After showering, she came out to find Houtarou already sitting in a chair, his book set aside.
He slightly raised his hand to her.
"So this week's session can begin now." He said, "Thank you again today for providing experience, Kushida-san."
Kikyō: "..."
Having vented her emotions enough, she now decided to be more rational and gather some information.
Judging by Houtarou's gesture, he probably wanted her to sit on his lap. Indeed, she knew that this guy wasn't... such a simple person.
Let's get some information first.
"How do you know about these things?" Kikyō asked with a cute expression.
"I've been reading some books that Ichinose recommended recently." He said honestly, "One of the scenes is where the male lead has the female lead sit on his lap."
Oh. So he got the information from books.
Would Honami read these kinds of books? Kikyō felt she had discovered something surprising.
"And there's also confessing while embracing the female lead from behind and directly doing certain things—"
Oh. Let's not go there. You shouldn't learn these things from books.
After considering for a moment, Kikyō sat on his lap.
Having just showered, sitting on a boy's lap like this created a certain pressure for her. It felt very embarrassing.
Moreover, this time might be different. Last time Houtarou wanted her to take off her underwear.
Undeniably, his insight was keen — quickly recognizing that her emotions were about to break down and deliberately letting her vent. Plus, she had to stay on this island for several more days, so she could continue to release her emotions.
It was indeed good for her. But should she reward him just for this?
She didn't want to. She didn't want to reward him.
"Well... Why did you exclude me from the plan in this exam?" Kikyō asked sweetly as she gently hugged him.
"This is a plan to divide Class D, aren't you Class D's little angel? If you participate in something like this and it's discovered, it would be very bad." Houtarou said.
Oh. I see.
"What about Horikita? Is she okay with being resented by Class D students?"
Kikyō had noticed that in this exam, although Class D had benefited and secured a monthly living allowance of 800,000 yen, Rokusuke had swum to the island alone in advance and insisted on exploring checkpoints by himself. No one else did much of anything.
Still, some classmates would resent Suzune for taking 300 Points and Rokusuke for taking 200 Points of the Class Points as a reward.
Although everyone had agreed to it and benefited from it, the classmates wouldn't be so understanding. Whether it was Rokusuke or Suzune dividing up the Class Points, they would be disliked by the students.
She certainly didn't want to be involved in something that would make people resent her. But she wanted points too.
Was Houtarou only thinking about Suzune?
Oh no. That's not right.
The night before the exam, this guy was with Suzune. He even had her come up with topics for when the two of them felt awkward together — although that lone girl showed no signs of romantic feelings whatsoever.
"Are you dating Suzune Horikita?" Kikyō asked directly, "Or do you like her?"
"Why do you ask?" Houtarou replied.
It felt like this girl was trying to do something dangerous.
Her relationship with Suzune was unique. From his Precognitive Dream, he knew that the toys his future wife's children played with were actually given by Dr. Kushida.
And Dr. Kushida. The only Kushida he knew was this one.
But he didn't believe their relationship could really become that good. Something must have happened in the future.
But right now, Kikyō was definitely hostile toward Suzune. Otherwise, she wouldn't have been kicking the post and cursing her while he was reading earlier.
"Just a feeling." Kikyō said.
"If you're asking about romance, perhaps not." Houtarou said, "But I might marry her in the future. Ten years, no, maybe five years from now."
That's strange. On one hand, he says he doesn't have romantic feelings for Suzune, but then he wants to marry her.
Does that mean he just values the lone girl's looks?
Indeed, Suzune was a top-tier beauty, and even though she seemed cold and unapproachable, there were still guys who thought marrying her would leave them with no regrets in life.
But would you, Houtarou, do the same? Kikyō felt this deserved a question mark.
Whatever the case, by saying this, he must be interested in Suzune.
That's really frustrating. So he really was trying to gain experience from her, only to end up with that bitch?
Kikyō's initial assessment of Houtarou was that he wasn't good with girls. But this guy seemed to have always had a good relationship with Suzune.
She couldn't imagine that girl doing the same things she was doing.
"Damn Suzune." She thought. She decided to make the first move.
After all, Houtarou's demands were becoming more and more excessive. Was she just going to be his experience points?
But couldn't this situation also be understood differently?
For example, if Suzune and Houtarou got married in the future, wouldn't that mean the bitch would be wearing a "green hat"?
Thinking this way, under his attention, unfastening her bra didn't seem so difficult anymore.
Because Kikyō believed this was definitely something Suzune couldn't do during their school years.
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Some time later, Houtarou and Kikyō walked out of the cabin.
However, the little angel had also contributed some information.
She and Yōsuke usually mediated various conflicts among classmates. Now that Yōsuke had gone to the ship, she needed to take care of the classmates at the campsite. Among the Class D students remaining on the island, there was indeed something she needed to mediate.
Yesterday, during camping, Airi's glasses fell off.
Everyone was shocked. No one expected that she, who dressed so plainly, was actually a hidden beauty. In other words, Airi Sakura was a beautiful girl — a top-tier beauty who could rival Suzune in looks.
This had been exposed, and given the girl's timid personality, she must be very troubled now.
Houtarou thought to himself.
Although he still wanted to control Class D, he could arrange to mobilize the Class D students he knew.
But the introverted and timid Airi couldn't accomplish much. Yet completely ignoring her would be pitiful too. If something happened, it would become even more troublesome.
And with her beauty exposed, she was probably already being harassed.
No wonder staying at the campsite wasn't comfortable, and several male students from Class D were willing to stay behind. Perhaps they wanted to take this opportunity to confess to her.
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Meanwhile.
"45 minutes have passed."
The homeroom teachers of the four classes were still on the beach. All four of them looked confused.
A Class A student and one from Class D had clearly discovered the 41st checkpoint.
But... They should have seen the card reader too. Yet no one went back to find their class leader to swipe the card.
This was very strange. The checkpoint was worth 50 Reward Points — they could directly get a 50 Class Points reward if they could keep it. That's 5,000 Private Points per month!
Did they not want it?
According to Class A's situation, they seemed to have divided the checkpoints with Class D, obtaining 5 checkpoints. They weren't swiping any more checkpoints. The rest were all given to Class D.
So for Class A to get one more checkpoint would be very profitable. Yet they didn't want it?
As for Class D, at around 2 o'clock, Rokusuke had swiped Class B's vegetable garden checkpoint after Class B had swiped Class C's remaining checkpoint. Class B had to relocate overnight.
Their morale was crushed. The teachers already knew this.
This also showed that Class D's Rokusuke was determined to score high this time. He wouldn't give up a single checkpoint.
But now, after discovering a new checkpoint, Class D didn't want it?
Instead, these two stayed in the cabin together for an hour.
"If they were just observing the surroundings, it would have taken only ten minutes." Chie said.
"Hmm. What were they doing for an hour?" Kazuma said, "I can't understand at all."
No. It's understandable.
For example... an explanation that Tomonari didn't want to guess. That the Class A student and Class D student were a couple.
So in the cabin, they were doing couple things.
Therefore, they didn't go back to tell their classes about this place they had discovered alone. Instead, they used it as a meeting place.
As a result, less than three months after entering school, a couple had already formed.
"Whatever…" Sae said.
Hmm. A completely apathetic attitude.
But...
"...??" Tomonari quickly realized that among the four teachers, only he seemed to be thinking in this direction.
No, to be specific, he was the only one who was married.
Speaking of which — Kazuma, didn't you date women before?
Although you returned to school because you were scammed by a woman, were you completely deceived? Perhaps now you couldn't even imagine the possibility of a couple meeting in secret?
And so, despite being Class A's teacher, at this moment Tomonari's thoughts were far from proper.
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By this time, Houtarou and Kikyō had already arrived at Class D's campsite.
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