The public beach, with cruise ships, sun umbrellas, and beach chairs—everything has the most simple and familiar flavor!
"Ah~ This is what a beach is! This is what Southern Country scenery is!"
With a face full of holy light, Yoshiwara Aina stood on the beach, squinting at the vast ocean. The gentleness and affirmation in her eyes couldn't be concealed.
Compared to the private beach with naked men everywhere and the super-lewd sunscreen application scene, this place was simply a normal paradise.
She'd accept it, even if there were more people!
"Sigh~ It's just an ordinary beach. It's no different from Izu."
"Whatever, if Aina likes it, let's stay here."
Feeling a bit disappointed, after all, swimming while wearing trunks was completely unfree, but since it was Aina's choice, Ryujirou Kotobuki and Shinji Tokita expressed their support.
On the other hand, there seemed to be quite a few beach games here, which was fun in a way!
"Since that's the case, I'll go buy drinks first. What do you all want?"
"Beer!"
"Beer, please!"
"We just want regular cola!"
Waving goodbye to Miyazawa Yu, who volunteered to buy drinks, Kitahara Iori expression instantly turned from a smile to a sinister look.
"Yosh! Step one: switching to a beach with games, accomplished! The next question is what game we should use to beat Yu!"
"How about beach volleyball? If we call the Senpais and the girls act as moles, it might work!"
Pointing at the rental court for beach volleyball, Chisa Kotegawa was the first to suggest.
As long as they grouped all the Senpais on the opposite side, with both internal and external troubles, even Yu couldn't possibly win, right?
"Hmm... No! For multi-person team sports, even if Yu loses, we can't make him promise not to sleep in Nanaka-san's room."
Holding up one finger, and hearing Iori comment, Imamura Kouhei immediately pointed at the frisbee nearby.
"Then how about frisbee? It's a single-player sport, and only one person needs to win!"
"...Kouhei, do you even hear yourself!"
Shrugging helplessly, it wasn't that Kitahara Iori was intentionally being discouraging, but the combined thickness of the four people's arms might not even be as thick as Yu single arm.
The frisbee they threw could be retrieved in two steps by Yu. As for the frisbee Yu threw, it was questionable whether they could even track its flight path!
Anyway, all activities related to physical strength were a definite pass. There had to be a limit to seeking abuse!
"Emmm..."
Falling into deep thought again, Yoshiwara Aina realized she was completely fighting a monster. She was frustrated and tapped her head in distress.
This tap, however, immediately gave Chisa Kotegawa inspiration—that's right! There's this classic game they can play!
Making up her mind, she immediately ran to the small shop by the sea, paid for it herself, and brought back a round watermelon.
"How about Suikawari (Watermelon Splitting)? As long as everyone shouts the wrong direction, Yu absolutely can't win!"
It was a single-player operation, without teamwork, and it didn't rely on physical strength.
Looking at the watermelon in front of him, Kitahara Iori pondered for two seconds, found no flaws, and immediately snapped his fingers, nodding in approval: "Oh! That's a great idea!"
"Then next..."
...
After buying drinks from the small shop, Miyazawa Yu walked back to where the Pab club gathered, completely unaware of the strange atmosphere.
In contrast, after handing out the drinks, he became interested in the watermelon placed not far from the beach chairs.
"What a big watermelon. Is it for eating? I'll cut it now..."
"Wait, Yu!"
"Speaking of beaches and watermelons, it has to be Suikawari to fit the atmosphere, right!"
Exchanging glances, and seeing that the fish had taken the bait, Kitahara Iori and Imamura Kouhei immediately presented the wooden sword and blindfold to Miyazawa Yu with overly dramatic acting.
"Eh? It would be a shame to smash such a good watermelon, wouldn't it?"
"It's fine, it's fine! If Yu wants to eat watermelon, we'll buy you one! Come play with us!"
Smiling sweetly, Chisa Kotegawa gently pulled Miyazawa Yu hand and walked away. While her tone was gentle, she tilted her head and showed a sweet smile.
However, looking at her clean smile, Miyazawa Yu instinctively felt that things were not that simple.
After all, he'd usually have to burn incense to celebrate if Chisa didn't look at him with eyes like he was trash.
Now, faced with the clearly abnormal magical reality, he had only two guesses: one, everything right now was just a dream; or two, there was definitely something fishy going on with these guys!
"Um... Chisa, Nanaka-san and I really just slept together purely, and nothing happened!"
"Eh? Yu is so strange. I'm not angry about such a small matter!"
"Lying! You're definitely furious!"
Although she was smiling, the moment Miyazawa Yu mentioned Nanaka Kotegawa, an icy chill immediately erupted from Chisa.
Coupled with her instantly darkening eyes, he was now one hundred percent certain that these people definitely had an issue with him sleeping in Azusa-senpai's and Nanaka-san's room.
As expected...
"But since it's a game, how can there be no stakes! How about this: whoever wins gets to sleep on the sofa? How does that sound?"
"Ah, shouldn't it be that whoever wins gets to sleep in the bed?"
To make himself sleep in the room, is he now starting to talk nonsense? Hajitori, you guy...
Speechlessly looking at Iori, who was approaching with a fake smile, Miyazawa Yu sighed lightly and shook his head—
Failing with force, and now trying to make him back down with a game. How naive!
"I accept!"
"Really?"
"That simple?"
"Hey! Did you guys expose something!"
Squinting at Chisa and Aina, who guiltily turned their heads, Miyazawa Yu chuckled lightly and provoked them: "Forget it, you guys can't win anyway~ But I demand a change of wager!"
"How dare you look down on us! State it!"
"It's nothing much, really. It's just that if I win, Iori and Kouhei must be bound together with zip ties for an entire day! How about that?"
"Hoo-hoo! Is he targeting us?"
Looking at Kouhei, Kitahara Iori was suspicious.
In fact, the punishment didn't sound terrible. You should know that whether it was at Grand Blue or during a trip, he and Kouhei couldn't be said to be inseparable, but rather at the level of conjoined twins!
Therefore, being bound together with zip ties for a day was nothing, even with the restriction of not wearing clothes!
"No problem! If we win! Yu must obediently sleep in the boys' room!"
"It's a deal!"
Their eyes met, sparks flying. Miyazawa Yu saw Iori agree and immediately wrapped the blindfold over his eyes, asking: "What are the specific rules?"
"Spin around fifty times in place! Only one chance to strike! Hitting the watermelon is a win!"
Quickly stating the rules they had already discussed, Yoshiwara Aina was excited, but her tone inevitably carried a hint of guilt.
Because normal Suikawari only involves spinning about ten times at most. Even so, players often couldn't walk in a straight line due to dizziness.
Even with real-time guidance from the side, accurately hitting the watermelon relied entirely on luck.
And a full fifty spins—Yu might not even be able to stand steady, let alone have a second chance to try his luck without guidance!
"Oh! It's Suikawari. Can we play too?"
"Senpais!"
Startled by the interested voices behind her, Chisa Kotegawa, who was part of the gang bullying Yu, inevitably felt guilty, and even her movement when turning her head was full of stealth.
"Of course, you can. In that case, Kotobuki-senpai and Tokita-senpai, please line up after Yu!"
"Yosh! No problem!"
"Phew..."
Letting out a long breath, Chisa Kotegawa had a little trick here, because the order of Suikawari was also very particular.
Since the sand was soft, a person walking over it would leave traces.
The person lining up behind could very well use the footprints left by the previous person, using the feel of the ground to gauge a more accurate direction!
They were definitely going to win!
She prematurely popped the champagne in her heart. Although she felt sorry for Yu, she had to do this for her sister!
"Yu~ Are you ready?"
"OK!"
"In that case! Let's play Suikawari!"
Grabbing Yu shoulders, Kitahara Iori and Imamura Kouhei guided him to start spinning in place with maximum force.
Fifty spins would be a disaster for an ordinary person, but when Miyazawa Yu actually started spinning, they immediately noticed something was wrong.
First, the speed. It was clear that Yu was competing very seriously. The spinning speed was so fast that it made them, the onlookers, feel dizzy.
However, the problem was that he himself seemed unaffected—
Even though he was spinning incredibly fast, Miyazawa Yu feet only formed a shallow circular pit with a radius of the length of his foot. There was no sign of him overstepping the boundaries!
"How is that possible! Isn't this guy dizzy?"
Stepping back in astonishment, and seeing that sand was already kicking up around Yu feet, a terrifying possibility immediately surfaced in Kitahara Iori mind!
"No! It can't be. Although Yu is a big muscle-head, no one said building muscle can resist dizziness!"
"But in games, the higher the constitution, the more corresponding resistance to ailments you get, right?"
"Uh..."
One could only say that it was a simple and easy-to-understand example, and very much in Kouhei's style, but that wasn't the point!
The point was that if Yu wasn't dizzy at all, their chances of winning seemed to have suddenly dropped to a precarious level!
"What do we do! Iori?"
The pleasure of celebrating prematurely was equal to the anguish of being counter-killed!
Seeing Miyazawa Yu finish spinning and facing the watermelon as if nothing happened, Chisa Kotegawa shook Iori frantically by his collar, tears almost welling up in her eyes out of anxiety.
However, after calculating so much, only to be overwhelmed by brute force, even the shameless Kitahara Iori was stumped for a moment.
"No choice!"
Seeing that Iori was unreliable, Yoshiwara Aina gritted her teeth, closed her eyes, and blushed as she shouted at Miyazawa Yu: "Wrong direction, Yu! A half-turn to the right!"
"No! It should be a little more to the left!"
"Just walk straight! Yu, walk straight, it's right in front of you!"
Confused commands combined with half-truths and lies—this was the final line of defense for Aina and the others.
After all, having spun fifty times, if the player was even slightly unconfident in their own judgment, they could easily be led astray by a false message.
However, to Miyazawa Yu ears, the voices of Iori and the others, as well as Azusa-senpai's revengeful misdirection, were just noise.
Supported by the skill [Super Adaptability], let alone fifty spins, he wouldn't feel the slightest dizziness even after five hundred spins.
Choosing the Suikawari game was the biggest mistake made by Iori and the others!
"Iori!"
"Hmm???"
"If you don't want your head to be smashed..."
Dashing forward, Miyazawa Yu lips curled into a terrifying arc. In the sunlight, he held the wooden sword high above his head, his whole body's muscles tensing up and reflecting a dazzling sheen!
"Don't disturb me tonight—!"
"BOOM!!!"
Like a comet striking the earth, as the wooden sword came down, let alone formed pieces, it was hard to find even fingertip-sized shards of the watermelon.
Juice splattered, and the muddy pulp flew everywhere. Combined with Miyazawa Yu death threat just now, Kitahara Iori shivered all over.
He was going to die! He was definitely going to die. If he dared to meddle again, his head would probably end up just like the watermelon!