Crossover Anime: I'm at Shuchiin Academy, and my surname is Uchiha.

Chapter 249 Mountain Climbing Competition, Boys vs. Girls

Shirogane Miyuki: "Huh?"

What does it mean to apologize as soon as you come in? The pink-haired classmate in front of him seems to be a student from Toyosaki Academy, but he doesn't know him very well.

Yu Ishigami went straight to his room to change his clothes.

Only Natsume stepped forward, smiling, and asked, "Um, is there something you need, Goto-san?"

Little Loneliness: "I..."

I can do it! I can say it! It's just telling them I'm going hiking, calm down, Goto Ichiri!

Little Lonely took a deep breath. "We...are going hiking..."

Natsume turned his head and exchanged a glance with Uchiha Ryo.

Shirogane Miyuki frowned. "What does your mountain climbing have to do with us?"

Uchiha Ryo: "I guess they're here to invite us. Go back and tell them we're all going."

Having received a positive reply from Uchiha Ryo, Xiao Gudu breathed a sigh of relief and then ran out of the villa as if fleeing.

That was terrifying! Was that person the student council president of Shuchiin University? He seemed even scarier than the shopkeeper...

Uchiha Ryo turned her head. "Alright, alright, let's change our clothes and go out. Shirogane, what are you still standing here for?"

Miyuki Shirogane scratched his head awkwardly. "Um...am I that scary?"

That's a difficult question to answer. After all, what Little Lonely is afraid of is not only Shirogane Miyuki, but also the atmosphere of having two strangers in the living room.

"No, you're not scary. Don't worry, that guy is just extremely socially awkward."

Shirogane Miyuki rushed to the bathroom and carefully looked at himself in the mirror.

"But... putting aside that socially awkward classmate from earlier, I've noticed that fewer and fewer people dare to make eye contact with me at school."

Uchiha Ryo: "Well... maybe you'll feel better after some rest. But you should go change your clothes first; there are people waiting outside."

After leaving the villa, the four boys found Kaguya Shinomiya and the others who were waiting for them at the foot of the mountain.

"The kind of stairs you're talking about for climbing mountains?"

In Uchiha Ryo's memory, climbing a mountain meant walking along mountain paths, right?

Yukinoshita: "This kind of staircase is fine. If you want to experience the feeling of climbing a mountain, you can take another route."

Kaguya Shinomiya pointed to a spot not far away, "Over there, the destination is always the mountaintop, but the path is circular, you have to go around the mountain to reach the top."

Little Lonely looked over there and saw a circular mountain road that went around the entire mountain... He thought he would be exhausted if he walked that way.

Fujiwara Chika chuckled, "How about the boys have a competition with us? We'll take different mountain paths and see which team reaches the summit first."

A match? Uchiha Ryo turned to look at the three people behind him.

Miyuki Shirogane raised his arm. "Don't underestimate the physical strength I've developed through regular part-time jobs. But what are we betting on?"

Fujiwara Chika: "Let's bet on dinner! If we win, you boys will have to prepare your own dinners. Don't come to our place to eat."

"If we lose, we'll make four extra meals a day for you to take out."

Uchiha Ryo chuckled.

"As expected of Fujiwara-san, you can't even cook, so this competition has nothing to do with you whether you win or lose, right?"

Fujiwara Chika looked somewhat awkwardly at the cooking team behind her: Yukinoshita, Chitanda, Hayasaka Ai, and Shinomiya Kaguya.

Chitanda: "I have no objection. What about you guys?"

Yukino nodded, Hayasaka Ai waved her hand, and Shinomiya Kaguya remained silent. Seeing this, Fujiwara Chika raised her head again.

"Hehehe! I'm asking you, do you dare?"

The boys exchanged glances. If they won, their meal tickets for the next seven days were guaranteed; even if they lost, Shirogane Miyuki and Uchiha Ryo could take care of the cooking.

Uchiha Ryo: "What's there to be afraid of? Let's go!"

.....

Shirogane Miyuki: "Spiral Staircase..."

Yu Ishigami: "Rhinoceros beetle..."

Natsume: "What are you two talking about?"

During the climb, Miyuki Shirogane looked up. "I'm calculating the actual distance our two teams have covered. They're going in a straight line, while we're going in a spiral. That means we have to speed up to win."

Yu Ishigami: "Uh, I just happened to see a rhinoceros beetle in the tree."

Uchiha Ryo walked in front. Yanyun-chan and Nyanko-sensei had just taken a stroll around the mountain and hadn't encountered any threatening monsters. As for those weak spirits, they didn't need to pay any attention to them.

"Whatever, but the air here is really nice, it feels more atmospheric than Chiba Forest."

Yu Ishigami: "Because Chiba Forest has been almost fully developed, this is, after all, a privately owned uninhabited island."

Shirogane Miyuki seemed to have thought of something. "Aren't there any wild animals on that mountain?"

There's no need to worry about that. After the Shinomiya family bought the island, they sent people to inspect it. There were no ferocious wild animals on the mountain, but there were snakes and wild goats. This information came from Ninja Cat Yanyun-chan.

On the other side—

Goto Ichiri: "No...slow down..."

Chitanda: "What's wrong with you guys? Hang in there, do your best!"

Yukinoshita: "Phew—I'm a little... too."

Fujiwara Chika was being supported by Shinomiya Kaguya.

"Wow, this road is so long... I can't go on anymore, Hayasaka! Chitanda! Slow down!"

Hayasaka Ai, who was walking at the front, stopped. "Everyone, hurry up! There's a small platform ahead; let's rest there for a bit. But you guys really have poor stamina."

Yukinoshita: "...It's because you two have such good stamina."

As a nanny and attendant trained by the Shinomiya family, Hayasaka Ai was quite confident in her physical strength, but she was somewhat surprised that Chitanda could keep up.

Chitanda: "Hehehe, maybe it's because I was born into a farming family and used to go hiking a lot."

At this point, we were still about halfway to the summit, and we could see a small waterfall and a clear pool halfway up the mountain in the distance.

Fujiwara Chika: "I'm exhausted... How long have we been walking?"

Hayasaka Ai took out her phone. "It'll probably take about ten minutes to walk up five hundred steps, and we're still halfway up."

Half left!! Little Lonely sat under the shade of a tree, feeling as if her world was spinning.

Ah... this must be why I haven't been exercising for so long. I play guitar at home every day. I'm sorry, it's my fault.

Chitanda: "Let's rest for five minutes, and then continue! Ryo and the others might want to walk all the way up in one go."

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In the boys' group, Yu Ishigami placed his hands on the shoulders of Miyuki Shirogane and Ryo Uchiha.

"I'm sorry... this is my last bit of strength."

Like the lonely girl who plays guitar at home all year round, Yu Ishigami, who is also a homebody, has lost the ability to move forward.

Miyuki Shirogane: "There's nothing we can do, Uchiha. Let's rest for a while. I just don't know where they are. If they've already gone halfway, we've probably lost."

Uchiha Ryo took out her phone. "They're resting on a platform halfway up the mountain, watching the waterfall."

Yu Ishigami: "As expected of the Uchiha senior, he even had an inside man!"

Natsume helped Ishigami Yu sit down on the ground and took a bottle of water from his backpack and handed it to him. Shirogane Miyuki also wiped the sweat from his head and sat down on the ground.

"Who sent you the message, 'Insider'?"

"Guess!"