would be almost impossible to breach by manpower alone. In the end, both sides could only be forced into a stalemate, which would come down to a contest of special points. Unfortunately, the special points of each grade were hidden from each other, and without knowing the exact number of special points the other side had, no one dared to gamble on this longest and most uncertain way of ending the battle.

With first-year students as their opponents, they naturally don't need to worry about their points increasing indefinitely without being consumed. So why did Longyuan specifically mention this point?

"The school will naturally not let the points grow indefinitely, and the first-year students will also try to consume our points in various ways. But it is a fact that the points are increasing, isn't it? As long as we manage the consumption well, saving a lot of points is almost a certainty."

Hashimoto naturally didn't believe that with several hundred special points increasing every day, each class wouldn't even get a few hundred special points in the end.

"The method you mentioned is only part of it. There are some things you can't avoid no matter how hard you try, like the daily bento boxes. A single bento box requires one special point, so 75 people would require 75 points. I'll calculate it as two meals a day, which is 150 points. It means we have to use up more than half of our naturally growing points just to eat two meals, and we can only earn 115 special points a day. It seems like we still have a lot of leeway, right? After all, the numbers are still increasing. But do you know how many tissues and other consumable items seventy-odd people will use in a day?"

Ryuen glanced at Hashimoto with a mocking expression.

"After all things considered, our daily income will remain basically unchanged or even decrease slightly. I know you all want your class to get more points, but if you're hoping to gain the right to share this huge pie through naturally increasing special points, then I can only say that you're just daydreaming. Obviously, the school has already anticipated that some people might try to drag things out to get more special points, and has therefore specifically limited the growth rate of special exams. And without knowing how many special points the first-year students have left, we didn't dare to gamble on whose last card is the biggest."

Ryuen's explanation made Hashimoto sigh softly.

He had originally planned to make a lot of points to speed up his plan, but now it seems that it's already pretty good that Class B got any points after this special exam.

As for Class D, they seemed indifferent. Since their class score was already at the bottom, they might get some points if they were lucky, but it wouldn't matter much if they didn't. With Tianyin around, nothing unexpected should happen... right?

After observing the expressions on the faces of those participating in the discussion and realizing that they truly understood the troubles faced by the second-year students, Longyuan began to discuss with everyone the specific details of how to use the special points.

Some points can be saved, but some cannot. For example, the simple portable toilets cost 50 points, but Longyuan still bought four at once, using them as two men's toilets and two women's toilets.

Then there were two simple gas-heated bathrooms, followed by tents and sleeping bags, then canned food and some mosquito repellent for the night, etc. When everyone saw the conspicuous 498 special points on their balance, a look of helplessness appeared on their faces.

At first, I was trying to save money, but in the end, I ended up wanting to buy this and that.

However, their points are clearly insufficient to support their continued shopping. If they run out of special points now, the second-year students will be at a significant disadvantage if anything happens during their confrontation with the first-year students.

After purchasing the necessary supplies, the meeting came to an end. The main purpose of Longyuan's meeting with all class leaders was to discuss the allocation and use of special points.

Despite the occasion, Long Yuan did not show any stinginess and was quite generous in buying things, which slightly improved the attitude of Class B and Class D, who had always had doubts about Long Yuan.

As soon as the meeting ended, Ryuen left Shiina, who had been standing silently behind him, standing there, and then quickly left on his own, whether to confirm an order or because of some urgent matter.

"Aren't you going back with Ryuen, Hiyori?"

Amane looked at Shiina, who was now alone, and asked curiously.

The class leaders for the second grade have already started heading to their respective classes to try to explain the rules to everyone before the special exam.

Perhaps because the exams were being conducted in a mountainous area, the prices of school supplies were worlds apart from those on the uninhabited island.

Although the daily food expenses for second-year students are high due to the larger number of students, the low price of just a few points is enough to shut up any students who feel it is unfair.

Because this information is so important, and because the venue allocation will begin tomorrow for the special exam, there is not much time left for students to discuss before the competition, and the leaders of each class are not in the mood to stay here.

But Ryuen just left Shiina here. Could it be that she forgot about her? Ryuen seemed to have glanced at Shiina quickly before leaving, so it's impossible that she forgot. The most suspicious thing is that there was no sign of dissatisfaction on Shiina's face, which is enough to show that she was not dissatisfied with Ryuen's behavior.

Could it be said that he hadn't forgotten? Ryuen left far too decisively, as if he hadn't noticed at all that he had left his class's second-in-command in the square. If Shiina had deliberately stayed here to say something to her, Amane could understand why Ryuen acted as if he had already anticipated that Shiina would stay.

"There are some things I want to tell Tianyin privately..."

Shiina slowly approached Amane and gently requested that Amane meet with her alone to talk. However, although she was making a request to Amane, her gaze remained fixed on Horikita.

Shiina knew very well that Horikita was the key obstacle if she wanted to be alone with Amane.

Horikita glanced at Shiina and then waved his hand dismissively.

"Remember to come back for lunch."

"Okay, I know~ Bye-bye, Rin~"

After waving goodbye to Horikita, Amane looked again at the hesitant Shiina in front of her.

"Hiyori, we've gotten along so well, you can just say whatever you want without beating around the bush, and I won't get angry."

Tianyin finished answering first.

"really?"

"Of course it's true."

"Amane, do you know Marina-san?"

"???"

Chapter 183: Eat her up!

"How did you come to know this name, Hiyori?"

Amane was incredibly surprised that Shiina could call out her mother's name so readily. If she remembered correctly, her mother used the pseudonym Kiryuin... uh... something else, when she was in high school.

Even if Shiina thought Marina and Amane looked very similar, and conducted a deliberate investigation, it would be impossible to get the name out of Marina.

"It was during the last special training session that Marina took the physical fitness test in place of you and me..."

Shiina briefly recounted to Amane the story of how she teamed up with Marina last time and how she lost the quiz game with Marina.

It must be said that although Shiina often gives the impression of being good at using clever tricks when dealing with things, she is a bit too honest in everyday interactions.

She even explained in detail how she lost. Amane deduced the real culprit in Marina's murder case based on just a few words from Shiina. However, seeing that Shiina was still troubled by the case, Amane decided not to tell Shiina yet. After all, only by letting Shiina uncover the mystery herself could her abilities be improved, and it would also make Shiina feel more accomplished.

Yes, it's definitely not because I thought Shiina looked cute when she was troubled that I deliberately didn't tell her. It's definitely not like that!

However, Tianyin did not expect that her return to participate in the special exam involved so many things.

Even the school actually came up with a loophole in its own rules to get her into the special exam in compliance with regulations. It's quite remarkable, considering that she could easily handle all these exams with her abilities. Tianyin was still quite surprised by the school's attitude.

"Did you want to meet with me alone that day because you wanted to tell me something? Or...did you want to explore the mysteries of life with me?"

Amane walked towards Shiina with a wicked grin.

"Please, please wait a minute! I didn't come here to discuss life with Tianyin, I just, I just..."

Shiina was startled by the way Amane's restless little hands, which were like clawing lobsters, waving around in mid-air. She quickly took several steps back to make sure she was at a safe distance before cautiously trying to explain, afraid that Amane would pounce on her and devour her before she could even speak.

"Hey~ Hiyori, you're acting a little strange today."

Seeing that Shiina didn't seem to be joking with her, Amane also put away her mischievous smile. Shiina must have something to say to her since he came to talk to her alone today. If he just wanted to ask about Marina, Shiina shouldn't have hesitated. Amane hadn't shown any doubt about the name Marina at all, which clearly meant she knew Marina. Therefore, if Shiina wanted to ask about Marina, he could have just asked directly.

What else could it be besides Marina?

Amane was confused and puzzled. Shiina immediately asked Amane if she knew Marina, and everything he talked about was related to Marina. If Amane said that what Shiina wanted to tell her had nothing to do with Marina, she would never believe it.

Shiina noticed the change in Amane's expression. She knew she had to muster the courage to do what she had promised Marina. It was just delivering something; Shiina Hiyori, you can definitely do it!!

Shiina recalled how she felt when she gave Amane a gift before, tried to adjust her mindset, and then took out a small, completely black bag from her pocket and handed it to Amane.

"This is something that Ms. Marina asked me to give to you, Amane."

"Mother...cough cough, is it for me? Are you sure, Rihe?"

Tianyin looked at the small black bag in her hand with some doubt, unsure of what to do.

In terms of personality and character, Amane believed what Shiina said, since there was no point in Shiina lying about such a thing.

only……

Amane and Marina had already met.

That's right, Amane met Marina when she returned to school on July 2nd to prepare for the final exams. Marina even treated her to bear paws and wild boar meat from who-knows-where. During this time, Marina didn't mention at all that she had anything she needed Shiina to give her.

That's strange, but since I already have the items, I can open them and the mystery will be revealed.

Tianyin opened the small black bag, inside which was a talisman-like blessing plaque engraved with various blessings... well, let's ignore the "many children, many blessings" part for now.

Amane carefully put away the amulet first, and then opened the note that Marina had left for her.

Upon opening it, the words "can be eaten" were written on it, which startled Tianyin. She then quickly took out the talisman, but it didn't look like something edible at all... After a few quick mental steps, Tianyin flipped the note over.

The records at the back contained all sorts of information about Shiina Hiyori, including her measurements, personality, hobbies, strengths and weaknesses. Even her thought process was deduced by Marina, and she even left a strategy guide specifically for Amane...