Book 15: Chapter 3: A Fight Against Solitude, Part 2
Although the designated area had been fairly close to the campsite, it still took me around an hour and a half to get there. Needless to say, when I finally stepped foot in the area, my watch didn’t indicate that I had earned the Early Bird Bonus, leaving me with just a one-point Arrival Bonus instead. Of course, I wasn’t dissatisfied with this since I had participated in a Task along the way.
Area E4 was located at a fairly high altitude atop a cliff, so the view was decent enough that I could survey a good part of the island.
“You sure took your sweet time getting here, Ayanokōji.”
In my peripheral vision, I spotted Kiryūin. She spoke to me without so much as looking in my direction, her eyes trained down at the base of the cliff.
“So it seems.”
Back when I ran a GPS Search this morning, she was the formidable opponent who shared a table with me that I felt would be the most troublesome to compete against.
“So, Ayanokōji, are you the one who’s been making me work for all the Early Bird Bonuses?”
“I wonder. People can end up in the same area sometimes despite being a part of different tables. More importantly, I thought you weren’t interested in making it to the top ten, Kiryūin-senpai.”
Earlier this morning, Kiryūin had shot up from below 10th place all the way to 9th.