Kaguya-sama: Love Is War wants me to turn myself in.

What happened to your leg?

Hayasaka Ai said nonchalantly, "It's nothing, I just got bitten by a mosquito."

"Such a big scar, and you say it's from a mosquito?" Amamiya Natsuki looked over calmly and said in a deep voice, "Let another mosquito bite me and I'll see."

Hayasaka Ai: “…”

“It was a jellyfish.” Hayasaka Ai pursed her pink lips and said softly, “We encountered a jellyfish while we were kayaking, the wind and waves were really strong.”

No matter how careful you are, accidents can still happen. Natsuki Amamiya didn't explain why she shouldn't be careful, but simply said softly:

"Does it hurt?"

Hayasaka Ai: "...It hurts a little."

Amamiya Natsuki said, "Why didn't you tell me?"

"What can I say?" Hayasaka Ai retorted irritably. "Since you came ashore, you've had so many girls around you, you perverted senior. Do you think I have the right to speak?"

"Are you jealous?"

"Tch, I'm just a maid anyway, I have no right to be jealous."

Amamiya Natsuki whispered, "A maid wouldn't let her master lick her feet."

Hayasaka Ai blushed slightly: "It's all because you're such a pervert, senpai! You actually managed to do it!"

Natsuki Amamiya felt no shame whatsoever: "I've done even more perverted things, want to try them out?"

"Pooh!"

A blush quickly spread across the spy maid's fair, jade-like cheeks, like a touch of rouge spreading across her face. She seemed to have thought of something, and exclaimed, "You perverted senior, get away from me! If you really do something so disgusting, you can forget about ever kissing me again! Not anyone else either!"

Amamiya Natsuki pondered, "What about Kaguya?"

Hayasaka Ai hesitated for two seconds: "...Even the young lady can't!"

Amamiya Natsuki said, "You hesitated just now."

"Shut up!" Hayasaka Ai glared angrily. "Pervert senpai, take your hand off right now!"

"Don't move." Amamiya Natsuki's right hand remained on Hayasaka's thigh, kneading and rubbing it, as she said seriously, "I'm helping you treat and relieve your symptoms."

Jellyfish are indeed poisonous, but generally they are not fatal. There are no terrifying marine creatures in the waters around the island of Osaka that can directly poison a person to death. The reason why Kaguya's extreme challenge is dangerous is that she is not allowed to go ashore once the challenge begins and must stay in the sea.

An ordinary person stung by a jellyfish will immediately come ashore, but a challenger cannot come ashore and will be constantly attacked by jellyfish, which is the real danger.

As Amamiya Natsuki spoke, she helped Hayasaka Ai treat the scars on her legs.

The healing hands were quite effective; as Amamiya Natsuki continued to massage and rub, Hayasaka Ai felt the stinging pain in her legs quickly dissipate.

"Senpai, it's okay now, it barely hurts anymore..." Hayasaka Ai whispered, "The young lady will be here soon."

"Don't worry," Natsuki Amamiya said, "Kaguya doesn't take a bath that quickly."

After swimming at the beach, you'll have a faint smell of seawater on your body, and the seawater isn't exactly clean. For people with obsessive-compulsive disorder about cleanliness, swimming always makes them feel uncomfortable.

So Kaguya Shinomiya wasn't on the shore at the moment; instead, she went to a hotel to take a bath.

The bench fell silent for a brief moment.

The sound of the waves crashing quickly became clear.

After a while.

The spy maid suddenly squeezed her legs together, her pretty face flushed, turned to glare at Amamiya Natsuki, and gritted her teeth as she shouted:

"Pervert senior! You better stop now!"

Amamiya Natsuki looked innocent: "What's wrong with me?"

You have the nerve to ask!

Hayasaka Ai was so angry she wanted to bite someone after hearing that.

Even though the jellyfish sting had stopped hurting, he kept rubbing and kneading it. I endured it without refusing, but this guy went too far and even tried to move his hand up... How could I let him get away with it!

"Stop talking nonsense! Take your hand out now!"

Hayasaka Ai blushed and issued an ultimatum.

"I like the flower guard."

Saying "I like you" a thousand times won't work! I won't let you get your way!

"Tsk~"

Amamiya Natsuki pulled her hand away. "Does it still hurt?"

"It doesn't hurt anymore." Hayasaka Ai pressed her legs tightly together, her pretty face flushed as if on fire, and glared at him with embarrassment and anger, "You perverted senior, hurry up and leave, or I can't help but want to kick you."

"Then I'll go?"

"Hurry up and go."

Amamiya Natsuki pretended to stand up: "In that case, I'll go find Kaguya and take a bath together."

"...Come back here!"

Hayasaka Ai gritted her teeth and pulled Amamiya Natsuki back again.

You just bullied me, and now you're going to bully the young lady? Doesn't your conscience hurt?

"Then I'm not leaving," Natsuki Amamiya said with a smile. "I want to eat ice cream."

"for you."

Hayasaka Ai handed over the ice cream.

Natsuki Amamiya didn't open her mouth, but said, "As a maid, shouldn't you be responsible for feeding them at a time like this?"

"I've already..." Hayasaka Ai started to say, but quickly realized the correct way to feed him and couldn't help but lean back, "I don't want to! You perverted senior!"

Amamiya Natsuki said without changing her expression:

"I just suddenly remembered that I haven't had you feed me yet. We're going to do a crane challenge tonight, just in case..."

Before she could finish speaking, a hand suddenly reached out and covered Amamiya Natsuki's mouth.

A fragrant breeze wafts through the air.

The spy maid suddenly stood up and straddled Amamiya Natsuki's lap, her pretty face tense as they met eyes.

"Fool."

"Idiot senior."

"What nonsense are you talking about!"

Rarely seeing Hayasaka show such genuine emotion, Amamiya Natsuki paused slightly, then reached out and wrapped his arms around the girl's slender waist, saying gently:

"I'm sorry, I take back what I just said."

"It's too late to apologize now."

Hayasaka Ai raised the half-eaten ice cream to her mouth, took a bite, then wrapped her arms around Amamiya Natsuki's neck and leaned in close.

To be honest, the ice cream was really delicious.

After Chika and the others returned from swimming, they went back to the hotel to shower and freshen up before going to the restaurant for dinner.

After dinner, it was already past nine o'clock in the evening.

"It's raining outside." Kaguya Shinomiya suddenly frowned.

Upon hearing this, everyone looked out of the restaurant.

The streets were deserted, and the light rain had already dampened the ground.

"Owner……"

Shayu bit her lip and looked over with worry, completely unwilling to let Amamiya Natsuki take any risks.

Natsuki Amamiya remained calm and said:

"The weather agency had already predicted rain, so it's okay... Let's go, we can set off now."

"..."

The group left the restaurant and headed into the rain, heading directly to the construction site they had chosen during the day.

Speechless all the way.

The group quickly arrived at the perimeter of the construction site.

Construction workers on the island rarely work overtime overnight, and they have all already finished get off work. The entire construction site is pitch black, except for the warehouse, where lights are on and the security guards can be vaguely seen inside.

Looking up, an 80-meter-high tower crane stood in the darkness, its top no longer clearly visible.

The perimeter wall of the construction site was of no use as a barrier, and Amamiya Natsuki and her group easily entered the site, bypassed the security room, and soon arrived at the base of the tower crane.

"So high."

Fujiwara Chika looked up and felt her neck getting sore.

Eighty meters may not sound like a long distance, just a few seconds' run, but an eighty-meter tower crane is quite tall, especially when standing at the bottom and looking up, it can create a visual illusion.

Natsuki Amamiya stretched, took out his phone, handed it to Chika, and said:

"I'm going up now."

Yukino Yukinoshita silently untied a bag containing white powder: "...Give me your hand."

"Ah."

Amamiya Natsuki stretched out her hands and let Yukino Yukinoshita pour powder into them, then kneaded it.

This stuff isn't lime powder; it's magnesium powder, which is commonly used in professional competitions. Many athletes pat magnesium powder onto their palms before a competition to absorb sweat and increase friction between their palms and the equipment.

Natsuki Amamiya didn't really think she needed this thing, but since Yukino Yukinoshita had already bought it, it wouldn't hurt to use it.

"Natsuki, I'll go up with you," Kitagawa Haimu suddenly said, biting her lip.

Although both are extreme challenges, swimming in waters where jellyfish are present is obviously different in terms of danger from walking on a tower crane in a stormy night.

“I can go up there,” Kaguya Shinomiya said. “There aren’t enough places to stand on the crane.”

“I’ll go up too,” Yukino Yukinoshita said calmly. “Two people will have better balance.”