But the next second, this calmness was broken.
"Hey..."
Following this sudden burst of laughter, Ichinose Honami's cheeks began to swell again.
However, this trend was stopped before it formed, as a warm hand gently covered the girl's head.
"Actually, I didn't mean to laugh at you just now. I just wanted to comfort you, but Ichinose, your angry look was so funny that I couldn't help but laugh out loud...really."
Wu Yi explained sincerely while stroking him.
But Ichinose probably didn't hear a word she said. She subconsciously narrowed her eyes under the gentle touch, revealing an expression of enjoyment, and a slight humming sound came from her throat.
Wow~ I really feel like I'm petting a cat.
Wu Yi thought.
It didn't take long, the two of them remained in this state for about ten seconds.
The main reason is that this kind of thing is really too weird. Touching a girl's head in public, and the girl looks like she is enjoying it, will easily attract the attention of other students.
Although no one has a mobile phone nowadays and thus their gossips are not likely to be recorded and uploaded to school forums, it should be noted that gossip existed long before the advent of the Internet and smartphones.
By then, everyone will spread the story by word of mouth, and who knows what outrageous stuff it might become.
At least he couldn't escape the label of "Vice President of the Student Union openly taking advantage of female classmates", and he was immediately criticized.
"what……"
Feeling the warmth above her head fading away, Ichinose Hoba woke up instantly and sat up straight.
She nervously turned her head quickly to the left and right, and only after making sure that no one was paying attention to her did she breathe a sigh of relief with a slightly blushing cheek.
"U-Um, classmate Wu Yi, take your time eating. I have to leave first."
"OK, go ahead."
Without any further attempts to persuade him to stay, Wu Yi nodded in agreement, not forgetting to add one more sentence.
"Pay attention to rest."
"Yeah, I'm fine now."
Ichinose Honami nodded hurriedly and was about to get up and leave but then stopped, wanting to say something.
"Student Wu Yi, tomorrow you will..."
After waiting for a long time without any further news, Wu Yi stopped eating and looked up.
"What's going on tomorrow?"
"No, no, no, it's nothing! I'm leaving now, see you later!"
Shaking her head quickly, Ichinose Hoba said a simple goodbye and trotted away, leaving Wu Yi sitting alone at the table, eating a shrimp ball with a speechless look on her face.
This girl, why did she run away in the middle of her conversation?
Volume 206: Chapter Truth or Dare
Since the grouping session for the boys, which was supposed to last until the evening, was completely completed in the morning, everyone had nothing to do from noon on.
For the entire afternoon, the boys basically wandered around the range of the forest school to familiarize themselves with the environment.
Although this school is much larger than other forest schools, it is just a school built in the mountains after all. It cannot be compared with Gaoyu High School in terms of area or richness of content.
There isn't that much space in total, so you can visit it all in just a quick walk.
So, time finally came to the even more torturous evening.
"I can't sleep...it's so painful..."
In the boys' dormitory, Ishizaki was lying on the lower bunk bed, with one arm sticking out from the fence and hanging weakly on the cold ground.
It is just past eight o'clock now. Looking outside through the window, the glass looks like it has been sprayed with ink. It is pitch black no matter from which angle you look at it.
If it just gets dark early, it wouldn't be surprising. Due to the terrain, it gets dark much earlier in the mountains than in the city.
But the problem is that there are no lights outside this forest school at night.
This directly leads to the situation that even if students need to get up at night to go to the toilet, they must use a flashlight, otherwise there will be no light in the toilet in the middle of the night.
The school did provide each dormitory with a few flashlights, which at least ensured that there was no problem getting up to go to the bathroom at night.
However, as for going out for a walk at night with a flashlight, this is not very realistic, because these flashlights will be used for a week, so they have to be used sparingly.
As if he felt the same way as Ishizaki, Hashimoto, who was lying on the upper bunk, sat up and suggested.
"Since we can't sleep anyway, how about getting up and chatting?"
"…What do you want to talk about?"
"Anything is fine."
"There is no such thing as anything like that."
Feeling that he couldn't come up with a good topic, Ishizaki sighed and turned over from lying on his stomach to lying on his back.
At this time, Shi Ren, who was in the upper bunk in Class A on the other side, spoke up.
"Come to think of it, I have a good idea. Why don't we talk about what we want to do after graduation, based on the premise of 'graduating successfully from Class A'."
"..."
As soon as these words were spoken, most eyes in the dormitory instantly focused on him. Even Kouenji, who had been lying on his bed looking at himself in the mirror since dinner, couldn't help but sneer.
Blatant sarcasm, right?
It’s as if everyone knows that your Class A was promoted from the original Class B.
"No, no, no, that's not what I meant. I was just suggesting it."
Seeing that everyone's faces were gradually becoming unfriendly, Shi Ren realized that he had said something wrong and immediately waved his hands to explain, and his companion Moriyama also helped to apologize.
After a while, Hashimoto Masayoshi took the lead in changing the subject.
"If it were me, if I could graduate from Class A, I would hope to be able to start playing football again."
Playing football...
No one was surprised by Hashimoto's words.
The main thing is that this guy looks like a football player, with a standard Mohawk hairstyle, a flashy yellow ponytail at the back of his head, a slightly dark complexion, and a tall and thin figure. When he steps on a football and walks there, he looks like a real football star.
"Start over? Did Hashimoto give up football before?" Yahiko Totsuka was a little curious.
"Well... there was a time when I did."
Hashimoto was vague and obviously didn't want to answer the question.
"So who's next?"
"……Um?"
Ishizaki was still thinking about this question seriously, but suddenly he found that everyone was looking at him, so he could only cough lightly to pretend to be serious.
"As for me, I'll probably learn boxing."
"Oh~"
Several people drew out their notes.
It was still a reasonable answer. Basically everyone in the grade knew that Ishizaki was a well-known local gangster when he was in junior high school. Fighting was commonplace for him, and his brain was not very good. If he wanted to find a stable job that could make use of his strengths in the future, learning fighting and becoming a coach for children would be a good choice.
“It still doesn’t feel right.”
Moriyama scratched his head.
"I feel like the answers are all too conventional, nothing surprising."
"Indeed, we need to change someone."
Hashimoto nodded in agreement as his eyes wandered around, finally landing on someone.
"Huh? Is it my turn so soon?"
Wu Yi ate the melon on himself, closed the magazine in his hand and sat up.
"Well, I know you guys want to hear something exciting, but my answer is probably similar to Ishizaki's."
Uh, it seems to be true?
For example, Ishizaki has a good fighting background, so as long as he undergoes systematic training, he won't be far behind.
As for Wu Yi... this guy is simply extremely good at fighting. It wasn't long ago that he defeated forty people alone at the sports festival.
Since he has such amazing physical fitness, it doesn't necessarily mean he will end up moving bricks on a construction site, right?
"Actually, I think instead of talking about this, you might as well just start playing Truth or Dare," Wu Yi suggested.
"That makes sense. The rule is that the last person to speak can name the next person to ask a question."
Hashimoto Masayoshi took over immediately.
"So, would you like to choose truth or dare, Wu Yi?"
"I...speak the truth."
Wu Yi was a little too lazy to get up from the bed and take the risk.
"Very good. Then Ishizaki-san, please ask your questions."
Hashimoto Masayoshi rubbed his hands a little excitedly and gave a look to Ishizaki who was lying on the lower bunk opposite him.
Although he didn't understand at all, Ishizaki nodded solemnly.
"Actually, I don't have anything else to ask. I'm just a little curious about why you chose to come to this school."
"Well...if you insist on asking that, then my answer will probably disappoint you again."
Wu Yi looked nonchalant.
"My old man simply wanted me to find a few more partners in school and enjoy campus life, so I came here."
Huh? Just to find more partners?
Upon hearing this answer, everyone had an expression somewhere between dumbfounded and an old man talking on his cell phone on the subway.
"Okay, okay, next one."
Wu Yi clapped his hands vigorously to divert other people's attention. After looking around for a while, he finally looked at Long Yuan who was sleeping on the upper bunk diagonally opposite.
"Internet Cafe God of War, aren't you going to say a few words?"
"……I?"
Ryuuen, who was named, also sat up with an inexplicable smile on his face.
"Okay, I'll choose truth too. What do you want to ask?"
"It doesn't matter. Anything is fine. Let's do something exciting."
Wu Yi strongly encouraged.
"Amazing... Ha, what a coincidence, I think I actually know one."
Under everyone's gaze, Ryuuen's smile widened further.
"If I say that Ichinose Honami once had an unforgivable dark past, would you believe it?"
Volume 207: Chapter : Crazy slacking off!
Most of the other people naturally took a skeptical attitude towards the rumors about Ryuuen. Moriyama and Tokito from Class A were the first to stand up and say that such a thing did not exist at all.
Only Ishizaki, the flatterer, asked a few more questions, but all he got was a mysterious smile from Ryuen, without any detailed explanation.
In short, the one-night training camp without mobile phones or internet ended with the truth or dare game, which was a great icebreaker.
Time passed quickly and it was the next day. It was exactly six o'clock in the morning, and a burst of light music sounded appropriately from the dormitory radio.
"What kind of music is this? It's so loud!"
Ishizaki's eyes were still closed, but his mouth opened first. He complained loudly and sat up suddenly from the bed in a daze... Then he hit his head on the bottom of the upper bunk with a clang, and his voice stopped abruptly.
"……Are you OK?"
Moriyama, who was lying on the upper bunk, had just woken up and was still half asleep. Feeling the vibration caused by the collision beneath him, he bent down and asked with concern.
