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Chapter 129 Part 2

「S, sorry!」

「…! T, that voice!」

「Hmm, so it’s you, Shouko.」

「Y, Yuu-kun!」

「Wow! It’s Yuu-kun!」

「It really is!」

In front of them were the groups from class 1-5, and the person Yuu bumped into from behind was Ueno Shouko. Today she was dressed in the uniform of the softball club she belonged to.

It was a short-sleeved uniform and shorts with no underwear, sporting purple lines on a white background.

Perhaps in part because she was a first-year student, there was no number on the back of her uniform.

Next to her was Shimozono Kayo, who was similarly wearing the football club uniform.

「Oh, so you two are participating, too, Shouko, Kayo.」

「Yup!」

「Mao and Sati are also here.」

「Dear me, they were so close.」

「「Yuu-kun!」」

Now that she mentioned it, he could see that Mao and Sati, who were tall, were about two or three people’s worth away, and when Yuu raised his hand high, they also raised their hands and high-fived him.

The girls nearby also jumped on the bandwagon, raising their hands and exchanging high-fives with Yuu one after another.

Apparently, out of the girls from class 1-5 with whom Yuu had physical relationships, these four and class committee member Aramaki Yoshie were the only ones who had made it through the intra-school preliminary rounds and participated in the main event, and he could see Yoshie a little distance away, surrounded by her classmates.

Mao and Sati were also wearing their respective club uniforms.

Speaking of which, Youko and Kazumi, who always called out Yuu’s name in a cheerful voice whenever they spotted him, had probably failed the preliminary rounds, which was unfortunate.

「Um, Yuu-kun?」

「Hmm?」

「Geez, Shouko, your face is bright red.」

This whole time, Yuu remained sticking close to her back.

Even though it was as crowded as a packed train, the girls at Sairyou, who were given thorough ladies’ education, did not do things like deliberately coming into contact with the boys.

One after another, girls apologized as they got pushed from behind and ended up bumping into them, but the boys also understood the situation, so no one got unreasonably angry.

On the other hand, there were some girls who were feeling lucky and happy for having a boy press his body against them.

In the midst of it, Yuu continued to stick close to Shouko from behind and didn’t let go.

Yuu and Shuoko were about the same height. In front of his face was her nape, which was peeking from between her hair which was parted in two pigtails.

Sticking close to her, he was able to smell her nice scent and feel her buttocks against him, which made him happy.

「Sorry. It must be hot and stuffy, right?」

「No. I don’t mind at all. Not at all.」

If anything, Shouko blushed, as if she was genuinely happy to have Yuu sticking close to her.

「I see, that’s great then.」

「Ahn.」

「Hnn!」

Yuu wrapped his hands around Shouko and Kayo’s backs and put them in a position where the three of them faced each other in a triangle.

He then reached out his right hand to Shouko and his left hand to Kayo’s lower body and started to touch them.

As you would expect from athletic girls, both of them were well-trained in the lower half of their bodies, too.

Even so, their buttocks were soft and elastic, and felt nice to rub.

The area around them was as crowded as a packed train.

Therefore, if he did it down there, no one would know what he was doing.

Even though it was through their shorts, Yuu continued to boldly touch Shouko and Kayo’s buttocks and thighs, as if he were a molester.

「Haan, hnn…」

「Ah… nghh…」

Shouko and Kayo gripped the hem of Yuu’s gym uniform in a reserved manner, and even as they writhed in shame with their faces turning bright red, they felt pleasure in being touched by Yuu.

While they were doing such a thing, it seemed the time limit had arrived.

『Alright, time is up! The correct answer to the first question is true! In addition to the four high schools, Saihou, Saiai, Sairyou, and Sairei, Ayakuni also has a middle school and a junior college. Oh my, it seems that everyone got it right!』

Wow! Everyone let out a cheer.

It appeared that there were some students who were at a loss, but when they saw that everyone was heading for the O, they followed suit, so in the end, no one was left on the other side of the rope, where the X mark was painted on the blue tarp.

In fact, this was where the real event began.

「Say, I was just wondering, but…」

Masaya, who was standing next to Yuu, said.

「Even if you don’t know the answer, if you just follow where everyone else is heading for, there won’t be any wrong groups, will there?」

Masaya’s doubt was justified.

In the high school quiz that Yuu used as the model, the competing teams were chosen from all over the country and didn’t know each other.

Even if they tried to follow another team, they didn’t know which one would get the right answer.

However, since the contestants here were students from the same school, they could follow the smart ones.

In fact, Yuu even looked for Riko, the top student of the third-year class.

Unfortunately, though, not only were the first-year boys and third-year girls so far apart, there were too many people, so he couldn’t find her.

「Well, the questions will probably get harder and harder from here on. We also put that kind of situation into account as we designed this event, so it’d be fine.」

Although he didn’t touch the questions themselves, Yuu himself helped with the planning.

「In any case, the number will be narrowed down to 50 groups in the second round.」

「You’re true. Alright, for now, let’s focus on the next question.」

『Alright. Now then, the second question of the first round. The alma mater of the board director of the Ayakuni Group, Kodama Ayako-shi, was Saitama University. True or false?』

「The heck is that… Do you know, Masaya?」

「Ugh…」

As expected, it seemed that even Masaya couldn’t answer right away.

Even in her speech earlier, the board director hadn’t mentioned the university she graduated from.

This meant that only those who had read the school guide all the way to the profile of the board chairman would know.

The people around them were also confused, and a murmur spread.

「A, at the very least, I don’t think it was Saitama University.」

「Is that so? Well, now that it’s come this, I’ll leave it to you, Masaya!」

Looking around, they could see the contestants splitting into two groups, those who were walking toward the X side, and those who were at a loss, not moving from where they stood.

There was a time limit, so Yuu and Masaya made up their minds and started walking.

Perhaps they thought that they might as well go with Yuu, or perhaps they remembered something about it. Many of the girls from class 1-5 followed behind them.

This time the contestants split up wonderfully, but more gathered at the X side.

『The correct answer to the second question is false! The chairman’s alma mater was Ryusei University!』

Instantly, cheers and cries of disappointment rang out.

Following the announcement and the voices of the students acting as referees, the students on the O side left the track dejectedly.

Yuu breathed a sigh of relief.

If memory serves me correctly, Ryusei was the name of an imperial era from a few years ago, right? It looks like they also use the imperial era names as university names in this world, too. Hmm…? Speaking of imperial era names…

A blonde female student wearing Sairei’s uniform passed by Yuu’s field of vision.

However, she quickly disappeared into the crowd.

Yuu felt like something was stuck inside him.

It felt like the thing had gone up all the way to his throat, but it wouldn’t come out.

It made him feel incredibly frustrated.

The third question was, 『Of the departments at Saihou Junior College, the newest is the Department of International Communication in the Faculty of Sociology, which was established in 1980』.

This was another tricky question that nitpicked on the smallest details.

Only those who had read and memorized the introductory article about the junior college that was attached like an appendix at the end of the school guide would know about it.

Or perhaps those who had been looking things up as they intended to go on to Saihou Junior College.

The correct answer was false.

With the format being a true or false quiz, there were those who had predicted that the next answer would be true, so with their expectation betrayed, many groups were eliminated.

Masaya’s memory was unclear this time as well, but upon spotting Riko, Yuu decided to follow her, so they made it through this question.

It seemed that the third-year girls from Sairyou had gathered around Riko.

Similarly, at the side of Sairei, Li Weifei had formed a group.

After three questions, the contestants, who were once 150 groups or 600 people in total from both schools, seemed to have gone down to about two-thirds.