5.7

"Thanks for the report, you can go back and continue the exam,"

Tsubaki said as she closed the walkie-talkie after hearing the report.

"It didn't go very well, did it?"

Yagami decided so after looking at Tsubaki's expression.

"When they went to check the place where Hōsen-kun was going to fight Ayanokōji-senpai, they happened to see the teachers taking Hōsen-kun back to the starting place. I heard that he fought with Ryūen of second year Class B and both of them were seriously injured. But I don't understand why Ayanokōji-senpai never stopped moving."

If Hōsen had drawn him one-on-one, the GPS would have had to stop moving on the spot.

"Even though I don't know much about that person, how could he stop Hōsen-kun?"

Tsubaki, who couldn't accept it, pouted as she pondered the reason why this battle had failed.

This was because Ayanokōji's designated areas were C3 and D2, and these were the perfect places to surround him. However, this factor also gives the opponents an advantage.

"We won't give up on the plan to expel Ayanokōji-senpai right? If we want to help the other first-year students, we also need to attack a group that acts alone other than him. If you have any other plans, please tell me right now."

Tsubaki kept muttering to herself without even looking at Yagami.

"I don't think we should increase our risks. If we force ourselves to help a group of people who are falling here, sooner or later they are destined to disappear."

"... So you're backing out now?"

"I have a bad feeling. Maybe my plan was never going to work in the first place."

"What do you mean?"

"Ayanokōji-senpai is going to act alone even with a bounty on his head, which probably means his vigilance is very strong. Not to mention that our first-year students don't trust each other at all, so it's no wonder the plan failed."

Instead of Tsubaki being depressed over the failure of the battle plan, rather, she hated the unsettling sense of chaos.

"I regret not doing this on my own."

She strongly believed that everything would have gone well that way.

After that, she looked down towards the tablet and noticed something.

"Huh?

Tsubaki noticed that Utomiya-kun was no longer in the area.

"What's wrong?" Yagami asked.

"Where is Utomiya-kun?"

Hearing Tsubaki say that, Yagami also noticed that Utomiya was no longer present.

"He was here about thirty minutes ago..."

Utomiya had disappeared while Tsubaki was fighting an unseen enemy.

Tsubaki felt unrest, and she pulled up the map from ten minutes ago to look for Utsunomiya's GPS signal. She found Utomiya about four hundred meters away from her in the southwest direction.

"What the hell is he doing..."

There was only one other GPS signal in the same vicinity as Utomiya, Hayato Kitō of second-year Class A.

The moment she saw this, Tsubaki pulled out her walkie-talkie.