Quintuples X COTE

Chapter 13- Island exam part 3

We gathered up the branches and returned to camp. Being from a different class, Ibuki didn’t want to cause any trouble, so she sat further away. It would’ve been impossible for her to blend in, so we appreciated her honesty. If she stayed within our sight, she probably wouldn’t cause trouble. Hirata was gone, unfortunately. That meant Yamauchi, Miku, Ichika , and I had to get the bonfire going. We wouldn’t be able to get a fire going in the dark, so we had to hurry.

“Leave it to me. I’ll show you an easy way.” Yamauchi said

He is really do everything to try and impress the girls.

Yamauchi produced a matchbox he’d received from Hirata, and crouched before the stacked branches. He took one match, and quickly scratched the tip against the rough strip. We heard repeated scratching sounds, like “tch”, but the match didn’t light.

“Damn, this is pretty hard…”

Ichika stood next to him and watched. Yamauchi tried to look cool, but for someone unused to matches, it probably wasn’t easy. Still, he struck the match over and over, until suddenly it lit.

“Oh, oh, there! Got it!”

Finally. In a panic, Yamauchi brought the match down to the bundle of sticks. But only light smoke came out, and after waiting a really long time it didn’t seem that the fire was going to start.

“Huh?”

“Maybe we need to carefully get the fire onto the branches themselves? Right now it seems impossible.”

“Okay, I’ll try that next time. Ah, jeez, that one failed too. Are these matches defective or something?”

Ichika looked disinterested in what is going on, he is really failing miserably.

Jeez, I guess I need to help.

"Hey Yamauchi try to break the large branches into small ones then try burning them."

"Huh, why would that be useful?"

Sigh "Because the match is already weak and the branches are too large so you need more smaller ones."

"I will try , let me break the branches I am the strongest here."

He tried to look cool once again, grabbed the branches.......and failed miserably.

"What these are tough."

They aren't really that tough, it is just you are too weak.

"Let me try."

I took one of the branches and proceeded to break it.

It is really easy.

"Well try light it now."

Ichika took from Yamauchi the match and lit it her self, it worked.

"Good job Ayanokouji-kun." Ichika said.

"Yeah Ayanokouji-kun." Miku smiled at me.

Now Yamauchi is glaring at me. What? You are the one who failed miserably to impress the girls.

Once five o’clock arrived,

Kushida,Yotsuba and her group returned. Hirata had apparently joined up with Kushida’s group. Since this was the return of our class’ central figures, nearly half the class began to gather together. Apparently, they’d gone out searching for food. We could see they’d been successful. From a distance, I saw little red fruits, like strawberries, and
maybe tomatoes. They also seemed to have grapes and kiwis.