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If the previous class rankings were divided into three distinct tiers: Class A and Class B were neck and neck, Class D was slightly behind, and Class C was at the bottom, then as the final project progressed, Class D's score immediately began to catch up rapidly.

The 17,000 points (nine plus eight) from wiping out Class A twice were doubled because all members of Class D survived the first day and retained a chance to revive. This allowed Class D to squeeze out Class B, which had performed poorly the day before, and successfully take the second place in the overall class score. Since Class A and Class B were already evenly matched, they were now only less than a thousand points away from Class A, who was in first place.

In terms of group rankings, the rise of Class D has also propelled a number of other Class D groups forward several places. Looking at the top positions, the first place is still the Karuizawa group from yesterday. Although Class B's performance is worrying, Karuizawa Megumi and Sakura Airi still managed to secure their first place. The Shiina group, which scored a whopping 4,000 points yesterday, is closely following in second place. The Katsuragi group, which has not scored in two days, has naturally fallen to fifth place. It has been replaced by the Kitagawa group, which rose from sixth place.

Later on, Ayanokouji's team, which was originally in fourth place, also fell to sixth place due to a lack of points, and was replaced by Sudo Ken's team, which moved up one place.

If Karuizawa group is also considered part of Class D, then that year Class D actually occupied three of the top four spots in the group rankings, which surprised and drew attention from many school staff.

After cornering Class A at the edge of the poison circle, Class D, under the command of Arisu Sakayanagi, began to move. However, it seemed that they had no intention of stopping there like yesterday, and instead charged straight towards E7 in the north.

Perhaps because they wanted to intentionally avoid Class D, who had wiped out Class A twice and was now at the peak of their morale and strength, or perhaps for some other reason, Class B once again clashed with Class C in this increasingly shrinking safe zone, and the two sides quickly entered a chaotic state of firefight.

But unlike yesterday, this time—

Someone came to mediate (in a physical sense).

Chapter 238: The Special Exam on the Deserted Island Ends (6k)

Compared to yesterday's helplessness, today's B and C classes were clearly more experienced. At least they didn't panic and almost empty all their magazines at once, becoming sitting ducks and useless.

Although Class B was outnumbered, they had more students eliminated yesterday, including five who had taken advantage of the school's tents for meals and shelter – a significant advantage over Class C's three. Furthermore, while Class C had more surviving students, most were not at full strength, having been shot once or twice in their limbs, making them more cautious in their attacks. Add to that Shiina Hiyori, who was essentially defenseless, and with Class B constantly on guard against Ibuki Mio's flanking maneuvers, the two classes were evenly matched, with no clear victor for a time.

However, when Class D, whose total number of students already exceeded the sum of the two classes, joined in, the stalemate was broken again. After wiping out Class A, the students of Class D, who only had points in their eyes, didn't care whether you were from Class B or Class C. They saw everyone as a walking thousand points. Under the command of Sakayanagi Arisu, they began to fiercely guard the intersections of several familiar paths and began to search and advance.

With Ayanokouji Kiyotaka having given up on the final task, Kitagawa Ryo, no longer needing to waste time entangled with him, was able to happily begin the solo combat plan he had envisioned from the beginning. With agile movements and accurate marksmanship, he moved through the jungle, mercilessly taking down all the students from Classes B and C he witnessed, and his score soared rapidly.

It has to be said that the helmet, protective mask, and camouflage uniform completely covered up the basic features of each person's face and body. Otherwise, if Kitagawa Ryo were to shoot at familiar faces like Karuizawa Megumi or Shiina Hiyori, it would seem that he would indeed have some difficulty doing so.

The chaotic battle between the three classes lasted until noon that day, ending with a perfect victory for Class D. Afterwards, Kitagawa Ryo immediately tallied the specific results using the score increase on his wristwatch.

On the second day of the final project, Class A of the first year suffered another complete defeat, with all nine members eliminated. Class B of the first year, while also suffering a complete defeat, at least managed to defeat four members of Class C and one member of Class D, earning a score bonus of nearly 4,000 points. The reason it wasn't a full 5,000 points was because several of their defeated opponents were eliminated in the chaos of attacks from the other two classes, resulting in the points being split among them. Class C of the first year had a similar situation to Class B. Ishizaki Daichi and Ibuki Mio's final counterattack also brought them some gains, defeating three members of Class B and two members of Class D, also earning around 4,000 points.

After confirming that only the students of Class D remained in the safe zone of the deserted island, Kitagawa Ryo made a special trip to Sakayanagi Arisu's hiding place, preparing to welcome this well-deserved hero and commander of Class D back to the class's camp.

Since she hadn't done much long-distance travel in the two days since the final project started, Sakayanagi Arisu's physical recovery was much better than in the previous days. In addition, with the conspicuous Amasawa Ichika by her side, she didn't intend to let Kitagawa Ryo repeat the princess carry or horseback riding. She walked briskly beside Kitagawa Ryo while keeping an eye on the two current rankings.

Although it is only noon on the thirteenth day of the special exam on the deserted island, the final task for today has already come to an end since all three classes, A, B, and C, have been eliminated. The special exam on the deserted island is only one day away from today.

Considering that the final deadline for the project is 3 PM tomorrow, there are only seven hours left, from 8 AM to 3 PM tomorrow.

However, even at the last minute before this special exam was about to end, the two leaderboards had undergone a dramatic change compared to before, which perfectly illustrates the saying that the outcome is still uncertain and anyone could be a dark horse.

On the group rankings, after the first day of the special exam on the deserted island, Kitagawa's group finally returned to its loyal first place, while Karuizawa's group dropped to second place. After all, Amasawa Ichika, who possessed the powerful weapon of the Chosen Card, managed to guard Sakayanagi Arisu for two days without scoring a single point, so naturally she couldn't compare to Kitagawa Ryo, who scored like crazy today.

The Shiina Hiyori group and the Sudo group, which also slipped one place, ranked third and fourth respectively. This was mainly because although Class D scored more points in the past two days, due to the large number of people, the members of the Sudo group, who acted with the main group, often only received a quarter or half of the score reward from a certain opponent. They were not as good as Ibuki Mio, who had been scoring almost single-handedly in the past two days.

However, Sudo Ken and the others didn't take it too seriously. Firstly, there was still one day left until the final assignment, and the result was still uncertain. Secondly, something even more exciting had happened: Class D had topped the class rankings.

Although Class D's ranking had already risen to second place when Class A was wiped out again in the early morning, with only a hair's breadth between them and first place, when Class B and Class C of the first year were wiped out one after another, and Class D of the first year was finally ranked first, all the students of Class D who were still holding on on this deserted island couldn't help but burst into a huge cheer in an instant.

Considering that there was still one day left before the end of the special exam on the deserted island, this seemed a bit like popping champagne halfway through, but Kitagawa Ryo didn't mean to spoil the mood. After all, for Class D, who had been suppressing their emotions for almost an entire semester, this was indeed a hard-won honor.

Just as Kitagawa Ryo was getting a little caught up in the cheerful atmosphere of the students at the camp, Sudo Ken, who had somehow appeared behind him, suddenly patted him on the shoulder:

"Kitagawa."

"What's wrong?"

Kitagawa Ryo turned around with a bit of confusion and saw Sudo Ken, who habitually touched the back of his head whenever he talked to someone. Behind him were Yamada Albert and Yukimura Teruhiko from the same group. Miyake Akito was unlucky enough to be defeated by Ishizaki Daichi, who had been sent there yesterday and was now trying his best to atone for his sins, in the melee with Classes B and C that had just ended. He was sent back to the school headquarters to wait for his resurrection at eight o'clock tomorrow morning.

It has to be said that luck is a very mysterious thing, and Miyake's luck has never been very good. Even though Yukimura Teruhiko, who is the weakest in the group, has survived to this day.

"Um, there's something I wanted to tell you."

Although Yukimura Teruhiko seems to be more suitable than Sudo Ken in terms of negotiation, perhaps because of the past ten days of living together in the same group, Yukimura, who was originally somewhat at odds with Sudo, now has no intention of interjecting. It seems that he also acknowledges the performance of Sudo Ken as the group leader in this special exam.

"Well, you said."

"Although I don't know what kind of agreement you made with Shiina from Class C, I mean, no, what our group means is that it doesn't really matter whether we make it into the top three or not, because everyone believes in you, Kitagawa."

Because Kitagawa Ryo had previously arranged for the girls in his class to form a group to help Shiina Hiyori gain points, the students in Class D were generally aware of some kind of mutual assistance agreement between the two, or rather, between the two classes. After seeing that their group's score was almost the same as Shiina's group's in the particularly sensitive position of third and fourth place, Sudo's group was also worried that it might affect Kitagawa Ryo's plan, so they took the initiative to come over.

"Besides, this special exam on the deserted island is already a wonderful memory for us. We even ranked first in our class..."

As he spoke, Takeru Sudo couldn't help but laugh heartily, and Teruhiko Yukimura and Albert Yamada behind him nodded in agreement, with the former even adding a thoughtful remark:

“Ming Ren thought the same way.”

"I see."

Kitagawa Ryo quickly understood why Sudo Ken's group had approached him at this time, and he was somewhat moved. After all, even without mentioning the 100 class points difference between the third and fourth place, each member of the third-place group would receive a full 300,000 personal points as a reward, while the fourth-place group would only receive the minimum of 50,000 personal points, which is the top 50% of the group, just like the fifth, sixth, seventh, and eighth place groups. The difference was still quite significant.

"I do have some agreements with Class C and Hiyori, but the battle plan for tomorrow has already been drafted. Sudo, Yamada, Yukimura, and Miyake who will be resurrected tomorrow, you guys just need to follow my and Arisu's specific commands. Don't worry too much about the rest."

"Yes, Kitagawa, if you say so, then I'm relieved."

After hearing Kitagawa Ryo's words, Sudo Ken and the other two breathed a sigh of relief. They then waved goodbye to him cheerfully and went to help the other students in the class set up their tents.

After nearly a semester of rigorous training, and after a brief period of joy, the students who remained on the deserted island all demonstrated restraint and self-discipline.

Everyone silently munched on the not-so-good-tasting baguettes, half of which came from Ichinose Honami and a few other students' supply cards, and the other half from supplies in the airdrop crates.

Thus, the afternoon and evening of the thirteenth day of the special exam on the deserted island passed silently amidst the quiet rest of the students in Class D.

Each of them saved their grandest cheers for the moment when everything was finally settled, when all their efforts had finally borne fruit, and when they celebrated to their hearts' content in front of all their classmates and their homeroom teacher, Majima Tomoya.

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The morning of the fourteenth day of the special exam on the deserted island.

Perhaps realizing that Class D could still replicate yesterday's strategy and easily trap the other classes just as they emerged from the respawn point, making the final challenge completely unpredictable in a short time, in the final few minutes of waiting for respawn, Kohei Katsuragi, the leader of Class A, finally couldn't resist and walked towards Class B and Class C, seeking temporary cooperation among the three classes, at least to break through Class D's ambush and compete fairly.

As Katsuragi Kohei prepared his negotiation arguments, he approached Karuizawa Megumi and Shiina Hiyori. However, before he could even speak, the two shook their heads in unison, indicating that they were not interested in any of his proposals.

It wasn't until eight o'clock that Katsuragi Kohei, who was leading Class A in their desperate breakout attempt, witnessed firsthand how the students from Classes B and C, who had been relocated to two other areas by the school, seamlessly joined Class D's ambush. Only then did he belatedly realize what was happening.

Although the four classes seemed to be fighting tooth and nail in the final project, from the second half of the special exam on the deserted island onwards, the entire exam situation was actually a battle between Class 1-A and the combined forces of Class 3 and their own internal traitors...

Just as Katsuragi Kohei was feeling utterly hopeless and turned back to look at Ayanokouji Kiyotaka, who was following behind him, as if hoping for a final miracle, he discovered that the other man was flamboyantly charging forward with a paintball gun, and like a passerby, he was shot several times in the face and fell cleanly to the ground like a traitor.

With mixed feelings, Katsuragi Kohei was once again beaten into a human rainbow, three times over, and Class 1-A was soon wiped out again.

"Alright—now it's time for some fun scoring."

After the entire Class 1-A left the stage, Kitagawa Ryo, who was in the center of the defense line, clapped his hands, took off his protective mask, and announced the early end of this final project in a lighthearted tone.

Then, he began to systematically arrange for the students in each class to start working on the last bug in the final project, which wasn't really a bug.

According to the school's rules, students' final scores on the final assignment will be doubled based on the number of revival opportunities they retain. However, the last revival was at 8:00 AM this morning. This means that it doesn't matter if the D class students who survived until now are defeated at this point in terms of doubling their total score, because whether they are defeated or survive until the exam ends at 3:00 PM, they still retain two revival opportunities, and the doubling will be doubled.

"Hiyori is first, we are second, and Megumi is third. That's how the group rankings are set."

Based on the rankings that the group had agreed upon beforehand, the leaders of the three classes began to divide the cake in an orderly manner.

"If we're going to rank the groups last, Ryuen will be in last place. Then we'll move the last-ranked group in Class A, I think it's Totsuka, to second to last. As for third and fourth to last, Hiyori and Megumi will each take one spot."

After quickly organizing the group rankings, Kitagawa Ryo shrugged and said helplessly:

"There's nothing we can do about the class rankings. Class C is just too far behind the rest of the class; it can't be made up for by a single final project."

"It's okay, it's already good that the class points increased in the end."

After mentally calculating the increase or decrease in class points, Shiina Hiyori smiled serenely. Karuizawa Megumi next to her nodded in agreement, as Class B would also benefit greatly from this allocation plan.

"Okay, once Arisu and I have calculated and organized the specific process, we can start scoring."

After another half hour of busy work, Kitagawa Ryo and Sakayanagi Arisu, who had looked up from their drafts, compiled a detailed process sheet based on the scores of all the groups. Under the joint arrangement and announcement of the three class leaders, accompanied by commands such as "Please send one person from Sudo's group to shoot three shots at the limbs of Shibata's group" and "Please send one person from Shibata's group to shoot one shot at the chest and abdomen of Ishizaki's group," the scores of each group began to rise and fall according to plan. The eliminated students chatted and laughed as they voluntarily followed the school staff to area D9 to change clothes or take a shower, waiting for the special exam to end.

In no time, only three groups remained on the field.

"Finally... please have one person from each of the Karuizawa and Shiina groups shoot two times at each of the four limbs of any one member of the Kitagawa group to eliminate them. That way, the three groups can face off against the first, second, and third respectively."

As soon as Kitagawa Ryo, who was acting as the guest host, uttered those words, the three people standing behind him, Sakayanagi Arisu, took a step back in perfect unison, laughing without hesitation as they sold their group leader status to Shiina Hiyori and Karuizawa Megumi, who were coming up with paintball guns.

Kitagawa Ryo, who felt that this scene was somewhat familiar, quickly recalled a scene from a few years ago. It was after the three of them, who were still elementary school students, finished performing a stage play called "The Little Mermaid." It was a very beautiful and memorable memory for him after his rebirth.

Karuizawa Megumi and Shiina Hiyori seemed to have also recalled this incident, so the two of them took turns aiming their paintball guns at close range, one on each side. Under the slightly complicated gazes and speechless twitches of the school staff who had already disembarked from the helicopter, they fired their paintballs together, accompanied by a simultaneous cold snort from both of them:

"Scumbag—"

Colorful paintballs spread across Kitagawa Ryo's shoulders like fireworks, and he once again cooperated by lying back on the ground, raising his hands to surrender with a slight smile.

His gaze traveled upwards through the transparent protective mask, where large clumps of white clouds casually nestled in the azure sky, and a seagull flapped its white wings.

The special exam on the deserted island has now concluded.

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"Now, I will announce the results of this special examination. Please note that we will not accept any questions regarding the results. The school hopes that you will accept the results yourselves, analyze them, and use this information in the next examination."

Although the teacher in charge on the podium was trying very hard to read the prepared speech in a serious tone, considering that the students below the stage already knew the final result in advance through their respective watches, the speech still felt a bit like a pretentious attempt to create mystery.

Of course, for the class that succeeded in this exam, they probably wouldn't get tired of hearing these words no matter how many times they heard them.

"Group ranking first: Shiina Group, members are Shiina Hiyori and Ibuki Mio. Each of them will gain one million personal points and will also add three hundred class points to their class. Since Shiina Hiyori has met the trigger conditions for her special card 'Double Blade', the three hundred class points will increase to four hundred and fifty."

"The second-ranked group is the Kitagawa Group, whose members are Kitagawa Ryo, Sakayanagi Arisu, Horikita Suzune, and Ichinose Honami. Each member received 500,000 personal points, and their class received an additional 200 class points."

"Third place in the group: Karuizawa Group, members Karuizawa Megumi, Amasawa Ichika and Sakura Airi, each of them received 300,000 personal points, and their class received 100 class points. Since this group is a mixed group, Class B and Class D each received 50 class points."

"Last in the group: Longyuan Group, member Longyuan Xiang. Because the student possessed and chose to use a special card to revive, the expulsion penalty is invalid."

"Second to last in the group: Totsuka Group (Class A), member is Totsuka Yahiko... The class will have 200 points deducted from its score."

"Third to last in the group: Manabe Group (Class C), member is Manabe Shiho... The class will have 100 points deducted."

"Fourth from the bottom in the group: Sumida Group (Class B), member is Sumida Makoto... The class has 50 points deducted from its score."

After reading out the group rankings, the teacher in charge took a short break before continuing with the class rankings:

"Ranked first in class: Class D, Grade 1, gain 300 class points."

"Ranked second in class: Class B, Grade 1, gain 100 class points."

"Ranked third in class: Class A, Year 1, deduct 100 class points."

"Ranked fourth in class: Class C, Year 1, 300 class points deducted."

"After this special exam, the class scores for each class are as follows:"

"Class A, Grade 1: 248 points (originally 548 points)."

"Class 1B: 601 (formerly 501)."

"Class 1-C: 322 points (originally 272 points)."

"Class D, Grade 1: 550 points (formerly zero points)."

"Since Class B's points have surpassed those of Class A, Class D's points have surpassed those of Class C, and Class C's points have surpassed those of Class A, Class A will be downgraded to Class D, Class B will be promoted to Class A, and Class D will be promoted to Class B. Please be aware of this."

This seemed to be the first time we'd encountered a special exam where three classes had swapped seats. The school staff thoughtfully re-listed the classes according to their current class rankings.

"Class A, Year 1 (formerly Class B): 601."

"Class B (formerly Class D): 550 points."

"Class 1-C (formerly Class C): 322 points."

"Class D (formerly Class A): 248 points."

Just as the school staff were about to smile, clap their hands, and say a few words of greeting like, "The exam has ended smoothly, everyone has worked hard," they suddenly heard another teacher in charge shout:

"Help! The homeroom teacher of Class A—no, Class D, Ms. Chazhu, has fainted!"

"...Hoshinomiya, the homeroom teacher, has also fainted!"

I need to take a day off to work out the plot outline.

Finally, the deserted island is over. To be honest, I breathed a sigh of relief when I finished writing it yesterday. This long chapter actually originated from something I said when I was writing about Karuizawa Kei's second mock exam, something like, "I hope the next deserted island special exam will be better than this one." So when I was arranging the outline for this deserted island exam, I did start by writing a long story, trying to involve and highlight the main characters from all four classes (A, B, C, and D), and I couldn't leave out the romantic storylines and the power struggles with other classes. In the end, I created this long, perhaps somewhat tedious, story.

Of course, I take the blame and stand at attention. The poor quality of this piece is also largely due to my own interruption of updates. I apologize to all readers again.

But regardless, I still quite liked some of the little scenes on the deserted island, and I will continue to use the feelings and inspiration from that time to create subsequent stories. I definitely won't have such a long special exam again.

So, let's begin our first-grade summer vacation routine!

Chapter 239: Which venue should we book for the two of us? (5k5)

Because of the little incident where both homeroom teachers, Chabashira Sae and Hoshinomiya Chie, fainted, the originally jubilant atmosphere was slightly dampened. The students from the former Class B, who had just been promoted to Class A and hadn't even had time to celebrate, were still very concerned about their beautiful homeroom teacher. They rushed over to check on her and, together with other school staff, hurriedly lifted Hoshinomiya Chie onto a stretcher and carefully escorted her to the infirmary on the cruise ship.

Although the original Class A was a step behind, everyone knew that their homeroom teacher's inability to catch his breath was definitely due to the class's performance in the special exam on the deserted island. Therefore, each of them felt guilty and circled around the group, as if they had finally found an excuse to quickly escape from this place. Under Katsuragi Kohei's command, they somewhat awkwardly carried their homeroom teacher and followed behind the original Class B's group.

Just two weeks ago, these two groups of students were in Class A and Class B respectively. Unexpectedly, after just one special exam, their identities and rankings were completely reversed. One group rose to the top, while the other fell into the abyss, becoming A and D respectively.

After Class A and Class B left in a hurry, the atmosphere on site immediately returned to a happy mode. After all, Class C and Class D can be considered the winners of this special exam, especially Class D, which finally unleashed its accumulated strength.

Although on the surface Class B of the first year was promoted to the new Class A through this special exam, it was clear to everyone that Class D, which obtained 550 class points, was the undisputed biggest winner, considering only the amount of class points gained. After all, Class B and Class C only obtained 100 and 50 class points respectively.