Absent from the fifth round were: Takeshi Kuzan, Hirakibo Tatsu; these two being third consecutive winners and for those that are two wins now, Lus Sera, Nasha Sana, Toharoh Tsudo, Mayabashi Hinagiku, Ryousuke Kawahara, Hajime Hyunda, and Rikishima Ikkiri. Returning to this round, however, are: Gale Iris, Kitsuya Arkalee, Hiroyoshi Sagasuga and Kaneta Tateyana.
Furthermore, two students that had been locked away for an hour were now back too: Izayoi Akimiyashika and Kyoko Yukishiro.
At the current moment there are 12 students, though in theory, it should only be 11.
"Hm..." He looked at the crowd of the criminal students "Introduce yourself, will you now?" Basara wasn't liking how long he was taking to speak "Aren't there supposed to be 24 students? I'm only seeing 11 right now..." He stood high on the podium alongside Basara "Stop pretending you don't know why that's not the case, hurry up or I'm disqualifying you this round, punk." Basara cast a glare "Sigh." He opened his arms willingly "Hello, my name is Seok Yin!" With a bright smile, Seok, the medium-height young man---with vagrant upward short white hair---in the same uniform as the students from this school greeted the remaining members of the class "Who the fuck?" Rayazaki was the first one to question it.
All of them were thoroughly confused as to who this person was.
"He's a transfer student." Basara said "Think of me as a guest." Seok added "Take a seat, will you?" Seok looked around "I'll stay there." He pointed to the central table in the second row, where Hyunda currently is absent "No way, Hyunda is already here!" Arkalee refused to budge "It doesn't matter, Arkalee. He'll take a different seat when Hyunda comes back, since he does have 20 minutes to spare." Basara clarified "And that's how it is~" Though Arkalee argued, the progress had to be set "You may begin writing your challenge now." Naturally, the development was set in stone and thus, every person in the room started to think of their own challenge.
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"Halt." Basara's words solidified the grounding and all students stopped attempting their challenges long after they had been issued their own challenges "Any further action will lead you into failing." Of course, no one dared to go against his word and thus, Basara started to prepare to judge their challenges.
When reaching Seok's seat due to the fact that Seok had given him a hand signal to come over, Seok snapped his two right fingers and made Basara crunch down so he could whisper something to his ear.
"......." His expression showed nothing, but after a short while, Basara spoke back "I see." Many became speechless and in awe by what Seok could've said to Basara "What'd you say?" Rayazaki questioned him from afar "Surprise~" Seok put on a smile as he twisted his neck to Rayazaki "...The fuck..." Anxious, Rayazaki was dying to know, though he wasn't the only one.
After returning to the podium, Basara started to judge them one by one.
"So, to summarize: the winners of this round are: Kyoko Yukishiro, Seok Yin, Kaneta Tateyana, Sato Rayazaki, Mayuraki Shizuku and Gayakirima Kanawari." A high number of students won this round "God bless this stupid challenge format, holy shit." Rayazaki whispered out loud "The what now?" Seok became intrigued "Oh, you didn't receive it?" Rayazaki laughed at Seok "Pretty sure he's just talking about the random format challenge that you get every now and then..." Kanawari spoke to Seok "If you get it, I think you receive a super easy challenge which is impossible to fail." She added "Oh, neat!" He happily said.
However, by now, all of the winners had to exit the classroom as the losers would remain to be frozen for the next ten minutes.
Ultimately, with no sense of wanting to overstay their welcome, they simply exited the classroom.
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The sixth round showed the return of many students, and the absent ones were: Hirakibo Tatsu, Kaneta Tateyana, Sato Rayazaki, Mayuraki Shizuku, and Takeshi Kuzan. Granted, the returning ones would be: Lus Sera, Nasha Sana, Toharoh Tsudo, Mayabashi Hinagiku, Ryousuke Kawahara, Hajime Hyunda and Rikishima Ikkiri.
Though given ten minutes to enjoy, it didn't dismiss them from the upcoming round. So the only way to thoroughly skip a round is to win twice. That was a common understanding already.
"Out." Hyunda walked to Seok, who sat on his seat "...?!" Kanawari rapidly felt a vibration in her skirt's right pocket and checked the notification "Sheesh, harsh. You her boyfriend?" The attention was onto Seok who wasn't getting up "That's right. You gonna get up or do I have to drag you out?" Hyunda cast an impending stare on Seok from above as Arkalee watched him with adoration "Woohie, can't argue there then, though where should I really------" A suggestion was made from the first row "Um, if you don't mind..." All eyes were on Kanawari "...My table partner is on a winning streak so he doesn't really have to attend this round." She felt nervous.
Seeing no reason to say no, Seok got up from his seat and walked to Kanawari; ultimately taking Kuzan's seat.
"...I'm Kanawari, hi!" Amicably, she greeted him "You already know my name, but I'll say it again in case you forgot---it's Seok!" Seok flashed an attractive smile "Haha, nice to meet you...!" Kanawari brushed her side hair "Begin." Basara declared after handling the challenge forms.
It went extremely normal, until Basara, when there were thirty seconds left to stop writing the challenges, decided to speak out.
"Stop, I have something to communicate." He gathered all of the attention present, Seok's smug grin rose "I've been noticing that a few of you have been shaping the format of the challenges and while that was not a problem, it's been addressed to me that for fairness reasons, it will be abolished. Likewise, the two letters that I see on the bottom right corners will count too. Therefore, from this point onward, should your challenges have a format that isn't just the simple paper sheet, you automatically lose the round." This was sufficient to wreak havoc almost instantly "That doesn't make any sense, teach! How does altering the format have anything to do with fairness?" Kawahara complained first "The challenges are distributed randomly too!" Hinagiku argued.
Basara attempted to explain as well.
"It has to do with the difficulty of the challenges that have the format altered. They are incredibly easy and that's a problem." He closed his eyes "Huh? That's weird, weren't you the one who called us out on how we were doing alright due to the low difficulty in these challenges? What's wrong with wanting easy challenges?" Hyunda said "Not all of us are interested in insane challenges just to show off..." Tsudo spoke as well "I think so too..." Ikkiri agreed "Whine all you like, the decision has been made." The group started to feel nervous; their eyesights slowly but surely started to land on Daniel "Alright." Daniel spoke lowly while he chuckled.
To further add insult to injury, Basara reinforced a restriction at the current moment.
"You're not allowed to alter the format if you've already altered. In other words, if you did what I just said was forbidden, just accept that you've lost this round." He sentenced all six of them to losing this round "Uh, teacher, can I ask something?" Seok spoke now "Say it." Basara told him "Are we allowed to know who wrote those challenges in those forms? I don't see why we shouldn't, but I just want to make sure..." Seok told his lines extremely loosely to which Basara replied instantly "It will be revealed after I finish collecting the challenges. With that said, you have thirty seconds to resume." Only one question remained.
Did all of them write the challenges in the format already?
Lus looked at Daniel who opened his journal again while fully exhibiting his challenge sheet to the public by placing it on the boarder of their desk.
"What are you doing..." She questioned him "Don't rely on me this round, whatever you do, do not seek my assistance." Daniel began to write in his journal again "What the hell is that supp--" Lus sighed "Whatever..." Her attention was pinpointed into finalizing her own challenge.
After halting every student and collecting their challenges, Basara did not hesitate on calling the perpetrators out whilst fully exposing them to the present members in the process.
"The ones that wrote the challenges in a format that was different from the simple white paper were: Rikishima Ikkiri, Mayabashi Hinagiku, Ryousuke Kawahara, Hajime Hyunda, Toharoh Tsudo, and Daniel Lead!" Basara clearly shouted as he exposed them "And as such, you AUTOMATICALLY FAIL THIS ROUND! Not only that, but your challenges won't be distributed either!" This meant quite a lot, as already six people lost this round "Furthermore, you will also not be a target of your classmates' challenges." Basara concluded.
In other words, by taking the six of them out of the equation, the only real contenders would be: Gale Iris, Kyoko Yukishiro, Kitsuya Arkalee, Izayoi Akimiyashika, Hiroyoshi Sagasuga, Gayakirima Kanawari, Seok Yin, Nasha Sana, and Lus Sera. In total, only 9.
It also went without saying that amidst this chattering and gossip going around in regard to this new event, that a few people within the exposed group were dissatisfied with this development, to say the least.
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Concluding the seventh round, there was a wide variety of losers this time around.
The unwelcoming cold grew rampant across the classroom, especially to Daniel, who was on his third loss suddenly.
"I must confess, I didn't think it would be exposed this soon. Sure, the challenges were getting easier but it was a bit sudden." Hyunda sighed and placed an additional blanket on the trembling Daniel "Cut the shit, you know why it was exposed." Kawahara wasn't in the mood to bicker as he placed his legs crossed across the central table the six of them were on "It's that fucker." Tsudo's expression was a spiteful one "I don't think anyone here didn't notice that it was his doing, because like Hyunda said previously, it was weird since the teacher congratulated us on our endeavors earlier..." Ikkiri reasoned as she hugged Hinagiku "...Daniel, you said that you would always have a winning strategy, but you're on your third loss already..." Hinagiku gave Daniel a skeptical glare.
Stuffed with four blankets, Daniel endured the cold for the third time as his face was blue; his lips authentically frozen.
".....Are you doubting me....?" He had visible trouble speaking as his trembling would not stop "...You said that this alliance would always favor the entire group. If the leader can't even look out for himself, then I must know!" Hinagiku raised her voice; getting the attention of partial members who had also lost the round ".....So that's your doubt..." Daniel chuckled "......." Hinagiku didn't understand him "What's the plan, Daniel?" Kawahara asked, once again not willing to endure pointless chattering "....We poke more holes for now...." This was an unsatisfactory answer "Poking holes? Daniel, we need a way to stop this guy!" Hinagiku showed her stand.
The rekindling eyes kept staring at him from behind as she purposely endured the cold.
"Alright..." His nonstop trembling peaked "...Here is what we'll do in the upcoming round...." Daniel let out his thoughts to them as they conjured his plan into their minds.
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For the first time in a while, the entire class was present as the rare circumstance of every student perfectly aligning in this event occurred.
"Good morning, people!" Basara told them that, despite already being almost two hours deep into this "Reminder that this exam only ends at 10 pm today. It's 6:30 am, which means if you count out the half-hour lunch you'll have from 2 to 2:30 pm, that's somewhere around 16 hours!!" Basara's words did not bring joy to anyone present "What! That's crazy talk, seriously?! 16 hours?! Are you guys even human?! HAHAHA!!" Seok laughed it off "It should be evident by now, but I'll say it anyways..." Basara mainly looked at Tatsu and Kuzan, who are on their third winning streak "The more you win, the more time you get to be absent. Eventually, if you do the math, you'll arrive at the conclusion that you can skip a few hours of the exam through a very lengthy winning streak." Many saw that Basara was right.
In theory, it's possible. Whether or not realistic; a completely different matter. Not only does it require luck, but several other factors.
Nevertheless, Basara decided to offer that supportive gesture.
"Don't be smartasses and try the same shit." Basara spoke specifically to the six as he handed out the challenge sheets "Don't worry, teach, we won't alter the format." Kawahara chuckled "Yeah, haha." So did Tsudo "........." Seok became skeptical at their confidence, and so did the rest as they looked at the majority of the six who had a supreme confidence in their expressions "Whatever, begin." Basara declared as he finalized distributing the challenge sheets all across the classroom.
On the challenge sheets, there must be a signature by the student who attempted it on the top border that is mandatory for them to write down otherwise they will be disqualified. In contrast, in the bottom corner, the challenged individual had to write their guesses.
Furthermore, each challenge sheet contains a number on the top right corner that's never erased and that's how Basara can know which student wrote which challenge since he has a sheet with the numbers which are always correspondent to a certain student as this never changes.
This was something that everyone knew by this point and was a core fundamental at this stage of the game.
"Hey." A demonstration of interest by Daniel to her was made the moment Basara gave the ok "...?" She was skeptical but didn't necessarily object to her curiosity when it came to his words no longer "Want a free win?" He simply asked "......" Lus looked over her challenge "I'm afraid it's impossible, I've been given a hell chal----" Daniel interrupted her "Your challenge doesn't matter." His words bewitched her "What do you mean by that...?" Daniel's cryptic smile emitted a certain mystic confidence to her "It means exactly what it means..." Daniel extended a sheet to her below the desk without anyone noticing "......?!?!" Her eyes widened "T-There's no way this can-----" She was instantly skeptical and doubtful "Everyone will follow it." His words spoke volumes in confidence alone "............" Lus knew for a fact that it was a dangerous path to take.
Especially because this method solely relies on capitalizing on one factor and one factor alone.
Even so...
She felt the thrill, despite the contrasting logic.
"You're insane..." She chuckled as she took the mysterious sheet from him.
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After the evaluation, Basara gave the brief summary, as one student in particular was going through something that he could not understand.
"To sum it up, surprisingly enough, all of you pass this round except for one person!" Basara started to look at him as he felt pressured by the sheer shame "There must be some sort of mistake, teacher...!" Seok raised his voice "Don't worry, you do have the extra ten minutes so you get to escape the cold. Don't be so sad, it happens. Even if... It was only you." The entire class started to giggle at him "Tough luck, my guy! Welcome to our world HAHAHA!!" Rayazaki laughed his ass off alongside many others.
Yet Seok found something extremely wrong with this entire round.
"Are we not going to talk about how literally every one but me got the easy challenges?!" Seok made a point that no one was really able to refute though there were a few complaints about his attitude "There's no way you're bitching about the easy challenges when you got two of them prior, right? Because that would be mega-hypocritical." Akimiyashika pointed out "That's not my point, damn it! My point is; why ONLY me?! Every single one of you got the basic challenges! How is that even possible?!" His complaint was met with further mockery "Holy shit, shut the fuck UP!" Hyunda was annoyed at his attitude "Who the fuck are you even? What crimes did you even commit to be here?" Questioning his origins, Shizuku was curious "Aw, look at him, he's gonna cry...?" Arkalee teased him and got the whole class laughing in the process.
Eventually, since the round was over, for the first time ever, every student was able to leave the classroom as they all had won the round.
As Basara closed the door, Seok confronted him-----some students still lurking around.
"What the hell was that?!" Seok was fuming "?" Basara didn't understand where Seok was coming from "I thought it was supposed to be just like I told you, do you realize just how fragile your position is right now?!" He tried to speak in a low voice tone "You told me to get rid of the format and the letters, to which I did----no challenge had those. What happened was most likely teamwork on their end, since you were far too impulsive on your end." Basara reasoned "That still DOESN'T fucking explain how I got the shittiest challenge of them all and it was so ridiculous I couldn't even attempt it! For fuck's sake, we're entertaining millions here, how dare you make me look like such a clown?!" Basara was getting tired of his persistent narcissism "I'll look over if there was some mistake, but as far as I can tell, there were none. On the other hand, if you're really convinced they are up to something, you can always just do the exact same thing you did last time." This particular sentence intrigued a certain someone who was lurking around the corner albeit unnoticed by the two of them.
Mad, Seok decided to enjoy his ten minutes as he started to leave the block with anger.
"Um, Seok----" A gentle feminine voice greeted Seok from behind as he attempted to climb down the empty staircase "What?!" He looked behind and saw the fragile figure of Kanawari trying to reach out to him "...I was wondering if you wanted to uh, eat..." Kanawari looked off and on to Seok, who was beyond doubtful of her "I'm not hungry, fuck off." Dismissing her entirely, Kanawari's suggestion was rejected ".........." And so, Kanawari was left useless as Seok wandered off.
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"Ahh....." Daniel, after taking a quick hot shower in his room during the ten minute interval, felt whole again as the previous cold temperatures weren't as oppressive as before "The ninth round is about to start." Seok looked uneasy "If everyone else gets an easy challenge and I don't, then you definitely messed up." Seok spoke directly to Basara from the seat that usually is where Kuzan allocates himself in though this time around, he's absent as his winning streak is on a rampage, so he was able to sit there once again "At that point, yes." A collective sense of confidence amidst the majority of the class rose to full height.
After everyone wrote their challenges, Basara, as per usual, took a simple glance at the challenges and after checking whether or not they would be alright to enter the round, he shuffled; like always.
Seok observed this method thoroughly as he attempted to see if Basara was doing something suspicious.
Nevertheless, as normalcy dictated, Basara shuffled the challenges and went on to distribute them.
"........" Seok's face became static the moment he received his challenge, or rather, when everyone was allowed to turn over their challenges "...Uh..." Kanawari uttered that out loud a bit, though not too loud "Well, if you got the type of challenge again, then don't worry..." Kanawari was quick to show her challenge to Seok "...Because I also got it..." This swiftly dispelled Seok's worry "But this is just ridiculous! How on Earth are you even supposed to do these challenges?!" Kanawari gave her reasoning "Uh, you see... This is pretty much random, so there will always be those really near-impossible challenges that will land on you from time to time." She explained.
She went a step further and explained the occurrences that had happened prior to that, albeit Seok already knew.
"...Hey is there really a way for me to complete this challenge or do I have to skip it again...?" Seok didn't want to have to face the consequences of losing a round as he didn't have the additional ten minutes to spare this time "........" Kanawari looked into Seok for a few seconds "...I---" A sudden vibration was felt in her skirt's right pocket ".....?" Seok wondered why she suddenly tilted her neck to the right "...I don't think so... But from my personal experience, it's better to attempt them regardless of how dang---" Seok denied her suggestion "You're fucking retarded." He outright said that, earning the attention of a few people nearby "I'd rather endure ten minutes of cold than attempt this shit." He threw his arms to the back of his head; placed his two crossed legs on the surface of the table and surrendered.
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"The losers this round are: Rikishima Ikkiri, Kaneta Tateyana, Sato Rayazaki, Toharoh Tsudo, Seok Yin, and Gayakirima Kanawari." Unlike the previous round, the losers were multiples "As you can see, Seok, the same thing didn't happen this time around." Basara spoke as he started to walk to the door which would allow the winners to exit the room "......" Seok was unhappy but he was forced to recognize the truth.
Intertwining with the atmosphere, the glacial cold came down like a curse as Basara closed the door.
"...What now?" Seok looked to his right where Kanawari stands "...You endure the cold." She replied as she started to tremble "........" Seok wasn't immune to this and soon enough, he felt the temperatures as they decreased "Oh fuck no, I'm not having this shit..." He lowly whispered to himself as he took out the phone from his pants' right pocket "...." Kanawari didn't fail to notice it as Seok got up and started to walk to the isolated part of the classroom located near the west south side.
As he isolated himself, Ikkiri sat behind Kanawari amidst the cold.
"...?" Kanawari looked behind as she found Ikkiri's behavior mysterious "...Hey." She said "...Hi?" She was unable to tell what Ikkiri's intentions were "Cold, isn't it..." Ikkiri immensely trembled "Yeah..." Their conversation didn't go anywhere ".....Huh?!" After almost a minute, Rayazaki noticed a contrasting temperature difference.
Instead of being completely cold, the temperatures were starting to board the the positive ones albeit not quite.
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"It's warmer than before..." Despite that, they still trembled, but Tateyana was right "......" All of their eyes were on Seok who had returned to the seat next to Kanawari "......" Daniel, Hyunda, and Kawahara, on the rooftop of their dorm, listened to the conversation through Daniel's burner as it was on an ongoing call with another burner "Inconvenient." Hyunda noted "Wasn't the plan to make the fucker fail to the point where he would die from the cold? If with a simple phone call he can just make the temperatures change, then there's no real danger." Kawahara sighed.
Daniel was silent as he continued to listen to the ongoing conversation.
"You know what sucks? This would show them that they can't fuck with us as they please, but this dude just has too much power to interfere. If I had to guess, he's connected with that shitty old fart." Kawahara said as he looked at Daniel "They look alike, kinda." Hyunda shared his thoughts as the wind fluttered; the morning sun finally at sight on the cradled horizon "I wonder..." Daniel finally spoke "What?" Kawahara was curious "He does have the power to conveniently alter whatever is inconvenient to him when it comes to our exam. So, in a sense, if you're paired up with him in a losing endgame, things won't truly ever go south for you too, right?" He reasoned as he got up from the cold ground near a turbine "Yeah, that does sound about right. If you lose the round and so does he, nothing bad really happens to you." Kawahara concluded.
With that said, there were a few things that they still had to go over.
"Sooner or later the strategy will be exposed. We're capitalizing on the fact that there isn't a database for the challenges and that's how we're getting away with these fake challenges." Hyunda exposed "Because each challenge sheet has a number which is attached to a student. My number is 11, so whenever there is a challenge sheet with number 11, any of us already know it's me." He continued.
To be more precise, given the nature of this exam, it's necessary to keep a certain track. What's been decided was that each student would have a sheet attributed to them to write the challenges---but they are not random challenge sheets.
Each student has been attributed a cardinal number. Those sheets contain those numbers, and certainly, it's possible through teamwork to know which student has written which challenge because their teacher Basara, has been distributing these challenges in that same order. That alone, however, doesn't defeat the fact that malicious challenges could be imposed onto another person, which means that even if someone knows who wrote such said challenge, it still wouldn't matter.
"But our challenges are completely different. We are using fake challenge sheets with the same cardinal numbers just under different ones while keeping the other sheets to ourselves." Hyunda said something else too "It was worth letting her win so many times just so she could print so many of those." Hyunda chuckled "There's a massive fucking issue though..." Kawahara grew skeptical of how long this strategy could last due to this particular factor "If the teacher checks the challenges and notes them down, and later on re-reads our challenges, then he'll know by memory that it's been altered. Actually, I'm surprised he hasn't noticed already..." He confessed while getting nervous "It's because in his mind, this simply isn't possible. The idea of us printing a perfectly equal challenge sheet is just out of our grasp while in reality that's not the case." Daniel said.
Still, Kawahara had a point.
"It's alright. The real point of strategy comes now anyways." Daniel got to the exit door and began to leave the area as they did the same.
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"......" Lus looked at Daniel as he was left in the classroom with the other loser after failing the twelfth round.
Seeing Ikkiri and Hinagiku up ahead chatting as they were about to reach the downward staircase, Lus talked to them from behind.
"Mind telling me what the hell is going on?!" She wasn't descending the staircase "....." They both made silence; Hinagiku then briefly sighed "Well, we got time, so why not?" She said "Yeah, I mean... Everyone has been granted basically free wins for the past three rounds..." Ikkiri reasoned "Except Daniel and Seok." Lus came down "Outside----I wouldn't want him to overhear this." Hinagiku insisted.
And thus, as 8 am wasn't that far off now, since they have an additional 40 minutes to spare, in other words, two rounds freed-----they went to the female bathroom within the block.
In the hallway of mirrors and sinks, they started their conversation as they judged that no one was around after they even checked the bathroom stalls.
"Why is Daniel doing this?" Lus naturally had no clue "You wouldn't know because you didn't lose the round when this happened, but this was during Seok's second loss. His first was spared due to the additional ten minutes he had, but not during the second." Ikkiri continued after Ikkiri "I recall it extremely clearly; he was on his phone with someone and after he ended his call, the room temperature increased..." Lus was shocked "What... How is that even possible----does this mean that Seok is afflicted with the ones that are controlling the room's temperatures?" Hinagiku answered without hesitation "Obviously. But here is the interesting part... This only applies if he loses. In the tenth round, he didn't lose and as such, Tsudo, someone who lost the round on purpose, noticed that unless he commands it, there won't be a change in the temperatures." Hinagiku addressed.
Though, it was already fairly obvious in that sense, it was just a measure to prove whether or not they were right.
Which they were.
"So wait---he's losing on purpose just to see what happens? What? Why?" Lus understood what he was doing, but not why he was doing it "...I don't know, actually..." Hinagiku, despite being in Daniel's group, didn't entirely understand the purpose of the logic either "I think that he's just trying to test the boundaries, no?" Ikkiri got the attention of the two of them "Suppose that this happens with an elevated frequency... If the aim of the higher ups is to make us go through that cold and have us do crazy stupid challenges like that over and over... Then haven't they failed in a sense?" Ikkiri was not wrong.
Due to the current strategy, most of the students were circulating fake challenges to each other and based on the simple nature of the fake challenges, there weren't any complaints. Not only was it an easy out to the main agonizing consequence of failing a round, but it would lead to a student enjoying their free time more.
Tatsu and Kuzan, who are on their winning streaks, have been able to be absent for almost two hours now due to their winning streak.
Likewise, other students which have been consecutively winning again and again, just didn't care enough about what was going on and simply went along as long as it meant that they won.
"He's trying to see what happens if this goes on?" Lus asked "That has to be it... Unless... Unless, there's just something else I'm not seeing..." Ikkiri deeply pondered something else yet she didn't speak about what she had in mind "...Here was I thinking he was in danger..." Lus felt embarrassed and sighed "Wait..." Hinagiku found something strange "This can't go on, I just realized." Ikkiri didn't see why "Why not, Hina?" She answered rapidly "Assuming our strategy is never noticed, this means that only the two of them will be stuck in the classroom until this exam is over. But Seok has a connection to the outside." They still didn't understand where she was getting at "They want to kill us because of what happened on the island, so they have to stop this..." Hinagiku reasoned and they began to think about her point.
And she was right.
"Our viewership has dropped drastically in the last hour..." In a dark room full of monitors albeit the only angles were four as they monitored the activity within the classroom, the doctor was forced to confront the truth as he saw the number of viewers decrease.
He sipped his hot tea from the central couch as the other staff members engaged in their respective work.
"Mhmmm..." He didn't like it; but what he didn't like more was how he was constantly getting a phone call from his grandson "He's a nuisance, and I gave him such a simple task..." He picked up the annoying vibrating cellphone "What are you doing, Seok? I gave you very clear instructions on how you had to take Daniel Lead down; just him alone. Yet you can't even do that..." He expressed his resentment "Should we raise the room temperature more, sir?" One of the staff members in his black suit asked as he was in charge of manipulating the temperature.
This irked the doctor, however.
"The damn temperature is supposed to be our way to kill them but YOU'RE IN THE WAY, DAMN IT!!" Forcefully, the doctor crushed his hot tea cup with his left hand; letting the fierce melting liquid intertwine with his skin "That's enough, Seok. Win a single round and make your exit, I should've known better." A guard rapidly hurried up and gave the doctor a towel to clean himself "...Got it, gramps..." Though defeated, Seok wouldn't dare disobey his grandfather.
After ending the call, Seok took a soft breath in the atmosphere that was plagued with a fresh air containing 3 degrees; temperature which was not negative.
Seok had glanced at him a few times, but it bothered him how the latter had never glanced at Seok before-----or rather, Seok never caught him doing so.
"...Hey, dude." Their seats weren't that far off from each other; as a matter of fact, they were pretty close-by "Hm?" Daniel halted his writing and caught Seok talking to him for the first time "Mind if I sit?" Seok pointed at the seat Sana usually stays in "Sure, she'll be absent for the next round, just like all the others." This was a fact as the only people to have lost in the previous three rounds were Daniel and Seok "Haha, yeah, thanks!" Feeling as if it was safe, Seok took a seat parallel to Daniel's.
He immediately confessed something as he was profoundly nervous.
"Um, dude, don't you think it's weird how only the two of us have been losing these past rounds?!" He laughed in despair "Ah yeah, it's weird alright! Fuck, I want to enjoy some free time, but this isn't so bad either." Daniel stretched out his right arm while supporting it with his left arm "But it's cold, no?" Seok said "Is it now?" Daniel blew a small whistle which showed a white aura in the air due to the prior cold "This is nothing compared to what we had a while back." He sternly looked at Seok now.
Somehow, Seok found his words to be extremely confident.
"Doesn't it scare you---to die in the cold?" Seok asked, his expression showing hints off fear "It's trivial, really. I've lost count of the times I wanted to die already, so when it comes, it comes. How about you, Seok? Have you ever felt like you had your days so numbered that you just didn't care anymore?" Daniel asked a question that Seok would have no way to reply to as he struggle to even speak a word "Let's cut the chase, Seok." Daniel closed his journal "It's not a coincidence." He told "Wh---" Daniel's words toppled Seok's "You and I are trapped here. That's the script. Want to break out of it?" Daniel offered "What the hell are you saying?" Seok genuinely asked and Daniel sighed in annoyance.
He found that Seok's lackluster reactions and predictable lines were not his cup of tea.
"You're not getting out of here alive, if you don't cooperate, Seok." Daniel began his threat "You're giving someone instructions to lower the temperature of this room, otherwise you'd be suffering here out in the cold with me and your life would be in real danger. That's not happening whatsoever which only leaves the obvious out: You are afflicted with the old man." Daniel's words made Seok visualize the image of his grandfather instantly "How do you know that......" Horrified, Seok didn't know how to perceive him "Ahhh, so I was right. God, I actually thought it was someone else, but it's good to know it was him! Thank you so much!" Daniel placed his two hands on Seok's shoulders "I'm not obeying you, fucker..." Feeling offended as Daniel talked about his grandfather, Seok's tone became defiant.
Daniel reacted calmly and allowed Seok to make his stand.
"You can't kill me, otherwise you're fucked. There are four surveillance cameras in this room." On the square-shaped area, four of them are allocated "Neither can I ever become a subject to the cold as my grandfather wouldn't let me die here." Daniel's eyes widened "...Grandfather----" Seok realized his mistake "I-----It doesn't fucking matter!" He didn't try to correct himself at all "What's your point? The next round is you against me. You're not winning the next round." Seok begged to differentiate "No, I will." He spoke with high confidence "The only people participating in the next round are you and me. I will write a lousy easy challenge that will either land on you or me." He realized "......" Daniel's eyes sharpened "If it lands on me, then I win this round! If it doesn't and your challenge which is an impossible to do type of challenge, then I will simply decline. Until with every round, it lands on me. It's fifty fifty. Eventually, I will be blessed with my challenge." Seok was quick to see the benefits of this unique situation.
Despite the low likelihood of this circumstance even coming to life in the first place, this is definitely one of the scenarios that is possible thanks to it.
"I see. What then? You enjoy your victory, what stops me from doing the same thing again?" Seok didn't understand "What?" Daniel elaborated "It's fifty fifty like you said. In other words, you also can't escape me forever. You do realize that, right?" Daniel pointed out "Pfft, I see now..." Seok understood why his grandfather ordered him to retreat "You won't see me ever again." With utmost value, Seok spoke words that Daniel could simply not ignore "......" He fully realized what Seok's intentions were now.
A loud unlock was heard as Basara entered the room; nobody else entering it they enjoyed their extra time.
"Can it get more empty than this?" He made the rhetorical question to the two of them "Hey, teacher, I have a request, since this round is just between Seok and me." Daniel asked as Seok didn't leave his seat "Speak." Basara gave permission "Is it alright for the writing to not take so long as five minutes and when we both are done, we simply tell you so? Likewise, the same with the challenges, since it's only the two of us who will be participating anyways." Daniel made a proposal so reasonable that Seok immediately jumped the gun "Yo, make that happen! Right now!" Upon seeing that Seok gave the order, Basara did not object to Daniel's suggestion "Understood, have it your way." Basara handed the two of them their challenge sheets.
It didn't take more than ten seconds.
"I'm done." Both Seok and Basara were caught by surprise "What the----" Seok turned around by instinct "Did you----" Basara attempted to ask "I wrote my name, yes." Daniel's challenge was already upside down "......" Seok, feeling challenged, took no time in writing his simplistic challenge as he had envisioned "I'm done." Thus, Basara took no time whatsoever to collect their challenges and he took a very quick look at them.
Unlike the previous times, Basara didn't go back to his desk and instead simply ripped off the part where they placed their names, so the other person wouldn't be able to tell. However, it was impossible not to be able to tell since it was two people.
"Have at it." He gave the two of them their challenges.
Upon flipping his challenge, Seok realized that he had gotten a challenge different from his own, which was Daniel's. Yet this further confused him because the nature of the challenge he had received was the exact opposite of what he had thought to have gotten from Daniel.
Although the challenge itself wasn't exactly pleasing yet it was far from torture.
"I resign." Daniel declared, which surprised Basara and Seok "Why...?!" Seok felt played to a degree "Even I can't help but be curious. It's so simple." To their questions, Daniel simply opened his journal and started to write; opting for silence instead "To each their own." Basara shrugged as he looked at Seok, who was just as confused.
However, this was the golden opportunity that Seok was waiting for. In order to win this round and return to his grandfather, all he had to do was no longer be trapped here in this room which was not allowing him to complete his endeavor.
Seok's challenge which was written by Daniel was a very simple one.
"Happy?" Seok placed his cellphone on Daniel's desk "The pin. That's what I wrote." Daniel didn't allow Seok to get away "1029" Hateful and with resentment, Seok told Daniel and upon inserting the pin, Daniel confirmed it "Thanks." He simply said.
With that done, Basara saw no reason to delay this.
"It's as simple as it gets. Seok Yin, you had the challenge of: Give your phone permanently to the other person person partaking this round that isn't the teacher nor yourself; also provide the pin to your cellphone and be truthful whilst doing so." Seok realized that it was inconvenient to not have access to his cellphone but he didn't have much of a choice in his mind "It was executed perfectly and your guess which was: Daniel Lead, was also correct." After that, came Daniel "Daniel Lead, you had the extremely easy challenge of: Clap twice." The challenge alone was laughter worthy yet none of them laughed "And you failed by not attempting it; or rather, by entirely resigning, so you naturally fail this round." Basara started to make his way to the exit.
Accumulating his first win in a while, Seok could've simply ventured to the outside of the room, but he insisted on getting it back.
"Give it back already!" Daniel was confused by this "What part of "permanently" did you not understand, Seok?" He was ruthless "Guh....!!" His teeth clattered "Seok, get out." Basara ordered "But---" Seok's words were met with a strong glare from Basara "Now." His words were final as Basara left Daniel to lose for the fourth time in a row.
Immediately after, the moment he became alone in the classroom, he dealt a call from Seok's phone to a number that he was typing from his burner.
It took Daniel to write an extra message from Seok's phone as the person on the other side did not pick up the first three times.
Only then, did the person pick up.
"He just left, pass this message to either Hinagiku or Ikkiri: See how he gets out but don't let yourselves be found out." He hung up and resumed his writing in his journal.
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In less than a minute later, with great worry, Hinagiku and Ikkiri, on the outskirts of the female dorm, while maintaining a dutiful outlook onto the main building of attention which was block F, were encountered by someone who they didn't think they would meet so out in the open.
"...Daniel told me to tell you guys that Seok just left the classroom and that we have to see how he gets out." Hinagiku and Ikkiri were confused to say the least, but the fact that she had an order from Daniel was sufficient for them to know what was happening "...I should've known..." Hinagiku said "We should tell Hyunda and the others so we can get a better reading on t-----" Ikkiri's words were cut short as the three of them saw Seok leaving the main building with a very impatient attitude all over his body "Shit, hide, hide!!" Kanawari told them as the three of them retreated to the insides of the female dorm; below a hallway that had open windows.
Gasping and panting, the three of them slowly but surely, elevated their heads and peeped outside of the window to where Seok was.
Right now, Seok, who exited the main building, otherwise known as block F, went not to the south side where the two dorms (the male and the female) are allocated in. Instead, he began to walk in east direction.
"Where is he going......" Ikkiri's expression grew curious "...No clue..." His movements seemed oddly brusque and his striding form utterly impulsive "...Hey, what exactly did he tell you?!" Hinagiku questioned the nervous Kanawari "H-He just told me to tell you two that he was leaving the building and that you had to stalk him to see how he gets out or something...!" But they didn't understand "Get out...? There's no way to get out, right?" Hinagiku argued "There shouldn't... But he wouldn't just randomly say that..." Ikkiri put trust in Daniel's words.
Seeing how Seok was getting away, Kanawari decided to step up.
"Let's split in three paths... I'll take the front, Ikkiri, you'll go by the east and Hinagiku, you'll go through block F's direction." Kanawari got up and proposed "Ok." Ikkiri was quick to accept it "Fine." So was Hinagiku and thus, they decided to leave the dorm as they endeavored.
Behind the hallway that would grant any of the female students access to the cafeteria, Lus hid herself as she listened to that conversation as it wasn't that faraway.
"...A way out...?" She lowly whispered to herself as she saw the three of them move out; her next course of action being one that would be in the same line of thinking as theirs.
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10 am rose to its latest potential; the primordial sun blessed the lukewarm atmosphere and the classroom felt rejuvenated.
Every single member was present in the classroom, even the ones with their prolonged winning streaks.
However, there was one absence and that alone was impossible for the rest to not notice.
"Where is Seok, teacher?" The questioning began "He's absent." Basara simply said as he distributed the challenge sheets "Oh, we know, but where is he?" Yukishiro questioned "Do your research." He didn't elaborate "So what happens now? What's the consequence for him?" A lot of dissatisfied comments started to erupt "He fails the rounds that he's not present in." This reasoning was beyond lackluster "But he's not here nor anywhere to be found, so how can he feel the damn cold that we have to go through every time we fail?!" Rayazaki spoke the thoughts of many "I don't know." Basara refused to elaborate yet again.
Naturally, everyone knew something was up.
"Begin." Basara went back to his seat on his desk and gave the starting signal "......" Daniel felt a sudden vibration on his pants' right pocket and checked the new message "...." He looked at Kanawari who was attempting eye contact albeit never fully committing it.
Likewise, Hinagiku and Ikkiri, also kept looking at Daniel hoping that he'd understand.
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On the backside of block F, in an area where the sun shouldn't be able to infiltrate yet in a direction it did, the four of them met.
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"So?" Daniel placed his right calf on the back of the wall; crossed his arms while closing his eyes and allowed them to tell what they were able to perceive "It was crowded with guards all over the area, it's beyond restricted..." Hinagiku started off; Daniel didn't interrupt them as they went on "It's the abandoned classroom----" Daniel's eyes opened as he applied brute force on his left forearm; the three of them noticing it with a minimal degree of awareness ".....I see...." His expression was distorted with rage "What else?" He pressured them.
Kanawari decided to share some information that she viewed as crucial.
"The entrance garden is covered with two guards and there are more than likely cameras all across----" She took an exasperated breath and continued "I saw him go inside it from afar, and stayed there for almost an hour..." Kanawari felt nervous as she had to say the upcoming words "He didn't come out..." She expected Daniel to react with fury yet he inclined his posture and looked to the leaves on the ground as he pondered "......" They didn't know what to make of his reaction "You mean to tell me that in that abandoned classroom, that he was able to leave elsewhere?" Daniel asked Kanawari "...I don't know, I didn't dare approach because you said that we couldn't be found out..." She reasoned "I see. I'll see it for myself then. Don't follow me." His words were imperial.
Daniel decided to then turn around and leave the scene without saying a word; leaving the three of them speechless.
"...Do we follow him...?" Hinagiku spoke to Ikkiri, but Kanawari was able to hear that as well "...Maybe not now..." Ikkiri suggested "......" Kanawari though curious, didn't want to get on Daniel's bad side, so she opted not to follow him as well.
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On the outskirts of the block F, near the east side, he walked serenely to the place where a distant memory vividly replayed itself to him.
The image of his fallen idol, Yulia, was guiding him all the way to the abandoned classroom where they once held a conversation with their hearts open to each other.
Basking in the morning light though covered with a cradled shadow, Daniel was able to enter the perimeter that was granting him access to the faraway classroom.
Simultaneously, however, he was captured in the cameras as he let his activity be exposed.
"You can't be here." The fallen idol vanished as a tall bulky guard approached Daniel; giving him a heavy palm bump in the process which made him take a few steps back "......" He felt sorrow as he had to watch her go ahead; his face emitting sadness "...." He brushed the back of his head in annoyance and composed himsefl "Um... I'm looking for my new classmate, Seok Yin." Daniel looked not only to the guard that confronted him but to the other on the right side of the shattered metallic gate that encompasses the entrance to the abandoned classroom "He is nowhere to be found. We've looked all over him across the dorms, and block F, and yet he's nowhere to be fou---" The guard interrupted Daniel before he could finish his sentence "We don't know. Neither do we care. This place is off-limits." The guard gave Daniel an intimidating glare going as far as intimidating him with his height alone.
Daniel asked a simple question in return despite this.
"Why is it off-limits?" He wanted a clear answer "It just is." Yet he didn't receive it "No." He didn't like it "You can't do this. That place is-----" The guard shoved Daniel back once again, though more forcefully this time around "Back the fuck OFF, bitch!" He felt provoked "You have no right!! That place is where she opened her heart to me!!" Emotional, Daniel argued back, which made the other guard on standby release his hidden taser which electrocuted Daniel "AGHHHHHH!!!!" This reminded him of his early times with the doctor as he fell on the ground "Get him off the terrace..." He said "Lousy bitch..." The two of them dragged Daniel's body.
Yet thanks to their negligence, Daniel was able to see a tiny glimpse of a shoe as well as a part of the ever-familiar uniform pants in the semi-open door of the abandoned classroom to the east side though only barely.
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A new change made the majority upset, but their sights alone were enough.
"Given the unfortunate circumstance that happened on the island, our numbers have been fairly reduced." Basara emphasized as he walked across the classroom "We no longer have the same numbers as before. Initially, class F was made by 24 students. Due to the nature of this exam, two male students were already kicked out such as: Setsuna Sasuga and Kotaro Ryoken. Last month, you lost one of your female companions, Hikaru Yulia, thanks to that tragedy." His expression turned grim as a turmoil was shaken inside "However, on the island, we additionally lost students such as: Akenama Kan and Kogami Akihiko. In other words, you are now reduced to 19." None of them found Basara's words satisfactory "With that said, this is where these four come in." Basara finished walking around the classroom and gave the spotlight to the new faces.
Seok was nowhere to be found amidst the four of them.
He was, however, allocated now elsewhere, where he was prior to the time he came to block F.
His grandfather greeted him with a disappointed glaze.
"Worthless." Spiteful, the doctor said "...I'm sorry..." He didn't want to admit his defeat but even so, he apologized to the person he cared for the most "Sit down." Seok didn't dare to sit as he was trying to be respectful "Sit!" However, he insisted, to which Seok didn't have much of a choice in the matter "Do you know why you failed, Seok?" He asked as he sipped on his tea.
Now that the illumination was brighter, thanks to the open curtains behind, they could see each other better.
"I kept getting trapped with Daniel over and over, and if I were to allow MYSELF to be a victim of those ridiculous temperatures, then I would've died, wouldn't I?!" The doctor sighed "Ahhh, you damn IDIOT!" He slapped his grandson across his face, causing him to tear up "You failed because you didn't play along with the damn challenges!" Seok was confused "W-What do you mean, grandfather?! I wrote the challenges according to the trend in order to avoid being weeded out but it backfired-----" The doctor felt the need to correct his grandson's impertinence yet again "That's not it!" He clashed his fist on the wooden table upfront "Taking the challenges head on means that you're also supposed to endure their consequences..." Seok realized what his grandfather was implying "G-Grandpa there's just no way that I could..." Seok couldn't finish his sentence as he tried to compose himself.
The doctor knew for a fact that his grandson wasn't cut out for this type of tasks.
"You didn't have the balls to go down with Daniel and he took full advantage of that." His words were merciless but truthful "That is, however, fine." With a serene expression, the doctor spoke to his grandson as he sipped on his tea "It was a mere test of his expertise. I wanted to see just how the brat would react, and it's frankly impressive how fast he adapts..." The doctor added something else "He's a monster when it comes to adapting to a bad scenario. I could never rely on a pure soul like you, whose inner turmoil isn't as corrupted as him to take him down, Seok." Seok was surprised that all of this time he wasn't the one who was on his grandfather's mind "That's why instead, we will use the likes of them." Seok's attention became solely focused on the gigantic plasma television that transmitted the ongoing action from within that classroom.
As they introduced themselves, the new stage took a step further and thus, Basara immediately shifted the tempo.
A quick resonant clapping sound was enough to draw the attention of everyone present.
"Make groups of four. You have one minute; those who are not in a group will be disqualified for the entirety of this exam." Basara's words put the class into pure chaos "Hold on, what's that supposed to mean?!" Rayazaki got up from his seat "Give us an explanation, teacher!" Kuzan also wanted to know "For what reason do we need to form groups?!" Gale too, spoke.
Nevertheless, Basara refused to elaborate and simply said:
"Forty-seven seconds remaining. Choose wisely." As much as they wanted to know what Basara was referring to, they knew better.
Thus, the majority of the class started to form groups of four, since in total, there can only be six groups of four. Some people already knew from the get-go who they wanted in their group. Nevertheless, given that the total count of students now was 23, there had to be a group with 3 people only.
However, an incredible vast majority immediately held their eyesights on one particular individual, who sits on the first row, at the very end.
They didn't anticipate, just like him, the rapid movements of the three new students as they raided Daniel's desk with no hesitation whatsoever.
"Oh my gosh, I am such a fan!" One of the new students, a girl with medium height, fairly long dual black and white hair, who goes by the name of Samantha, held Daniel's left hand whilst trembling from ecstasy "Teacher, we will be forming a group with Daniel Lead, so write that down!" A boy this time, with the name of: Elijah, with average height, slightly taller than Samantha's, wearing stern glasses and upholding a light-blonde spiky hairstyle, spoke to Basara from afar while looking at Daniel with a daunting glare "Wh---You don't get to decide that!" Lus intervened as she got up "Got it." Basara's opinion contrasted Lus as he began to take note of the new group that was being formed "Early bird gets the worm~" A short haired girl, her name being: Ellie, with an uneven bob cut spoke to Lus as she grew irritated by the circumstance.
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Daniel didn't bother to resist it either.
"Are you sure you want this?" He asked the three of them with a serious glare as the class watched this development unfold "Mhm~" Samantha didn't deny it "Fuck yes." Ellie affirmed "We wouldn't want anything else." Elijah wore an expression full of conviction as he said that "Alright." Daniel accepted it "This is my group, teacher." His consent didn't matter at this point, but he still said it.
The first group of four was created in the heat of the moment underneath layers.