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

Kusanagi even chose to leave the club and give up archery, which she had persisted in for several years.

In that battle, Tianyin demonstrated to everyone what genius, talent, and overwhelming strength were.

Many people gave up on themselves in the subsequent special exams because they couldn't handle the psychological blow.

However, as the current champion, Yagami naturally cannot say anything discouraging.

"After this sports festival, I believe everyone will be amazed by your strength, Akiyama, but... that is, someone has to come and challenge you first."

Yagami turned his gaze to the other champions.

They are: Yoshida Aki, captain of the cheerleading club; Miya Hitoshi, captain of the Go club; Sakata Yo, captain of the cooking club; Baba Shota, captain of the judo club; Uesugi Kaoru, captain of the kendo club; and Shiina Hiyori, secretary of the tea ceremony club.

Judging from the names of the clubs, Yagami almost thought that half of them were just there to make up the numbers, like the cheerleading club. How are you supposed to compete?

But then Yagami realized that this was the school's real brilliance. The cheerleading club was obviously competing in cheerleading, and how many people in the school could actually do it? Even if they could, they couldn't possibly do it better than Yoshida, who had won awards. Plus, there were the judges' scores, and these judges were all Yoshida's teachers, so they would definitely be biased towards Yoshida. It would be very difficult for them to lose.

The same applies to cooking and tea ceremony. Is it not cheating to compete on who cooks the best food or brews the best tea? If you insist that these champions cook the best food and brew the best tea, then no one who comes up to challenge them can win.

Just as Yagami was confidently waiting for his challenger, a figure appeared in the challenger's position.

"Next, we announce the mystery challenger for this special challenge: Miyako Amane from Class 2-A! Let's give a warm round of applause to welcome Miyako to challenge our school's outstanding club elites."

After Arisu revealed Amane's identity, he watched Amane's performance with a smile on his face.

When the challenger was Miyako Amane, all seven of the eight champions, except for Shiina who was boiling water, were so shocked that they stood up from their chairs.

"What, are you kidding me?! Is the heavens really going to destroy my Aikido Club?"

With tears welling up in his eyes, Akiyama slammed his fist heavily on the table in front of him.

Yagami stared in disbelief at Tenon's figure. He never imagined that the school's sixth-ranking student would arrange for Tenon to be their opponent.

What did he do to offend that tyrant, the student council president? They even deliberately arranged for him to get beaten up here...

Wait a minute...right! This time he's from the archery club, it's an archery competition, he's not even fighting, what's he afraid of? It's Akiyama and the others who are more concerned.

"I am Miyako Amane from Class A of the second year. Nice to meet you."

Tenon first stepped onto Akiyama's Aikido arena, and after standing in the center of the arena, she bowed slightly to Akiyama to express her respect.

Upon seeing this, Akiyama instinctively returned the greeting to Tenon.

"Round One, Aikido! The match begins!"

"what!!"

No sooner had the referee finished speaking than Akiyama's body crashed through the wooden railing of the ring and slammed heavily onto the grass.

Two medical staff members quickly lifted Akiyama onto a stretcher and left.

This scene caused the faces of the other champions to change. Tianyin had actually cleared Qiushan in just one second. Such a brutal way of clearing the level was beyond their imagination.

Tenon walked up to Iori's arena, glanced at the pale-faced Iori, and walked straight past his arena to the Judo Club's arena.

About a minute later, Tianyin grabbed Machang by the hair and threw him out of the arena.

"Are you deaf to what I said last time? If I see you again, I'll beat you up. You actually dare to come here and cause me trouble. You're really overestimating yourself."

Baba, who was beaten black and blue, burst into tears of grievance. The school had arranged for him to be the champion here, and no one had told him that the person he was challenging was Miyako Amane. If he had known it was Amane, he would never have come even if it meant death.

After successfully defeating the Judo Club, Amane ended up on the Kendo Club's stage.

"I'm Kaoru Uesugi from Class 3-A. Just because they're no match for you doesn't mean it!"

"Uesugi-kun? Where are the medical staff? Come quick..."

Uesugi Kaoru was knocked unconscious by Amane's lightning-fast slash. Amane shrugged as she looked at the wooden sword that had broken in two.

"It's probably just a matter of poor quality. I already held back."

After speaking, Tenon placed the broken sword at Uesugi's feet and walked down from the kendo club's arena.

In just a few minutes, all three arenas had fallen, and the entire playground fell silent.

"Next... the Go club? I'm in a hurry, can I choose a fast game?"

"No, no problem..."

With a clearly tense tone, Gong Renyou suddenly raised his hand and slapped himself, trying to calm himself down.

But looking at his trembling hands, Gong Renyu realized that his mind was in turmoil. Since that was the case, he could only use his best game, checkers.

then……

Gong Renyou only took two steps before being checkmated in 36 seconds.

"You must be an experienced player, right? Why did you make that stupid diagonal move? It's a terrible move that even a beginner might not be able to make. What a waste of my time."

Tianyin shook her head and left her seat in disappointment. As she stepped off the stage, she vaguely heard someone crying behind her.

Well, it must be an illusion.

Oni Island in the stands was preparing to enjoy tea while watching Tenon play checkers with that club elite. After all, even a fast game takes several minutes to finish, which is much more interesting than a game that is over in a second.

To Ghost Island's surprise, the words "decisive kill" appeared on the school's big screen after Tianyin took only two steps.

Watching Ghost Island made me question the meaning of life.

The differences between people shouldn't be this great.

How old is Tianyin? 16? 17? What was he doing at that age? Tianyin was already dominating the school and no one could stop him.

"As expected of the Miyako family's phoenix..."

Besides that, Ghost Island didn't know what else to say.

On the host's platform, Arisu curled her lips. Miyako was a draughts genius that she had finally found, but she didn't know if it was because of too much pressure or a problem with her mind. After making two conservative moves, she was immediately checkmated by Amane. Such a speed of checkmating was quite explosive in the history of draughts competitions. What's more, the two were playing a rapid game and the game ended in a very ugly way in just 36 seconds.

I've truly betrayed his trust. It seems I shouldn't gamble with Tianyin when playing chess in the future.

After Tianyin came down from the ring, she stood in front of the cheerleading ring for a while.

As the champion of the cheerleading competition, Yoshida had witnessed the previous contestants being severely humiliated. When she saw Amane stop in front of her, Yoshida's expression was extremely unpleasant, yet she couldn't refuse Amane's challenge.

"Miyako-kun... are you going to challenge me to a duel?"

"Well, I've never learned cheerleading, is it still okay for me to take on this challenge?"

Tianyin asked hesitantly.

It has to be said that the school's arrangements were actually not problematic. For example, the cheerleading exercise directly touched on Tianyin's blind spot. She knew quite a few social dances, but she had never learned cheerleading. Neither assassins nor young ladies should have been taught cheerleading.

Upon hearing that Yoshida had not studied Tenon, his eyes lit up.

"It's okay, cheerleading is very simple and easy to learn. If you're worried, Miyako-kun, I can perform first."

Cheerleading competitions require judges to score the performances. In a typical ring competition, the challenger performs first, which gives the reigning champion a significant advantage. However, Tianyin doesn't seem to know that cheerleading is a sure-win situation. As Gaoyu's best cheerleader, what difference does it make if she performs first?

"Then I'll have to trouble you, Yoshida-senpai."

"No problem~ Let Miyako-kun enjoy our energetic and passionate dance moves, music~"

Five minutes later.

"It's really easy to learn at a glance. Thank you for your hard work, Yoshida-senpai."

Tianyin wiped the sweat from her forehead and left the cheerleading stage with a big smile.

It's not that Yoshida's cheerleading was bad, or that the judges didn't favor Yoshida. Rather, Amane increased the difficulty of her cheerleading routine countless times, and even when coordinating with several girls she had never met before, she managed to complete the routine with a higher degree of accuracy than Yoshida. Not to mention, her continuous somersaults and spins when she jumped left the judges speechless.

With that hang time, why aren't you playing basketball? Are you here doing cheerleading?

"Hey, isn't this Yagami-senpai? Kusanagi, she..."

"Tianyin! Let's have a duel!"

"Blind shooting at a 20-meter moving target, each person shoots ten arrows, and the one with the highest score wins. The competition begins!"

Just as Yagami drew his bow, a series of rapid-fire explosions rang in his ears.

"Miya, Miyako Tenne hit the bullseye ten times out of ten, total score one hundred... Yagami-kun, do you want to continue?"

The referee glanced at Yagami, whose bow had fallen to the ground, hesitated for a moment, and then asked.

"it's over…"

Chapter 273: Shiina Hiyori's Challenge

"It's over... I lost."

Upon hearing Tenon's score, Yagami decisively chose to give up. Even if he fought hard, the result would only be a draw. Perhaps other students and school leaders would think that being able to draw with Tenon was already quite an achievement.

but……

Yagami's initial reason for choosing the 20-meter blind shooting event was not because he was good at it.

Rather... only in this way could he have a chance to end in a draw with any challenger. From the beginning, he had no intention of winning or losing any match on this stage.

If Arisu hadn't thought blind shooting at a 100-meter moving target was simply a pipe dream and forcibly changed it to 20 meters, this arena would probably have become a nightmare for all challengers and... the last place where they could salvage some dignity.

From beginning to end, Yagami never imagined that he would lose on this stage, and he couldn't believe that someone could blindly shoot at a 20-meter moving target and choose to fire rapidly without any hesitation. Without thinking or using any means to identify the position of the moving target, he just shot all the arrows at the target.

Yagami didn't know whether Amane's perfect score was due to predicting the target's trajectory or she was just lucky, but the perfect score had extinguished all his arrogance.

"The bow is already drawn, how can you release an arrow into the air?"

Tenon removed her blindfold and looked at Yagami, who had already admitted defeat but was still in a bow-drawing posture.

"I don't know if I should shoot this arrow. I've already lost the match. Whether this arrow hits or misses is meaningless in terms of the result. So... should I shoot this meaningless arrow?"

Yagami, somewhat bewildered, asked in the direction from which the voice of the Heavenly Sound came.

Amane did not answer Yagami's question immediately. Instead, she hung the bow on the stand before speaking.

"Senior Yagami, do you like archery?"

"Of course I like it, my dream is to be the best archer in all of Japan... Sorry, it's kind of funny that I'm spouting nonsense in front of my junior after losing the match..."

Yagami's body gradually contracted, and the taut bowstring was gradually de-stressed.

"Dreams... If a person is unwilling to face failure, then there is no way they can become number one. People must hone their skills by constantly falling and getting up, and only then can they keep moving towards their dreams. A person's dream is not a goal, a person's dream has no end. If you, Yagami-senpai, really love archery and are willing to dedicate your life to pursuing it... you shouldn't have asked me such a stupid question just now."

As the saying goes, once the arrow is released, there's no turning back.

After Tianyin finished speaking, she jumped off the stage and walked towards the stage behind her.

Suddenly, the referee's voice came from behind.

"Iori Yagami! Ten rings!"

Amane smiled and continued walking towards the last two arenas. One was for Sakata Yao, the head of the cooking club, and the other was for Shiina Hiyori from the tea ceremony club.

……

Ok?

Tenon took a few steps back and passed by the tea ceremony arena again.

"Hiyori, what are you doing here?!"

Amane only then noticed that there was an old acquaintance of hers in the corner, but when did Shiina join the tea ceremony club? Amane had no recollection of it at all.

"Could it be... Tianyin, you're only noticing me now? Didn't I clap for you when you were doing cheerleading?"

As Shiina spoke, she clapped her little hands cutely.

However, Tianyin's expressionless face clearly indicated that she most likely hadn't seen it.

She sighed softly at the blank look on Shiina Amane's face.

Shiina, a student who dislikes being in the spotlight, originally had no intention of becoming the champion of any special challenge, but Arisu approached her and asked for her help, saying that this sports festival was a grand spectacle to showcase to foreign guests, and if the school couldn't gather eight champions for the special challenge, it would definitely lose face in front of the foreign guests, etc...

Well, none of these words were the reason to move Shiina.

What truly moved Shiina was Arisu's promise to get an autograph from a mystery novel author she had always admired after graduation. For an educational family like the Sakayanagi family, getting an autograph was a very easy thing, so Shiina willingly became their errand boy. However, what Arisu didn't tell her was that the special challenger she had been looking forward to for so long would actually be Amane.

If I had known it was Tianyin...

Shiina recalled her conversation with Marina, in which Shiina had assured Marina that even though their punishments had been cancelled, she would still carry them out in her own way.

Let Tianyin take the initiative to confess his feelings to her.

So if Shiina had known earlier that the special challenger was Amane, she would have dressed up more carefully. Although Shiina doesn't care much about dressing up, she was quite surprised when she and Airi went to drink milk tea together and saw that Airi, who usually does not dress up and even deliberately hides her appearance and figure, actually started to dress up.

After questioning Airi, Shiina realized just how incredibly complicated things had become for the girls around Amane.

Shiina felt that although she didn't care as much about appearance as Airi and the others, since Amane liked cute girls... it wouldn't be a bad idea to dress up a little.