"Ah, that annoying bitch" Someone damned behind the tree in the forest. I remembered her sound.

Kushida Kikyo.

She was kicking the tree and prayed the cursed.

"That annoying bitch! What's wrong with only a toilet? Are you an idiot?" I was sure that the person whom Kushida cursed was Shinohara. I prepared to walk away without messing with her. But Her next line made me stop.

"That wordless big boob too! You just step in and get attention from the men! Damn you. You have nothing but that pretty face and that big boob, and you become popular? Do you know how much time and effort I take to gain the trust of those idiots?"

Okay, Kushida. I might be simp on you. But no one would shit talk to my little Sakura. I walked out of the shadow of the forest, confronting Kushida. She turned her face to me. That girl didn't even surprise when she saw me.

"It's always you, isn't it? Bastard Ayanokouji." Kushida walked closer to me.

"I don't want to have a problem, okay? I just don't want you to insult Sakura. She's trying to change herself."

"Oh, Do you change your boss now? Last time, I told me to not mess with Horikita."

"They both are my friend. " Although Horikita didn't think that. "I understand why you are angry at Shinohara and Horikita though. Even I was often anger at Horikita. But Sakura--please, how can you hate her?"

Kushida laughed.

"What a double standard? I hate everyone who makes me displeased. I hate you because you try to act like a good guy but you can't resist the truth that you're a rascal. I hate Horikita because she acts arrogant and thinks she's superior to everyone else. I hate that trio idiot because they're idiots. I hate Hirata because I am sicked that he tries to make a fake peace in the class. I hate Karuizawa because she always acts shit. I hate Shinohara because she's annoying. I hate Hondo because he always talks about his health problem without context. I hate Koenji because he's fucking narcissist. I hate Matsushita because her ears were so scary. I hate Mii-Chan because I hate loli. I hate Yukimura because he's like Horikita. I hate Chabashira-Sensei because that bitch never helps our class. And I hate Sakura because I don't want anyone else to steal my popular!"

She glared at me with scary eyes. "But don't worry, Ayanokouji-Kun. I won't do anything to Sakura. Although she make me angry this time. The boys will lose their attention to her when time passes. She isn't the bright cute girl who loves everyone like me."

I sighed. "I hope so. At least you just cursed her."

"Right. There is someone else you have to beware of if you want to protect your little Sakura." Kushida said. "Leader in a herd need to conquer the new strong herd's member to prove its strength. Sakura is the best prey."

"What do you mean?" I raised my eyebrows.

"Mo, don't ask me too much, Ayanokouji-Kun." She changed to her cute tone. "Secret makes a woman be a woman."

Kushida giggled and reached her hand to me. "And don't tell anyone what you see. There was no CCTV in this forest."

She tried to grab my hand, but I moved my hand away. Kushida tried to grab it again and I could escape her hand again.

"I don't miss twice," I told her. Suddenly her tears came out of her eyes.

"Uwa! Ayanokouji No Baka! Why don't you let me blackmail you!? I hate you!"

She cried and ran away like a child.

What the hell was going on?

I shrugged my shoulder and continue finding Ike. Although Kushida's word was stuck in my head.

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I met Ike sitting down at the riverside. He looked into the water. He was rolling a little rock distraughtly.

"Hi, Ike. " I called him.

"Oh, Ayanokouji? Why're you here?"Ike asked me.

"Horikita told me to follow you. " I told him the truth. "She said you'll be useful for the class."

Ike smiled.

"Is that so?"

He threw a rock into the river. It bounced on the surface for one, two, three, four, five...ten, eleven, twelve,..., twenty, twenty-five, thirty, thirty-six.

Thirty-six times! Holy Shit!

"Tch. " Ike clicked his tongue. "It's too less."

I decided to not ask how many times he considered as enough.

"Are you familiar with outdoor activities?" I asked him.

"When I was young, I often went camping with my family. So I know that the river is clean or not." He explained.

"Why don't you tell them? I think if they knew you have an experience, they'll trust you more."

Ike shrugged his shoulder.

"Getting used to camping isn't something you can be proud of. They'll ignore it though." He sighed.

"I think Shinohara hates me. No, every girl hates me."

"No, at least, Sato doesn't hate you."

The idiot trio and I had a group chat. In that group, there was Sato too. Sato was close with many guys. If we didn't count Horikita or Kushida. Sato was Ike's closest female friend.

"Oi, Kanji! Ayanokouji!"

I heard Yamauchi yelling from behind. I and Ike turned our faces and saw Yamauchi running in this direction.

"What's up? Haruki!" Ike asked him.

"Hondo can fix the toilet now. " Yamauchi reported.

"Great. Shinohara will shut up now."

Yamauchi looked uncomfortable.

"But they decided about the tent. " He said. "The girls will sleep in that two tents and we'll sleep outside."

"Outdoor. " Ike wasn't angry as I expected. "I can stand it though, we have to praise our girls, right?"

"Maybe we can pay the points for tents, " I suggested. "If we buy two tents, we'll lose only 20 points."

Ike just laughed. "I won't knee to Shinohara to ask for pay point. I want to save it as much as possible."

This man was more intolerant than I thought.

"Oh, and Hirata told us to find some firewood, I don't dare to go into the forest by myself. " Yamauchi scratched his head.

"So three of us should go together then. " Ike said. We nodded as agreed.

We walked into the wood. Luckily, it was a day so we could see a way clearly. This forest was overgrown. I didn't want to walk in the night for sure.

"Say Haruki. " Ike spoke up while breaking a branch. "Why do you seem to not interested in Kushida anymore lately?"

"Well. She is too high. I think no one of us can reach her. " Yamauchi explained. "But Sakura, damn. She never met a guy before. I felt like she is the beauty who close her heart. If I can open it, I will get you very easy."

Sorry, Yamauchi. I opened it before.

"About it. Ayanokouji. Can you help me some?" Yamauchi asked me.

"Sure."

"Can you be my wingman for Sakura?"

"What do you mean?"

"Well. Just compliment me in front of her or permit me and Sakura to be alone."

I shook my head. Sakura has a communication disorder. It would be bad if I left her alone with some random guy.

"Don't push too hard. Yamauchi. You have to make Sakura trust you first." I told him. "If you and Sakura are closer. I will help you for sure."

And you had to be a man who I can trust. Yamauchi's words sound like he just liked Sakura because he was hopeless with Kushida. I hoped he would like Sakura from his heart someday.

Man, I felt like the Siscon brother who cherished his sister too much.

"Watch out, Ayanokouji. This branch was too wet, you see?" Ike said after he saw me take a branch from the floor.

"Also Yamauchi. You should take leaves as much as you can." He commanded his friend.

"Why?"

"If you burned the leaves in the fire, it'll make more smoke. We can use it as a signal light. To make us go back to the camp easier."

Ike looked professional while he chose the branch and told us to do something. He looked completely different from a pervert ship trash I used to know.

If Shinohara and other girls saw Ike's this time. They would give him more respect.

I sighed while collecting the branch that laying on the bush. Then, I saw something. I put the branches on the ground and pulled something hidden by the bush.

It was tents. Two bags of tents.

"Ike, Yamauchi. Come here. " I called them. Two of three idiots ran toward me. They were surprised when they saw bags of tents.

"What's this!?" Yamauchi exclaimed.

"Tents. You saw it, idiot. " Ike mumbled.

"If we take these tents with us, we can use it for man's tents. " I said.

"I don't know, Ayanokouji---" Ike looked hesitate. "What if this was other classes'? We'll be thieves. If I didn't miss anything, stealing from other classes has a punishment."

I shook my head. "I don't think other classes own this. Look, There was a note on the bags."

It was a post-it paper. I held it and read it out loud.

5 August 2010

I, Toshiba, and Suzuki just finished folding the tents. We reached a meeting point.

After we were attacked by something in the forest. Everyone wants to quit the test. But Shirogane convinced us to stay. Because of something in the wood. We decided to move the camp to the beach. We don't want other classes to know about our evacuation. So we decided to separate into 8 groups.

Shirogane, Shinomiya, and Fujiwara will lead 6 groups to the beach first. Then, Kashiwaki will take supplies and baggage to the meeting point, waiting for us, the last group. Finally, we will fold the tent and meet them at the meeting point.

But it was an hour and we haven't found Kashiwaki's group yet. They were supposed to wait for us. I called Shirogane by walky-talky. But Kashiwaki hasn't reached the beach too. Suddenly, the walky-talky broke for no reason. Toshiba found Kashiwaki's shoes. He was worried because Kashiwaki was his best friend. He went into the forest and never came back again.

I decided to stay here until Kashiwaki came back. But until the sun dawn. They still didn't come. Finally, I and Suzuki gave up and headed to the beach. But as soon as we stepped into the wood. Something started chasing us.

Suzuki fell, I tried to help him. But something reached him first.

I'm sorry about it.

Now, I'm hiding in the bush. I am writing this note because I want someone to know what happened to us. If someone finds this note, Get out of this island as fast as---

The last sentence didn't finish. The blood smeared the last word.

"So, it was our senpai's from 2010?" Ike said.

"Technically, they already left it. So we can use it. It wasn't stealing." I nodded.

"This's great. Good job, Ayanokouji."

"Are you insane!?" Yamauchi shouted.

"Woh. Yamauchi, I know we're closer lately. But I don't like you calling me insane. I have a heart too, you know?" I said sadly.

"What the hell are you talking about!? Didn't you read the note!?"

"Yes, we read. And it said these tents came from 2010." Ike said.

"Where are your eyes!? It said there is something on this island. Something's very dangerous!"

Ike and I looked at each other and shrugged our shoulders.

"Anyway. Let's go back to the camp. " We decided to ignore Yamauchi's nonsense word. Although he didn't stop talking.

We walked for a meter when I felt something.

"What happened, Ayanokouji? Your face looked bad." Ike asked me with worried. He looked around and said. "Wait, why do I smell the girl around here?"

"I feel dizzy. " I mumbled while rubbing my head.

"It must be because of the weather. It's hot here." Ike said.

I couldn't reply to him, it was like my blood didn't go to my head, my leg feel exhausted.

"Ayanokouji!" Ike and Yamauchi called my name out loud.

"Ouch. What the hell!?"

Wait, why did I hear the girl scream?

I opened my eyes and found I fell into the bush. And I was lapping on the girl!

I knew why I felt dizzy now. It was because of her! My H.A.R.E.M. protagonist factor forced me to fall on the girl's body although I didn't see her.

"When will you get off me?" She asked glumpy.

"Sorry. " I said and got off her. The girl stood up. She was a girl with petite figures and short blue hair. She looked at us unfriendly.

"I know it, I smell a girl!" Ike said. "Wait. What happened to your face?"

When Ike said it, I could see it now. The bruise appeared on that girl's face.

"Oi, Ayanokouji! How dare you hurt this little girl's face!" Yamauchi grabbed my shirt but that girl stopped him.

"It's not because you fell. My classmate hurt me. " She said.

"Oh, I see." Ike pursed his lips.

"It's just a conflict in class C though." The girl shook her head. "I'll go now."

The girl turned around and grabbed the bag from behind the bush. She opened the bag and look inside.

"Damn. it's broken. It must be the falling." She mumbled to herself.

Yamauchi pulled my shirt.

"Oi. Ayanokouji, Ike. Shouldn't we help her?"

"Yeah. She looked so pitiful. Maybe she was fired from her camp." Ike nodded.

"It seemed to be like that. " I admitted. "But we can't her help her. As she said, it was a conflict in class C."

"Why don't we ask her to stay with us in the camp?" Yamauchi suggested.

"Good idea! Haruki. And if we keep her in our camp, class C will lose 5 points every time they have a report. Kill 2 birds with one rock!" Ike agreed with his friend.

I turned my glance to that girl. I couldn't let a girl in a forest alone though. It would decrease my Poonya for sure.

"Hey---" I called her. She turns back to me. "Well, Uh---"

"Ibuki." She told me his name.

"Ibuki. I'm Ayanokouji. These are Ike and Yamauchi. We're from class D. If you don't have a place to go, why don't you come with us?"

Ibuki looked at us and said. "Are you insane? I'm class C. I'm your enemy. You don't think I will be a spy."

"You're Chuunibyo or something?" Ike shook his head and imitate her. "I'm Ibuki of class C. Everyone on this island is my enemy. I have to destroy them! I'm a spy trained for 10 years, I know how to invasion in enemy's army and I've killed people too--Come on. We're just the normal high-schoolers! Don't speak like we're in the space empire civil war."

Ibuki opened her mouth as trying to argue, but then, she shut her mouth. Ike's words sounded reasonable but unreasonable at the same time. According to logic, it's right. But I felt it's actually wrong for some reason.

"Are your class really okay with that?" Ibuki looked interested in our offer.

"Sure. Kushida-Chan, the center of our class, is very kind. She'll accept you." Ike said.

"Our class leader too. Hirata is a good guy. He'll help you." Yamauchi supported.

Ibuki sighed.

"You guys are very insane, you know? You're too kind. Fine, I'll go with you."

Yamauchi and Ike yelled Yes! and led her to our camp.

But before we reached the camp. I handed a piece of paper to Ibuki.

The girl from class C looked at me with confusion.

"What's it?"

"Look by yourself," I said in a monotone voice. "And do what it said, or you'll regret sure."

Ibuki still looked at me with doubtful eyes. She turned her stare to the head of the paper.

You're the lucky one who'll join class 1-D for a week on this island. But please remember. If you don't keep the rule, someone bad will happen to you for sure.

Rule no.1----

"What the fuck is your class?" Ibuki mumbled.

"Defect. Ibuki. Defect." I answered her.

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After the spark appeared, the wood that we lay down before every tent started blazing. The orange light was afire under the last light of day.

"Here comes the light!" Ike smiled while rubbing his hands together. Sakura, Yamauchi, and I were surrounding the bonfire.

Good job, Ike-Kun!

Sakura wrote it down in her notebook.

"Nah, it's elementary." Ike smiled while scratching his head. He put the thin branches into the bonfire to make it brazer and the leaves to make more smoke. "We need to use a thin branch first, then you can put the larger one in."

After we reached the camp, we explained the situation to Hirata. He accepted Ibuki and asked the teacher about the tents. Chabashira-Sensei told us it didn't against the rule. So we man had a home now.

Kushida's group came back from finding the fruit at 17.23. When Kushida saw the bonfire she exclaimed with impression.

"Wow. Thank you, Ayanokouji-Kun!" She said.

"Not me. It's Ike's credit."

"Really, Ike-Kun?"

Kushida and some girls complimented Ike. He seemed to be accepted from our class now. Since we came back. Ike helped other people to do a lot of things. He showed his knowledge about forests and outdoor activities. For him, everything was going so well.

But Shinohara still stood far from Ike and denied communicating with him. Maybe she was like Ike. She was too intolerant.

Suddenly, everyone in the room was shocked when Ike walked toward her and said.

"Shinohara, I have to apologize to you."

Even Shinohara was surprised.

"F--For what?"

"About the toilet and water. I think about it, and I feel like I forced you too much. I remember when I go camping for the first time. The toilet was so bad. I felt suffered every time I used it. I forgot the feelings for someone who goes camping for the first time."

When Ike threw his honor away first. Shinohara decided to throw it away too.

"I apologize too. " She said. "I'm too wayward. I should think more about our class's points, right?"

I heard Hirata sigh in relief. Not just him. Everyone in class sighed when the most two bullhead ones of the class could reconcile. The sigh sounded like harmonic music.

The harmonic of harmony.

What a goddamn phrase. I thought to myself.

There was no problem after that. Hirata announced his policy to everyone. His goal was the remaining 160 points in the end. Although using almost half of the points was too extreme until Yukimura protested, but Hirata could explain his idea.

If we bought the food set to everyone for a week. We need to buy 12 suppers. It cost 120 points. If we could bear and didn't eat anything on the last day. We would pay only 110 points. Since we already had a toilet and tents. We didn't need to buy it. And 30 points would be paid for the necessary appliance.

"This is the worst situation. If we can find the water and food enough for each day. We will save around 90-100 points. So in the end, we can have 250-270 points. " Hirata concluded.

Everyone agreed with this plan. When Hirata showed them the lowest and highest goal, it made everyone got the passion to save points as much as possible. Since this was the first day. We bought food sets for today.

About Ibuki. Kushida's group would take care of her. They shared their food with Ibuki. If it wasn't Kushida, I couldn't find anyone else who could do this charity.

Maybe, I should share my food with her too.

After dinner. The classroom's elite or the important person had a meeting to decide our strategy.