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Chapter 80 Results Announcement

"Hey, hey, hey, what are you guys from Class B discussing here?"

Just when we were still worrying about the outcome of this game, a man with dark red hair broke into the rest area where our Class B belonged, and let out an extremely discordant laugh.

"...Who are you?"

"Tsk, are you guys so delirious now that you can't even tell who you are?"

"You are... Ryuen?" Kanzaki hesitated for a moment and gave the answer with a frown.

"Kanzaki, huh? You're still a guy with brains."

"What are you wearing..."

"Don't mind. Anyone who lurks on an uninhabited island for five days will end up like me."

"Lurking? Wait, you mean you've been on the island the whole time? Didn't you Class C students give up?"

"Didn't the students in our Class C give up? But I never said that all students gave up, right?"

We originally thought that all the students in Class C had given up on this exam, and Ryuuen's appearance was just to find out the test results of each class. However, it seems that things are not as simple as we imagined.

"Maybe I have misled all of you."

"How is that possible? You're just pretending." Someone in the crowd made an unreasonable sound.

"Wow, you actually have the guts to say such things after seeing me in such a 'disgraceful' state. That's why I said that your Class B is easy to deal with." After saying that, Ryuuen smiled at us contemptuously.

Yes, the Ryuen standing in front of us was not as bright and beautiful as he was at the beginning of the exam. His disheveled upper body was covered with mud, and his sweatpants were soaked in mud, which showed the vicissitudes of life that he had experienced recently. His hair was unkempt and his beard looked like a homeless man who was over 50 years old and spent the night on the street.

This look doesn't look like the result of someone giving up on the exam and spending five days on the boat.

"Even if you stay on the island, what can you do? Hasn't Class C already lost the exam?" Because we couldn't stand Ryuuen's arrogant attitude, we fought back.

"Ha, what are you talking about? I've been enduring this exam with all my might."

"Don't be ridiculous. Didn't you spend all the 300 points reserved for the exam on the second day of the exam? Even if you continue to occupy the camp, it won't be enough to make up for the loss."

"You guys are kidding me. Who would risk their lives just to gain a few points by occupying a camp? My goal from the beginning has been to become the leader of all the classes."

"W-what......"

"Really? Didn't you understand yet? By the way, it's a pity that I didn't see the scene of your class B crying just now."

"What on earth do you want to do here?" Shibata-san stretched out his hand to block us and looked at Ryuen with a serious face.

However, Ryuuen didn't care about the attempt to dissuade him from the fight. Instead, he became even more arrogant. "What do I want to do? Of course I want you losers to cheer for my victory."

"What does your victory mean?"

"Even after this explanation, you still can't understand?"

"If you insist on harassing our students, we don't mind taking countermeasures."

"Tsk, so boring." After saying that, Ryuen curled his lips and took out two green cards from his still intact trouser pockets. These were the special unlocking cards needed for this exam to update the base. However, due to the strong reflection of the sunlight and the overlapping of the cards, we could not clearly see the leader's name engraved on the special unlocking card.

"You should understand when you see this thing."

"The initial target was the leaders of each class... You can't be that guy!" Shibata suddenly realized something, and stared at Ryuen with his pupils wide open in disbelief.

"Well, I put a lot of effort into these two special unlocking cards. Although there is still one A-class card missing, fortunately the candidate is not uncertain. This should be the one for your B-class."

"I'm really sorry, I can't really tell it apart because it's blocked by the mud." Ryuuen said, casually shaking the card.

"You just found it by accident in the wild. There's nothing to be proud of."

"Haha, you found it in the wild? It seems that you didn't realize my tricks from the beginning to the end. Should I say that you guys in Class B are all a bunch of good guys, or are you all a bunch of idiots? Until now, you haven't doubted Kaneda, who I sent undercover in your class."

"How is it possible that Kaneda-san wasn't driven out by you using violence? You—Kanzaki?"

Just as Shibata was about to get angry, Kanzaki put his hand on his shoulder, motioning him to calm down, and then turned his head away.

"As expected, you asked Kaneda-san to steal our class's special unlocking card."

"What are you talking about, Kanzaki deputy classmate?"

"The self-torture trick works pretty well, doesn't it? You're convinced after just a little bit of manipulation."

"This, how is this possible?"

"Is that really the case......"

"From your expression, you seem to have doubts about this matter."

"Kanzaki?"

Regardless of the surprise of the students around him, Kanzaki nodded and said, "The inexplicable damage of equipment, the loosening of hammocks, the loosening of tent nails... I am more or less concerned about it."

"In that case, you must be the one who set up the 'safety' on the unlocking card. Unfortunately, your strategy was too easy for us to see through."

"asshole!"

"There's no need to be so angry. Don't worry, not only the leader of your Class B has been identified by me, but Class A and Class D will not be spared either." Ryuuen stated the result proudly, but this is a fact that we are simply unable to refute.

Ryuuen casually glanced at the defeated Ichinose, then turned his gaze to me standing beside him and smiled in a bored manner.

"You can't even keep an eye on your own special unlocking card. It seems that you are just a bug who follows you."

The bug that follows you around...is there any special meaning behind it?

"Shut up, you are not qualified to judge the students in our class!"

"Hahaha, I'm not qualified? Just open your eyes and watch my victory." After saying that, Long Yuan smiled and walked away from us.

"I can't stand that bastard!" Bai Niao pretended to rush up and punch him in the back, but I held him down.

"Don't be impulsive. If you act now, you might lose all your points and even have to pay compensation."

"Aren't you angry when he said that to you?!"

"There's no need to get impulsive over these few words. It's not like I haven't been criticized before."

"You are really..." Bai Niao looked at me speechlessly and finally stopped.

"But having said that, the leader of our class has been completely seen through."

"Yes, the special unlocking cards are in their hands, that's right."

"I didn't expect that it was Kaneda-san who stole the special unlocking card in the end."

"That bastard, we still care about him so much, and Captain Ichinose even helps him a lot."

"What a bastard!"

"Since it was Kaneda-san who stole it, there's nothing we can do about it. Class leader Ichinose should not take it to heart... Class leader Ichinose?"

We pushed the responsibility of all the problems onto Kaneda, hoping that Ichinose could pull himself together again, but after we said this, we saw that Ichinose's face became strange again.

"Everyone... did you see the name on that card..."

"The name on that card? What's wrong?"

"Maybe I saw it wrong...but the name on that card doesn't seem to be Chihiro's. It seems to be...my name?"

"Eh? Isn't that Shiranami-san's name?"

"But the leader of our class is Shiranami-san, right? We can't change the leader unless there are special circumstances."

"So, I guess I saw it wrong..."

Ichinose looked at Ryuuen leaving with a puzzled expression, and even now he still held the card tightly in his hand as a trophy.

"Also, what did Ryuen mean by the special unlocking insurance on the card? Have we made any modifications to the card?" Kanzaki added.

"No, not really."

"Then this is-"

Ji--the sound of the loudspeaker button being turned on echoed throughout the beach, and then Teacher Mashima appeared.

After making sure we didn't have to line up, I found a shady spot and sat down.

I can't see anything here because Ichinose and the others' figures are well blocked.

Even though they were not in formation, the tense atmosphere remained the same, and students chatted about exams and daily life.

Everyone was holding their breath, afraid of missing anything.

In short, there shouldn’t be a series of surprise inspections in the future. Although there is such a possibility, at least for now I really don’t want to face it.

I have some other things I need to confirm.

"During this week, we, the faculty, have really seen how hard you all worked on the special exam. Some people took on the challenge head-on, while others put in a lot of effort to take the test. Although the forms were varied, overall, I think the results were excellent. Thank you for your hard work."

"I will now read out the results of the special exam. Even if students in each class have objections to the exam results, our faculty will not accept them again. We guarantee that there were no errors in the point integration and statistics phase this time. I hope that students in each class will accept the results themselves, analyze them, and use them for the next exam."

What this sentence means is that we should face the reality. This world is really as cruel as I imagined.

Including the extra points, the score our class can get is about 210 points. But will the result be different from what we expected?

I glanced at Ryuen, and he was still laughing and joking with the students in Class D.

"Then I will announce the rankings of the special exam next."

"The last one is -- Class C at midnight."

"Haha! Is this the leader you just mentioned who sees through all the classes? You are indeed Zero Point, don't make me laugh to death." After this news was announced, Sudo, a student from Class D who had met him a few times before, laughed out loud with a voice that covered the entire audience.

The students in our Class B were also bewildered by the result and looked at each other in disbelief.

However, Mr. Mashima did not understand the confusion of many people at all, and continued to announce coldly:

"The third place is Class A with 70 points. The second place is......"

Mr. Mashima was stunned for a moment, then continued speaking.

"The second place is Class D with 175 points."

Because of the difference in points, the students in Class A started to make noises. No one expected the result to be like this. And the students in Class B were also very shocked until the second place was announced, so no one made a sound.

"Then Class B is..."

Teacher Mashima paused again and looked in our direction.

"...One hundred and eighty points, first place. The results are published here."

"One hundred and eighty points..."

"Come to think of it, we were supposed to have 230 points, but 50 points were deducted after Class C identified us as the leader... We didn't expect that we would be the first place, and the second place was Class D, which was only 5 points behind us, and Class A..."

Kanzaki was standing aside, wondering what had happened, and Ichinose was standing in front of me in a daze.

"Why is this happening... I'm sure the class has at most 210 or 230 points... Where did the extra 20 points come from..."

Tsk, it's been noticed, regarding the replacement of gas tanks and other items.

Chapter 81 That’s Why I Hate the Reading System

"Katsuragi! Didn't we agree that there would be no problem?!"

"An exam only gives 20 points. Even if we do nothing, we will at least have 220 class points if we keep our leadership. I need your explanation, Katsuragi!"

Questioning voices came from the A class rest area, and the students surrounded the tall leader. Noisy voices continued to sound, and gradually everyone's words merged together and it became difficult to distinguish what they were talking about.

I have no idea how Class C would react after hearing the results of their class's scores on the cruise ship, but at least Ryuuen, who was alone on the beach, was in a state of absent-mindedness.

The anger of the loser, the praise of the surrendered enemy, the joy of the winner, all of these were lost from Ryuen.

Class D was full of excitement. Although the student leading their team looked a little confused, they still walked past everyone with a proud smile on their faces.

"What a pity! If Ryuen's plan hadn't succeeded, our final class points wouldn't have been only 180."

"But, Kaneda-san is so abominable. We were so sympathetic to him, but we didn't expect he was just pretending." Okabe clenched his fists angrily and looked at the sand on the beach with an unhappy face.

"Don't say that. Although Kaneda-san is an undercover agent sent by Ryuuen, he actually helped us a lot. Even if he tried to interfere with our exams, those were just trivial issues."

"I think he probably doesn't want to do such a thing, but Ryuen's military power is there..."

The interference that Jintian caused to us can only be described as a minor one. If he really wanted to do it, the first thing he would do would definitely be to destroy the water well in our camp.

This well has helped us reduce our water consumption to a great extent. The water used for cooking, bathing and drinking all comes from the well. If it is destroyed, we will lose at least 20 points.

"That's great, Class Leader Ichinose, we're first place."