I have a life simulator.

"He's not here right now."

Sakayanagi Arisu took a sip of water, recalling a girl from the white room who had once been her rival:

"But it might come next year, um... it should definitely come."

"Could you tell me about it?"

Horikita Suzune and Okisaka Yanagi Arisu raised their chins, revealing a curious expression.

"no problem."

"But in exchange, Suzune also needs to tell me about the memories you possess."

Sakayanagi Arisu seemed to have achieved her plan and said her request with a smile.

"it is good."

To Sakayanagi Arisu's surprise, Horikita Suzune readily agreed.

However, she quickly came to understand the other person's thoughts.

After all, the two of them shared the same feelings.

Perhaps one day in the future, all four of them will openly share all of this.

Because the protagonist in the story is the same person.

When talking about him, some people will mention the summer night of the fireworks festival, some will mention the timidity of a rose, some will mention the Christmas of the final confession, and the first snow in Tokyo that year.

Chapter 219: An Eye for an Eye

Late at night on the ninth day of the special exam on the deserted island, in the D9 area where the school's headquarters was located, a petite figure took advantage of the thick darkness to sneak up near a tent. After confirming that no one else was around and that the person inside the tent was fast asleep, she quietly went in and placed something next to his pillow.

After completing all this, the other party did not linger and, just as when they came, silently disappeared into the darkness.

Although the D9 area is the location of the school's camp, it is ultimately just a large temporary camp. The uninhabited island is only used by Tokyo Advanced Educational High School for its annual special exams. The infrastructure is not perfect. Apart from relatively complete medical equipment to ensure student safety and electronic equipment systems for locating students, it is not as full of various surveillance devices as the Tokyo Advanced Educational High School campus.

However, to be honest, even with the rather tight surveillance system inside Tokyo Advanced Educational High School, quick-thinking students can easily come up with several ways to bypass it and find blind spots in the surveillance.

"Um...this is?"

The next morning, Hashimoto Masayoshi, who had just woken up from his sleep, noticed something extra on the side of his head: a neatly folded piece of paper lying there quietly, as if someone had deliberately passed on a message to him.

"Is that Ayanokouji?"

Hashimoto Masayoshi muttered to himself, and subconsciously thought of Ayanokouji Kiyotaka, whom he had temporarily sided with and obeyed.

To be honest, he did not follow Ayanokouji Kiyotaka's instructions and directly and completely framed Ryuen Sho for the murder.

Just as Kitagawa Ryo initially analyzed, Hashimoto Masayoshi would never wholeheartedly entrust his fate to one person, as would Sakayanagi Arisu, Katsuragi Kohei, and Ayanokoji Kiyotaka.

All he cared about from beginning to end was his own interests. He could play along, but if he were really burdened with the responsibility of framing his classmates, Hashimoto Masayoshi wouldn't be so foolish as to just take it.

Thinking that perhaps Ayanokouji Kiyotaka was dissatisfied with his sudden change of mind, or that he had received some instructions for the next step, Hashimoto Masayoshi reached out and grabbed the note, then turned his back and carefully opened it.

There was only a short sentence above, with handwriting that seemed strangely familiar.

The final assignment was related to live-action role-playing games.

what?

Hashimoto Masayoshi's mind, which was still a little sleepy from just waking up, became completely awake the moment he saw the message. He read the message on the note several times in disbelief, and then, with some doubt, he crumpled it up again and held it in his palm.

This subconscious action once again betrayed his true inner thoughts.

For Hashimoto Masayoshi, regardless of who passed him the note or whether its contents were true or false, he subconsciously regarded it as a bargaining chip—a chip that might come in handy in the future to gain greater benefits for himself.

"Hashimoto, how are you feeling today? Are you feeling better? Do you want to go out and get some exercise? The sun is really nice outside today."

Just as Hashimoto Masayoshi's mind was racing, pondering the possible ins and outs of the matter, he heard a greeting coming from afar.

Just like yesterday, Class A's homeroom teacher, Chabashira Sae, walked into the tent and greeted her with this kind of concern.

After Hashimoto Masayoshi was transferred here to recuperate, Chabashira Sae, as the class advisor, has been closely monitoring his situation. For example, she stayed here to look after Ryuen Sho and Hashimoto Masayoshi when they confronted each other yesterday.

"Yes, Mr. Chabashira, I feel much better."

Hashimoto Masayoshi smiled calmly, but inside he was in turmoil.

The moment he saw Chabashira Sae, he realized where the familiarity of the handwriting on the note he had seen came from.

This is definitely Chabashira Sae's own handwriting.

Thinking about his homeroom teacher's personality and that inexplicable big dinner last time, Hashimoto Masayoshi vaguely felt that he had touched on some truth.

Indeed, at this stage, it seems that only school officials like Chahashi Sae have access to information about the final project. Moreover, considering that Class A's overall scores are currently lower than Class B's, Chahashi Sae, as the class advisor, has every reason to do so.

If the motive is sound, it would be quite convenient for Chabashira Sae to pass on the message; the note she's holding might have been secretly placed there by the other person when they left last night.

Thinking about it this way, Hashimoto Masayoshi felt that Chabashira Sae's greeting was somewhat unusual, as if she was implying that he should "go out"—"go out and pass the information to the class."

Chabashira Sae had no idea what was going through Hashimoto Masayoshi's mind as he lay on the bed. She offered a somewhat formulaic word of comfort, then stepped forward, seemingly intending to help Hashimoto Masayoshi to his feet.

But at that very moment, the tent door was suddenly pulled open again, and the homeroom teachers of the other three classes, along with two other school officials, filed in. Leading the way was Kazuma Sakagami, the homeroom teacher of Class C, who stood with a cold smile on his face, arms crossed, looking like he was about to utter classic lines like, "Hey, you've been caught!"

"what happened?"

Chabashira Sae asked with some confusion, and one of the school staff members who walked in also had a helpless, businesslike expression:

"Here's the thing, Chazhu, our class advisor has received reports from three other class advisors that you may be engaging in cheating, which could undermine the fairness of this special exam."

"Cheating?"

Chabashira Sae looked bewildered. She admitted that she had been a little impulsive a few days ago because of Hoshinomiya Chie's words and wanted to reveal some follow-up information about the upcoming exam to the students in Class A.

But back then, it was clearly you two, Tomoya Mashima and Chie Hoshinomiya, who stuck to her like glue, making it impossible for her to succeed.

"I found this note on my bed when I woke up this morning."

Just as Chabashi Sae was still completely confused, Hashimoto Masayoshi immediately spoke up, exonerating himself without saying a word.

His reaction was much faster. Now that so many people had suddenly arrived, and two of them were staring intently at him, there was no time or way to destroy the note. He might as well take the initiative and publish it first.

Regardless of whether Chabashira Sae was the one who passed the note or not, Hashimoto Masayoshi didn't want to be mistaken for someone who "deliberately injured himself to collude with the homeroom teacher to obtain information about subsequent exams."

Several school officials exchanged glances at the contents of the note, their expressions changing as they all turned their suspicious gazes toward Chabashira Sae and even Hashimoto Masayoshi behind him.

At that moment, the two of them belatedly realized something.

They have fallen into the same trap as Long Yuanxiang—

A trap where you need to prove your innocence.

Use their own methods against them.

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"Speaking of which, will the school cancel or change the final project because of this incident?"

"It's highly unlikely. This isn't something that can be changed so easily. It's a major project that was planned from the beginning, and we've been setting things up for so many days. If it's going to start the day after tomorrow morning, there's absolutely no way to find a replacement right now."

"However, I didn't expect that Ichika could imitate other people's handwriting, and so realistically at that."

"Liang is asking a question he already knows the answer to. This is clearly a lesson taught in the White Room."

"I'm trying my best to find different angles to praise you, okay?"

"But I'm past the age where I'd be happy just from verbal praise."

Tianze Yixia wrapped her arms around Kitagawa Ryo's waist from behind and idly drew circles on his chest.

"I really want this exam to end soon."

"Tired?"

"No, I just want to get back on the cruise ship as soon as possible."

"When that time comes, Ryo, then take action and make up for all the rewards in one go."

Some words

First of all, I apologize for playing dead for so long. My own thought has always been that there's no point in saying anything to everyone if I don't update. I've discussed this with many readers in the group and those who have messaged me privately. I always thought that maybe one day when I'm in better shape, I could keep up with both updates and resume updating. But from April until now, I've basically confirmed that I really don't have the energy or ability to do both, especially after I graduated in June and went back to my hometown to start working.

It's not that I wrote a new book just because the new book did well. When the new book was first released, its initial subscriptions were not as high as this book, and its average subscriptions are now about the same. It's just that I did write "Classroom of the Three Kingdoms" for more than a year, and my creative enthusiasm and various ideas were somewhat worn down, especially this deserted island arc that everyone thought was long and tedious. If you have read the original work, you will know that this part of my work was basically a special test that was entirely original. All the topics I wrote were my own ideas. At first, I wanted to write an ensemble piece that involved all the characters, but as I wrote, I couldn't stop myself. It was my own lack of ability.

Regarding updates to this book, it's true that I can't continue until the other book, "Tuizi," is finished. That book is about halfway through and should be completed within this year, reaching a million words. I'll then come back to update this book. After all, to be honest, the current progress of "Classroom of the Three Kingdoms" is only the first few volumes of the original work, the summer exams for first-year students. There's still a lot of content to write about later.

I apologize again to all the readers who enjoyed this book. I'm sorry, it was my fault.

This book will resume updating on January 1st.

As the title suggests, I've finished writing everything for the new book. I'll take a couple of days off to rest, and then I'll reorganize and reorganize the plot and outline of this book.

The other Kitagawa Ryo has already finished his harem saga; it's time to start saving Ryo, who's still causing trouble on the deserted island.

Thank you to all the readers who have been willing to wait until now. I will continue to write this book with all my heart until its completion.

Chapter 220: Preparations for the Final Task

The special exams held by the first-year students of Tokyo Advanced Educational Junior High School on a deserted island during their first summer vacation have reached their tenth day, marking the second half of the exams that are gradually coming to an end.

After secretly meeting with his classmate Amasawa Ichika in the early hours of the morning, Kitagawa Ryo got up early as usual to start his morning exercise. After exercising for about half an hour, he ran back to his group's camp at a steady pace while quickly summarizing the information he had gathered so far in this special exam.

In the week leading up to this special exam on the deserted island, Kitagawa Ryo devised and his group implemented an exam strategy to upgrade their "discount" cards to the highest level possible in order to provide logistical support for the entire class and maximize their scores and group and class rankings.

Kiyotaka Ayanokouji, who also held a [Discount] card, shared a similar idea. However, since he had recruited all four special card holders on the island—Megumi Karuizawa, Ichika Amasawa, Hiyori Shiina, and Sho Ryuen—into his camp through various means, he was ahead of them in terms of card leveling. Even though the school had taken subtle measures against him, his [Discount] card had already reached level twelve, allowing him to enjoy a 20% discount on resources.

However, after gathering intelligence through their respective channels and reflecting on the school's unusual change in the format of the exam in the second week, they gradually realized the school's ideas and arrangements for designing the final exam topic for this special test. The two of them then tacitly changed their strategies, wanting to leave as many people as possible for their respective classes in the final chapter of the deserted island exam, which resembled a "jungle live-action CS battle," to gain a greater first-mover advantage.

However, just like the unfortunate defeat in the progress of the strategic goals in the first week, compared to Kitagawa Ryo, who had a 20% discount card and had officially established himself as the leader in the class, Ayanokouji Kiyotaka was much inferior in terms of both the control over the class and the material support he could provide. He had no way to stop the students of Class A from continuing to participate in the project.

Rather than saying this is a deliberate scheme by the school, although if you fall to the last place in the project, one person will be eliminated, the process of participating in the project—obtaining points and resources—saving points as much as possible to improve the ranking—ending the exam has been firmly ingrained in the students' thinking habits over the past week or so. Participating in the project can give you a chance to score points, so what's the point of just wasting resources and points on the island until the exam ends if you don't participate in the project?

Moreover, the students in Class A were confident in their abilities and scoring efficiency, so even though Kiyotaka Ayanokouji had informed Kohei Katsuragi, the class's apparent leader, beforehand, he still couldn't change the situation.

It can be said that, with the help of the completely trustworthy spy Hirata Yosuke and the barely usable spy Kushida Kikyo, the entire picture of Class A was completely transparent to Kitagawa Ryo from the very first day of the special exam.

Based on the number of students eliminated as announced by the school two days ago, the number of students still on the deserted island for the special exam on the tenth day has been reduced from the initial 150 to 82. Among the remaining students, Class D, which initially had the fewest students among the four classes, has now become the class with the most remaining students, with a full 27 students still alive. Class A and Class B, which have higher overall quality, have 25 and 20 students respectively, while Class C has only a pitiful 10 students left. This is even with the addition of Long Yuanxiang, who is still under investigation by the school. Otherwise, it would have been a dismal single digit.

However, Kitagawa Ryo could understand. After all, the current Class C was not the same Class C he had taught back then. Ryuen Sho, the leader, had only been "confined" by the school for two days, and the students in Class C had already started to run wild. After all, the punishment of expulsion for the last place was taken by their own leader who had the "resurrection" card. Struggling on this deserted island to earn a few more points was not as comfortable as being directly eliminated and going on vacation on a cruise ship.

In short, since Long Yuanxiang is far away and the authorities can't control him, they'll just say he didn't compete in certain topics. Besides, Long Yuanxiang himself might be in trouble after being involved in the assault incident. For many C-class students who are secretly dissatisfied with Long Yuanxiang's behavior, they are probably praying that the school can take him down and expel him.

From this perspective, Kiyotaka Ayanokouji's move against Ryuen Sho was not problematic, because Class C was similar to Class B in some ways. The core of the class was only focused on Karuizawa Megumi and Ryuen Sho. Moreover, compared to the loving Class B, the situation in Class C was undoubtedly much worse. That's why when Ryuen Sho himself was involved in the incident and unable to give orders for a short time, apart from a few students like Ishizaki Daichi who were still trying, the rest of the students in the class scattered like birds and beasts.

Thinking back, Kitagawa Ryo vaguely remembered that when he was in Class C, participating in the deserted island exam, Ryuen Sho's initial battle plan involved the two class leaders taking on all the dirty and hard work. Now it seems that Ryuen Sho in reality is still implementing the same philosophy. Whether it's called the responsibility of a leader or a lack of trust in the other classmates, Kitagawa Ryo has no intention of judging other people's ideas. He just feels that Ryuen Sho's approach will have some kind of irreversible impact on the future of Class C.

In fact, Hiyori Shiina, who is now in Class C, had talked to him about this topic before. Although she has always been aloof and indifferent, she has made close friends like Mio Ibuki in the class this semester. Therefore, she can also feel the influence of Ryuen Sho's style of doing things on the whole class and students.

It's important to understand that while Class C had the most delinquent boys and girls among the four classes, not all of the thirty-nine students who were expelled at the time were delinquents. It's just that Ryuen Sho preferred to promote these simple-minded and impulsive students, making them act according to his requirements and instructions.

This is essentially a manifestation of Ryuen Sho's 'class dictatorship'. Unlike Katsuragi Kohei of Class A, who often consults Ayanokoji Kiyotaka, or Karuizawa Megumi of Class B, who appoints Kanzaki Ryuji as vice class representative to assist in class management, he doesn't seek advice from others. This leads to a distorted ecosystem where if the class succeeds in a special exam, he takes all the credit, and if it fails, he bears all the responsibility. In every respect, he is the most peculiar of the four first-year classes.

Thinking of this, Kitagawa Ryo sighed with a touch of melancholy. After all, compared to Class A and Class B, he still had some feelings for Class C. Even disregarding the talent that increased Class C's initial favorability towards him in that mock exam, his impression of Ryuen Sho, Ishizaki Daichi, and Ibuki Mio was actually not bad. Moreover, Shiina Hiyori was now in Class C of the first year, and he still hoped that Hiyori could spend her three years of high school life as smoothly and happily as possible.

Of course, if the situation in Class C really deteriorates to an uncontrollable point in the future, Kitagawa Ryo wouldn't mind bringing Hiyori to Class D. After all, raising 20 million personal points is not a difficult task for him. He can obtain a large number of personal points through the contract with Class A last time just for this special exam on the deserted island.

It has to be said that the almost extortionate contract he proposed could only yield the greatest benefit from Class A of the first year, since the terms were quite harsh: "All personal points earned by the students in this deserted island exam will belong to him."

For most groups that have neither the ability nor the intention to compete for the top three spots, their real goal is the 50,000 personal points reward for each member of the top 50% of the entire grade. However, Kitagawa Ryo's contract doesn't even leave them that much.

If this were in any of the other three classes, it would definitely have produced a lot of students who were unwilling to participate in the projects and give up, but the students in Class A were mostly people who put the interests of the class before their own interests. So even though they knew that no matter how much they tried to improve the group ranking, they would only get zero points in the end, they still put in their best effort to participate in the projects, just to keep the class ranking in first place.

Although Class B managed to extort a batch of points and resources from Class A on the seventh day of the exam, allowing them to overtake Class B in the overall class rankings, the score gap between the two classes had been reduced to a very small number due to Class A's shared indignation over the Hashimoto Masayoshi incident. In addition, Karuizawa Megumi, who also learned about the final project from Kitagawa Ryo, intentionally reduced the frequency of Class B students' participation in the project. It seemed that Class B could be overtaken again at any time. This was another key reason why Ayanokoji Kiyotaka and Katsuragi Kohei could not persuade their class members to slow down.

Of course, based on Kitagawa Ryo's understanding of Ayanokouji Kiyotaka, the other party might not even care how many people Class A could retain before the final project began. Rather, this masterpiece of the White Room preferred to act alone. At least, the other party's proactive attack on the rainy night during the last deserted island incident left a deep impression on Kitagawa Ryo.

After almost confirming that the final topic would be related to live-action CS, Kitagawa Ryo had already mentally assessed the true strength of each class. He didn't think many of the first-year students at Tokyo Advanced Educational High School would have any prior experience in this area, and it was estimated that very few, like Ishizaki Daichi, had been exposed to it before entering the school. With everyone being complete newcomers, the number of people would undoubtedly become the most crucial factor affecting the balance of victory.

However, this category does not include him and Kiyotaka Ayanokouji. Although in his memory, the White Room did not teach any knowledge or courses on firearms and shooting, live-action CS itself is not about real guns and ammunition. Individual physical fitness and team command are the primary factors for winning in this subject.

Having just had a brief sparring session with Kiyotaka Ayanokouji in a free-fighting competition a couple of days ago, Kitagawa Ryo has a deep understanding of Kiyotaka Ayanokouji's physical abilities. Although his overall level is not as high as many of his students who possess gold and purple talents, he is more than capable of overwhelming the rest of the students on the island. Even Amasawa Ichika, who is also a member of the fifth generation of the White Room, probably wouldn't be able to gain an advantage over him.

However, on the other hand, whether it was the White Room and Ayanokouji Atsuomi's instructions, or Ayanokouji Kiyotaka's own personality, since entering school, a semester has passed, and Ayanokouji Kiyotaka has been intentionally concealing and even reducing his presence in Class A for most of the time. He usually operates through Katsuragi Kohei, who is the apparent leader of Class A. Most of the time, he is just like an ordinary high school student. Kitagawa Ryo himself can often see him leisurely strolling around the shopping center when he is at school.

If Kiyotaka Ayanokouji still intends to continue with this strategy in the special exam on the deserted island, it means that even at the final stage, even with Class A in a precarious situation, he is unlikely to reveal his true strength. In a way, this is good news for Class A.

However, it is precisely because of this that he needs to be more vigilant in guarding against the other party's actions in the shadows. If possible, it would be best to force Ayanokouji Kiyotaka into the most conspicuous and open position.