After all the 100-meter races for the three grades were finished, the school immediately started preparing the track for the next event, the 110-meter hurdles.
In the meantime, the students had a 10-minute break, and the school began to calculate the scores from the first 100-meter race.
After each event, the school announced the current scores of the two teams.
Red Team: 2013 points, White Team: 1911 points.
Although Class B and Class C of the first year, who were on the White team, were holding down Class A and Class D of the Red Team, the White Team seemed to be having a harder time in the upper grades.
There was no way around it. The events in the sports festival were mostly about physical ability.
Class A in the second year and Class A in the third year were better at sports than the other classes. Plus, their classes had Nagumo Miyabi and Horikita Manabu, two solid leaders. It was only natural that they were ahead.
The worst situation had appeared.
This sports festival wasn't something that a single class could easily change, because the scores from the upper grades counted too.
But it didn't matter. Kamio Tatsuya and Ryuen didn't really care about winning anyway.
If they could win, great. If they lost, it was no big deal.
The most important goal of this sports festival was to beat Class D.
After Kamio Tatsuya's persuasion, Ryuen gave up on physically attacking Class D. Instead, he decided to hurt them mentally.
The method was simple.
Just let Kamio Tatsuya, who left Class D, keep winning.
If Kamio Tatsuya stood out in this sports festival, it would be a silent way of making fun of Class D.
And that's how it was going.
Originally, when the students in Class D saw that Kamio Tatsuya was in the same group as Sudou, they were secretly hoping to see Kamio Tatsuya fail.
But when they saw Kamio Tatsuya beat Sudou and get first place, that secret hope disappeared instantly, and they felt huge regret.
How could they have forced someone so amazing over to the enemy?
Some people even started whispering about others in Class D, like Yamauchi and Shinohara, because most of the students in Class D thought it was their stupid actions that made Kamio Tatsuya leave Class D.
And that was exactly what Kamio Tatsuya wanted to see.
The second event, the hurdles, was starting now. Kamio Tatsuya was still the first to go. As Class C's star player, he was in lane 3, and Sudou was in lane 4.
As for the other lanes, they were basically filled with nobodies compared to those two.
The fight for first place was between those two.
In the hurdles, besides the normal time, there were two extra rules: hitting a hurdle would add 0.5 seconds, and touching a hurdle would add 0.3 seconds.
As expected, Kamio Tatsuya won again by a small amount. But this time, Kamio Tatsuya didn't make fun of Sudou. He just smiled and got ready to leave.
But Sudou's condition was clearly off.
"Hey! Kamio! What do you mean by this?"
"What do I mean?" Kamio Tatsuya asked with a confused smile. "Sorry, I don't really understand what you're saying. You look pretty mad."
"Don't play dumb with me!" Sudou was obviously getting angry, his face red. "You didn't even use your full strength, right?"
"I see, so you're not mad about losing to me."
Kamio Tatsuya raised an eyebrow. He thought that while Sudou was still easy to anger, he seemed a little different than before.
"I lost to you because I'm not as good, there's nothing to say about it! I can take a loss!" Sudou stared hard at Kamio Tatsuya. "But what's with only being a little bit ahead of me every time? Are you looking down on me?"
Kamio Tatsuya looked at Sudou's serious face, then smiled slightly.
"I just need to win against you. There are still a lot of events left, I don't want to waste my energy."
Besides the girls' ball-throwing event, Kamio Tatsuya had a total of eight events to participate in that morning.
He was confident in his speed, but his stamina was only at five points. If he used too much energy at the beginning, he might not be able to stay at his best later.
So he wasn't going to get worked up.
The hurdles took longer than the 100-meter race.
Most students weren't as good at sports as Kamio Tatsuya and Sudou. It was a little too much to ask them to do hurdles.
So Class C made a plan from the start. Instead of trying to do the hurdles, they would just give up, push the hurdles over, and run to the finish line as fast as they could.
Since this was the plan from the beginning, the students in Class C didn't feel bad about it.
The other classes copied Class C. The ones who were good at sports did their thing, but the ones who weren't just pushed over the hurdles and ran to the finish line.
In the second event, the hurdles, just like in the first event, the 100-meter race, Class C managed to draw Sudou and Horikita.
As for Hirata, Ryuen sent Komiya to stop him, but Hirata wasn't easy to beat. Although he lost the hurdles because of his height, he still won the 100-meter race.
After the event, Hirata found Ayanokouji, who was in the same group.
"The situation is not good. Sudou has been in the same group as Kamio-kun twice in a row, and I've fought Komiya from Class C twice too."
"Not only that, but Horikita is in the same group as Yajima from Class C this time."
Ayanokouji looked at the girls' group that was about to start.
"Are you saying that our entry list has been leaked?"
Ayanokouji nodded, "It's possible."
What do you mean possible?
Ayanokouji knew very well that the entry list had been leaked, because he was the one who gave it to Ryuen.
Besides the goal of causing chaos among the first three classes, which Kamio Tatsuya had expected, he had another goal.
When he gave the entry lists to Class A and Class B, he provided some proof that the lists were real.
But for Class C, he just gave the entry list to Ryuen.
Now, it seemed that Ryuen had used his information to adjust Class C's entry list.
In other words, Ryuen believed the entry list was real without any proof.
Given Ryuen's suspicious nature, that was basically impossible.
But the facts were in front of him. He believed the entry list, so there must be some kind of proof that made him believe it was real.
Considering what had happened recently, Ayanokouji had reason to believe that Kamio Tatsuya had provided that proof.
In other words, he really had left a spy in Class D.
Who was this spy?
Kushida Kikyo?
He still remembered what he had seen that night. Kamio Tatsuya had undoubtedly grabbed Kushida's weakness.
Did he use that weakness to make Kushida obey?
Or did he have other spies besides Kushida?
For Class D, if they couldn't find the spy that Kamio Tatsuya had placed in Class D, they would definitely be at a disadvantage when facing Class C.
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