#90 Consecutive wins

"What the hell was that?" Ike immediately exclaimed with a surprised expression when I returned to our tent.

"What do you mean?" I asked him with a puzzled expression.

"You are freakishly fast! That's what he meant. Why didn't you run this fast during the practice?" Sudo continued in Ike's stead and asked me the most important question out of curiosity, there was no suspicious visible on his face, neither on faces of other students except for Horikita who was glaring at me with a suspicious look.

"Well, I am not that fast, I think that Shibata-kun just underestimated me. As for why I didn't run like that during the practice...there were many students watching us and there isn't much to practice on your sprint except for your starting. Warming up your muscles and training your starts was enough for me...and I won't lie that I was a bit lazy." I explained to everyone with a slightly guilty smile.

"Well, at least no one knew about Felix-kun's speed which surprised all other classes and we were able to catch them off guard. It's not like there would be any considerable merits for us if we knew about his real speed, right? After all, even our participation table is completely different from what we intended." Hirata immediately stepped out of the group before everyone and said with a smile, however, I knew that he was feeling skeptical about the part where I said that Shibata underestimated me. I could see in his eyes that he is an honest guy who wouldn't look down on anyone without any real reason, there is no way that such person would underestimate me and Ichinose definitely said a few words to her classmates about me.

They were already slowly discovering my physical strength so that's why I chose this Sports Festival to show it off to everyone. If I waited any longer, they would grow more and more aware of me until I would lose the moment of surprise.

Also, I knew that a lot of people would turn suspicious if I always were in a group with athletic people from other classes. That's why I decided to place myself in a few groups where the other classes had students with average athleticism. By what I calculated, we should be able to take 2nd or 1st place at the end of the Sports Festival, of course, there is still Class A which I didn't include into my calculations but that shouldn't be a big problem.

Of course, I also can't predict if the person will be in good condition and perform his best. But we definitely shouldn't place lower than 3rd place even if everyone was competing with only 60% of their capabilities. I also didn't include Koenji into the 100-meter dash so that's a few more points for us.

Well, back to reality...

Everyone seemed to accept my reason for winning with a thoughtful expression. After all, it was a close win and if Shibata ran from the beginning as fast as the last 50 meters then I might not be able to catch up. But nonetheless, it still didn't make them think that it was all luck.

"Even if he underestimated you...You were pretty damn fast" Horikita said with folded arms while glaring at me with sharp eyes and suspicion visible within them.

"What is it, Horikita-san? Aren't you happy that we were able to take 1st place and also eliminate one of the best athletic people from Class B?" Sato asked her with a confused expression when she noticed her not so happy expression.

"That's not it...forget it. We were able to take 1st place and 3rd place once again, that's what matters." Horikita shook her head and stopped paying attention exclusively to me.

"Look, I am sorry guys for not doing my best during practices, I will atone for my previous laziness by trying my best in all competitions." I apologized to them with an awkward smile while scratching the back of my head.

"It's alright, there is no way we would blame you, right everyone?" Hirata said with a reassuring smile.

"That's right!" Almost everyone shouted at the same time, slightly surprising me.

"Not to mention your merits right now are already enough as compensation!" Shinohara said with a smile...I rarely saw this girl smiling at any of the boys, so I guess she genuinely means it.

"If you will excuse me, I would like to go drink some water. This sprint made my throat a bit dry." I said with an apologetic smile and everyone made a way for me to go inside our tent.

Before I walked pass by Mii-chan, I secretly threw her a particular smile.

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'What was that? Is this what he meant by the show? Even though we trained together a few times during the weekends, he never showed such results...Is there more he is going to show?' Mii-chan expectantly thought when she noticed Felix's smile.

'I want to see more! But I don't want to be the only one observing...I also want Felix to see me win my own race.' Mii-chan thought with an excited smile, pumped up and motivated to win, she started feeling restless, she already wanted to compete with the other girls. Such a thing would have never happened to her in the past, she, who never liked sports...she didn't hate it but she hated her own inability when it came to sports but right now, she wants to compete and show off.

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Class D didn't have enough time to absorb the shock they felt from watching my race because another group was called to gather at the track. But Class D wasn't the only one who had problems absorbing all information.

---(Class B's tent)---

Ichinose ran up to Shibata who just came from the track, his breathing was already stable.

"Shibata-kun, what happened out there?!" Ichinose asked with a worried expression while handing him a bottle of water.

"Thank you, Ichinose-san...however, even I have no idea." Shibata accepted the bottle with a grateful smile but then his expression turned to disheartened one.

"What?" Ichinose asked with a shocked expression. She also knew how capable Shibata was and she definitely knew that if someone was to defeat him...he would at least be able to tell why. Be it faster start, being faster due to bigger step length.

"I am sorry, I truly don't know. It seemed like he could always catch up to me no matter how fast I ran...and I couldn't see the reason behind it." Shibata said with an apologetic smile.

'I probably shouldn't say that his breathing was perfect and stable right after the race...even I can't believe that he wasn't feeling even a bit tired from that sprint. Ichinose-san would probably not believe me...' Shibata thought and hid the matter he wanted to previously tell to Ichinose.

"Don't worry! We've got the 2nd place which is a good thing!" Ichinose reassured Shibata with her optimistic smile.

'It seems that I still underestimated Walker-kun...He is this fast yet he never showed even a speck of his physical strength...WAIT' Ichinose thought and her thoughtful expression quickly changed to a surprised one.

"Ichinose-san, is everything alright?" Shibata asked her after seeing this change.

"Yep, it's nothing, let's go cheer for our 3rd group!" Ichinose smiled at Shibata and left first.

'He never showed his capability before...unless...He has something to do with the previous survival test. If that is the truth then Walker-kun might become my priority target to look out for.' Ichinose thought with her hand supporting her chin.

---(Class B's tent END)---

After the 3rd groups finished their race, Ike rushed into our tent where only a few people were waiting, including me. Everyone looked at him in confusion and were even furthered puzzled when they saw his excited expression.

"Haha, we won the 2nd place again!" Ike exclaimed in a delight.

When everyone heard his words, happy smiles appeared on their faces.

"We are truly lucky, let's hope this will last till the sports festival ends!"

"Yep! Now I am not even mad at the person who submitted the participation table before confronting the entire class about it."

Everyone's mood which was already above the standards, improved once more.

...

Groups were switching pretty quickly...

"*sigh*" Ayanokoji approached me and sat down next to me while releasing tired sigh.

"What's the matter? In which position did you finish the race?" I asked him.

"3rd" Short reply came from him.

"*Huh? Seriously? Even though I made it so easy for you, you still took only the 3rd one?*" I whispered while looking at him with a weird expression.

"*No matter what opponents, the finishing position is still the most important thing everyone looks at.*" He said with an apologetic tone.

"*...Whatever, I understand your reasons but...let me ask you something.*" I didn't care that much about his result but there was something I remembered and wanted to ask him. It was the thing that Sakayanagi asked me, something that was on my mind for some time.

"Hm?" He turned his head at me when he noticed seriousness in my tone.

"*White Room. Does it ring a bell?*" I asked him in a low voice with a serious expression.

When he heard me, I noticed that even on his usually emotionless face, his brows moved slightly up.

That small change would be impossible to notice unless someone was extremely familiar with him and knew his habits or unless someone was extremely observant.

"..." He didn't say anything only shook his head after acting as if he was trying to remember something.

"You know I am asking for your own good...Seeing your reaction towards my words, it's clear that it isn't anything ordinary if it was able to gather your attention. You must know something and I would like to know what is it but I don't have anything to trade for that information." I said with a smile.

"*sigh*" He just sighed and turned back to look in front of him.

Should I tell him about Sakayanagi? There are no demerits...I don't know their connection but maybe they are enemies which would do me only a good if I was able to redirect Sakayanagi's attention at him. Plus it doesn't look like he wants to tell me anything about this matter.

"Let me give you an advice...If you don't already know, be careful of Sakayanagi from Class A." I said with a smile and got up from the bench to stretch myself. There is no need to mention Kamuro...

...

"Felix-kun, have you seen Sudo-kun and Koenji-kun?" Hirata approached me and asked with a worried expression.

"Hm? I don't recall seeing any of them when they were done with their race." I said with a puzzled expression. Maybe Koenji is really going to quit it...If that's the case then Sudo will definitely take this information badly.

*sigh* Why does he have to cause unnecessary trouble even though he can have it easy and win some private points?

...Well, I already have some theories why he doesn't care that much about anything, be it class points or private points.

In this school there are at least 2 ways how to climb into Class A. One is through the Class points and second is through the private points. Of course, the astronomical amount of private points needed to transfer to Class A is almost unreal to gather in 3 years. Even if you are going to betray your class and make deals with everyone. Not to mention that there would be no one who is going to make a deal with you if your class is falling behind and is no threat to anyone. How else could be private points acquired?

What rules the world?

Military power and Money.

I doubt he is going to threaten students that he will drop a bomb on their houses.

As for money...he indeed looks like some snobbish young master. But no student would be stupid enough to exchange the private points that serve practically as money for them while being here for real money. Unless...What happens to the private points of the graduates? Do they have to return them to school? That doesn't seem real, they earned their "money" so they should keep it, however, this currency is not something they can use in the outside world. Is there really such a backdoor for the students from powerful families?

"Felix-kun?!" Hirata's voice dragged me out of my thoughts.

"Sorry, I spaced out a bit." I apologized.

"It's okay, in the meanwhile I asked Ike and apparently he saw Sudo walking towards the cottage that was built exclusively for the students who get injured during the sports festival." Hirata explained.

"I see...Do you think that Sudo-kun went there because Koenji-kun is also there?" Although I already knew what is probably going on, I still asked him with an uncertain expression.

"Probably, will you go with me to take a look? 4 arms are better than 2..." He asked me with a pleading expression...It was evident that even he thinks that Sudo might use violence. After all, ever since the sports festival was announced, he was getting more aggressive and pushy.

"Mm" I nodded and followed Hirata to the cottage.