Book 15: Chapter 1: Secret Maneuvers
As the downpour continued, a message arrived from the school. Unsurprisingly, it was an announcement that the exam would be canceled for the day. Since it’d be difficult for groups to make a comeback with all the lost opportunity for Tasks and area movement, the message also stated that they were looking into ways to compensate us so that students didn’t have to go to bed worried about missing out on points.
The school probably wouldn’t specify how they planned on compensating us until the weather began to clear up.
That being said, no matter what they eventually came up with, it wouldn’t change the fact that the day had been wasted.
While the compensation would help groups reach the same overall score in the long run, the strategies they had planned for today would all be in vain.
Personally, as far as I was concerned, the cancellation could not have come at a worse time.
My plan had been to conserve my energy so that I could go all-out during the second half of the exam, stealing a march on the groups who were in a slump after exhausting their energy during the first half and racking up a ton of points in the process. However, now that the seventh day had essentially turned into a full day off, everybody would have the time to rest and recover their stamina.
Of course, an uninhabited island during a rainstorm wasn’t exactly a day at the spa, so it’s not like their fatigue would disappear entirely. But, the disparity between getting time to rest and not getting any at all made all the difference in the world.
“───pai!”
“Hmm?”