COTE: A Man On A Mission || Love is War?

Following the instructions, Shinohara waited for boat to dock, preparing to head to D3 area with other students who had received the itinerary, and from there embark on a two-week uninhabited island exam trip.

In fact, she felt very sad.

Because when Horikita-san arranged team at the beginning, she thought that since there was someone to cover for her, it would be okay for her to go alone.

Who would have thought that her, Karuizawa and others’ starting points were so far apart, almost one in the north and one in the south.

What made Shinohara feel a little relieved was that her friends would also head towards her, so both sides only needed to cross a quarter of the island.

It’s just that island is very big, different from last year, don’t know when you can meet up.

[Shinohara, our starting point is D7, and you are at D3, it’s just right, let’s form a team together.] by Komiya

This is a text message.

Komiya is a member of Ryuen’s class.

’At first, I thought that all the people in Ryuen-kun’s class were bad gangsters, but it turned out that Komiya-kun was a good student and was also easy to talk to....’ At the same time, Shinohara was smart enough to discover that other party seemed to have a good impression of her and was pursuing her.

She also knew that Ike Kanji is pursuing her, problem is that boy is too much, and doesn’t have a sense of consideration which girls like from their other half.

So, now she is wavering and doesn’t know who to choose.

Open your phone’s address book.

Ike Kanji.

[Shinohara, you should team up with Karuizawa and others.] by Ike Kanji.

Ike had never expected that her starting point was so far away from Karuizawa and the others.

Then Ike’s own starting point is C3, which is actually very close to her D3.

’Have you ever thought about teaming up with me? This straight man is hopeless!’ As for Komiya’s group, Shinohara remembered they were in the same group with Ibuki and Hikigaya.

Shinohara has made a decision.

Meanwhile, Karuizawa, who was also preparing to leave, received a text message from Shinohara.

Because at the beginning, only three people can form a team, and there are four people in Karuizawa’s own.

So no matter which three people form a team, there will always be one extra person.

But when exam starts, you can continue to form teams.

So their original plan was to form a team with Shinohara after the exam began.

This way, four people can act together again.

There were also some bad discoveries.

Shinohara’s starting point was far away from theirs, and they didn’t know if girl could do it alone.

So, Karuizawa has been keeping in touch with her.

[Karuizawa-san, I joined Group 33. That’s Ryuen-kun’s class.]

by Shinohara.

Oh, I see. There is not much to say in this kind of text message. They are too far apart, so Shinohara can also choose other people nearby to take care of each other.

Especially what Chairman said today, that conflicts are allowed, making people feel quite uneasy.

[I feel a little relieved to be in a group with Hikigaya-kun.] by Shinohara.

Karuizawa found that girl had sent another message.

’Yes, if she and Hikigaya-kun were in the same group... then you would feel at ease.’

Eh? Eh? Karuizawa suddenly realized something was wrong.

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“Then hand over your cell phones. You are about to start the exam. Then, those who have a Hitchhiking card can place bets through tablet operations. Once you do, it cannot be changed.”

Damn it!

Karuizawa doesn’t have a Hitchhiking card, but she wants to reply to Shinohara.

“It’s your turn, Karuizawa. Give me your phone.”

“• •” Chabashira-sensei has already forcibly received her.

There was no way blondie could continue asking for clarification.

Grrr!

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Ten o’clock sharp.

All the students were arranged to line up and board different boats to go different starting points.

There are twelve schedules in total, and for the same group members are same.

Because of different itineraries, departure points are also different.

Hachiman and his group were arranged to depart from the D7 area.

However, there were quite a few students leaving with him.

’I guess this is someone with same designation...’ However, there are more second-year students, including many from Class B and A.

It’s just like Hachiman took Ibuki with him, and girl used the tablet to confirm information one by one, since he was not very familiar with the other students in Class A.

But Hachiman also noticed there were a few first-year students sitting in corner.

About six people.

Among them was the first-year girl who was waiting for someone downstairs of 2nd-year building before the exam.

Because the other person’s height resembles his sister. So, Hachiman had a deep impression of her.

Isshiki Iroha.

“Each person can only get one point by going to the designated area, but if we participate in the project and get in the top three, we can get at least 3 points. I think we should participate in the project first....”

“But I didn’t bring any sunscreen, so I’d better go to the starting point to replenish it first.”

A schoolgirl named Isshiki was sitting alone, and two of her companions were chatting between on how to leave her.

Hachiman checked the registered team information.

These two companions are in the same group as Isshiki Iroha.

It was just that although there were clearly 3 of them, 2 companions seemed to have completely separated her from the others and ignored Isshiki.

Isshiki Iroha sat quietly, then focused her attention on the tablet, seemingly looking for information.

However, from Hikigaya-kun’s perspective as a human observer, this was probably just to ease the embarrassment.

’It seems that Ichinose’s plan failed, although she helped Isshiki to recruit members of group. But, people were forced and brainwashed....’

It’s just a little strange that situation turned out like this.

Hachiman didn’t think that Isshiki would be the same type as Yamauchi, who was disliked by a lot of people as soon as she entered the school.

’Moreover, even if she is the type like Yamauchi, he still had a friend named Ike during last year’s uninhabited island exam, and his daily interactions were not affected. But Isshiki was excluded and completely separated. Therefore, might be some hidden reason behind her current state of isolation....’  Hachiman, a human observer is watching everything.

“That’s arrangement then. We’ll go to the D3 area to pick up Shinohara!” Sitting in the boat, Komiya, with a belt tied on his forehead, seemed a little excited.

’And this is probably how you want to behave in front of the person you like. In other words, it looks like being in love.....’ Hikigaya-kun seems a little envious.

Because he doesn’t believe in love in high school, and even the one he experienced with Kushida, feels that it is definitely not the right thing.

Therefore, other people’s simple yearning for beautiful emotions is quite attractive to him.

After sitting on the boat for about 10 minutes, it began to approach the shore.

Everyone began to walk out of the cabin one after another.

Just as you step out, you’ll immediately see a spectacular sight.

The first thing you see is a large stretch of beach. Not far away you will enter the woods and jungle.

Take a deep breath, and apart from the hot and dry weather, you can smell the salty smell of the sea.

’Although I was wearing shoes, I could still feel the temperature of the sand on the ground.....Sure enough, it is not an easy task to move at full speed.’

In addition, they have to compete for rankings and improve their scores.

Ordinary students will be exhausted in three to five days.

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“Then let’s go to the D3 area, and go pick up Shinohara first.”

Hachiman turned the tablet’s brightness up to its highest setting, clicked on the map, and confirmed his current location, as well as Shinohara’s initial, area D3.

The map of the uninhabited island is divided into ten equal parts using the English letters ABCDEFGHIJ on the horizontal axis.

The vertical axis is the numbers 12345678910, which are also divided into ten equal parts.

This divides entire island into 10X10, or 100 parts.

However, some areas are in sea, so only about 86 of them are actually used.

Hachiman thought about it. ’Then, I found that tablet had received the first mobile area sent by school....’

E9.

The time you can go to the E9 area to check in and get points is 2 hours. The diameter of an area is about 1 kilometer.

It usually takes 10-15 minutes to walk, but it will take longer on the beach and in forest.

It takes half an hour to an hour to get to E9 area by taking shortest straight line between two points.

If you choose to go to E9 area now, you will have to leave Shinohara in D3 area, and then go from E9 to D3, which may take two or three hours.

Everyone’s cell phones were confiscated.

It also means that communication device has been taken over, and the team was formed at last minute, so can’t contact Shinohara-san now.

You can only passively go to pick her up first.

Hachiman had seen on the ship’s inventory there was also an item called a walkie-talkie that Ryuen’s class had used last year.

However, only Sakayanagi’s class should have enough supply points to purchase this kind of thing.

Therefore, he could only go to pick up Shinohara at risk of missing the opportunity to check in and score points in first designated area of day.

But it shouldn’t be a problem.

This time, exam has been fully entrusted to Ryuen, Ishizaki and Albert.

Then other students in Class D will win if they are not eliminated.

So, Hachiman didn’t plan to get many points today.

However, it doesn’t necessarily mean that you can’t make it to the designated area to gain points.

Because according to exam rules, the itinerary will be unified after team is formed.

However, it cannot be confirmed that this unified schedule is the one that Hachiman got.

Therefore, it is still possible that after forming a team with Shinohara, formed group will follow Shinohara’s schedule and then go to mobile area nearby to her area to gain points.

And Ibuki is obviously not the type of person who uses her brain, she didn’t even take out her tablet.

Just give the instructions and let her do the work.

“Hikigaya, your preparations are really thorough” Ibuki now accepted a green mountaineering hat that Hachiman handed over.

In order to prevent heat stroke, Hachiman paid extra points to buy a mountaineering hat and a plastic raincoat.

Ibuki hadn’t thought about it much on the boat before, and she didn’t even buy a hat.

Now that she was on the island, found the sun was a bit scary.

If you keep standing, you will definitely get heat stroke.

“Do I have a share?” Komiya was also a little surprised at this time.

Because Hikigaya-kun handed him another green mountaineering hat.

“Yeah,” Hachiman nodded as if he was not good at expressing himself.

It’s actually a lie. He considered buying a hat, but what he got from the staff was a green hat.

This is a bit strange. After all, no boy would like to be cuckolded. Then, plenty of supply points.

So, Hachiman bought another one.

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