Chapter 17: Chapter 16

The principal Yagi Akira stood in front of the 4 large school buses 

"Good Morning Year Ones and thank you for being on time, the location for the second class clash would be in a forested but controlled area, fear not there won't be any bears to nibble on you sweet children. The task will be trekking to a meeting point within a five day time limit but each class will be given an small statue that symbolizes one of the year round seasons at random. Each class will have to safe guard their statue while attempting to acquire another class's statue"

Everybody started to look around at each other

He continued "The rules for this clash will be. The first class to reach the meeting place with two statues wins. Taking another class's statue in a forcible manner is not allowed, if the 5 day limit is up and a class doesn't acquire another statue then they fail, if a class makes it to the meeting place without acquiring another class's statue then they fail as well. Lastly if a class acquires another statue and fails to go to the meeting place within the time limit then they fail as well. An extra 5 points will be given if the two statues follow a natural order and lastly an additional statue is hidden which can be used to as a shoe in for another statue. That will be all and good luck"

Hmm this is not too bad, the additional statue will make things a lot easier in terms of us not needing to actually take another class's item but I am sure other classes are thinking the same thing as well which brings me to the point of taking another class's statue without force only leaves one viable option.

Takeda tapped me on my arm to get my attention

"That doesn't sound too complicated"

"It's not a matter of being complicated it's-"

My statement was cut short when I heard a familiar voice

"Good Day Year ones, I am the student council president Dane Kaneko"

What the hell is he doing here? This is a year one exam

My adoptive brother Dane being a tall guy towered over the principal, his brown hair was neatly combed and his vindictive eyes stared at me as he made his announcement

"Since it is impossible for a class to clash with another class that isn't in it's year group. We have ironed out a one time offer with permission from the principal. Class 2-1 will be offering up 20 points as a prize to the winner of this upcoming class clash. In return class 2-1 will have a one on one battle with that said winner"

The year one group seemed excited and enticed by that offer expect for a few individuals namely Yuka, Takeda and Yusuf Machi. They must have seen through that shady offer as well. Jean seemed more excited than anyone else, Afterall he has to chance to go one on one with a Kaneko. Ah yes the weird rivalry of the two families continues

Dane wants to go head to head with me to show his superiority to our parents. So an offer like this wasn't surprising, a great deal if we were to look at it from a business standpoint after all we were groomed in a family like the Kaneko's"

Breaking off from the group now, I walked towards the bus that was assigned to our class

Miss Aiko stood by the door of it

"Your brother seems so dedicated to clash with you to the point where he even offered up some of his class points as a reward"

After scoffing 

"His class has an abundance of points so if he decided to give away some of them and he still be in first place so 20 points is just table scraps"

"So what are you going to do?"

After entering the bus

"Just sit back and await the results"

The rest of the class followed shortly after and filled up the seats

Yogi in the front section, Sena in the middle section along with Genji and Kai. I elected to take a backseat

Sitting by the window then Takeda sat on the opposite of me 

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"You know if you keep sticking close to me people will think we're dating"

"The rest of the seats were filled so deal with it"

Did she purposely enter the bus last so she could have an excuse to sit next to me and avoid interacting with anybody else? Am I overthinking this?

In a low voice

"So what do you think your brother is after?"

"Dane is Dane so I can't say"

"There you go again keeping secrets even though you said we were allies"

Ah my dear Takeda,  it's healthy to keep a few secrets I am sure that you do the same thing

"As I said previously, I would prefer if you don't pry into my personal affairs"

"Whatever you say. Do you think you can take him?"

Leaning my head against the glass window of the bus

"There's no need to"

The rest of the trip was silent for the both of us as we headed towards the clash site

A few hours later, we appeared at a large resort like structure that was surrounded by many trees

Getting off the bus now and looking around. I noticed that there were four groups of 30 black small book bags on the ground

After we were all assembled, we were instructed to place our personal belongings inside and gather outside again

Doing that, we came outside to see one of the teachers. This time Kei Uusi

I knew her as class 1-1's home room instructor due to a conversation I had with Miss Aiko 

"Ok classes please go to your assigned groups and take one bag each

Class 1-4 was assigned bag group 3, Class 1-1 was assigned bag group 1, Class 1-2 was assigned bag group 2 and Class 1-3 was assigned bag group 4

We each held a bag in our hand

"Ok good, each class was given a seasonal statue at random and it is in one of the bags along with water and some food items. Remember the rules of the clash, the teachers and I will be observing the clash via the various cameras set up in the forest. Incase of an emergency, walk up to a camera and signal. A horn will commence the beginning of the clash and a horn will signal the end of it after the five days" 

With that information being given, each class began their journey into the forest. 

 

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