"Everyone! If you are rested, let's get ready to go!"
Chitanda Eru greeted everyone. Hayasaka Ai stood up, pulling Bocchi-chan up from the ground by the way.
Hayasaka Ai: "Let's go, let's go. We can't let them be faster than us who are walking in a straight line."
Fujiwara Chika took off her sun hat and used it as a fan. "But I'm still so tired. This mountain is really hard to climb."
Shinomiya Kaguya looked over helplessly. "Fujiwara-san, you didn't carry anything up. Look at Hayasaka-san and me, we are carrying bags and aren't complaining about being tired."
Inside the professional hiking bags, although there wasn't any professional climbing equipment, drinking water for six people, as well as sunscreen, insect repellent spray, and the like still had to be prepared.
Hayasaka Ai also walked over. "That's right, I'm carrying the weight, so don't you guys shout about being tired."
Because Yukinoshita and Bocchi-chan didn't have very good stamina, they at most brought a mobile phone with them.
Fujiwara Chika: "Ugh... but it's so heavy here."
As soon as she finished speaking, everyone stopped in their tracks.
Especially the eyes of Yukinoshita and Shinomiya Kaguya became somewhat complicated.
Having built-in weights is amazing, huh! It's just useless excess fat! Bocchi-chan also heard Fujiwara Chika's complaint, then silently lowered her head trying to see her toes... Mn, can't see toes.
"I see..."
Bocchi-chan's muttering didn't escape Hayasaka Ai's ears.
"What do you mean 'I see'? Bocchi-chan~"
Goto Hitori only felt a chill on her back, and then she saw Hayasaka Ai's "kind" smile.
Bocchi-chan: "No! Nothing... I mean, will we encounter dangerous animals or something in the mountains?"
Shinomiya Kaguya: "You can rest assured about this. The forest on the uninhabited island has been cleared."
While speaking, the nearby bushes suddenly shook a few times.
Bocchi-chan immediately hid behind Hayasaka Ai. "There... there is something there!"
Shinomiya Kaguya frowned. She had just finished saying there were no dangerous animals on the mountain; she wouldn't be slapped in the face so quickly, right?
Hayasaka Ai: "Don't be afraid. Looking at the size, it should be a small fellow."
Six pairs of eyes focused over, the tense atmosphere appeared somewhat oppressive. When the white creature in the bushes jumped out, Yukinoshita then breathed a sigh of relief.
"What, it's Enyun-chan running over."
Informant · Scout · Spy · Enyun-chan, under Uchiha Ryo's order, came to protect the girls and tell Uchiha Ryo their specific location by the way.
...
After the boring stair climbing, the girls' group finally stood on the summit of the island. And the fatigue accumulated from climbing finally ushered in a reward.
Under the afternoon sun, standing on the summit overlooking the entire mountain range and the sparkling sea.
"Yay! We won!"
Not seeing the boys' figures, Fujiwara Chika announced the victory of the competition.
Five minutes after the girls' group arrived at the summit, the boys finally walked up dragging the exhausted Ishigami Yu.
Fujiwara Chika: "Hahaha, you lost!"
Uchiha Ryo nodded and waved his hand very casually. "It's fine, maybe the food we cook ourselves will taste even better."
Actually, it was very simple for Uchiha Ryo to lead the boys' group to victory, but in terms of cooking, it wasn't good to trouble the girls' group to make four extra portions often, so they might as well do it themselves.
Moreover, the boys' meal times were very random. If they missed the girls' cooking time, they couldn't trouble them to cook again.
Leaving that aside, as soon as the boys arrived at the summit, Ishigami Yu immediately rushed into the pavilion and sat on the stone bench to rest. Opposite him lay Bocchi-chan, who was also dead tired.
Chitanda stood outside the pavilion looking into the distance, admiring the beautiful scenery and enjoying the cool breeze from the high place.
The so-called mountain climbing, isn't the most important thing the sense of achievement brought by conquering the highest point?
Yukinoshita: "The scenery here is not bad. If a cable car can be built, I don't mind coming here for a picnic every day."
Of course, the premise was having a cable car. She didn't want to climb those thousand stairs every day.
"The wind here is so strong..." Chitanda tied up her hair blown loose by the wind.
Shinomiya Kaguya narrowed her eyes. "Something is wrong, we have to go down the mountain quickly."
Fujiwara Chika asked blankly.
"Why? Didn't we just arrive! I haven't rested well yet, and I haven't eaten the snacks I brought."
Uchiha Ryo came to Chitanda's side and looked into the distance together.
"Unfortunately, if you want to have a picnic on the summit, wait for next time. Look over there... there's a problem with the weather."
One of nature's most powerful forces, the weather! Is about to change.
Can't be helped, the Sakura Country and Southeast Asia are prone to typhoons. This kind of small island located in the south is even more frequently ravaged by typhoons.
Yukinoshita rubbed her temples. "Looking at the clouds over there and the wind speed, we indeed need to go down the mountain quickly."
Uchiha Ryo: "Let's go down. The cumulonimbus clouds are about thirty kilometers directly north. It should be a concentrated torrential rain! Encountering a typhoon on the first day coming to the island, truly unfortunate."
Just like that, having spent nearly half an hour to reach the summit pavilion, everyone went down the mountain quickly without staying for more than ten minutes.
Fujiwara Chika complained about the damn weather on the island while going down the mountain. Shinomiya Kaguya, as the person who invited everyone, also expressed helplessness. This was the power of nature, which a conglomerate couldn't stop at all.
Suddenly, Nyanko-sensei drilled out from the forest and jumped onto Uchiha Ryo's shoulder.
Enyun-chan: "Meow! (That's my spot)"
Uchiha Ryo turned his head. Generally speaking, Nyanko-sensei would definitely go to Takashi's side. Coming to find him suddenly... meant he definitely encountered a problem Takashi couldn't solve at all.
"What's going on? Didn't you say there were no problems on the island..."
Uchiha Ryo slowed down and came to the very back of the team. Nyanko-sensei's expression was no longer calm as usual. It seemed he really discovered something extraordinary.
"There are indeed none on the island, but this is a sea island... As the origin of all life, the youkai in the sea are definitely not inferior to those on land, maybe even stronger."
Uchiha Ryo: "You mean, something in the ocean is playing tricks?"
"Mn, to be able to control a large-scale storm of this range, it should be that thing's masterpiece."
...
The storm was approaching. The Shinomiya family's cruise ship was moving forward at full speed, but it was still enveloped by the rainstorm.
Damn it, why did it suddenly rain so heavily? Seiryu No. 2 won't repeat the mistakes of No. 1, right... The entire cruise ship was shaking. The huge waves slapping against it from time to time always gave people the feeling that it would be overturned soon.
"Captain! Let's send a distress signal first! The weather warning system is clearly normal, this storm is like appearing out of thin air!"
The staff on the Shinomiya family's cruise ship began to panic. This fear of nature and the sea arose spontaneously!
The middle-aged man addressed as Captain just wanted to answer, but another unfamiliar voice came from behind.
"Young man, do you need help?"
The middle-aged man turned his head, but what he saw was a sailor lying on the ground, and an old man sitting on the sailor.
The old man looked amiable, but the only strange thing was that the back of his head was ridiculously long.
"You are..."
The next moment, the middle-aged man only felt numbness all over his body, and lost consciousness before finishing his sentence.
"Gyuki, we are here to borrow the ship to solve trouble, not to kill people... Go easy on them."